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The Nature of Tears, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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We've Wept, We Were Weeping Again

Tears, like mirrors, these are thingshat everyonein in the world can relate to on some level. Examples of human tears are, like, a kid falls, scrapes up their knee, and then they're crying. It's not just a kid's thing. You you suffer an injury, a you might find yourself shedding some tears. The idea seems to be that tat in the human context, we have this additional stuff as well - what it means for things that were and things that could or will be. And one take on all this that we see in both western and eastern traditions is the idea that we suffer because we fix t on things and even living, living beings

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