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+ no matter how long you live, you will always live in fear.
- that's your survival instinct speaking.
- *as long as you're learning, you can never truly be comfortable.*
+ learning new things requires changing yourself, and changing yourself means overcoming fear of the unknown.
- (absorbing knowledge is not the same as learning.)
- this is pretty scary when you think about it.
do you mean I'll never be comfortable [being a furry][page:philosophy/furry]?
- well yeah, basically yeah.
only way is that you can become comfortable with certain _parts_ of the experience, by simply experiencing them and teaching your mind [it's okay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBLUIov1_I){.secret}.