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I posted this 3 days ago in a thread about war, I've hidden. Thought I'd share here without comment.

Optimism, enthusiasm, positive outlook, nothing wrong with it. I like it. Still, whether believe or not, makes little difference to reality, functionality, skills, experience. Right on. My Christmas was playing with baguazhang energetics. Some of the finer and funner realities I've experienced, short of Spiritual realities. There is some overlap and cooperations. Believing and knowing, there is a difference.

Today's selection: Moon Rocks Winter grow: Gorilla Cookies, Strawberry Gorilla, GF OG

On this site when we talk about martial arts, many may think of Asian kung fu or internal martial arts. Some may think of taiji treatises, baguazhang songs, xingyi quan poems, or The Book of Five Rings. Some May think of wooden dummies, iron hand & iron body training, even acupuncture points… Well, this thread starts off with something different.

In today's world; discerning what is real or isn't, even concerning Santa is problematic,,,

Maybe I had big pharma all wrong,,,,

I had thought of posting on this thread; about how, it's much more involved than choosing a side. Your short video shows that choosing a side was done for us, by Nature.

December 19

Showing my age,,,

Sometime it is a very thin veil. Other times it is manifested in perfect irony.

I think many/most people would agree with that. One person once, told me, 70-75. Because after that, they felt, it would just be un-needed suffering. I heard another one tell me, and they were in a quasi Daoist village, there was an old man, would walk into the village occasionally, the old guy said, he was 75. But the person telling me about it said "thing is. As a boy he remembered the same old man walking into the village saying he was 75 then. My take away; never admit being older than 75

https://www.sciencealert.com/dick-van-dyke-credits-his-longevity-to-one-habit-and-its-backed-by-science Can we really call "100" Daoist longevity? Not really, but it is a nice round number to use as a starting point. Anyways, DVD's advice is sound science; not only that, ask yourself, however long or short your lifespan is, do you want to be angry during it?

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@ChiDragon Dragons know a thing or two about longevity. Of course I must include the Grandmaster of Fire Dragon While it is Not the literal cartoon fire breathing dragon What it is--physically demanding for starters. What it accomplishes-powerful fast explosive movements and transitions. That's the Fire In the video, Lu Juan Zi performed, I think at age 116 or 117. His lifespan, 120, give or take a year . Certainly an inspiration and exemplar example. And while, it is labeled baguazhang, sure, it has Fire Palm, yet, not your typical baguazhang, contrasting the flowing circular familiar baguazhangs with highly advanced specialized kicks, transitions, that I mentioned above, which produces internal spiraling fiery energies that lead to intense physical development. I consider it Taiyi. Or a bridge between Taiyi and Baguazhang. Very Daoist TFA (totally fucking awesome) And why not add a Singing Dragon to this post. Got Qigong?

When you first arrived here on TDB, you caught my attention with your commentary about ATP. I've always appreciated your perspective and candor.

Longevity thread seems like a reasonable place to mention tortoise/turtle Qigong