Taomeow

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  1. Tattoos

    Ah, where taoist symbols are concerned, I could prove that the fundamental ones are derived from reality itself, but it will take some time. Perhaps later...
  2. Tattoos

    OK, what has "objective meaning?" What's the objective meaning of the middle finger?.. Of a smile? Of a frown? Of the flag of a nation? Of the flag of a nation being burned? Here's some Shakespeare for an example of an exchange of symbols having meaning for all parties involved: SAMPSON Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. GREGORY I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list. SAMPSON Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it. Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON I do bite my thumb, sir. ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON [Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say ay? GREGORY No. SAMPSON No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
  3. Tattoos

    Ha! I can easily imagine a mob of fundamentalist Christians reacting to a bikini bottom that leaves open most of the butt with the image of Jesus Christ tattooed onto it. Moslems and Jews couldn't care less though, since it's impossible to tattoo their deities or otherwise depict them to begin with. Taoists -- well, taoists don't tattoo.
  4. Is the earth round/spherical?

    Depends on who you ask. In Chinese, e.g., it's the same word, no distinction.
  5. Is the earth round/spherical?

    OK, final verdict on the matter. The earth is definitely round by majority of votes. It is quite possibly round in actuality (if you stick with Euclidean geometry). And it's most decisively populated by 98% sheep, 1% wolves, 1% cats.
  6. Ah, you went straight to "exposed/false" sources. Very... um... conformistically correct of you. I remotely viewed your mind just now and I glimpsed something go off that I saw as a bright spark before. Must be an optical illusion.
  7. Sionnach, thank you, I'll give the video a watch when I have the time. And here's the Three Worms/Corpses of taoism who feed off the grains people consume: Ancient Japanese medical texts are also full of these demon-worms, they have at least nine. (Some taoist sources also point out nine, but the three grain demons are the most famous.)
  8. Tell it to the American government, Stanford U, and CIA all of which have generously financed remote viewing programs for years. Perhaps just to waste taxpayers' money. But maybe not. Ever heard of Ingo Swann? Look him up...
  9. scientific section

    . sorry, double
  10. Is the earth round/spherical?

    In The Little Prince, which I read when I was just under 4, a Turkish astronomer discovers the little prince's asteroid in 1909 and presents his report to the International Astronomical Congress, which promptly laughs him off the podium because he is dressed in Turkish costume. After a while, a Turkish dictator makes a law that everyone must wear only English costume, under penalty of death. The astronomer puts on a two-piece suit and tie and presents his findings again -- and the Congress applauds him. I loved the book and made a lifelong note of this passage. Why believe ancient "myths" over modern science? Because ancient myths were not peer reviewed in this manner. Why symbols that mean "evil plans" (which no one brought up, incidentally, Thelerner -- what are you hearing instead of what is being said I wonder?..) have to be in full view? They must be, no way around it -- otherwise they have no intended impact on the perceiver's unconscious. They also have to be everywhere so the conscious mind is desensitized to their presence and ignores them. Every hypnotist knows that the only way to penetrate the subject's unconscious successfully is to distract his conscious mind. Every stage magician knows how to hide what he's really doing in plain sight. And scientifically speaking, absolutely the same observable effects that are cited as proof of the earth's roundness can be explained by a totally different paradigm -- e.g. the square earth set in round heaven, if you don't insist on freezing the picture and phase in the motion (of huge objects at neck-breaking speeds) as the torsion theory and the taoist time-inclusive (sic) space studies both suggest. The ancient Chinese lunisolar calendar (the Farmers' Almanac) based on this model is much more accurate, and much better predictive of weather patterns (among other things) than our weather balloons. The calculations based on this model allowed the enormous and magnificent fleet of Admiral Zheng He to visit every continent, discover America, and start the Renaissance in Europe -- in all likelihood also granting the Spanish royal house the map later used by Columbus. I say, have more respect for human genius that went before weapons of mass instruction, it was neither feeble nor feckless contrary to what our self-appointed superior minds are taught in school. Don't buy everything they are selling to the masses or you'll trade the isle of Manhattan for a handful of shiny, perefectly round beads every single time.
  11. Is the earth round/spherical?

    Why is the symbol for the UN the picture of the Flat Earth? with a hole at the pole?.. handcuffed with wheat stalks?.. What do they know that we aren't being told?..
  12. Ebola coming to the USA

    Patents Publication number US20120251502 A1 Publication type Application Application number US 13/125,890 PCT number PCT/US2009/062079 Publication date Oct 4, 2012 Filing date Oct 26, 2009 Priority date Oct 24, 2008 Also published as CA2741523A1, 5 More » Inventors Jonathan S. Towner, 4 More » Original Assignee The Government of the US as Represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of health Export Citation BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan Patent Citations (2), Non-Patent Citations (8), Classifications (47), Legal Events (1) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof US 20120251502 A1 Full patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502
  13. Tattoos

    Not so, according to Jung (e.g.). There's archetypal symbols all people in all cultures recognize, at least on the unconscious level, as direct references to reality, and respond to them accordingly with measurable physiological and complex psychological changes. Snake-like images are invariably associates with "father" and cup or any vessel for holding liquids with "mother," water symbols like wavy lines with "sex," eye with "light, fire, sun," arrow with "direction of motion," swastica with "universal all-encompassing force" (good or bad depends on the conscious mind interpreting it based on who uses it, but the deeper "all-encompassing, universal force" meaning sits in the unconscious), and so on -- to say nothing of feng shui that knows everything about how our unconscious not only reads symbols whether we are consciously aware of it or not, but how they can actually shape our consciousness, and even our body, and even our destiny. We are born into a world of shapes. They are meaningful because they express (and, to varying extents, contain and retain) energies that are involved in creating and maintaining any given shape. We can't not respond to them. We can only believe that we can, but in reality, we can't. With some brain disorders it becomes obvious -- e.g. a pattern of a series of stripes can trigger an epileptic seizure in some individuals; a pattern of color dots forming an image for someone with normal color vision is not discerned by someone who is color-blind (and may disqualify them from getting a driver's license); and even in perfectly normal individuals, the image of a trident causes an instant measurable spike of blood pressure and heart rate, regardless of what "conscious" interpretation their culture offers for this shape. I have been studying ancient symbols and their meanings across many cultures for a number of years, and have come to the conclusion that they are a universal interface between human perceptions and reality itself. Whoever knows how to use this interface is a master of reality, and whoever does not, its uninformed recipient with no say in the matter.
  14. Is the earth round/spherical?

    Ah... no need to be very sorry in advance for my projected failure to meet your requirements, I may still meet them. Here goes. A brief history of the theory. Torsion fields refer to the advanced physics theory originating in 1922 and shelved for a few decades due to politics/competition in the field. In Russia, starting in the 1980s, Academician Anatoly Akimov and Dr. Gennady Shipov began torsion field research at the state-sponsored Center for Nontraditional Technologies in Moscow. Their theory was loosely based on Einstein-Cartan theory and some variant solutions of Maxwell's equations. However, in the early 1990s, following the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian science was taken over by Western "curators" who immediately disbanded the group and proclaimed their work "fraud" and "pseudoscience." Summing up the complex theory in one sentence, per your request. Massive objects, rotating at high speed, create torsion fields that propagate through space and interact with any matter they pass through, changing that matter's inertia. Dixi.
  15. Is the earth round/spherical?

    There is a beautiful theory known as torsion field theory. Too bad the entrenched institutionalized sciences act as a fortress against any and all challenges to their postulates, guarded by multiple vested interests. But if you approach the shape of the earth from the perspective of the torsion theory, turns out the ancient taoists were absolutely correct. The real (not immobilized unchanging imaginary "object" of our petrified fiction, but a reality of what it is -- a field of manifestations and changes) earth is square, surrounded by circular heavens, and looks something like this:
  16. Is the earth round/spherical?

    Not even that. "Actual" would be the photo you have taken yourself, proceeding to process the film yourself. The one we are shown is "purported." The Chinese believed the earth to be round by somewhere between 1A.D. and 100 A.D.. Their earlier generally accepted idea that the earth is a square set in the round heaven was challenged. By 200 A.D. Chinese scholars claimed that the earth was the yolk of an egg -- a common idea in many cosmologies earthwide. While Europe held the concept of flat earth, Arabs revived the much earlier Aryan Indian ideas of the round globe. The 7th century Armenian Ananii Shirakatsi asserted the universe itself was egg-shaped, with the sky being the shell, the air the white, and the earth the yolk. Our current view of the earth being round came into vogue and went out of vogue many times. The earth changed shape in the minds of scientists many times. Every single time, whatever current idea won (or enforced, with weapons of mass instruction) general acceptance was "the final word of science" on the matter. Except it wasn't. Nil admirari.
  17. Oh yes. Not by saying anything though, She just made it clear to my body. You know there's special dietas observed by ayahuasquero and other vegetalista shamans, a different one for working with different plants? These plants grant all sorts of abilities, and with each they use a different diet -- for some of these herbs it's a minimum of six months on a specific diet it demands, for others up to two years -- it's like a college education, you invest several years into doing this. But even if you're going to only briefly work with aya, there's a few simple dietary restrictions -- chiefly making sure that you consume no MAOI promoting foods, with a few other considerations. You keep the diet for a week before and then at least three days after, and then you're good to go and can eat what you normally eat. Theoretically. Well, in my case, not so. I developed an absolute aversion (couldn't stand the sight, smell, or even thought of it, let alone swallow a bite) to all things involving even trace amounts of grains for three weeks. I didn't want any food at all for the first few days after the last ceremony to begin with, but when I did finally feel ready to eat something, it was ceviche of Amazonian fish and small octopi, aguaje (a fruit of a local palm tree I will miss forever unless I relocate to the rain forest permanently), fried plantains, eggs, and so on -- no grains. I felt as though I was cleansed of an addiction, addiction to wheat (which contrary to the overwhelming thousands-years-long conditioning of a whole civilization is a drug much more than a food). I eventually started eating grains again after a while, for a while, but I never felt differently about gluten-containing grans ever again, every time I would partake, I knew I fell off the wagon, as an addict would who starts using again. So eventually I dropped this stuff for good.
  18. Warm rice bag

    It can be reused if the problem is simple and physical. If you are trying to clear the space though, you would want to heat your salt in the skillet for two hours -- evenly spreading a not-too-thick but completely bottom-covering layer. Salt used like this you need to discard afterwards. This is also esoterically diagnostic, by the way -- once you've made sure that the skillet is clean and dry, you watch it for any dark spots that appear on the salt, these indicate the presence of unwanted entities. The spots will eventually disappear as you keep heating the salt, because it disrupts those entities that are not too overwhelming. Bigger and stronger ones will show up with pretty loud crackling sounds, and if there's something really nasty around, a full blast haunting, then you might hear a loud explosion. This will indicate that additional measures are required, especially if you do the same salt cleanse the next day with a new portion of salt and the dark spots, crackling, and explosions manifest again. Another salt favorite of mine: I make my own cold/flu treatment device out of this, by adding generous helpings of therapeutic essential oils to the salt. This works both for prevention -- if you find yourself around one or more germ-spreading, sneezing, coughing individuals -- and for treatment, if you have a nasal congestion of any origins, few if any things work better, both symptomatically for instant relief and to bust the bug and speed up recovery. The oils I typically use for this are a mix of eucalyptus, peppermint, and cedar, with optional addition of tea tree oil (which is also useful for the purpose but I just don't care for the smell.) You can also add a few drops of iodine to this therapeutic salt. Oh, and all of these will also work well in a tube sock!
  19. Not untrue and not the whole truth, far as I've been able to discern. It is very true that ancient things determine what younger ones will be conditioned to do, they are our parents after all. Parents condition their children. But normal parents also love them, not just use them. Methinks we're dealing with two kinds of microbial/viral consciousness -- the native benevolent one (live and let live) and the opposing consciousness of its competitor (pseudo-live and let die.) This, incidentally, was part of the immense lessons of ayahuasca I received -- with a side note that I will need another 15 years to fully comprehend what I've learned. She showed me an example of how this works by zooming in on my bloodstream like a nanomicroscope and pointing out a little alien-looking creature, a bacteria or a virus, swimming therein. And then She said, "well, this is the size of its physical appearance, now take a look at the size of its actual impact" -- and kaboom! -- the little microscopic monster grew to the size of a demon, filling up the room, the rain forest, the country, continent, planet, looming over everything with extreme menace. "Yup, that's what you're up against. That's one of them. There's more... let me show you." And She did.
  20. Ebola coming to the USA

    Weaponized designer viruses are weird...
  21. Ah, that's my kind of a train of thought! -- though not necessarily running on the same track or headed for the same destination. So we're nothing but microbes' puppets then?.. Our consciousness is an illusion, theirs shapes our civilization?..
  22. Warm rice bag

    A tube sock filled with hot rock salt or sea salt, coarse grind. Don't heat it in the microwave though, heat the salt first in a skillet, then transport into the sock. Don't burn yourself doing this, use a spoon. Tie the top of the sock securely, use a shoelace, e.g. You can make the salt very very hot but don't apply it to your achy area like that or you'll burn yourself -- instead, wrap it in a folded towel and then keep gradually unfolding it as the salt cools off, making the layers thinner, always keeping what touches your body in the hot-comfortable range. This cures pretty much everything. The reason you want to heat the salt in a skillet rather than in the microwave is that this is a "procedure" in and of itself, a magical one. Salt roasting on an open fire is a cleanser of unwanted subtle energies, entities and spiritual impurities. It's similar to incense in this regard but odorless and much more powerful than all commercial incense. Whatever ails you, this procedure starts addressing even before you apply the pack.
  23. So what's your theory as to why nature didn't invent the bicycle?.. There's so many designs of incomparably more complex organs of locomotion that have been created -- hundreds of millions of years' worth of propulsion bioengines, fins, flippers, tails, tentacles, tendrils, paws, claws, legs, jaws and arms for burrowing and excavation, jumping biosprings, running machinery, flying everything -- on weightless dragonfly wings and on powerful wings of the eagle, on flimsy "house" moth wings that are made of a milligram of dust yet can cover the distance of 12 miles... and many got the best of most worlds -- membranes between toes for walking and swimming too as in ducks and geese and swans, who can also fly, and yet -- no wheel. Not a single living creature moves around on wheels. Why is that? Ever thought about it? I did...
  24. Thank you, Since gardening was practiced since 20,000 years ago, and posed no danger to the environment at the time because the size of each gardening tribe didn't exceed 120 people and they never allowed monocultures, nor produced more than they could eat, your timeline is likely to have survived after my modifications. I'm not going to operate on the premise that prehistoric people were clueless, because I am not clueless myself. Everything that is about human-scale cultivational endeavors is perfectly fine and has always been in existence, we co-created with nature since time immemorial. Mothers did slap their children away from the fire. But they didn't slap their neighbors' children, let alone burn their gardens in order to make them subscribe to their own tribe's totem, and didn't take slaves to make them work their gardens. It was peaches and cream, not enough peaches to start a global corporation selling them, and not enough cream to export cheeses made of it, but enough to leave legends of the Golden Age in every single culture's memory. Well, I won't let it be just a memory. As they say, the only time to live is now, so every single millennium, century, decade, year, month, day, hour, minute ever lived in misery, pain and suffering since the arrival of the "advanced" newcomers, whom some call archons and some annunaki and some Sons of Reflected Light and some elohim and some netters and so on (every culture had a name for them, but the names were all in local languages -- we had hundreds of thousands of local languages back then), is now. And this time around, NOW, we will be ready.