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Are you a Christian? If so, I’ve found the best way to understand what Taoism speaks to is to understand the concept of “The Will of Heaven”. I find a lot of overlap between that and the ideas expressed by, for example Matthew 6:10
I had a quick look at your link and it doesn't address my argument: that Taoism is fundamentally flawed because almost all of it's concepts are subjective.
Christianity mitigates these problems by focusing on the life, acts and teachings of Jesus Christ so the interpretation of teachings are powerfully constrained by the behavior of Jesus Christ. There's still plenty of ways to interpret the New Testament, however interpretations are constrained by how Jesus Christ lived and acted, rather than only by what he said.
Taoism does have little stories to illustrate points, however those stories almost always fail to constrain points and serve mostly as metaphors.
This was probably the most important part of that wiki page
For Mozi, Heaven is the divine ruler, just as the Son of Heaven is the earthly ruler. Mozi believed that spirits and minor demons exist or at least rituals should be performed as if they did for social reasons, but their function is to carry out the will of Heaven, watching for evil-doers and punishing them. Mozi taught that Heaven loves all people equally and that each person should similarly love all human beings without distinguishing between his own relatives and those of others (Dubs, 1959-1960:163-172). Mozi criticized the Confucians of his own time for not following the teachings of Confucius. In Mozi's Will of Heaven (天志), he writes:
Mohism is not Taoism.
It sure is. Lao Tzu, Mo Tzu, and Kung Fu Tzu were all roughly contemporary, and all discussing the same thing, The Way. Just because our sterile, western approach has robbed these works of their true legacy doesn’t mean you need to continue the charade in ignorance.
One could even call them parables 🤔
They'd be wrong.
I just took the time to carefully explain this to you: the little metaphoric stories in Taoism are nothing like Gospels because their interpretation is subjective, lacking the large volume of context and examples that Jesus Christ's life and acts gifted us with, rather than just His teachings.
Did you even read my last comment?
If you want to discuss Taoism then please try harder because such a low effort comment only wastes both of our time.
Lol
Ok
What is the objective meaning of the parable of the farm hands?
And while you’re at it, if you could provide the objective meaning behind the camel and the eye of a needle, that would be great too, I’ve always wondered and it sounds like you’re the man with the objective answers