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  • Re: Lantern Festival

    From aye@user8028@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.philosophy.taoism on Tue Mar 3 12:58:31 2026
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    David Dalton posted:

    March 3, 2026. To get UTC/GMT add 3.5 hours.

    3:45 a.m. : no hits on my web page since the attempt began,
    despite supposed memory jogging of some of my readers.

    At first, reading about the so-called Middle East,
    a wonder was, what's going on now? And then, jogging
    occurred with an, oh, yeah.

    Nothing has changed.
    It's a new Wu so to speak.

    Yet how could Emptiness, the Void, Nonbeing change?

    Zhuangzi may have wondered
    how could the non-existence of non-existence
    exist or, if it doesn't, then what.

    Zz laughed.
    The fish were happy.

    - thanks! aye. Cheers!
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  • From aye@user8028@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.philosophy.taoism on Thu Mar 5 12:40:52 2026
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    David posted:

    Well, today I still have no new hits on my web page,
    there is no primary negative charisma modulation
    of Putin, and I have a sore throat, so evolution
    of pathogenic viruses has not yet occurred. So
    obviously I have failed again. But contrary to
    what I said above, I will try again this evening
    during early waning gibbous moon (Waning Clamshell).

    Sounds like a dao to me. The dao
    that is, isn't. At least it isn't always.
    Nor is the dao that are put into words
    which reminds me of a practice.

    Unusual practices could be dao. Ways
    are ways and yet if there were one
    to solve the world's problems, if
    could be followed by only if.

    The world may be viewed as a sacred
    or spiritual, shen, type of thing.
    Phenomenal, naturally, a wonder.

    Left alone, supposedly, it would be
    fine and take care of its own self.
    Stirring the mud keeps it muddy.

    There's nothing wrong with mud.
    Water doesn't mind getting dirty.
    People do as they do. They fight
    and think and learn as they are
    taught self-perpetuating myths.

    I'm not seeing any end in sites.
    At least, not any time soon.
    So, to change my point of view
    might be a plan at many times.

    Like now, for example. Now is
    or can be said to be always
    present and unfolding zi-ran.

    Yet, if it is a dao,
    as with all the other dao,
    it isn't always. Time enters
    the great present like water
    making dirt muddy.

    - thanks! aye. Cheers!
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  • From eye@user8028@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.philosophy.taoism on Wed Mar 4 11:33:01 2026
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    David posted:

    ... if they
    follow their healing circle prescription they will get
    healing and youthening and in general 100 (in
    some cases 200) extra years of lifespan, as part
    of the sudden magickal physical evolution,...

    That sounds a lot like magical thinking.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking

    - hmmm
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