Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

geeze... I've got nothin'.

Some kind of native grass, thorn bushes, and tiny smooth pebbles. Oh yeah and a broken "pitch fork" (i still call it a pronged rake though - cuz a pitch fork is for shoveling, not raking) Actually, i dont know what happened to the shaft or the head of the tool, but it needs to be replaced before i can start tending to the catastrophe of area behind the metal shop. but by god, once it's done, will it be ideal! I dont think i'll be sticking around to find out... im not sure if i'll even have a choice in the matter.

Well, to quote myself in verbatim: Yoga, Qi Gong, Taijiquan, Bagua, Zha Zhuang or however you spell it... They are body work, body practice, body improvement. they are all the same seed, yet produce different plants. Would you like me to make more elaborate comparisons, or are you eager to make them yourself yet?

dude... no. Just... no.

i'd cherish alone time if i had a significant other to share it with... that has been the permanent bane of my existence, having someone to share my life with. No one. Sure, i went for a nice long walk and blew some steam today and damn near didnt come back, but i promised an ex that i'd get on the cam with her tonight, and i hate to go against my word. funny thing is i turned back after calming down... long before i realized i forgot my word! boy am i glad i remembered, i coulda been out there walking as far as woodburn before i had turned around! and THEN it would have been too late! But tomorrow... is looking like... i have no choice but to leave. Everything is way too up my ass in my time allotment to have any willpower to remain here. but hte lack of a partner or a destination stagnates the journey. I tried craigslist once stupid. i dont know how to meet people and i really hate being in social situations where i DO meet new people... kind of a contradiction of terms to want to have companionship but not being willing to meet someone worthy of my affection... hah! i'm sure it's a social phobia of some sort, but when i try to "address" it, i jsut feel like hurting people and eating their necks out raw. im pretty disgusting and violent in my own mind, it's a wonder im not institutionalized... but god forbid, someone tries to touch me... D:< woman hath no fury like a Free Human apprehended... thats all i will say about that... i have trust issues. i dont trust anyone that hasnt earned my trust first, and most of them have subsequently betrayed it. Im tired of being forgiving. i have nothing. and im damn near ready to start taking it by force if need be, fuck the innocence and the free will, im not willing to act like im invalid any more!

Now you are! No, but seriously... maybe YOU'RE "too old" to deal with our future, but you're just as much in the same cage as we are. You've just stopped caring about it and letting it bother you. thats all.

The spirit is omniversal and singular, shared and connected to all of us. The soul is an immaterial subtle body which houses our individuality and personhood and is an unique "fragment"-copy of the all-spirit. it has no beginnings except as from the spirit and has no ending except to return. The body is a temporal vessel of the myriad materials and energies woven into a single unit and breathed into it a soul. Immortality is the nature of the spirit and soul. Mortality is the nature of the individual/mind/opinions/self and the body. To achieve an immortal body, Fuse your Soul with your myriad energies and materials. If you get bored of living forever, you can always melt away from your body and leave uninhibited.

You're missing the meme. i did not say you contradicted anything. But if you examine your data closely, you should come to the same conclusion that i did: machines and records do not control the clock, the weather, or anything that they are affected by or reliant on. maybe im reading into something that's not there, but it seems like your blaming the ice and weather for the damage they are causing rather than the silly humans for taking their predictions for granted...

welcome to the tao bums!!!

good god i could drink a cup of your coffee! edit: oh that's what's been missing all day! shit! quitting coffee isnt fun even though i barely qualify for "cutting back on" it

oh my bad. you need one more post! just say "okay" and you can click my link

What, "clown ninja" didnt give it away? My thread is a work in progress, and im sure a lot of the numbers are typos. There's little scientific involvement in this, but it does follow a strict pattern. To include in the pattern, i would like to discover every square and cube presented in the sequences, but it's more of an obsession than anything else. the first string is the only confirmable string with a square (144) and coincidentally it's the 12'th digit in the sequence! i obsessed over that for a while. Then i came to ponder the "missing numbers" in the sequences. 4 is the first "missing number" in the process. 0,1,2,3,5,8,13,etc. 4 is the first skipped number. However, if we were to use this sequence starting with any number other than 1, the patterns appear to reflect patterns in the real world. and out of a blind fury of intuition, i started this thread.

pure gold you two!

fusion.

Ahh... W2L we're in much the same boat... i've been struggling with the "lie detector" thing all my life.... used to get me in trouble when i called people out on it, cuz i could never prove anything but was always adamant. I'm happy to see clarity's post in here, cuz those words were a good read even for me, i can only hope they help you a billion times over. Stay well, W2L! dont think that there arent folks here who dont care about you!! I'd be one of the offended folks if ya did! It's not easy, it's not fun, it's hard, but you gotta stay in the game jsut a little while longer... everything is boiling over and the fireworks are about to start

No... you're... *sigh* no. Man *can be* self-fulfilling as being united with the earth and the heavens, but it takes an ACT OF WILL on man's part to accomplish the necessary practices for (re)integration with the omniversal whole. the earth and heaven, regarded as one unit, are self-fulfilling. take away one from the other, and they become like man.

i struck my head with a 20-E pondering until it found its way to paper... then refined and honed them until i had an appropriate cycle, or what appears to be appropriate. i could be wrong, but my peer-reviews arent helping. So i'll cut to the chase: With a comparison of TC5E and TW4E why not consider taking a look into merging them in a 20 element, 4 tier system? Far as i can tell, the 4 tiers can accurately reflect the 4E system..... but i havent dedicated my mind to finding out, or discerning the correlations between the traditional chinese 5 set and ONE element on the 4 set... but i would assume the Earth, Fire, Wood, Water, Metal house/tier would correspond to the Earth element as an origin set, whereas the Magnetism, Mind, Chi, Spirit, Void house would be indicative of Air.

i barely even have what qualifies as ascendants. I didnt really take it as snotty, because i knew it was not your intent, but it is frustrating none the less to allow you (anybody) to take a non-active "interest" in my pursuits. and the acedemy be damned My survival is null point. i dont want to survive for no reason other than to exist. If my existence was ever a choice, things would be different, but i sincerely doubt anyone or anything has a pre-existing choice behind their own conception. Now, as far as your interest in the matter of what im going to do, i do not honestly know. the only few things i do know are what isnt working, what isnt benefiting me, and where i dont want to be. What i do know is that i('ll) have absolutely no one to look to for support, guidance, assistance, relief, or companionship in my pursuits... which is the only reason i havent just picked up and left every day of my life until now. and its the only thing stopping me from leaving this morning, last night, right now, in 5 minutes, in 5 hours. Im not willing to be alone. Much as i dispise the lifeways of my ignorant peers, much as i cannot and will not tolorate the socioeconomic hierarchy, much as i lack any respect or reputation as a human being since i oppose "the norm", much as i down right hate the way people treat me... I do not trust myself to function alone. i know what i do when im alone. i know who i am when im alone. i dont like me when im alone, and i want my "alone-self" to cease. forever.

knowledge is power. im winging it, we'll see. maybe that's where i'll wind up, i cannot know.

I'd happily lend a hand but my arms dont reach. Joeblast, do you know the meme you presented in your spoiler is actually suggestive that relying on mechanical-thinking and timing is actually causing more harm to society than the "record breaking" ice? Memes are arising as the mode of communication and soon, we will be understanding Einstein's laws of relativity with as little as blinking at each other. well, for example. not literally blinking but something just as subtle.

I'm noticing a TON of abdominal blockages, most of which i suspect are undigested and partially digested materials trapped in the intestines. While stretching yesterday i made a huge breakthrough but ran face first into this next wall. I am asking for some help in keeping myself focused on fasting. my environment is quite i'll designed to deedicate myself wholly, but i've been spending the last 2 weeks trying to eat a little less, and today i would like to stop eating until the blockages can be cleared or at least until the clearing can begin... i suspect i'll need to fast first, but the blockages wont move without some high fiber squats

Jetsun pointed out the insecurity people feel in the absence of resource/money. i dont feel that. i feel insecure by capitalization and people who are insecure. P.S. i want to express my appreciation and gratitude for the responses to this thread. I had a more narrow perception of what i had hoped to gain from posting the question... but what everyone has contributed simply blows my question out of the water. Especially what Drew has brought to the table! With his experiences in life and everything, he's not only been on both sides of the spectrum but had his hands in them at one point or another! I have fought for resolution in this subject since i was between 7 and 13 years old, specifically since i was 13. For the last 14, almost 15 years, i have struggled with my mind and my peers to resolve the existence of business and corporate dominant "life" ways. i cannot even call american living a way of life. it is a way of death.

Im GOING TO DO IT. weather i have to bite a cop in the face or shoot a politician in the brain. er.. head. Thing about you lern and marbles is you didnt realize all these things as young as i did, did you? 13 years old is pretty young to realize that you're royally fucked. Im not willing to work in the system, im not willing to work for the system. im not willing to USE the system. i am not even willing to acknowledge the system, but i do have to - in order to find MY Tribe. MY Community. MY Clan. MY Family. Not America, not a bank, not a corporation, no businesses, no media. Ideally, i would kidnap everyone on TTB and run wild into the middle of nowhere and start from ground Zer0 with only the natural resources of whatever land we settled. But i am alone, no support, and no companionship. So ultimately, you have no interest in what im going to do from here on out. and if you do, that's not my concern, cuz you're not participating.

you didnt think about it long enough or hard enough to understand the implications of what our descendants face, caused by OUR economics.

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHAW! The FIRST thing i thought was "gates" and then i scrolled a LITTLE more... and... HAW!