Ask for a straw at the restaurant today. Put it in your glass of water. You’ll see what we all would see, a straw once straight now appearing bent or broken. You probably know the reason: Refraction (bending) of light traveling through two media of differing densities, water and air. You know, of course, that the straw isn’t actually bent, but it seems so from most angles of observation.
Even though you know that the straw is straight, you cannot get your visual perception to conform to your knowledge. No amount of thinking straightens the straw. Two realities seem simultaneously characteristic of a single entity.
Sometimes those with whom we associate are like straws in glasses of water.
Even though you know that the straw is straight, you cannot get your visual perception to conform to your knowledge. No amount of thinking straightens the straw. Two realities seem simultaneously characteristic of a single entity.
Sometimes those with whom we associate are like straws in glasses of water.
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