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    There was a good amount of con and BS back in Asia, it was only slightly regulated by the chance a real martial artist would come by and bash your head....

    Well.... then there was the boxer rebellion and all those guys who got shot dead, that helped a little until people tried to "revive" kung fu's image and just made it more silly

    it certainly isn't limited to America
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    bawang up in this thread like

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    Quote Originally Posted by bawang View Post
    it is only prevalent in modern times with heavy advertisement and image bombardment.

    ita about the blurring between fantasy and reality, how modern people compartmentalize thoughts and behaviour.
    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.
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    "100 years ago, mislead by charlatans and they died for it. Even worse"

    Wow. A crountries people come forth to patriotically defend it and then later, the rulers betray them and kill their own heroes so they can be bigger money *****s.
    I have come to appreciate fukushima and it's help with societies problems....

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    Quote Originally Posted by curenado View Post
    "100 years ago, mislead by charlatans and they died for it. Even worse"

    Wow. A crountries people come forth to patriotically defend it and then later, the rulers betray them and kill their own heroes so they can be bigger money *****s.
    I have come to appreciate fukushima and it's help with societies problems....
    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?

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    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).

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    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.

    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 Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
    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).
    they could not stand living by nihilism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
    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?
    I already have lost 60% of mine. I'm sorry about the stupid and infantile but this is "earth" not "berkely".
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    Quote Originally Posted by bawang View Post
    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.
    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.
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    <<"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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by curenado View Post
    <<"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.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post

    The world just "is".
    I just "am".

    Change is the constant, but the template is the same.
    if those wujido ppl thought like this they would not be hopping around like they on bath salts.

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    Hyyereality?


    I have two words for that: Yi Long

    On a more grounded note:

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    r u on bath salts bro

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    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.
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