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They think the only truth is to develop at all cost to make more money to comfort their physical bodies.
Should I curse china in my prayers?
Should I curse china in my prayers?
I studied Chinese and Japanese history for my degree. I agree it is very interesting. The Chinese have a truly unique view of religion and I always wondered what made it so different from the rest of the world. With that said, it's not a philosophy I would adopt.
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I am Japanese. I grow up in china, and I love china very much.
The history of china is wonderful, but there are few people know it, even Chinese natives! The Chinese government tend to revision their history. They use their revisioned history to foolish their citizens to serve them!
Chinese philosophy is excellent. But look at it right now, the people of china abolished their ancestor 's philosophy and choose the socialism which is to be cursed.
As a result, Chinese guys dont believe justice now. They think the only truth is to develop at all cost to make more money to comfort their physical bodies.
So, my question is: why do people so stupid like Chinese? Considering that They have a splendid history! Should I curse china in my prayers?
I think geography is definitely a critical role in shaping their culture. The geography controlled almost every critical events in their history from the very beginning till now.
Yeah, that was put forward as an explanation, but I never bought it.
I can see how geography had an impact on the political structure of China. The logistical and military details of trying to defend a portion of China is very difficult. It's too easy for some "hoarde" to sweep the whole area. So it's an all or nothing kind of proposition ... i.e. either you develop the power to control it all or you lose it all.
And of course geographical references make their way into the cultural fabric, but that's true of any culture. The Scots love poems about heather and the Pacific Islanders love poems about the sea. That's not unique to China.
But why is their religious outlook so unique? Why would a Japanese mountain become holy whereas a Chinese mountain is just a mountain. Being a westerner, I'm not sure I can express it well. The best way I can explain it is that the Chinese religion is "secular," which sounds odd, but it's basically true. It has its mystical aspects (the word that comes to mind is "superstition" but I don't mean it in a derogatory way), but there isn't really any deistic component to it. Yes, the emperors sometimes called themselves "gods", but the view of that was different than when the emperors of other cultures used that term. It was more an idea of unquestioned honor and respect than of immaterial power.
Confucius reigns supreme in Chinese philosophy, and you might call him the world's first pragmatist. Yes, there is also Daoism and so forth, but even that is more an aesthetic secularism that provides the yang to the Confucian yin rather than the spiritual blather that western expatriates hang on it.
In fact, now that China has been influenced by the west (and by Buddhism) I'm not sure we'll ever really know what the original Chinese philosophers actually meant. Everyone will have their own idea, and who is to say what is "correct." My impression was that they didn't believe in anything immaterial - no deity, no spirit, no mystical things. Rather, they believed that the material itself is of such complexity that it will never be understood, and so it is within the material that there are things of mystery and power. In the end, those two words seem the best summary to me - that while other world philosophies had their root in the mystical, Chinese philosophy had its root in the mysterious.
But as to how that difference occurred, I have no idea.
I still think it is mostly caused by geography ...
Some years ago, I proposed what I called Drazi's Razor, which suggests that in any complex causal system, single cause explanations for phenomena are almost certainly wrong. It's like a counter-point to Occam's Razor.
I agree that geography alone is almost certainly not sufficient as an explanation for China's mystic/mystery distinction.
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Well, the professor who taught me Chinese history would agree with you. In fact, one of the papers we were required to write was on just that topic. But I just don't get it. In fact, for that paper, I went a totally different direction and wrote about how geography helped disseminate the tea culture through China.
In reply I got a, "Well, good paper but not what I was looking for," answer. She gave me an "A" and an offer for some graduate work in Chinese history, but I declined.
I'm saying that I understand geography has an influence on some things. I just don't see how geography could possibly explain this mystic vs. mystery distinction that I'm hung up on. I've mentioned it to a few Chinese co-workers. They nod and agree that China does have this oddly materialist, secular (or whatever word is best) view of religion - a view that is much older than Communism. At the same time, I can also tell they're being polite to this westerner who doesn't quite get it. But why would geography explain that?
Well, the professor who taught me Chinese history would agree with you. In fact, one of the papers we were required to write was on just that topic. But I just don't get it. In fact, for that paper, I went a totally different direction and wrote about how geography helped disseminate the tea culture through China.
In reply I got a, "Well, good paper but not what I was looking for," answer. She gave me an "A" and an offer for some graduate work in Chinese history, but I declined.
I'm saying that I understand geography has an influence on some things. I just don't see how geography could possibly explain this mystic vs. mystery distinction that I'm hung up on. I've mentioned it to a few Chinese co-workers. They nod and agree that China does have this oddly materialist, secular (or whatever word is best) view of religion - a view that is much older than Communism. At the same time, I can also tell they're being polite to this westerner who doesn't quite get it. But why would geography explain that?
The Chinese had gods. Shang Di was the supreme sky God for example.
Shangdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jade Emperor
Jade Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tian
Tian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No...Find a way to Love them and all other human beings.Should I curse china in my prayers?
Confucius say man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement
... sorry, I had to
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