Well, there's what I like to call the Eastern solution that you find in many an Eastern religion and philosophy that says that man is, in fact, nothing. He is dust.

有一种看法被我称之为,东方式解答,你们会发现许多东方的宗教,和哲学认为,事实上人类,什么都不是,人只不过是尘埃

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