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First if all there is no proof that a physical LDT has manifested in any WMP practitioner. Proof. With medical doctors present to record the anomaly. Second, the LDT appears on x-rays? Hahahaha nice one! Now my turn: two WMP practitioners walk into a bar. They tell the barman: "if we win the lottery we will buy this bar and impose a moratorium on alcohol consumption!" What i find intetesting is that the passage is proof that Jim wasn't the most advanced student like he liked to portray himself since there were at least 2 other students more advanced than him. Jim never made it to level 3.

This video explains some stuff. It is painfully obvious that WMPs do not activate their LDT nor do their exercises promote physical alteration on the LDT. What western mo pai practice is basic qigong covered with layers upon layers of delusion and bullshit.

Not him but i understand his PoV. For those near the arctic GW could be a godsend. For those on the islands of the pacific or in New York it would be a godsend... cataclysm!

All 3 are subjects of heated debate. None of them are huge breakthroughs that will change the lives of the average citizen like say operational deuterium fusion reactors. Miniaturisation is a sign of technology refinement not a technology breakthrough.

Well if we disregard the increase in computer power then there is no boom. On the contrary we are stagnating technologically the last 50 years. Think about it in a simple way: how long has it been since a man has stepped on the Moon? Has there been any breakthrough in propulsion? Life support? NASA can't even build Saturn V launchers from scratch anymore FFS!

Besides, what i see rarely mentioned is the potential of AI guided drones to operate in environments hostile to humans or improve things like traffic, driver safety, architecture or urban development, geological surveys, prediction of seismic events. Singularity will change everything. I just hope we don't get extinct before we get there. We got 20 years tops before we reach maximum population capacity. Once we hit 16 billion, interesting things will happen. Famine, war, disease, you name it!

Sadly this irreversible at the stage we are now. Will that lead us to a human powered ELE? Who knows? Only time will tell.

There will be no Mars colony in the foreseable future. Mars' moons and our moon make for better bases. Who the hell is going to Mars and for what reason? It is not terraformable despite what some "visionaries" declare. It is full of iron but water is scarce and there are no good power sources for industries to work. Who the hell is going to spend billions of $$ on a science project?

Who told you that i am angry? All i see is a confused person who is making assumptions about what i believe. Plus the rant about solar panels is misguided. The materials can be mined and the panels assembled in space with no environmental consequences.

How is all this related to AI again?

Yeah fascism runs in your veins we know that. Just leave.

Then leave! Nobody is holding you here!

You dragged the conversation there. I never mentioned anything about the earth's resources because it goes without saying that we won't survive building a starship and going somewhere else at this rate. So the deflection was completely inappropriate because it followed a "whataboutism" of "what about the depleting of the Earth? Because people who want to reach other stars obviously don't care about the environment and want another virgin world to pillage." It goes without saying that the above, in the absense of evidence of the connection between wanting to go interstellar and wanting to pillage another world is pure whataboutism.

Exactly. Starship means ship with interstellar capabilities.

Because they have been asked repeatedly in this thread among others and they don't answer claiming insipid excuses. That they directed you to an email without answering and you find it absolutely normal is the most disturbing. They are recruiting morons.

Whoever wrote the article doesn't know the difference between a spaceship and a starship. What EM is vying for is not achievable and moot point. In situ water exploitation is cheaper than bringing so much water there. Until we see some kind of factory in LEO producing goods from extraplanetary materials, colonisation of Mars en masse is not going to happen.

Do you use deflection much?

Seriously? After reading stray posts the last 50 pages this is what you ask? Join them. You deserve exactly what they have. No more, no less.

Whataboutism??? Seriously???

What you are aspiring to do is another form of fascism and repression of free will. This forum exists so that we can have a chat about practices and occasionally bash some scamgong like the one you have. Deal with it.

That is claim backed up by hot air. Or maybe simple farts. I have told you before that this letter has no weight. A claim like that made in front of his senior students in Javanese would be serious. What you have is a joke. So let us comment on the facts and proof. JIm is depicted practicing on the pics. His technique is terrible and it is obvious he was never corrected properly by Chang. The pictures cast serious doubt on WMP claims that Jim was the most advanced student and reinforce what is widely known to anyone having some connection with chinese culture: lying in some cases to avoid embarrassment or for a laugh or being impolite. The pictures also show why Jim was never allowed to teach in the first place. Jim never mastered the first two levels even if we accept that there never were more techniques in those levels. What he appears to be practicing is basic qigong stuff.

That is claim backed up by hot air. Or maybe simple farts. So let us comment on the facts and proof. JIm is depicted practicing on the pics. His technique is terrible and it is obvious he was never corrected properly by Chang. The pictures cast serious doubt on WMP claims that Jim was the most advanced student and reinforce what is widely known to anyone having some connection with chinese culture: lying in some cases to avoid embarrassment or for a laugh. The pictures also show why Jim was never allowed to teach in the first place. Jim never mastered the first two levels even if we accept that there never were more techniques in those levels. What he appears to be practicing is basic qigong stuff.

Completely irrelevant to the discussed matter. Let me repeat so that you may understand. These aren't debatable. Jim's technique in the pics is sh*t. Standing correctly in horse stance is pure amateur stuff for anyone who is involved in martial arts, even external ones like Karate. What i see in the pics is karate white belt, level, horse stance. It is one of the first things that a sensei will correct in an amateur. And all this doesn't take into account that a karate novice will need to learn 4 basic blocks, three stances, three basic kicks and two punches. Now combine all these and find out how many things must a novice learn in a martial art. What did Jim had to learn? Just two simple qigong exercises. Yet he could not stand properly in mabu. What does one make of this? Jim lacked guidance because he and Kostas were never invited to the core of the school and that is why they only got two techniques.

So let us comment on the facts and proof. JIm is depicted practicing on the pics. His technique is terrible and it is obvious he was never corrected properly by Chang. The pictures cast serious doubt on WMP claims that Jim was the most advanced student and reinforce what is widely known to anyone having some connection with chinese culture: lying in some cases to avoid embarrassment or for a laugh. The pictures also show why Jim was never allowed to teach in the first place. Jim never mastered the first two levels even if we accept that there never were more techniques in those levels. What he appears to be practicing is basic qigong stuff.

And what is Jim doing in the pics? Having a picnic? Or practicing random qigong stances/systems like he used to? Again no comment on the substance of my arguments. I don't give a f*ck what John teaches on video if his self-proclaimed top student can't have basic alignment in stances and had the audacity to teach. Isn't Jim the one depicted on the pics with the UNTRAINED and WEAK horse stance yes or no? YES this is JIM! So it doesn't matter what teachings are missing, if the pics used for guidance are wrong and they make the fact that Jim was an amateur not able to teach, painfully obvious! Of everything else my post commented like Jim having a weak and completely untrained horse stance, your practice not being unique at all and having all the characteristics of scamgong, you only comment on the metaphor?!??!! GTFO here and take your scamgong 2 level whateverPie with you as you leave!