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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I remember when I believed this. How I wish it were true

[–] Kor@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the neat thing, you can choose to believe both to be true at the same time, but never reconcile them. Just as there most likely wouldn't be pleasure without pain.

As a species, we really should learn to live in and with perpetual ambiguity. There is no fixed point and no achieving bliss. Only permanent struggle towards the "right" path, whatever that shapes up to be.

[–] Luis_StieglLorbeer@lemmy.dorfrollenspiel.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Kor@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I'm kind of split on that :>

"That's the neat thing, you can choose to believe both to be true at the same time, but never reconcile them."

-Kor

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Take some shrooms and you'll see it