It is funny that we take such nonsense seriously when the inventor of radio and the brilliant people who built the telecommunications system on top of it said: "try this thing, you can call your mother who lives in Australia from the United States".

No, "the waves that can be used are not the eternal waves," they built a miracle and made people use it.

Naming is the origin of all particular things, but the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.

The photon came after, for instance.

"Naming is the origin of all particular things, but the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao"--

It is mostly nonsense built on top of nonsense, I believe. To be honest, the miracles of Jesus, as described in the Gospels, sound more reasonable.

Suit yourself. I personally find it quite wise and generally applicable, and was able to intuit the exact response I was hoping for despite never having completed a read-through of the Tao. (In the first section, no less!)

I find the Tao has a knack for describing my atheist worldview in exactly the way the Bible doesn't. "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him."