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You are kidding. I couldn't stomach his forum. He wrote dozens of posts swearing and insulting people here before I said a word, a respectful one on his forum. Thus I wrote 2 posts there. One respectful the other a bit more honest. You don't remember what he wrote about you? How he commented and insulted you on almost every post you made on the bums for months? Early on? He was incredibly insulting and got warnings for it. How many of his insults did it take to turn you? MPG did not start out so negative. For years he was respectful, wrote intelligently. He's an example of if you do energy work and you're imbalanced, you get worse. There were many examples of him having intelligent conversations with people, with teachers here. At some point he fell into paranoia, became an angry crusader who had to diss everyone who didn't believe what he did. Mo Pai, he had his worst insults against fellow practitioners. If they didn't toe his line, ditto his exact belief, he'd go dark and crazy. The man loved lemmings as long as they followed him. The board is much better for his absence. Unless he's grown up and matured.

as I recall he wrote several posts about my butt!? One had which color I should paint it, what should be drawn on it, another what I should stick in it, I think he mentioned cactus and a dreidel. So yeah, he strikes me as very juvenile. Yeah, he strikes me as less then a spiritual icon. He's mostly known for going on to threads and telling them why he was spiritually advanced and they weren't. That was his gig. Calling everyone mindless lemmings. The mention of him- how John Chang would be embarrassed about him was right on. He actually had real practitioners of Mo Pai from Indonesia as well as those who actually knew John Chang on his site and he'd chase them away because they didn't fit his stereotypes. He took great pleasure insulting teachers and serious practitioners who had way more experience then he did. He oozed negativity.

He always seemed childlike to me. Literally adding a dozen Fuck you's (on one of his defunct sites) to many of his posts as well as creating thread after thread insulting at least half a dozen members here. He was like a juvenile throwing a hissy fit. EW, he may be a good friend of yours now, but I remember a time he spent months dogging most of your posts and writing insults. That's the kind of guy I remember him as. I hope he's matured up.

I'll do anything for queen and country. Plus didn't she write Bohemian Rhapsody thus she must be pretty cool.

I couldn't find stats either. Probably none for the 'homemade' stuff created in the video. But, the professional factory made version seems to be pretty well researched and extensively used. from http://www.aircrete.co.uk/assets/pdf/design_flexibility.pdf - more reports http://www.aircrete.co.uk/technical-information.html It’s easy to appreciate why aircrete masonry is such a popular form of construction, accounting for over 60% of all new housing starts in the UK. Aircrete is so much more than just a structural building block, and has been developed for use in many applications, ranging from external and internal walls through to foundations, floors and rapid build systems. It is a versatile material that saves time and wastage, whilst its inherent acoustic and thermal resistance make it the ideal solution for cost-effective compliance with Part L and Part E of the Building Regulations for England and Wales.

did i miss something? is hand british slang for something? what part of her were we suppose to be kissing? i'm sure i'll kiss it where ever it is she's the queen after all.

The banking collapse was bad for the fishing industry. Got it, not very surprising. Your assumption is that when there's no government oversight or regulations banks will be safer!? If that's what you think, there are lots of nonbanks that exist right now that'll take your money without persky FDIC insurances. Glad you found quota systems helped restore Icelandic fish stocks. I still believe privatizing the ocean would be disastrous. Would fisherman be able to put there boats in the water, if someone else owned it? You'd need to pay, get permission or be banned from moving every few miles. You can only fish on water that you specifically owned. I doubt a fishing vessel could exist like that. I assume they troll dozens of miles a day. Only fishing the same small area every day, while fighting off any boats that make incursions into your fiefdom. Somalia-like indeed. In the paper it mentions how the boat owners are up to there eyeballs in debt. Wait til they have to literally buy spots in the sea itself. That'll be great for them. More debt, more restrictions, a dozen negotiations every time they go out and cross into other people's ocean. Cause in you vision, the ocean is no longer free.

hmnn, that's just what I'd expect Mr. Chang to say. very suspicious. playing humble, hiding in plain sight on a lowly taoist philosophy site. Arambhashura.. he may be closer then you think. either way Chang gives good advice.

I forget who this quote is from: Act on the impulse of kindness immediately, On cruel impulses, wait, at least a day and reconsider many times. When it comes to kindness, screw looking into great philosophers, karmic and economic conditions. Smile and Do. To kill spontaneity is make ourselves less alive.

Well, on the bright side we did more damage to it, then it did to us.

Nukes aren't exactly firecrackers, especially the bigger hydrogen ones. Course many are talking way less power if we can spot them early enough. Relatively low tech Ideas such as painting one side, and gradually the heat of the sun takes it a tiny bit off course. Or landing on it and firing a slow steady engine. Depends on how much time but a 1/100th of a degree course change translates to 1,000's of miles course change. Finding can be a challenge, but we have better eyes up there and they continue to improve. Searching the skies in spectrums way beyond the visual, searching. We're regularly spotting objects, planets many trillions of miles away. With determination we should be able to spot something a few million miles. This is an older video. from video- With current space technology, scientists know how to deflect the majority of hazardous near-Earth objects. But prevention is only possible if nations work together on detection and deflection. Learn about the risks, and the steps that are needed to avoid these potential natural disasters, from a group of astronauts and cosmonauts who recently helped develop recommendations to the United Nations for defending Earth from asteroid impact in this discussion. This program, which was streamed live on the web, took place at the American Museum of Natural History on October 25, 2013, the same week the United Nations General Assembly adopted measures creating an international decision-making mechanism for planetary asteroid defense. The event was co-hosted by the American Museum of Natural History and the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).

Modern day royalty is a fun anachronism. Colorful, historical, fodder for scandals and fashion magazines. Famous because they're famous. Its a game thats been played a long time. Kiss her hand? Why not.

Call me a cockeyed optimist but if we see a large asteroid coming our way, we can probably deal with it. You don't have to vaporize it, just move it ofcourse by a few degrees. Very little if you can get to it quickly enough. We landed a fairly large sized remote unit on a moving asteroid. If we have a couple more of those in stock we could set off a series explosions to nudge it off course. Trick is seeing them early. Small ones get through unnoticed. Almost a year ago, a meteor lit up a piece of Russia, recorded on dozens of car cameras (only in Russia) then exploded in the sky. Reported with multi atomic bomb level energy but disbursing it high and over 100's miles of it was mostly windows that took the damage. Stuff like that packs a wallop and we can't see very well. Oh well, a disaster every now and then makes life a little more interesting. As long as you live through it.

Sure, why not.. the elites fear free markets. Back on track.. Karl you were saying Iceland has had success cleaning up there Ocean. I'm a pragmatist and on the outlook for what works. So.. what exactly have they been doing? Can we have a few posts on possible solutions. On a personal level not eating endangered fish seems to be a good idea- http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/seafood-a-z and http://seafood.edf.org/guide/worst

Earlier this year I got thee ticket. In the mail, it said I'd been captured (2 months earlier on way to Burning Man) by photo doing 20 miles over the speed limit, in a work zone, with workers present. The fine was $800 and I had to appear in court mandatory, on my birthday, 250 miles away, at 8 A.M. They just freakin print money there at the Quad cities, nailing 90% of everyone who passes by. I hired a lawyer to represent me. You know what happened, the judge didn't freakin show up that morning..

I see bliss as different then inner peace. Inner peace hums along happy, quiet, peaceful. Bliss is active, ecstatic, full of wow and amazement.. orgasmically delightful. That's why a steady diet would be, bad.

Thanks for your posts. I was hoping to get something from Tibetan Ice who wrote some about bliss in his recent thread about Jhanas. I think inner peace is my true nature. I can get there. yay. Bliss, not so much.

At present its illegal to dump chemicals. Under your system it wouldn't even be . You think its done now, wait til it can done without impunity, then you'll see what real disaster looks like. Cause right now most companies pay big bucks to get rid of nasty waste, when its legal to dump it in the ocean, you'll see it climb 100 fold. You want to put the ocean up for sale and think deep pockets is irrelevant. You think a company with billions isn't going to buy up as much real estate as possible. You jump from someone has to work the sea and people have to get paid To more fish, more production, cheaper fish. I'm not sure how you get from a to b. Why more? How much will you have to pay to drive your boat to a few miles? You'll be moving through several people private ocean. How much will do you pay every couple miles, $30, $100's? Someone owns good property they can set up tolls anyway they want. Its not a free ocean anymore. Its private property. You want to play, you pay, every single person who's water you go through. I think corporations will want a big taste of it. Owning a patch 5 miles out means nothing if you can't get to it. As a kid I lived on a boat for 6 weeks. Its great. Yes there are taxes and regulations, but once your out there the ocean was free. Not under your system, its all privatized. Huge swatches you have to go around, and pay tolls (electrically through gps?) every few miles. It'd be awful. I don't know about better fishing, but there'd be a hell of a lot of craziness if people truly owned and put tolls on there piece of water. I think privately owned housing is very good. People do take better care of what they own. The Ocean, the sea shore is different; I'd hate to live in a world where its all owned privately.

Ayn Rand's god was pure capitalism. The cure for all things, anti-dote for all the world's problems. I understand why she felt that way, growing up in very repressive Soviet Union but she took her idea's to an extreme that simply don't work. Why restrictions? Because the best deal is to have slaves do your work, after that a few dollars an hour. There are people who will work others til they drop. We decided to move against a feudalistic system. If you lived 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, you would be able to write about the horrors of society and why its going to collapse. Its always been an easy game. And sometimes the writers are correct. But the horrors of paying a living wage and calling for extra pay over 40 hours is not going to be the end of society. On the other hand systems get bloated and people vote themselves too much bread and circus. The answer there is elections, finding someone who'll tell the truth- that bills have to be paid and gravy boats have to end. For that you still need a government. Knock down the government and people will just build it up again, too often in dictatorial fashion. For me the answer is balance. I lean democratic, but its good to have an enema in the system; to have tightening of the belts, shaving of programs that come with Republicans. Better though is when democratics get the balls to do it themselves. Which does happen as witnesses by Bill Clinton greatly reforming welfare rules.

I'd argue we're advanced we developed a strong middle class. All your life you've enjoyed the hard won fruits of the union reforms, from 5 day work week, minimum wages and safer work conditions. So much so you take it for granted. We aren't running in gangs because we have choices. People in gangs often don't. They're born into poverty and stay there. We're living in an era where people need 2 jobs in order to make it. Living on $7.50 an hour keeps you poverty and means the government ends up throwing in extra cash to keep people afloat. That doesn't mean it should it should $100 or even $15, but it means it should rise somewhat along with inflation so working people can thrive, cause when they do society as a whole thrives. Your enemy is government, but I doubt you'd want to live in a place without it. But as an experiment, perhaps you should. I've written about good anarchic places in the Anarchy thread, heck I'm a Burner and enjoy such places. But I argue they get that way due to strong community activism and policing, ie exile if you break enough rules or piss off enough people. Society en masse can't do that.

It ain't going to be homesteading if its $10 million per square mile. The 'security' is going to be extraordinarily expensive too. Ma and Pa won't be the main buyers, only people with big pockets will be owners. You assume the people who are causing the problem will almost magically go away if things are privatized. I don't follow that. Not only will the new boss, be the old boss, but he'll have no regulations or laws to keep them from the worst offenses. In this instance I see catastrophe. Small boaters, small fishing boats are screwed. The sea itself is filled with (invisible) no trespassing signs. Traveling the coast in a boat becomes a legalistic nightmare, maybe the skies above it too. People with very deep pockets own the coastal waters and can do with it what they want. With no laws or regulation its a polluters dream. Don't be so eager for change that you go from here to worse.

I wouldn't mind plans of stewardship which you see in Iceland, but willy nilly selling ocean plots to the highest bidder. That would be problematic. Policing the ocean, can be next to impossible. Course your idea is no policing or regulation let people catch (or pollute?) whatever they will in the hopes it'll turn out right. I don't think it would. Some business's would kill, catch and profit off anything that swims into there region. It may not be an intelligent long term plan, maybe at some point they'd go out of business, or more likely use the profits to buy up another region to exploit.

We have eastern charts of meridian systems and western drawings of bone, tissue, tissue.. it'd be nice to see a combination of the two by someone with expertise in both. Combining Alex Grey (http://alexgrey.com/art/) type pictures with words that can used for esoteric energy meditations, bio-feedback and general knowledge of what makes us up.

After decades following the paradigm of sitting perfectly still while meditating, I introduced a slight rocking movement from the Stillness-Movement practice. It's allowed me to sit longer and more comfortably and it feels very natural. At times I'll sit in different ways, at times returning to stillness but that small bobbing motion has become my default.

Cutting up the ocean into 10,000's of pieces and letting owners do whatever they want with there piece has many problems starting with enforcing boundaries, ending with mass polluters and lots in between. I'd go in the other direction. Nations getting together and declaring massive no fishing zones in several areas. Going beyond that and installing specific structures that would help fish, ie artificial reefs as designed by ocean experts. This would not be a substitute to intelligent global fishing regulations. Maybe we'd want year long or multi-year sabbaticals on catching some species. Hard since they swim together, but its a plan that should be looked into. Public awareness and shaming can play a major role. Given time and space nature can bounce back pretty quickly. This is a very serious problem. Mankind is destroying the oceans diversity with a fork.