Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

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  1. Haiku Chain

    in one tiny shot all the span of your being snuffed off the planet
  2. Learning to Burn

    I come bringing story. well... if I come, I guess?
  3. Learning to Burn

    This is where I type pointless words you don't listen to anyways. Right here... and here.
  4. Psychological Suicide

    when the intent is backed by the will, the way forward always becomes evident eventually. it is only when you've given up that the way forward can elude you.
  5. Greatness is incomplete

    mmh - forgot to follow through ~_~
  6. Does breathing play a significant role in your practice....?

    I am in the practice of constant attention to my breathing, learning its natural flows, controlled uses, and best combinations thereof... Sometimes walking is better from the abdomen, sometimes you just walk... I try to be observant of the comparisons and analytical of the subtle differences... but nothing is genuinely "known" in words, just understood in feeling. like yawning...
  7. Haiku Chain

    flowing as you go the everpresent Haiku Reality meme
  8. How many people experience god?

    I'd like to ask if anyone else has ever clicked "like" and had an advertisement site pop up instead? (pardon my reaction)
  9. What is humble?

    Pie.
  10. How many people experience god?

    I likedthat part... the rest of it kind of negates this, but I didn't take my "like" away
  11. The last week or so I have had an incredibly dominating feeling of impending "eventfulness" for the lack of a better description... which honestly is the best I can do... the feeling of something impending... not a bad feeling, not impending doom, but it is leaving me feeling absurdly anxious... Whatever this feeling is, maybe it is nothing but anxiety, but I cannot help but feel like something is about to happen... like I am holding my breath in anticipation (im breathing just fine, thank you). To be absolutely vulnerable and honest, it feels like I am supposed to be connecting with someone right now, meeting a soulmate-type individual or someone of that level of closeness/connectedness... maybe a sensei/teacher, I cannot say for sure... I am not even sure why I am starting this thread, except I suspect it might be a member of the bums that I am" feeling" the imminence. There are a number of potential possibilities this feeling may be connected to, and I cannot discern which: Writing the Zelda fanfic may gain sudden and beneficial recognition... which AsheSkyler could help me pull off... more... or any of the Works in Progress I have down in my blog maybe my "webcomic without pictures"... Which hod recommended I focus on (I took it as professional advice) There are several, but primarily two, members whom I have always had an acute "attraction" toward... threads of theirs which I gravitate toward and thoroughly enjoy... So overall, it might be the combination of hopeful events fighting for the focus of my attention which is causing this feeling-turmoil of impending activity...... Maybe someone else could help me chew on this one and come up with some insight on what's going on in my subconscious
  12. Men and Dinosaurs

    That totally makes a much better story than asteroids
  13. Men and Dinosaurs

    You cannot prove a negative, least of all with the ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE. Granted: UNTIL such a time that living dinosaurs are discovered, there is no sense in proclaiming it. but until there is proof that they have, in fact, been eradicated, it is not wrong or illogical to suspect they could still exist. Granted: T-rex is gone, we wont see him anymore, but they say he evolved into a chicken too... so apparently I cant argue that chickens are dinosaurs... But crocks and gators are supposedly surviving dinosaurs. so they DO still exist... just not the megalithic Brontosaurus or huge stegosaurs... Weather or not stegosaurs were ridden by humans or not is not arguable until either A: evidence of tamed and ridden dinosaur bones turn up or B: indisputable geologic findings detail the exact fate of all the "missing dinosaurs". even death by asteroid is still disputable. crocks obviously survived if it was an asteroid, so other waterborne and subterranean monsters could have survived as well.
  14. The Strange and Bitter Wisdom of Wong (long composite article)

    I don't procrastinate, I generally don't even consider doing shit unless it is presently necessary (like showering ).
  15. Men and Dinosaurs

    oh "men and dinosaurs" I thought that said "men are dangerous" was wondering why this thread had a double!
  16. Men and Dinosaurs

    Im not calling anyone names, unless you admit you're arguing over speculation. Then yeah, im calling you an idiot: someone who lacks the fortitude of mind enough to know when to quit. I'd be an idiot to continue stating this observation, so let's make a deal: I'll stop being an idiot and explicitely pointing out idiotic behavior if you stop engaging in argument over something that neither you nor your 'opponent' even CAN have any proof one way or the other! Is that fair, or am I an idiot to think its a rational middle ground?
  17. The decline and eventual fall of the USA as world superpower?

    I think my previous statement sums it up accurately and appropriately. But I digress: Yes and no. all government bluffs are at the very least with intent to follow through, if not capability. SO yes, im sure its "just" a bluff, but given the resources and compliance, it would be pulled off just as fast as it would be lied about. I'm calling their bluff on a daily basis, badmouthing their practices and comparing government officials to treasonous traitors one could kill without committing any crime! ... which I got suspended for, on no part on the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA/ETC. ... so its not the government im concerned about right now. "they" haven't touched me in regards to my disestablishmentarianism... which, granted, im not exactly a compelling speaker, nor am I leading any followers, but both those statuses would run contrary to my pursuit of exemplification rather than leadershit. So the question is not weather its a bluff or not, but weather or not anyone is willing to call that bluff. I'm not willing to not call their bluff.
  18. just don't follow in MY footsteps on that one and get suspended!
  19. The decline and eventual fall of the USA as world superpower?

    civilization? yes. its all one big bluff... sad that I don't know many people who can look past the smoke and mirrors...
  20. Men and Dinosaurs

    im not in favor of EITHER side. im in favor of: arguing about it is proof that you are an idiot.
  21. Taoist-Tantrika Native American Ninja in training

    "What the fuck did you do? I GAVE you this planet, are you crazy?!" HAW!
  22. The decline and eventual fall of the USA as world superpower?

    you bring up a lot of unhealed karma there... do you really want to heal those souls, or are you suggesting their pain is in vain and will never be healed?!
  23. Men and Dinosaurs

    I have a great story coming along that is supposed to explain some of that! check out my various stories and works in progress at rjthorwip.blogspot.com There's a Zelda story up front, but dig deeper for "the tree at the world's end" for what im talking about
  24. Men and Dinosaurs

    that's only an inflammatory reaction, no evident thought was put into that response. To strike down speculation of events that literally no one can know one way or the other is no better or worse than to imagine and speculate fantastic possibilities; however it presents itself with a sense of false superiority, to which you cannot back up with evidence of such, further eroding your logical credibility.
  25. How many people experience god?

    Headrush/lightheadedness caused by breath compression.... leads to a very vivid and indescribably sense of harmonious union with all of nature and reality... 'phantom' effects in extrasensory perceptions play with my awareness... so hard to explain or describe... like "seeing" smells and sounds... except these 'smells' and 'sounds' are not pre-existing sense-objects! Again, very complicated. simple in the experience, as if a single nod would convey the whole thing to another person... and I can re-create this experience at will, but lack the genuine will power to attempt to maintain this feeling constantly or consistently... many other 'priorities' in life, recreation, experience, etcetera. God, on the other hand, is like a link between thought and object; idea and action, word and meaning... "it" is everything and nothing... there is no sense in personifying god, for then it is not God, but a god. where the omnitude becomes limited/focused/specialized, "all good", "all powerful", and "all knowing", but not "all evil" - which reduces the omnitude to deism from genuine godliness. To that end, I would say that "God" is a redundancy and does not exist, the reference is "Zero (0)" and infinity, two maximum/minimum inexperiential states in between "after death" and "before life". Therefore any reference to (a) god is intended to mean a god(dess), deity, or immortal, rather than Tao/Dao. Gods and goddesses, deities and immortals, individuals, no different to Humans than they have mastered themselves and moved on to master the elements thereafter.