@St_Rev Do you have an opinion about which translation of Zhuangzi to read? Converging evidence says I have to do so...
@Meaningness Actually coming to grips with the deeper text is...well, impossible, because a lot of the Zhuangzi is criticism of lost work.
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@St_Rev Yeah, that’s my take on a lot of Buddhism, too. Although I suspect some ghostly interlocutors might be found in Greek philosophy. -
@Meaningness In the case of early Chinese philosophy, it's because of an explicit program of cultural genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars … -
@St_Rev Remind me, whose brilliant idea was it to create a species of intelligent monkeys? -
@Meaningness These things happen.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.