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From An Ecclesiastic Freed Ma Son:

And thus the intrinsic significance of our CRAFT lies in the philosophical fact that we deal in NOTHING. We create EMPTINESS through which certain physical bodies are to move - we shall designate them for convenience as humans. By emptiness I mean what is commonly known as "rooms". Thus it is only the crass layman who thinks that we put up store walls. We do nothing of the kind. We put up emptiness as I have proved. This leads us to a corollary of astronomical importance: to the unconditional acceptance of the premise that 'absence' is superior to 'presence'. That is, to the acceptance of of non-acceptance I shall take this in simpler terms - for the sake of clarity: 'nothing' is superior to 'something'.

Thus it is clear that the architect is more than a bricklayer, since the fact of bricks is a secondary illusion anyway. The architect is a metaphysical priest dealing in basic essentials, who has the coverage to face the primal conception of reality as non-reality since there is nothing and he creates nothingness. If this sounds like a contradiction it is not proof of bad logic, but of a higher logic, the dialectics of all art and art and life. Should you wish to make the inevitable deductions from this basic conception, you may come to conclusions of vast sociological importance. You may see that a beautiful woman is inferior to a non-beautiful one, that the literate is inferior to the illiterate, that the rich is interior to the poor, and the able to the incompetent. The architect is the concrete illustration of a cosmic paradox. Let us be modest in the vast pride of this realization. Everything else is twaddle

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  • If doing nothing is something, then doing something is nothing. Therefore, life is just people that do nothing believing they are actually doing something.

  • Good stuff.

  • great vid , maybe the cup is half empty

  • minted

  • i really like this one! =) a whole lot to contemplate, and yet nothing to.

  • AIN

  • interesting video, it's gonna take me a few views to get my head around it tho. haha

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