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Tao Stoic 50

"Master, when I travelled to Vi Yen A, I met a Yung who is a mono-theist. He believes in one god, not more."

"How extraordinary lonely that god must be! The barbarians at Olympus at least had fun with each other. When you develop an illusion, or a nice story, make it at least acceptable in general logic. The multi-theo-gony of the Greeks was therefore far nicer, as stories go, than the later mono-theo-logies. Another matter is of course, taking these 'Sperritologies' or Sperritogonies for Fact, letting these fancies control part-of, or even your whole life. The sky, then, really is the limit. What right have parents and educators, politicians even, to impose on the child's mind, the horrible burden of these fancies, simply by not being held to add to them, the fact that they are only fancies, not proven truth. Stick to the Way, to True words, and let this Yung be what he is, the village crank. Let him go to his UFO's."


Ven 2005-01-24