(August 4, 2023 at 7:27 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's one of the great personal disappointments of how I view the world that the people I want to build up interpret that as shitting on their parade. It's entirely my own fault, ofc...but....All I'm saying..is that you have more considered and accurate thoughts than any stupid fucking buddha. You haven't divined the hidden meaning of a great ancient message, you're the author.
I accept that you may well be right... that he was a product of his time, and that time was a superstitious time, so to assume that he could go that much against the grain with his philosophy is perhaps naive. But however it came about, retconned or no, I do appreciate it in the form laid out in that book.
