Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

When the shit hits the fan, a warrior never gets involved if it is not righteous to do so. Involvement with conflict, competition, and all things war, is usually and irrefutably wrongful. A soldier will jump at the opportunity to follow orders into battle, but a warrior will only defend the innocent and refrain from killing if it is not absolutely necessary... I'm "criminally insane" but i dont show it off except during rants on the internet :\

a soldier does what he is told, regardless of what is right. A Warrior does what He knows is Right, regardless of what He is told.

The ability to make any choice at all. the 5 most valuable principals i can discern in reality are: Truth Free Will Mutual Unity Family and Self defense/martial arts They all build upon and off of each other. there can be no greater virtue than maintaining these 5. this response can be argued to be automated, but there will be no evidence that it is not an act of free will. A lack of proof does not constitute proof of lacking.

Civilization. the only other thing in nature that resembles it is cancer.

while others dont need anything but a cedar box and lotus position... I need to train harder. where's the nearest taoist temple?

I am not a computer, not a robot, not an automation. There is no natural or beneficial reason to limit myself to such designations by eliminating my emotional experience (or any positive experience at all) for.... for what? what is gained by becoming an automated slave? or Mastering the emotions: What's in it for me?

Well, after thorough behavioral temporing and adjustments, and discipline, and..... etcetera... I'm behaving... it's a strange new experience, but well all arrive here somehow or another, don't we? I've had the uncanny luck to meet BKA face to face and it was certainly a blessing HI AGAIN EVERYONE!

heh... just got back you havent missed any fireworks yet. lol

funny... im not convinced ANYONE needs money, im not convinced i will ever die... SADLY, i am not convicned anyone of you deserves to live if you think you need money.

God, the state, and society are expressed only through the individuals who insist upon these three things. Without the incessant demand for them, they dont have expression. Anarchy is truth, freedom, mutual unity (or mutiny), family, and self defense. The 5 most valuable principals.

in all fairness, if you're doing it right, you still topple over, it just takes longer ~_n

The isness of isness is the suchness of being.

Hm.. yes... yesm, hmm. my horse stance needs work, but is getting better!

Glad to know I've been well recieved! n_n

I can't share my image extensions... so i will try uploading :\ Made by weavesilk or some such web page.

Circle Walking is an important aspect of Bagua Zhang ~_n Right now, however, i am practicing balance and stability (for Circle Walking) by standing on one foot at a time for long periods n_n

The isness of isness. Taoism.

Kernal hard as stone long time petrification while this thread stays soft...

Someone i know, perhaps? heh, i'm making a guess that i do.

rather than chaining them all together, or waiting until the chain offers an opening for your inspired haiku, post 'em here! Ham Led Salami. Those words are an anagram; I am mad as hell.

I dont know about the rest of you, but if i stare into bright light (usually the sun) it makes me sneeze. It's not always the same angle either, sometimes it only works from the left side of the pupils, or other times it feels liek the light has to enter from the top, entering from my forehead, rather than my pupils... but it's always consistent: every time i step outside from in a dark room, i have to sneeze. The bright light triggers it. i've proven this to myself time and again by staring into various light sources as a means to trigger a sneeze. I just went outside to take a leak, and i sneezed, and the thought occoured: What if it is the light content in the air that we actually need when we breathe? Maybe it's not as important that we breath oxygen as it is the light contained within the oxygen? Like food, we eat it for the protein and vitamins, but what if the protein and vitamins are merely adequate vessils for transmitting light to our bodies? Perhaps the supposedly starving yogi who lives without food or water has learned to derrive the transmuted light by transmuting it in himself, instead of consuming pre-transmuted light in external material like food and water? Then again, he still breathes, right? Maybe that's where the transmuting takes place.... the light in the air...

How do i learn, grow, mature, without examples to learn FROM? How can i be expected to grow up and mature, when no examples of grown up or mature behavior are available to be had? How can i be expected to grow up and take care of someone who has never grown up and taken care of me? How can i be expectd to be my father's dad?!

you're talking about that movie, arent you? John Carter of Mars?

i doubt we're all from mars. maybe a few of us, but i know i am as old as the earth (spiritually speaking) and know no place else i could feel be my home. If you feel like you'd be mroe at home on mars, quite frankly, i dont want you here