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Tools of the trade,, on the cheap,, if you’re on the site looking for warm and fuzzy, welcome!!? keeping it Spiritual if even somewhat Old Testament; Ecclesiastical Wisdom For everything there is a season. every fourth generational, a time to in the digital age up in Cape Cod the boy that died wolf & the bigger the river, the bigger the drought. Words of wisdom. and now sum songs ** NOT for sale to Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand. although California is ok?? hmm idk I make no claims to legal advise, in fact, I’m anarchy in motion. https://www.coldsteel.com/fgx-tai-pan/ Of course Ecclesiastes is ancient poetry suggesting that we may be in a simulation, ancient Greeks also considered the idea,,,,,, never the less be that as it may or may not be //// the sticking point remains Okay https://www.knifecenter.com/department/combat-and-tactical-knives/fixed-blade-daggers Kershaw Gerber Spartan AG Russell Boker et al the things that sell Made in Taiwan And a final word of caution about knife fighting or toma hawking against the one with the Can Tuc Kee thunder stick and/or the one with OG BGZ skillz The song remains the same as it ever was

AI chess player Stockfish opens a Spiritual channel on YouTube here is a short trailer

Wearing a target on our backs is what we Kentuckians do best; yet,,,, stay tuned for an upcoming Voices of Murica episode for more about that. Anyways it is 420 Eve !! and https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-sends-a-message-to-stoners

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I don’t think pretending “to be” whatever is in harmony with Dao. Do you feel harmony is humanly unattainable? Thanks for the question; and my “perfectly aligned” is confusing, or at least probably could’ve been worded differently. It wasn’t supposed to come across like planets lining up; even if that is also Dao. (the date stamp of my post 8/14/22 is interesting bc 8/15 was a notable day personally.) I think what I was trying to say is I look at it like be carefree & natural. Authentic, true to yourself and to your nature. Don’t try forcing things/ try harmony.

Thank you @Nungali for sharing Sonny & Jay. Good concepts used in that community imo. I am going to continue with knives and return of this gent. “Return of weapons, tactics, of earlier times.” Indeed, to primitive cave man style. My thought; trench knife vs tomahawk ? a couple of generations later, (although, shovels, pick ax, hammer, etc used in WW1) http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/08/war-tomahawk.html Sometimes, less tech works best. Bowie knives would’ve worked just fine in this scenario as well.

So, thread began with Lynn Thompson, a weapons manufacturer, owning the company Cold Steel. Another Thompson, John T. Championed the Tommy gun aka Chicago typewriter. With the idea it could sweep up trenches during WW1, that war ended before production. The first war the Thompson sub machine gun performed in, the first such to be called a sub machine gun, was the 1921 Blair Mountain War in West Virginia; used by West Virginia state police against striking coal miners. Later the US army rode in on train and massacred the coal miners as they slept in their tents, but I digress. 175 million Thomason’s were manufactured by 1945. Before use by allied forces, these sub machine guns proved their worth used by street gangsters, lawmen, Chinese war lords, etc Even Tommy Shelby used one against a small gypsy camp for placing a curse on his family. One of my favorite characters from Peaky Blinders is Winston Churchill https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/winston-churchill-with-tommy-gun.html Moving along with the thread,,, another American from those 20th century war times; Tony Biddle trained US Marines in hand to hand combat, authored the 1937 book Do or Die. https://www.amazon.com/Do-Die-Supplementary-Manual-Individual/dp/1626541612 related video

They look like a force to be reckoned with; I reckon not to be messed with. I recently learned that cats meow only when speaking with humans. 90% of the time my two speak cat with me. It’s only when I don’t get it when they resort to meowing at me.

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Much bigger jumps skill wise in martial arts are accomplished with meditation.

I think I see it a little differently; what you describe I refer to as will.

true, my reference was in a philosophical context. But I do see your point.

Jesus was/is a commie.

How can anyone not like “Hallelujah Anyway” ? and May as well be (act) Brave even if ya ain’t. No one can tell the difference. Hallelujah Anyway !! Anne Lamott sounds like a redneck to me

ah, I see you’re dreamer too, kinda like ChiDragon. ya’ll have nice dreams, I must say. and it’s really been three full years rather than two. Of course, giving in to fatalism isn’t appealing,,, but maybe listen to the stoics. in the weeeeee hours this morning; my thoughts were on all that’s good in the world, and some amazing folks I’m lucky to know, Dao Bums, common bums of a kinder persuasion, along with the occasional glimpse of a Daoist fairy, Xian visitations, benevolent (heroic) shapeshifters, and the two gray tabby kittens I call Scrapper & Bandit…. and maybe may be we do have a fighting chance to get through the year. probably be an interesting one fr

Totally plausible. man, you are a dreamer ! hey, it’s a fabulous marvelous dream. keep close to Dao, my friend

I like this intrigue of power over oneself. And i have a friend used to post prolifically and profoundly on this site that introduced me to the hold breath stuff. I imagine it is useful for some in a few regards. I am in the camp of never forcing breath or energy Don't think a few of us haven't noticed your (power) growth.

Right, and as the song goes, "some do magic and some do harm" My definition of magic may be different than other folks have. What meaning does magick have for you?

Is igniting a brown paper bag, (theatrically) power? Are parlor tricks, power? Do the members who arrive at this site, entering these gates, the ones asking, some demanding, for “power”// do the members doing this become long term members of our community? Do they know what “ power” is? How would anyone know if they wanted it if they don’t even know what it is? Power seekers kinda confuse me ( well, not really ) why don’t they go to online political forums and ask for power there? ah yeah, that ain’t power either. And these members never specify which skills or virtues they desire, or why or how they would use such a thing or such things, they simply ask for “power” and expect everyone to jump at the opportunity to be the power supplier. ok, some have over the years. Jumping to the front of the line to supply power to the ones jumping to the front of the line seeking it. That all went well, worked out alright didn’t it? No? good grief dudes, all I asked for was “power” give it up and cya already, I ain’t got time to waste, except unless, it’s the real power, you know, hurry up hand it over. does this ever work or ever work out? can a member, seeking “power” here be identified as one who attained this power? if so, please share your experience. I think I must’ve missed it when that happened. it never inspires me. what a difference IMO it would be if new members came here asking about virtues or skills; and a few have actually, not nearly as many it seems as the ones seeking “power” or if there were many passing through our gates asking for ways to help others, heal themselves and then be able to be of service healing others or that sorta thing, or show sincere respect, open mindedness, steady consistency, at least/// and again, we’ve had those types too. Personally, I find those a bit more interesting and may follow some of their posts. and I’ve even tried ( often successfully) to provoke these in some way. For my own reasons (rightly or wrongly) and a few of the few do hang around despite the various antics, insults, ego battles, etc and become lights of our community. I thank them, kinda, (may take years for me to do so, ) ( The ones who don’t need thanked or acknowledged I find more interesting) has anyone arriving here, immediately asking or demanding power to be handed to them, actually become part of our community? If so please step forward and accept a door prize

You’re looking for the right thing. Welcome to The Dao Bums

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https://markrasmus.org/ anyone have experience with any of these workshops? prices being what they are; (not suggesting price is high or low) does one get value for their $ ?

So two states passed the vote and three states failed to pass recreational mj this past election. Kentucky governor issued an executive order allowing Kentuckians to purchase medical mj in other states and possess/use here, up to eight ounces. legislatures refuse to put a bill together and for some reason won’t allow a measure to be voted on in an election by the public. in other news https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-legal-medical-marijuana-harvest-230006309.html