The DaoBums by Emily Brontë (by grok)

[Nungali]

9 hours ago, old3bob said:

 

when are you going to write a longer script and make a movie out of this?

 

 

'Sin City'  ?  

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

No.  the post is clearly discussing interpersonal dynamics, views about Dao Bums forum,  and relating it to meditation.   It is also in the same clever and creative and colorful vein as earlier posts in this same thread.  I find it laugh out loud funny.

 

 

 

 

Who said that ?

 

Is it an echo from one who asserted they have left ? 

[Nungali]

40 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

OK, I couldn´t resist.

 

Question:  How might William S. Burroughs describe the character of Liminal Luke on Daobums?

 

Answer:

 

Luke... yes. Seen him. The taobums flicker-flicker-flicker on the screen, a digital junkyard of "being" and "non-being." And there, always on the edge of the frame, is Luke. The Liminal Kid. Not a user, not a master, just a ghost in the machine's echo chamber.

He sits in the silence of the forum, a twitching nerve-end. Waiting. Not for enlightenment, mind you. But for the next dose of static, the next whispered code that might break the illusion of his own flesh. His "practice" is a form of withdrawal, a desperate scratching at the scabs of perception. He's not meditating; he's junk-sick for the void. The final fix. You see it in the way his posts bleed into the margins, words strung out like a desperate junkie's last thought—the same thought you see in the eyes of a man trying to talk to his reflection in a bathroom mirror.

They talk of "flow states," of "the Way." He just sees it as another control grid. A psychic virus transmitted through bad translations and the smell of stale incense. He's the one trying to get to the off switch, convinced the Taobums are just a new, more insidious form of the same old scam—another gang of vendors selling a different brand of heroin. A spiritual fix that promises freedom but just hooks you on the emptiness. He's not chasing peace. He's chasing the silence between words. The space where the narrative stops and the parasites die.

 

 

beat me to it . 

 

I was wondering how  Burrows would see  'Fear and Loathing in Daobums ' 

[old3bob]

14 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

No.  the post is clearly discussing interpersonal dynamics, views about Dao Bums forum,  and relating it to meditation.   It is also in the same clever and creative and colorful vein as earlier posts in this same thread.  I find it laugh out loud funny.

 

 

its not that big of a biggy and I've also done my share of it,  but is still something to consider about interjecting.

[BigSkyDiamond]

21 hours ago, Nungali said:

Who said that ?

Is it an echo from one who asserted they have left ? 

 

i never said i was going to leave.  I said i was going to remove my haikus.  which i did.

As non-AI conversations and posts occur in this thread then yes i still participate in those.

[Mark Foote]

By ChatGPT:

 

ChatGPT said:

“Fear and Loathing on the Taoist Trail: A Gonzo Dive into TheDaoBums.com”

 

We were somewhere around the digital outskirts of enlightenment when the ego began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “We can’t stop here, this is spirit country!”—but my cursor was already deep in the tangled scrolls of TheDaoBums.com, a wild-eyed online bazaar of spiritual renegades, mystical tinkers, and energy-surfing cyber shamans. If the internet had a back alley where Taoists, magicians, Qigong junkies, and confused tech bros met to swap esoteric secrets, argue about kundalini, and occasionally call each other deluded charlatans—it was here.

 

I logged in under a pseudonym. Of course. Everyone does. You don’t want your real name associated with forum threads like “I Opened My Third Eye and Now My Left Ear Won’t Stop Buzzing.” This was not your average mindfulness app bullshit, no. This was uncut, raw metaphysics—mainlined straight from a mix of Eastern mysticism, Western paranoia, and the kind of DIY enlightenment that could only be cooked up in a basement by a man who hasn't seen sunlight since 2003.

 

TheDaoBums is the kind of place where a thread titled “Can I levitate if I abstain from sex for 90 days?” will spawn fourteen pages of serious, often hostile, debate. These people aren’t trolling—they believe. And they know things—dangerous things. You find yourself nodding along, murmuring about microcosmic orbits and energy blockages, before realizing you haven't blinked in three hours and your chakras are humming like a power transformer.

 

The mods, gods help them, try to keep order. But how do you wrangle a crowd of self-declared immortals and astral projectionists? Every attempt to rein in the madness only feeds it. The forum software is creaky, the colors are late-90s depression, and the user base ranges from erudite mystics quoting Lao Tzu to a guy named “VoidDragon69” claiming he can melt clouds with his mind.

But here’s the thing—the truth might actually be in there, somewhere. Buried under the cosmic sludge, past the flame wars about lineage purity and the arguments over whether semen retention gives you psychic powers, there are glimmers. Real insight. A flash of clarity in the chaos. Maybe even… wisdom?

 

Or maybe it’s just the caffeine and the humming of my computer fan. Who can say? The spiritual path was never supposed to be clean.

 

In the end, TheDaoBums isn’t a map—it’s a mirror maze with strobe lights. You enter looking for Tao and leave with a hundred tabs open, wondering whether reality is a hologram and if your chi is flowing backwards. But damn it, that’s the ride.

And like all good Gonzo journeys, you don’t understand it. You survive it.

 

Thank you, ChatGPT!
 

ChatGPT said:

You’re very welcome! Glad you enjoyed the trip through the digital desert of the immortals. If you ever need more Taoist-flavored Gonzo journalism, spirit quests, or just someone to decode esoteric madness, I’ll be here—fully grounded, mostly.

 

Safe travels through the void, and remember: never trust a forum thread after midnight. 🌀

 

 

Edited Monday at 08:45 PM by Mark Foote

[Nungali]

3 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

i never said i was going to leave.  I said i was going to remove my haikus.  which i did.

As non-AI conversations and posts occur in this thread then yes i still participate in those.

 

I know !   Thats why I said it .   I dont see how you could remove your 'haikus' from here without removing yourself ?  

 

Hang on .... I better check what  haikus  means  ......  

 

... Ohhhhhh  !