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You really don't have a clue do you. Even cells are maintained by osmotic pressure from positive and negative ions (Cl, Na, K and protein mols) in the blood ... at a very basic level the human body is electrical.

I love chairs ... its ok to sit on them to meditate as well ... but I agree take your own thing if you prefer it. But don't be a furniturist like BKA and Seph (they are just trying to be cool but they're not )

Simple as that really.

seriously

'rationsynchretic particularity' is a very beguiling phrase which I would like very much to drop into conversations at every possible opportunity. However I lack the understanding to do this. Please explain this term.

I am quite keen on the works of Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang who has a background in engineering but also in martial arts. He has a theory to explain qi in the body based on electrical energy which is very convincing ... he seems to have a good balance between traditional Chinese thinking and science.

How do you explain it then?

I doubt if electrical engineering books will tell you about electromagnetism in the human body.

natural means without artificial sweeteners, colours or flavouring.

For you Chidragon ... try this book: http://www.amazon.com/Body-Electric-Electromagnetism-Foundation-Life/dp/0688069711/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379026310&sr=1-1&keywords=the+body+electric

What you are picking up in that previous map is Celtic migration from central Europe to the fringes of the Atlanic in the period of about 450 BC to the Roman invasion of Britain as shown in this map. The Celts were a distinct group with a particular culture - they migrated and they settled ... after this the Anglo-Saxon Germanic peoples moved in the pushed them to the outer edges of Europe. Their genetic similarities are no more significant than say your family and my family would be similar to each other. This does not make them a separate race and certainly not a species. I don't wish to mis-characterise what you are doing but it seems to me that you are misusing all available evidence to confirm your own view which is to divide people on the basis of race. Why do you think this is either the correct or a good thing to do? What are your views on the different races which you seem to believe exist?

Well thank you for this because it completely destroys what you are trying to say. If European is defined by Y-haplogroup RI as shown on your map then only the Celtic populations of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany, Gascony, Catalonia and so on are actually reliably European (80% +). English people are only 60 - 80% European and the Portuguese and those in central France and Eastern Europe are 50 - 60% European. BUT actually they are all European i.e. they live in Europe ...

Your comparisons don't stand up I'm afraid. Of course there are risks involved in blood and bone marrow transplant from person to person and it is true that different populations across the world have different percentages of different blood types. But no one is saying we are all identical. Groups of human population have for centuries (and millenia) been separated geographically and certain stresses and patterns have evolved due to a narrowing of the gene pool. However the test you refer to in the case of horses shows that humans from these groups can successfully interbreed and their off spring can also. So in a way you have shot yourself in your foot with this argument or comparison. Race is a non-specific term which although it has no proper scientific definition is still used to refer to groups of people. Usually this is done so while ignoring the huge variations within these groups ... so for instance to call someone 'asian' is almost meaningless - unless you mean they are from somewhere in asia - so to with European and African. To say someone is black or white similarly covers a multitude of very different people.

Not the goal just the skilful means.

trapped in giddiness... ungiddy key thrown away write my life sentence

This could be the TBs motto.

The goal of Buddhism is to abide by the canons! Where did you get that from? I think you need to go back to the books.

But I love Rothko more ...

Dream Mahasiddhi travelling players have come, lantern shadow show. The girl 'Emptiness' beckons from by the curtain now it's time to dance. I have three good friends bodhisattvas all, we drink! forgetting ourselves. A bead of red wine On your lip, gives all away we are lost, my love.

I love Jackson Pollock too.

It was banana ice cream.

The whole thing was a ploy ... putting it to congress in the first place ... playing to various audiences at home and abroad.

"What does not freeze us makes us sweeter." - I think be said that.

Dip in with a spoon. Use a specially sharp knife Then you can fork off.

How was the banana ice cream? Would you describe it as Hobbesian "cum fructus lactis algore" or simply a Marxist commodity?