Take a look at this.
You're never going to get to read this because most of it isn't translated.
Most of you will never learn chinese.
If you were to try a critique Daoism, you'd have to spend a lifetime if not more.
>>2683344>>2683346don't care, burn it all kill footbinders.
>>2683344I would like to learn Chinese one day, but holy shit the ideogramic writing and tonal stuff makes me want to learn just about anything else.
>>2683349Reject reading, embrace retardation.
Except foot binding was caused by a buddhist legend of Padmavati, not Daoism.
Daoism is not a single school of thought.
>>2683344Just use a translator LLM trained on the data to tutor yourself, but who would care to? This is an artifact from another place in another time written for other purposes than to be useful to me.
>>2683364>This is an artifact from another place in another time written for other purposes than to be useful to me.Personally I have found a lot of daoism to be timeless and cozy, even as a modern western.
>>2683344The xuanxue canon (synthesis of daoism and Confucianism) list the taoteching, zhaungzi, I Ching and leizi as the canon which is much more manageable than the pure daoist canon
Daoism claims the universe is perfect.
It clearly isn't.
Daoism therefore, is immediately debunked.
I thought Daoists didn’t believe in writing, that they recorded things through series of rope knots because calligraphy is not “the way” or whatever
Also fuck China, it’s literally the exact same as every other asian tiger economy
>>2683694That's an oversimplification, rather "perfect" in the sense of it being functional to exist as it is, not that the processes ongoing in it are desireable. "Perfect" in that it is stable to exist as it is and therefore is as perfect at what it is.
>>2683694A common trope in eastern religions is that evil/suffering/imperfection, etc is due to illusion and only through enlightenment is the illusion dispelled.
>>2683344>religion but orientalNah
>>2683887It's a philosophy, not a religion. There's no hierarchy, no hyerophany, no dogma, and no sacerdotal class.
>>2683933There is religious daoism but there is also philosophical daoism but is usually practiced within a Confucian ritual ambience. I don't think it was ever intended that people just read a bunch of texts outside the cultural milieu and then interpret it as they wish let alone in translation.
>>2683938>Religion is when you do something collectively and there's formal ritualsDo you classify schooling as religion too? And what about book clubs? If a group of marxist-leninists get together to read theory is that a form of religion?
>>2683948Kind of. Religion literally means to bind. So collectivism eliminates subjectivism to a certain extent, you could say collective discussion within a lineage or group is a form of dialectics
>>2683983I actually reject the idea of "returning to nature" more strongly than I've said here.
>>2683933>It's a philosophy, not a religion.Yeah yeah. Like platonism. Still dumb.
>>2683938>I don't think it was ever intended that people just read a bunch of texts outside the cultural milieu and then interpret it as they wishThe first line of the Tao Te Ching is
>The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Taowhich I think implies there should be an openness to interpretation rather than holding on to dogmas and rituals.
>>2683983wtf daoism is based leftcom religion?
>>2688307the point of that sentence is to mean that as soon as you try to define reality/nature etc,you end up with words that do not represent reality in its entirety,because language can only describe part of it
>>2683344Is Daoism necessary for socialism? Seems like the Chinese are on to something here
>>2683344look at the length of the talmud
you don't have to know everything about something to critique it
>>2688410>1. Sanhedrin 59a Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animalbut it doesn't actually say that though
how is it possible that a meme this large is already wrong on the first part?
>>2688410<words, words, wordsthe right cant meme
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