More Chi Gong Video - beautiful motions and explanation

This is a great preview of what Chi Gong is.

     Chi: the body's energy / life force (not electrical, acts electrical)
     Gong: something worked at over time like "Craft"

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Why Bad Things Happen to Good People - a reply to a comment made in an email to me

Hey, you said,

"I kept asking for God to look out for me and
things didn't stop...so I had to ask myself
why should I believe when he wasn't listening."

When I committed to improving my relationship with God I my life got better AND worse. But I learned by asking and receiving that the hard stuff is put there for my own benefit and learning. You have kids, have you ever taught them something that was hard for them to learn or do you try and protect them by keeping them at the same age and level of understanding? (I can't imagine that's even possible without locking them in their room forever.)

I've been amazed of all the times I've found out that he's listening. However, it seems that if you don't know who we are or why we're here then it's hard to put the things that happen to people in context. That is, we're all here in this life to learn and decide if we're going to choose good or evil in order to grow and mature and live up to our possibilities as Sons and Daughters of heavenly parents. That is, we're part of a family and we can grow up to be more like our parents and attain greater responsibility. But just like kids, our parents have to let us go out into the world and prove ourselves and experiment on our own.

God can't live your life for you and can only help you to get through your challenges and, if you're listening to Him, tailor make your circumstances for your learning and growth. Life can become harder if you're on his side but the rewards are enormous.

Again, hope I haven't overstepped here. I hardly know you and I'm talking to you like an old friend ... some people don't take kindly to that.

Now, mind you, anything I've said here I don't pretend to be the one with the answers. Anything I say I do with one condition, if you want to know if anything I've said is true, ask God. Don't take my word for it.

Of course, learning to recognize the subtle responses he gives us or recognizing that we have to ask the right questions is another topic entirely ... I'll just say that he can't meddle too much in our experiment or we can blame him at our trial later, the one that decides how much responsibility we get in the future and how well we've learned to serve and participate in a greater whole (that crazy 'Glory' concept that confuses everyone just like the atonement.

Why Everyone, Especially the Religiously Phobic, Should Read Scriptures, Especially the Book of Mormon.

So, I've started to write this rant a couple times but it's a much bigger topic than I first suspected. So, I'll give my foundational answer and then flesh out arguments and additional comments/rants that match with this using links that will go where I've made text bold. So, here goes:

First, if you want to try this experiment, and you're not a regular scripture reader, I recommend the clarity of the Book of Mormon as a starting point over other scriptures. There are a number of reasons which I'll probably link another rant to. Just trust I'm looking out for you.

So here's some possible affects of reading the Book of Mormon:

1. Rise and Fall of two civilizations written in Biblical English
    (for scifi/fantasy enthusiasts)
2. Alternate possibility of history to ponder
3. Understanding your fellow man (read Brother and Sister)
         a. To understand their beliefs
         b. By gaining insights to divinely inspired council for
             human development
4. Possible source of truth
5. To learn how to achieve a constant sense of peace
6. To learn about and experience true joy instead of mere pleasure
7. Practical Applicable Philosophies worth testing in the real world
    and not just mentally exercising with.


These are all useless arguments of course, because there's a visceral fear that comes across the spiritually desensitized when they try and read the Book of Mormon. It's like you have to be serious about it or you can't do it. I've already tried these arguments for reason's sake and it has never worked. You're either looking for further light and knowledge or you're not. You can't approach the secrets of the universe without being made responsible for the choice that you make ... and on some deep level your soul is aware of that even with the veil in place. I'm just trying to peak your curiosity to try.

Internet Marketing - Part Two

So, I figured out why it is that Internet Marketers are always trying to sell and resell their systems ... that are often just systems to sell their systems. It's encapsulated in this story:

He asks his students, ‘If you and I both owned a hamburger stand and we were in a contest to sell the most hamburgers, what advantages would you most like to have on your side?

The answers are predictable — the best meat, the best location, the lowest prices. Gary tells his students they can have all these advantages, but the advantage he wants will ensure that he whips the pants off them. What does he want? A starving crowd.

That's why the Internet Marketing business is like a snake devouring it's own tail, it is it's own starving market. Internet Marketers make a killing selling to Internet Market Wannabes. Awesome. And there's probably an endless supply of them. But it still seems like a burn to me.

More to come!

Take On Me - Literal Version

OK, this is pretty clever. I'm familiar with the old 80's video and when someone sent this to me I was wondering what they meant by "Literal Version". Well, watch and find out. It's worth the hoot and it's not long enough to drag out the stoopid!

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