Path: typhoon.sonic.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newshub.northeast.verio.net!verio!news.voicenet.com!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.monger.newsread.com!not-for-mail From: "kamerm" Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.taoism,alt.magick.tyagi References: <394992A8.4077@luckymojo.com> <20000616075052.28979.00001514@ng-fg1.news.cs.com> <394B0C1F.1D2A@luckymojo.com> Subject: Re: Taoism in Theory and Practice (was Re: Furious Taoists (was Re: Assholes that crosspost bullshit) Lines: 44 Organization: }|{ X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:05:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.94.105.206 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 961232755 209.94.105.206 (Sat, 17 Jun 2000 05:05:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 05:05:55 EDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.philosophy.taoism:73092 alt.magick.tyagi:23715 Hi Cat :-) "catherine yronwode" wrote engagingly in news:394B0C1F.1D2A@luckymojo.com... ... > and thus i think that the idea of Taoism as a "philosophy" is the add-on > to an ancient religion, not vice versa. > > Anyone care to discuss this? Sure.. The distinctions among science, philosophy, and religion are modern Many ancient philosophers and mystics in many cultures expounded "Natural Philosophy", "Natural Law", or "How things work" all with the intent of helping those of their people or school succeed Many such writings freely intermix what we today would classify as religious, mystical, ethical, moral, psychological, logical, and scientific since all are active parts of the nature effecting the philospher Only with the emergence of dogmatic rejection of whole schools of thought as inherently "evil" in their failure to comply with the one right school was the stage set for the fracturing of the human psyche and only with the surprising success of rationality, logic, and engineering did the success value of preferring the hard to the soft outweigh the pain of cultural scizophrenia Discriminating philosophy from religion in the context of "ancient" is moot -k ... > Cordially, > > cat yronwode