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by Nemo
Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:32 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Replies: 177
Views: 32257

Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil

Like how flat screen televisions were supposed to be more energy efficient. They were much more efficient at similar screen sizes. But replacing a 29 inch Trinitron with a 52 inch LCD panel didn't save a thing.
by Nemo
Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:01 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Replies: 177
Views: 32257

Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil

Fusion is the long term solution? How long? In all of history up to 1940, we added one billion humans to the planet. Since then we have added another 7 billion. If fusion were to kick in in a big way, yielding massive amounts of almost free power, we will make massive amounts of fertilizer, plastic...
by Nemo
Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:12 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Replies: 177
Views: 32257

Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil

You won't see an industrialized country go over 20% of power generated by PV panels. Too unreliable. Back up plants and storage are too expensive. Wind and hydro are better choices but after a certain point even these renewables are not cost effective. For the price of a storage plant you can build ...
by Nemo
Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:17 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Sad, sob story
Replies: 94
Views: 19916

Re: Sad, sob story

The important thing is getting psychological counseling. There is a reason why spiritual practices are contraindicated in treatment of many psychological disorders. Without that you could be dreaming. Based on your previous posts the important thing to look for is the myth of significance. Things li...
by Nemo
Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:49 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Replies: 177
Views: 32257

Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil

Kirtu, Having lived off of solar power for years your ideas are fanciful and unrealistic. They would make a great cover for popular mechanics but they are completely unworkable with present technology. Since solar does not have reliable output it can only make up a small part of total power generati...
by Nemo
Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:03 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Replies: 177
Views: 32257

Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil

Things are getting very complicated. Solar can only supply about 20% or less of total grid energy. There are these things in the sky called clouds and when they go by energy production almost stops. Backup power generation is needed within minutes. The only things that spin up fast enough are natura...
by Nemo
Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:45 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Ngondro Challenges
Replies: 62
Views: 17686

Re: Ngondro Challenges

All your striving is making me tired. Why not just sit for a few days and look at the sky? Simplify your life. I think that is the secret of practice. There is also something to the advice of Lao Tzu. Become useless. With the blessings of a simple life and uselessness all you need is the company of ...
by Nemo
Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:49 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Military and Buddhism
Replies: 37
Views: 6948

Re: Military and Buddhism

Medics in the European theatre on both sides did not carry weapons. They were not allowed. The Geneva Convention was generally respected. Korea was a different story. I knew an old Medic who still remembers it. He carried two 45's and had to use them on many occasions. Today we are a preferred targe...
by Nemo
Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:49 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism
Replies: 32
Views: 8853

Re: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism

Well, we all have our demons, lol
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by Nemo
Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:09 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Cartoon
Replies: 2
Views: 1189

Re: Cartoon

Hell fells very real. Arguably since the mind is 7 times more powerful in the bardo it would feel 7 times more real. Calling this world real is also a fallacy. To a real Buddhist Hell is not a metaphor. Gods are also not metaphors. Meditation does not stop at Shamatha. This is some Western Buddhist ...
by Nemo
Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:58 pm
Forum: Alternative Health
Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Replies: 24
Views: 23700

Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements

I wish you could edit your posts longer. I should add that I did two cycles a year apart and never felt the need to do it again. I did do a blood test for mercury levels. Though detected they were not worrisome. I took some ground pink coral anyway. Which has been used for millenia to detox heavy me...
by Nemo
Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:43 am
Forum: Alternative Health
Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Replies: 24
Views: 23700

Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements

Black mercury is with calcined copper. They are old medicines only meant to be taken when you can live a yogi lifestyle with no distractions. They are as profound as they are dangerous. To live a normal life and take them would kill you. Simply becoming angry will break the bonds on the mercury floo...
by Nemo
Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:57 am
Forum: Alternative Health
Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Replies: 24
Views: 23700

Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements

Where does Shilajit come from now? It is a completely different colour than it was years ago. Did Nagarjuna leave any of his recipes for mercury medicines? I just read about his alchemical practices last night. Perhaps we should dig up his old recipes for turning iron into gold to support the Dharm...
by Nemo
Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:37 pm
Forum: Alternative Health
Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Replies: 24
Views: 23700

Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements

Where does Shilajit come from now? It is a completely different colour than it was years ago. Did Nagarjuna leave any of his recipes for mercury medicines? I just read about his alchemical practices last night. Perhaps we should dig up his old recipes for turning iron into gold to support the Dharma.
by Nemo
Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:06 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Military and Buddhism
Replies: 37
Views: 6948

Re: Military and Buddhism

It really depends on your trade. I was a medic. Never killed anyone and provided paramedical and mediocre clinical care. Being a medic got me a job in a civvie hospital.
by Nemo
Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:49 pm
Forum: Alternative Health
Topic: Infant Ear Infection
Replies: 2
Views: 1572

Re: Infant Ear Infection

What antibiotics have they tried?
by Nemo
Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:03 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
Replies: 39
Views: 6188

Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...

Nangwa wrote:When you watch ghost movies you are always thinking how foolish the characters are for not calling in a chodpa.
I do that.
by Nemo
Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:28 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
Replies: 39
Views: 6188

Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...

You salivate when you say Tonpa Lame Sangye Rinpoche,...
by Nemo
Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:22 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: The Iron Lady
Replies: 12
Views: 3350

Re: The Iron Lady

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by Nemo
Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:02 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
Replies: 39
Views: 6188

Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...

At a certain time every morning your backyard looks like a soup kitchen for squirrels and crows because they have figured out your pudga schedule.

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