If I take this to the point of nihilism, I lose the self and the all else and this is not the Way. If I take this to being existentialism I lose true action. There is the need to avoid absolutes and extremes. — athelstane
This is however a pure statement of that which is called the Way, for truly, 'Nothing is everything and everything is nothing.' Through the ages it has been easy to say, yet it has always been impossible to be fully explained. — athelstane
I also firmly believe that all of my fellow men (women) deserve to be heard and believed as what they see to be true — athelstane
I take the opposite view. There are some people who are actively not worth listening to and should be avoided at all costs; they have nothing to teach. Of course, you could get tricky and say that they can teach you tolerance or patience - perhaps, but I prefer banishment. — Tom Storm
I sometimes thought that Sartre hinted at Daoism in some of his more cryptic utterances - I prefer this one:
"We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness — Tom Storm
Eh, the entire cultural climate is ruled by this logic and is fairly poor because of that. Not everyone can, perhaps, can relate to this, but take anime gatekeepers for example. — thewonder
It becomes so much more perplexing when he makes statements like this with his particularly defined philosophical vocabulary. — thewonder
Granted, I just think that negation delimits Ontology, and, so, in the Sartrean sense, is important for reflexive self-consciousness, but would place less emphasis on nothingness were I to write a seminal philosophical tract. — thewonder
I don't know. I think that, even in my personal life, I still find something or another to gain from just about everyone. — thewonder
I was kind of with him when he talked about nothingness and reflexive self-consciousness, but he lost me when he seemed to cast nothingness as consciousness itself. — thewonder
Heimat, in its entirety on /tv/ so as to put some other lonely soul through all fifty-nine and a half hours of that sad and strange West German melodrama. — thewonder
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