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Hopefully some people like you are still here at TTBs to voice a traditional viewpoint in a Mara environment. Many blessings to you

Hi Oldchi, As Greytowhite said it, Fivelementtao used to live in Boise, Idaho for years. He has moved to CA. You can still contact him and ask him what living there was like. His website: http://www.spirittao.com/ Take care

Hello Sifu Dunn, I am sincerely joining the people who pray for your case. Please allow me to add here Psalm 5 Psalm 5 Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation. 2 Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray. 3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up. 4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You. 5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity. 6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. 7 But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy; In fear of You I will worship toward Your holy temple. 8 Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; Make Your way straight before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue. 10 Pronounce them guilty, O God! Let them fall by their own counsels; Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, For they have rebelled against You. 11 But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You. 12 For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous; With favor You will surround him as with a shield. (King James version) Take care,

Certainly not and that's the problem. A very few people have actually read Marx, have read several academic analysis about him. So posting something like ' the truth about Marx' that is like saying I know something about Fourier series or Bach cantatas without having actually studied them. This is BS.

I incidentally only kept record of the $3 donation I made in 2012. I deleted the paypal receipt for the lifetime subscription I made earlier. If you are still interested, let me know, I'll send you what I have.

1. You asked the mods to ban you. You said it would make you happy. I said: we don't have to ban you, you can just leave if you feel this is right for you. This is your freedom. If it makes you happy not to be at TTBs, juts do it yourself. 2. You are saying that people don't have the required level of sensitivity to understand you. So I am only asaking you to forgive me if what I wrote did not manifest the level of sensitivity to be a good enough reply to your post. It was not a sarcasm, although i can see now, how it could be taken this way. 3. You are saying that your example of harsh post is disharmonious. Don't you think it could be beneficial to members to see an harmonious post from you about the disharmonious post you made? That was my point. No one will judge you, because no one can. We don't know who you are really. No, It's really not about that, believe me. The rule popped up from exchanges the mod team and the co-admin (who as far s I know doesn't own the boards) had about posts vanishing. There is no conspiracy about intellectual property. I am sorry. I am leaving this interesting discussion for now. Take care everyone!

Do it yourself if it is that important for you skydog. Do your best not to depend on someone else for your happiness. That is a good example, skydog, thanks! Can you tell now how you could see that post as inappropriate some time later?

If you regret a post you made. Just say it in a new post. People will see how you moved from an idea to another, and how you were able to move from an accusatory state of mind to another state that suits you more at this point. And it could be a lesson for them about how people can change, how thoughts are sometimes just energy surges, how we should perhaps not trust them totally when they seem to tell us something true about the world out there and how they can be adjusted to your spirit instead of being adjusted to a cyclothymic functioning. There may be numerous benefits for members of a cultivation forum to share their thoughts, to receive feedback about them and be able to learn from other thoughts. It may be one of the purpose of a cultivation forum. But as you said, I may not have developped a level of sensitivity that allows me to understand what you are saying. For that, you will have to forgive me. "them" who? TTBs is not moderators property, you know that, right? Are you saying that making posts vanish is a way of building database knowledge? This is becoming non sense. You are old, responsible and free enough to give yourself this time away if you feel you need it.

I don't care personally, but I think it is beneficial to the community. There is no contradiction because as a mod, I am trying to see things from a global viewpoint. Personally means, me, as a regular member. What are you trying to do, cat? edited to add: The part after the quote in my previous message is an answer to the quote , not a continuation of what I wrote above the quote.

question: If it is much ado about nothing then why make the change in the first place? answer (from the mod pov) Because there is no conversation anymore (= no thread anymore) in a thread when: -either people have emptied there posts in an entire thread -either they edit there posts in such a way that the replies other members have made to the first version of their posts are not relevant anymore. Because some people are using the edit feature to hide some insulting/etc posts just after they made sure the recipient read it. This is now my member pov: At some point I thought something, I made a given post, if at a later time, I think differently, what's the problem with my previous post? Really, what's the problem? Can someone tell me why it is vitaly imortant to erase it. Does it erase it from your personal history? No. people who cares about their previous post seem overly concerned about the image they give of their screenname. If people are speaking their truth here, why editing it afterwards instead of stating their new truth. Can't they have some respect for what they were, what they thought previously? What is the problem? It is because I have in mind the community that I do think that it is more beneficaial to it to be able to read entire and complete threads instead of reading ribbons of them. The rest is indeed just a personal viewpoint.

cat, please...I don't give a damn about my moderation position. viator, can testify that I offered my help only in case he needed someone in a specific time zone and if he hadn't find anyone else. viator and the others in the mod team know that this mod thing is more a burden for me than anything else. TTbs is not MY thing at all, and I can live without. What I find strange is that how people react for something that is just a tiny thing in their world: does this edit time change affect in anyway, how they make their living, how they take care of their partner, kids, how they meditate, how they breathe, how their feet are touching the earth ectc..? Please tell me that all these things are equal to this edit time thing. If you think it is, ok, but then I have nothing to do here, nothing. Relating this change with freedom, I mean freedom, seems to me, not as a mod, but as a human, quite indecent, when I look at how, in all others domains of their life, people abdiquate their freedom. Come one, cat, it is indeed a ridiculous psycho drama. I wrote this not as a mod, but as a member of TTBs

Asking for freedom of editing is one thing, it is clear and straightforward and I can understand that. Asking to edit post for fluidity of conversation is another thing, it is seems a baseless point to me. Don't ask me to name people ( there are more than 2 ou 3 at TTBs) who edit their posts to avoid taking responsability for what they post. They will recongnize themselves easily. Personally I don't care. When I will drop moderation, it won't make any difference to me: Iessentially edit my post for grammar and spelling and because english is not my first language. After the 30mn time my incorrect language will be set in stone. I won't make a fuss out of it. I locate my freedom somewhere else than in an editing feature in an internet forum. This is not against you Apech, I am just stating my thoughts as they are. And I can understand why you may not agree with me.

I would like to see where is the fluidity of conversation when there is no conversation anymore: -either because people have emptied there posts in an entire thread -either because they edit there posts in such a way that the replies other members have made to the first version of their posts are not relevant anymore. The thing about having posts petrified is a strange argument. Of course our thoughts are submitted to change and of course we may not recognize ourselves in previous thoughts we had, thoughts we may have spoken to someone, expressed in actions or written somewhere. That 's life and that's the way it is in real life. There is time. How amazing it is to see that people think that www should be always an up to date image of themselves, as if the www was a way for them nullify time itself. This may occur in personal cultivation, but how strange to look for this nullification outside their mind, on an internet forum?? How can this make sense? Thirdly, things should be put in context. This is just an internet forum, where people are posting under screennames unless they want to reveal their ID. So what? Really this controversy is much ado about nothing. I hope it is not ill-faith based.

Where is this serious cultivation discussion people were talking about? If I summarize what has been posted so far (please allow some approximations) 1. Thanks for the article 2. There may be a connection with the vagus nerve 3. Real men who have a real connection with women know what all that is about 4. People want anatomical sub-fora 5. Beware of the mod/jerk, he only knows the way from GD to the Pit, he doesn't have a clue about the way to the topic discussed. 6. Beware of not knotting it 7. Friend and RV are suggesting someone should give Apech an orgasm 8. Apech is waiting behind his computer and to pass the time he is anticipating.

Hi CrunchyChocolate555, What kind of physical exercise/activity do you have?

Hi rene, I have splitted the thread and sent the most recent derailing posts to the Pit. The thread and its pitted part are locked. Warm regards,

Me too.

By observing objectively and very closely cause and effect at work and drawing conclusions from there. This method is the one recommended by the Buddha, if I understood well.

If you acknowledge cause and effect, you don't have to make a belief out of it. It is just reality, right? Reincarnation is a pretty bad and confusing word actually because it suggests a substratum that would incarnate in different bodies. Buddhists don't accept that idea. From what I read, their idea is different and smarter than that. Perhaps some knowledgeable member (no troll, no fundamentalist) could give it a go?

Which category do you fall into? So in my book you would qualify for such a discussion. The word 'karma' doesn't have to be an idol.

I don't think so. I have forgotten almost all the technical details I read about karma years ago. So I would not be able to contribute much. But I do think it could be a good discussion if fundamentalists and trolls stay away from it. Below, I have selected the part I find relevant.

I think this is worth a separate thread. I also agree with Apech based on my limited understanding

Is the Buddhist idea of karma really different from cause and effect? I am not sure but I admit I am ignorant and biased.

Yes, me too. But the exact definition of what a long thread is remains to be given. So when in doubt, just check the bottom of the thread, you may have a good surprise

A slight drawback though: for long threads, the printer icon will not appear.