/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13090546]

>In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (/jJn/ and /jɑːŋ, jæŋ/; Chinese: 陰陽 yīnyáng, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") is a concept of dualism in ancient Chinese philosophy, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of Yin and Yang and formed into objects and lives. Yin is the receptive and Yang the active principle, seen in all forms of change and difference such as the annual cycle (winter and summer), the landscape (north-facing shade and south-facing brightness), sexual coupling (female and male), the formation of both men and women as characters, and sociopolitical history (disorder and order)

If the Yin and yang concept is right, then why do we have homosexuals?

[Anonymous No.13090553]

>>13090546
>then why do we have homosexuals?

Because we also have free will.

[Anonymous No.13090557]

>>13090553
But we don't.

[Anonymous No.13090566]

>>13090557
Says who?

[Anonymous No.13090579]

Because when the universe sprang forth it realized my birth would come, and as such it was forced to create homosexuality to balance out the pure essence of my raw heterosexuality. Sucking dick daily and swallowing cum by the gallons has done nothing to affect my supreme heterosexuality. What other man can say the same?

[Anonymous No.13090668]

>>13090546
this is an essentialist bastardization of the dual principle. read any actual Tao text and you'll find that all men have both, all women have both, everything in creation does for that matter. the "sexual coupling" piece is a metaphor not meant to be interpreted in the most literal sense.

[Anonymous No.13090808]

>>13090566
There's no way to conceptualize free will where it's both a useful term and empirically accurate.

[Anonymous No.13090818]

>>13090808
>2049poster

opinion disregarded

[Anonymous No.13090837]

>>13090668
This

On top of that: He who thinks to understand the dao (~ existence/cosmos), doesnt understand the dao. Whatever principle you hold onto, you will always be proven wrong. The dao, which is you btw, is better described as "no mind". Just enjoy the infinite perspectives of the one thing there is. Judge things, if you want, but at the end, dont take yourself to seriously about it.

[Anonymous No.13090845]

>>13090546
Does any Taoist literature have anything explicitly against homosexuality?

I know that they to not have sex so willy-nilly, and to preserve sperm, so I guess they could see male-on-male sex as a waste of vital fluids.

[Anonymous No.13090849]

Chinese people are insects and it has been scientifically proven that they have no souls. Turning to the chinese to look for answers on philosophy is like asking a monkey how to pilot a plane.

[Anonymous No.13090858]

>>13090849
Rude.

[Anonymous No.13090861]

>>13090858
To whom? It's impossible to offend chinese people, since they are incapable of experiencing emotions, so to who is it rude?

[Anonymous No.13090862]

>>13090861
Lol

[Anonymous No.13090922]

>>13090845
if so it would say more about the power structures that the author is invested in maintaining rather than the actual religious philosophy of Tao. I don't recall anything from Lao Tzu on the matter and it doesn't seem like something he'd comment on anyway.

[Anonymous No.13090976]

>>13090861
Based and chinkpilled

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.13091132]

>>13090849
>scientifically proven
Lol

[Anonymous No.13091152]

this is philosophy 101, there are no pure, 100% men or women. men and women, summer and winter are obviously real things, but they are on a continuum or spectrum of characteristics when it comes with actually interacting with them. so you can have feminine men and unseasonably warm winter

[Anonymous No.13091211]

>>13091152
>anon tries to cope with sucking tranny dick

[Anonymous No.13091232]

>>13091211

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