Cannot truly understand

[Jazzy]

What’s something people cannot truly understand unless they’ve experienced it for themselves?

 

[Forgiven1]

Aging

 

[Lees]

What’s something people cannot truly understand unless they’ve experienced it for themselves?

I would say anything and everything.

Unless you have experienced it, you can't understand it. You may have the knowledge of it, and that is important. But until you experience it, you don't have a true understanding of it.

My opinion.

It's my opinion also that this is why we as believers go through what we go through in this life. God wants us to feel it. To experience it. The pain. The loss. The suffering. To live in a world where Satan is allowed to move about and gain control. To feel just as God feels. And God feels.

Lees

 

[tango]

What’s something people cannot truly understand unless they’ve experienced it for themselves?

Quite a few things.

On a forum I used years ago there was a guy who was asking people to describe what it was like to be drunk. He was old enough to drink and didn't seem to have any medical issues preventing him from drinking, so not surprisingly most replies basically told him to go and buy a case of beer and find out for himself. It's hard to describe to someone who has never experienced it.

On a different note the kind of grief that comes with bereavement isn't readily described but once it's experienced there's no mistaking it.