Master Logray

AI is giving the slave owner a perfect tool to control. It is not slavery by itself. However if it is AL, artificial life form, then ultimately we would involve in being slave of AL/AI or we enslave them.

Such predictions only started to be somewhat realistic after the atomic bomb. In the old days, nothing and no one can destroy the whole world. But endless is a good word.

Not theoretically, China schools use this kind of system in class room already. They can monitor your micro expression and movements.

Jacky Chan too. I think in the Sifu or fathers' mind, that I have endured all those inhuman conditions, now it is your turn to pay. It happens to many other professions too.

I think perpetual pain is badly wrong for that system, provided everything is the same i.e. if you have no pain, then go lower, pain comes back, get used to it, no pain, it is normal. If the person due to many reasons, cannot utilize this system, then it is better to adjust or even abandon it. How the leg comes into being discussed. ZZ is mainly for alignment or sinking Chi, sometimes for meditation. Leg strength can be trained in 1 month, and not necessarily by Taichi or ZZ. Body strength or even neck strength in ZZ does require more time.

That depends on which type of Buddhism is or which type of Taoism. Chinese Buddhism like Zen historically mixed with Taoism quite well . But it may not be true for other branches. Another viewpoint is the level. When it is more elementary more technical more restricted in scope, then one cannot assume mixing of practices is safe. It is even true for mixing different Taoist practices.

Saruman's corruption probably came from owning a property. His tower needs lots of resources to build and maintain. Other wizards like Gandalf lived poorly. Even the Rohan King didn't have a proper palace. Owning huge property is not good for maintaining spiritual development.

Illness is often a messenger for other illnesses.

As far as Chinese is concerned, high level cultivators, big religious figures, scholars, Chinese medicine doctors, qigong teachers, kung fu masters, even ZhengYi Taoist who do ceremonies and rituals, usually don't have the power, skill, knowledge and exposure to counter black magics. With luck they could solve some problems but not all, and not fully. Energy alone is not useful in many circumstances. Find the right person by trial and error perhaps. Another reason is the physical component. For example, in south west China and south east Asia, there is a kind of magic called Tame Head or Gong Tau. They have all the black magic stuff as in other parts of the world. But since these areas are tropical jungle and inhabitants are not primitive tribes, their in depth knowledge in plants, insects, animals and how these interact, are not surpassed and remain largely unknown. When these biological/physical components are applied in conjunction with normal black magic, it is unstoppable. In the old days, many Hong Kong men went to south east Asia, they frequently involved with local women. Normally it was just transaction and fake love. However sometimes both sides went deep and developed some genuine feelings in addition to attraction of money and outward appearance. Some women wanted to keep the men forever and used Gong Tau, with the help of magicians. The men was told they can go back to HK but had to return within one or 2 years, or cannot leave the country at all. If not, they would face horrible death. Sometimes the men, realizing their situation, would ask for help from HK's own Gong Tau Sifu or other Taoist sects priests to help. And there came the international magical war. There was a founder of most famous TV station in Chinese community in the world and he also being descendant of a powerful family in Singapore and HK, who said to have encountered this kind of unfortunate incident. He went back and developed sicknesses, both western and Chinese doctors could not do anything. During his autopsy, bugs were found climbing out from his body. Another version his body was full of Amoeba like organisms. It was almost a romantic tragedy, because some Gong Tau would exact a price on the requestor when attack is serious, it means both will die. If this was true, then the magic was potent because they have physical characteristics in addition to curses, deities help or symbolic magic. The victim is geo located - cannot leave a certain region taking into account the temperature and humidity. It also contains a timer, the disease would not blow up within a specified dormant period. Sometimes a grace period is allowed by ingesting additional substances, that means a suppressant or stimulating the immunity system temporarily. The lesson from then on would be never have feelings when visiting these countries for intimate company or pleasure, never visit the same establishment again and never the same woman, pay fully, beware of spiked drinks and food. Nowadays it is not heard of any more. Back to the Kurdistan situation, I think severing the delivery mechanism could help i.e. burn everything that taken out from Kurdistan, or sell them. If it is important, cleanse it with holy water or salt water, bring to churches, put it under the sun, buried in the ground or whatever popular in your countries. If it had been serious, cutting the hair or shaving the head might even help. Just in case there are some physical components embedded somewhere.

Dan Tian means a field which is for growing/building of elixir. A paddy field is used to grow rice. A vine field is for growing grapes. A construction site is for building a house. The meaning is on the "Site". It is not for storage of Chi, there are many words for storage, not need to use a "field". It is not an oil well, otherwise it would be called Dan Spring, Dan Well. The idea to build a Dantian is even more problematic when many Neidan and martial arts lineages place little importance on it. e.g. some schools' Dantian is at the back, outside of the body, near to the body, above the head etc. How to "build" in these locations? While many Kung Fu that stress mobility, agility, do not "sink Chi to Dantian" as it impair moving and particularly jumping ability.

Sorry, I mean would practising dark arts endanger the person from other humans like religious fanatics, especially Iraq and Yemen ?

Nuralshamal is multi racial. Does practice black magic in these countries bring great risks?

If eastern alchemy worked, there would not have been eastern internal alchemy.

What is the common geographical term for England, Scotland and Ireland together?