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mythmaker, those color baguas are delightful.

somewhat twisted ? or from standing at the corner of not tao and tao? (mark's avatar)

noted snake handler jamie coots, featured on national geographic's "snake salvation" died this past weekend of a snake bite.coots was a 4th generation handler/preacher http://abcnews.go.com/US/snake-handling-pentecostal-pastor-dies-snake-bite/story?id=22551754 westboro baptist may attend coots' funeral to protest. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/jamie-coots-snake-handling-pastor-martyr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling there are 5 or so listed snake handling churches that are open to the public, there are also around 125 snake handling churches that do not let "outsiders" attend services nor do they grant interviews. coots' church was open to the public and he was open to talk about his practices.

If the controversial oil-services company Halliburton (NYSE: HAL ) has its way, then small investors may soon lose one of their most potent weapons against corporate fraud: the ability to file class-action lawsuits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. At the end of last year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Halliburton's appeal in a class-action case brought by investors against it and CEO David Lesar for "knowingly or severely recklessly misleading" the public more than a decade ago about the company's liability for asbestos claims. Indeed, it's no exaggeration to say that the very existence of securities fraud class actions hinges almost entirely on the outcome of this case.

imagine for a moment, if that image / photo/ picture is having that effect on you,,,,,, imagine what experienceing nature in the raw is like,,,, does the artist improve on nature, it is an oft asked question,, in this case tho, you know and understand nature is the place to be. rewild yourself

for the record, you are somewhere just about sea level, right?

goethe is appreciated, i wrote a paper 2 years ago comparing the moments when goethe, wordsworth, and van gogh had the encounter with the personal nature of nature. while goethe embraced it, it terrified wordsworth, (wordsworth thought the mountain was coming to punish him) van gogh was able to subjectively see it all so clearly too. he was even able to perfectly view the unseen force of turbulence and imprinted it exactly on his paintings, this was confirmed in 2005 by new mexico physicists. for those of who who are saying that the same connection can be found in the city, have you yourself ever been out in nature and had that moment of encounter, when you personally meet the very nature of nature? have you had this same encounter in the city? thoreau said that one doesnt necessarily have to connect to the wilderness but one does for absolutely have to connect with the wildness. i am adding the western perspective and even the native american perspective, they also hold mountains as sacred geographies. i have heard from folks from all over this planet that if one just enters peru their cultivation soars to higher levels.

exceptional opportunity, and every week here on TTB i see someone post asking where can they find a baguazhang teacher/school. you bums with an affinity towards baguazhang,, ACHTUNG!

"My father climbed this mountain nine months before I was born. " were you conceived up on that mountain??

does all philosophy, art, and ideal morph into song/music? yeah, desire is a fever(and not every cat runs from a dog, but many do)

where else does one fine this type of comradery ? i have met more than one handful of bums in person and they are the same as they are online, genuine, authentic, good energy, generous, and Taoist -like in their own unique, interesting way. there is a shared energy here that we benefit from, no?

if we follow a line from aristotle> albert the great> thomas aquinas where the prevailing thought was that faith is in harmony with reason, and this student of albert the great, thomas aquinas working on the highly influential summa theologica, but then thomas had a mystical moment of clarity and encountered Tao and he left his monumental work unfinished, in fact he never wrote again and he stated " all i have written now seems like straw" thomas had the experience you mention and it wiped away all that he had previously thought to be true. thomas, this great writer and communicator , now found himself inadequate to describe the experience (just as you suggest will be the case) so he quit writing altogether what is not Tao are the follies and reason of man. the ongoing folly of the human tyranny of nature (as opposed to harmony with nature )is not Tao. reducing all values to an efficient nexus of cash warped in the cold logic of exclusive financial concerns (that blinds one to all else)is not Tao. we are told by Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu to step away from knowledge if we want to taste Tao Tao is pure and human logic is tainted Tao is pure and simplistic and it is not able to be expressed in human logical language. the Tao that can be (humanly) expressed is not Tao notvoid i like your OP and considering our human logic, i think your effort is fine it is simple and suggests the pure

for some of us in appalachia your 2034 already happened even before 1984. anyways in a kentucky hotel,,,, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEcRFQf-qWc

nice horse?? bad horse!! we might have three threads about horses right now but we aint got 14 going on about ponies these days. plus there is unicorn/horse bagua and horse xingyi, in tai chi you can part the wild horse's mane.. so many good things about horse and ima,, ya'll can do horse stance all ya want, just saying,, but i aint gonna, but i did find another nice horse http://english.cri.cn/6666/2014/01/29/1261s810686.htm

is it me, or are there less ponies running around on ttb these days? and during year of the horse too, interesting hahaha

the qigong empowerment book is a decent book imo, when i first got it i was in love with it. but, i already had a qigong foundation, and it was filled with many choices. i will add that i felt the energy(of the book) very strong when the book was handed to me. once i started the XYP i basically put aside all my books. i do have a nice collection of books/dvds. like gerard says some information is left out. (of the higher practices) it makes subtle distinctions between medical qigong and healing qigong. it talks about Shen gong but doesnt provide what is needed for Shen Gong. so, even tho i have stepped away from books, i think for the right person, this is a really good book.

is this thread simultaneously talking about 2 different lama dorje's? that is my take, and it can be confusing. (will the real lama dorje please stand up?)

carry on

and if the debate is using logic .rational thinking, and reason to explain an irrational mysterious nature of nature,, so i agree with your statement "a real debate can't happen until people use the same language." the same language that nature uses, right? surely it stands to reason that all of faith should be on trial, including the faith based belief system know as modern science. how does it help if we are only replacing one faith based belief system with another? question everything

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/05/pat-robertson-implores-creationist-ken-ham-to-shut-up-lets-not-make-a-joke-of-ourselves/#.UvLFIur6LtE.twitter pat robertson tells ken ham to "just shut up already!" so the idea that the overwhelming majority of christians agree with ken ham is not at all accurate. even fundamentalist pat robertson tells ham to be "realistic"

ithink thats what these dudes were being when they staged a trial about it all in 1925, oh, how far we have come since then?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial and looking at your map of where creationism is publicly taught,,,, i am currently enrolled in an 8 am t & r class titled "religion in appalachia" its, well, the only thing i have argued for in this class (so far)is that we need starbucks coffee provided to us, and i think i have won that one, but the odds are stacked against me on other issues lol,, maybe when i have em all coffee'd up, i can present the opposing view, or at least i can be the devil's advocate--so to speak--i wish vortex was in this class btw. hawking now says there are no black holes,,just thought i would throw that very random tidbit in for trvia only

it is a native american symbol, but it looks baguazhang doesnt it? i have been doing some comparative research between some native american motifs, practices and baguazhang for close to 5 years. the parallels continue to fascinate me. the spiral is very primal