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Thanks for spotting that, I have edited it.

This paper basically states that Daoism and Yijing comes from Indo--Europeans. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350522856_Indo-Europeans_in_the_Ancient_Yellow_River_Valley?_sg[1]=

edited Christians, were called "of the Way” (Acts 9:2) [τῆς Ὁδοῦ https://biblehub.com/text/acts/9-2.htm]

Welcome to the forum. I thought you were a (“klein” is Dutch for ‘small’) small beer; but then I googled your username, turns out you are in another world!

The Chinese call Japan 日本 (ri4 sun ben3 origin) where the sun rises.

(have not read the thread) I like the Standing Wuji practice (I dislike the ‘tree hugging’ zhan zhuang).

Some think Lao Tzu was essentially summarising the collected wisdom of the previous few thousand years. Then the DDJ was edited by various sages. Chapters 70–81 of the DDJ were not yet composed at the time the Guodian slips were copied. The DDJ was finally declared 'finished' and definitive with the Wang Bi of about 1800 years ago (the received text).

China's book burning (213 BC), later a lot of the lost texts were rewritten from memory/imagination.

Who knows. Most of the I Ching is from the Warring States period. It’s origins are mythical (taken as fact by traditional texts). Modern scholarship dates the oldest bits to late 9th century BC (using bronze inscriptions). Rome's origins trace to around the 9th or 10th century BC as small settlements.

you have dyslexia?

For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? (Matthew 16:2)

Hi, welcome, what does your username mean?

你好 , welcome to the forum.

‘Tao ‘ sounds the same as the Dutch word for rope (touw).

Sorry, my mistake, it does work

The “threefold” = the binary poles + integration. It’s always about integration: {陰 (yin) + 陽 (yang)} ~> 中 (zhong)

It’s always about integration: {(blue/white (thinking/morality) + red/orange (survival/sexuality)} ~> yellow/green (free will/love).

(From the link) More than 75 percent of people who are born with green eyes can be found in Ireland and Scotland.

Welcome to the forum. The link doesn’t work.

I’m out

You might be overqualified.

It said “popularise” - from the adjective popular, meaning "suited to or appealing to the common people”. Cats don’t qualify.

I agree.

I agree, e.g. the Chinese already had Shangdi (上帝) I agree.

Imo ancestor worship was the religion of ancient Chinese society from as far back as the Neolithic period; and it is still practiced alongside the main three.