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Tao Te Ching

Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.

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Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.

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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.

Other Taoisms available here

The Tao Te Ching, roughly translatable as The Book of the Way and its Virtue, is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court. A careful reading of the text, however, suggests that it is a compilation of maxims sharing similar themes. The text’s authenticity, authorship, and date of composition or compilation are still debated. [More at Wikipedia]

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Haggard the horrible

If you know this story then you like me have to be saying…wow…wow! If you don’t here’s the build up:

Known as Pastor Ted, Mr. Haggard is the founder of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches and the President of the National Association of Evangelicals (a cooperative ministry for 300+ evangelical denominations of Protestant Christians in the United States). He speaks not only the WORD of GOD but THE word to 30+ million protestant Christians in the US (for those into math, that’s about 10% of this country). Colorado Springs has the highest concentration of evangelicals in the nation and is the “Mecca” so to speak for Christians touring the country, drawn to this epicenter of megachurches.

On November 2nd, 2006 a male hooker, Mike Jones, made allegations he maintained a three-year-long sexual relationship which included the used of methamphetamine during his visits with Jones. Subsequently he did not deny the accusations and resigned from all his posts within the Church and Association.

Attached is an unbelievably ironic clip from the documentary Jesus Camp of Ted Haggard commenting on his anti-gay stance:

Oh and by the way, he had weekly calls every Monday with Mr. Bush and some of his advisers, to advise the president on strengthening the evangelical movement in America… I guess hippocrates associate with other hippocrates.