A central anthropological premise

New Tao Posts: The Tao does not define a character:

From whence we derive the statement of Jesus: Judge not that you be not judged. Characterization is among the most noxious of human activities.

The Tao does not define a character

The Tao does not define a character

In truth we are the spectrum we all are

The Tao sees us past all our human tropes

Past designation universes stars 

Character's a prison we don't need

Character's a prison we don't needVirtue is a scutcheon gone to seedValues are the product of free willAnd the engine of all history
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Characterization needlessly fixes someone in a straitjacket.

Naming generations is characterization.

Describing people as this or that is characterization.

 At worst characterization is a form of cursing or fixing or witchcraft. It is a denial of freedom. It is judging.

The use of active values to describe someone or a group is more salient.

Is someone tolerant?

Is someone helpful?

Is someone democratic?

Is someone non-Idolatrous?

Values can be willed. Characterization needlessly fixes someone in a straitjacket.



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That's right write your own story

3quarksdaily: The Legend of Marcus Aurelius: "Me, I’m writing my own story." There are two things in life that we confuse. Values and character. Values are what make us do what we do. They are freely chosen. They require acts of will to attain fruition in deeds. Then there is character which has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with how you are seen by others and by yourself. When a character is fixed freedom is compromised. Characterization is the very worst of things. When Jesus says judge not that you be not judged, he is cautioning against giving up your inherent freedom and lapsing into characterization. 90 percent of what we do tends toward that particular failing.



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