Thoughts on Taoism

Learning about Taoism over the past few weeks has really made me realize how unappealing of a lifestyle it would be to have in the long run. If you were to not really look into it but just glance at the surface of it, it would seem like the perfect way to live. Always peaceful and never being in a rush or stressed out, but if you thought about it for longer like we did in class, Taoism would realistically be a hard lifestyle to live. Nothing would ever get done and it would probably get tiring and confusing always trying to find the good in things. I like how in Christianity everything is either good or evil, where as in Taoism it doesn't seem to really matter because everything is inner mixed. The no stress and peacefulness of Taoism would be nice but I don't think anything would ever get done which would be harder for me because I  like to have things scheduled out.  Reading the Pooh book made it a lot easier to understand and now that I think about it I completely agree with the author that Pooh does live a Taoistic life like many Chinese people do. There were a lot of aspects I didn't agree with the Taoists on. One of them being the whole incarnation thing, as Christians we know once you die you do not come back to life where the Taoists believe all life forms come back to life in some way. Also, their outlook on how they leave the world once they die. We believe that we should tell others about Christ where Taoists seem to be more focused on living their lives right so they do not get demoted to another life form when they die. All in all, I do not agree with all aspects of the Taoistic ways but it does seem like it would be a fun simple lifestyle to live at times.