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Hi Hans. Your personal site is impressive. Welcome to the forum.

Hi Hope. Great it’s positive for your health. Welcome to the forum.

You could also ask your question in this thread

Ime (in the Netherlands) the atheist mainstream wants to impose their atheist morality (as opposed to the preceding Christian one). And they are extremely judgemental. Any ‘transgression’ of their atheist taboos is severely punished, backed by strict laws (Christians are fair game).

There always was an exchange of ideas through the Silk Road. It connected the East and the West (Europe) starting from the Han dynasty 130 B.C.E. (until the Ottoman empire closed it in the 15th century).

Dao follows ziran. Ziran (see link above) signifies the state of not relying on or existing according to anything external.

Because ‘those who do not know’ write a lot of stupid commentaries. See the timeline https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/54593-zi4-ran2-自然/?do=findComment&comment=1003399

@Mig as you say, nature is brutal. Imo Laozi did not recommend following it. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/54593-zi4-ran2-自然/?do=findComment&comment=1003399

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The figures I quoted are the “market share”. https://goodfaithmedia.org/global-christian-population-projected-to-reach-3-3-billion-by-2050/

(my highlighting) @Maddie so yes.

Please sit down as this may come as a shock to you. The USA is not the world. From 2000 to the present, the global Christian population increased at 1.18% , atheists 0.29%.

Which country do these charts represent? Globally Christianity is increasing https://goodfaithmedia.org/global-christian-population-projected-to-reach-3-3-billion-by-2050/

Alongside China's astonishing economic boom, an almost unnoticed religious boom has quietly been taking place. “Over the past four decades, Christianity has grown faster in China than anywhere else in the world.” https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/why-is-christianity-growing-in-china/

red suits in chimneys if they get too enlightened, they will get stuck there. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/54959-unpopular-opinions/?do=findComment&comment=1020112

Anybody can use terms in any (different) way they like, and the victor writes the dictionary. But these terms mean the same thing: androgyny: άνδρας (man) + γυναίκα (woman); hermaphrodite: Ερμής (Hermes, male god) + Αφροδίτη (Aphrodite, female goddess).

Referring you to @Taoist Texts

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The Buddha followed the ‘middle way’ and therefore was of average weight. We don’t know if “the Buddha disagrees”. We don’t have a photograph of him. And he never wrote anything down; the earliest writings are from something like 5 centuries after his death!

Well I know @steve knows a lot about that. Welcome to the forum.

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A thread to post various things that were a grave disappointment to you.