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what the world really needs is more storytellers. there is more to do sittin' 'round the campfire than roasting weeners and marshmallows. with our thoughts we make the world, someone said edit> ten years, ok if it takes a thousand years,,,ok

me either!? we come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust,,,, scattalogicaly speaking transforamtion and evolution language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidziKYG9jk

"government just picks and chooses laws it deems worthy of recognition, or exploitation, whatever their aim is, that's how it gets applied." reminds me of a talking heads song? "you may ask yourself, well, how did i get here" "into the blue again" "you may ask yourself, how do i work this?" "let the days go by, water flowing under" "same as it ever was" i do agree that the tax code is ridiculous..and no matter who has been elected , we still have the same ol govt, replacing corrupts with corrupts doesnt change the equation. the democrats have one way to steal from us and the republicans choose a different way is all. i quit worryin about it, long long time ago. if usa declines and falls wont matter that much to me really, "you may ask yourself, how do i work this?" same as it ever was--repeat until infinity

"at least you can discharge that debt when you die..." there is that, and much more too, i just took my exit counseling, and i was like geesh, i shoulda taken more loans, they sure dont tell ya all this at the beginning counseling if ya make payments for ten years at a rate of 10% of your "disposable income" (whatever the heck that is?!) but i never noticed i ever had any "disposable income", anyways make that payment for ten years and the rest is forgiven. says so in black and white. and there is the 25 year option, and i doubt any of us will be here in 25 years, but i digress,, yeah it sucks being poor and all without a job, ima gonna have to hang out at the lake all summer and wait for grad school to begin (in hawaii) in the fall, or maybe i'll wait til next january? no hurry, no worries i wernt no math major but , let me figure , 10% of next to nuthin' is? " attorney-client privilege" we cant trust lawyers now? aw cmon,,, these same ol games been played out here in appalachia the past hundred years, we're pretty used to it by now.. heh

@joeblast, if question # 12 is solvable ramp up the loan to 200 grand there is grad school after all what's a poor boy to do, anyways,('ceptin to play baguazhang) stick around town and beg for a job at the dollar store or try the luck at college? so far ive experienced mixed results heheh besides if the big banksters take bailouts, why shouldnt students? down in the woods , things like that get noticed,, glad i locked in at 3.86 %, not that it will matter hopefully the economy stays tanked coz i dont really want a job- that would interfere with bagua /qigong/ meditation time not to mention fishin' and honky tonkin and have to keep the nature time available i think todays economy its about be able to adjust.i reckon ima adjustin just fine

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not every single western Taoist fits your description of western Taoists a few that i hang out with agree with you exorcist_1699 and we do often get ridiculed by the western taoists that do fit your description. we dont care about the ridicule tho.

or the birth of an idea, ideal, dream,,,,,,

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i am thinking that the naturally occurring mineral calcium fluoride aint so bad in water, if it hasnt been added by humans, but the added forms of fluoride like 63% of the population received water fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid, 28% with sodium fluorosilicate, and 9% with sodium fluoride maybe not so good. once fluoride has been added to the water its practically impossible to control the dose. not a single biological process has been shown to require fluoride. on the contrary there is extensive evidence that fluoride can interfere with many important biological processes. Healthy adult kidneys excrete 50 to 60% of the fluoride ingested each day (Marier & Rose 1971). The remainder accumulates in the body, largely in calcifying tissues such as the bones and pineal gland (Luke 1997, 2001). Infants and children excrete less fluoride from their kidneys and take up to 80% of ingested fluoride into their bones (Ekstrand 1994). The fluoride concentration in bone steadily increases over a lifetime (NRC 2006).

thank you to grandmasterP and dawei

I was looking for the pinned thread that contained the massive online Taoist resources and canon that stigweard had contributed here, and not able to locat the thread, are they still available?

yeah lol i shoulda kept looking b4 i started a thread demonstrating my ineptness oh well

ok i found them doh lol http://thetaobums.com/topic/9183-taoism-taobums-faq/

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Li Ching-Yuen said to walk like a pigeon

i wanted to show my appreciation for flautists

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