The generals have a saying:
"Rather than make the first move
it is better to wait and see.
Rather than advance an inch
it is better to retreat a yard."
This is called
going forward without advancing,
pushing back without using weapons.
"Rather than make the first move
it is better to wait and see.
Rather than advance an inch
it is better to retreat a yard."
This is called
going forward without advancing,
pushing back without using weapons.
It dawned on me this morning while listening to the news how the above has proven effective. As most people know the U.S. and a couple other nations have been in a war in Afghanistan for about 9 years. The war has been slow going and doesn't appear to be allowing the U.S to claim victory as quick as had been hoped. Keep in mind, the U.S.S.R got their butts handed to them during their war in Afghanistan not too long ago and they are a super power as well.
On the news report a general was discussing the unfair tactics that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are using in the villages. They have put away their weapons and chose to blend in with the population. They carefully watch the troop movement and find a pattern. Once they discover a weakness it is quickly exploited and troops go home horizontal. As quick as it began the Taliban fall back and and blend again.
I can't comprehend how this is unfair. Because they don't put on military uniforms and fight like a military making war easier? During the American Revolution how many actually dressed in uniform and came out to fight the British the way Britain was accustomed? They complained as well that the Americans were doing what the Taliban are now doing. More Americans have died this year than any previous during this war. While it is easy to blame the U.S. President (it has to be someones fault, correct?) the Taliban are utilizing Lao Tzu's written strategy while the U.S. Have traveled half way around the world to occupy and fight in Afghanistan.
This writing isn't to offend Americans. It is reality to what is written in the Tao Te Ching and war is a sensitive subject. If anyone wants to get into a political pissing match over this I highly suggest turning off your computer and then go fuck off.
18 comments:
Well thought, my Friend...
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go to hell
Thank you for your visit Mr. Senator. Best regards to you and your fellow Republicans for this weeks election. I log all visits, you know that your doing something wrong when you have to hide or do something like this anonymously.
You, Mr. Methodic, are making a political point. That's fine, but to do so and then to pre-empt any opposing political points by telling their authors to fuck off is highly immature. Furthermore, there are many reasons to remain as anonymous as possible on the internet, other than that one knows that one is wrong. To counter your opponents, not by addressing whatever points they make, but by threatening (implicitly) to expose their identity, is among the basest forms of online discourse.
Perhaps you see politics discussed but I don't. I kept to facts without discussing policy and talked how it compares to the verse only.
There are a lot of Republican senators, I didn't threaten to expose him. Just pointed out I see who he is.
Immature, possibly. Most likely a little tipsy from a large stout homebrew after a not so positive day at work.
Thanks for visiting.
I reread and stand corrected, mentioning blaming the president is a bit political. If people would like to discuss that (I brought it up, it's fair game) or how the situation does or doesn't pertain to the quoted verse then feel free.
Your words have little value to me anymore. Being immature in your writing is a turn off. Furthermore, my presence will no longer exist here, your online discourse has no validity and my time can be better spent elsewhere.
Interesting.
How one can be easily insulted by mere words, blaming the author without reflecting what is wrong within.
I guess that's how immature most politicians are.
How easily so-called taoists insult, demean, ridicule and exploit everybody else. But that is not because they are taoists: it is because they are left-wing idiots masquerading as the cool spiritual adept they are incapable of being.
It is thoroughly pathetic.
There seems nothing I can learn from anyone I have thus encountered.
Mr. Anonymous was right. If a little overly forthright. I agree.
And I suspect he is a soldier.
Something internet-taoists will never be able to understand.
The anonymous that you are quoting is a friend of mine that visited after I told him about the replies. He was trying to be funny toward me with his comments.
However, your comments hurt me a little Crow. I've only been learning about Tao for just over a year. Thanks for letting me know how you really feel and what a pathetic idiot I am. I've more to work on.
Do not listen to The Crow
If he is a taoist he would not be slanderous
Taoists accept people as they are always even with imperfections
Rizal Affif knows
The Crows comments are based on his feelings about himself within
You have good insight most of the time
You think different in a good way and apply correctly most of the time
Do not swear at people ever it is not good
Do a post on space but not outter space
Focus inward
Dinner at my house if you ever visit Argentina
I send you email
I viewed your profile and noticed that you have Asperger's Syndrome. I am sorry for telling you to go to hell. My brother has high functioning autism, too. He is tactless at times and does not understand why people become upset with what he says sometimes. It is a difficult life and I did not make anything easier for you this week. My sincere apologies.
taoists seem to always judge other people.
maybe they are not taoists.
maybe they dont know how to be?
little storm going on here.
soon pass.
rain good for growth.
Yes: very interesting, and a footnote to my own observations.
Sammy Rae says it perfectly.
This is what "taoists" do, all the time:
Judge others, without knowing a thing about them. Initiate conflict when there is no need. Justify pitiful behavior by believing in their own assumed spirituality.
What I said was aimed at many online "taoists", but at no particular one.
I have come to see them as a sorry bunch.
They prove it, daily, with their judgmental comments.
I made one of my own, to see what would happen. A technique I learned from Mr. Methodic.
Thank you Sammy, the proof is clear to see.
I am pleased.
I will never again refer to myself as a taoist.
Clearly I am not like them.
And Mr. Methodic: a "taoist" might find it better serves, to refrain from telling readers, in advance, to F*** Off.
There is just no dignity in that.
Yes you have more to learn: we all do. I wish you well in your quest: it is a worthy one.
I sincerely hope you will avoid simply donning the appearance of taoism, while utterly missing that the whole point is to apply it to yourself. Not to others.
There are already far too many of those around.
I'll keep it all in mind. Thanks for your input.
Crow, I don't understand why you posted as Sammy, Fool, and yourself. Hopefully all this will pass and you'll explain it one day. Take care.
Why does anybody do anything?
But you have gone a little too far down a murky path with that one.
I don't know Sammy, other than the comment where he/she judged me, and was completely wrong, as most judgments are, when based upon insufficient data.
I said about him/her that he/she had proved something to me. Something I often witness online.
Not only with "taoists", but especially with them.
A complete inability to see that they themselves are doing the very thing they accuse others of, even as they do it.
Interesting, no?
Fascinating, even, when it forms such a reliable pattern.
Earlier that day I had had a run-in with Woody, who was doing the very same thing, and suddenly it all became too much.
Not to say these people are bad, good, or anything other than hypocritical.
You don't act-out taoism.
But nobody seems to understand what I mean by that.
To me the Tao is sacred.
It offends me to see it treated as if it were some cool trend.
Not that the Tao cares. The human me cares though.
But what do I know?
I am no longer a "taoist".
I prefer to think of myself as a fool.
From what little experience I have, of this, so far, it seems to work considerably better :)
Have you visited The Fool's blog?
You should.
I haven't laughed so hard in years.
There's something I really want to tell you. But I know I can't.
Nobody can tell anybody anything.
I am still hoping to discover a method that would enable this telling of the untellable :)
And that's enough writing :)
Uff!! I've just saw a yin yang spinning really fast in here! :D Energies moving in words forms.
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