Sunday, August 10, 2008

If the idea of "want" is false, so too is the idea of "free will," and "volition." You never "do" anything. Things are done through you. You never "cause" anything. You are an effect that sets into motion other effects.

"Love" is a similar idea. It doesn't really exist. It was created in the Elizabethan novels of Romantic women stuck in towers and whale-bone corsets.

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