"Some men, thoughtful men, all but wise men, never stop

>>9884665
Is this new in any way?

>>9884665
When we renounce learning we have no troubles.
The (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'--
Small is the difference they display.
But mark their issues, good and ill;--
What space the gulf between shall fill?

What all men fear is indeed to be feared; but how wide and without end
is the range of questions (asking to be discussed)!

The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a
full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem
listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of
their presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look
dejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of
men all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost
everything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of
chaos.

Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be
benighted. They look full of discrimination, while I alone am dull
and confused. I seem to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as
if I had nowhere to rest. All men have their spheres of action, while
I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone
am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).

>>9884665
>a meatship
except that it isn't, even....

>>9884718
What do you mean?

>>9884699
The renouncement of learning can be only a detrimental thing.

>>9884699

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Fear is the mind-killer etc etc.

Spooks, spooks all

>>9884740
Perhaps in the 'your lordship' sense (your meatship?) the sense is acceptable, kind of. But calling a body a ship kind of romanticizes the notion of being empty, and I'm not sure that is at all the querist's intention despite whatever irony, or absurdity. tic.

>>9884749
Op's post reminds me of this part of the Tao Te Ching. I picture a depressed man who is sceptical of so many things that his epoche leaves him unable to learn any more, or think anymore, and this is his life. He requires the tao, just like op's men dissociatively drift after self-destruction.

I'm not advocating it. It's just very much the same, yet there's something in the Tao Te Ching that recognises this as a good way to live. Go with the flow, big shit eating grin, probably a bag of weed. Sort of a bitter sweet end to a failed life.

Or a warning to go learn about everything every moment of your life, and do so consciously that you are dying, you will die!

>>9884699
I hope that either i get criticism, or just typical ego gratification, either way i hope i get some harsh pointers

>>9885040

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEv7dIYZsms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g

>>9885040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58PSfoiklA4

>>9885040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL-Cmi-sLs

>>9885040

You can do. Drift on. Flap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COt1n3jDqA