@St_Rev As it happens, I don't think this is the case. Lives are short. Good things break quickly. The stupid lumps of rock reality threw
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@St_Rev Possibly Daoism is just philosophical pessimism with a smile. -
@A_P_Mason More like western philosophical pessimism is a misunderstanding of Daoism (and Buddhism). -
@St_Rev To be fair, we're not trying to be Daoist. -
@A_P_Mason No, but there are confusions/misreadings thereof underlying Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, some of the critical theorists etc. -
@A_P_Mason Most religious systems promise one sort of immortality or another, but only Daoism suggests immortality via not dying. -
@A_P_Mason That confounds a lot of basic assumptions common in the European tradition, but it's not pessimistic. -
@A_P_Mason The connection to Gnon is that Gnon is about cosmos-as-process, but it's a very negative version. Cosmos as devourer. -
@A_P_Mason IMO Daoism is the earliest and in many ways clearest take on the same theme. - 5 more replies
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