Jim D.
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Does it have to make sense. Syllables are hard for me to understand.
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Love Shys, Involuntary Celibates, True Forced Loneliness, etc.
Jim D. replied to Immortal4life's topic in The Rabbit Hole
I think it all started on a decline when the "pill" took away the fear of pregnancy. It takes about 10 years to change and make it stick. Competition for a mate, especially for women, became harder. They found themselves in a market that demanded that they do something different than the next female. Both men and women set the norm for dating and staying together. And geese mate for life. Nothing special about what they do. -
Sumer: the "black-headed" vs. the "red-faced"
Jim D. replied to Taomeow's topic in General Discussion
I am asking you Ms. Taomeow to help me here. I would like to respond to the subject but do not know what it is about. It would be good if you gave me an abstract of what started you thinking on Sumer: "the black-headed" vs. the "red-faced." It is intriguing. Thank you. -
Can someone recommend me an powerful exercise for increasing chi ?
Jim D. replied to Scholar's topic in Daoist Discussion
I have practiced Tai Chi since 2000. Over time I wondered and thought that Chi was something extraordinary. In my opinion, Chi feelings come into our awareness through body mechanics and proper alignment. Take for example an electrical chord that is frayed. Electricity can get through but because of the interruption of full power the light bulb is dim. Fix the chord, or replace it and things go back to normal. The important word here is normal. Body alignment and the delivery of force, Fa gin, disrupts in coming force. Take for another example, uprooting of the other guy. If you drop your center of gravity and come up under and forward, the other guy will be off balance, vulnerable to your continued forward motion. There is no mystery behind it. It is just a matter of physics. -
Sumer: the "black-headed" vs. the "red-faced"
Jim D. replied to Taomeow's topic in General Discussion
Where does the point begin. I am new to this thread. It sounds like some commenters are not taking this thread seriously...and it is frustrating. -
But hard to follow sometimes Easy to adjust Feels good to fall in line
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Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
Jim D. replied to Apech's topic in General Discussion
It would make sense that the gut has neurons that send messages to the Central Nervous System. -
Archery
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The Passion of the Christ
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How do I get rid of these sensations?
Jim D. replied to Tryingtodobetter's topic in General Discussion
If we knew your phone number and address we could call the Police and a request a wellness check in order to protect you from doing harm to yourself. -
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate," Cool Hand Luke, November 1, 1967
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"Every Day Tao," Deng Ming Dao, 1996
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"The depths of Shiga-- A field of wildflowers Borders the clouds" Hosomi Ayako (1930 -1946 pg. 86/Autumn)
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Jim D uses poor quality lube, forcefully inserts self into JESUS, is now BIG BROTHER
Jim D. replied to Walker's topic in General Discussion
Excellent, excellent, excellent!!!!! You put a smile on my face. There are so many things in this video that appeal to me. The leather jacket, mullet, the gas masked person, the girl (never had librarians that look like that). This period of time for music was wonderful. The music was easy going, melodic, good lyrics. Remember the band called The Outfield? Wanted to clarify my mentioning the music compositions above. They were instrumentals. When I attempted to put words to them, it came easily. I was surprised that they could fall into place between the measures as if they had been written already. My sabbatical from playing brings to mind when John Lennon took a break to be a "house husband." Julian had come into this world and needed caring for. I have used this phrase many times to describe what I do being retired. Man, the 60's and 80's were a great time for music. -
Jim D uses poor quality lube, forcefully inserts self into JESUS, is now BIG BROTHER
Jim D. replied to Walker's topic in General Discussion
I don't remember the sun disappearing being explained to me. I did not question it. Night just came on, and I went to sleep after the "I love Lucy show." But, the moon was another thing. When it was a quarter moon, I thought it pushed it's way out of who knows where. I believed this for a long time until I realized that there were the phases of the moon. My family was sorta musical and I liked to sing. The first ever song I sang was for my Aunt Sue who was a semi-professional singer. One day when she came over to see my mother, Aunt Sue's sister, I sang "Cry" by Johnnie Ray (1951). I was 5 years old. It impressed my Aunt Sue which encouraged me. When I got into the 60's to 70's that is all I did. I practiced playing guitar and doing covers of other bands such as The Beatles, The Turtles, The Kinks, Young bloods etc. When I got into my 20's I began developing my own style and arrangements of song's I found interesting and sensitive. Then I got into my 40's and wrote a few songs on my own. All this was for my own enjoyment. Now I rarely sing because I do not exercise my vocal chords as I did for hours at a time. Music gives me great pleasure to listen to it. There is a feeling of freedom.- 142 replies
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Jim D uses poor quality lube, forcefully inserts self into JESUS, is now BIG BROTHER
Jim D. replied to Walker's topic in General Discussion
And that man seemed so pathetic, especially when he was scolded by Dorothy. I have read others opinions and comments and recognize myself in them who attempt to believe and reinforce their belief in their parroting what someone else shared with them. And therein lies the existential anxiety of humans. You know, when we trace it all back to pre-humans, imagine the instinct to survive and their trying to make sense out of what this creature saw in the world around them. Through their eyes and underdeveloped brains they must have behaved much like my dog Sweeper. Confident and secure in her needs being met. But when thrown into a world she does not understand e.g. Amazon Prime truck beeping at a decibel she cannot tolerate, she shrinks and cowers in fright. There is no philosophical debate. She just wants to feel safe and secure again. She looks to me, her god, to make it alright again. Pre-humans needed magic, something outside themselves to make sense out of their vulnerability. Others, who could see that manipulating this fact to their own advantage, used it to control their own fears of being exploited. And there you have it; play it out; the Mystical is born. The Controller controls and the Controlee controls their fears through the Controller. Say hello to Government, Religion, Racism, Bombs, Guns, Race for Space, Drug Use and Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Nicotine, Sex...- 142 replies
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Jim D uses poor quality lube, forcefully inserts self into JESUS, is now BIG BROTHER
Jim D. replied to Walker's topic in General Discussion
In my opinion, the sentimentality of religion is a trap. Through the years of indoctrination, I eventually moved from depending on 'something' out there, to my own inherent wisdom learned from life experiences. The 'Man in the office' out there gets blamed for everything to include the good stuff. The existential anxiety we are faced with on a daily bases is that we are vulnerable and cannot erased this fact. That is how it is there is so much discourse amongst us. The discourse seems to give us a sense of security. That is, if I talked about enough, maybe my brain will come up with the answer somehow. -
Some time in the eighties I was struggling in a relationship with a woman. It was September and we had several potted flowers on our deck. I thought that the reason they were beginning to fade and wither was because they needed to be fertilized. So, I watered them and gave them nutrients hoping that they would be revived and become beautiful once again. I waited, and waited. Disappointment followed my hope. I did not connect the dots until years later that things were coming to the end of another season. We were passing from this to that. I attempted to do the same with my relationship...revive it...bring it back to where it began in a time of falling into love and lust. But she was passing from this to that...a season of dryness and chill. It is said in Daoism that all good things will come to its extreme and revert back to its opposite. Relationships that are fundamentally not living in "Integrity" will wither and die. Where all that is left, is an hallow appearance of wellness.
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"White Crane" Chi Gong.
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As I was growing up through grade school, probably reaching the age of reason, I wondered how it is that Santa got the presents into our parlor, they were called parlors in those days, and flats, now we call them living rooms and apartments, I asked my mother how Santa got in since we did not have a chimney. We had a coal burner instead, and eventually a space heater. Well Mom's answer was he got in some how ????? You see, the presents became more important rather than the truth. I once heard a man say that the more ridiculous a story is the more believable it is. Add a carrot like Hitler did when he promised bread for everyone and a man for every woman and like magic, we now have Concentration camps and a peoples to use them on.
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If you put the other first in spite of your own inconvenience, love will follow.
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"No Surrender"
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"Pampas grass in the vase Aglow with the setting sun As if in the open field"
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"And the humans will give no love."
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I did what I wanted, when I wanted, and I did it. When I look back it didn't me an ounce of notoriety, integrity, trustworthiness.
