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    On of my favorite quotes at the moment at least is from the book

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

     

    After the character Isidore finds out that the story of the profit Mercer was faked he sees the Mercer before him. After a few events and discussion he says to the Mercer "I didn't like that about the whiskey, that's lowering." To this Mercer replied "That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself."

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    My favorite is Tom Otterness, he's a public works artists who's work is light hearted, cartoonish, and creates a good bridge for people to join the art world. His work removes the 'precious' art syndrome that most artwork has by being in public places where people can actually touch the art.

     

    It's fun, I saw a video where this cute woman kissed one of his sculpture while doing a bike tour of new york.

     

    I had a chance to talk with him once for a class paper, he's very friendly, and had a nice crowd dynamic.

     

    http://www.tomotterness.net

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    It's not all bad, I haven't played one in years but I was recently doing research to see if I wanted to play one. While there is a lot of suffering and anger in the games, the is also something... interesting there.

     

    First off some games just look beautiful, you can tell years of patience and craft were put into the trees and waterfalls, the sunscapes, the shadow works.

     

    Then there are the non fighter classes of the games, one of the games I was looking at was Lineage 2, and the idea that dwarfs are crafters, creating items to help their guild and fellow players, and that there are suport characters and healers who can't fight too well but are needed for a groups success.

     

    There are also rather interesting actions of politics, and logic at play with guild groups, you can almost see aspects of the Tao Te Ching in action when you observe the democracy of large guilds being humbled by smaller guilds so that they can protect their new members.

     

    The main thing you need to know though if you are to play mmorpgs, is that, even if there is an endgame boss and such, the game play is determined by the player, if you wish to view the tao in a game then be the tao in the game.

     

    I found this article on the zen of Lineage 2 when I was researching games and while I know very few people play the way this article suggest it did give a few things to consider when playing.

     

    http://l2.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=243

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    I have no reason not to believe in Aliens, but I do doubt that the government has captured any and have then trapped in Area 51. I see no reason that Aliens could not visit the planet, reasons why they would want to raises a lot more questions.

    The universe is huge, and vast, anything is possible, so aliens with the ability of galactic travel seems plausible.

    There are probably aliens who are more advanced then us, there are probably a lot that are less advanced, still see no reason they would want to visit earth. Who knows maybe they want to visit earth to help spread the message of the Tao :D .

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    If your looking for a conspiracy discussion, I am rather enjoying the 2012 end of world theory.

    I find the irony of researching a spiritual path known for longevity when the world is thought to be ending to be rather funny. That's not why I'm fallowing the Tao but I do note the irony.

    I know a few people who think the world will end, and one friend of mine feels it will be a rebirth of magic and not the end of the world. So he's trying to learn how to summon spirits and elementals and become magically powerful. We have vastly differing ideas to say the least.

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    I am kind of worried about this movie, I mean a street fighter movie with only one or two of the beloved characters of the game?

    If they wanted to do character base movies, I would assume they would do Ken or Ryu, considering it would make it a good tie in to the game. The trailer for the game was the two characters duking it out with rock music.

     

    For an action movie I'm looking forward to X-Men: Wolverine, full gratuitous and has the character Gambit in it.

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    It has been a long and winding path to the way.

     

    That statement is as much true as it is a lie.

     

    It took twenty two years before my path lead me to open the Tao Te Ching in a book store. After reading one poem at random I burst into laughter as if the punchline of the universe had been revealed to me. This got me a lot of strange looks to say the least, but I could not help it. The entire concept of the book is brilliance, processed and refined to a point of actually usable material. It fit so well with the ideas I had been cultivating on my own and was the perfect thing to fullfill my spiritual needs.

     

    I still have a long way to go before I feel I can actualy call myself a Taoist, but I am fallowing my path with patience and enjoyment.

    I am currently looking for taoist stories that have been translated to englist, if you have any sugestions I would greatly appreciate it.

    I look forward to discussing and talking with all of you.