Atheism and Taoism

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  1. THEFOREVERMAN

    THEFOREVERMAN Banned Banned

  2. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Read it, it let's you know what evidence supports their theories. Stephen Hawking is one of the world's foremost physicists. It has a biography in the website I linked you to. Regardless, the notion that space-time was able to be warped was advanced by Einstein and experimentally supported within his lifetime.
     
  3. THEFOREVERMAN

    THEFOREVERMAN Banned Banned

    Alright. I saved it to my iPad for the bus ride.
     
  4. Dan Bian

    Dan Bian Neither Dan, nor Brian

    Tao is everything, which must therefore include 'nothingness'. After all, the tao that can be defined is not the true tao...

    Absolutely not! Yin and Yang are not two different things - they are the same thing!
    Yin and Yang are Taiji, which is born of Wuji.

    In the same way that 'something' and 'no thing' are simply opposite sides of the same coin. The coin is tao.
     
  5. Lad_Gorg

    Lad_Gorg Valued Member

    Things can often be related in unexpected ways, or in perplexing ways.

    Plus absolute nothingness can not empirically exist, for the reasons mentioned by Mr.Raptor. But besides that, if we just delve into the semantics of the word "nothing", it by definition is something. Although that something is a lack of everything, that lacking is still a "thing".

    The way to view it in the context of yin yan is to say without nothingness there can not be the experience of it's contrast, everything. So looking at the universe, you have stretches of "empty" space, and then you have solar systems and planets. You can't have solar systems without the "nothingness" to space them out, reality would just be pure condensed matter, and you obviously can't have nothingness if you have stuff everywhere.

    This is the different but complementary idea.
     
  6. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Your words

    Unsure about the meet...unlikely given my schedule
     
  7. THEFOREVERMAN

    THEFOREVERMAN Banned Banned

    If we go there... Want to challenge me? Btw is it in USA?
     
  8. THEFOREVERMAN

    THEFOREVERMAN Banned Banned

    If they are the same thing, why different names and meanings? And now Taoism is money??
     
  9. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Challenge you? Please....

    You lack the skill to present a learning experience and in a real fight I would barely even register you before disposing of you

    Sorry, no dice
     
  10. Lad_Gorg

    Lad_Gorg Valued Member

    Ok, you're trolling aren't you?

    Challenging Hannibal, and purposefully misunderstanding a solid metaphor. And I remember people were accusing you of it earlier. Sadly no one is getting riled up, so mission failure?
     
  11. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    There are certainly easier way to commit suicide....
     
  12. Dan Bian

    Dan Bian Neither Dan, nor Brian

    Taiji is the interplay of opposites (Yin and Yang), which arise out of the great void.

    Names and meanings are to help us interpret the tao - not to define it.
     
  13. THEFOREVERMAN

    THEFOREVERMAN Banned Banned

    So if that is true, devil and god are one?

    And no I wasn't trolling
    @hannibal: I forgot your too old you would break a bone.
     
  14. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Probably your neck

    I had a coffee this morning and I had crapped bigger and better than you before 8:30 son
     
  15. Lad_Gorg

    Lad_Gorg Valued Member

    Yes.

    What do you say to that?
     
  16. pseudo

    pseudo Padawan

    Hannibal vs. Foreverman.

    For some reason I have a picture of Fatbastard going after mini me. "I'm bigger than you and higher up the food chain.Get in my belly! I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs."
     
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  17. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Probably more like this

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LfF9VmxE-0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LfF9VmxE-0[/ame]
     
  18. Dan Bian

    Dan Bian Neither Dan, nor Brian

    Absolutely. Two sides of the same coin.

    Like I said, you're thinking too much about this! :meditate:
     
  19. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    You are what is wrong with our country, you know that right? I'm not even joking.

    You're, not your. Your is possessive, designating that Hannibal owns the "too" in your sentence which isn't possible.

    Please just drive up and go see him. Bring your bow, you'll need it and maybe you'll actually get one off on him and then we can make some Skyrim jokes at least.
     
  20. Dan Bian

    Dan Bian Neither Dan, nor Brian

    Is it just me, or does 'skyrim' sound like something that happens in the mile-high club??
     
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