CityHermit!

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  1. Defining the Left and Right

    It's a rather complicated thing for me because I didn't go out looking for it, it sort of just fell in my lap on top of a lot of things that did that all shouldn't have anything to do with one another but now they do at least in an indirect sense simply because of these interactions. Because some of the circumstances also involves others close to me besides myself it's not fitting to go into detail about those. What I can say is that I found something, or maybe something found me, that does seem strongly indicative of Russian interference in the election. It's a simple enough view to take because the analytics I mentioned clearly indicate Russian visitors from Russia entering predominantly through Russian search engines. How they would have found it only would have been through another site on a thread about the election well before it and was underway. The same thread positioned for Trump to win with the impression that it would yield some changes in US-Russian relations. There is actually a lot more to it than that. So like I said, it's something I'm sitting on and thinking what to do. I often make the assumption that agencies like NSA are aware of such things anyway. It does so happen that the FBI had already been combing through said site because of a string of major DDOS attacks on it in the time period this thread ran. Threads of the same topic by the same people had been on another, similar, site that had also been said to cooperating with the FBI on some unspecified matters that also eventually deleted their own database and started fresh. So I might guess that FBI could be aware of it too, though unless they somehow got a hold of my analytics then I'm not sure they could make the connection between the things I have said. However it is possible they or other agencies could also already obtain IP addresses and other information from mentioned sites and do their homework from there. The first mentioned site was far more hardcore Trump than here, but even they had some infighting and backtracked from their positions somewhat. One possibility I might guess, aside from all the other controversial things about them, is potential business ties as that was something the administrators seemed to hint upon. So not only IP addresses, but perhaps FBI and other agencies would be interested in money ties too. As I was watching the whole thing it all seemed so fishy to me, but I did see and record a lot. Again, I am not partisan and wasn't even there for the political, at least not domestic, topics but they were so saturated in it that it couldn't even be avoided. When I myself posted I made it clear I didn't care who won the election, because to me I know how to be prepared either way. For instance, say Clinton won, I would not have let up on Clinton ties to China, because China is my angle of concern. It was very interesting to see how Trump himself took his positions on China as well. The thing is, if I go forward with what I have then I wonder how it can skew things if it does. I'm not at all interested in helping out the Democrats, because it also so happens that some Democrat officials, not small ones mind you, did something that really screwed me over and I am also in the process of addressing those officials. The thing also is, I don't like either party, I don't like parties in general, I would much prefer to see some sort of Independent surge. If what I have would fit into that in some way, I might be feel so inclined to venture that way. Again, there are a lot of complicated things to it, and I have to look out for my personal situations and more importantly people in my life. Politicians, all of them, can sink or swim as far as I am concerned. I guess I'll see how badly they want to float.
  2. I can have a look through my library again, as I sort of have to lately anyway for something on another topic I am writing about. What I meant to say about the points was not that they were said to reside there but were the considered exit points for Shen or whatever to leave from. Again, I could venture to say off the top of my head which texts said this but I don't want to mistaken and would rather check my sources again.
  3. How is the dalai lama chosen?

    Current Dalai Lama said maybe they will be the last and the Chinese government said no you can't decide that we decide that.
  4. From what I've read, there's a number of Daoist texts that make reference to it often in terms like body beyond the body or some such and sometimes differentiated as going out from the baihui as opposed to out through the yintang.
  5. Talk Xi Jinping

    China is not a hard read to me by the way. When you're all done with your circle jerk maybe you could have an easier time reading them too. I'm not waiting on anyone and I do fine.
  6. Defining the Left and Right

    If you have to ask why I ask that, I happen to be sitting on something that challenges some of the views of some of the people here.
  7. Defining the Left and Right

    Just wanted to hear some feedback on this. If you had a blog that tracked analytics of visitors, and you get a lot of visitors from a specific place and analytics also show their method of entry, would you have any particular reason to believe they're not from where the analytics say they're coming from?
  8. Talk Xi Jinping

    Let's see how it all goes with Africa.
  9. Talk Xi Jinping

    Looks like both DJI and SSE taking overall losses, percentage wise I think it's a bit more for SSE. Xi didn't want to budge at all regarding South China Sea when Mattis visited. China didn't join in RIMPAC either, I may have read elsewhere that there were other times they didn't also. I'll have to double check.
  10. 6/24/18: Gone for a couple weeks

  11. Yin and yang and philosophical Taoism

    Didn't it start off as a separate school of thought and was incorporated later?
  12. Left-right polarity in Taoism

    DDJ verses 31 and 34 come to mind. Also in Chinese medicine texts, things like where there is symptoms on one side then treat the other, etc.
  13. Immortals (Xian Shi)

    I like to think of Xians as representing a kind of leap in human evolution. Whether its a spontaneous or purposeful evolution is an expanded topic.
  14. 9 practices

    Verse 9 in DDJ for one, regarding 8 and 9. As for 6, by adept can you be more specific? I like this list by the way, I try to practice the same things myself although I have done so more with the understanding of those things being implicit rather than being told to by teachers.
  15. Yellow Yard Sutra

    Here is one more with Yellow Court Classic: https://www.amazon.com/Primordial-Breath-Ancient-Chinese-Prolonging/dp/0944558011/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529792454&sr=1-1&keywords=primordial+breath+volume+2
  16. Blue Light

    I've known some people and have heard lots of anecdotes of others regarding things like that, have had a bit more experiences like that myself too but I don't go out of my way to look for it. While there's a lot more I could say I don't want to drift off topic from the thread either. Thanks for your input though.
  17. Defining the Left and Right

    "When", huh? I say if, a big if at that. The first matter is whether CCP will last that long. I'm not worried about the US' future.
  18. Blue Light

    I don't know, I haven't assumed that off the bat because sometimes it would be right in front of me and sometimes several feet away. I've had all kinds of other experiences though that I could more reasonably associate with personal energy so I haven't given this one too much thought in regards to it.
  19. Blue Light

    I don't know anything about FP but I have had some experiences over the years where if I'm in the dark in a room there's a strange blue light/glow around or in front of me, not internal vision but with my eyes open and viewing outside of me. It's happened a number of times and for whatever reason I haven't dwelled on it but when it repeats I recall and think there it goes again.
  20. Talk Xi Jinping

    While the DJI has had some losses, SSE just took it's biggest one day hit since last February or so. It would be interesting to see what happens in coming days or weeks.
  21. Dao De Jing and Zhang Botuan Translations

    Yes many, but that was the one I liked most out of the ones that I recall involved native Chinese. There have been some others I've seen where the resulting English sentences were a bit more awkward. I'm sure there's more out there I should still check out in any case. I'd be looking forward to one day reading and understanding it in one or more Chinese script, but that would surely take some time and effort.
  22. Appetite? Digestion? Metabolism? Just some thoughts though I'm wondering if these changes would not be associated with Dan Tian practice. I would venture as far to say perhaps proprioception in as far as one connects what is gained with the rest of the body and movement thereof.
  23. Tongbei

    I've heard there was some relation between Tong Bei and Chen style Taiji, something about the proximity of their origins and similarity between manuals of the two.
  24. There is one problem though, China has a horrible enough environmental track record as it is, whether its quality of air or water, pollution, geologic/geographic disturbances, biodiversity, etc. Solving their energy demand via oil doesn't solve those issues and in fact can make them worse.