Nungali

I have not been able to post at all

( cant post the pic ) or even the link now I give up !

Oh no ..... try this instead ;

They spoilt the coast road that the national Park route led to . Before, on the old road at the base of the cliffs, you had to be aware of falling rocks and ones that had already fallen and smashed on the road !

* (lotta trubs posting today, I gotta get chrome back ) Royal national park used to be good giant circular ride ... used to be. I started never going on weekend, mid week was good. Then the idiots invaded that too ! Idiots ? EG. going up the steep and hair-pinned blind cornered double lined section up from Stanwell park beach, stuck behind a coal truck ... oh well . Guy passes me on some superbike, and the truck, on a blind corner .... doing a wheel stand ! I'm outta there ! Now I have ' Waterfall Way ' .... but no bike . (it was either keep bikes and no house, or no bikes and get my own house. )

'stink wheels ' I used to work in energency ward, lots of bike smash victims and the hospital was near my old fav run - through the Royal National Park south of Sydney * , so a LOT of bikers. I made a point of tallying what bike and what type of smash. This was a while back, the most common was a Suzuki katana , remember them ? most common story ? Going fast around a long sweeping curve, everything seems good, then a gradual wobble that develops to a tank slapper and ..... nasty ! I checked them out .... Katanas wheels where bolted together !

which for me is an interesting 'meditation' on what or who 'you' ( or 'me' ) actually is ? ? ?

Naw ... that's diff. The drunk THINKS he is controlling and he is conscious, but not capable . I am talking about a function that is described in the posts I made about it. Everyone seems to be ignoring that part . That is ; yo do something a 100 times and you get better at it. 500 times, good at it. 1000 times, an expert, many 1000 times, you have learnt to do it 'automatically' and can probably di it while whistling Dixie, hopping on one leg and reciting the TTC. It does not need as much 'conscious effort' you have programmed yourself to do it near 'automatically'. 1000 x 1000 and it is as though 'you' are not doing it at all, it 'does itself' .

A motorcycle has an engine that moves you around town on the bike . A bicycle has a husband on the front instead of an engine ;

Exactly my point ! Thankyou. That cyclist, without even knowing it is 'automatically' counter steering ! Tell him to go over 20 kph and suddenly push the handlebars to the left and watch what happens !

Hang on ... you don't ride a motorcycle, yet you want to argue this point ? Again. as I said, its a bit like martial arts ... I love a verbal martial arts dispute .... I get into them all the time at the club , what I like is the way to sort it out Same with the bike ..... okay Stosh , get on the bike and show me what you mean ... YOUR bike that is . At speed, the front tyre is angled left, this gives the tyre an angle to the direction of travel, minutely the tyres right side is facing forward and creating friction and drag, causing tension in the front wheel, the top wants to go faster and forward, the bottom slower, 'tilting' the top of the wheel forward, there is more drag on the right side of the tyre than the left , because this cant happen due to the bikes set up, the whole machine starts to 'lean' right. Think of a tank or a tractor ..... you put the brakes on the left wheel, the thing turns left, put pressure (drag) on the right side of a tyre, by turning that side into the direction of travel, the bike will turn right. A dog runs out in front of you, not seen until the last second ? Jerk the bars towards it and you will go around it (if you do it right )

DOH ! yeah, I mean 'steer' left to go right . Funnily enough also, I made that error as I was thinking about it consciously and writing it down 'accurately' .... when I ride it happens 'automatically'. I agree with the above , but you never do all that on automatic either ? Never 'automatically' use pressure on the bars in the opposite direction to which you want to go .... consciously choose and are aware of it each time ? Or do you and machine flow along the road as one experienced and 'automatic' unit ? I suppose not . However many people do function like this. Martial arts is another example I can think of. The 'proof' of the function , I suppose, is in 'highway hypnosis' . I noticed that VERY much when I used to drive home late from town after my radio show. . . . whole sections driven on automatic, hairpins negotiated , stayed in the lane ... all of a sudden I am at the turn off - how the hell did I get here ? Its a common phenomena for some .

Never think like what human think..... ​ - that picture and that statement go so well together - I want this on a t-shirt !

Oh dear ! One would hope you WOULD react automatically to a hazard on the road ? ? ? What, suddenly you spot a hole is in the track in front of you and you ; "Ooooo a hole ... now should I brake , swerve around it , maybe I could lift the bars up and clear the front wheel , or perhaps .... ​ (Please excuse the bicycle theme , the motorcycle illustrations of the same results were rather gruesome. ) P.S. are you 'aware' when you push the handlebars left to go right , or do you do that 'automatically' and believe you shifting your weight does it ?

Depends how many trees and how few cats and dogs and how the green corridors (if any ) are linked * . Sometimes they will come in from the yard into the laundry http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sugar+gliders+in+suburban+backyard&&view=detail&mid=53484F9BA3C08CABBE4B53484F9BA3C08CABBE4B&FORM=VRDGAR * They even have them for crabs !

yes , I agree, it is like that at times , but have you ever felt more ? When you ride REALLY good ! Are you SO conscious of the acts .... is not supreme performance somewhat 'automatic' after a time ? I used to get that riding . Even racing ( on foot ) over the rocks along the shore line - I used to run along them every morning - uneven , some slippery, at all different angles and levels and some leaps over water required. After a while I got so used to it ( the practice, not the route as it changed) I could do it without conscious observation. A friend came once and was totally flummoxed ; "how can you do that ? You are going too fast and aren't even looking where you are going ?" 'Automatic' ... well, plus I was born in the year of the goat Same with normal long distance / cross country running , I used to compete in that when young. I would be running, leaping over logs, jumping, etc, after a while, it would be like sitting in my head and looking out the windows of my eyes, just watching it all go by, with no perceived conscious effort. And with martial arts, when I am in the zone, or younger and in competition . get what I mean ? .... or am I trippin' ? Hmmmm .... might be time to quote my favourite controversial person ; " Consciousness is a symptom of disease. All that moves well moves without will. All skillfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to ease. Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee. Not until then is that which is done well done. Thus spoke FRATER PERDURABO as he leapt from rock to rock of the moraine without ever casting his eyes upon the ground. ..... Bodily functions are parts of the machine; silent, unless in dis-ease. But mind, never at ease, creaketh "I". This I persisteth not, posteth not through generations, changeth momently, finally is dead. Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in The Charioting."

Junko ; " Where does the idea come from seeing is believing?" Its a good idea . But I don't take it to mean ; you should believe in all you see (as Karl seems to ) . The way I take it is ; " Show me! " I get sick of all the bullshit promises and claims ; "I will do this ... I will do that - I promise this "....... etc . Bullshit ! Show me and I will believe it. Cheques in the mail ..... bullshit ! I will believe it when I see it in my hand ..... actually, when the bank clears the check . and more actually, I won't believe it until the checks cashed, I have spent it and am recovering from the hangover ... Then ​ I will believe it !

" Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. "

yes there is .... as soon as I read that question Junko ... straight away , I thought - No way ! Karl would not have any children .

But Junko , children are the most important thing in the world ! The issue is, adults keep forgetting that. But children are always constantly reminding us ... in new and innovative ways, to bring the attention back to them .