Earl Grey

Some interesting Twitter posts.

I myself was once critical of hypnosis, but one of my internal masters actually is a qualified hypnotherapist and magician. He taught me some things using that and it showed me that to an extent, there's a lot of indirect self-programming and script writing that we are unaware of, and a hypnotherapist helps us begin our unlearning processes.

Here's a little something about a cat that had coronavirus--read the whole article before panicking though. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cat-belgium-positive-coronavirus_n_5e7f79e4c5b6cb9dc1a145bc

There's no current place to go, unless underground bunkers count. He was posting ignoble things in the coronavirus thread I started and a number of us were flabbergasted at his ignorance and audacity. There are gems, for sure. We just shouldn't have to sort through the rubbish bin to find them, which is why some people are retreating to their PPJ. There is no problem with this stuff in general--it's the fact it's become more prevalent is what I find to be potentially troublesome. For a small community of familiar names, this is nice, but for newbies who can't even get approval for membership, it's hard to search for things without this all coming up front and center.... The occult section is pretty good and underutilized, I will admit.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/safe-homes-jobs-italy-roma-fear-coronavirus-impact-200325163604384.html Another marginalized group, the Roma. People who get by selling scraps can’t work from home. They will likely be most vulnerable to Coronavirus.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/256218-coronavirus-cases-philippines-march-28-2020 1075 cases and 68 deaths.

Normally, I'd say that people call it bullshit until they get it or someone else whom they know gets it. I wonder how your family reunions look like (if you're even welcome there) with how rude and unpleasant you are, or how you'd react if your aunts, uncles, or parents got it.

For an engineer, you failed your maths to think 95% of the universe is "right-wing". It appears you don't even realize that the current Alt-Right have qualities that are not even "Right Wing" given that actual Right-Wingers have a mindset more pronounced in the Cold War NATO alliance rather than this contemporary isolationist and nationalist view. You've failed as a cultivator, mathematician, historian, sociologist, and biologist, your rhetoric and your logic are absent, and you stay here out of stubborn need to talk out of your ass, faffing left and right when you've already been told you're not welcome by Sean and contribute nothing but complaints about being ostracized without observing your own behavior. One day, you will either get tired of it, or you will continue to live the rest of your life miserably the way you are.

Rubeforever discusses spirituality, Trump, and the left in a topic that is about nCoVid19--sounds like a drunk who barges into a restaurant and begins ranting to everyone at their private booths and tables regardless of whether he is welcome or not. Gets told to go away and thinks he's above the rules and norms, and that others are just brainwashed, soulless robots who are likely on the left. Next: rudeforever comes and claims he has coronavirus and is just fine, then says everyone is making a big deal about it and doesn't get why nobody wants him around, then says nobody is spiritual or open-minded. Faff faff faff faff faff faff

I mean it's not like we don't try to focus on cultivation topics, but some people confuse spiritual development with cultivation, which is a technical thing...some people think by cultivating, you will become spiritual and mature, but that's not necessarily true. Most people would either like to be hippies hugging each other and preaching tolerance--but how do we discuss cultivation if they go into hippy mode? How do we keep cultivation serious if someone keeps interrupting, begging for techniques, or has made up their own system that actually is based off of pseudoscience conspiracies on aliens and the CIA or saying that Buddha activated his LDT and if you don't know which movements in Taiji activate which meridians, chakras, and dantians, then you don't know anything? So we have hippies trying to sing kumbaya, we have know-it-alls who actually don't have any skill whatsoever, we have people begging for free teachings, we have people insulting one another then getting mad when they get insulted back---all often in the same thread when we're trying to talk technicalities of cultivation. I'm at a point I may just have one thread on my PPJ and invite people there to discuss cultivation only, where everyone else will just have their posts deleted or hidden if they can't stay on topic, and staying on topic or following rules is just too tough here at times. Yeah, problem is, if we ignore it, it affects the quality of the forum while preaching tolerance and turning away people who still can't get membership approved. Sadly, we can't eliminate him or compel him and folks like him to stop, so the insults tend to be the last resort. Tolerating bad behavior normalizes it and doesn't make us more compassionate or enlightened, it just shows who has a more comfortable life and house that ignores how others suffer when they have less. It's the same as saying, "You're not as developed, you'd better develop" and creates a spiritual elitism indirectly even if they use words like acceptance, compassion, empathy, getting along, loving, blah blah blah....a lot like Jeff's crap. Yeah, I'll keep some of those topics I want to talk about in my PPJ at this point and let others come in if they want to talk about it there or invite others in a tag if I think they have something good to share.

photos in Japan my friend’s girlfriend saw near where they live.

Yes, I've met a couple people who do demon work--very few people can do this proficiently and it does damage all the time. At the beginning, it is difficult to perceive what the damage is, but then after a few years, you can have serious damage that people will see such as being belligerent and abusive while being insufferable, even worse than someone like joeblast. Homunculus?

Here's what I have been doing and hoping others will follow suit, like Walker and such: Having actual topics of interest discussed and doing our best to sweep away the dust of bogus and troll topics like the ones mentioned in the OP here. There's a tendency for this forum now to focus on agreeableness, and this is fine--but for more serious discussions, if this trend doesn't change I might consider going elsewhere at a certain point where there is more quality control and invite a few members here there. Only a consideration though--the Flying Phoenix thread is still here and one of the few things that makes this forum and its history worth preserving. So if people like Heartbreak who is mentioned in the OP want to keep spamming threads with garbage misogynistic and racist crap, rideforever wants to force his Alt-Right views and ignore direct questions so he can continue faffing everywhere, Stosh and others keep posting ignoble things, as gatito said, it's street rules here. We can let this place become a rundown area with a few plots of land where serious work is done (which is actually how a lot of masters hide ), or we can all do our part to sweep the place and improve it with quality discussion. Big problem now though: plenty of new sign-ups are messaging me of all people because they can't get approval to post with Sean not here to officialize their membership for them. Now we're stuck with who is here, can't bring in new voices, can't eliminate fools, can't take punitive measures against them, and the majority of this forum wants sugar, spice, and everything nice. Most masters I know are nice, but when it comes to serious discussion, wow, it's a lot of salt and vinegar.

Negative to positive in Wuhan: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive

That said, I'm happy to meet other people like you eventually and touch hands for those with martial bent and do some exchange, representing at the very least my Xin Yi and Taijiquan lineages and eventually all four of my martial lineages (and eventually Akashic and Vedic lineages).

Rubeforever being here amongst a forum that isn't quite sure what to do with his misogyny and diatribes speaks volumes about the other forum that shall not be named where the Alt-Right members who deny they are Alt-Right went.

Tupac? Nah saw him with Kurt Cobain and they were with Biggie and Chris Cornell shooting pool the other day.

Frightening, isn't it?

On the other hand, it's also a really sticky situation...

And now some good news for people who aren't worried about cultivation and preserving jing: https://www.rappler.com/technology/news/255807-pornhub-premium-free-coronavirus

Because it was when a lot of post-hippie times were not yet at 80s level cynicism, but conspiracies and observations were very telling. In other words: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other works captured a lot of the zeitgeist, while the bad fiction took it to absurd levels.

I was originally going to post this on TM's thread, but I think it's worthwhile here too. Since she is staying away from the general areas, I'll be sharing it there too still. Very interesting and surprising piece on the China propaganda machine on Twitter and coronavirus. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus

Boy, all you can do is faff about my avatar here, which means absolutely nothing compared to the ignoble things you post here and passive-aggressive comments you don't even have the gall to directly quote me in and instead stick to passive-aggressive sniping. You really have a sick and twisted view on women and gender, and it is evident in your bitterness and self-absorption.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52060791 Boris Johnson has it!

Someone's free Wi-Fi at Starbucks didn't come with his morning cup of self-loathing, so he has to spread it here as usual.