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Oh, so that's how you use a kettleball! Hopefully the young man will find all this helpful! I feel lucky being a woman, don't have to worry about all that.

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Well now that explains a lot of things! Some of my recent experiences make a lot more sense now. And I've been saying this here! "One discovery that emerged from our sharing of Daoist, Tantric, and Bon Dzogchen teachings that had been absorbed into Tibetan Buddhism was the clear similarity of Daoist alchemy subtle body coupling using pearls and channels to the completion stage annutarayoga Tantric practices with its colored male and female drops and winds. Detailed in Geshe Gyatso's Clear Light of Bliss (1982), these vajrayoga practices emphasize the value of having a physical sexual consort to speed the opening of the heart needed for highest attainment and interpenetrating mind awareness." In other words, women don't have to be sexual vampires, they can help with progress.

Do those shamanic traditions also mention the rise of agriculture in the same myth? Like the Garden of Eden myth? A hunter/gatherer diet produces a mind with high dopamine and low serotonin. High dopamine when produced by a brain disease like schizophrenia will cause disturbed feelings of meaning, sensations of spiritual beings, and the feeling of communication with spiritual beings. However I believe when this high dopamine/low serotonin balance is achieved naturally through diet, it brings a peaceful and fulfilling feeling of a luminous presence and spiritual communication, allows a person to "walk with God" as Genesis tells it.

You can't seriously mean you are trying to avoid death? Wanting to avoid the rebirth process I can understand, to become one with whatever it is you believe in or not believe in or whatever bah! Taoist jargon! you know what I mean. But trying not to die is completely deranged. And I think anti-Taoist? Death is a part of life and all that. Sure wanting a long and healthy life is a worthy goal. But if you are seriously wanting to live after a hale and hearty 110 years or whatever, come on! I don't even believe in reincarnation or life after death and even I think that's bananas.

I don't keep the energy men give me. I'm polite and give it back, as I said, through the heart chakra. But after I do that then the men get all goofy on me. Even outside of sex, when I see a man needs it I've occasionally given the heart chakra energy clandestinely during a social hug, and they still follow me around.

I am not talking about emotional energy. Women can return the exact energy to men that is lost, if the cultivator opens his heart chakra and is able to absorb, and the woman has developed the ability to ejaculate the energy from the heart chakra. I would be willing to demonstrate to a taoist here this outpouring (which can be done fully clothed from a regular hug), although right now I have to conserve my energy for what I have to do the next few months. There is no depletion of cultivation energy, or whatever you call it. It is fully returned. And I also suspect this energy rises faster when returned back to a man, than a man pulling his own up by his bootstraps, so to speak. But I'm not sure about that.

You didn't offend me! Just frustrated me, that's different. Calling a woman a vampire is like calling a baby a vampire. Men are made to give women their energy, it's in their fundamental nature. And it makes sense evolution-wise, even a one-night stand a woman could get pregnant, thereby expending tremendous amounts of energy on the baby. But the thing I just don't get here, with the men all protective of their chi or jing or kundalini or what-have-you--women have a similar biological need to unload and a similar pathway to it. If you open up your heart chakra you can take as much energy as you like from women--we give it away, the need is as strong as a man's need to ejaculate. I mean, look at your avatar--what do you think that stands for? I can understand celibate taoist practices to develop the sixth chakra, so a man has two ways to give a woman his energy instead of one, but developing it simply to hoard it? I know, I know--built up at the third chakra it gives tremendous physical power and strength of will, and built up at the fifth chakra it is as you say, a man becomes a silver-tongued devil or a PUA and can attract any woman and can persuade, and spilled out at the seventh chakra there is a loss of self and a mingling with the cosmos, but I think it's meant to be passed back and forth like a ball, like a 8.

I've got to take another break from this place. I get too angry.

I've been with hookers. I have a man's libido, and hookers don't get demented about you afterwards. Happy?

Well you have contradicted yourself. If hooker sex is trivial, then a type of sex is trivial. I'm not sure where the big difference is between some one-night stand stranger and a hooker, from a male biological need point of view. My point is that in the same way a one-night stand is superior to hooker sex, so is full on complete energy exchange tantric sex superior to a one-night stand. That's the only way it's trivial, in comparison. I'm not saying being a PUA is bad.

Well of course, but Pietro is talking about the simple physical urge that distinguishes men from women. If we are taking about energy or emotion, women have those needs as much as men, and science can't be used as an arguing point that men's needs are so much more overwhelming than women's needs. Men's biological urge caused by differences in hormones, etc., should be able to be physically satisfied by seeing a hooker. That's my only point. He was saying men's biology forces them to feelings of rape or suicide, and I was pointing out that's a straw man argument.

Oh now men need oxytocin. Beating off to porn releases oxytocin if you do it right. Oxytocin is a female thing too--we are even stephen there. And just because you had a couple bad experiences with hookers, that means they couldn't possibly satisfy the biological sexual needs men experience. You aren't talking about your personal ethics, you are saying that science objectively supports the idea that no woman could possibly understand how much men need sex. I agree with you that most women don't. But when I assure that I do, instead of having an open mind about biological outliers, particularly when deliberately influenced by a radically different approach to nutrition, it isn't about science anymore, it's about me defining your ethical values. Ethical values are inherently subjective. If in your own personal belief system you believe that women couldn't possibly be as sexual, need sex as much as men, I'm not going to fight that. Heck, I believe in Hathor the cow goddess! Just don't drag science into it.

I'm not tame, I'm just practical and clever. I use the weight of my opponent to defeat him. For example, I'm working to get a data-mining company, mortgage-lending company and solar-panel-contractor-database company to get together for mutual (large) profit--the home equity loan market has tanked and they need solid investments to park their money. Houses with solar panel roofs not only gain solid equity, they remove the expense of gas and electricity so the borrower is more easily able to repay the exorbitant interest. They just have to bite, and I'm working hard at that. Subversion works better than revolution.

You don't know what I lived through in my marriage. Sometimes walking away really isn't an option. As for men's options, rape, suicide, and you left out hookers and beating off to porn.

Hmm.... But back to the practical matter of conservation. New paradigm--the thing that is killing species the most isn't logging, it's global warming. And that particular issue even billionaires care about, since anyone with half a brain, and billionaires generally have more than half a brain, realizes it's basically the end of civilization if we don't do something about it. Even billionaires are not immune from natural disasters and freak weather (and it disrupts the flying schedules of their private jets). So that's the most important path and the path most likely to yield real world results, with the fat cats acting from their own self interest.

"the scientists surgically removed the vomeronasal organs from the noses of normal female mice and the same thing happened." It's not genetic, female sexual behavior (in mice at least) is different from male sexual behavior only because of that organ, not because of any genes. This question is, as you say, of mice and men. Time will tell.

Women's power comes through water and earth, through emotion, imagination, the material world and taking care of the body, particularly what one eats. Men's power comes through air and fire, through knowledge and meditation, action in the world and training the body's actions. A wise person learns from the other side. And I'd say there are just as many idiots who take up martial arts and taoists beliefs so they can break a foe's arm in a fight, pick up women easier, be trendy, or get erection stamina as there are fluffy bunny wiccans.

One of the grand old dames of the British tradition wrote a book http://www.amazon.com/Magical-Use-Thought-...6358&sr=8-1 and in it she describes both how as a girl she was taken to a place in her mind during the WWII air raids that she later found out was a monastery in the Himalayas, and then later as a grown woman had a vision where she was taken there and put through a purification ceremony (involving lots of sex). Maybe just an overactive imagination, but there while there are huge differences in philosophy, there are some similarities in practice between certain types of wicca and certain types of taoism.

All right. If it's okay, I will keep a personal journal of my own practice here and you can judge for yourself. Not that I wield power, but on the other hand I am not living in my parents' basement.

Yes, of course we're evil! And good too--we're a mix just like everybody. The thing with witches is that they basically make up their own religion, particularly nowadays. They choose what gods to follow, what rituals, how often they do rituals, what spells. So it's hard to make generalizations. But in general witches are pro-sex (even the Dianic ones who are pro-lesbian-sex), see female energy either equal to or greater than male energy, are handy with astrology, particularly moon-related astrology, are pro-Nature, and are generally quite practical. That said, witches are typically mighty fond of male energy--we like that male goaty testerone-fueled earthiness. But the fair-minded among us don't take without giving back. I wonder why there aren't more male witches. Women outnumber the men a hundred to one, and witches as a group do tend to be more open to polygamy and orgies and ritualistic sex. And the traditional way to practice ritual is skyclad, meaning naked. But I guess men aren't into that stuff.

hmmm....that contradicts my thing. It's got GLA, an omega-6 fatty acid. Should interfere with libido. Your body shouldn't need that at all, if you eat meat. The body makes its own GLA from LA. Mind if I ask the particular effects? Very curious.

You laugh! http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=815187 Although I suppose it's not a doughnut.

I get tired of typing the regular diet! Here's the whole thing with body weight dosages http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showtopic=2552&st=20 You probably won't be able to find ultra-refined fish oil at your supermarket--GNC and the Vitamin Shoppe carry more concentrated brands. Although sometimes they do, check the label. By the way, my heebie-jeebies about hearing about erection quality vanish when the poster is closer to my own age--like Yoda!

The enormous difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in animals at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than by any gender difference in brain circuitry. So say investigators in the United States, who admit to being stunned by the finding and the implications for the understanding of sexuality. In a study published by the British journal Nature, the team engineered female lab mice so that the rodents lacked a gene called TRPC2, effectively short-circuiting the so-called vomeronasal organ. This tiny organ in the nose is packed with receptor cells that pick up pheromones - primitive scents that trigger aggression and sexual responses in land-dwelling vertebrates. To the scientists' surprise, the mutant female mice behaved like men at a Seventies disco night. They sniffed and ran after females, flounced their pelvises, mounted and thrust at male mice, issuing ultrasonic squeaks of the kind that males emit to show lurv. The behaviour was not all-male, though. The engineered mice mated with males in a female-typical manner. And unlike normal males, they did not attack other males. But when their babies were born, they again became feckless males, insouciant about raising their offspring and keen on having more sex. Usually, female mice spend around 80 per cent of their time in their nest nursing their newborns and while lactating will attack male intruders and reject any attempt at a cuddle. But for the mutant mother mice, it was party time. 'Flabbergasting' results Just two days after giving birth, they started to wander away from the nest and eventually abandoned the babies altogether and when a male showed up, they were docile and receptive to courtship. "These results are flabbergasting," Catherine Dulac said, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University and a researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who led the work. "Nobody had imagined that a simple [genetic] mutation like this could induce females to behave so thoroughly like males." To check whether there could be any factors in the mutant mice that could induce this dramatic behaviour change, the scientists surgically removed the vomeronasal organs from the noses of normal female mice and the same thing happened. The findings are important, because they amount to a massive blow to those who for decades have looked for underlying differences in brain structure to explain why sexual behaviour between males and females is so dissimilar. The answer appears to be this: in the mice at least, there is no difference. The hard-wiring of the brains is the same. "In the big picture, it suggests that the female brain has a perfectly functional male behaviour circuit" which is repressed by signals from the vomeronasal organ, Professor Dulac says. Seen from the perspective of developmental biology, "the finding is very satisfactory", she says. "It means you only have to build one brain in a species and that the one brain is built, more or less, the same in the male and female." - AFP http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/06/1997168.htm