Protector

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  1. The Canadian Thread

    LOL
  2. Enlightenment and Immortality

    There seems to be a bunch of different immortalities around, or excuses as I'd like to call them Some people just go ahead and say that some parts of a person wont ever die and so everyone is immortal Other people say that with the right training that sends yourself to live as a sort of spirit outside your body, that spirit body becomes immortal And another way that I have never heard mention on this forum, a living person gathers enough chi to have the ability to decide when to die The idea for that technique came from people who knew they didn't have enough time on earth to master everything so they instead decided to find a way to give themselves enough time. Having all the time in the world, these immortals could live as long as they wanted and finally reach enlightenment at some point. Immortality and enlightenment are completely unrelated in that way but an immortal has more chances to become enlightened, and since becoming immortal was such a big secret, immortals used to be automatically associated with being enlightened
  3. My Little Pony

    Briefly in Minsk, it's the capital but there are a lot of grassy areas and sometimes it's like there are farm like buildings in the middle of the city. ALSO RAINBOW ONES ARE AWESOME
  4. All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor

    THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA!!! America might have became independent few hundred years ago but it didn't find itself, yet. All the motivation to become free made it free. It ran away from the kings and became something bigger and even now being as powerful as it is, it still wants more. More freedom, more power, more money and more running. It needs to keep running or else when it stops, it will have nothing. It needs to keep running and looking for something because something is missing. It's not money or power, money and power are nothing in comparison of what it really needs. Still, doesn't know what it is and it keeps looking for it. This calls for some harsh training. If America was a person, I would recommend more horse stance. If you take everything away and look at what's left in the very core, you might find something good. AMERICA MORE HORSE STANCE!!!
  5. What are you listening to?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Ve1qugcBI&feature=related wow, still sounds good
  6. So much of it in there that you have endless potential for filling it with stuff

  7. Yellow Bamboo nei kung

    *cough*
  8. TCM (and Daoist) perspective on Cannabis

    wait... what if you make... TEA OUT OF IT!!!
  9. Are you profitable?

    It just seems like a silly thing to write on a forum where a bunch of super humans meet
  10. My first full lotus experiences

    ah? what? horse stance? oh darn, now that you got my attention I have to talk about full lotus I was thinking about how long I might be able to meditate now since I only do the horse stance so I decided to do empty mind meditation in full lotus for an hour. I lost track of time and a thought came to mind, wouldn't it be funny if I open my eyes and see on the clock that I sat there for only 59 minutes? I open my eyes, get up, and see the clock, 59.
  11. Are you profitable?

    Who do you think you're talking to
  12. My Little Pony

  13. I like to think of myself as an omniawesome god of awesome who's ego can incinerate the universe just by thinking about it. I know better to really believe that though, since I can tell that I'm less then nothing in the face of the actual great things that whatever I do wont matter and so whatever happens doesn't matter either. Some scientists get very sad when they think about how great the universe is and how small and not special they are in comparison. People get shy and impossible to function when they think that what they do is important to everyone around them. That stuff is not important since everyone around these people is thinking the same thing. Realizing that no one cares is what freedom feels like. It's like a huge confidence boost that allows random Frenchman dress as a kangaroo and scare policemen around his neighborhood.
  14. Japanese Martials Arts Swords

    I like this one more soooooo pretty
  15. How would you view the universe from day zero?

    Same as the universe now, eh
  16. Working Through the Pain

    Know what, I think I don't understand depression at aaaaaaaaall And yet I think I might have had depression but didn't notice it. For a very long time I had a horrible diet, bad stuff happen to me, and it looked like I had it bad. I had more of a need to feel sad and scared at times because I thought it was fun and when I stopped feeling sad and scared I felt kinda weird for being full of joy and butterflies instead. I liked to read these sad drama stories where the reader goes NOOOOOOO WHY U DO THAT, IF IT WERE ME I WOULD JUST GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR and then I go sad and it was fun. Then there are these scary things I would watch and go NO MORE NO MORE NO MORE AAAAAAA then minutes later I'd come back like, hey sup what did I miss. I go through that sad scary stuff sometimes as more of a training type of thing. I wonder how it would be to feel worse about something. Depression seems to be more of a being sad 'just because'. It's more of a chemical thing that happens without any other reason so it's not being sad because something bad happened. When something bad happens, people get different sorts of bad reactions and some don't, because they know better and don't want to waste time and just spring into action, or something. Sometimes I get the sad scared feeling for no reason and I just go watch some scary or sad stuff and have a reason now, it's more fun for me if I'm sad beforehand, kinda like taiji thing that makes double sad a not sad. I once made some tea in a cup out of one weird piece of Chinese tea thing. That thing was meant to be put into a teapot but I didn't knew that and put it into a cup and it made such a horribly bitter death poison taste that I couldn't help but smile and drink the rest of it. YUM!
  17. Yellow Bamboo nei kung

    I only hear bad stuff about it so I wouldn't do it
  18. That's the "so much text that the point gets lost" part In shorter form it would be just me noticing my soul and watching as all the beliefs fly by and the reasons behind the beliefs. If I was born in space there would be one important part that stays the same and that changes things and blah blah Beliefs in there would be one of the layers I mentioned, trying to make a point without directly pointing at it
  19. It's one of the threads in the series of "I wonder how far can I pull this idea until everyone stops reading" http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/21977-until-nothing-is-left/page__p__311896__fromsearch__1&
  20. Really? And I wrote a huge paper here on the forum about how beliefs don't make a person and don't have anything to do with a unique personality, that's funny
  21. My Little Pony

    Eeeeeeeee! Today's episode was about reading! I loves reading while I knit. *says me while stroking my manly beard*
  22. 14th World Congress on Qigong and TCM - Toronto, Canada

    Looks like I will be having a test that month so I can't come over after all *sigh*
  23. Capoiera

    Capoeira fa jin
  24. The jack of all trades is master of none

    I like listening to people who post videos on youtube and talk about all that sort of stuff. Knowledge gets mixed up in your head like in a shaker and once it all makes sense, you get knowledge that you can't get in a book. My favorite video guy stopped making new videos so I just listen to forums 'n stuff.