The Sacred Chao Te Ching

[Requia ☣]

I wonder if we should come up with different totally nonsensical words to use in conversations like that, so that there's no prior conflict with what we're trying to say and what others have used the words as before.

Or maybe I'd come off as even more of an asshole that way.

[Telarus]

Was that you in one of those threads? I think that a few people got the concept (especially the person who asked, "All is Chaos. And then what?"), but some of them were really hung up on their definition of chaos=disorder.

[Requia ☣]

No not me, (I have started a similar thread on a religion forum just now, posted the rough draft and asked for comments, will se where it goes).

[Cramulus]

My wiki is restored so we can keep moving forward.  (THANKS 000!)

LMNO and I have written two forewards / intros. I like both of them but we could use some feedback

read here: http://principiadiscordia.com/cramulus/index.php?title=Forward_to_the_CTC

[LMNO]

Heh.  I like your intro, Cram.

[Bu🤠ns]

i like them both -- very hodge/podge--what could be better?

[LMNO]

I just noticed some egregious grammar errors in mine.  I gotta go fix that.

[Cramulus]

now that I've had time to sleep on these---

I really do like both of them!

My one comment for LMNO is that perhaps it the text shouldn't claim to be an important text? (1st paragraph)

And in mine, I'm trying to resolve a mismatch in the dialogue... Lao Tzu asks "If the Tao is everything, how can you go against the Tao?" and Eris basically says "Humans have to balance order and disorder." Which IS an answer, but doesn't really answer the question.

[LMNO]

Yeah... I was trying to go for "stuffy academic".  I may just cut that line entirely, rather than reverse it and go self-deprecating.

[the last yatto]

and Eris basically says "how can you not!"

[the last yatto]

Or maybe some fung shway joke

[Cramulus]

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


I think we'll do one more editorial pass and then put a fork in it. Feedback welcome. We're in the home stretch. Or maybe we're done already. YOU TELL ME. 

[Requia ☣]

Here I thought the last one was final.

What changed in this one?

[Cramulus]

we've done another editorial pass or two since then. We also added a foreward and a preface.

[Captain Utopia]

Is there any chance of getting a printed bound copy of this at some point, or would the NC part of BY-NC-SA get in the way of that?