@St_Rev To be fair, we're not trying to be Daoist.
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@A_P_Mason No, but there are confusions/misreadings thereof underlying Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, some of the critical theorists etc.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@A_P_Mason Most religious systems promise one sort of immortality or another, but only Daoism suggests immortality via not dying.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@A_P_Mason That confounds a lot of basic assumptions common in the European tradition, but it's not pessimistic.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@A_P_Mason IMO Daoism is the earliest and in many ways clearest take on the same theme.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@A_P_Mason I think there's a sense of betrayal motivating the gleeful nihilism/post-nihilism; cosmos isn't what we wanted, so it's Evil.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@A_P_Mason Depending on whether you want to hold onto a belief in the classical God, it leads either to gnosticism or pure Lovecraft.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@A_P_Mason Either way it's soaked in horrorism. OK, and this is really my core point now ---->1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@A_P_Mason ACTUAL CORE CLAIM: You can appreciate cosmos-as-process without being devoured by horrorism.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@A_P_Mason belated reference that will probably just confuse the matter further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar_tasters …
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