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Another analogy
I'm standing on the mountain top and see two paths, one goes in a straight line through thorns and the other is a paved serpentine road. Which one do you think I'll recommend to a traveller? Tread warily, anons.
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>I'm standing on the mountain top and see two paths, one goes in a straight line through thorns and the other is a paved serpentine road. Which one do you think I'll recommend to a traveller? Tread warily, anons.
Depends on whether or not both paths lead to the exact same destination, the thorny straight path in longer and has more power at the end of it's trail.

When two people who take diverging paths cross, the one who took the serpentine road will have to look on as the one who took the thorny path as they goes further than he will ever reach.