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The Dao
De
Jing is a yin-centrick political manual written a long time
ago in China in the form of eighty-one short, kryptic chapters.
Tradition attributes the texte to a single author known as Lao Tzu
(alternately rendered Laozi).
There are presently far too many English translations; it is certainly
nothing new to recontextualize (or perhaps more to the
point, to decontextualize) the text for the sake of wringing some
particular social/political/spiritual sense from it.
At times the verses may get very opaque, variously meaningless and
self-contrary. In my own unqualifed ongoing Tao Te Ching
"translation" I find an irreconcilable dissonance btwn passages which
imply a profound satisfaxion with NATURE (what "is") & those
passages which seem to devalue the material world (or, at the very
least, have been consistently translated to appear so in English).
Since I distrust books, and trust my self implicitly,
all discrepancies are called in my favor. |
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E-prime
is a subset of the English language in which all forms of the verb "to
be" are excised. Originally proposed by D. David Bourland, Jr. for use
in skholarly writing as a way to discourage irresponsible
identifications (e.g. unqualified identifications,
observations lacking
a named observer, &c.),
it was champion'd by Robert Anton Wilson for its
perception-altering potential.
There are problems with all of this. |
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