Regarding the original videos, I’ve seen blatantly fake qigong demos that were very similar to the two vids. It was kind of a fad in the late 80s/early 90s in Taiwan (and probably China, too). And many audience members would start acting weird, too. Really weird. I got the impression many of the ones acting out may be suppressed in their lives, and this was a chance to let it all out. The demonstrator would wave his hand and his students would fall down or make them do somersaults, or create an invisible ‘Qi force field’ that their students couldn’t penetrate (supposedly).
in ming dynasty legit kung fu instructor had to be certified by government and teaching at govt halls. the certificate is a wooden badge with your name, weight, height, and amount of weight you can lift (300 lb is minimum).
ranking is given when you fight. if you lose fight you demote one level. the nine ranks are good(1,2,3) ok(1,2,3) bad(1,2,3)
there is no need for that chinatown green sash black sash gay bullsh1t. the traditional kung fu ranking system has never been “lost” or “forgotten”. ppl are just too poosy to implement it.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1281299]lol, dude, the boxers, the white lotus society, spirit boxing.
100 years ago, mislead by charlatans and they died for it. Even worse!
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let me put this victorian era self fellating mocking kung fu magic boxer non sense to rest.
late qing era army was composed of a main force of modernized riflemen at the front, with small group of kung fu guys at the back for close quarter combat and mop up. when time for bayonette charge the kung fu guys move to the front.
during siege of peking the gansu muslim brigade betrayed the boxers and put them in front as human shields in a narrow alley with no way to run.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1281299]lol, dude, the boxers, the white lotus society, spirit boxing.
100 years ago, mislead by charlatans and they died for it. Even worse!
People are the same now as they ever were. Flat screen TV and a smartphone doesn’t change a single thing about human traits and character.
We are all still doing the same stuff we were doing before history even started getting recorded. No change. Perceived change, but no real change.[/QUOTE]
empires justify conquest by claiming superiority. when they claim equality they become fair game.
if all this modern upheavals in the name of progress brought no actual improvement to the human condition then the existence of your reality is redundant.
[QUOTE=Jimbo;1281310]Regarding the original videos, I’ve seen blatantly fake qigong demos that were very similar to the two vids. It was kind of a fad in the late 80s/early 90s in Taiwan (and probably China, too). And many audience members would start acting weird, too. Really weird. I got the impression many of the ones acting out may be suppressed in their lives, and this was a chance to let it all out. The demonstrator would wave his hand and his students would fall down or make them do somersaults, or create an invisible ‘Qi force field’ that their students couldn’t penetrate (supposedly).[/QUOTE]
they could not stand living by nihilism.
[QUOTE=Jimbo;1281309]What’s Fukushima got to do with the boxer rebellion, and why take glee in it? If you experience a major disaster and lose loved ones, will you still appreciate it then?[/QUOTE]
I already have lost 60% of mine. I’m sorry about the stupid and infantile but this is “earth” not “berkely”.
[QUOTE=bawang;1281315]empires justify conquest by claiming superiority. when they claim equality they become fair game.
if all this modern upheavals in the name of progress brought no actual improvement to the human condition then the existence of your reality is redundant.
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Do you think there is a change in how you feel love? fear? anger? remorse? desire? ambition?
Living conditions improve and go away in a life time.
The fundamental nature of Humans has not changed regardless of the ebb and flow of good/bad conditions.
There is prosperity in places and none in others, then a shift occurs and that changes.
Slavery is still around, hunger, war, all the same things we have been doing for as long as we’ve been here.
It’s of scale now.
reality is what it is. Even in my own life I’ve experienced relative wealth, poverty, death in my family, perceived injustices carried out by my government and all the opposites of those.
The world just “is”.
I just “am”.
Change is the constant, but the template is the same.
<<"The world just “is”.
I just “am”>>
Appreciated spiritually. Politically? Good. One less to have to negotiate with. Thank you for dinner.
I make a big wide distinction between those two because the ones playing for keeps only consider the latter.
[QUOTE=curenado;1281335]<<"The world just “is”.
I just “am”>>
Appreciated spiritually. Politically? Good. One less to have to negotiate with. Thank you for dinner.
I make a big wide distinction between those two because the ones playing for keeps only consider the latter.[/QUOTE]
Don’t mistake acceptance of the great object reality as acquiescence to your desires at someone elses expense.
“I Just am” can be finished with “going to cut your head off for your transgressions” because that’s the way it is.
that is a small error in thinking.
When someone chooses to accept, it doesn’t mean they will accept your or anyone’s unacceptable behaviour.
Just saying. All things come with built in diametrical opposition. It is not hypocrisy to be this way, this is the way it is.
To everything a season and all that. 
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1281334]
The world just “is”.
I just “am”.
Change is the constant, but the template is the same.[/QUOTE]
if those wujido ppl thought like this they would not be hopping around like they on bath salts.
Hyyereality?
I have two words for that: Yi Long
On a more grounded note:
Grandmaster Hu Ling said something in a magazine article that went something like: Sellers never sell wrong, buyers sometimes buy wrong.
mickey
r u on bath salts bro
move out of san fran then
and tell shrimptard to stop touching ur wontons
I don’t live in SF anymore. I’m in the next city over. YOUR town is more gay than mine is.
Shrimptard is going to give you some shrimp right in your shrimp hole.
[QUOTE=hskwarrior;1281378]I don’t live in SF anymore. I’m in the next city over. YOUR town is more gay than mine is.
Shrimptard is going to give you some shrimp right in your shrimp hole.[/QUOTE]
if i meet raymond we prolly instantly become blood brother and high five and go party at san fran noodie dance club and talk about chinese ppl stuff while u awkwardly follow behind us fidgeting.
if i meet raymond we prolly instantly become blood brother and high five and go party at san fran noodie dance club and talk about chinese ppl stuff while u awkwardly follow behind us fidgeting.
No, you wouldn’t.
I made some shrimp huntun the other night. Tasty stuff.
I like Bawang’s idea of a crazy room. The money those people pay at Wujido could’ve been spent on a ticket to China, language lessons, etc. Even learning from a dvd would be more real. But a Chinese-ee place where they can freak out is basically a newer version of a Pentecostal church service.
[QUOTE=hskwarrior;1281378]Shrimptard is going to give you some shrimp right in your shrimp hole.[/QUOTE]
His hole ain’t no shrimp, just ask his mom!:eek:
Ya’ll are awful. I don’t even want mine to know I come here.
[QUOTE=curenado;1281422]Ya’ll are awful. I don’t even want mine to know I come here.[/QUOTE]
Your shrimp or your hole?