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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

🤒🙃oke, so where you from? and what languages have you study?

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm from Texas and I've studied Mandarin Chinese. And Spanish, but I suck at it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Cool,your NFL fan?i am ,or maybe you like collega footbal,i know its very populair in Texas,i also amazed some times about the beauty nature in Texas i see on TV,and als in more USA places like Washington-prob. because i had a certain vision of it-like Oil drilling dessert or some-..psps you know XYY stands for Xiao Yao You,i like Taoism and its a saying from Taoist (Daoist) Zhuang Zi-also known as the only Daoist Master follower from Lao Tse. I also wanted to try learn Chinese ones but after i seen how diffucult it was i had no energie for that..🤔..WOW i also was interested in Spanish, for some reason i like the sound of it,when i see The Dogwispherer on TV sometimes speak spanish e.g.its sounds so cool, or Rap Music like Cypress Hill ,or the GTA-IV song from Hector el Father"LET DO EVIL THING"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bz6WBRdkI4

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Nice. There is definitely some oil field deserts in Texas, I've been to them. I mostly live in the city though.

That's awesome you're in to Taoism, I am a big fan of Taoism too. The Tao Te Ching is a great book, much wisdom in very few words

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a vew words yep,that what i like about Taoism as well,Short Powerfull and to the point, in budism its always long writings and also in Confusism(imo Confusius just stole Lao Tse words and made longer sentences of it). PS. the Tao Te Ching has WRONG translations, fisrt there was a German who Translated the Chinese stuf into German and then some1 Translated that German into the Tao The Ching in English and thats why some translation are wrong/VERY wrong. There is a good book writen by a Chinese Professor who lived/grow up in China and studied Taoism many years, but later moved to the USA. In this book there are good translations, also info of what and why is wrong in the Tao Te Ching and explenations about Ying and Yang and many other stuf, in case your interested https://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Yi-Jing-Chung-Wu/dp/1557788278

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice, thanks for the link. I've read a couple different translations, but I might give this one a go too. Cheers

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I read contents of that book before(Almost evenyone from Taiwan/Hong Kong/China read a part of it)... The problem of almost all books from ancient China used "very few words". I don't believe any true wisdom can be written by "very few words",the real world is complexity theory. Since the ambiguous 道德經 ,they create so many cults by it.

道德經 was advanced at the time it published ,but now,many cults in China love to quote it.