No more taoism in YOSPOS

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Widdiful: Oct 10, 2012

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Widdiful posted:

　

# ? Sep 21, 2014 17:40

Zam Wesell: Mar 22, 2009; [Zam is suddenly shot in the neck by a toxic dart; Anakin and Obi-Wan see a "rocket-man" take off and fly away, and Zam dies]

only just now noticed ballmer

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# ? Sep 21, 2014 17:40

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

# ? Sep 21, 2014 17:40

Fax Sender: Aug 11, 2013; kiss my ass

kiss my rear end

# ? Sep 21, 2014 17:42

Soricidus: Oct 21, 2010; freedom-hating statist shill

the tao that can be shitposted about is not the true tao

hence there cannot be taoism in yospos by definition

# ? Sep 22, 2014 00:39

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

Fax Sender posted:

kiss my rear end

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# ? Sep 22, 2014 00:52

Ericadia: Oct 31, 2007; Not A Unicorn

Widdiful posted:

　

# ? Sep 22, 2014 00:59

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

why not

# ? Sep 22, 2014 02:28

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Taoism is not only permitted in yospos, it is encouraged.

Here, have a passage from the Tao De Ching:

quote:

Wu is nothingness, emptiness, non-existence

Thirty spokes of a wheel all join at a common hub
yet only the hole at the center
allows the wheel to spin
Clay is molded to form a cup
yet only the space within
allows the cup to hold water
Walls are joined to make a room
yet only by cutting out a door and a window
can one enter the room and live there

Thus, when a thing has existence alone
it is mere dead-weight
Only when it has wu, does it have life

# ? Sep 22, 2014 04:12

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

rotor posted:

Taoism is not only permitted in yospos, it is encouraged.

Here, have a passage from the Tao De Ching:

the mystery of chessboxing...

# ? Sep 22, 2014 05:07

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

rotor posted:

Taoism is not only permitted in yospos, it is encouraged.

Here, have a passage from the Tao De Ching:

alternate transliteration for people unconcerned with poetry:

quote:

A wheel has spokes, but it rotates around a hollow center.

A pot is made out of clay or glass, but you keep things in the space inside.

A house is made of wood or brick, but you live between the walls.

We work with something, but we use nothing.

# ? Sep 22, 2014 06:31

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

i really expected that to be either a shadowhawk or fishmech post

# ? Sep 22, 2014 06:33

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

# ? Sep 22, 2014 06:54

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Heresiarch posted:

alternate transliteration for people unconcerned with poetry:

nice. my favorite paraphrasing of it is something like

"the part of the cup that is useful is the part that is not the cup"

# ? Sep 22, 2014 08:25

Bobby Digital: Sep 4, 2009

lotta revealing of wu-tang secrets itt

# ? Sep 22, 2014 08:29

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

rotor posted:

nice. my favorite paraphrasing of it is something like

"the part of the cup that is useful is the part that is not the cup"

yet the useful part of the cup is useless without the cup

# ? Sep 22, 2014 08:34

EMILY BLUNTS: Jan 1, 2005

The part of the cup that matters; which is the part of the cup that is not cup, does not matter where matter does not fall

# ? Sep 22, 2014 08:38

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; Can't post for 14 hours!; Slippery Tilde

# ? Sep 22, 2014 08:39

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

rotor posted:

nice. my favorite paraphrasing of it is something like

"the part of the cup that is useful is the part that is not the cup"

i went and found where i got that from, this no-poetry low-mysticism version which has some other good simplifications in it for when you're trying to explain something like "wu wei" to your friends

my personal version is "i have no destination so no one can stand in my way"

# ? Sep 22, 2014 10:34