Earl Grey

And I refuse to even imagine what that porn he watches is given how he reacts to it...but again: no kink shaming.

Spanking seems to be less of a punishment and more of a treat...

While I appreciate dawei vouching for Starjumper and also know him a little bit to say that Starjumper is actually a decent guy offline generally, as a principle, I do believe dialing back the hostility and violent words is probably a good idea (speaking from personal experience/my own rage in recent history that is easily seen in the past couple months here or in my activity). Starjumper, I get you're losing interest in this place, but if not for the sake of letting everyone breathe a bit since it makes them uncomfortable, it might also be a good idea to tone down the anger and fighting words at least for marketing your work and hermitage because that can be counterproductive to recruiting students or selling your book. This is me speaking as a friend, not reprimanding you, and looking out for your potential interests.

If so, moderation isn't just necessary for dealing with trolls, but eliminating the sock puppet accounts that keep coming here, as well as scammers and spammers.

Don't kink shame.

Okay, but how does it relate? If you’re praising him for being an iconoclast, the issue ralis and I have noticed is that it’s harmful to both him and others who are gullible/unfamiliar with the inherent dangers of many of his egregiously uninformed posts. So offering praise like this is more befitting of a guy with his own fashion sense or dance moves, but the OP is more akin to a guy saying to sniff a jar of cinnamon after drinking coke and mentos together. EDIT: but if you’re telling him that the others he accuses of being deviants is acceptable in spite of his protests, THEN I am in agreement with you.

What are you trying to say?

Attention.

Sounds like wherever you learned whatever you’re posting here is pretty dubious or you missed the point. Do you just watch a lot of YouTube videos and go on forums to research, or have you actually read formal texts, let alone had a teacher? This is also the kind of post @sean hates in his forum and his policies specifically forbid them.

Wood is chopped by metal, so...

Long ago, a wise man asked me to guess the word that stupid people use to describe themselves. He wrote this on a chalkboard after a minute:

Everyone who said they put me on ignore still reply to me. Hmm I wonder why... Human nature and the need to come up with a jarring insult in the age of desiring personal relevance? Funny thing is, not reacting at all (i.e.: ACTUALLY ignoring people) is how to achieve that...

I find that most people I ignore like Limahong I actually ignore, but then there are others whose posts I still read on certain threads because I can still respond to them if I have something worthwhile saying. It is almost as if the ignore button is an unlocked door that people have to make extra effort to show their disdain rather than outright out of sight and out of mind.

The broad terms convey lack of actual depth of understanding. Sounds like a born again New Ager who converted via Reddit. If you want to be depressed about the amount of self-certainty and completely wrong misinformation that people believe that disregards actual texts, precepts, rites, values, and observances, any reddit thread will do the job better than this forum.

Ah, so agreeable nature is more appealing. A Millennial and Edger preference, and not surprising given your age. As for the belief behind it, it sounds appropriated from an actual group belief because it appears incomplete. I repeat a line from the Tao Te Ching that runs counter to your belief in 81: ”True words are not beautiful beautiful words are not true. Those who argue think they know those who know don’t argue.” I wonder how flat earthers, climate change deniers, and conspiracy theorists are treated when you practice your alleged “Native American belief” as most people who do them refer to their nation/tribe rather than a general and broad term as you just did.

Maybe he gives a damn about people like Josh doing what Josh is doing, but he doesn’t seem to give a damn about how he expresses it, even if it can be quite harsh...it might work for some people, mostly close students, but Josh is not his student. So I’m not sure if that approach will work, given that public opinion turned against him for it, and he appears to not care about it even if he’s replying to people calling him out. I think he could write a book of insults and monetize it more than getting worked up here though.

Your attire at times seems a little oversized and undersized or a mix of the two, so that’s why I suspected that was a deliberate aesthetic choice. If I don’t get things custom made because of my odd body proportions for my height, build, facial shape, and hair, I tend to look like a teen even more than when I dress in my usual grunge or 70s punk aesthetic. Had to use a style guide to check because I don’t like dressing like a professional or my physical age at all, and considering facial shape, season, hair, and style takes more time than I care to think about that I would prefer to put towards cultivation or my hobbies instead. You make it work.

Hey, I’m not defending him so much as I’m saying, “This is Starjumper, no more no less.” Some people say he has no skill, and that reflects in his attitude, others say he has skill and his attitude has just resigned himself to not giving a damn about what others see. He’s a biker boy with a sailor’s mouth, and while he shares the opinion about Josh with regards to Walker and my own view that self-initiation is iffy at best, the difference is that he’s now focused on Josh as a person rather than what Josh is doing—this I disagree with, even if I see where it might be coming from. It’s a kind of frustration that comes from wanting to keep the well from being poisoned and saving people or educating them, but one thing I catch myself doing is teaching here and most people in life aren’t interested in learning unless they pay you. Josh has laid the path that he wishes to drive his jaguar on in his flamboyant attire, and I made fun of him in the first two pages, as I had already specified on page 4 why we were cynical and defensive: assuming he was arrogant like other self-initiates or power seekers from Heartbreak to boerwoers to lightseeker or Goku. But it turned out he’s just eccentric and flamboyant, and a jolly fellow, so I’ve apologized and welcomed and accepted him, which Starjumper did too initially. Now I do agree with Walker on tradition from a Taoist perspective, and my own values reflect this. However, when I consult the Akashic about people like Josh, the MTLs tell me that he’s one of many people reflecting a change in the spirit world and dynamics of the universe, not just norms and traditions, and it isn’t just because of technology, it’s our species conscious evolution. So while at times I bite my tongue for some people and lash out at others, I’m saying I get Starjumper and I get Josh both: the frustration of maintaining the integrity of tradition and practice for safety and pedigree for the former, and the sincerity of carving one’s own path in spite of conventional or orthodox caveats warning against it for the latter. As it shows, their personalities come out. I sure wasn’t friendly towards other members here in recent history, but I’m also speaking as someone who is trying to empathize with Starjumper and his frustration without necessarily defending it, because that was offered to me by others who saw my rage here and had patience and understanding. I can only hope Josh takes feedback like from Walker gracefully and Steve can focus on graceful criticism too, given that Josh can modulate his emotions through his weather practice, and Starjumper can use his Taijiquan practice to find emptiness.

Well, I guess we just have to weather the storm of bad puns coming now.

Seriously weathering all the emotions here....pun intended.

I don't always agree with people like Starjumper, and even then, he's quite a character with some valid points. A little blunt around the edges when stating things, but he achieved his level of skill based on who he is and that is respectable (though some would also say the opposite). In general, I find our character is both what allows us to earn the skill we have and reflects the skill we acquired, meaning when we grow, we let our skill catch up. A great example of that is season 2 of Cobra Kai: all the wisdom of Miyagi-san was thrown out the door by Daniel LaRusso, while Johnny Laurence wanted to be the better man in spite of the original teachings of Cobra Kai, and it showed in their brief fight in the finale where Johnny held the upper hand.

They are "negative and unhappy" insofar as they are far more qualified to speak of these things with formal training and consensus within and amongst systems, which you reject because it doesn't fit your egotistic need to be an individual and flaunt your dubious (and often contradictory) imagined paradigm of how energy/meditation/healing/history work, rubeforever.

So spake rudeforever, who made up his own imaginary system of how internal arts works on the body while rejecting what is established by lineages and systems that are reinforced by both TCM and physics.

The issue ralis has is that your question, definition of healing, and perspective itself is loaded with assumptions based on something of your own making rather than insight derived from any methodology or system.