Personally, I didn’t vote disagree, but did the weak downvote button, because it didn’t help me understand anything when I first looked at it. Looking at it now, it seems to have some useful stuff if I remove out some woowoo stuff
I offered a description of the relevant concept from Taoism, directly invoked in the OP, without endorsing that concept. I’m surprised that neutrally relaying facts about the history of an intellectual tradition (again, without endorsing it), is a cause for negative social feedback (in this comment, where you credit me with ‘woowoo’, and in your other comment, where you willfully ignored the opening sentence of my post).
Disagree voters: what are you disagreeing with?
hypotheses, ranked by my current estimated likelihood:
You think I leaned too hard on the spiritual information instead of sanitizing/translating it fully.
You take me to be advocating a spiritual position (I’m not).
You think I’m wrong about the way in which Janus intends to invoke Taoism.
You don’t like it when spiritual traditions are discussed in any context.
You think I am wrong about Taoism.
Personally, I didn’t vote disagree, but did the weak downvote button, because it didn’t help me understand anything when I first looked at it. Looking at it now, it seems to have some useful stuff if I remove out some woowoo stuff
I offered a description of the relevant concept from Taoism, directly invoked in the OP, without endorsing that concept. I’m surprised that neutrally relaying facts about the history of an intellectual tradition (again, without endorsing it), is a cause for negative social feedback (in this comment, where you credit me with ‘woowoo’, and in your other comment, where you willfully ignored the opening sentence of my post).
I can say ‘x thinks y’ without thinking y myself.