YOUR STRATEGY FOR ETERNAL YOUTH
(Updated to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

When will science devise a way to ensure eternal youth?
2001-2010 | 2%
2011-2020 | 22%
After 2020 | 37%
Never | 39%

Which best approximates your strategy for eternal life?
Work to stay in shape to optimize my chances of being able to benefit from a youth serum. | 42%
Make lots of money so I will be able to afford a youth serum as soon as one becomes available. | 9%
Faithfully observe my religious beliefs. | 15%
I don't believe in eternal life. | 33%
I don't want eternal life for myself. | 1%
AC

"...Most women thank me profusely after the act."
Dream on, brother. What dream world do you exist in? Your lovers probably exist in your multiple fantasies.

...flour could be a very sexy thing indeed...

How about you congeal some Yang and "will to power" it over to me. Then I'll consider payment in other forms and methods. So far, all I've gotten is some hot air. I need some Yang to go with that, please, sir.
MLK    Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 22:25:34 (PDT)
to rare stuff

For females, sex is NOT just a waste of time. There is such a thing as female orgasm, you know. We are not sexless creatures who are unable to feel sexual pleasure (and no wisecracks from you, AC, or I swear, I really will wring your neck).

I can pay for my own way with my own money and take care of my own kids (when I get some), thank you very much. Why do I have to, like you assume, 'trap' a man into something like this? He should be feeling happy that I even give a damn! Jeez... Have you thought about the fact that it may very well be the other way around? The man may think that the only way he can keep me would be to provide me with tenderness and babies and material things that I can't get for myself (of course, this thinking is totally wrong, but I'm not going to tell him that...why should I if he's going to spoil me, right?).

"...eternal life in the spiritual sense is a topic for males only. Or have you ever heard of a female being interested in hardcore spiritual topics like eternal life?"

Yes. We are thinkers too. Do you honestly think that men are the only ones who are capable of analytical thinking? Come on! You need to get out of the dark ages and into the twenty-first century, where well-educated women abound all around you.
MLK    Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 22:21:32 (PDT)
rare stuff,

I think Carlos was a misogynist myself. That's he feels males energies were the "victims" of female energies.
AC Dropout    Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 12:39:41 (PDT)
AC Dropout,

indeed it's not about Yin/Yang. But I know for sure that Castaneda mentions that there would be a male and female principle likewise. In "The fire within" (one book of which I've just read the abstract) he points out that there are male and female energies.

Surely it has also to do with one's consciousness because it's mostly about working with dreams. Castaneda avoided talking much about the male/female dimension of his experiences and thus it was said that he was prudish.He has a pro-celibacy undertone and tends to interpret his relationships to the spirit world as a struggle of male and female forces because female forces (spirits) wanted to absorb the "rare" male energies.

Somehow this is connected with a twisted matriarchal world-view.I can hardly believe that the interpretations of Castaneda and his mates are realistic.
rare stuff    Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 16:02:39 (PDT)
MLK,

I don't know if what AC Dropout writes is possible at all. From my point of view it's men who are endangered by the loss of life force through sex. For females sex is just a waste of precious time, except they want their men to pay for it with money, partnership or children.

Furthermore I do think that eternal life in the spiritual sense is a topic for males only. Or have you ever heard of a female being interested in hardcore spiritual topics like eternal life? Ancient legends are told about men who achieved eternal life by occult practices -and sorcerers are more powerful than witches.
rare stuff    Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 15:24:33 (PDT)
MLK,

How can I be ashamed of a little Yin transfer. Most women thank me profusely after the act. Sometime I fake falling asleep and I hear the women calling their friends bragging about it.

If you want to be with a piece of flour...I guess I read of stranger thinks on the internet. heeeeheee.

I need to charge more? How about you bottle up some Yin energy and Fedex it.
AC Dropout    Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 15:11:58 (PDT)
rare stuff,

Did Carlos define the energy in male female terms. I believe he was talking about raising one consciousness, not about the Yin/Yang forces.
AC Dropout    Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 15:05:51 (PDT)
AC Dropout,

there's much similarity between that what you write and Castaneda's works. Except that Castaneda states that the male element would be rare in the universe at all. So male energy would be more desirable than female energy.
rare stuff    Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 07:38:40 (PDT)
AC Dropout

So this the reason why Rare Stuff kept telling me that sex is not a great thing! A woman could really get suckered into losing all her Yin! Aren't you even the slightest bit ashamed that you're stealing women's life forces for your own personal use? Almost makes you a...dare I say it...a Modern Day Asian Vampire. Ughhhh! I get the nasty shivers just thinking about it. AC Dropout the Vampire!!!

I guess the only safe bet is to get together with a Pilsbury doughboy kinda guy who has no clue what the difference between Kung Fu and Tai Kwan Do is.

All of this sounds quite complicated, and I am ashamed to say, I'm Chinese-illiterate, not to mention the fact that I am so totally NOT into extensive hard conditioning (and I hate math!) so I guess I'm not destined to understand this stuff at all.

You need to charge more. 40 bucks is too cheap for all this secret information. Where do I send my check and who do I make it out to?
MLK    Monday, July 08, 2002 at 22:57:08 (PDT)

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