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LMNO

#15
June 23, 2009, 01:08:03 PM
It's funny, but I don't quite agree.  Naturally.

Since we began the Chao Te Ching project, I've had to re-examine what Lao Tzu was saying a lot more closely; and while some of it fits, it does so in the way just about every other introspective philosophy/religion fits into Discordia: Half way.  You just can't make a one-to-one comparison between Eris and Tao by swapping "Chaos" for "The Way" and "Order/Disorder" for "Yin/Yang".  Trust me, it was one of the first things I tried.

But, because it's funny, "Taoism in a clown costume" will most likely stick and continue giving people the wrong impression.

Cramulus

#16
June 23, 2009, 01:20:02 PM
I see that there are more pages which I can't access, not being a member. Can somebody x-post interesting stuff from pages 2+?

Richter

#17
June 23, 2009, 01:26:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 23, 2009, 01:08:03 PM

But, because it's funny, "Taoism in a clown costume" will most likely stick and continue giving people the wrong impression.

It's a hard thing to encapsulate as a tagline (flattering or not flattering).  Like the old "Zen for roundeyes" take, it does drive home to the layperson that Discoridanism is more about different ways of thinking / percieving than funny new combinations of dogma and ritual.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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Iason Ouabache

#18
June 23, 2009, 06:09:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 23, 2009, 01:08:03 PM
It's funny, but I don't quite agree.  Naturally.

Since we began the Chao Te Ching project, I've had to re-examine what Lao Tzu was saying a lot more closely; and while some of it fits, it does so in the way just about every other introspective philosophy/religion fits into Discordia: Half way.  You just can't make a one-to-one comparison between Eris and Tao by swapping "Chaos" for "The Way" and "Order/Disorder" for "Yin/Yang".  Trust me, it was one of the first things I tried.

But, because it's funny, "Taoism in a clown costume" will most likely stick and continue giving people the wrong impression.
Well, it is impossible to sum up any religion in less than 10 words but you've gotta start somewhere.
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AFK

#19
June 23, 2009, 06:10:51 PM
I wonder if 'Gramps' is Grampa Kaos. 
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BabylonHoruv

#20
June 23, 2009, 07:18:36 PM
I always saw more in common with zen than tao, but then, I know zen a little better than I know tao.
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Cain

#21
June 23, 2009, 10:21:44 PM

Verbal Mike

#22
June 24, 2009, 09:04:50 AM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on June 23, 2009, 07:18:36 PM
I always saw more in common with zen than tao, but then, I know zen a little better than I know tao.
Zen is Tao in a Buddhist costume.
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Arafelis

#23
June 24, 2009, 09:50:53 AM
Confucianism is Taoism in a rabbit costume.
"OTOH, I shook up your head...I must be doing something right.What's wrong with schisms?  Malaclypse the younger DID say "Discordians need to DISORGANIZE."  If my babbling causes a few sparks, well hell...it beats having us backslide into our own little greyness." - The Good Reverend Roger

LMNO

#24
June 24, 2009, 12:53:08 PM
Taoism is Eris ordering Kung Pow Chicken.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#25
June 24, 2009, 06:05:53 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on June 22, 2009, 11:03:03 PM
QuoteTaoism in a clown costume.

:lulz:  I hope that is in the news feed now.


Probably my favorite description ever.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

hooplala

#26
June 24, 2009, 06:15:18 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 24, 2009, 12:53:08 PM
Taoism is Eris ordering Kung Pow Chicken.

Eris likes her chicken spicy!
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#27
June 24, 2009, 06:15:21 PM
Discordianism is getting a lot of play lately, and it kind of disturbs me.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Cainad (dec.)

#28
June 24, 2009, 06:16:36 PM
QuoteTaoism in a clown costume.

I like it because it's easy to misconstrue it as meaning "it's just Daoism in different words," which, as LMNO said, is not the case. The clown costume is an integral part of it. Sort of like the original versions of the Joker: you can't take the clown makeup off, because that's how he actually looks.

hooplala

#29
June 24, 2009, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel on June 24, 2009, 06:15:21 PM
Discordianism is getting a lot of play lately, and it kind of disturbs me.

It is?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman
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