[apocalypstyx]

You can't swim against the same stream twice.

[koolba]

Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again.

The professional analogy would be quitting a 9-5 to do you own thing, building it up, getting acquired, and then repeating the process.

[coldtea]

>Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again

It wont be the same, as all arrangements of molecules would have changed, not to mention be entirely different water molecules.

Which was Heraclitus point (metaphorically): the things we wish to do again ("twice"), we'll always have to do them in a changed environment.

[loa_in_]

So it is when you blink while swimming in one stream

[guerrilla]

You missed the Heraclites reference.

[q7xvh97o2pDhNrh]

Yeah, but the good news is they'll never miss the same reference again.

[koolba]

You’re grossly overestimating my long term memory.

[tom-thistime]

You can deal a second hand of cards from the same deck. You can't* deal exactly the same hand you dealt the first time.

*Limiting case given enough cards. We shuffle before each deal.