Bit by Bit - Chapter 2, Part 15

Trey Smith

What is acceptable we call acceptable; what is unacceptable we call unacceptable. A road is made by people walking on it; things are so because they are called so. What makes them so? Making them so makes them so. What makes them not so? Making them not so makes them not so. Things all must have that which is so; things all must have that which is acceptable. There is nothing that is not so, nothing that is not acceptable.
~ Burton Watson translation ~

Nothing is permanent and permanence is everything. Light is dark and dark is light. Right is right, so long as it is not wrong. Wrong is wrong, so long as it is not right. Above? Below? Sideways?

Humans like to believe that there are absolutes. Maybe there are. Maybe there aren't. We can be "absolutely" sure that what we think we know, we don't...or do we?

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