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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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13 Jan 2006 08:29:08 AM |
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A Blueprint for the Future |
Except there isn't one.
"The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people
say, 'we did it ourselves'."
"If you want to be a great leader,
you must learn to follow the Tao.
Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.
"The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have,
the less self-reliant people will be.
"Therefore the Master says:
I let go of the law,
and people become honest.
I let go of economics,
and people become prosperous.
I let go of religion,
and people become serene.
I let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass."
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High Virtue is non-virtuous;
Therefore it has Virtue.
Low Virtue never frees itself from virtuousness;
Therefore it has no Virtue.
High Virtue makes no fuss and has no private ends to serve:
Low Virtue not only fusses but has private ends to serve.
High humanity fusses but has no private ends to serve:
High morality not only fusses but has private ends to serve.
High ceremony fusses but finds no response;
Then it tries to enforce itself with rolled-up sleeves.
Failing Tao, man resorts to Virtue.
Failing Virtue, man resorts to humanity.
Failing humanity, man resorts to morality.
Failing morality, man resorts to ceremony.
Now, ceremony is the merest husk of faith and loyalty;
It is the beginning of all confusion and disorder.
As to foreknowledge, it is only the flower of Tao,
And the beginning of folly.
Therefore, the full-grown man sets his heart upon the substance rather
than the husk;
Upon the fruit rather than the flower.
Truly, he prefers what is within to what is without.
A Brief Glossary of Terms in the Dao De Jing
http://www.his.com/~merkin/Dao=ADGloss.html
Lao T'zu
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/81a274e49c66ae5f
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Go Fibonacci
Fibonacci
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/ff73d148d11d266a
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Adam Smith
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/5eca5af9624ed818
David Ricardo
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/2dc9861879115a26
A Blueprint for the Future
http://snipurl.com/dle6
http://snipurl.com/dle7
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