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Everywhere.. probably. Sometimes.. it may be appropriate. Listen to your gut. Listen when it tells you to cross the street or carry the proper tool. In the real world shit happens, caution and a bit of fear are not faulty instincts. You don't want to encourage them, but you don't want to use high falutin philosophy to over ride your instincts and walk into trouble.

No, watched about 10 minutes of the beginning, then scoped out the end. At first I thought it was satire. I probably don't have time or inclination to watch the whole thing. If you would, what concepts beyond the Greys are watching and everywhere there are vague references to them, did I miss?

One day Moses and Jesus were playing golf. They were at the tee of a beautiful par 3, with a lake right in the middle of the fairway. Moses selects a 5 iron, tees-up his ball and swings. His ball sails very high and lands in the middle of the lake. He mutters to himself and tees-up a second ball, this time selecting a 4 iron. This shot was perfect; landing right in the middle of the green. Jesus pauses for a moment to ponder his club selection. "Hmmmm..... Arnold Palmer would use this," he says as he picks up a 5 iron. "But, Jesus. My 5 iron shot ended up in the lake. You should use a 4 iron!" "Nope. Arnie would use a 5," insisted Jesus. So, Jesus swings hard and alas his shot ends up in the middle of the lake too. Jesus strolls over to the lake and walks out on the water to retrieve his ball. As Jesus is walking on the water trying to locate his ball a foursome comes up to the tee, sees a man walking on the water and one of them exclaims, "Who does he think he is? Jesus Christ?" "No," explains Moses, "He is Jesus Christ. He thinks he's Arnold Palmer."

I learned 2 things. Look for connections hard enough, you'll find them. Second, some people have way too much time on there hands. I think if you show the guy any movie, he'd come up with tenuous alien connections. I assume if he read Shakespeare he'd come up with dozens of ways the author was connected to the greys.

I'm not a veggie but my kids are. I just made a mushroom pot pie. Cut up a large yellow onion. Sauteed it in olive oil and ghee. Added portabella and crimini shrooms plus soy sauce to the pan. Nuked some organic frozen vegetables, added them. Added more soy sauce then a few tablespoons of heavy cream. Poured it into a casserole dish, spread out some buttermilk muffin dough on top and baked for 17 minutes. Very good and it was about 6 or 7 meals worth. I like pot pies.

Nope. I've got a small pepper spray can somewhere in my car. I think it contains a little bit of paint too. If you're trained in its use the kubotan is great, but without long specific training its just a 6" stick. Not much range and people tend to over think such small weapons at the expense of full body movement. Imo you need repetitive training to make it worthwhile. On the hand, I'm a firm believer in going with your gut instincts. When it says cross the street, cross it. If it says carry a kubotan, carry it.

Here in the U.S Midwest (Chicago) the summer started out unseasonably cold, but nonetheless, thanks to frequent rains gardens are doing great this year. My plantings are very close together and they're literally bursting out of the plots. My secrets.. I try to get my hands on as much organic coffee grounds (free) as I can (thank you Whole Foods) and mix it with shredded leaves and grass clippings. I put a thick layer of this mulch over my garden to protect it from the winters harsh sun and freezing temperatures. Come Spring instead of fertilizer I put down Miracle Grow soil on top of the mulch and plant into that. Its not organic, probably full of crazy plant steroids but plants love it. I always do various peppers, cucumbers, herbs and grape tomatoes, usually the orange hybrid ones that are so sweet they're like candy. I'm also doing some strange black grape tomatoes this year. They're much slower to ripen. I also have 4 Brussel sprout plants that are huge and won't be pickable for another month. That's my story. How are your gardens doing?

I was under the impression that the Greeks and Romans considered the mind in the stomach region. They didn't consider the brain as a thinking organ. Since I feel my thoughts in my brain is it placebo? If I was Roman would I feel my intellect in my gut? Would that have any advantages? Probably needs double checking

Its disconcerting to outsiders, but they whack you on your meatier parts, creating a sharp pain that says wake up. Its not done maliciously. The massage technique we'd use in Aikido after meditation was called Clopping. Done using loud open handed relatively hits around the shoulder and back area. Mostly relaxing and a little bit painful for the one it was done too, often surprising to those around.

Slight tangent, but after a big emotional event or when I'm physically exhausted (but not sleepy tired) I'm able to get deeper faster into meditation. I guess both are states of emptiness.

In my naive opinion, while there's a place for higher sex, its practice, techniques, emotionality and spirituality. I also find sex is like pizza, even mediocre sex is good.

Let me speak against unconditional love. For my family and some friends I may have it. But strangers.. everyone?? No. At best I have a default setting of like and conditional respect. That's it. To claim I love everyone and would sacrifice the same manner I'd do with family and friends is simply not true. Truthfully I have a fear of such unconditional love. The feeling that the world would suck the marrow from my bones if I allowed yourself to be that vulnerable to everyone.

While I'd defer this question to more advanced people. I will say in nature, energy tends to move in spirals. Some traditions have energy maps, often there similar, but not exact. The result of one or a couple of high juiced people writing down what they experience and it becomes canon.

I expected the link to be to a 'We're doomed' site, but the information was very good. Thanks.

I'll meditate by a public pool. There's an interesting phenomena. Its so crowded, there's so much noise and distractions that it actually cancels itself out. 2 or 3 people making random noises is bad, but once you get 20, 30 or 40 of them in various conversation, it becomes a kind of white noise. Maybe its the exhibitionist in me, but for some reason, sitting in half lotus on 2 folded up towels, I can go pretty deep there.

Don't know Dzogen theory, but I think there's an objective reality. It can be objectively measured and analyzed without regard to human filters and conditioning. Yet you can only measure what you know. Even objectively, say with a camera. There are still spectrums an ordinary camera won't see, but special devices can measure like infrared and various radiations. There are probably spectrums beyond those too. There may well be dimensionality to the world we don't notice, we simply don't have the scientific tools or expanded our paradigms enough to build them. Observing the world there are repeated phenomena that defy standard explanations, that we need to consider seriously.

as per ususual, its wisdom cause I agree with it

Interesting, I liked it. He wasn't in as rustic a place as I expected.

I think the Affordable Care Act is much closer to business as unusual since people still end up paying various insurance companies. While you're right about obscuring costs and free lunches generally makes things more expensive the real world results of single payer systems in other first world countries has been lower prices and much better results. Quite simply amongst first world countries we pay the most and get, as a nation, the worse health results. Worse the skew between have and havenots was getting dangerous as the 10's of millions without insurance were dying at worst or at best getting the very expensive (and incomplete) medical services through emergency room.

one step in the right direction is the City of Chicago has stopped spraying herbicides (to kill dandelions) on the 10,000's of acreage approximately 7600 acres of parks they oversee. They have a campaign saying seeing dandelions is a sign of an ecologically healthier field. This kind of step is such a win win idea that I think it'll become wide spread and can make a difference for the bee population and water quality.

Don't want to beat an injured horse. It might need a surgeon. But.. It doesn't depend on the year. The stat of doctors dying at 58 was a self serving lie to push a vitamin/colloidal brand. I certainly agree there are problems with our current health care system. (I'd need details but I'd like to see a single payer system here in the States) Secondary infection rates are terrible, still you didn't measure them against Thailand (they may not record them). Heck, you caught pneumonia there. When you have a concentration of sick people, there's going to problems. But good hospitals should take care. Personally I don't shake hands with doctors or health professionals. Silly formality.

I'm guessing your earlier post with the guy throwing up might have colored his reply to this one. I understand his concern about putting your kid on online (I'd seen the video before) but the kids about 3 1/2 or 4 y.o. I don't think there'll be much blow back from his fellow toddlers. Adults on the other hand, well, they're crazie.

I'm with White Wolf on this one. I thought it was a touching video. Wisdom from the mouth of babes. Ofcourse we'll have to see what happens when he gets really hungry. Still 2 out of my 3 kids are veggie.

The good thing is, imo, that vegetarianism is common and acceptable these days. 30 years ago, going to a restaurant for a veggie meant salad, and often a strange look. Now nearly every place has a variety of meatless selections. I think there's progress. I hope society is moving away from the Western SAD diet of meat at every meal.

Question for teachers. Lets say the three basics of health are eating, exercise and sleep. Any special insights (things the general population ignores) into how to do those things better?