Lieh Tzu>Everything in this world is interconnectedAnaxagoras>Everything in this world is interconnectedMarcus Aurelius>Everything in this world is interconnectedSiddhartha Gautama>Everything in this world is interconnectedArthur Schopenhauer>Everything in this world is interconnectedGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel>Everything in this world is interconnectedMohandas Gandhi>Everything in this world is interconnectedAlfred Whitehead>Everything in this world is interconnectedMartin Heidegger>Everything in this world is interconnected
>>24725123They still say it in different and incommensurable ways. Some also just mean it more than others. Some believe in a substantial self despite this. Others do not
>>24725131My post was less an attempt at boiling down all of their differences and more of an attempt at displaying a perennial truth
>>24725123it actually is. and if you see too much but cannot act upon it to connect, that becomes a great deal of torment.
>>24725149If everything in this world is interconnected prior to you acting upon it, is there any reason why one should feel torment?
>>24725123It's the old problem of the one and the many. If you affirm interconnectedness above all else you end up with "everything" being just one thing. If you affirm isolated being, you get a slide into multiplicity, and ideologies like corpuscular mechanism. The solution is an understanding of participation and the Analogia Entis, or being as incarnation and exitus and reditus as ordered to theosis.
>>24725123whatchu know about that
>>24726858>redditus
>>24725123No shit. The problem is Why. I can't even make sense of why the sky is the way it is, and it is truthfully driving me mad.
>>24727104The sky is driving you mad? Wait till you look into space.