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Good. Nice philosophy, though a bit preachy at times. I liked how the story and pictures of old Longears came together, particularly the one showing him meditating by the Buddha statue.

While I'm not a penisologist, I do own one and I don't think your second reasoning is on target. The plunger affect happens whether an (erect) penis is circumcised or not ie same shape. Plus I don't think the ancients were sophisticated enough to make a connection between a foreskin and more efficient rape. (ie by removing the babies foreskin in 25 years when the kid is raping, he'll have a 30% greater chance of the woman not having someone else's baby if she's recently had sex with someone else) That's too far a reach and it wouldn't work; same plunger style regardless of foreskin. (Circumcision does keep the weiner cleaner and offers a little protection against veneral disease) My guess is its origin was to differentiate from other tribes. Radical move, other tribes have tattoo's, we're even tougher.. we cut off our own foreskins, try topping that you other bronze age tribes.. one theory at least.

Just throwing this out.. I'd prefer keeping it The Pit or Wasteland or the like. I'm worry the Chaos name will attract more attention and pride in comments sent into it. Songstan's right in that words have power and I wouldn't want to lose The Pit's main function to tell members that comments are getting out of line.

That looks really good. The book lays out a complete cosmology based on the DDC. Nice.

Yeah, good luck with that.. i grok they'll have to absorb your essence through memories and your writings.

I get.. make laws too strict and you'll end up cutting yourself. Thus following the themes of subtle persuasion and fewer laws.

Not cheap, but in my day it included live teaching sessions over Skype which were invaluable. Thus I mention KAP http://www.kundaliniawakeningprocess.com/

Implications.. hmnn, cut off your ear and you die in a few seconds of massive system failure. kidding. Such points may be stimulative, but there are so many points, on each finger and toe and throughout the body that I don't think a hole or two would stop flows. Especially on someone who's done some energy training work. Still, it'd be interesting to see if masters have found out otherwise.

This was experimented with for awhile. I think it failed because in many cases the Pit is a polite way to say you've gone too far and/or broken forum rules/etiquette. People who had threads thrown into the pit started them there and it became a flame war hotspot that the forum tries to avoid. <add The WWW subforum here gives the OP author more control over the direction of there thread.

Hah, I made a bet that eye of storm would connect Hopi's and chemtrails to a Jewish Israeli conspiracy (or throw it into the mix somehow). Eye of Storm, you may be a whacked out conspiracy theorist living a life of fear and paranoia, but you're consistent. <edited out the rest of it> A better question is: Do you believe the contrails you see mean the Hopi Prophecy is coming to pass? Are you making any changes to your life because of it? Are you considering talking to a Hopi in hopes he will help in hampering the horrible annihiliation?

Heck, go to the trouble of writing someone.. i may as well make up my own alchemical version . and poor reviews wouldn't bother me because I can always agree, It is Lao Sy

Is there a particularly alchemical translation anyone can recommend? or particular example from the verses.

I'd also add that contrails, the white lines produced by high alttitude jets have been around for over 50 years. Is there a time line in the Hopi prophecy. ie after 20 years of webs or 50 years, 100 years? I also wonder if members of the Hopi tribe actually believe this, at least your interpretation of it. There's a tendency to hijack other cultures end of the world stories without getting much feedback from the actual source. I'm thinking Mayan 2012. Also, why would we believe it, if we don't believe in any other Hopi theology? Is there a list of Hopi prophecies that are firmly dated then checked? edit> I love looking up at the sky. At the age of 50, I've always seen contrails (I'm not far from O'Hare). I assume older pilots would be pretty familiar with them too. You can look up contrail photos and find old photos of them there- http://contrailscience.com/contrail-photos-through-history/ You have scroll down to see the old ones. I wonder if you can find pilots weighing in on this issue. They're the ones most intimately aware of the sky and planes.

Seems like a valid subject to me. It'd be nice to understand it better. (if it can go beyond the 'you all know nothing' phase) I wonder if its widely thought in China that other cultures are misreading the DDC. Many translations were done by the Chinese. Some are way more out there then others. They run the gamut from practical to mystical, a few alchemical. People find a translation that rings true with them and get great benefit from it. Its a good book. Saoshun can you give an example how its misread?

That's great. Huge success story. Can you tell us more? What you did and how often?

maybe 20 if I include my toes . Often I think truth is best kept brief, othertimes it seems to achieve logical correctness its go to be very wordy. I've always liked the saying 'The opposite of a great truth, is another great truth'. In Zen it often seems most truths are paradoxical.

"What happens if we die?"If?? I didn't know not dying was an option. I've suspected some of the deeper aspects of dreamwork might give some answers to death.

Welcome to the forum. You've got some pretty good credentials, grey hair and all.

Ilya Naymushin / Reuters 15 A woman enjoys the sun on the banks of the Yenisei River as the temperature reached about 55 degrees Fahrenheit outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on April 6. >Wondered if this would come out. How is this fitting into the OP?? Perhaps as a future foretelling photo of the last (very hardy and sexy) woman on Earth.

My epiphany would be 'I spent all my money on wine, loose woman and song. Then like a fool, I squandered the rest.

Don't know if I subscribe to Lth's view. I'm a wait and see kinda guy. But the theory that after death your spirit is confused and its a critical time period for sorting out where you go next is certainly big in Tibet, which has very sophisticated system. Its also true in a totally different belief system like Orthodox Judaism, where the thought is the soul sticks around for a bit, and needs a little soothing. If there's a self aware soul (contradiction?), its as likely as anything else.

For OBE's anyone with the last name Monroe probably has a pretty good system. (don't know why that is).. Rawn Clark is a proponent and practictioner of Bardon's Hermetic system- Western Magic. According to him, spending years on Hemetics, going through the Initiation Into Hermetics, is a slow path that leads to a safer, truer more holistic kind of OBE. If you're pondering a long term path check out the IIH, and/or Rawn's site, abardoncompanion.com. There's quite a bit of great (& free) material there.

Back on OP. I don't think you should live each day as if it was your last. First, generally it isn't. Second might not be a good strategy if you survive the day. More importantly there are seasons to life. Some periods we're busy beavers others we have wings. Maybe part of Taoism is matching ourselves to the seasons we're in. Still, knowing that our days are numbered is not a bad coin to keep in our pocket and flip over every now and then.

Nah, it'll say Here lies Stosh, he was a bum, and one of the wisest or maybe we'll just graffiti it on the back.

I think the OP is right.