Aetherous

I've played around with a couple of the exercises now...the arm twisting preparatory and the turning exercise. Good stuff! I was personally really impressed with the way that the arm twisting exercise is "designed" - that precise angle hitting the scapula just-so.

If only they would realize that.

I don't know why anyone cares what the perceived world opinion is of American politics. They're just as deluded if not more so than the half of Americans that voted for someone who was attempting to dismantle the Bill of Rights with a smile on his face.

Please, spread the message far and wide: http://www.snopes.com/simpsons-trump-prediction/

Same here, as you can tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting I should've ended that sentence with "...if you represent a certain tradition" for clarity's sake, but I thought that was implicit when I said "other".

For now? You better step down, and not post any more private emails here...regardless of how the person makes you feel.

I've called for you to be banned, opendao. You don't have my permission to post private emails in a public forum.

This is what the shell game operators say: 'Dude you quit after the first round! Don't be a quitter! Play more, you will win!" Looking back at my paypal receipts, it was actually a number of months that I trained with these guys. 2-3/2015, 6/15, then 9-11/2015. This salesman here said I "failed"...in actuality, I passed (there were actually "tests" to enter the yuxianpai training), but withdrew due to having poor results both from daogong and especially shengong. The sales tactic during the training was definitely one of trying to keep getting monthly payments. Daogong training was supposed to take one month at most, but it was drawn out 2-3 months...this was entirely due to the teachers giving out further practices slowly, or teaching slowly (feeling the need to refine basic practices), and not due to any student's inability to learn or perform well enough. I reluctantly continued past one month, despite the false advertising...then when negative results came on more strongly, withdrew. The stick in this picture is the admonition that all other schools are false, that one's health can only be improved with this one Russian school's teachings, etc...the carrot just out of reach are the promised results (which no one is even clear about).

Yeah...until you actually take a close look at everything in the links here.

So virtuous.

I kind of thought that at first, but looking into the links in this thread for a while, I'm convinced that it's shady enough to question it just being a pizza place.

Thank you for sharing this. I'd say that I hope the FBI has been tipped off to this, but I'm not sure it'd do any good. edit: I've submitted these links as a tip to the FBI in the very rare case that no one else thought to. another link: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5bpa7c/breaking_from_the_anon_who_brought_you_the_laura/

What I said stands. Some of us don't appreciate sleazy, con-artist marketing tactics at this forum, which include saying that everything else out there is fraudulent except (what a coincidence) your school, which (what a coincidence) has a hefty price tag. Having had a tiny bit of experience in your school, learning some of daogong and shengong, I am assured that the glorious advertising and promotion is false. It's just another school which does its own unique thing. If people like it, good for them. Enough with the condescension toward other traditions, which you have no experience in.

It demonstrates a lack of virtue to disparage other traditions.

If there's relief after a certain practice, or eating a certain type of food, that means it's a good thing to do...it should just be done more often. Conversely, if anything causes a worsening, that's something to be avoided.

It seems to me that it should probably be a forum rule, that we don't disparage the ways of different schools and say they're wrong. We can only speak for our own school. Then again, freedom is great.

Cracking up. Taomeow, I love your ideas here!

You'll definitely cultivate a perception of the world, in which LOA doesn't exist.

Focus on harm, you attract harm...to yourself.

Different people have different perspectives of the world. What's at the surface of how things appear is often just a facade.

The past week they kept talking about a big information drop...especially the past day or two, yet nothing came. Anonymous especially has said things in the past that they haven't done anything about.