Re: Three men make a tiger


I reject your definition because it's obviously something you pulled
out of your ass.

No, it's not only the simplest, it the ONLY possible answer.

Correction: It is the only answer YOU are willing to accept; that
does not make it the only possible answer. It is also possible, just
as an example, that the "feeling" you talk about is nothing more than
imaginary; especially when we consider the fact that you have
absolutely nothing else to offer in terms of evidence.

I'm thinking Occam's Razor would apply here.

And you'd be wrong. Occam's Razor does not mean take your favorite
explanation and run with it evidence be damned.

Ignoring all the flowery translations from Chinese it's just a westernized way to explain an
observation.  Chi is not magical.  SOMETHING is there.  There is some
explanation for "energy flows".  

Yes; your imagination. Mind you, nobody is disputing that there are
biochemical processes in the human body that are responsible for
movement; that is a given. But your claims about controlling these
processes based on nothing more than that you "feel" like you're doing
something are not. You have presented no evidence whatsoever that
anything you are doing that you call "chi" is allowing you to do
anyone that anybody else cannot do. You have presented no evidence
that it allowed you to "maximize your performance" or anything like
that. In short, you have presented nothing whatsoever save your
desire to apply a label to something where nobody else believes it to
be applicable.

There is some explanation for
markedly increased energy and power levels.  

There is no evidence of these supposed "markedly increased" energy and
power levels.

SOMETHING makes the body react the way it does.  Clearly that something MUST be biochemical.

Agreed. But just because YOU want to apply the term "chi" to those
biochemical processes doesn't mean that you're talking about the same
thing that frankly anybody else is talking about. I could as easily
claim that birds use "chi" to fly and then describe "chi" as being the
applied laws of aerodynamics.

That is how we get our energy.  The ancient Asian understanding of
energy is described as chi.  We now understand the chemistry behind
energy in the human body.  Well, maybe you don't.

You are probably the least qualified to talk about the chemistry. You
have displayed an appalling lack of understanding of the human body.

Tell us again how stopping the flow of "chi" to the heart jives with
your present definition? Tell us again how "extending your chi" jives
with your present definition?

You can't even make your argument self-consistent.
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