six blind elephants
disagreed over what a human is;
and they concluded
they’d have a direct experience
to resolve the matter
and so the first elephant
felt a human and declared:
“A human is flat”
And each other elephant
through its own direct encounter
concurred on the lack of human dimensions
And so there was an end to the discord
Aug 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013 at 8:29 AM UTC
six blind elephants
disagreed over what a human is;
and they concluded
they’d have a direct experience
to resolve the matter
and so the first elephant
felt a human and declared:
“A human is flat”
And each other elephant
through its own direct encounter
concurred on the lack of human dimensions
And so there was an end to the discord
based on an online Buddhist joke
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