The Sacred Chao Te Ching

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

This is awesome.

[Honey]

THE TAO TEH KING (LIBER CLVII)
A New Translation By
KO YUEN
(ALEISTER CROWLEY)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib157.htm

Tao Te Ching
Written by Lao-tzu
From a translation by S. Mitchell

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html

[LMNO]

So... uh...

[pause]

What are we planning to do with this after we finish it?

In light of recent events, I think it's a fair question.

[Cramulus]

WE'LL BE RICH, MOTHERFUCKER. RICH BEYOND OUR MILDEST DREAMS!!

no srsly though - this thing should be free

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Define "free" please.

[hooplala]

You don't understand what "free" means?

[Honey]

Love Minus Zero/No Limit
-Bob Dylan

My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her.

In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.
Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.

The cloak and dagger dangles,
Madams light the candles.
In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Statues made of match sticks,
Crumble into one another,
My love winks, she does not bother,
She knows too much to argue or to judge.

The bridge at midnight trembles,
The country doctor rambles,
Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
The wind howls like a hammer,
The night blows cold and rainy,
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing.

Copyright ©1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music

I dunno?  I always thought this song might have been inspired by the Tao Te Ching?  Y'think?  anyway, I like it.

I have a couple of different translations of the Tao, some for the words, some for the illustrations, but I never read Aleister Crowley's version.  I like that one too, is interesting.

[hooplala]

Are you referring to the Book of Lies?  It's not a version of the Tao Te Ching... its a rip off of the Tao Te Ching.  There's a difference.

[LMNO]

I think AC has a translation of the Tao te Ching (called it the Tao teh King):

http://deoxy.org/taowley.htm

Yup.

[hooplala]

Well, color me wrong.

[LMNO]

Puce?

[hooplala]

That'll work.

[LMNO]

Status check:

Chapters 1 - 50 have been given first drafts.  More than halfway through; this is easier than I thought.

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

You don't understand what "free" means?

Is this another one of your episodes where you just didn't realize you were baiting people or are you aware of how douchey you sound by asking that question, considering what just happened with Intermittens?

[LMNO]

For the record: Since it appears I have been doing the majority of the first drafts, if somebody makes money off this and doesn't give me a cut, I will do horrible things to their existence.