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Posted: 5/4/2003 10:01:52 PM EDT
"If you try to lead the common people with governmental regulations and keep them in line with punishments, the laws will simply be evaded and the people will have no sense of shame. If, however, you guide them with Virtue, and kept them in line by means of ritual, the people will have a sense of shame, and will moreover reform themselves."

~Book Two, Verse 3, [i]The Analects[/i], ~2500 years ago

Smart man.
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:04:05 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:04:52 PM EDT
[#2]
Yeah subjugating people with shame is a good route to go...[rolleyes]
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:06:30 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:07:28 PM EDT
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Confucious say,

Man who runs behind car get exhausted.

Confucious say,

Man who runs besides car gets adored.

Confucious say,

Man who run in front of car get tired.

Ah so, most honorable.
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:19:51 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Yeah subjugating people with shame is a good route to go...[rolleyes]
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What he is saying is give people a understanding of right and wrong and lead them by example. A LOT gets lost in literal translation.

In Asia "shame" does not have the identical connotation that it does in the West. In the West, shame is usually something forced upon one by others (classically by the Church). In the East shame is more a sense of personal failure even with the absence of outside condemnation.

Editted to add: If you were Asian you would feel very bad for not knowing this. [:D]
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:25:12 PM EDT
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isn't he the one who said;

secretary not permenant until screwed on desk.
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:32:10 PM EDT
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isn't he the one who said;

secretary not permenant until screwed on desk.
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[LOLabove]
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 10:37:45 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Yeah subjugating people with shame is a good route to go...[rolleyes]
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Only if it's in the name of Christianity (or conservatism).
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 11:19:45 PM EDT
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...man who walk through airport turnstyle sideways is going to bangcock."
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 11:20:39 PM EDT
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Confucious say,

Man who walk through turnstile sideways going to bankok.
Link Posted: 5/4/2003 11:35:53 PM EDT
[#11]
man who stand on toilet high on pot
Link Posted: 5/5/2003 12:43:27 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/5/2003 12:44:47 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/5/2003 12:46:39 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/5/2003 12:57:19 AM EDT
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Wherever you got the list, it's a bit redundant.

See Sig.
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