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Philosophy also provides a great opportunity for intellectual elitism, like when someone assumes that superior education has anything to do with the ability to reason effectively from a philosophical standpoint, as if credentials matter in a discussions about things unknowable. Usually, these folk make pretty blatant mistakes in characterizing their positions, like making bold statements about reason and logic and in doing so unwittingly giving away the fact that they don't really know much about what reason and logic actually are.
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Exactly. It's mostly just feeling up eachother, probing eachother for weakness or strength. I didn't mean to imply Christianity is inferior to any of the other traditional poisonous religions, for example, Taoism teaches the same thing, essentially as Christianity, it teaches you to just be still, do nothing, lay there, let other people fuck you. the passive principle, to be the nail, the thing acted upon. to be the slave to the stronger will, to be animated by the forces that surround you, rather to attempt to be the animator, because there is nothing you can really do about it, anyways.
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The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
If kings and lords observed this,
The ten thousand things would develop naturally.
If they still desired to act,
They would return to the simplicity of formless substance.
Without form there is no desire.
Without desire there is tranquillity.
In this way all things would be at peace.
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But you are right, we are what we are, we are animals with a mind that allows us to concieve of our animal nature, but it does not change it. We can pretend to be superior by shaping our personality in the image of the anti-Beast, but even then, we are really expressing our beastiality, by pretending to be anti-Beast, and thus superior.
Only when we can agree with another person, that you and me are superior, to those other people, can we really have a sense of true equality and comraderie.