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Taoism Fail

Name: Anonymous 2014-03-28 23:36

Taoism is a philosophy that people have made into a fullblown religion. It's a simple philosophy: There is no evil, because everything is a natural part of life. Taoism is founded upon a renounciation of the teachings of Confucious, who invented virtues and sins after his own whims. Taoism is ethical anarchy.

It seems easy to understand as a concept. The founder of taoism, Lao Tzu, wasn't a holy man. He was a simple librarian who was fed up with working for Confucius. One would think that at least a handful of people would understand what Lao Tzu was saying.

Nope.
Todays taoism is about reading his book, interpreting its phrases, wondering what they mean, and thinking it's all very mystical and wonderous. "Don't be a faggot." is some sort of ultimate wisdom from a grand sage, that people can only hope to get a glimpse of.

This may seem funny enough, but to really understand the bizarre, we have to look at taoism online.
4chan is a pretty taoist forum already where everything that is allowed to be permitted, is permitted.
However, official taoist forums, are not taoist forums. Quite the opposite.
Besides the general forum PC rules that every forum has copied and pasted from eachother, every post also has to be nice, popular and express a politically correct view. These are forums that would permaban Lao Tzu himself for "promoting immorality". In the end everyone has to basically already agree with eachother, which runs contrary to spiritual progress within taoism. With discussing the validity of immoral views banned, the activities are confined to quoting the Tao Te Ching, screwing around, and small-talking: Drivel.

Name: Anonymous 2014-03-31 11:50

>>7
"Evil" is a word that faggots resort to when they can't find a RATIONAL reason for their faggotry. It's a word for blaming their own ignorance on other people.

Cutting your own dick off isn't evil. It's stupid.
Spinning around until you fall down isn't evil. It's pointless.
Banning all staplers in the office isn't evil. It's inefficient.
Eating your own shit isn't evil. It's unhealthy.
The ethical concept of "evil" ties into the religious concept of sin: It's an invention to fool the masses, and it's an invention to fool yourself.

Evil is by definition something senselessly destructive. As such, it doesn't fit in in a world that makes sense. Once you have enough sense yourself to make sense of it, "evil" ceases to be senseless. However, "evil" is like "god" in that it provides an answer that can even deter people from making sense of things. Evil is what makes ethics a religion of its own.

Looking back to the ringleader Trunk, he is only evil in the anti-taoist sense. He's trying to create a virtual utopia where violence and such things is not part of reality. In so doing, he's not only deluding his followers into a false view of the tao, but also creating real-world taoist terrorists for his own needs. His needs will in turn no doubt have normal reasons (such as him only faking being a taoist, or him hating a world that didn't give him a pony), so they're not evil in a strict sense, even if these needs are hurting taoism, the balance of the tao, and the rest of the world.

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