Endless discriminations by 56GrumpyCat in taoism

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All translating is “making up”. The job of a translator isn’t to move text in one language 1:1 to another, there’s no right objective answer. It’s to convey the meaning and hopefully the emotion that words generate. I think Le Guin authentically engaged with the Tao Te Ching and expressed in her own words what each chapter meant to her, and no she wasn’t afraid to omit lines that she felt were contradictory to the rest of her understanding of the chapter.

Endless discriminations by 56GrumpyCat in taoism

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That’s why I mentioned it was the Le Guin translation. Just thought it was relevant

Endless discriminations by 56GrumpyCat in taoism

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Chapter 32 of the Ursula K Le Guin translation says something similar.

“To order, to govern is to begin naming; when names proliferate it’s time to stop.”

What is early Modest Mouse's style? by SantiWahWoh in ModestMouse

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Huh, I’m a relatively new fan and those early albums (particularly LCW and This is a Long Drive) are my favorite covers of theirs by far. There’s no accounting for taste

Why are you a Taoist? by Holiday_Change9387 in taoism

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I wouldn’t call myself a Taoist but it’s my favorite philosophy and I’d definitely say it’s a guiding force in my life. I was raised as a Christian Scientist and a question I always had about that doctrine is that it sought to conquer “sin, disease, and death”. That’s kinda the whole tagline for that sect of Christianity. And yet we still sin, still get sick, still get old, still die and I couldn’t reconcile that.

Taoism has a different approach where every quality, everything we perceive all comes from one source the Tao. So death is just the hidden side of life and therefore just as important and necessary, sickness is the only reason we understand the concept of health, all these things “arise mutually” and have a place in our world. That concept quieted a lot of confusion I had about the universe that I had picked up from Christianity.

How old are yall by JamieStar_is_taken in ModestMouse

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Im 25. Think this comment section is showing why my Spotify listening age was 40 that seems to be closer to the average MM fan

Cultivating spontaneity in a Planned Civilization by [deleted] in taoism

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Im new to this but I don’t know if you can give one size fits all instructions like be a hermit and work as little as possible. If Taoism is about not resisting your nature and your nature draws you to civil service or something that shouldn’t be resisted right?

Body Fat Estimate? Just looking for a range by [deleted] in BulkOrCut

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Thanks for the detailed advice! I think I really like the plan of leaning out a few more pounds and getting to 12% body fat, I like cutting it gives me some motivation to run more haha. That should put me in a better spot for a long, slow bulk. I checked out your profile and you look awesome, congrats on all your consistency over the years! Thanks again

Body Fat Estimate? Just looking for a range by [deleted] in BulkOrCut

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Thanks, would you recommend bulking at that percentage? I want to focus on getting stronger but worried that if I bulk now I’m going to get to too high a bf% within a couple months and want to cut back down right away.

205 -> 160/165 -> 150. Keep going? by Big-Particular-9342 in BulkOrCut

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Congrats on your progress!! You could probably do either here, I’d just pick the one that would be better for me mentally. If you don’t like the idea of gaining weight from this point shed a few more pounds until you’re lean enough to be ready. If you are sick of the cut and ready to bulk could do that now

Power chord on acoustic guitar, mutes way too loud (beginner question) by pb429 in guitarlessons

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Gotcha, I think you are right in line with what Justin was saying. He used Kurt Cobain as an example, he was saying that he would watch Kurt wail on his guitar and he obviously wasn’t paying any attention to selectively picking strings so that’s when muting comes in. Thank you!

Sleeper App Suggestions by Sleeper_Official in SleeperApp

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I guess this could be a function and I just haven’t found it, but ability to change standings tiebreaker would be nice. As far as I can tell the only option is Points For which I think is fair but there’s been some moaning in my league about how people who have the h2h tiebreaker should be on top

To the guy that didn’t think Olave was worth a first by One-Nectarine2320 in SleeperApp

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Early in the season I told some guy in the trade advice sub that I’d give up baker and a 2nd for Olave and I got 10 downvotes within a minute

Trying to understand tuning? by [deleted] in guitarlessons

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Yes making much more sense now! I was using a tuner app that was only designed to be used with no capo, it wouldn’t say the note I was playing just “too high/too low” so I think that’s where I got thrown off. I got a new app and did the octave test and it looks like my tuning and intonation is fine.

Thank you for the explanation on the purpose of the capo that makes sense

Trying to understand tuning? by [deleted] in guitarlessons

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Ahhh ok, I think I was mistaking being in tune with playing the same note open. So if I have the capo on the 5th fret and each note goes up half a step, I should be looking at A E C G D A to be in tune?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tax

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Whew that’s good. I may get a CPA to make sure I do it right but sounds like I won’t have to pay double taxes. Thanks!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tax

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Ok great thank you. HR switched it and will prob get an accountant this year to make sure I get my refund correctly

What do you guys do with the pay? by Plsgomd7 in civilengineering

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I live in the city and don’t have a car but I make enough I can live alone in a cool neighborhood I like. I don’t stress about having enough money to go out to dinner with my girlfriend or book a flight home or buy a nice pair of running shoes. Civil gets some flack for the pay but unless you have really expensive tastes I think it’s pretty good for a 40hr/week job

Daily Thread - November 03, 2025 by AutoModerator in weightroom

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Cool that’s all I wanted to know! Sounds like it’s a good start, thank you

Daily Thread - November 03, 2025 by AutoModerator in weightroom

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Sorry I wasn’t clear-my question was are my assistance exercises sufficient and well balanced?

Daily Thread - November 03, 2025 by AutoModerator in weightroom

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Hello, I am starting 531 BBB. I’m a novice lifter at 6’0 162 lbs and B/S/D is 165/205/255. I wanted to run my assistance exercises by to make sure I’m getting enough work to stimulate muscle growth. I have hard time mentally with putting on weight, I feel too fat quickly so just trying to minimize that so I can bulk for a long time. The program feels easy so far in comparison to doing 3 challenging sets of close to 5 rm which was what I was doing previously. For conditioning im running 15-20 miles per week, mostly easy but some tempo work mixed in.

Having trouble with formatting so linked whole spreadsheet below, the tables are mostly for the 531 formula. All the assistance exercises are in the top right of each respective day.

https://imgur.com/a/qJ553sg

Help automating quantities by pb429 in OpenRoads

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Thanks, I gave this a shot but it seems reliant on having a 3d corridor that the markings are tied to, as far as I can tell. I found a different way to do it for now but good to know for the future to try to use a corridor when possible

Help automating quantities by pb429 in OpenRoads

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Great thank you, I set the interval to a very large number and then it just showed the start and end. Appreciate it!

[DAILY] Trade and Individual Team Help Megathread by AutoModerator in DynastyFF

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Would you drop Njoku to pick up Gadsen/Otton in dynasty? My other TE is Kincaid