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Things are still developing here . Locally I have never seen so many road works, improvements, new bridges ... where the money coming from all of a sudden ? ! A decade ago I had friends staying here from California . I met them in Sydney and we drove up here , up the east coast . After driving for a bit one of them ; " Hey .... when did we turn off the freeway ? " Me: " We didn't , we are still on it . They just haven't got around to modernizing this bit yet ." " What ! This is the main highway between the two major capital cities on your east coast ?" "Yep ." " With all the transport, trucks, and everything using it ?" " Yep ." File:Old Pacific Highway.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Its just about all done now and modernized . My local city Coffs Harbour has been the last to get a 'motorway bypass' . That was because the Great Dividing Range nearly touches the coast here , a difficult re-route , had to make a few tunnels . All this time , in the middle of this small city , all the north south traffic of the east coast gets funneled down the main street ! here is our new fancy 'American plan ' ; Nothing your comment about size , look at western Australia ... its VAST , driving through there is like going into some trance state . Sleeping out there is even more rad . But distances like that , the road is NOT like a freeway or motorway at all , and often under bad repair , and distance requires high speed limits , and ya got trucks and road trains and sometimes very high winds . Having one of them pass you in a light high camper van , it was certainly an 'adventure' .
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Don't forget your other excuse as well ; First you claim a statistic , then when shown to be wrong by statistics : " There may actually have been more murder & violence in that era although it was less publicized by the media. "
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whole world just one place plum cuckoo sees, sings, and soars, chasing cosmic dust
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"kings deep" is just a tad over five syllables... whole world, just one place
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Greetings Mushashi One day our swords shall meet .
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Mod action: thread locked as it was heading into political territory.
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Just finished Playground by Richard Powers, author of The Overstory (great!) It was slow going for me for a while but I really liked it. The ending may be a bit polarizing but the cover art is beautiful. If you decide to read it, do not read any spoilers in advance.
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We know who has never recognized the 2020 election! Anyway many citizens are now hoping the 2017 midterms will turn things around for the better in the US but that remains to be seen for by then we could (very easily) have marshal law declared to nix any elections and to also allow for greater mayhem along the lines of imprisonment, deportation and even murder of those who dare to demonstrate peacefully or otherwise; such is the mind and heart dictatorship! Btw. such can't be denied via the drift we are heading in and as has happened in other dictatorships. This is not only political but also spiritual darkness!! "Good luck' won't be enough to stop such from happening, and I'm not sure what could? (Master Jesus and Mother Earth look on in hurt and cry, but are not broken and prevail in the end)
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One of my favorite Bums, Brian (now passed on), was very involved with that system and seemed to love it. You @BigSkyDiamond might enjoy reading what he had to say on the topic.
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dictators can smile, shake hands happily, and even joke around while 100's of thousands (in some cases events millions) of people are suffering or dying under their actions! (of zero conscience)
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OK, I found it. Instructor has now moved to a yearly subscription plan, it also includes access to the book, and monthly classes.
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Hi Musashi07. Welcome to the forum. Enjoy.
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Are the two DVDs still available to purchase? For Gift of Tao I and II. I am not finding them online. Thank you.
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Ren acupoints, Daoist Breathing, and Belly-Dancing
Trunk replied to Trunk's topic in Daoist Discussion
ming lines, plural, actually. any, all (your choice) major pts along the abd midline. the front ~ back polarity, once the pathway clear enough to resonate~magnetically drives foundational core nourishment. efficiently activates nourishes a bevy of extraordinary vessels. one thing does a lot w/ this. -
I support this. Back in the old days I don't know anything, choosing a product, choosing a school, choosing a subject, choosing a career, choosing a place to live - all these need a lot of information which were just not available. Only the highly knowledgeable ones keep newspaper clippings. And many didn't have access to newspaper at all. Without information, there were no real opportunities. Leap frogging was only possible by luck.
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1960 - 5 homicides per 100,000 population 2014 - 5.1 homicides per 100,000 Minimal difference. The only thing that changed is the media's reporting of crime.
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Where are the High Level Martial Artists/Fighters at?
Paradoxal replied to Goden's topic in The Rabbit Hole
I'm guilty of this actually... A lot of the guys I practice with here in Japan don't do body or fist conditioning (and I give them shit for it), but that means that me giving as little power as possible still causes them a decent amount of pain; I had a guy who runs his own dojo tell me he thought I was going to break his fingers when I literally just grabbed them, no locks or anything. So I've gotten in the habit of just not putting any power in my shots lately to prevent injury, but one guy I spar with does the opposite. Out of habit, I only lightly tag him, but he goes 70% with me (and I should be doing that to him as well), which never ends well for me. At least it shows me where I can improve, though! -
Your picture on the left reminds me of driving on southern California highways, sometimes it's like bumper cars for real! Btw, unleaded gas did cut down a lot on some types of pollution but then the number of vehicles and roads kept growing and growing! Note below: part of that road is elevated on top of another road, don't know the location but I've been on ones like that in Texas where most everything is Big. (just a random fact and not as big as Australia which is 10-11 times its size ;-)
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Welcome to the board!
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Hello everyone, I feel honored to be in such a community, I feel like I finally belong somewhere, to all seekers like myself I salute you.
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Yes 60s now look at what you posted before about it .
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My approach to topics like these has been to read thousands of news articles on finance, current events, science every year for 15+ years to learn the basics and avoid illiteracy. Over the last 10 to 20 years I tried to inform people about some aspects of things like healthcare reform. And encourage them to care enough to get their facts straight before committing to things which might not be in their own best interest. But what stood out the most is how determined everyone was to fight & die on a hill of their own convictions. It was never about science or facts. It was all about living and dying on whatever random opinion a person happened to have at the time. Its hard for me to be mad about CEOs engaging in predatory practices when the majority of people supported everything that made it possible. These negative trends didn't happen overnight but rather over the span of many decades. There were countless warning signs no one wanted to acknowledge until it was too late. I don't know if CEOs are mass murderers. To me its more like a case of domestic abuse. Where the abused makes excuses claiming they "fell down the stairs" for decades to avoid acknowledging the real issues. 15 years ago there was a story published in the news claiming CEOs identify non essential workers to fire. They add the fired workers paycheck to their own salary to give themselves a raise. Rinse and repeat. 15 years ago I was angry about this. I shared this story with many who wanted nothing more than to pretend it didn't happen. I shared a lot of things that needed addressing which were all ignored. It felt like I was the only one that cared about anything and everyone else only wanted to live under a rock and see and hear no evil. After awhile I realized I had not given up or quit. But everyone else had somewhat given up and quit on themselves. So its like ok people. Make your choices. I hope you make decisions you can be proud of. And that's about as good as things get.
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Long Term Meditation Retreat For US Citizens To Meditate Outside The USA
kakapo replied to kakapo's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Again, you are welcome to bring your own practice. You don't have to learn anything, or practice anything. Teacher and practice cannot be openly discussed here per the site rules, but you are welcome to email me for further discussion. ( [email protected] )
