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@ Comte de Sats Germain
2025-04-29 22:50:01
Dao de Jing / Tao te Ching
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Again, I'm reminded of something in the Bible. Here's an AI's synopsis :
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Why was it a sin against God to take a census? I don't think it was because of his supposed motivation - what makes theft for war worse than theft for any other reason? That is why we measure things - to steal something from them. To measure men surely causes more harm to men, so ethically its worse than measuring something like a forest or a river. Ethics, however, are a product of the human sense of morality. Its anthropocentric.
But God made the whole world. He made the known and the unknown. What's the virtue of the unknown? When is it appropriate to transgress that boundary?
The Dao de Jing answers this question.
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