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see terry pratchett’s definition for “knurd”: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Knurd https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Knurd Consider the following scale: Be
by hprotagonist 7y ago
see terry pratchett’s definition for “knurd”: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Knurd https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Knurd
Consider the following scale:
Being drunk is to be intoxicated by alcohol to such an extent as to be unable to perceive the world clearly through the senses.
Being sober is to be able to perceive the world clearly through the senses, yet humans are quite capable of giving themselves illusions and little stories to make life more bearable.
Being knurd is to be (un)intoxicated with Klatchian Coffee to such an extent that all such comfort stories are stripped away from the mind.
This makes you see the world in a way 'nobody ever should', in all its harsh reality.
People generally find being knurd excruciating, as their comfortable illusions are stripped away and all of life's terrors are exposed.
- mamon 7y agoI'm pretty sure that what Pratchett calls "knurd" here, Buddists call "enlightenment".
- whatshisface 7y agoCynicism is knowing that Santa isn't real and enlightenment is having the emotional maturity to deal with it.
- monktastic1 7y agoThe Buddhists certainly wouldn't agree that enlightenment is "excruciating." To the contrary, that's what a mind experiences when it's on the brink of awakening but can't let go of the fundamental illusion of 'self.'