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The Eight Winds Cannot Move Me (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 73 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Sounds like the Chinese variant of Diogenes at work, I'd love to hear more details - was this something that really happened or a clever tale constructed later? If those people were real, what else did they produce?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

All parables and proverbs are made up, with old characters added to give fake legitimacy.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Now you gonna tell me old man Yu didn't have his family raze down that mountain?

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