Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

Cooking is alchemy at its finest! Consider listening to your stomach when picking foods, instead of your tongue. The Body apart from the mind still has its own mind, and it isnt stupid! The body knows what it needs more than the mind inhabiting it might. Learn to listen to your body. Sometimes, due to inexperience, you might find yourself craving something. maddness. i crave... i CRAVE... but what i crave? What do i crave? DAMMIT im hungry and dont wnt to eat anything available... I've been there, sure many others have too... this is our body out-knowing our mind. the physical knowledge of necessety and instinct overriding life-experience, that the body knows it needs a food it has not yet eaten in its lifetime. (my body's a "he" by the way, "it" is starting to sound absurd) Back to cooking. sometimes one must extract from the foods that specific element which our bodies crave... sometimes the nutrition is greater in the individual ingredients in cooked meals, like a well rounded stew havinf healthier carrots than the exact same gathering of carrots that werent added to the stew. This is aside from the "association" factor, that these foods are GOING to share nutrition a little whence cooked together; but i've learned to listen to instinct no matter how illogical... cook a carrot alone and it loses nutrition, cook a carrot in a stew, and it gains nutrition from itself as well as its neighboring ingredients... the carrot learns to open its inner potential when cooked with other ingredients, not when cooked alone. Think not of your cooking as a task, chore, or even recipe, but think of it in terms of PEOPLE; that you are combining people in a situation and you want these people to best accentuate each other and harmonize a healthy balance of body, texture, flavor, and spirit. Think of cooking more like you are managing a small tribe of people: The ingredients are teh people, and the resulting meal is a representation of the spirit of the tribe. To be a good chef, you msut be a good cheif. to be a good cheif, you must know your people as though they are your own children. To be a good chef, you msut know your ingredients first hand, as theyare alone, and as they are in company of other flavors.

yeah, how many "cleopatras" can there be, reincarnating from one cleo?

It's a video, not a Rorschach inkblot!

i feel much teh same way

Spirit of the so-called "inanimate" objects is a much more effective manner of pondering the nature of "spirit". Every rock, blade of grass, leaf, stem, twig, puddle, dropplet, and breath has a spirit, a life, and even its own name.

i was a little uprooted by some of the psychological associations made in this post... also, i have 0 recollection of past lives, and i blame that on my present situation lol a little backwards i think

Happy Ne--- WAIT! I'll get back to you when china's caught up. or what is it the other way around?

I've pondered cannibalism many times... "thin the herd" right?

I like to keep up with the zodiac, and have found the Chinese easier to follow than the "traditional" zodiac of Aquarius to Capricorn... Learned me up some new things to know the 60 year cycle, but confused enough to wonder why every other year is yin? specifically: why are all the even years yang? lol Edit: also, Yin Wood Ox needs a few pointers hehe

Capitalization is not only a means of naming and starting sentences, but reverence as well, comparably to naming something/one/where... God, for example, in my own mind is a noun that is NOT person, place, or thing... Tao, is as though an omniversal singularity path with no surface to tread upon... (also, I got nothin')

Option1: Live in the ocean; Option 2: invent the matrix so I can be awake and productive while I am asleep.

I would ask the wizard many questions until I was satisfied that I understood his intentions with these potions.... So I guess it'd start with "why?", and follow that line of questions for a while.....

no, rather specific isn't wrong but that specific isn't genuinely unique.

It's been a while since I knew what the topic was in here anymore. I'll probably leave now.

I'm hardcore mode all the time, but soft enough to keep it to myself and not flaunt it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! (in six minutes )

aaand after curing the robot werewolf... http://ravensdojo.com/2009/03/ravensdojo00067/ Meet "the other" Dorian Black: (P.S. i can use the enter key in notepad, but not on the forum... results: successful)

i think the only description I can muster that can even emulate "justice" is "All Encompassing Infinitesimal Omniversal Unity" That even thought we all share experience, we are all also uniquely in our own uni/omniverse, we are all one, yet segregated from ourselves by means of entire realities.... infinity is terrifying and yet comforting at the same time...... edit add: And I just read my original post and laughed my ass off lol.... the way I mention the enter key (windows 8, may or may not even be the problem, could just be THIS computer.... but I odnt have that problem on my dad's other comp in the house), it cracked me up... I think it was also a nice touch for something as serious as this to be wrapped up with a literal truth and joke at the same time heh...

s'alrite, imam water anyways haha

not if the stone smashes them first! If rock paper scissors were a real time strategy, the last person to make a move wins. so it becomes a standoff!

Greed is the seed of evil, Money the root, incorporation is the trunk or stem, and CEO/president/etc. are the branches... We the people are but leaves that fall and die every year to decompose and nourish the tree of evil. However, we're also connected ot the tree of righteousness, so it doesn't really mean anything.

I've since gone to sleep and I guess.... slept the feeling off... but it was intense... hard to truly describe, but so.... overwhelming... Until I realized it was just me, I actually felt like the whole world was experiencing this heh...

...... Now think of the children...