Experience is vastly overrated.
I believe people can and should "knock" things without trying them.
Fore-sight is one of our most important talents and is indispensable for navigating life.
A life of sole experience would have prevented the development of any complex life-form on earth.
Without pre-determined judgement, we'd all kill ourselves too quickly to reproduce. We would not
KNOW the problems with jumping off a cliff until we tried it. If anyone managed to live long enough
to have kids, this way of thinking would prevent them from educating the children properly, if the
offspring did not already die in infancy to do the experiential curiosity of the parent.
"Maybe it's a good idea to throw the baby into that river. I'll never know until I try"
I feel that if nearly every function of your judgement tells you something is a bad idea, you shouldn't do it(pretty crazy).
I also feel that if the whole of your mind is neutral about something, then there's no reason to endeavor to do it.
Never the less, I seem to meet a great deal of opposition. I would say the majority of people are more entranced
by the prospect of experience than I am. Some will say that the problem with passing an experience
is living life wondering what it would have been like. I don't have this problem. I really don't.
It seems pointless to me. If you take-up every opportunity possible in your life time, when you die,
you still will not have experienced even the smallest imaginable fraction of all the possibilities of the universe.
So how much does the quantity and variety of experience matter? What about the quality?
The thirst for all possible experiences can never be satisfied. The only way to deal with it is to put it to rest.
Forget about. Stop caring.
So prioritize. You have to prioritize your life. This is exceedingly important.
Don't spending your time trying every option that comes to you, that will only be a waste.
Figure out what you really want, and what you don't want, and where exactly these things sit on the latter.
Work your way toward what you want and away from what you don't want proportionally.
If you have to make a sacrifice, check that latter again. Figure out what is worth sacrificing and
what is worth sacrificing for.
A life of random firing will almost surely end in dissatisfaction, I do assert.
Which brings up the other key problem, and that is people claim they can't really know what they want
until they've tried it.
Well I do not have to be bitten by a snake to know that I do not want to be. My logic, my feelings, and my collected
advice all come to a consensus on this matter. To ignore this kind of knowledge is to ignore all knowledge.
If anyone is going to be that relativistic, then they can't even be sure of anything they learn from experience.
That would pointless. I'm tired of people going against the grain of their own
psyche to dismiss reality. You know what will happen when that snake bites you.
Stop pretending.
Stop fucking around.
"I guess I'll have throw in another baby to see if it does the same thing"