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The RIAA is filled with agenda-pushing propaganda-making whores that are just using this "filesharing is bad" message to make money. Every nerd/geek on the planet knows this.

Somewhere on wench.little-gamers.com there is a really good strip to demonstrate this. Not only does it include an excellently well-written rant at the bottom, it provides a yahoo news search for filesharing impacts and so forth, which provides sufficient information that the RIAA is full of crap.

Anyways, sorry bout the harshness.

~FT

Wow. I should have kept tabs on this, otherwise I might be remembering all my replies right now ^_^.

About the Perfect World ideal, Clow. I understand perfectly clearly that such a "Utopia" cannot exist. I have even formulated a hypothesis/theory/generic idea that what we live in IS perfect. I call the idea "Perfect Imperfection."

Let's imagine a world that has been "perfect" since the beginning of time itself. The beings in this world were always happy. Everything went right for them. This can't happen for a number of reasons. For one, everybody has a different ideal of what should go right. This causes conflict. And even if they did all have the same ideal and everything went their way, the people wouldn't really realise what a perfect world they lived in. They wouldn't know good from bad. It would just be the way things were.

The fact that some religions seem to say that we are imperfect beings, and we need the Almighty Saviour and whatnot to help us out annoys me. The fact that we are imperfect makes us perfect. It makes this thing called "society" exist. It also makes it possible for us to learn and grow. It helps us strive to grasp wisdom (although most of us strive to grasp other things...sadly).

I guess it's tricky to explain, but I hope that all works out.

The rest of what I would be saying now if I could remember any of it really mirrors the thoughts of others who have posted. You pretty much all sum up the ideas I have in my head about the whole ordeal. Thanks ^_^.

~FT

I still don't get it

Diagrams might help (if you have it on your website maybe??)

Later
~FT

Oh, just thought of this.

People who use the fact that they follow a religion as an excuse to know all about it more than people who don't follow it are silly. I don't follow Christianity, but I've done some homework to realise that saying that Christianity is the One Faith that has dominion over all other religions just goes to show that you've been blinded and are no longer open-minded.

As far as I see it, Christians ask you to be open-minded about Christ, then you accept that yes, he could've been our saviour. Then you say yes, he was our saviour. CLICK! Open-mindedness disappears.

Lost my train of thought...
~FT

The Gnostic Christians had it going on, and the 4 Gospels in the current Bible came from Gnostic Gospels. You know why only 4 were chosen? Because the first Pope was a scum-sucking liar that wanted to control people, and those 4 gospels fit together in such a way that he could have a grip over people.

As for The Old Testament, most of it was lost in translation. See Zecheriah Sitchin for more on this.

So if the original Catholics and such were all corrupt punks, then what's to say about today's Christianity? The morals are good, but then again, we can get morals from every other religion.

I have no problem with believing in a God, but I don't think he'd be a fascist dictator like Christianity makes him out to be.

~FT

Maybe we'll sit in bunkers (that won't work, it's nuclear god damned holocaust for crying out loud) and hope that "The One" will save us...when in actual fact we could've simply gone in as a huge mass of people and beaten the crap of the evildoers anyways.

~FT

How right you are. What rods are these, by the way? And can you make them??

Thanks again!
~FT

Um..I haven't read the replies so I don't know if anybody has "proven" TK yeet...

So anyway, I'll get on with my ramblings.

You can't even prove that you yourself are real. So therefore, you cannot prove that science is real, that dreams are real, that people are real. Then you can't prove that TK is real. Full stop.

On top of that, it's an unknown field that people have only just started looking at. The fact is that science doesn't know everything about "the laws of reality." The fact that reality itself could be a dream in someone's life means that such "laws" don't really exist, so you can bend them. Anyways, it's an unknown field. There are many, many good theories on how it can exist (and some tutorials on how to do it) on www.psipog.net. But please, I urge you, if you don't believe in this stuff, just have an open mind. Don't be like the other 5 billion people in this world who are so strongly against the supernatural that they would do anything in their power to make us look like crazies, when all we're trying to do is discover.

Peace
~FT

Mmmm that would be funny. I always thought of the easter bunny as a pink bunny, but every now and then I thought he was a lightning fast little bunny that was white with brown spots.

Now Cadbury's Chocolate (NZ??) has given the Easter Bunny a commercialised look, just like Coca Cola did with Santa Claus. I wonder if kids these days think the Easter Bunny looks like that Cadbury guy?

~FT

Well, those unintelligable types are not skeptics. I call them cynics, though that might not be the right word either.

Basically, these people believe that everything in the universe is ordained by science, and science alone. And if science hasn't proved it, then it either does not exist or it is on another planet in some distant galaxy. They are a typical type of human being that simply exists because their parents and their peers and society itself cannot come to grips with the fact that their beloved science doesn't know everything.

Those who seek the truth through knowledge and education only get further and further away from it.

A true skeptic is somebody who looks at a website like astralpulse.com or psipog.net and thinks "hmmm...interesting" and gets back to some whacky experiment he/she is doing. Okay, maybe not that last part, but a true skeptic would weight out whether something is real or not, without biased opinion. Now many of this common breed of human believe that they DO in fact, weigh out whether the paranormal is good or not, without bias. But the truth is, they have so much of a biased opinion it isn't funny. Instead of looking for answers, they look for something to disprove the paranormal.

Take for example, evolution theory as a way to "debunk" God. God is a theory, just like everything else. It hasn't been proven, and neither has evolution (in my eyes at least). But these people go around presuming that evolution is 100% true, that God has nothing to do with anything, and that is their reason for not believing in the paranormal.

To all the so-called skeptics out there, I say just one thing. You cannot prove that you yourself are even real. You cannot prove or disprove that you are not a figment of my imagination, or that I'm a figment of yours. So, if you cannot prove or disprove that you yourself are real, you cannot prove or disprove that reality itself is real. Therefore, you cannot prove or disprove that science is real, and thus, once again, you cannot prove or disprove that the paranormal is real. And presuming science itself, and you yourself, are "real," you can't even begin to say that science knows everything, unless you want to make yourself look like an idiot to everybody who has put thought into these matters. Science does not know everything. Deal with it.

~FT

Wow...that sounds like a really amazing way to show people how to use energy, and maybe for those who already know how to use it (to some extent[|)] to have a bit of practice! I'd be truly grateful if you could explain how that whole setup goes ^__^

Thanks for the feedback guys. I didn't realise how "accurate" I was being...just from my own experience!

Now I'm going to sort of badmouth the very wise people I try to learn from...because most of them seem to have taught that taming the mind is a difficult state to be in, either willfully or not realising what others were taking in.

I have a zenish calendar where there are all kinds of quotes and wise statements from various religious leaders and wise men of the East, but some of them keep saying "only when your mind is still will the truth come in" or something like that. But in these sayings, I can't help but feel that they make out as though having a still and focused mind is a difficult thing to accomplish. Maybe it is difficult to have a still mind, but then again people tend to confuse "still" with "focused."

Even in Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics and Practical Psychic Self-Defense, he gives us focus exercises to tame the surface mind, and they are relatively simple to do. It's just that when you force outside thoughts away (emotionless or not...) it just rebounds does it not? And then of course people I know and even myself have felt dismay that our minds are not silenced, but in actual fact we have done exactly what we were meaning to do - gotten rid of surface thoughts and narrowed our mental stream to a deeper level.

To keep the mind still and thoughtless, is, I think, impossible. I quote from my calendar(lol), The No-mind No-thinks No-thing. If you think nothing you are nothing. The mind always thinks.

Keeping the mind still has to be different from keeping it thoughtless.

Very good site that one is.

It'll take some time to get adjusted to telekinesis, and then all you have to do is get control over water. Bang, replace tele with hydro and there it is. Hydrokinesis.

I personally like to put it all under the umbrella of psychokinesis, but I respect that each one is distinctly different.

~FT

Well, following an opponent's moves is what you learn to do through years of training naturally. Sort of like a game of chess, but faster. Predicting an opponent's moves is not just the first step, but reflexes increase. My reflexes have almost doubled. I can catch glasses that tip over before they break, whereas before I wouldn't!! And I'm only 10th kyu!!

Sounds like your martial arts would be very useful Khuli ^_^

As for the workout thing, I still think that extremities aren't necessary...

As for my discoveries about ki, I have found my own reasons why ki blasts don't work. Ki is a high-resonating spirit energy. It deteriorates quite easily outside of the body, and a ki ball can take some focus to maintain for long periods of time, hence why it was originally a meditation technique. A ki blast would simply fall apart. But I have no doubts that filling your hand with ki and firing it through the opponent's spirit when you punch or kick him is very possible, and has been done before.

Well, catch ya later
~FT

In the words of Mohammad, it is very important to believe in something. If we don't believe in anything, then we are nothing. We always believe in something, whether it be an emotion, a state of mind, an afterlife, or a mix.

The problem I see is when people get their belief boxes by reading philosophies, thinking "Wow! That's cool! Maybe I'll put that on my MSN profile and make my life be dictated by it!!" when all they're really doing is using quotes that just about anybody can use, because being different is somehow wrong.

For example..."If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room." That quote makes no sense. If there was nothing but the edge, ie everybody who "takes up too much room" was eliminated, "the edge" would no longer be defined. Picking up such a quote without analyzing it are the sorts of things most people in society today are doing. Worst of all they dictate their lives by these philosophies. Sure, philosophy has put to words things I could not put to words, and have thus helped me to grow and to learn, and I do use them as rules, but I don't live my life by them.. That's just silly.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah. Great post.

Later
~FT

More on focusing and intent:

What do you think of when somebody tells you to focus? Red face? Strong eyebrows? Clenched teeth? Hard mental effort??

The truth is that strong focus actually feels very smooth and gentle, very graceful even. I discovered this by both practicing telekinesis and doing meditation.

Most of the time when I thought of meditating or doing TK, I thought of tough mental effort, gritting my mind's teeth, forcing thoughts away...But now with experience, I have found that when I focus it is very gentle and smooth.

I guess this might be the effect of the "frequency" balancing out and multiplying. Everything just becomes so gentle instead of frantic and split apart. By trying to FORCE thoughts away, you end up splitting your mind to pieces. Going with the flow makes the mind like a river...which is a good thing!

When I am training at my Kyokushin Karate dojo, I find that a new technique takes some repitition, but getting frustrated gets me nowhere, and the same goes for the other students. Once I get it down for the first time I get used to the flow, and I can do it easily. Until eventually I get it down right, and I keep tweaking it until one day it will become perfect.

I guess that analogy might help, maybe not.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

~FT

More theories!! Yay!

I was playing Golden Sun 2 the other day (LOVE that game), and one of the townsfolk was trying to mimic an Adept named Piers(in the game people with powers are called Adepts, and until recently, nobody knew about em...of course the main characters you control are Adepts ^_^). Anyways, he tried to use the power Frost to turn a puddle of water into ice. The character said something along the lines of when you focus your mind you're supposed to create Psynergy(psychic energy), because that's what Piers had told him. But it didn't work...

That got me thinking. The more focused your mind gets...maybe more energy is attracted to you, generated or even temporarily created??

Maybe that's why we need to focus so much to allow ourselves to perform things like telekinesis!

~FT

As far as I understand it, it's only important as far as the Microcosmic Orbit is concerned...

I used to have pages from a book given by a friend, but lately my HDD was wiped.

Later
~FT

Amazing. The power of the human mind is limitless and knows no bounds...so long as it believes [|)]

Cool story. Just goes to show that science doesn't know EVERYTHING there is to know in the universe...

~FT

Another name for that book is "Northern Lights."

I love the series, albeit the ending is a tad on the sad side.

I shan't say more. I'm reading LOTR for the first time now, and I still can't say which one I like more...

~FT

Of course somebody who worked out as much as him would be able to waste him! That's the way the body works - it has limits. The mind however, does not. The spirits energy is related to the body, and as we all know, it is integrated on many aspects of our multidimensional selves.

You quit Taekwondo, but you don't seem to have picked up anything else...I find this as a slight block in your path. Meh, just me.

I say the mind is as important as the body, and it is not necessary to go to the extreme ends of either to become an asskicking superhero. Often times I have seen for myself that pushing yourself too hard can yield little reward as you narrow down your focus more and more, and get tired out. Take things at your own pace...it doesn't take _that_ much to become an awesome "warrior" or fighter.

Sure, the world's greatest fighter would get his butt kicked in a race against an olympic sprinter, but he's not too fussed about it. You can never have the full range of abilities out there. If you want to fight well, focus on fighting. If you want to run well, do a bit of running. The only benefit extreme working out will get you is an attempt at mastering all of the skills out there, a rarity for any human being to have.

Warriors and fighters don't have to be like the guys on DBZ.

Damn it, I've lost my train of thought and probably my point, yet again.

Anyways, I'm off

~FT

Just a token of constructive criticism here but...

aren't you supposed to have the ideas down BEFORE you decide that you'll make the documentary??

Sounds like you just woke up one morning, your friend came over and said "Hey man, I got this new camcorder as a christmas present from my Japanese penpal...let's make a documentary on something!!"

My two cents
~FT

I see we think alike ^_^.

As for martial arts reaching a plateau...I'm not sure if I'll ever hit that level. After I get my blackbelt in Kyokushin I will move on to either another style of Karate, Tae Kwon Do, or my lifelong dream, Kung Fu and then Nei Kung.

As for "extreme work out regimes..." I'm not so sure. I have a friend who just worked himself up to be able to do 200 situps. Now his abs are so strong he doesn't even get remotely winded when I punch him in the solar plexus, with the force that would easily wind me when I flexed my abs. Now he does situps with weights, and he just keeps getting stronger.

Weights are incredibly useful and convenient, and most of the old workouts to build your muscles can be worked on in a more focused manner with weights. But that's not to say that you should all discard your old pushups. They still are fundamental basics!!

anyways, I'm getting sidetracked (as usual). Basically, I agree with most of your points, if not all. Keep fighting!

~FT

I find that listening to this noise can be difficult because I am always thinking, and I bet most of you out there are too.

I got this from my calendar, I'll post who quoted it, but I'll say it anyways (I think it was Buddha or the Dalai Llama)

The nomind nothinks about nothing.

You can never completely "clear your head." We are what we think, without thought we are nothing. Don't be fooled into thinking that meditation is getting rid of your thoughts and sitting in utter stillness in your mind. There is always thought.

What I do is a sit down, nice and quietly, and just listen to my thoughts. I know I am thinking some annoying ones that just won't go away, but I also know that if I try to force them away they'll get worse. So I just leave them be, or emotionlessly push them to the side while I focus on some other thoughts instead. Usually some philosophy helps because I can sit there thinking for ages why it is stupid/smart or what it means in the first place.

After doing this for a while I might use a technique or just push my thoughts away and focus on something else to get into a deeper trance. Usually after the alpha state or whatever the first meditational state is, I fall asleep after a while because my mind can't take it. The images get more and more random, and it takes more discipline to be able to handle it all. But, in the end, I can still be aware of myself enough to bring myself back to normal, and when I get up I feel mentally refreshed.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is no perfect technique. Each technique accomplishes different things for you, and it all depends what tickles your fancy. Of course, you could be like me and just use the basics, then tinker it to your own likings.

Later
~FT

Something along the lines of Da Vinci putting secret messages in his paintings and stuff.

Mostly, from what I hear, it's pretty much saying that the truth about Christianity has been lost because those punks who founded the Holy Catholic Church only chose specific gospels to be in the Bible, and the founder created a manipulative system in which he could control the people.

And as for all you Catholics out there, I don't mind Christianity. I'm just saying that the truth seems to be that your part of the religion was founded on lies and manipulation.

~FT

Well said, Khuli, well said.

The only thing is that some animes are well researched, whereas others are simply thrown together because it looks cool and makes for a popular story.

And as for physical training that could kill you...it's kind of obvious that you don't do this physical training yourself. The worst you can get from training too hard is getting something like a hernia, slipping a disc, or breaking some bones. Death is hardly even an issue when it comes to working out very hard. Working out isn't even that hard, and I doubt that people have to make it an extreme lifestyle to be able to use energy in such a way. The ancient Japanese or whoever used energy didn't have huge weights did they? If they did then they sure as hell would be able to have done this extreme work-out lifestyle, and would be much stronger than they were. So I don't think it is necessary to become an uber tank of a human being just to use energy...

Doing martial arts is incredibly beneficial. I trust very few people on the internet when it comes to energy, as most of them are just little kids trying to discover something that will make them beat up bullies, without all the hard physical work (hence why "radical" ki training is all with the mind...). Martial arts not only strengthens your body in muscles, but in the way you use it. I may sound incredibly cheesy when I say this, but fighting is possibly the only way for a human (man, don't know about women...) to discover himself. It is zen in motion. You have a cleared and focused intent in the school or when you fight, so that you work to maximum technique and performance. My mind is incredibly clear when I am there, and afterwards as well. And some martial arts involve energy (kung fu, nei kung, aikido), so I suggest anybody really wanting to learn energy, not just stuff around claiming to do ki blasts, should get involved with martial arts.

As for me, I'm still trying to discover things. I doubt that the ki blast is possible, but there's no harm in trying. I'm more interested in getting telekinesis to work a little better...and it's hard to get the inspiration to train[|)]

Later
~FT