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nice thought stosh. last nite i had a dream i was wandering across some forgotten ridge and i came upon an overgrown plot of land that had a very beckoning energy about it. it was frosted that morning, the air clean and crisp there were marble stones where the words inscribed had been worn away by the weather of untold countless decades i heard the calling of crows saying, as you look across this landscape and marvel in its fall splendor of natural rich colors remember that the ancients placed a garden here not for your enjoyment or rememberance but just becoz they found peace and contentment in a garden of their own when i woke i realized these ancients were like rank strangers to me

@et-thoughts In actuality my stand is actually quite different and could be summed up by "what be be what be" Please notice how this statement only states that what be be what be please always follow up and state exactly for clarity sake > Indirectly pointing out that beings be beings and stuff be stuff. as i dont always make/see the obvious logical continuation of the thought and with the applying part of this; the notions be the notions i can follow this in the abstract but right be right and wrong be wrong ? would fall into the category of highly subjective and may exist only in your personal framework i very much agree with Personally I say each maintains the responsibility for what they do and dont do i am a bit curious about your thesis and support for what be true being what be true surely it would deserve its own thread

shouldnt lean on anything in the standing wave or kunlun dragon chi kung posture. it sounds like you are getting nice results in the sitting spontaneous adjustment qigong. i would stick with that for now. it is powerful and healing. tai chi is great for balance issues.

shaking is good medicine. i imagine otis is out playin somewhere play plays playing shake shakes shaking eilen jewell style

after you get the sitting down on the edge of a wooden chair with heels raised, down pat. try standing knees slightly bent heels raised hands stretched upwards and see how that goes

i certainly enjoy the free exchange of ideas, thoughts, insights shared among those deemed as equals here. one old quote came to mind. in that when one masters themself , that is true power

-K- i always appreciate your freely sharing of your unique perspective and wisdom. i would say that you are light years advanced(relative to some others) you do not play to some self serving specific agenda here)self hawking this or that. intellectually, integrity-wise, insightful , and honest . imo/ime you could give some grandmasters a few lessons i think some here are emotionally hardened,and/ordisplay a calloused indifferences to the feelings and thoughts of others.or else they just dont get it - and are too consumed in their own whatevers. whichever

I have my Bridge of Butterflies awe inspiring

interesting xmas party where they play dreams ill never see?

zeros rides on clouds

time means nothing and i am counting no age. how old would ya be, if ya didnt know how old you were? there is a mountain in mexico where you can live in eternal springtime all ya have to do is go up or down the mountain depending on the situation is being young or old just a chronological number? way last century they said there was methusla, keith richards, dirt and me now i am considered younger somehow go figure

fred's zarathustra once had pity for the masses and was tempted to help them, but he came to view the masses with great contempt. those who sought trivia and convienence. wasnt much for kant,plato,descartes. he rejects the body /mind dualism. he encourages a lifestyle that most would consider reckless and immoral. well, me and pater approve he uses hobbes' war of all against all and was it fred or heraclitus who said "live dangerously!" both?! yeah this is not to be mis-understood as a state military operation however, coz that stuff is evil. he agrees with neil young that it is better to burn out than to fade away funny how i just read freud's civilization and its discontents and it coulda been fred's zarathustra. walter kaufmann , oh yes. how in one lifetime could a person other than kaufmann translate fred, goethe, hegel, kant ? and no one else got hegel's dialectic right cept kaufmann of course folks who feel safe(in civilization) will tell ya freud and fred are just nut cases. do not trust those who tell you that

there are different sets that are called yi jin jing. some have 12 or 14 or 18 postures. one set has 49. so it is called the muscle/tendon changing classic. and for good reason but it could also be called the qi building classic and for good reason the few folks that i know that do the 49 posture set, they do 7 postures a day and thus cover all 49 each week. these folks got game

freud civilization and its discontents

nice move apech but rooks are really better placed on the seventh rank or behind pawns or something

oops thought this is what are you reading now lol ok find a song.... cracker low steve earle hillbilly hiway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKOnS8J5GM&feature=related

apech i seem to remember you were once called the most inocuous one i knew there must have been a reason for that. when i played chess most of my moves were inocuous

good call trunk i would think that all moderators would take a similar approach

@et-thoughts what I propose build down to a single voice of reason and righteousness directing and constraining the slanderous ways... (of course this presupposes that there is a way to determine which voice actually presents the righteous and reasonable way)... good luck with that brother

sounds good sifu rel, stick with it . i wouldnt be too concerned about time frames or "mastering" anything. enjoy and savor the experience for the sake of the experience.

My point was that all peoples have fought over power, wealth and land forever- and it really all boils down to land. thanks for saying this, i dont think my wolfpack analogy was effective. So my idea is first of all, no land ownership seems pretty dangerous, if people can take what they want for nothing, people are going to cut down the trees, kill the animals and mine the earth itself. and yet native american indians were great care-takers of the land and kept a perfect sustainability.for thousands of years. @zanshin, good posting, and i am in more agreement with you than not. on this point tho; even places we absolutely trashed with strip mining coming back from my perspective, not really. and i openly admit my bias against coal companies all too often it happens that the bond a company is required by law to put up to cover the cost of the reclamation is waived and they are allowed to strip or mountaintop remove the coal. after the coal has been taken the company vanishes behind 9 layers of hidden ownership winding up somewhere in india perhaps. there is no one to hold accountable to reclaim the land, and how would one rebuild a mountain anyways, but i am digressing and tho digressing is my usual style i will try to stay on course becoz i hope to show how all this ties in together. earlier i asked what was appalachias greatest asset? and as much as i have this love for trees, it is not really the trees per se. but they assist greatly. i am not against coal,and coal is not the greatest asset either. but i am very against the methods of current removal. folks speak about jobs, but strip mining and mountain top removal has the very idea of getting rid of the jobs anyway. just a couple of heavy equipment operators instead of miners,,, digressing, i wonder if anyone thinks about the appalchian mountains/forest as being the main source of water for the entire eastern usa? http://appvoices.org/water/ http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/pnas%20201112381.pdf and keeping with the traditions of the appalachian mountains we will let outsiders who dont give a lick damn for the environment or an ounce of basic decent humanity for the mountain people to come in and take the water, poison the water,ruin the water, just like they have always raped, plundered, exploited , and stolen, and murdered for the other valuable resources before. traditions are hard to break. so it is alright that these outside powerful interests have caused floods that have killed people to get some coal or timber. but they are about to totally poison their own entire clean source of water. and keeping with the traditions of appalachia, the mountain folk should sacrifice everything again, again digressing, to further the best interests of some hidden corporation somewhere. well its ok the coal rapers dont have to post a reclaiming bond, even if federal law requires such. and this doesnt just happen in appalachia apparently; so i wont take it personal. http://www.epa.gov/gateway/learn/water.html

alot of questions joeblast, ill try one tho, Or, why was purchased political influence acceptable to give the nat'l assoc of realtors exemptions from having to do their money laundering fraud homework? apparently it was thought , that if it had to be proved that all monies for properties had to be legal and clean, then , at least here in america, ALL property ownership would be under question. forest ownership? we have to include the timber industry too. and they are free to cut down their forest at their own whim. as could any of the other private owners, or could also the federal govt decide to clear cut national forests. in my neck of the woods, it is the private owners who can be most trusted to protect the forest. been about 80 years since the last big clear cut masacre of trees and forest, and most folks i talk to say that clear cuttin' bizness aint gonna happen on their watch. around 1720 appalachia was 90% forested. still about 2/3 covered. which is good. http://www2.for.nau.edu/courses/for212/foresttypes/appalachian.htm here is my question concerning the appalachian forest, what is its most valuable resource? it is so obvious and still seems to me, that nobody has a clue.

central appalachian forest

one wandering wolfpack will know exactly their own boundary of land and where exactly the boundaries of neighboring wolf packs are. it is only in rare cases of extreme desperation that one pack will cross into another packs' land. and if they did cross the line there will be war. is this land ownership?