whitesilk

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  1. Climate Change

    Knowledge gained or experience lived? Exactly how does telling someone, 'oh it seems like you are oppressed,' help them to stop their own personal oppression?
  2. Should an IS Traitor be Allowed to Return to the UK?

    There was a story that I heard in a film once that when Alexander the Great was conquering Persia his Mother wrote to him asking, "You conquered the know world in a short time, why are you taking so long in Persia?" He sent back a bag of the sand and instructed his mother lay the sand outside the city gates to open the letter the following morning. That morning two of the gate soldiers were fighting with each other which is the event that he predicted in his letter.
  3. Should an IS Traitor be Allowed to Return to the UK?

    At this point I do not want to read the previous posts. The most logical thing would be in my mind to allow it and track her MAJORALY. Ignoring the threat will not get rid of it. This threat uses our grid against our own people, and to take back our own well developed system is what is needed. To make sure that anti corruption is in effect is much more difficult a task than just think, 'hey it is not my problem.'
  4. True Christianity vs Convenient Weakness

    Thank you @rideforever for this post. I would like to offer a personal idea of mine for the reason that the greatest commandment is to Love the Lord your God. It all begins with prayer. Jesus also instructed us, while he was here with us fleshly humans, that we ought best to pray for our enemies. I just realized that I am preaching my viewpoint 'to the choir.' and that you probably already might understand the subtle delineation that I am pointing out. I am sort of just meandering thought by thought throughout this forum honestly without an intent of what I am actually doing, just enjoying my time here. Thinking about it again, True Christians posses an inherent weakness or convenient weakness. True Christians would completely be reliant on the Lord and Jesus Christ for every struggle that they encounter. Therein lies their power. Thinking about it much later, Love the Lord your God with all your heart: https://www.bible.com/bible/111/ECC.3.11.niv because it has been his anyway. He put an eternal heart into us humans.
  5. Water above Fire

    I have read about and have practiced the technique 'breathing from the brain to the kidneys.' What does the brain represent?
  6. Haiku Chain

    At my solitude, does also melting snow drop into a puddle.
  7. There exists men in our collective conscience that claim women abuse them. I am still screaming mentally at this issue, yet would like to help you understand that women aught be praised by their men. Absolutely praised for the heavenly goddess that every woman is capable to become.
  8. My stance is three point on the pitch it was two and my head was between a lock and a hooker. What game's am I referring to @Nungali ? Why do I need to decompress my edge?
  9. fyi, a history of computer programming, Lord Byron and Lady Wentworth had a legitimate daughter, Ada Lovelace who had major daddy issues. For a male philosophical lens, take a look at John Stuart Mill : "Mill went through months of sadness and pondered suicide at twenty years of age. According to the opening paragraphs of Chapter V of his autobiography, he had asked himself whether the creation of a just society, his life's objective, would actually make him happy. His heart answered "no", and unsurprisingly he lost the happiness of striving towards this objective" @Nungali, you were looking deep into our cultural archetypes, yet the above are two more recent cases during the onset of industrialism. I like the idea that we are split into types of people, I take affinity with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_Shen because I spot out the logical truth and am a hermit, yet have never slew a dragon; however I am the second son born, plus he is a super awesome character in the game SMITE
  10. Climate Change

    @voidisyinyang Negative energy still feeds the belly of mine, as I eat from the western industrious machine. Cooking lunch right now, and I am hungry. I agree with your tenancies or what I suppose is your intent that the leveling of the fields aught be more plain, yet the technique is my disagreement.
  11. Climate Change

    Isn't this discussion a contradiction? We are using 'industrious' machines (computers, networking, grid), to evoke nature, balance, and harmonious heavenly growth patterns.
  12. 1 道原 Daoyuan The origin of the Way

    Clearly's Taoist Classics [ISBN: 9780-I-57062-485-8 (V.I)] Wen-Tzu 87. (p.213) "Lao-tzu said: When laws are intricate and punishments severe, then the people become devious. When those above have many interests, those below do a lot of posturing. When much is sought, little is gained. When prohibitions are many, little gets done. To let concerns produce concerns, and then take concern to stop concerns, is like brandishing fire and trying not to burn anything. To let knowledge produce troubles, and then use knowledge to prepare against them, is like stirring water in hopes of making it clear." This dualism themes your textual quote, @dawei. The part of the Wen-Tzu that I wrote makes me think that "trying not to burn anything" is a true Taoist intent. As far as 'clear' water that is 'stirred' goes, I think that this idea could be intended upon by a true Taoist as well. Take the film 'Die Hard' as an example. The scene when the man types his password into his computer in front of the german neo nazi that is attacking his building comes to mind. Could the man defending his building have typed a different passcode, and not granted his attackers access to his plans?
  13. 1 道原 Daoyuan The origin of the Way

    Key word for me is 'wisdom.' Upon my confirmation as a Christian, I had a dream that a great sage came to me and asked me one attribute that I wished to have bestowed upon my character. I asked for wisdom, and I sensed, in the dream state, that the great sage thought to himself, "Oh that is different, at least it is not a "Big Dick" request.'
  14. The identity-less and purposeless thread

    In remembrance of going off topic, and being perfectly all right with going off topic.
  15. Can I scream, Would you accept a vocal Shut the Fuck Up right now @Patrick Brown
  16. @Aetherous Looking back on my life, and realizing that I was a naive young man of farmer's ancestry in an unknown cultural environment, it has taken me time to adjust properly. At university I dated a woman that I still love to this day, regardless of her cultural manipulations. She once kneed me in my loins post coitus, and was immediately told to leave. I got up got dressed and as I was preparing to walk out the door, she quipped come back. I ran and hid from her in the dorm room common area. She must have then spread rumor that I was the one who hit her because I recently found out why a lady would wear dark rimmed sunglasses. The guilt I realize now was the cause of her actions against me. I forgive her with all my heart for the joyful moments that she has given me in my life. On my Aunt Carol Ann's lung cancer death bed the photo album that I shared of myself and my then girlfriend of the Jean Claude and Christof Gates exhibit in Central Park brought a smile to My dying Aunt Carol Ann's face. Do know that the experience individuals have in common are each interpreted in different ways. To answer your question directly would be incorrect in my opinion, as I believe that 'to give way is to gain strength.'
  17. @karen This issue is getting complex.
  18. Haiku Chain

    Call it eyes open. The remembrance of you waters my pine tree.
  19. Having attending a university for athletics, I was up at 6 AM for workouts. Walking to the gym around 5:30 there was always a group of Chinese people in what I know now as a qigong circle. I will not advise you to start at the qigong level: Although I may practice for my own health benefits, I do remember that to the Chinese this is a ceremonial martial art form. If you have ever seen the show "Shen Yun" then look at it like 'divine spirits dancing.' A good place to start tai chi practice, very well explained is ISBN: 0-8052-0993-X
  20. Mystical Christian Thread

    reading the NIV version One could make a case that alcohol is the devil.
  21. Mystical Christian Thread

    Is that 1 Peter or 2 Peter?