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I'm dying. The site in the link says: Hahahahaha, um. So many things wrong here. Firstly... If this is meant to be used on a person who is already your "spouse or beloved," why the fuck do you need a magic spell to get some nookie? Not getting any nookie from your "spouse or beloved" recently? Well, here are some other 10,000x more powerful ways to increase your likelihood of enjoying some connubial bliss (I suggest trying them in combination and using them regularly): -Brush your teeth, shave off that stupid looking beard (if you do not live on Wudang and you are not a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, you should avoid looking like a guy who transplanted his pubes onto his chin... RZA can get away with things the rest of us cannot, ok?), take a shower with extra time devoted to washing your booty crack and stank-ass feet -Do the dishes or do some other favor -Say something sweet and supportive several times a day -Listen! -Make gentle, warm bodily contact throughout the day -Make eye contact -I said Listen! Were you listening?? -Spend waaaaaaaaaaay less time on stupid websites. Or smart websites. Or any websites at all. This will give you more time to do all of the above. -Get some exercise, hopefully together. You'll both look and feel better, get your juices flowing, and have a perfect excuse to hop in the shower together. (Bonus tip: Unless your loved one is a huge fucking weirdo--actually not that unlikely if you found somebody willing to date a TDB user, I must say--then intoning poorly-pronounced Hindi into his/her ears is probably going to reduce your chances of getting some, not increase them. This is especially true if you have not brushed your teeth and there is a huge pile of moldering pots in the kitchen sink you said you were gonna wash, like, fucking yesterday!) Secondly... I have to hand it to the author: he (I'm 99% sure it's a dude) is surprisingly honest for admitting he has never actually used this thing to get laid. Here's a bit of free advice for the younguns: Don't take dating/sex advice from people who claim to know the Jedi secrets of lovemaking on the one hand, and yet are practicing the Sith arts of creepily mixing repressed sexual energy and spirituality on the other.

Scary. Extralegal legal proceedings = Kafkaesque hell. Scratch that. Legal or extralegal, most courts and prisons are hellish, period. It is a disgrace they cannot mount their case without grinding the man nearly to death and insanity.

Good point. But if he is authorized somehow in the Spring Forest system... sigh. Well, I sincerely hope that he's not and he's just some sort of a rogue operator. Never heard of Carl Totton before. What did he do? Does he make an excellent frosted cinnamon bun? If they're only $19 I might have to take my custom elsewhere.

Has he been formally designated as an adept by either of these men, or publicly endorsed or authorized to teach/heal by them in any way whatsoever? Can you direct us to evidence of such endorsement/authorization? If he has been formally authorized as an adept, did Lin and Nance see his writings where he gloats about molesting girls and non-consenting women with his qi as well as his flagrant lack of contrition and understanding when other people have expressed to him how upsetting these stories are? Besides those questions, @redstratus, he did not offer to pray for anybody, he offered to answer questions in emails which may or may not exist. But that's kinda beside the point. I believe he could come here offering to answer questions, pray, or make cinnamon buns for $20 in full lotus and people would be doing the same thing: using humor to deal with this pervert who won't go away, won't apologize, and can't/won't change. Beneath these jokes is a serious warning to people who might be new here: put on your critical thinking cap before putting too much stock in Voidisyinyang's "teachings." I actually kinda would like a Cinnabon right about now, but anybody else notice the goop on those $20 cinnamon buns looks miiiggghhhtttyyyy suspect? I dunno...

_/\_ Thank you. The scary thing is, made very clear in the VICE documentary, that trying to help anybody there may very well make their lives worse. Even sending a damn "Thinking of You" Hallmark card from the US would be dangerous. And yet. Keeping people convinced that the best course of action is to throw one's hands in the air in resignation and walk away from responsibility for our shared humanity is the grand project of CCP brainwashing in a single sentence. Probably better to enter the fray and risk making grievous mistakes than to consign ourselves to guaranteed failure for lack of even trying.

Yeah, thank you Nungali and Yueya both for taking the time to write from the heart here. Stay safe!

If everything I write in this post and the post above seems ridiculous (or if you're not in the mood for reading all the articles I've linked to), please watch this 30 minute VICE documentary on the cultural genocide being committed in Xinjiang by the CCP. My last post reminded me to look into something a guy told me while we were sitting on a curb in front of a 7-11 drinking beers the other day. Thanks to this article (with one of the creepiest selfies ever taken) I had known for a year that the CCP has sent over a MILLION low-ranking cadres into Xinjiang to live in the homes of, share beds with, and of course egregiously snitch on Uighur families. However, last week when my friend brought it up he said that recent reporting stated that male cadres were "occupying" the beds of Uighur women whose husbands had been sent to concentration camps. I mean, nothing should surprise me about a 70-million-strong mafia that sells organs carved directly out of living, conscious humans' bodies (1, 2, 3), but then again... This surprised me. The claim seems to have arisen from this Radio Free Asia article. There has been wide reporting on the million+ spies sent to live in Uighur homes since last year, with the Associate Press also reporting on the topic. Upon reflection, I should not have been surprised. It would be incredibly naive to expect that 1,000,000+ government spies could be sent to invade the homes of families where one or both parents are prisoners of conscience without sexual crimes being committed. There is little we can do, perhaps, but not nothing. The subtitle of this article speaks volumes: The Case for Boycotting Beijing 2022 The mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang merits a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Lest illusions about the Chinese Communist Party persist. None of the bad in here surprised me at all, as I've been following this story closely with dismay and anxiety for several years now, especially I have a friend who is likely to be in or have been in the camps. She is one of the most gentle, kind, passionate, and compassionate people I have ever met. I consider myself lucky to have met many people who are worthy of those adjectives, but she stands out. Fluent in multiple languages including English, she traveled to the US to pursue her medical studies, but without ever entertaining the slightest notion of emigrating from China. Her sole wish was to return to Xinjiang province and provide medical services in a place sorely lacking in well-trained, ethical doctors. Tragically, her having studied overseas and being bilingual will have dramatically increased the chances that she has been interred in the Chinese gulag archipelago built for Uighurs, the Chinese "gray wastes." (Her phone number is disconnected and I have no other way to reach her. In the near future, when my affairs in the PRC have concluded and doing so will not result in my own incarceration, I will begin trying to look for her with help from the overseas Uighur community). However, there was good news to be seen in this piece. 1. This information was provided by a PRC whistle blower. Tremendous risk (certain torture and execution + guaranteed obliteration of their familial wealth and opportunities in a country where punishing family members for a relative's political dissidence is the norm) has been taken by one or more individuals to attempt to blow the lid on Xi Jinping's and Chen Quanguo's secretive planning of these crimes against humanity. 2. There is evidence of CCP officials who attempted to circumvent Xi and Chen's plans and indeed themselves took tremendous risks in order to free thousands of arbitrarily detained Muslims. 3. Some of this information has filtered back into China as evidenced by the "He Refused" hashtag on Sina Weibo, the PRC Twitter knockoff. Hopefully the 骨氣 displayed by the whistle blower(s) and the NYTimes--as well as countless other people and organizations--will become contagious in China.

Creepy? Understatement of the day! More like... goddamn terrifying!

Awwwww, mannnnnnn 🤦

Nah, I got a visual more like this:

I'd buy that for a dollar!

OMG you cut a dashing figure, I already O'd at a D, didn't even cost a dollar! Btw, how much would you charge for introductions to your tailor and barber?

Everybody who's answered you so far has given correct answers, but perhaps not ones that are complete in a way that will answer your question. The term "four greats" aka 四大 is used in many Daoist writings to refer to the four mahābhūta, an idea that was imported from India a long, long time ago. In Chinese Buddhist writings these are also referred to as the "four seeds" (四種), "four realms" (四界), and in some contexts the "four poisons" (四毒); I wouldn't be surprised if there were other synonyms in use, too. There are other terms in Daoism (including one from the Daodejing) that are also called "四大," as well as other Chinese concepts with the same name or with "四大" as part of their name. I have never seen a Daoist text that goes into much detail on this concept, but then again I've never looked. A digital search of the Daoist Canon for 四大 on Kanripo turns up 1,635 results, but it is certain that only a portion of these results pertain to the four mahābhūta. It is true that many of the important lessons that can be gleaned from learning about the five phases refer more to periods of time (or states of objects and phenomena in flux), much as vonkrankenhaus said. But sometimes they do refer to corresponding physical objects, as when the "五材” are written of. Such references are not limited to Daoism, as Taomeow pointed out, and they can be pretty ancient--thus, usually, extremely brief, terse, and obscure. Much ink has been spilled on these topics by modern writers and I've stained my fingers with a bit of it, but I don't know where you could find detailed English translations, especially those which might satisfy your interest in comparing these concepts with hermetic terminology.

Hollllll' up! People pay for this stuff? Fuck, why the shit have I been working all week?! Lemme get in on this too! Freeganz4Lyfe! So anybody got questions about walking, a favorite hobby of mine? Please PayPal me $30. Hiking, a leveled-up version of walking, is gonna cost you $50. Walking in a circle is $60, $70 if I don Chinese style acrylic trousers, $80 an I will even reverse breathe, which means breathing--but backwards! Can you fucking imagine? It's almost like eating backwards, but with air! I also know a lot about cafes and bookstores. $30 and I will sit in a posture of your choice (including legs crossed at the knee with tweedy impertinence or full chrysanthemum) while drinking espresso, and then tell you whatever I was thinking about, whether you want me to or not. Drinks extra. Don't worry about paying for the book, I usually just sit and read the whole thing cover to cover on the floor of my local independent bookseller's, like, fuck those bourgie bastards, y'know? Finally, for $50 I will schedule a twenty dollar session with Voidisyinyang and let you know how it goes. If indeed I have an O at a D I will need you to pay an extra $4 of laundry fees and $3,000 for six months of therapy or trip to Hawaii, depending on which one I decide I need. My PayPal account: IAlsoSellLowPricedBridgesInBrooklyn. Cheers!

I am so lazy that I have never read more than a few lines of any of Mr. And-the-kitchen-sink's posts... However, instead of saving 15-20 minutes, I might eventually save a whole 15-20 days, so kinda worth it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

The Guardian: Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’

I like the "if you can't explain it to a 5 year old then you don't really understand it principle." But it has its limits. There really are things that you can't explain to a 5 year old, and some which you shouldn't try explaining to a 5 year old. A few of both of these sorts of things: Orgasms. Being drunk/high. First love. First heart break. Mourning. Welcoming a new life into the world (shit, I'm far from being 5 but I haven't done this and still, whenever my friends who have get that gooey gleam in their eyes and start raving about what it's like to see your own newborn child it's like they're speaking Chinese to me, so to speak...). Hatred. Regret. The development of wisdom. The awe of beholding a masterpiece. The awe of creating a masterpiece. Despair. A small taste of enlightenment. A small taste of insanity. A brush with death. Saving a life. The trauma of being victimized. The guilt (or thrill?) of victimizing another. Et cetera. While all of the posts about qi above have value (especially for cultivators, but also for curious 5 year olds), I think qi ultimately belongs in the category of "that which cannot be explained to a little kid." If you practice, then when the time is right, you will come to know it, subjectively, just like all of the things I just listed above. Then all of the theories you have read might help you make sense of an explain your experience. But then again, they might not, and they might even get in the way. Of course one can crack open an infinitude of Chinese medicine textbooks, martial arts books, qigong manuals, speculative quasi-scientific texts (qi is quantum butt foam!!), and so forth which offer all manner of theory on this topic. But such study is, at the very most, never more than 50% of the Daoist path. The other 50%+ must come from the experience of one's own body-mind as one allows the path to unfold via practice. There is simply no way to convey experience to another person, just as I cannot explain to you the taste of an apple you have not bitten. It is admirable to seek to gain a theoretical footing in Daoism, because the theory is at once indispensable and confusing. But the seeker must also know that s/he will never find an explanation of qi that is anything more than a pile of words, no matter who is doing the writing. I hope this does not seem like a cop out. It is in fact a call to actual practice, as well as a reminder that nobody need worry too much about trying to wrap the mind around these things. In fact, it is generally more problematic to have a sense of surety about the theory than a sense of uncertainty. After all [cue first chapter of the Daodejing...]

I dunno, it all looked pretty real to me. Plus did you see that one yogi when he John Chang-a-langed the fuck out of that shitty-ass newspaper?? (Which I'm hoping was the print version of the Daily Stormer, cause every time I clench my anus so hard fire comes out my palms when I'm reading the digital version I gotta buy a whole new laptop) Dude was all like, "SNAP, real shit!" Can't fake reactions like that. Chuuch.

Whoa, any chance you could share a few thoughts on his practice? There's not too much sleeping gong being taught out there, at least that I've ever heard of. Would love to learn more, but I won't start with asking any specific questions, as I have no idea what you're even allowed to speak about in public. Thanks!

I see, I thought the meaning of your last sentence in the previous post was that with the right intent/motivation anything goes.

I don't disagree with you in general. Mores are in constant flux. Even the definition of consent changes. But I strongly disagree with you regarding the relevant specifics. I do not think bad karma can be sucked out of an 8 year old boy's penis. If somehow it could, anybody who had such an "ability" could surely do just as good a job of saving souls without resorting to traumatic sexual assault. Ditto for people who are supposedly able to exorcise pubescent girls' bad qi by "shooting" (his words) orgasms at them. I've personally been witness to exorcisms performed by Tibetan Buddhists, Chinese Daoists, New Zealand Maori tohunga, Catholic exorcists, and Spiritualists. No genitalia use or orgasms necessary in any case. Seen too much firsthand to think it ever would be.

I wonder if these individuals would agree with that statement. Ironically, the diehard followers of all the shamed "masters" in the videos Drew obsessively continues posting here would say much the same, i.e., "Sai Baba needed to fellate little boys to cure them of bad karma, you mere mortals would not understand," was an actual argument floating around at one point. I would argue that history shows us that any "master" who cannot conform to conventional morality when it comes to treatment of children and consensual sex involving adults is in dire need of a massive dose of, you guessed it, conventional morality.

I addressed you in the second person many times in the post at the top of this page, Drew. Perhaps you did not notice. But it does not really matter. I don't think I am a fascist. I mostly feel sad for you and wish you will have good luck and get the sort of help that will address the roots of your affliction, whatever those roots may be.