Sloppy Zhang

That's your perception, and it's something which isn't even true. Again, that's what's been available to you. But that's not, by far, what other people think. I know a lot of women who would be REALLY happy to have a guy who would acknowledge his feelings for once. Are you seeing this link? Because family television, is not run by families: The people who make "family" television

What your physical needs are should be determined by an internal assessment. Not what The Big Six tell you. (see my post above yours for clarification)

Again, it's the availability heuristic. Check out this website: The Big Six Click on each category to see what's owned by whom. For example, click tv on General Electric and see: These are six major corporations and all of the various media outlets they control. Your "mainstream media" are really just six glorified business. SIX PEOPLE. Those six business interests have deals with politicians. SIX PEOPLE. Do you call that a majority? Plus availability heuristic. SIX PEOPLE are telling you what to think over and over and over again. A group of 6 six year olds call me stupid. They call me stupid 564 times. Does that make me stupid? Are they a majority? What if they leave me messages, send me e-mails, make websites, create fictional tv shows, create reality tv series, make lunch boxes, ad happy meal toys, all which call me stupid.... are they still a majority? Or does it only LOOK like they are a majority? Is the whole world really telling me I'm stupid, or is it just those six six year olds? Chicks with savior complexes.

Well see that's the neat thing: we ARE changing it right now. Drew has already changed the meaning of the word "slut", right?

Okay, whoa. Non, you're scaring me. Please, get help. You've made a couple of threads in the past that have made me worry about you. Life is hard, and we all go through times where we question whether or not we're in the right place. I know sometimes we look at other people and think they have it all, but trust me, those people are looking at other people thinking those other people have it all. Our society is built on a very complex system of lies and self deceit. Radical self honesty is not something people are used to doing, and it's not something that most people even know how to do. There are billions of people in the world, and they all have their own varying opinions. There is no "right way". There is no "single" viewpoint. Every communication studies class I've taken, every anthropology class I've taken, every psychology class I've taken, in fact, every single subject which focuses on human observation ALL begin with the SAME THING: THERE IS NO NORMAL. THERE IS NO SINGLE STANDARD FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOR. You might look at a certain group of people and think they are dominating the world. THEY ARE NOT. Which brings me to another psychological aspect, which is availability heuristic. Basically, you are exposed to the same thing over and over again, so you think it is more prevalent, when it is not. It is simply more available to you. So you go to school and/or work, and see the same people. Then you turn on the tv and see the same types of people, and you think that's all there is. When there isn't. I highly suggest you to seek professional help. They will know all of this and more, and can explain it far better than I can. Nobody enjoys pain. Nobody enjoys being hurt. People wouldn't do anything unless they had a good reason to. The problem, as I said above, is that there is no set standard. Everyone has a different idea of what hurts, and what will make it better. Maybe a woman doesn't think she's hot, so she vies for the attention of the alpha male. She finds the strongest, most popular looking guy out there, and gets in a relationship with him. Even if he's an abusive jerk. To an outsider, you might be thinking, "this woman enjoys being hurt." But from her perspective, she is being validated as a person by her relationship with this guy. On top of that, every other guy who sees her with the top dog is thinking, "man, I wish she were mine." She's trying to get as many people as possible to override her own insecurities. She can't approve of herself, so she wants as many people as possible to approve of her. It might not make sense to you, but it might make sense to her. The guy, meanwhile, might get with that girl, and she might be a really nice girl and he might really like her. But he might not want other guys to know he cares. Because he thinks guys are supposed to be tough and silent, and "not care" about their emotions. So he hangs out around other women so his friends won't think that he's got a soft spot for that one girl. So you might see him and think, "what a brutish guy, he doesn't care about the perfectly good woman he's hurting!" But to him, he's thinking, "good, my plan is working, people think I'm a macho man! I just hope my girlfriend doesn't leave me.... I wish I can tell her what I'm doing, but she might tell others....."

That depends. There are some people you can't cooperate with until you establish your dominance. Some people refuse to acknowledge you unless you prove at least a willingness to compete. Maybe the best way for us all to get along is for me to put a sword in the other guy and steal his my woman. Yes but I'm a fit genetic specimen with no family history of genetic disorders. Plus, I will breed with a large enough genetic variety of women that the chances of inbreeding children having genetic diseases will be low. Let's also not forget that I will go through a rigorous selection process of my own, only choosing the fittest of women to mate with. And the women will also go for a rigorous selection process, selecting only the best male specimen to mate with. Also, I think on an edition of "the outsiders" they did a study on cousins who got married and had kids, and discovered that the increased likelihood for those kids to have some kind of genetic disorder was..... barely even there. It was like, .02% increased chance of developing something. The real problems come when direct siblings have kids (same mother, same father). Half sibling couples have happened, and I think the show covered them as well (like people who had the same father but different mothers, or people who had the same mother but different fathers, but were separated when they were young, didn't know about each other, got together, had kids, then were like, "oh shit, we're related!") their kids had an increased chance of having problems, but as I recall, not by that much either. So in short, the human race would survive quite well.

Symbols are complicated. They are influenced by people but also influence people. So on the one hand, we define what a symbol is, but on the other hand, symbols tell us what to think. What does a beautiful woman holding a bottle of vodka symbolize? People attribute meanings to the symbol, and those meanings are communicated to people who receive that meaning, then they go and redefine the symbol. Who influenced who first? What came first, the chicken, or the egg? I'm a communications studies major, this is the kind of stuff that we talk about. A lot. Modern communication studies models use a circular flow dynamic. Very fluid. Very Daoist. It's a constant flow and exchange of information between everyone in the system. The symbols will change when we change the symbols. When the collective meaning for what "sex" is changes. But on the other hand, the symbol of "sex" itself has a meaning that can change us. Maybe in the end it's us that the symbol will change. There's no beginning and no end..... But I have a really, REALLY hot cousin. No really, she's that hot. That depends entirely on the people involved. Competition is ingrained in humanity. We got here through competition. Some dude has a hot, fit woman fit for breeding with, I think he's a pathetic weakling, I beat the crap out of him, mate with his my woman, make lots of nice, fit babies, who have a high survivability rate. I get old, my woman gets old. I get a new hot young thing. Some hot young guy comes along, bumps me off, grabs my his woman, they make lots of young, fit babies, and the species continues. That's not all there is to humanity, of course, but to deny those roots is to deny a part of yourself. As high and mighty as we want to pretend ourselves to be, "base desires" still very powerfully influence us. How do you handle them? Do you try to rise above them? Do you try to tame and direct them? Do you build up the tension, release in controlled bursts, then build up tension....? I dunno. There are a lot of people that don't like the violent competition. There are a lot of men who don't like the violent competition. There are women who don't like it either. Then again, there are women who revel in it. They love being the center of attention, and participate in the backstabbing just as much as anyone else. As with anything, it depends. With humans, things can be so much more psychological than physical. So when you say stuff about people having sex that isn't "needed".... well, what's "needed"? Necessary to breed? I think it's pretty obvious that sex isn't just for making babies. Anyone who claims that it is is seriously lying to themselves. That might be the biological/evolutionary root, but it's developed so much more to that. People have revenge sex, for examples. What's the "need" for revenge sex? To hurt some third party who isn't even involved in the sex. That's a very POWERFUL thing. Of course, you can also have sex with someone to show your devotion to that person. And that doesn't necessarily need to involve the production of some fit young baby. But what's the "need" there? Strictly physically speaking? Well none I guess. You aren't any different than you were when you started. But, well, that's not really true. Well, I guess it would depend on the type and quality of your sexual encounter.

But I don't have a problem with tomato juice either

And so do...... err, wait a minute.... I mean it sounds good in theory. But I don't know, I've never tried it. I can't stand on my head. Honestly I'm kind of afraid to. I don't know anyone who's done it successfully. I've heard a lot about it..... but I mean I also hear the moon is made of cheese. Don't know anyone who's successfully done it, so I can't speak to the accuracy of the accounts. But at least all the accounts line up. Stand on your head for 3+ hours and become psychic. Why aren't more people doing it...?

So many things.... so many things.... She's on the prowl.... she's an experienced killer hunting her prey.... through the jungle of potential victims mates, she hunts.... but people are too intimidated by such an experienced hunter.... so she tells them she feels like a virgin.... because people don't want to know she's a sex enthusiast..... she lures them into the bed..... then..... pounce............ and the victims mates don't admit they like it..... but she knows..... but she'll never tell because she's..... like a virgin...... she would hate for the world to know that her past victims acquaintances are sex enthusiasts.... she's just doing her part to keep up the pretense.... she keeps her mouth shut and they keep their mouths shut..... at least.... in public..... Yet there are still so many more potential interpretations.... oh society...

So can I change the taste of my V8? Because I don't consume a full serving of vegetables each day, so I supplement with a V8.... but it is NASTY. I mean, this is coming from a guy who LIKES the REGULAR vegetables..... But this drink is like, an abomination. And I don't know why because it smells like tomato sauce.... and I LIKE tomato sauce.... So I gotta change this taste thing around.

The problem isn't our obvious sexual excess, but our denial of that excess. We use sex advertising everywhere, but as soon as we find out just how many chicks Tiger Woods has banged, we pull him from all advertisements.... HELLO? He's living the life most straight men dream about- rich, famous, and has sex with as many women as he wants..... We tell everyone "buy our product to be sexy", but when they get their sex on, it's bad. Nobody wants to be "the virgin", because virgins are inexperienced, obviously not social enough to ever have had a decent relationship, and not physically attractive enough to ever have anyone want to have sex with them. But what's the difference between a virgin and a slut? (using the Christian influenced term) Sleep with one person it's okay, you're just proving you're desirable, sleep with two and you're a horrible person? Is it a time limit? Must have X number of days before sexual encounters with different people? You try not to become "the virgin", and instead wind up being "the slut". Tantra is taboo because it would acknowledge something that everyone is in denial about. To have people admit to practicing this would equate to them tacitly admitting that they have sex at all. And upstanding moral members of society don't have sex. Because people still think sex is evil. (of course there's more to tantra than "just sex", but we boil everything down to sex, don't we? ) Give people tantra, and they'd probably downplay it or even ridicule it in public. Of course, behind closed doors they'd be all like, "I can have sex AND be spiritual? Whaaaaa? Sign me up!" But ask them about it and they'd be like, "ew, disgusting." Oooooooh society, society.

Granted. You take so much care in what you wish for, that you never get around to making a wish and you eventually die without ever making one. I wish I had better eyesight.

I prefer using the term "sex enthusiast" when referring to people who are, uh, sex enthusiasts

We've had it backwards this whole time! Humans have been trying to get video footage of aliens, but it's really aliens who have been trying to get footage of crop circling humans this whole time!

Go out and refer to a few women as a slut, but tell them you are not using it as a Christian influenced term, and see how they react.....

That assumes aliens are regularly in the neighborhood. I could put a giant ass billboard in the middle of a field of crops, but it won't matter because the highway is like a mile and a half away, and the only reason anyone would see it is if they accidentally drove through the field of crops. Even then, it's not like they're likely to do anything the billboard tells them, like, "dial me at 1-800-EARTHLINGS", they'd probably be more like be, "huh." I always thought of highly advanced alien passers by like humans driving past a field of cows. Or horses. It's not like we stop the car and get out and go talk to the horses and cows. We just keep driving. We might have kids that are like, "look, cows! They say 'moo'"! You might have an angsty teenager get out and harass the cows. But 99 times out of 100, you just keep driving past the cows. Maybe the cow will stand on its back legs and perform a sacred geometrical dance. But the most that most people will do is go "huh, neat..." and keep driving. Not to say it's a bad idea, I'm just throwing out possible options

Thanks for posting this! I do find it kind of funny that even modern media kinda lumps everything together in "kung fu". Like "deadliest kung fu weapon" as if back in ancient China everyone recognized a single weapon as the peak of deadliness, and only a single style of fighting was recognized as "kung fu" or something like that But it's still fun, thanks!

This is the second time today (and at this point I've been awake for less than an hour) in which I am confused about whether someone is referring to the female genitalia or animals of the feline variety.

"The ad happens with a dwindling, but go ahead with the referendum" says the good man..... Begin with referendum!

Chris Murphy, a practitioner of Bardon's Initiation to Hermetics as well as yoga, has written an article here on some yoga postures that are known for developing siddhis: The Practice of Yoga. Of course, these require a mastery of the asana, so you're looking at 3+ hours of holding these poses. I've read some Hindu texts on this, and according to some stories a yogi had to hold a pose for YEARS and would be granted a wish because a deity had to come down and be like, "you haven't moved for years and you're throwing off the balance of the world.... what the hell do I have to give you to make you move?" Sooooooo..... that seems to be the nature of poses for siddhis.

"His powers came from a type of vegetation."

The two main things that contribute to hair loss are lack of blood flow in the scalp and the tightening of the hair follicles. You might have heard of DHT as relates to hair loss, and there are DHT receivers in the scalp, some people have more and some people have less, but basically when DHT gets up there it also causes the follicle to tighten, stopping hair growth. Massaging helps circulate DHT out, from what I've been told. Scalp massage helps with overall circulation (which stimulate hair growth), so that's usually where most advice starts. This website teaches a few methods of exercising the scalp muscles to promote blood flow. Someone else has mentioned the Luftek system, I don't have the website on hand, and for some reason google searching isn't bringing it up (I'm pretty sure Luftek is what is was called ) but that mainly dealt with meditative methods to relax the scalp and promote hair growth. Now those are assuming everything else in your body is okay. You might want to examine your diet. From what I know hair is mostly protein, so having some protein in your diet helps. I know zinc helps, and that's the main vitamin which helps lead to hair health. There are also some other vitamins which help. Google searches can turn those up or wait for a response by someone who knows all the details. Stress can play a big part, same with large hormonal changes. Major traumas also lead to hair loss. In most cases, I'm pretty sure hair loss is reversible, as long as you pin down the cause and help balance it out. Hair loss is also preventable by overall a healthy lifestyle, and knowing what to do and what not to do.

Life is what you make of it. As are relationships. If you are looking to learn and help, and be helped, and grow, and nurture others, then that is what you will surely find. If you see people as hindrances, as fools, as less important than whatever it is you happen to be doing at the time, then that is what they will be. What do you want out of life? To be a hermit? To abandon all material possessions and concerns? Or do you want to run toward whatever it is that's out there, and see it in all of its forms?

I dunno, something about this guy is off to me. He's like one of those math "proofs" that make 1=2 each step sounds good, but there's one step hidden in there which breaks the rules, and it makes the proof "wrong", but appear right. Looking at this guy, he seems to have all the right ingredients. He uses all the right keywords. But in the end his conclusions come out of left field (for me, anyway). His idea of mastery or what masters would do seem.... I dunno, petty. I'm not even a master, but I've moved beyond stuff like name calling. Yet he talks about "masters" who would swoop down upon some ignorant name caller, beat the crap out of them, then string their naked body up as a lesson to everyone not to question their mastery, while at the same time saying, "yeah but a master wouldn't care either way, you know..." So I take what he says with several additional grains of salt. My idea of Tao is also effortlessness. Maybe this process is something we do all the time, we just don't realize it. Or maybe understanding the five elements help us to realize what we're doing wrong, and how we can fix it. I don't necessarily see this five element stuff as a formula in the way Wan explained it- oh this is such and such element, I can counter it with this element by nurturing it with this other element. I see it more as a means of stepping back and analyzing the entire situation. See all the pieces in play. What element is this current system tending towards, and how can I position myself in such a way as to strike balance?