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   Re: I came to the conclusion   
   10 Jul 21 04:50:24   
   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   % On 2021-07-09 3:12 a.m., ansaman wrote:   
   >> On 7/8/2021 11:24 PM, % wrote:   
   >>> On 2021-07-08 8:17 p.m., ansaman wrote:   
   >>>> On 7/8/2021 6:34 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> As a matter of fact.  Civilization is an unnatural act.  That doesn't   
   >>>>> mean that humans will stop trying to make it work.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What makes it an unnatural act? Are you saying that   
   >>>> man is not a natural phenomena? What do you base that on?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> un natural stuff   
   >>   
   >> Circular argument. What is natural and what is   
   >> unnatural? How can we tell?   
   >>   
   >nothing is natural   
      
   Without emptiness, nothing, space,   
   there'd be no room for anything   
   let alone everything to be.   
      
   Nothing could be viewed as the most natural   
   thing\non/thing that is, unless it's said it isn't.   
      
   At the center of a wheel is a point.   
   Balance may be of a key.   
      
   Nonbeing is said to be from what Being is.   
   Nonexistence is ontologically prior, philosophically.   
      
   Call it a myth, a point of origin, goose-eggs.   
   Given a grid, a graph is able to be coordinated.   
      
   Some Taoists equated Tao with nothing.   
      
   - funny Ting, cooking with nothing, naturally ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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