Please tell me that nitwit is meant as tongue-in-cheek...

Nope, you Eastern Wuss(s) give me the pip. Bunch a nincompoops. All that yammer about acceptance and harmony. Well, harmonize this, ya namby pamby head shavin' mendicant. And yer mother too! Why, if I ever met that Buddha guy of yours in the street, I'd kill him!

I'm sure he'd understand.

Just FYI Lao Tse isn't mysticism. That's a separate thing all together. I'm sure you'll agree that not all people who quote him are Eastern Wuss(s). Saying that would just be bigotry.

Just FYI pants-piddlin' sophism. Whyn't you take a short walk on a long pier ya anti-mystical dualism junkie. All people who quote Lao Tse are Eastern Wusses except fer you. Yer eight-balled. Outta the club. We don't like yer kind. Yer out on yer lily-west keister. So long, sucker - Bwahahaha! --Eastern Wuss

You're funny. You really do make me laugh. Thank you.

Those who don't laugh

Don't get it. --Lao Tse #41.

There's a parable about a man who heard that Buddha could find good in anything, and decided to prove that wrong. So he spent three days hanging around him and doing nothing but cursing. At the end of that time, Buddha asked him, "if a man gives a gift, but it is not accepted, who does it belong to?" The man replied, "why, the giver, of course". Buddha said, "well, you have been giving me curses for three days, and I certainly have not accepted them." ...just seems like it belongs here.

I can't tell from reading this if Eastern refers to New York or Japan.?.

• surely in the case of New York, New York, USA, it would be: Mystic nitwits who go in for Sigmund Freud and all that

Too many quotes out of context. Perhaps Wiki needs the insight in http://www.china10k.com/English/main/wisdom/wisdom2.htm

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare; my business is to create --William Blake

Eastern Wusses edit out the straw dogs.

Eastern Wusses regard all metaphors as straw dogs ...

Category Eastern Thought