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@yamu, thank you for your response and it does make sense the way you expressed it. also thank you for enduring the many things you have endured here. it is good to have you on board this forum. and you do share the posting tendencies of hundreds of members here. there is also well over a hundred non-sleeping, active member ppf's in that section and these are members who share all kinds of things, including their practices and experiences with those. and care enuff to keep a journal, so to speak, of it. like brian said, going around to all these different sites and registering etc many tend not to do that sort of thing. but here on ttb those that are already here, this is one convenient location to catch up with many things very quickly. i do appreciate the efforts that you give here. i understand that the serious teacher does need to earn a living like anyone else and to be a qigong instructor in america can be a challenging endeavor. i am not second guessing your approach and again thank you for your reply.

thank you also trunk for enduring and responding mindfully. i think we all are considering each other's viewpoints about these ideas and excellent choice of song to play. i appreciate that. @brian, thank you for your detailed and thoughtful reply, we are all voicing our thoughts here with the same goal--to have ttb a great enjoyable place. "So, finally, the TTB revenue stream." this is none of my concern really, this is soley sean's bizness. "Not sure about Sean's marketing approach " me either, and again this is sean's concern or not, as he decides to choose. "I don't know about you but when I am doing web research on a topic and I find a potential source of content which requires registration, I almost invariably look elsewhere. " yes i agree, good point and i didnt mean to come off like i have no regard for our visitors but i do spend much more of my own energy and time with the tao bums members, and it is true that for every signed in member there are ten guests watching, if any of those are members that just havnt signed on becoz they dont intend to post at the time idk. but certainly we do have a large number of visitors comparatively to our membership.

he may be doing that. i think he has handled the questions on this thread well. one thing thos, trunk is admin and not a mod. trunk, you have a great mod team here, trust them! let em mod i tried to present him with a couple of tough questions, and i am satisfied with his responses to me and maybe him and apech are getting closer to being on the same page? idk but i do share some of the concerns that apech has expressed here especially the quick decisions to ban certain members without allowing the mods to do so , or choose not to do so. because i feel that the mods , there are 3 or 4 of them, and it is telling that we are not even sure who they are exactly, becoz it is trunk front and center acting singly. here is what i am getting at. lets say we have 3 or 4 mods and a tech,and the stewards,, but that is 3-5 sets of eyes and ears that are actively following the threads here and have a great sense of the energy and the vibe going on. the stewards add to that. so i trust the decisions of the mod team and stewards, as i feel that there should be active conversation and cooperation between mods and stewards. but i trust several sets of eyes, ears,insights, and judgements over a single person's , no matter who that single person happens to be. i hope that makes sense? one person just cannot adequately keep up with all that is going on here and for one person to choose to ban a member without debate or cousel from the mods who are placed in this postion to do that very thing?? cmon man !?! but i have gone off topic here, and i dont want to distract from the op yamu probably missed my question as several posts followed and it got lost in the shuffle so again i would like to hear from yamu, why he doesnt choose to take advantage of the ppf here, it did seem that brian attempted to answer on his behalf, maybe? but all i got from thjat is becoz it isnt google searchable? and that doesnt make sense to me, becoz why would someone post on this forum only if its in a google searchable area ? if it is , like grandmasterP is suggesting , and most of the online teachers already have their own website locations that provide more frequent and direct communications between teacher and student,,then why are we even expending our time and energy here to discuss the op? so, i would like to hear from a teacher that participates here on ttb why not use the ppf?

i had thought that after my school finishes up , and all the writing i am required to do here with that, but when i finsih with this i have a few ideas for articles to post. i cant say whether they would be quality or not. but i didnt want that to deter me from posting and see how it goes. i do go there sometimes and find articles by harmonious emptiness, thelerner, deci belle, easterninternalarts, friend, 林愛偉, grandmasterP, skydog, shenlung, apech, desert eagle, 宁, marblehead, that have been posted since my arrival here and thats almost going on 5 years, so considering that, i dont think its overloaded by a long shot. i would actually like to see more articles by more members.

i thought the article criteria was stated as it having to be an original work. is the article section over loaded with articles now? there is a space limit in that section? and if you are saying that staff isnt qualified to determine what 'quality' is, then how could you say that what ended up in there was 'quality'? i think ttb does not need to be in the quality assurance bizness concerning; systems, teachers, or articles, let the members use their own subjectivity. who cares if there are a gazillion articles? i dont get it? it is ludicris to think that someone could come up with one or two 'quality' articles but no more than that. if it aint broke , dont fix it. is your goal to damn up the flow of conversation? free flowing water is better than stagnant water is how i look at it. here is the criteria but we have mal editing sean?? http://thetaobums.com/topic/406-articles-section/ but how did you even arrive here about tinkering with the article section. this thread is discussing if we want to try and attract teachers, i thought. i am not sure we do need to myself, but why the heck jump over to messing with the article section? trunk, last year , when i had my contributed articles idea/thread, you convinced me that we needed to just leave it as it was, ok, we did that, so lets just leave it as it is, ok? has there been a sudden rash of complaints about the articles section?

why would it be a problem if an article led to a long discussion? edit> why limit the amount of articles a person could contribute, as long as they met the article criteria?

if i had a teacher that posted in ppf, it would seem a huge benefit to me. the thread could stay right on topic without the detractors. lets say there are 50 members here that have bought either books, dvds, or attended seminars, but dont live close enuff to be able to see this teacher on a weekly or even monthly basis. having an active ppf, where the 50 could share their experiences of doing the practices and having the teacher providing relevant feedback, imo would be highly beneficial. and it directly benefits the tao bum members, i dont really care so much about the occasional casual onlookers that are not members here, my loyalty and service has been to tao bums, that is why i didnt mind at all to donate my time and energy to mod here. i like that i gave back to a site that has benefitted me so much. but if i was a casual non member perusing this site looking for a teacher. and i saw one that had an active ppf for the students he/she already had. that would probably look favorable to me. does that sense? edit> and zen bear does it on the open forum even, he has had his moments dealing with detractors now and then, but that bunch does keep on keepin on from what i've seen.

sotg, i'll check it out when i get caught up here(school work), maybe first of the week , hopefully is it anything similar to space panda qigong? becoz i missed all of that discussion

my intuition advised me not to do that to him. and my gut also told me, leave this one alone.

gm and tamiflu were doing well? well, well

brian, you make some good valid points and i certainly have always valued your voice on ttb. the crowded movie theatre is a good example. your last closing paragraph, why would the "good stuff" rapidly become degraded in a ppf? and would this also have the potential for visitors to become members, if they knew by doing so, they could view the "good stuff" ? edit> this post posted b4 i was finished. but i'll continue ; since he has been brought up and even posted on this thread, i would like to hear from yamu, why he doesnt take advantage of the ppf? did santiago have a ppf while he was here? did 5 elementao have a ppf?

mythmaker, you're a martial atist, right? i have never ever ever never seen any hint of violence out of you. a true martial artist just has that aura of peace around them imo

marblehead is going to look for that "dont like" button again.

i agree that the better grounded connection that we have is what enables us to soar to those transcendant mystical moments, and if we are fully grounded then we are able to bring from those experiences something that we can express and use back on the ground. of course neitzsche considered kant as the central figure of all of modern philosophy.. and obviously neitzsche is a neoplatonist himself , albeit a post christian one.

bubba moneybags and daddy warbucks step out of the shadows, its a brave new world http://news.yahoo.com/the-koch-s--secret-bank--takes-another-step-out-of-the-shadows-031543616.html

pico della mirandola says nyet, he is out so really cant even consider the renaissance without giovanni

yes we probably cannot have plato or socrates appear on our philosophy section either. the list will grow larger even.