Steven

Great song, isn’t it?

You should have included a clip with the music though. 🙂

Including it now:

“Freewill”

There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance

A planet of play things
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
‘The stars aren’t…[Read more]

Way Cool Star Wars photo.

I mostly don’t watch TV or videos of any kind. If I have free time, I prefer to put that into doing practice. I only watch a DVD if either my physical body or energetic body can not support doing more practice. Then in those cases, watching an instructional video (even if for some kind of entertainment) is pretty…[Read more]

Let me comment on just a few aspects of your post.
I am going to make another bold statement, so please be prepared . . .

>>>Hey, as for androgynous Jesus, I’m just recognizing that
>>>Grandmaster Mantak Chia recognizes–or
>>>once recognized–Jesus as a–the–Western Immortal.
>>>:)
>>>Seriously, I may not like the farmer,
>>>but his lif…[Read more]

LOL.

And by “family member” does this mean you? 😉

If so, my condolences . . .

And, my condolences 😉

🙂

In any case, thanks for the joke . . . S

Of course, the problem with these articles is that they tend to focus on Western religions. Western religions are doctrine and dogma “faith-based”, and ultimately fail under the common-sense meter due to admonitions against things that modern folks recognize as perfectly normal. Eastern religions, esp. Daoism, are direct-experience and…[Read more]

>>> Helen Spurway of London University said
>>>that she supports the view that virgin birth
>>>is “probable among humans,” and in fact some
>>>mothers in the past who claimed that they
>>>gave birth without intercourse with a man
>>>could well have been telling the truth.

Or even more simply, the woman and her boyfriend were engaged i…[Read more]

Or he went to that school that Russelln has linked to below, lol.

Warning to the reader: If you are a Christian, you may not want to read this, as it will likely anger you.

I’m sure my comments would piss off a lot of people, but to me, why anyone would want to be a Christian or believe what the Bible says to begin with, boggles my mind. Wanting to feel accepted by Christian doctrine, to me is like a black…[Read more]

No problem; I was happy to. 🙂
Feel free to share more when you wish to.
Actually, send me an email if you could, FT, now there’s something I wish to talk with you about but I don’t yet have your contact info.

Thanks,
Steven

I never saw that movie; I had to look up that reference. 😉 S

Every Daoist needs to watch the Star Wars movies, all 6 of them (to soon be 7), repeatedly. There is a lot of Daoist mysticism embedded in them, and they are fantastically fun to watch.

S

I mainly posted the video because I like Tai Chi and I like Star Wars, and I found the video clip quite amusing.

A brief footnote on your video of top 10 Sith lords . . .

These must be from all the Star Wars novels . . .
I didn’t see Darth Maul or Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku).

I thought Count Dooku was pretty awesome in the Star Wars…[Read more]

To simplify what this is all about:

As I said before, not every sequence of words that are strung together can be assigned a T/F value. The sentence I gave before: “This sentence is false.” is a perfect example of this.

Some people in philosophy and some in mathematical logic, like to devote energy toward such sentence constructions that…[Read more]

Well, thank you too.
I hope these discussions have been helpful to you in some way.

I also recognize that many of these topics that you have raised can be “hot-button topics” in the sense that they can be very difficult to discuss in a public setting. I honor and respect that as well. There can be a real palpable fear of perceived possible…[Read more]

You raise a lot of different issues in this one post, but I’ll try to respond. 🙂

>>>Cale: An example of what I’m trying to avoid and therefore am flirting with.
>>>
>>>Please consider.
>>>So, if I were
>>>Words.

I saw that, but I was addressing your logical puzzles.
In particular, at the end of the post, I addressed the issue of…[Read more]

It’s similar, but even more directly shows the nature of sentences that are not propositions. Saying something is a lie usually implies some kind of conditional, namely that there is an implied deception. However the word “false” gives the predicate truth value transparently.

AHH . . . getting mired in logical propositions.
Good thing I’m an MS, ABD PhD in Math and can decipher logical propositions. 🙂
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>>>I always lie and never tell the truth.

This is simply a 100% false statement, independent of the speaker.
As you say, the only way it could be true, would be if spoken by an…[Read more]

“Ocean/Sky/Great Heart Breathing”
is Michael’s complicated name for Blissful Breathing Qigong.

It is a qigong form that contains the components Ocean Breathing, Sky Breathing, Great Heart Breathing, as well as other components that are not these.

However, to answer your question, I would recommend just the Ocean Breathing itself.
It is…[Read more]

>>>It’s complicated, and it’s an important issue,
>>>not just for me, but for everyone… I’ve been
>>>exploring sexuality through my male and female
>>>aspects for a while. I’ve fallen in love and lust
>>>with both women and men, and I’m angry…

Thank you for this deeply personal sharing.
I’m sorry I didn’t see it earlier to be able…[Read more]