MrThuper

Hmmm, I can't help but think that when one is looking at outside influence and or advice, they put aside their own capacity for choice. Not to mention they hold in a lesser regard their own capacity for rational thought.

I'm new here, so I don't know if my opinion counts. Why would you want "external" help in order to deal with something about you?

Well, everything seems very pleasant up to now, so I'll lurk around the forums and see if anything interesting is going on.

Nope, no waiting period, so there was a glitch somewhere in my network. Well, I always was involved in conversations about philosophy, and taoism was always thrown in, along with budism and zen, so I decided to get into it a little bit more. Other than encyclopedic articles, texts reffering to the practices of taoism are pretty hard to come by, so in my internet searches on the Way I was directed here. I am still trying to figure things out. As a person I do not know how to describe myself. I like to learn and I dislike rudeness and misinformation. I hope that was enough.

I posted a reply, but somehow it didn't get through, or is there some sort of waiting period?

How yall doing?