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"Who is this Gary Clyman" dorian black can get you up to speed on this one. what i have heard is that clyman is either a student or former student of Waysun Liao

i hadnt heard that version bka but its a keeper.

delightful dragon moves in pink

politicians should wear logos in the same fashion that nascar drivers do. sponsorship transparency. this is the true trckle down from the corporation trickling down to the politician. pretty much just pissin on the rest of us.

sleeper, i enjoy listening to a good story teller as well. is there some story or tale that you would like to share?

"Hobbes would not agree with the silly notion that humans are best left to their own devices." and Locke disagrees, where are you going with this? you are suggesting we all just sign all of our 'rights' away as individuals and bow down to an absolutist authority ? i thought you were against the extravagant abuses of nsa etc?

that one there cannot be topped. greatest bluegrass band ever was when those 2 were with bill monroe, cedric rainwater, and chubby wise. and that is a fact. bill had many members of the band come and go but he always had the same mandolin player,, i reckon i'll go find that ol' brown jug now,,i am getting a call coming in from clinch mountain wtf? hehehe maybe should play some nathan abshire or dl mennard or lee benoit or that jo el cajun dude for marblehead, marbles, did it ever warm up down your way? bet your water lines didnt freeze tho?! haha gonna get diggy liggy wit it

synchronicity bro' hehehe i think i'll push my luck with one more bg altho it was technically played at a jazz festival. after this one i will stay quiet;

North Carolina is a wonderful state of natural beauty and friendly folks. I often intended to venture to the Carolina coast but every single time became sidetracked in the mountains, no complaints! many moons ago me and dad took a road trip down there somewhere to go trout fishing. we each caught a trout of about 6 inches or so hahaha but what a fabulous trip. everytime I pass thru Ashville I feel its special energy. "states rights" allows folks to 'vote' with their feet, so to speak. I prefer diversity and preservation of local cultural traditions rather than mandates from a highly centralized govt that has the only goal of spreading a bleak stark homogeneous landscape and mandated 'morals' upon us and erasing individuality. one size does not fit all, what works in New York may not work so well in Colorado, what works in Texas may not work out in Oregon, etc

h.uriahr, you may be aware that my Taoist clan is in Indonesia? even if i am not. and as i began my Taoist investigations 5-6 years ago, i examined which school would be the right fit for me. in that process i looked at what the available schools had as pro/con, then i made my choice. Tridaya, kalimasada, Satria Nusantara, Yellow Bamboo all use Wai Qi. which school are you initiated into? These use//develop Wai Qi, prana, reiki and other systems that develop wai qi usually use attunement system. wai kung and nei kung can not use attunement. those who develop wai qi can use their qi for healing, they can become healer.

most of Indonesian 'Tenaga Dalam' is developing Wai Qi (External Qi). It is not Wai Gong (external power) or Nei Gong (Internal power) everyone has external Qi, some call it aura, prana and others this Qi wrapps our body Indonesian "Tenaga Dalam" develops this Qi and uses it as magnetic field to protect the body. Sometimes it can run and sometimes it fails. this system runs easier among their group because they all have the similar field.

existential attitude goes coexistential attitude?!

such is the way with serendipity

http://studiorue-blog.com/marina-abramovic-manifesto/?vm=r&s=1

perhaps it takes a true seer to see this thread,,,,,,,,,,,,

thank you manitou for the love you share here. i have always felt the sense of community here. i know that many of us do.

i am always influenced by experience, last week i watched 'Searching For Sugarman" and then 2 days later Nelson Mandela died. synchronicity again "It always seems impossible until it's done." -- nelson mandela "that's a cold fact" -- sixto rodriguez

if you win an internet argument, what do you win? if you 'win' does that mean that at the end of the argument conversation you hold exactly the same position as you did when it started? that was time well spent for you? if you 'lose' an internet argument conversation, doesnt that mean that during the conversation you began to see something in a new light? wasnt that a better outcome than winning? "dont believe everything you breathe"

winning by forfeit is still a win.

imo sub forums have cluttered up too much of the see-able space of general discussion already. if we add christian there will soon be a call to add muslim and so on and so forth. a pantheist subforum almost makes sense to me, but i wont call for it. maybe the solution is to create a separate section just for the subforums? of if we have gone to general discussion and then go to the second page, why do we still have to see all the clutter of the listed subforums i didnt want to see in the first place? can it be put on the first page only? idk i am not tech oriented. for me,seeing all of the subforums listed is not very aesthetically pleasing and it is blocking what i am trying to see. if we add about 5 or 6 more subforums listed on general discussion page all we will see is the listed subforums and we wont see the active general discussion threads and clicking to the next page will still be the same thing. i am not against the subforums but i think that they need reorganized.

yeah some want to become Taoist priests and what do some Taoist priest want to become? i wont mention the school where the priests came from. but it was in Tian Hou Gong, in Nan Jing .China.the Taoist priests became Tao Yu of Xiao Yao Pai. and it is not religious. and it didnt cost money either. you will notice the XYP GM is wearing the clothes of the layman that is remaining hidden and not broadcasting 'I am a Taoist'. to repeat XYP is not selling anything. and Taoist priest from a well known school saw the benefit of becoming initiated into XYP

i thought you 2 already had a game of 'Go' down there in the pit? how many threads in the pit do you 2 need? and it is alleged you have derailed your own thread? i derailed a thread of my own once,,i didnt mind tho, IB, do you mind that you derailed your own thread? it seems to have bothered others. going off topic in the off topic section. tsk tsk