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The ones I buy are just fillets, dunno if they even sell them with heads? Anyhow, not saying they should serve as your dietary staple...just saying if you do stock up on some canned fish, I'd pick sardines over tuna. Just thought I'd pass on that small tip for anyone.

Nonsense. The Messiah has already returned now. WE ARE ALL SAVED!!! Halle-f'n-lujahhhhhh!! BTW, a little tip for my TB bros - if you want to stock up on any canned fish - I recommend sardines* over tuna. Tuna is high in mercury and also costs more. Not to mention can kill dolphins in collateral damage. Whereas sardines are high in omega-3s, CoQ10, calcium, anti-aging nucleotides and more... Logically, it's a win-win no-brainer - but culturally, people have chosen tuna as their fav for some reason... *PS - I prefer the ones in tomato/chili sauce.

I think you forgot a 0 there - as we've actually killed more than 1 million Iraqis since "liberating" them in 2003. Sorry to derail, carry-on now...

You cannot see stars in the daytime.

Condolences, how old was he? Not sure why he had kidney problems, and everyone dies eventually, but I think it may illustrate how being in good spiritual health may not automatically keep you in good physical health. They may be related with some crossover, but I think physical health is something you still have to work on separately as well... Being very spiritual and mental is not necessarily going to optimize you healthwise and physically. This is why Bill Bodri talks a lot about detoxing and and other health practices as a separate but integral part of the ascension path. But lacking these tools, it sounds like Sheng-yen instead relied upon an "odd" combination of spiritual prayer vigils and Western allopathic medicine. Neither of which probably really hit the bull's eye though - as more holistic healing might have.

The interesting thing is that these alchemical images are very popular in Chinese culture...although most laymen probably have no clue what they ever really meant.

Yup, but don't discount tamarind, either... I don't know how it works, but studies have shown that it does:

Um, I believe you got that backwards... Now, as you can see from this ranking, iodine can thus get replaced by fluorine, chlorine & bromine! But not vice-versa. Well, fluorine is often in our water now, as well as many other sources... Our water is also typically chlorinated... And bromine is often in bread, amongst other sources! And since all 3 of these halogens displace iodine...well, that's a triple-threat! Ergo the need to thus avoid these sources when possible, and also chelate them out of our body as well. Not to mention, iodine supplementation can also be used, but at minimal levels of perhaps 2-4 drops per week (depending on bodyweight).

Hey, when you twiddle your thumbs, what direction do you go? Like say you were riding a bike, would it be like the wheels spinning if you were going forward or backward?

I am trying this to defluoridate my body: 1) 3-10mg of supplemental boron daily (3mg is conservative, they say 10-18mg is the upper limit) 2) Tamarind (a very tart, tangy, fruity seedpod you can actually buy at most grocery stores and I've just been eating raw) 3) Iodine won't displace fluorine itself - since it has a higher atomic weight. (The halogen with the lower atomic weight will always chemically displace one with a higher atomic weight.) Although, it could replenish thyroid stores once the fluorine has already been removed by other means... Good way to put it!

Could you give a concrete example of this? I know one form of past-life baggage is say, a fear of water now due to having drowned in a past life. Is this a form of "karma?" If not, then what would be a real-life example?

Problem with CMA today is that everyone is "afraid" to cross hands. There is too much face to lose and risk by even friendly exchanges. I would love to see these masters of various styles push hands with each other, but I know it will never happen. They will just do some solo forms and a few demos with their own compliant students. Ironically, these arts were originally founded though when a guy would take on all challengers, and if he kept winning, only then did his style gain respect and street cred. That's how he tested and proved his art to himself and others. But nowadays, masters just rest comfortably upon the reputations built by the founders centuries ago.

Someone else also told me that regular active, bouncy exercising could help "work out" and energetically rebuild the kidneys (and everything else), even if just done a few minutes a day... Is this generally accepted in TCM, though? "High-impact" physical activity working out not just the muscles, but also organs and meridians energetically as well? If so, how exactly so? I thought you "had" to do "slow" forms of qigong for energetic replenishment, not just simply jump around? If not, then what's "qigong" for?

Interesting... So, eat more chocolate to feel better?

A lot of things can drain them. Basically, your kidneys are the energetic water coolant of your system. So, when you create too much fire/heat in any other area, your kidneys will get energetically drained of "water" to cool it down. So (I believe) basically a yin deficiency/"false yang" state results as the yin gets depleted to reduce the excess yang heat to normal levels: And physically, our kidneys also get easily strained filtering out the toxic soup we live in from our blood (as our primary blood filters). But, I'm still wondering how to build them up myself? KD-3 & UB-23 may help restore kidney yin:

Uh, Unitarianism doesn't even believe Jesus to be a "third" of God's Holy Trinity - just a prophet. I think many Christians would call this heresy and thus not regard Unitarianism as a Christian sect - like Judaism or Islam. Related, but different in all-too-key areas. And I think those quotes speak for themselves. Going to church a few times or occasionally caving into Christian voters doesn't make one Christian. Anyhow, I agree that BO is the good cop to Gdub's bad cop. A relative improvement, but still of the same NW0 coin...

Interesting, so this guy combines the liver flush with these herbs: Gold Coin Grass (GCG), corn silk and Eucommia Not the cheapest source of products, though. For example, you can buy a bottle of 100 he shou wu pills (week's supply) in Chinatown for $2. Whereas their liquid mix is $24.

Cool, what was the explanation?

Actually, I saw an art exhibit on dragons once in China, and the very first (Neolithic?) depictions were far simpler and more serpentine. In fact, I'm not sure they all even had legs. Wish I had taken some pictures then, but they started out more like curved snakes...that gradually grew more elaborate over the centuries. I also wonder if it symbolized the attainment of the immortal "Gold Dragon Body": To add some more confusion, lol: So, you would then have: South - Imsety - man - water - red bird North - Hapi - ape - earth - black turtle East - Duamutef - jackal - fire - blue dragon West - Quebehsenuef - hawk - air - white tiger

I would try Hulda Clark/Andrea Moritz/etc-style liver/gallbladder flushes. They're pretty simple - essentially you refrain from eating any fat all day until you suddenly guzzle 1/2 cup of olive oil at night to stimulate a huge bile dump - which then supposedly helps to flush out your bile ducts and gallbladder. There's some debate as to whether or not this actually helps you pass soft liver stones and hard gallstones, but I think it's still worth trying regardless. Hulda Clark also has a kidney cleanse, which I haven't tried it yet. But I have eaten a lot of lemons for that, which will dissolve kidney stones if you have any (this has actually worked for my parents' friends). And energetically, you can certainly also do energetic healing on those organs and meridians as well. In fact, I'd highly recommend that. That would make sense. Weak kidneys = yin deficiency. This is so common today and like a car low on water coolant... In fact, I have that problem myself right now. No migraines, but overthinking (--> overheating) depletes my kidney water, resulting in some "dried out" grass on my head as some premature gray hairs. I need to work on fixing that now. I just got some he shou wu from Chinatown, one of the herbs that 256-yo Li Ching-Yun supposedly used and which supposedly: So, I'll see if that has any effect... Mal - nice-looking scripts, thanks! Ya Mu - what Teacher Wang is that?

Thing with CMA is that I don't even think most teachers today really understand a lot of the "design intents" used in them... For example, why the "awkward" pigeon-toed stance in WC? I think I recently figured out why, but who knows what the original intent was? This is why I think any art should come with full explanations of every move, otherwise people in the future will just be going through the motions and not know WTF they're actually doing...and also be afraid to adapt and evolve the art, since they won't know if they are taking something crucial out or not.

Despite his name and background, Obama does seem like your typical Zionist Christian to me in practice and policies. As far as Christian Presidents, despite common revisionist perception, all of the first few were actually "Enlightenment Era" Deists: #1 - Most historians regard George Washington as a Deist who rarely attended church. #2 - "The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." - John Adams #3 - "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." - Thomas Jefferson #4 - James Madison was also known as a Deist who spoke strongly for the separation of the Christian church and state. #5 - James Monroe was a Deist. #16 - "The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln Remember, most of these guys were secret society Freemas0ns from the "Age of Reason," a backlash against the Dark Ages and Spanish Inquisition preceding it. So, they were quite cynical about Christianity and unrestrained religion "overstepping" its bounds in society. However, I would agree with the underlying point that a POTUS must at least give the nominal appearance of being Christian - and certainly not something entirely foreign like Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Pagan, Wiccan, Muslim, Shamanic, etc...

Very interesting, indeed! I'd love to learn more about this practice, and its Chinese and Eastern European origins. Is there a name for it in each folk culture? Also, I wonder if they might have a common origin, since they were both connected by the Silk Road. Anyhow, I got a bit more details... This had happened in Sichuan, and a mendicant had come by. In those days, these beggars often went door-to-door, and people would often give them some money with the slight hopes that they might "work some magic" for them. Anyhow, my grandpa had a fleshy birthmark on his forehead (perhaps like a big wart or something?), and the beggar had him get a face basin full of water at night on the full moon. He told him to lean his face over it, and he then said some words... Whereby incredibly, the birthmark then simply fell off his face and landed into the water!!! Unfortunately, that's about all I know. I don't know what the guy said, or what the real mechanism behind this is, but perhaps just leaning over a tub of water on a full moon night might still work some magic. Who knows, I think I might try it for kicks! Cool, what are Moon Slime or the Thessalian Trick?