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Laozi's inspiration

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I was meditating on Laozi's philosophy and came up with this maxim:

"What is true cannot be spoken, what can be spoken is not true."



What do you think?
 

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Originally Posted by eg1


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It'd be nice if you'd tell us what it means.
 

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Lousy philosophy?
 

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"What is true cannot be spoken, what can be spoken is not true."

Prosaic interpretation: The rethoric or conversation of most people, including politicians is meaningless or false. On the other hand wise people are not popular or heard enough.

Linguistic interpretation: Anything that is codified into natural language has some degree of ambiguity, therefore it can't be true in the absolute sense of the word. So a message with no ambiguity (true) cannot be codified into language.

Metaphysical interpretation: Man made religions and philosophies are false because anything you can say is imperfect. Real religion or philosophy cannot be taught or comprehended.
 

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I agree with you. I always felt like the people who said the least have the most to say.
 

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Again, Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn has a must-read passage for you. Begin on the second paragraph of page 121 in the Grove Weidenfeld edition.
 

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The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
 

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Even though the truth cannot be expressed perfectly, we must try.
 

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When you're sliding into home,
And your pants are filled with foam,
Diarrhea...diarrhea
 

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when your swimming in the ocean...
and you feel a big explosion.....
 

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