The simple truth

[pocaracas]

The simple truth is that TGN is simple and is incapable of thinking outside of what he has been told to believe.

And THAT is the simple truth of the matter.

I imagine that it is not easy to think outside what you've been told to be real for your whole life.

I've been told not to eat mushrooms that I find growing on the ground.
I believe they'd be bad for me.
However, I am aware that some mushrooms are not bad... I just lack the capability to tell the good from the bad, so I just leave them be when I find them on the ground.
And this has been exacerbated when my father told me a story of when he ate some mushrooms and, luckily, was near a hospital where he could have a thorough internal rinsing.... not pleasant.


So, the best we can do is provide these people with the information to tell the good mushrooms apart from the bad ones and hope they learn and acquire the ability to pick their own mushrooms, instead of living forever in fear of mushrooms.

(did I take this metaphor a bit too far?...)