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The Future.

Inevitably, evil will prevail over good.
For the world of men is a sinful one.
The good will fight, and fight well.
But the good lack something the evil have.

It is a sinful world, this world of men.
This is how it is, and it can not be otherwise.
The good want good, but the evil want evil.
All of them want something.

This is why this world of men is a sinful world.
Always in conflict, forever in opposition.
Powered by desire.
Doomed because of it.

The evil may rejoice in this.
Who wants to read good news?
Not even the good.
The master vanishes.
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
The good want good, but the evil want evil.
The Tao presents the idea that all this happens due to illogical thinking, nothing to do with diametrically opposing forces...

As within the yin, and yang, they're just different expressions of energy, neither is evil or good.

People become what is presented within their environment; thus because the governments have private ends to serve, stealing and robbing the people, the people do the same.

If there is continuously war, the land is full of desecration, and the harmony is imbalanced.
Inevitably, evil will prevail over good.
Within Taoist eschatology, Li Hong comes after the evil has been removed in the Tribulation that is to come.

From a Taoist perspective, the universe is mathematically coded by a vast wisdom, that was there before the myriad of things came into existence.

Thus the natural state of the reality comes from logic; the evil we're seeing is people being illogical. :innocent:
 
It's very much simpler than that, and nothing to do with logic or mathematics.
Those are the things that have caused humans to become the way they have become.
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
It's very much simpler than that, and nothing to do with logic or mathematics.
To me Lao Tzu was defining logic, and wisdom; that is what the Tao equates to.

Fair enough, do the complex math, then simplify the whole sum, so a child could read it.

The Tao appears simple; yet is a vast understanding.

So like with the simplicity of the Chinese abacus, it can be used for complex mathematics. :innocent:
 
To me Lao Tzu was defining logic, and wisdom; that is what the Tao equates to.
Fair enough, do the complex math, then simplify the whole sum, so a child could read it.
The Tao appears simple; yet is a vast understanding.
So like with the simplicity of the Chinese abacus, it can be used for complex mathematics. :innocent:

To you, Lao Tzu...
Lao Tzu is not "to you". Note the present tense.

People consistently apply everything to themselves, as if it was about them, processing it mentally into what it never was.
Lao Tzu defines nothing: he observes impassively, and describes what he observes. Thus his mastery.
His one concession to the ways of men is to use the term "if..." projecting it forwards.
But this is not his doing, rather the work of translators of his observations.

Lao Tzu, like the Jesus that followed him, had discovered God. Not the human god, but the actual God.
To differentiate it from the human god, he called it 'tao'. "Older than god".

Your view of this is your view. If that is the best you can do, you'll have to be content with that.
I suggest, however, that your view has no power, and no effect.
Replace the logic, and the math, with Mystery...
You may be amazed at what happens next.
 
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