Message #32301

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Chatted with Eric last night. He mentioned to me;  It is much better to have understanding then knowledge. Sometimes certain thoughts require much contemplation. It is also true that people perceive what they discuss and see quite differently. Someone may say “look there is a man over there 👉 who is tall and slender who is dark skinned and watching us. Another may say “no that is a sign posted with a trail marking” yet when we walk up close to the object we see it is only a log standing against an embankment with various features that appear to resemble a man to one person and a sign post to another. Hmmm 🤔 thanks Eric. So to, communication and conversations can be marred by such differences of understanding.

I remember reading the book Strangers in a Strange Land. It was a great science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. In it the author used the word Grok as a central theme to the book. 'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science and it means as little to us as color does to a blind man."[4][5]