djm wrote:I'm not sure which is funnier: switching to female in a patronising way whenever the text refers to the superior person, or choosing to mock someone else's Bible because you don't think there are any Taoists on the board.
I fell asleep beside a gently flowing river, and dreamed I was a whistle. When I awoke, I could not tell if I was a man who dreamed he was a whistle, or a whistle who was dreaming he was a man. There are over a thousand volumes in the Taoist canon. The Christian Bible is much shorter.
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
djm wrote:I'm not sure which is funnier: switching to female in a patronising way whenever the text refers to the superior person, or choosing to mock someone else's Bible because you don't think there are any Taoists on the board.
djm
Oh, shut up. I'm working on the New Testament.
Just don't let any Ayatollahs hear about your Koran parody or you'll be doing a Salman Rushdie...
djm wrote:I fell asleep beside a gently flowing river, and dreamed I was a whistle. When I awoke, I could not tell if I was a man who dreamed he was a whistle, or a whistle who was dreaming he was a man. There are over a thousand volumes in the Taoist canon. The Christian Bible is much shorter.
djm
If you toss some coins on a Bible and read what is there, and keep doing it, you can formulate your own set of doctrines, and get a TV show, and give tape series as Love Gifts to anyone who will partner with your ministry by making a tax-deductible Donation of $150, "to help keep this ministry on the air."
Doug_Tipple wrote:Dale, I am not an authority on Eastern religions, but I don't believe that your new avatar photo showing the chakras goes with your well-written parody of "The Way" by Lao Tzu. Did you intend for there to be a connection. All of the other graphics on the page look Taoist but not the chakra graphic, IMO. I don't know, maybe I ate too many raw beets today.
Yeah, well, you know, East is East.
Dog pile!!!
As long as we're engaging in higher criticism, shouldn't the title have been "Chiff Te Ching"? (Or "Chiff De Jing" for those who aren't living in the past, romanizationally speaking.)
Mike Wright
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
--Goethe
Doug_Tipple wrote:Dale, I am not an authority on Eastern religions, but I don't believe that your new avatar photo showing the chakras goes with your well-written parody of "The Way" by Lao Tzu. Did you intend for there to be a connection. All of the other graphics on the page look Taoist but not the chakra graphic, IMO. I don't know, maybe I ate too many raw beets today.
Yeah, well, you know, East is East.
Dog pile!!!
As long as we're engaging in higher criticism, shouldn't the title have been "Chiff Te Ching"? (Or "Chiff De Jing" for those who aren't living in the past, romanizationally speaking.)
Doug_Tipple wrote:Dale, I am not an authority on Eastern religions, but I don't believe that your new avatar photo showing the chakras goes with your well-written parody of "The Way" by Lao Tzu. Did you intend for there to be a connection. All of the other graphics on the page look Taoist but not the chakra graphic, IMO. I don't know, maybe I ate too many raw beets today.
Yeah, well, you know, East is East.
Dog pile!!!
As long as we're engaging in higher criticism, shouldn't the title have been "Chiff Te Ching"? (Or "Chiff De Jing" for those who aren't living in the past, romanizationally speaking.)
Yes, I went back & forth on that. But, really, don't you think Tao Te Chiff is funnier?
Heaviness is the basis of lightness.
Stillness is the basis of activity.
This is why the Undisputed is active
when sitting at the computer.
He tells his wife this.
Does your wife buy that excuse? I don't think my husband would.
