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What did he mean by this?
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>>25461974
In reference to The Way.
It is an ineffable feeling nearly impossible to put into words. Second line ridicules those who try to teach it to everyone including those who aren't ready. Like those Hollywood Kabbalist shitters who give quick shot lessons to people like Madonna and now she thinks she knows it all.
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>>25461974
Speak or know, one or the other pal keep it movin'
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it means short concise to the point posts > long drawn reddit tier replies
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[remain silent]
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>>25461974
The JQ.
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>>25462002
spotted the guy who doesn't know
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>>25461974
He means that those who know are autistic and those who speak are retarded
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IYKYK
yappers don't
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>>25461974
>Who say, don't know, and those who know don't say
>A saying from Lao-tzu, or so I've heard
>But if the great Lao-tzu was one who knows
>Why'd he himself compose five thousand words?
-Bai Ju-yi, translation mine. "Five thousand words" is referring to the Dao De Jing, which is about five thousand words in length in the original Chinese.
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>>25461974
That you are the subject of the second line.
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>>25462344
>His little joke depends on people who don't understand English



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