Latest revision as of 19:52, 26 October 2009

This page is for discussion about the Sacred Chao Te Ching. The official discussion is going on at the Principia Discordia forums, but stuff tends to get lost in quickly moving threads. So this page contains notes we'll want to find later in the editorial process.

To Do

(likely out of date)

Examine chapters with more than one entry and blend them into one DONE.

1. discuss the Sacred Chao Te Ching until we're satisfied with it
2. Create a PDF
3. distribute to Discordian and Taoist communities, send copies to cool people
4. Find a way to make it an actual scroll, or a professionally bound version.

Widows

These are chapters, stanzas, quotes or ideas which should go in the book, but we haven't figured out where to place them yet.

Jump to conclusions
fall flat on your face.

Anything could be a punchline.
The Discordian sucker punches suckers
both the wise and foolish
both the wrong and the right
both the deserving and the undeserving
both those that get it and those that don't
and even herself
both inadvertently and advertently 

sometimes below the belt

Whether the Discordian likes it or not,
those are the facts.

The Discordian survives.
She has no hit points
she has no points to hit

Everything is a punchline

inadvertently or advertently

Unconcerned with conclusions,
no need to grasp.
Unconscious of power,
wild free it prevails.

Those who follow the Chao think they are one with the Chao.
Those who follow power think they are one with power.
Those who follow laughter think they are one with laughter.
Those who are bored we think are boring.

Those who are one with the Chao create the Chao.
Those who are one with power create power.
Those who are one with laughter create laughter.
Those who are one with boredom bore the hell out of me, man.
Those who lack humor? The joke's on them.