Poll: Why do you keep visiting the Taobums website ?

[BaguaKicksAss]

Just realised "Facebook sucks and has no like minded people on" isn't in the poll!

 

MY facebook friends list is 95% people who have the same interests I do. I went and added some family is why the 5% discrepancy there .

[Rara]

 

MY facebook friends list is 95% people who have the same interests I do. I went and added some family is why the 5% discrepancy there .

Haha, you have better social media management skills than me. I added people out of compulsion...my newsfeed drove me mad. So I left fb!

[StrayDog]

If ever I ran into a group of tao bums in my area, I would join them. But since this is yet to happen, an online substitute will suffice. Yes there are many Taichi and Qigong groups in my area, but such groups happen to come with a high dosage of rubbish - in my humble opinion. I once practiced under a brilliant logically inclined Zen master who had funny things (and borderline spiteful things) to say about zen, satori (and especially those who seek it) and the nonsense of it all. Such characters are rare, but I find them here in these forums which is another reason why I come here.

[Trunk]

If ever I ran into a group of tao bums in my area, I would join them. But since this is yet to happen, an online substitute will suffice.

 

A fundamental cultural deficit (contrast the image below) that I think most members of TTBs are dealing with. I think it's super important that members find ways to connect to like-minded (or, rather, "like practicing") friends to hang out with, and train with casually, locally. It's a topic that needs to be kept alive here.

 

[CloudHands]

[GrandmasterP]

I'd never thought of that, how is it that people don't have anyone of like mind to talk to/with? Sure I live in a large city now, but I have also lived in one place in the US with only 30,000 people and knew MANY practitioners. Lived on an island with 10,000 people and knew a few practitioners. Oh hell I even lived in a small town in Texas for a time and knew a few practitioners! Then there are the people I find online... Since those who I don't have the most important things to me in common with, I tend to not hang out with... ALL the people I know have at least similar practices .

 

I have heard this elsewhere as well though, folks not even having one person they can discuss things openly with. I find this very unfortunate . Good thing for TTBs.

+ 1,000.

BaguaKA's post could do to be pinned on DW and the Martial Arts Forums as well as on TTB.

Hardly a week goes past without someone, generally a newbie bemoaning that they can't find anyone or anything suitable locally.

That's just not the case, there are always like minded people and seldom very far away.

We moved to a rural area, really rural.

TaiChi in the village hall every Tuesday, Martial Arts in the Scout's Centre twice a week, huge ( NKT) centre plus spiffy cafe twenty minutes drive away.

If people look there are like minded folks everywhere and most every group warmly welcomes new faces.

We've never ever come across anything but totally nice and really friendly folks around 'our' sort of areas be those MA, TaiChi or the loosely 'spiritual'.

Edited April 7, 2014 by GrandmasterP