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Re: 10 commandments? End world hunger?
« Reply #40 on: 05/09/2005 18:34:13 »
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And how do you know that people had religeon before Christianity?


Because organised society and literature pre date Christianity by at least four thousand years! That’s why! Plus the Old Testament is part of Judaism which has been around for much longer than Christianity. The Old Testament isn’t exactly super iron clad either! It’s funny how the Egyptians and the Assyrians didn’t write about the stories/characters found in the Old Testament until after they were already made popular???

Only a couple of minutes ago I read a great passage from the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the “Way” and its Virtue) which predates the New Testament by around 1000 years, it backs me up quite well! [:D] Like the Ten Commandments the Tao Te Ching was written in stone (Not by God though [;)])! This was after it had been around for over 500 years, the original was written on bamboo strips tied with silk. It was most likely written by a collaboration of Taoist hermits/sages using the pseudonym Lao Tzu (Old Man/Master) at a time in China where a lot of the ground work was set for future philosophies and religions: including Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism etc. Taoism in China came before Buddhism which originated from India/Nepal around the same time.

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A quote from D. C. Lau’s translation of the Tao Te Ching:

XXXVIII
The man of the highest virtue does not keep to virtue and that is why he has virtue. A man of the lowest virtue never strays from virtue and that is why he is without virtue. The former never acts yet leaves nothing undone. The latter acts but there are things left undone. A man of the highest benevolence acts, but from no ulterior motive. A man of the highest rectitude acts, but from ulterior motive…



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching

The more I look at Taoism the more I realise it reflects my own personal beliefs, they don't have a personal God instead a unquantifiable process running behind the scenes called the Tao or "Way". Some of the stuff about education is a bit odd though. But probably true. Like, if people were only educated to a level that was necessary for their personal life then they would be happier unaware of things external to them. I guess that's how Christianity works [:P]. Ignorance is bliss![;)]

wOw the world spins?
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