Lesson Six | Questions | Open/Audio

[wiserthanusall]

When someone is asked if they were stranded on a deserted island, what one item would they want... why doesn't anyone ever choose 'a boat'?

Comments

[audio]

[haveuseenmyass]

When you could ask for gold or carpets?

It may not get me out of there, but I'd die rich or comfortable.

[audio]

[wiserthanusall]

So, knowing that you are not trapped, you would choose to be so, for as long as it were a handsome and comfortable prison?

[audio]

[haveuseenmyass]

The ocean is an awful big place. There's no guarantee that I could find my way home if I had a boat. In that case, why risk dying horribly at sea?

[audio]

[wiserthanusall]

Ah, but if it is a gaurantee you want..Well, there are no guarantees.

Certain death, or uncertain survival? One who risks nothing cannot gain something in return.

[audio]

[haveuseenmyass]

No, but it's a lot closer to a guarantee that I would die comfortable with gold and carpets than get home.

Don't get me wrong. I've done the uncertain survival thing and that's how I wound up here. Dying once is all this guy needs to know his course.

[audio]

[wiserthanusall]

Many meet their destinies on the paths they take to avoid it.

[audio]

[haveuseenmyass]

That's a proverb I know a little too much about, trust me.

[See: Avoiding his destiny of dying poor by chasing after a gold-laden donkey, which lead into his destiny of fighting a dark god. The Prince is an expert about these kinds of things.]