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The future of Mankind.
    #9277353 - 11/20/08 08:56 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

I don't care.

Icelander is so cold.:sad:

You know why I don't care? Because the Tao doesn't care. Future generations and their fate have nothing to do with me whatsoever. It's totally unimportant unless I'm subjectively attached to a certain belief about myself; that I'm important and that humanity is important.

It's all unimportant. At least for those of us who use Tao as a guide.


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: Icelander]
    #9277671 - 11/20/08 09:56 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

I am intuiting that your astrological sign is Taorus. :yesnod:


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: Icelander]
    #9277812 - 11/20/08 10:18 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Icelander said:
You know why I don't care? Because the Tao doesn't care.




God cares.  :nono:


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9277825 - 11/20/08 10:20 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Who?

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: Veritas]
    #9277839 - 11/20/08 10:22 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)



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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: Icelander]
    #9277862 - 11/20/08 10:25 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

this is sort of the ultimate leap away from ingrained nature.  that's not to say other animals actually care about future generations, but they are sure set on making sure there are future generations


then again, maybe offspring truly are just a(n unwanted) side effect of sex


however, if you don't care about the future of humanity, it doesn't make much sense that you would want to make way for its continuation


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: Icelander]
    #9278480 - 11/20/08 12:34 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Icelander said:
I don't care.

Icelander is so cold.:sad:

You know why I don't care? Because the Tao doesn't care. Future generations and their fate have nothing to do with me whatsoever. It's totally unimportant unless I'm subjectively attached to a certain belief about myself; that I'm important and that humanity is important.

It's all unimportant. At least for those of us who use Tao as a guide.




the tao neither cares nor doesn't care.  it's fruitless to personify the tao.

the tao is not a guide, it is not a thing.  it is fruitless to objectify the tao.

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deranger]
    #9278506 - 11/20/08 12:41 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

If only persons can care, and the Tao is not a person, then we can safely say that the Tao does not care.

The use of dichotomous opposites in paradoxical fashion to delineate the Tao only works so far, and can't be applied to every verb or phrase one can think of.


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Edited by deCypher (11/20/08 12:47 PM)

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9278532 - 11/20/08 12:47 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

who's Tao, your Tao?

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deranger]
    #9278538 - 11/20/08 12:49 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

the Tao

can a person own the Tao?


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9278550 - 11/20/08 12:53 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

just as people hold onto concepts like God.

it's all religious indulgence.

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deranger]
    #9278585 - 11/20/08 12:59 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

How now, brown Tao?


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9278589 - 11/20/08 01:00 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

you talkin to me, or ME?

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deranger]
    #9278595 - 11/20/08 01:01 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Isn't that a Taotology?


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9278609 - 11/20/08 01:04 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

no it's a deranged question from a deranged mind.

EDIT: so what was the original question?

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9278616 - 11/20/08 01:05 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
I am intuiting that your astrological sign is Taorus. :yesnod:




Actually correct on cusp with asshole. Same day as Hitler actually.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deranger]
    #9278654 - 11/20/08 01:10 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

There are no questions amidst the running waters of the Universe.

There is only Taobulence.


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9278679 - 11/20/08 01:14 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

how Tao of you. :yesnod:

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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: Icelander]
    #9279317 - 11/20/08 03:12 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

There was a time when I realized how small and insignificant we all are. How we are just a tiny blip in the massive energy wave of the universe.

But then I also realized how, in fact, rare we actually are. There are billions and billions of star systems in the universe...meaning there are probably billions of other sentient races out there. But think about the actual percentage of star systems that can actually develop life...and then think about the likely-hood that they will develop sentient life. The odds, in actuality, of a single star system developing life like ours, is incredibly low.

Therefore I like to take the standpoint that we are RARE and PRECIOUS. I honestly have a lot of faith and hope in the fate of humanity. I want our species to prosper. I want us to continue to grow and to solve the mysteries of the universe. If our ancestors hadn't been equally as committed to solving the riddles of existence, we wouldn't even be having this fine conversation right now. We'd still be smacking stones together to make sharp objects for killing dinner. It really is amazing how far we have come as a species. Humanity is totally BADASS in my opinion.


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Re: The future of Mankind. [Re: deCypher]
    #9279562 - 11/20/08 03:53 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

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deCypher said:
the Tao

can a person own the Tao?






appearently this guy can.


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