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    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    #32965
    Anonymous
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    OK everyone in the Daoism group. I missed Saturday so catch me up. What exactly are we preparing to do for Tuesday?

    #32966
    Anonymous
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    Well I certainly didn't realize what the Daoists were. I chose the Daoists because I love poetry and prose. I believed they were peaceful and all and that's why I liked them. Ok, ok and because of the Tau of Piglet as well.

    But, I got it completely wrong than what I believe I had believed. To me, They seem to be very contradictory. In one prose it seems like they are criticising eductaion as a bad thing and in another it seems that the non-educated bring down the whole society.

    Did anyone else find this to be true?

    #32967
    Anonymous
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    Yes, I think Daosim is very contradictory. I think it is the paradoxes in the life that rings true.

    But I was thinking about the reverence for Nature that Daoism also has. It reminded me of the Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau who lived on Walden Pond for a year. In Daosim, there seems to be both this respect and power that the natural world encompasses.

    #32968
    Anonymous
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    Check out the story:
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070309/ap_on_re_eu/nireland_chinese_winner

    "I'm a Taoist, not a Christian, and I don't naturally belong to orange or green," she said, referring to the local color labels for British Protestant and Irish Catholic. "I'm really in the middle."

    Interesting!!!

    #32969
    Anonymous
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    I agree, There is a bit of daoism in Thoreau's mentality. He even took to heart the simple is better. I think the Daoists would be very proud of him. He got rid of all he had, but an axe, pen, and paper and only took other such neccessities of life with him. What a great literary connection. Thanks

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