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The evil demon, also known as evil genius, and occasionally as malicious demon or genius malignus, is a concept in Cartesian philosophy. In his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes hypothesized the existence of an evil demon, a personification who is “as clever and deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to…[Read more]

Simulated reality is the hypothesis that reality could be simulated—for example by computer simulation—to a degree indistinguishable from “true” reality. It could contain conscious minds which may or may not be fully aware that they are living inside a simulation. This is quite different from the current, technologically achievable concept of v…[Read more]

One of Japan’s most feared yakuza has renounced violence and found Buddhism. A genuine conversion? Or a desperate attempt to avoid assassination at the hands of his enemies? David McNeill reports…
-http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/gangster-boss-who-turned-to-god-1666851.html

Our Tate No Kai was nurtured by the…[Read more]

I don’t know that followers of Mo Pai or the other violent traditions you cite are following the principles laid out in the Tao Te Ching and–if you want to extend larger–the Dao Canon. If you feel they are, please cite your references.
-http://forum.healingtaousa.com/general/message/27066/

…and had collapsed from his severe injuries. He…[Read more]

…and had collapsed from his severe injuries. He was rescued by a Taoist sage known by the epithet Kasumi-gakure-“Hiding in the mist”-and escaped with him to the mountains of Iga. In time the sage accepted him as his student and trained him in the martial ways of ninjutsu…
-MASAAKI HATSUMI, The Way of the Ninja-Secret Techniques

But then,…[Read more]

A reflex arc is a neural pathway that controls a reflex action. In higher animals, most sensory neurons do not pass directly into the brain, but synapse in the spinal cord. This characteristic allows reflex actions to occur relatively quickly by activating spinal motor neurons without the delay of routing signals through the brain, although the…[Read more]

Wu wei (traditional Chinese: 無爲; simplified Chinese: 无为; pinyin: wú wéi; a variant and derivatives: Japanese: 無為(むい); Korean: 無爲(무위); Vietnamese: Vô vi; English, lit. non-doing) is an important concept in Taoism that literally means non-action or non-doing.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei

Autonomist Marxism is thus a “bottom-up” th…[Read more]

http://pattayatoday.net/news/international-news/tin-can-tramp-was-stocks-genius-with-fortune/

A tramp who lived on a pittance collecting tin cans and eating scraps from rubbish bins left a secret £1m fortune when he died.

Curt Degerman – nicknamed ‘Tin-Can-Curt’ – made shrewd stock market investments with the little money he made…[Read more]

Catherine Clifford,CNBC Fri, Nov 4 11:19 AM PDT

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-robots-jobs-government-181956572.html

Computers, intelligent machines, and robots seem like the workforce of the future. And as more and more jobs are replaced by technology, people will have less work to do and ultimately will be sustained by…[Read more]

Laika (Russian: Лайка; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3,…[Read more]

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…Kristin Davis run an elite prostitution ring from her high rise apartment…it was located a few blocks from the New York Stock Exchange…

Q:How many clients?

A:Around 10000 at that point in time.“>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ub25WjEK0=>

…as a supplement…

But there are some really good martial arts books.

This is one of those.

https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Ninja-Handbook-Techniques-Ninjutsu/dp/4805313056/http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Ninja-Handbook-Techniques-Ninjutsu/dp/4805313056

http://nypost.com/2016/10/28/new-clinton-emails-found-during-anthony-weiner-sexting-probe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandals

American politician Anthony Weiner, former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York City, has been involved in three sexual scandals related to sexting, or sending…[Read more]

…to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public…
-http://www.zerohedge.com/content/zero-hedge-manifesto

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-26/doug-band-memo-offers-vivid-details-foundation-corporate-donors-and-bills-profit-act

We have written frequently in recent…[Read more]

Remember the popular scene in The Last Samurai where Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise make sweet, tender love? You don’t? Well, perhaps if the story had been more rooted in reality we could have seen that happen.

As it turns out, pre-modern Japan was exceptionally accepting, even encouraging, of male homosexuality and bisexuality. Much like that…[Read more]

A security is a tradable financial asset. The term commonly refers to any form of financial instrument, but its legal definition varies by jurisdiction. In some jurisdictions the term specifically excludes financial instruments other than equities and fixed income instruments. In some jurisdictions it includes some instruments that are close to…[Read more]

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The need to find a form for what is yet immature, uncrystalized and underdeveloped, as well as the groan at the impossibility of such a postulate – this is the chief excitement of my book.
-WITOLD GOMBROWICZ

In many of your posts, both recent and old (over many years), YOU (c_howdy) seem to some bizarre fascination with homosexual encounters,…[Read more]

Noam Chomsky paints his own cynical picture of the conflict in Iraq. “The U.S. goal … certainly had nothing to do with stopping atrocities,” he says, and even less to do with advancing political freedom. “The U.S. promotes democracy when it’s in our strategic and economic interests and opposes democracy when it’s not.” Chomsky contin…[Read more]