The Jews are trying to start WW III and guess who they'll want to fight it for them ?

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Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
At the beginning Taoism was not a religion at all. It was a philosophy. It eventually was mixed with traditional Chinese religion inorder to maintain the legitimacy of the Emporer when it was named the official religion of China. Previous to that it was viewed as a rebellious and seditious philosophical movement that threatened the 1st Dynasty's divine claim to power, and It's teachers were hunted and put to death.

Family's found sheltering Taoists as they traveled could lose their homes, lands, and lives for taking them in. It was the Tao's lack of heavens and hells, demons and spirits, eternal rewards or punishments that was so dangerous to the Empire, and it's inherently understandable logic that there were no spirits, gods, devils, demons, or angels just humans trying to live in harmony with the natural world they are surrounded by and at the mercy of. It spoke to the complexity of reality, of our world without requiring praying to this or that imaginary being for blessings or mercy, who the Emporer was the the supreme divinely appointed intermediary with on earth.
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So you are Chinese grasshopper?
 
Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
and it's inherently understandable logic that there were no spirits, gods, devils, demons, or angels just humans trying to live in harmony with the natural world they are surrounded by and at the mercy of.
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So it's basically a philosophy based on man's limited sensory perceptions?
 
VonBonfire said:
So it's basically a philosophy based on man's limited sensory perceptions?
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Yes, there is no spoon bending, messianic or apocalyptic prophecies, communication with extra dimensional dieties via burning shrubbery, most likely of a cannaboid bearing species as well as a handful or two of local fungi from the cattle droppings, or any other hokey bullshit. Just us and the world.
 
Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
Yes, there is no spoon bending, messianic or apocalyptic prophecies, communication with extra dimensional dieties via burning shrubbery, most likely of a cannaboid bearing species as well as a handful or two of local fungi from the cattle droppings, or any other hokey bullshit. Just us and the world.
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So the point of practicing it is what? And you are calling other religions "hokey bullshit" then offering one restricted to man's very limited five senses.
 
VonBonfire said:
So the point of practicing it is what? And you are calling other religions "hokey bullshit" then offering one restricted to man's very limited five senses.
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It's not a religion. It's a philosophy. I am a Philosophical Taoist, not a Religious Taoist. There is a huge difference.

Also, Taoist thinking is not restricted to man's limited sensory abilities. It is about inward thought and reflection when faced with the complexity of the world we live in, and a path to finding inner peace through it. The same way of thinking applies whether I am looking at a reed bend in the wind to drop a cliché, or watching the tails of two galaxies get frayed and intertwined as they pass each other through a massive telescope.

What world are you living in where you need telekinesis or communion with spirits to get you through your day?
 
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Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
Nope, I'm an Eastern European (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Slovakian), and German mutt. 2nd/3rd generation American, 1st generation Floridian.
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And you also like Gibsons & Hiwatts my fellow LP forum brother. :yes:

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Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
It's not a religion. It's a philosophy. I am a Philosophical Taoist, not a religious Taoist. There is a huge difference. Also, Taoist thinking is not restricted to man's limited sensory abilities. It is about inward thought and reflection when faced with the complexity of the world we live in, and a path to finding inner peace through it.
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So what hope does it offer? A possibility of inner peace and then death?
 
Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
What more is there? I prefer to live in reality, not hope for fantasies.
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Except we have Christ and our holy fathers that testify to the blessed hope. If there is only the material world then morality is just a fantasy as the beasts of the field do not subscribe to any such ideas.
 
VonBonfire said:
Except we have Christ and our holy fathers that testify to the blessed hope. If there is only the material world then morality is just a fantasy as the beasts of the field do not subscribe to any such ideas.
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The Jews have Yeweh and their no show Messiah, the Muslims have their Allah and Mohammed, the Persians had Zoaraster, the Babylonians had Marmaduke and Gilgamesh, the Greeks have Zeus and Adonis. Which ones have it right?
 
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JDs Couch said:
Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again in "a matter of months", the head of the IAEA has said.

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the US strikes on three Iranian sites last weekend had caused severe but "not total" damage, contradicting Donald Trump's claim that Iran's nuclear facilities were "totally obliterated".

"Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there," Grossi said on Saturday.
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It's in Iran's best interest to make the world believe they are still nuclear capable, it's their bargaining chip. Believing what comes from their FM makes you a dunce....automatically.
 
84superchamp said:
It's in Iran's best interest to make the world believe they are still nuclear capable, it's their bargaining chip. Believing what comes from their FM makes you a dunce....automatically.
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Believing a word that your pathological liar president says makes you a moronic cultist...automatically.
 
VonBonfire said:
The only religion that is founded upon love. If it is only the material realm that is real then our love for others is just a cheap chemical trick of the brain.
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So you're in an orgystic Dionysian cult?
 
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