oh you can explain - it just turns out not to be very satisfactory because it strips the mystery
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Replying to @allgebrah @Plinz
you can explain and it does not strip an ounce of mystery. anyway, without meaning, there's also no mystery.
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mystery is what happens when you want to know something, look behind something, understand something.
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Replying to @paniq
shrouded in every mystery, buried below every obelisk, in the essence of every symbol: there is always just you. boring!
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Replying to @Plinz @allgebrah
i just described the connection, without passion. you seem to want to counterpoint me with derision
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Replying to @paniq
Not my intention! I am sorry if I came across this way. I am not derisive of you, just derisive of meaning these days
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Replying to @Plinz @allgebrah
which is dangerous. meaning, function, exists in local contexts and is useful there.
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being grumpy about absence of greater rmeaning is like dropping out of church because there is no god, and then
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Replying to @paniq
there is Greater Meaning, as a basic social drive to serve a system more important than yourself, but nothing more
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Replying to @Plinz @allgebrah
not even sure about that one. urge to serve smth greater is for young people.
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perhaps it is simply more abstract for young people. later they get disillusioned and serve concrete systems (eg family, job)
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Replying to @Plinz
i have my problems with "want" anyway. by experience, most of our wants are short term. long term wants seem more idealist;
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and idealists are constantly confused about the abstract concepts of something good, what they mean and therfore how to achieve them
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