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The Sacred Chao Te Ching

Started by Cramulus, April 13, 2009, 05:30:19 PM

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Cramulus

BUMP so I can find this later....

Quote from: Ratatosk on June 28, 2010, 06:11:12 PM
Crowley was very interested in Eastern belief. He has his own translation of the Tao Teh King http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib157.htm and seemed profoundly interested in their concepts as compared to the Western Christian ones.

might be interesting to read side-by-side our writings.

DiscoUkulele

I printed off the first draft from Cram's Scribd and made a little booklet. I'm not finished reading it just yet, but I wanted to let ya'll know that you've done an awesome job. I'm really enjoying it. :)
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Cramulus

thanks! would love to hear some feedback, if you have any

LMNO

Which reminds me... have you had time to think over my latest revisions?

DiscoUkulele

Quote from: Cramulus on July 15, 2010, 02:34:46 PM
thanks! would love to hear some feedback, if you have any

I'm only about halfway through, but so far, I keep getting struck by how great this would be for people just discovering Discordianism. It seems to spell things out more clearly than any of the other books I've read.

I don't really have any constructive criticism at this point, I just think it's great.
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Cramulus

new PDF up

there are some font issues, but otherwise a clean draft.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34652650/Chao-te-Ching

Telarus

Hey, I noticed something with Verse 24:

  Chapter 24

The Grayface believes in Order.
The Anarchist believes in Disorder.
The General sees war.
The Celebrity sees themselves.
The Bureaucrat seeks control.
The Leader acts like a bully on the playground.
The Scientist and the Priest believe in the model.

All these things are balanced in Chaos,
and so do not succeed.

Therefore the followers of Eris like to poke them with sticks.

Shouldn't that be unbalanced in Chaos, and so do not succeed? OR balanced by Chaos?
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LMNO

The individual Thing is balanced out by the other Thing (as is the case with Things in Chaos), and so the individual thing cannot succeed.

Order cannot succeed because of Disorder, etc.

Cramulus

btw, I think my new favorite chapter is #70



Telarus

Quote from: Doktor Alphapance on July 21, 2010, 08:33:08 PM
The individual Thing is balanced out by the other Thing (as is the case with Things in Chaos), and so the individual thing cannot succeed.

Order cannot succeed because of Disorder, etc.

Ah, I was taking them individually, not as pairs. Thanks.
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It's kinda depressing to see how badly the order/disorder/chaos relationship is understood.
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Telarus

That's because the news uses the word chaos instead of disorder ALL THE TIME.




also, I agree with you.
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