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How do people write books or go on TV and talk about what they know and make it sound like it’s the final word? Like it’s “the truth?” I’m 63 years old now, and still don’t know anything definitively enough to talk about it in that way. It may seem sometimes that I do, but I can only maintain it for a short while before I see the flaws in what I just said, or the incompleteness of it, or the irrelevance of it. Like I said in "The Green Mountain," when do you know you are finished practicing and really doing it? I still feel like I’m practicing at everything. Practicing at living. Trying to get through it while having as much fun and enjoyment as I can. Trying not to delude myself into thinking that I have any kind of answer to the great questions.

Tomfoolery33 9 July 19
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They're trying to sell their books or ideas, so they want to sound confident. The problem I have with so many so-called "experts" is they can make others feel stupid. The truth is that most people don't really know and way more is uncertain.

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