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So a weight lifter lifts weights, eats a good diet with lots of protein, and rests his body well. Over time he builds muscle. How would you classify a system that is exactly like that, but that extracts energy from the environment to build a physical spirit which mirrors the body.

One person I knew very well decided to mix, and blend together multiple systems, and they wound up in a mental hospital, and later killed themselves. This sort of thing isn't anything you want to play around with. If you don't give fire the respect it deserves and you play around with it, you'll be burned alive. If you are getting Kundalini, or Qigong psychosis, that means you are practicing wrong. Either the method itself is wrong, or you've changed the method and it's wrong. The system I follow specially you cannot do MCO, and if your energy begins to naturally move in a MCO, you must stop it or the energy gets stuck in the brain causing psychosis among other problems. Other fellow students that have tried to blend MCO with our practice have been seriously injured. This is something beyond what herbs and acupuncture can help with.

This is possibly fictional in nature, but interesting to consider. Researchers placed a group of five monkey's in large enclosure. In the enclosure was a step ladder and at the top of the ladder was a bunch of bananas. Whenever a monkey would try to climb the ladder, it would trigger a system to spray all the monkeys with freezing cold water. Once all 5 monkey's learned not to climb the ladder, they removed one trained monkey, and replaced it with a new monkey that had not received the cold water treatment. They removed the automatic cold water spraying system. When the new monkey went for the ladder, the other 4 monkeys grabbed and beat him. Each time he tried he was beaten, until he learned not to climb the ladder. The researchers then replaced each monkey until none of the remaining monkeys had ever been blasted with cold water. Replacing a monkey again, the new generation of monkeys actively prevented the new monkey from going near the ladder. The new generation of monkey's only had social conditioning but no direct knowledge of why they couldn't climb the ladder. While this story might not be true, it is still an interesting idea to consider. What sorts of social norms might we follow that have no connection to reality? What sub optimal actions might we take because that is what society expects of us? What things does the group consensus dictate that might be false?

I think your question reads like this: What is the purpose of a knife? Some people may use a knife for cutting up ingredients and cooking. Some people may use a knife for self defense. Some people may use a knife for surgery to save a life, or treat an ailment. It really depends who you are asking, and in what context you are doing the asking. In some traditions the LDT is used to store Yang Chi for later use. There are thousands of schools of thought as to the purpose of the LDT is. My advice to you would be first to clearly define what you are trying to achieve, and then look for schools that can offer you good hard objective evidence they do that, and then ask them what the actual purpose of the LDT is. If you take everyone's opinion as equally valid without regard to evidence, then you will be lost in nothing but static. You need a way to separate the signal from the noise.

You gotta fine argument, Better back them facts up

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ˈdʒuːvənəl/ JOO-vən-əl), was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE.

vītam impendere vērō Stake life upon truth. -Juvenal

Hi Daniel, Since you have my email, you are more than welcome to email me and we can discuss this in private. Unfortunately per the site rules I can't discuss this on this forum, even in a DM.

Spiritual hygiene to me, means not filling your head with false nonsense, and not wasting your life with fake practices. Demanding good hard objective evidence, and only listening to teachers and systems that can provide that.

I am not sure if you are supposed to be able to edit their posts that may be a bug. You are able to delete their posts I believe if I am not mistaken. They should not be able to delete your posts.

Hi ChiDragon, I personally asked for a PPD so I could post a topic and prevent trolls from being trolls. If it's your PPD you should be able to delete people who are heckling you in it. They can create a new topic and say what they want in the general forum if they disagree with you. The option to delete posts in the PPD is taken away, that would be a very bad thing in my opinion.

Hopefully we can all live in the environment we want in the future.

I think he is saying he traveled a lot and saw that scenario in the locations mentioned.

Sorry i meant no direct interaction. I would like the AI to act as a filter for me.

You certainly are welcome to see things that way. Con artists are a thing, and most people never notice they were deceived until after they lost their money. I want to live in a society where I can have an AI guardian. To be honest I would like to be as independent as possible, producing all my own food, energy, etc. I would prefer not to interact with other people, let my AI act as a liaison or intermediary. I would prefer to live in a collective with other people, and we could use AI to verify that all communications were the truth. Our society is overrun with lies and deception. I think it would be amazing if I could prove via technology what I was claiming was true. I think it would be amazing if this technology was so common place that anyone else could use it. I wouldn't want to deal with people who refused to prove their honesty. You see this as dystopian, I see it as necessary to correct some fundamental flaws in our society, and psychology and perhaps genetics.

Sure if you want a personal example. The company I work for loses tons of money because our procedures state we have to provide a secure access code to anyone who calls in and claims to be someone they aren't. So long as they can answer 5 questions correctly, by protocol and procedure we have to provide a secure access code to a scammer, leading to all kinds of problems for them, for us, for everyone. We lose a lot of money as a result of this. The solution is super simple. Force them to update their phone number on file in person, so we can verify their identification, and then they can get a secure access code sent to their new phone number. Upper management sent out an email asking how can we stop hemorrhaging money, reduce risk, and mitigate losses. I was like umm... we can stop providing secure access codes. The utility of a secure access code is that only a customer's phone can get it, and if we hand them out it defeats the purpose and we might as well not even use them. I was met with complete and total apathy. The situation is completely and totally insane, but we'll keep on doing it. There are many more situations like this talking about specific problems we face as a species, and no one cares about anything more than whats for dinner and whats on TV. The apathy is so painful to me.

Certain people may have such a Siddhhi, I don't think it's something most people have. I do not have such a Siddhi.

There are so many very very very important issues, and almost no one anywhere cares about them. As a society all most people care about is being entertained, till they wind up in a nursing home.

For me I want artificial intelligence to solve a social problem. Everywhere, all the time people deceive other people. I want to live in a society where this problem is solved. Either remain silent or speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I actually want to live in a society where I can verify the claims of another person as true, and I don't have to accept on faith they are being honest. I think AI could be used in such a way to level the playing field. I would like to live in a society where AI oversaw social interactions to ensure that information exchanged was true, and that dealings were legal, ethical, and moral. The way I see it there is a flaw in human behavior, and it is within our power to fix it, and I would want to live in a society like that.

Wanting power for the sake of having power itself is vulgar in my opinion. If you need to feed your family and can't afford food, using a gun to hunt a deer is a perfect use case for owning a gun. If you need to defend your life, home, or family from intruders, it is another perfect use case for owning a gun. If you want to own a gun so you brandish it in public to intimidate other people, you are an idiot. Most people who seek power are idiots and don't even know why they want it, or what they will use it for when they get it.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. I don't see what I described as a dystopia at all. I don't mean to get this thread too far off topic, but I would like to share a life experience I had with you. I used to work in IT at a local college. We had one employee they had almost iridescent purple hair, and had an extremely narcissistic high maintenance personality. From day one it was walking on eggshells with this person, but eventually we settled into a groove that was manageable. One day we had a vaccine clinic at work. On my medical paperwork I indicated an allergy and spoke with the nurse about the allergy, to ensure the formulation they were using did not contain it. I won't die but it causes my arm to blister and weep, something I would like to avoid if possible. The purple haired employee came in at the right time to overhear my conversation. Immediately after I had my vaccine the purple haired employee let into me in front of our department. Purple Hair: Kakapo! I didn't know you were an antivaxxer! Kakapo: I'm not I was just discussing an allergy wi... Purple Hair: You think that vaccines cause autism. Kakapo: No I don't think that. Purple Hair: Yes you do! You think [previously mentioned allergen] causes autism. Kakapo: No I don't think that. Purple Hair: Yes you do! Kakapo: No I am pro-vaccine. Vegans don't eat steak, and antivaxxers don't get vaccines. I am just trying to avoid exposure to... Purple Hair: You are a dumb [expletive] because you should know they took that out of vaccines. I pull out my cellphone and go to FDA.GOV, which has an a recent article on this exact topic, and it shows that all multi-dose formulations of the vaccine contain this allergen. I attempt to show a chart to purple hair. Purple Hair: I am not looking at your antivaxxer nonsense. At this point we had a small crowd staring at us because of the scene purple hair was creating, so I politely excused myself from the situation. There are a lot more details of things that happened, but for the sake of brevity I'll omit them. I received a text, email, and multiple in person requests for a private off campus after hours meeting. Finally I was told the meeting was mandatory. I respond to their email, and set some boundaries stating I needed another employee present for the meeting, and some other things i considered reasonable. They possibly edited my email, I am not sure exactly. This wound up being an HR issue, and HR refused to listen to anything I had to say about the topic. They were convinced I was lying and that purple hair was the victim, and I was trying force poor purple hair to have a meeting after hours off campus that they were uncomfortable with. I was terminated after the meeting with HR, and no amount of reasoning or evidence mattered. In my life I've had multiple instances of similar nonsense from people lying and twisting situations to create problems for me. I would absolutely love love love love, to have a video record of all social interactions, and the ability to have AI know my true intentions, and if I was lying or not. I would love to have the ability to point the finger back at them and say well hey if you are telling the truth, prove it! Let's get the AI involved and have it vouch for your honesty and sincerity. I would love when I had business dealings with a person that I could have a way to certify their true intentions, and vice versa. Ideally I would want to be in a collective of people in a situation where if we interacted with others by design if we were attempting to deceive another our intentions would be known. I would like my and everyone else in the collective's options to be remain silent, or speak only the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Always and forever. You see this as dystopian, and I see it as a godsend.