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Do you grok "grok"?


[...] Grok means "to drink". [...] It means fear, it means love, it means hate [...] you cannot anything unless you grok it, understand it so thoroughly that you merge with it and it merges with you - then you can hate it. By hating yourself. But this implies that you love it, too, and cherish it and would not have otherwise. Then you can hate - [...] Grok means indentically equal. [...] Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becames part of the observed - to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in a group experience. [...] Thou art God. God groks. You grok. [...]


"A stranger in a strange land" Heilein

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