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Based on the tone of your posts, you come across as a victim, not a fighter. It's time to become a warrior! Listen to the art of war on audiobook. That whole book is about the mindset it takes to win a war. No matter what your ailment, or trouble you can improve your situation if you decide to fight to the death to achieve your goal. I firmly believe that. To be honest I dont want to fix your computer for you, I want to teach you how to fix it yourself. Learning to reformat and reinstall linux is a fairly basic and necessary skill to have if you plan on using linux. Give a man a fish... and all that. The biggest issue I have with ubuntu is having having to reformat every six months for the newest version. Its good you don't have cats, I was going to warn you about toxoplasmosis gondii. I'm not mad at you man, I'm just so frustrated my eyes want to pop out of my head. It's like being a mechanic and arguing with a person who thinks their flat tire must have caused their engine to overheat.

gossamer, Look man I want to help you, I'm a computer nerd and I'm super paranoid about security. I've seen some pretty ugly stuff in my time, and it's justifiable to paranoid about security especially on a windows machine. Mac OS is pretty good security wise, If you have all macs don't worry about getting linux. You need to take develop a fighter mentality, and get rid of this whiny victim mentality. Declare war not defeat.... I know your suffering, and having a hard time in life, but you come across as severely delusional and extremely paranoid about your computer being hacked. If I ever went off the deep end I'd want someone to tell me strait up. This is coming from someone who's been there before, I can work myself up into a manic state from too much energy work meditation, its easy to do, I have to make sure I ground myself back out afterwords using emptiness meditation. Shit man, in 2005 I was using binaural beats in the gamma band frequency and other things and tripped my absolute balls off for a few weeks. I've learned since then to work hard at staying grounded, at least while I am living here in society. Can I ask you a question do you own any cat's?

Bullshit. If you have an updated copy of ubuntu, and its kept updated daily, your more secure than on a windows box or a mac OS box. Just because you cannot remember your login name/ password to ubuntu doesn't mean he hacked it. Even if you forgot your user name or password its as simple as reformatting its not rocket surgery. You download a iso image you burn it to cd you pop that in your disk drive and start the computer from the cd and your on your way. Even if your bios has a password on it all you need to do is use the clear cmos jumper on the motherboard.

gossamer, If you don't have any windows machines on your network at all your probably ok on that end. Anything coded by men can be hacked by men, linux is no exception. I'm sure if you had 5 million bucks and a team of elite coders/hackers, and an infinite time frame they could probably crack a linux machine like a walnut using some unreleased exploit. What is important is relative security, linux offers more security than either Mac OS, or windows. The only thing potentially more secure than linux is FreeBSD or open solaris. It's open source not closed like windows or mac, the code is open to review by thousands of experts who get kicks out of finding security vulnerabilities on friday night, and writing patches accordingly. Who cares if linux has over 800 viruses, Mac os and windows have infinitely more than that. Not to mention to catch a virus on linux is going to require you to manually install it yourself. You aren't going to catch one using stock software repositories. Also there ARE virus scanners for linux if you absolutely must run one, clam AV, and avg, are two good ones, there are many more. If you keep your linux system updated, your going to be safer than you would be on either windows or mac os. I'm not telling you to see a psychiatrist to demean you, or insult you. I am telling you because you are acting delusional and paranoid, I think it would be a healthy thing for you to do. To be honest I think this guy probably hacked you pretty badly on a windows machine, maybe he is a very powerful wiccan and has placed a very potent and effective curse on you. I think he is probably a better mental hacker than physical, he's got you seeing his face whenever you have any type of computer problem. That's paranoia and delusion, I think the main thing he has hacked is your mind.

gossamer, I gotta intervene here bud, your either supremely ignorant about computers, or your delusional and paranoid, or maybe a little of both. No one is sitting around and hacking your accounts here on the bums. I think maybe you need to see a professional, either an IT guy, or a psychiatrist, or both. IF you believe your being hacked, WHY ON EARTH are you using windows. If you believe your line is compromised why aren't you using a encrypted proxy server? If your really paranoid, why not use a dialup account for all your secure transactions on a linux machine. Me and many others here have recommended you switch to linux, in lieu of windows. It is vastly more secure than either windows or mac OS. The only reply I heard from you on this suggestion was that he hacked your ubuntu, and linux has lots of viruses. Number one he didn't hack you ubuntu, he didn't change your root password. If the top black hat hackers at defcon can't do it, your wiccan hacker buddy sure as shit can't. More than likely you set a root password and you forgot it , to fix that you'll need to reformat you machine, its fairly easy. You said you cmos was password protected, that's as easy as removing the battery, or shorting the clear cmos jumper. Number two linux viruses have to be installed manually, your not going to catch one using trusted repositories for software installation. Mac OS and windows have drastically more viruses and insecurities than linux. I wish you the best man, I hope you get some help from someone. If you smoke marijuana or other substances I suggest you lay off them for a while 6 months or more.

I've tried it, its not pleasant. If your going through all that trouble just grow some shrooms xD

I'm not sure if I really believe in all these new-agey gadgets... but I did receive a huge rock salt lamp thats supposed to generate negative ions... I keep it on all the time in my bedroom and have noticed a subtle change in the atmosphere. It just feels more comfortable. I'd recommend trying one of those.

work full time, smoke lots of pot, and play wow with all your free time, seems to work for my friends

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Mak_Tin_Si, I think a lot of us reject things like that because of our culture. Here in the USA everything is a sales pitch, everyone wants to sell you something. Everything is a commercial, everywhere there are advertisements trying to sell you more crap that you really don't need. Buy Buy Buy... Sale... Sale... Sale... I myself am very jaded, it's so hard find anything that is true or meaningful in this society of ours. Everything is about money, thats what everyone cares about. I'm open to the possibility that fu's and chanting might work, its just I've never seen anything like that work in person. I have had a lot of friends who have been obsessed with magic, they drew seals and signets, and patterns, and used ritual and candles and potions etc to try to accomplish their goals, I never saw anything come from any of their efforts. To be fair their may be some systems of magick which work, FU's might work, I don't know. I'd be interested to see.

The problem with scripture and religions that require you to accept scripture as true without evidence, is that there is no way of really knowing if it has any truth to it at all. If you start out already accepting that said scripture represents an absolute truth even when you really don't know if it does or not, any mystical experience you might have is going to be viewed in light of your existing belief system, and may not reflect the actuality of the experience. I think the best policy is to quit pretending that scripture or its claims are a known truth. They aren't. Instead exercise some self-honesty and admit you really don't know the ultimate truth, scripture doesn't contain it either (at least not for certain), then seek truth within, and see what you find. It's my opinion that inner experiences are vastly superior to faith in two thousand year old scriptures. If you want to find God, go to God directly. Don't waste your time with men, and their writings. Even science doesn't offer absolute truth, everything is theoretical and subject to revision if new evidence is discovered. Thats how religion should be. We should not just accept things because our holy men, or scripture says so. We should investigate things on our in, both internally and externally and never give up the pursuit of truth. Its scary to admit that you really don't know, and that all your beliefs are just theories, but in reality thats all any of us have, just theories. I'd argue some theories make more sense based upon their evidence and reasoning, a belief backed solely by scripture and faith in my opinion makes a lot less sense than a theory based on inner experiences a person had, and the evidence available to them in the physical world. Thats my $0.02

Creation, As a mathematician, have you looked into Dr. David Deutsch's research? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526223.700 "David Deutsch at the University of Oxford and colleagues have shown that key equations of quantum mechanics arise from the mathematics of parallel universes. "This work will go down as one of the most important developments in the history of science," says Andy Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis. In one parallel universe, at least, it will - whether it does in our one remains to be seen." I've got the whole article up in my personal practice section here's a link if your interested. http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?s=&amp...ost&p=76431

I don't think were talking about the same thing at all. Lets say a person is agnostic, and has a mystical experience or a true out of body experience, or something of that magnitude. I'd say that person is justified if in changing their world view. With Christians like Bush, Who needs enemies? He's wiped almost a million humans lives off the face of the planet, I've read stories of peoples weddings being bombed and the whole family being killed except for a few members. I'd like you to sit down with one of those family members who had to watch his whole family slaughtered and ask if you still believe Bush is a good Christian... Saying Jesus healed your heart isn't the same thing as having a genuine mystical experience. Also faith that you will achieve your goal for practice really isn't faith, its more like a hope. Experiencing the divine through meditation isn't the same as just believing the teachings of a religion because a book or another person says so.

I'm not against religion, I'm against faith. That being said if it was mandatory that every child in the world have a critical thinking class every year they were in school, to teach them not to believe things on faith but instead on good solid evidence or inner experiences, then I don't think many religions could survive. I don't believe it is the fault of religion itself, only that people accept things as absolute truth on faith alone. Faith not religion is the problem. Thats just my $0.02

I'd be very interested to see Maher undertake some training in meditation, and energy work. Let him have a true OBE, as a results of his efforts, I wonder how that would change his attitude.

It had to do with faith, and being brainwashed into doing insane things via that faith. Sorry no thats just wrong, usually it was the accusers who were on the ergot. Also frequently people were accused of witchcraft to have their land and property seized by those in control. No conflict of interest there, kind of like our modern drug war, but I digress. Also you fail to miss the point completely. The whole society at the time accepted it was ok to kill witches based on their(the puritan's) faith. They came over here to achieve religious freedom from the church of england and turned around and burned people because supposedly they were pagan. And they did so because of their faith, they were able to justify their deaths as necessary and acceptable. Exodus 22:18 Revised English Bible: You must not allow a witch to live. If you can justify killing or even accept others in your community openly killing another person because of faith/religion, your ape shit crazy theres no debating it. Let's not forget the Spanish inquisition, or how the native peoples sacrificed humans to their god's. The point I'm making is when people start going off the edge and believing things they have seen any evidence for, and had no experience with, then they are insane, if you keep going down that road eventually you wind up killing others who don't believe exactly like you. I'm not against people being spiritual or believing in God, I am against people giving up their minds to external authority. I don't care if they come to an opinion or conclusion that is different than mine, only how they came up with that conclusion. Does that make sense?

Faith is the problem here, just accepting something as true when you have no experience or evidence to support it. If you can convince a person some made up lie is true, on faith, you can get them to do anything. Ramming planes into buildings, burning witches at the stake, if they're willing to accept something on faith you have them under your control, their mind is your's for the taking. That's the problem, faith allows otherwise rational people to believe and do absolutely insane things. Most people would even agree with that statement as long as its out of a religious context. Lets say you go to a used car lot, and see a really good deal on a newer car. You ask to test drive it, but your told you can't drive it or even pop the hood until AFTER you buy the car. The car sales man tells you just to have faith that its a good buy and take his word its a good car. No rational or semi-rational person would buy that car. Most people wouldn't buy a car on faith, or anything else that really mattered in real life, but yet they're willing to accept answers to the most important questions in life on faith. Faith indeed can and does lead to psychosis, I've seen it first hand. It's a plague on our world and on our minds, like a socially acceptable heroine. iCh2FXzD6R4 Not having faith doesn't mean you can't believe in God, it doesn't mean you can't be spiritual. It means you must seek and find your own answers within, based on your own experiences and the evidence you have available to you. Granted thats a lot harder to do than just picking up a book, and listening to your preacher and your friends and family, but its necessary. True knowledge of God is never going to be found in a book, its only within. Everything else that has been written down is just the words of men.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -Buddha Who's words is he blindly adhering to?

I'm against faith of any kind, instead I think we should all strive to make sure our beliefs are well grounded in personal experiences and hard evidence. He doesn't seem to go after religions that don't rely on faith like Buddhism.

this is exactly why we need a separate forum for neigong/qigong discussion XD

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