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i know that most wouldnt. for better and for worse i am wired a bit differently than most. the book thing reminds me! that book i just read about Contemporary Mayan Spirituality is the bomba. it clearly expresses ideas/concepts/experiences that i think most of us bums would consider Taoist or Buddhist or Shaman, it has it all, well it also has the sacrifice/head lopping stuff too, and i didnt grasp how that all works...but i can send it to ya, i owe ya one already. @seth, didnt mean to go off topic too far. you are raising good questions that we all need to reflect on. edit> next post will be way on topic

k I just recently decided I wouldn't sit back and not say anything that was probably the idea i had at the moment of hitting the report button. the post wasnt directed at me or have anything at all to do with me. i found it completely tasteless and most likely racist, but i am back into my usual anarchy mode again. i wonder if it woulda happened on a street corner somewhere how i woulda reacted? reflexes maybe woulda got the best of me. edit> sorry to hear about your loss CT

cat, that is what i have come to find here myself, speaking in friendship, even the bums i had heated exchanges with, i always had respect for them. there was one post even i, this anarchist no rules, go with the flow and let whatever happens happen, well i reported one post here and i certainly withdraw the report , i musta had an off day i guess idk but posts stand on their own merit or lack of. if someone puts something out there and they dont see a reason to edit it, let it stand. and really is there a reason to have a heated exchange? that one post i reported was really a lesson for me. why did i let it bother me? i have never called for a bum to be suspended and i miss the ones that are, even if i do understand some things cannot be tolerated. those things are very rare too.

baiting someone in and then ambushing them aint too cool. i have done it myself and when i realized what i was doing , dang i felt little. edit> also playing to the momentum that some threads have. like one bum is fending off many bums, he seems to make one little slip and then POUNCE ok i guess that is like ambushing again. it may get a plus 4 but was it worth it?

what are the odds on this guy ? but think, having ex-pope or former pope on your resume , well not many can say that

"eventually chickens come home to roost" what was once only happening in far-away lands (and in central appalachia)............ to be continued (at a location possibly near you) 9 parts, all relevant

using our military against our citizens!! wasnt this not allowed? oh, thats right those little changes made for our protection coincidently just this week i didnt get a trial either, will post in pp

Revolutions have never worked. not even our 1776 ? or the french revolution? and whether they actually work or not they need to take place to keep tyranny in check. A return of the power to the people. the people do hold the power, it will be great when the people wake up and realize they have the power. Even my (universal) individual anarchy won't work because there needs be those who take care of the infrastructure. good point, it is true that for 99% of us, even if we took every cent we earned in a lifetime , we could not finance one single mile of interstate hiway. much to our demise, america has quit investing into infrastructure and r&d. we are content to import what we could produce on our own. we are happy to outsource all of our jobs. i think this is done so other countries can have dollars and that gives our military leaders the idea that they need to be out there in the world to keep an eye on the dollars that are floating in other countries. i mentioned somewhere how in my neck of the woods, anarchy is becoming the norm and the authorities are quick to notice. in my little town now, if you drive one mile per hour over the posted speed limit you will be pulled over by the state police. both sides (the anarchists and the police) are pushing the envelopes here.

ralph waldo emerson surely must have been a bodhisattva too, coz "our ttb" bodhisattvas" are quoting emerson word for word. read Nature and Self Reliance by RWE. emerson never slammed anyone tho and he respected others own personal views

zen nomad, i encourage you to accept that there are in fact other choices. and fighting is playing into the enemies hands. dont sacrifice yourself so easily. withdraw from the corporate culture of consumerism. no edit, will post on doable anarchy

Contemporary MAYA Spirituality The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost Jean Molesky-Poz

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it has been told to me that blue moon taoist and spiraltao both have a good affinity to Tao

radio edit

The message is plain enough, and we have ignored it for too long: the great, centralized economic entities of our time do not come into rural places in order to improve them by "creating jobs." They come to take as much of value as they can take, as cheaply and as quickly as they can take it. They are interested in "job creation" only so long as the jobs can be done more cheaply by humans than by machines. They are not interested in good health--economic or natural or human--of any place on this earth. Wendell Berry is it any coincidence that walmart's first stores were in arkansas,kansas, louisiana, missouri, oklahoma, tennessee , and kentucky? slowly and deliberately expanding, then wendell continues... ...if you should undertake to appeal or complain to one of these great corporations on behalf of your community, you would discover something most remarkable: you would find that these organizations are organized expressly for the evasion of responsibility. They are structures in which, as my brother says, "the buck never stops." The buck is processed up the hierarchy until finally it is passed to "the shareholders," who characteristically are too widely dispersed, too poorly informed, and too unconcerned to be responsible for anything. The ideal of the modern corporation is to be (in terms of its own advantage) anywhere and (in terms of local accountability) nowehere. and We are now pretty obviously facing the possibility of a world that the supranational corporations, and the governments and educational systems that serve them, will control entirely for their own enrichment--and, incidentally and inescapably, for the impoverishment of all the rest of us. and We can't go on too much longer, maybe, without considering the likelihood that we humans are not intelligent enough to work on the scale to which we have been tempted by our technological abilities. and he further continues well i will skip thru to What we have before us, if we want our communities to survive, is the building of an adversary economy, a system of local or community economies within, and to protect against, the would-be global economy.

been reading the Rabinal Achi. it is a pre-columbian play/dance/ritual that i knew was a way for Mayans to honor their heritage and ancestors. today it was pointed out to me that it was a way to channel the spirits of their ancestors. but that is not why i am posting about this. i did a google search > Rabinal Achi Spirit and found this, it is not what i was looking for but it is a stark reminder of how certain forces operate. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/guatemala-archives-33/1442-guatemala-the-forgotten-spirits-of-rabinal

isnt eye care covered by the universal healthcare program in europe?

i could mail you a pair

last time i had some squirrel gravy over my breakfast biscuits i was enjoying the conversation about how here in Appalachia we have a long history of social activism, but we thought of a famous squirrel breakfast long ago shared by isaac shelby, james johnson, william campbell, john sevier, and joseph mcdowell, these hillbillies with a full belly of squirrel chased down some rascal named patrick fergusun, and gave no quarter what-so-ever. timothy murphy enjoyed a nice squirrel breakfast one morning and then went off to fire a famous shot. oh well,,,, but speaking of how much some folks make, that jed clampett is purty well heeled, aint he? edit> i reckon we will eat whatever dont eat us first.

must be some damn good pr there coz i dont mind the squirrels in my backyard and the street cats wont mess with them either. of course having an affinity for trees and munching on walnuts all day creates their own pr but the hawks are not impressed.

https://www.thegeniusofflexibility.com/training-archive/join.html also take your deer antler velvet and jin gu jia wan

i like Chuang Tzu much respects too. however i am in the old esoteric ways. Hua T'o, and Yellow Emperor (even ones i wont mention) dont get mentioned nearly enough on this forum. those old forest hermits that taught Li Yuen and Dong Haichuan baguazhang, they were Taoists

a silent way to express oneself sometimes the silence speaks louder than the spoken and sometimes it pays to notice what is not being said. What's his crime? good question

" What we are witnessing is a decline in the U.S. civilization and empire. Like all civilizations, the seeds of destruction are endemic to all civilizations and systems." well we sold out to the ceos didnt we? foreign owned water companies are now taking american water out of america even. its not like the american west needed any water, i guess, yeah this idea of private ownership of everything is really serving us well. to report from the hinterlands of appalachia, anarchy and lawlessness are very much on the rise tilting towards chaos, if anyone cares? Thomas Jefferson? oh yeah the 2 $ bill, thats right the coming fuedalsim is gonna be tough on some folks, just saying

Therefore, Chuang Tzu was an American Taoist. wow i have some catching up to do on this thread hehehehe American Taoist gets a strong endorsement there!