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the point i am trying to make is that when the sheep is leading the herd, it's disaster. arab spring, occupy wall street, whistle blower you guys think you can fix it. fact is you can't, and never can. dog eat dog. it's an ugly world, joe. grow up.

what perspective of yours am i not open to? do you mean your belief in a true reality beyond human sensory perception? i won’t accept anything based on speculation and faith. especially when it has no bearing on the practical aspects of living my life in this reality. on practical matters in this reality, there are no two ways about them. they are either true or false and if you are not open to true perspectives you pay the price in real terms. even then, there are crazies who view pain as a blessing. i need to rephrase that. i meant to say i am the least dumb ass alive today. and the crown does matter because it is not a dunce cap that others wear. dunces have no traits that are helpful in any circumstance. they live to mess up the pond. ok, so point in directions that have worked for you. we ought to proceed in life like two mountain climbers ascending a vertical rock face. if you are pointing to a loose ledge that i have placed my piton, why would i not listen? i am losing you here. can you cite an example to show what you mean? frankly, i accept nothing that’s on offer here. i am not into spiritualism either theistic or atheistic. like i told you, there is no other reality except this one in which there are noodle salads and redtail hawks i don’t care about bigwigs but i do care about money in order NOT to keep pace with the hoodlums and staying out of the “hoods”. songtsan told us about a really rough world that anyone can fall into if one is cut off from the supply of money. my view of the world is not negative but realistic. do you think songtsan was making stuff out and lying about his life experience? you mean lin ai wei? i thought he was a chinaman when he came on to speak on time monk radio. damn! i said to myself, that chinaman is well-spoken and must have grown up in the us. that was until i was stunned on seeing his picture. why do people like them take on chinese names for? anyway, you like shifu lin who liked shifu alan goldberg, a martial artist, a thug. you want to keep pace with these bigwigs for cultivating the path. do you know that raptors hitch rides without flapping their wings as much and glide on hot air columns, thermals, to migrate north to their breeding grounds in mongolia, russia and china from the tropics? i waited for them in port dickson as they came by the thousands across the straits from sumatra. how can your mind be straight when you belief in stuff beyond your senses? watching birds is a distraction, a waste of life, but at least it’s not crazy. watching your breath is crazy. i wish you can just be content with being attached to the bird-watching and your kid and junk stuff beyond your senses. your job is to look after your tadpole and don’t f*ck it up. one songtsan in life is one too many.

while you are holding your tongue, have you batten down the hatches or gotten ready to evacuate? hurricane chantal is coming.

i don't really care as long as it - including the goddam cow - is made in the middle kingdom: america.

let me wise you up. there is the ideal for suckers (99%) and the reality for the rest of men. free market ideal: farmers' market where snotty people bring their kids on weekends. free market reality: no holds barred, dog-eat-dog, winner takes all financial markets where even communists participate. it's about net worth, pal. money talks. you don't really believe that we are living in a republic where all men are born equal, do you? reality check: 1% of the citizens owns half the net worth of the usa. 7 trillion dollars in the pockets of america's best and brightest. you can sit at the poker table because you are a citizen. but you can't play if you have no money, you can only watch. and if you have a billion dollars or more, then you are a player. you don't like the set up because it sucks? then blow the whistle, occupy it all. then you will have a worse set up: china where 0.1% owns all the net worth of the nation. and everybody is equal.

talk about ingrates. if you have dropped the soda, you would have kidney stones.

sounds like you are a compulsive obsessive health freak, joe. do you know what can destroy flesh? the sun.

"In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain describes how his love of food was kindled in France, when he tried his first oyster on an oyster fisherman's boat as a youth, while on a family vacation." ... after which he rushed back to the states for a burger and fries washed down with Sprite. yep. so, you read cookbooks. do you even know how to dish up a grass-fed piedmont gourmet burger?

i know the "rot" is there. don't be naive, joe. do you really believe that you are living in a democracy? it's a free market, pal. when you have little or no net worth all you want to do is blow that whistle. to get attention.

you'd better believe it. they are a whole lot better quality that the shit they eat over there. ask anthony bourdain

i trust you too, joe. and it comes from the american capability to intercept a sucker punch and blow you out of the sky.

yup, that's me - as trusting as they come and proud of it. that's what makes american products most loved the world over (8 of top ten global brands are american) that's what makes americans most admired the world over (all kids - including the haters - drink coke, eat at macdonald's, wear jeans, and chase the american dream) that's what make america strong by the way, that was a good movie clip.

it's a very convincing video for people regardless of nationality - yes, even so-called americans who for one reason or another have a political and cultural dislike for america. my unbiased, unemotional objective response? the probability of the conspiracy being false far outweighs the probability of it being true even if the government involved is iraqi, syrian or libyan screwing its own people. my biased, subjective american response? even though america smells as bad as the great satan to some folks, she has never been harsh with her little devils stinking up the country every which way they want with their craziness.

it’s strange to me that you view me as bullheaded. i view myself as the smartest guy alive today. this assessment is built upon an openness to debate. and i discuss opposing opinions all the time not just here but elsewhere too. i would gladly give you the crown if you are as open to debate without losing it. i don't stick to anything. i will make you a deal. why don't we allow each other to be relieved of crap we are stuck to? you can’t be serious. semen retention? astral projection? i have not given up on life to space out with flowers and birds i do need to be coherent in the company of people running companies. the only refuge for me is me. thank you for your pity. as for songtsan, he would never be allowed to have fun in this forum. he is like new wine in an old wine bag. and the old bag will go to pieces. who is shifu lin? looks like you have fancy cameras. that hawk was captured in mid-flight. it’s puzzling to me that all that bird watching doesn’t straighten up your mind. nature watching is mentally healing. instead of going after them, i have them come to me. bird houses with small openings for finches are strategically set up in the backgarden and on trees at the front porch with feeders everywhere. i spot them appearing while on the computer on the porch or in my hammock, with a book, in the backgarden. robins, cardinals, finches.

yes, i would defend the tadpoles to give them a fighting chance against the heron. it’s not a zero sum game. but we are not talking about tadpoles. we are talking about people mindlessly bringing kids into a dangerous world. does it have to be choosing one side against the other? you need to learn the win-win approach to conflict resolution. don’t you think it is better to never get into a conflict situation? hostility is always present when there is a difference in perspective between two people and there is only one parachute. you either explode and deprive the other guy or implode and see him leap to safety at your expense. doesn’t have to be that way. hostility can never arise if know how to avoid conflict. then you had better chuck your belief in things beyond your senses. i don’t share your belief that this reality is extrapolated from a true reality. you are the theist, not me. knowing right from wrong is not moral superiority but an imperative of those with a sense of responsibility. how do you teach your kid? let him figure out for himself? tell him not to feel so damn superior when he comes home to say he stopped his friend from breaking his pet bird’s legs? i have done that and am getting to know you better each day.

i am glad you get your own drift. you did not state it and i never said you did. you have so much bad stuff to say about the usa it sure came across that you did.

put my mind to someone else’s pain? can you do that? can anyone do that? not possible. not even if that misery shouts at us in the face. songtsan cries of misery right here in this forum goes unheard we are the hoodlums in “the ‘hood” he’s come to seek refuge with. he tells us he is being molested, harrassed and knifed by condescension like his mom before, we don’t hear him. she, like us, must have also entreated:” no, don’t go, i love you. please you are a good boy, please stay and get shafted.” we are so pathetic i could cry. there is no refuge in a pond of bad frogs. confucius said: "to lean on that which can provide no support is foolish".

honor what? his copyright to his life story? it’s not his life story. his is the life story of kids who have deadbeat people as parents and there are zillions of them out there and 11 more born every minute. bad frogs bringing tadpoles into the pond to feed herons. and they mostly grow up to become bad frogs themselves. spiritualism is not about finding the path to personal enlightenment. it’s about the story of songtsan, the suffering of tadpoles. and only two folktales speak to that - the story of the buddha and that of jesus, guys who wanted to protect the tadpoles and deprive the heron. by breaking the karma it’s nice to know you watch birds, or is it just raptors?

what would you not pass?

i am not book smart like chomsky i am street smart like the guy who fixes your plumbing how about the right to a fair trial? what gives anyone the right to string the us government up and hang it from a tree? your mind-set and cultural sentiments sure fooled me. now you are hanging the usa without a fair trial. are you sure you are not a syrian, egyptian or libyan? i can't pinpoint where you are from. but why do you hate the usa so much?

yes, i shave used clothing? nah don't even buy used cars wrinkles? on my face or clothing? none, in either case. cream? for what? coffee, yes. what have those questions got to do with anything? wrong frequency.

chomsky is a brainwashed brainwasher. he is a brain detached from the body he badmouths and criticizes. yeah, let's. don't listen to brainwashers test it out yourself. see if you understand the concept. give us the whole picture not just the part showing you want to show to brainwash us. for starters: why were you on the sidewalk? what was the issue? who else was on the sidewalk? what are you insinuating? police state? the sheriff didn't smash the camera, stomp on the media man, shoot him in the head and set him on fire, did he? have you ever been out of the country? travel a bit more don't just listen to chomsky. you seem in the habit of of giving tiny peeks at situations like a magician performing tricks. don't just show us just your empty hat show us where you stash that rabbit. busy people are gainfully employed because they have a country that works and so they work hard because they love their families you need to get yourself a proper job establish a life pattern that PRISM won't pick up if you have no business standing in a place don't stand there. if you are worrying about all those things, you are probably unemployed. get yourself a job.

are you a syrian, egyptian, or libyan? all our institutions here in the usa are legal. we are a nation of laws. i know we americans tend to set the style. if other people stop copying us in naming institutions, we would avoid confusion. thank you.

oh, i am sure, dead sure. it's not because i trust the government. its because i trust us americans. don't matter who they put up there in washington. we, right here, are the government.

that's the whole point to activism: persecution complex. the poor underdog. it's a hobby. until someone gets hurt. the issue is not the point standing up is. until there is enough of us and more standing are we there yet? that was 2008 when they took the whitehouse. and now, the weed of activism is growing again. it's always something, anything... when there is not enough of us standing.