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Ep. 4 – Our Place In The Universe

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Great Dao Is Not Adorable for the Idea of Tao

Ist philosophy is based on the idea of nature as a system which has no boss. The darrest view of the universe is that everything happens by itself, but if you leave it alone and don't try to push it around, it's orderly. So then, in the doest theory of the universe, everything is let go. It's as if god had said, now i'm producing everything, but i'm going to disappear and be invisible and just not there. This is one of those interesting paradoxes of which daism is full. I can't understand for the life of me how people can be members of a republic like the united states and think that this is the

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