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- Fishn2, on 06/26/2009, -3/+35I burn money for fun.
I just make sure to convert it to marijuana first. - killerknives, on 06/26/2009, -0/+26Well in a way he was giving back to the community by making their money more valuable
- AmyVernon, on 06/25/2009, -2/+19a "bartender-turned-feng shui master"??
- Gemfinder, on 06/26/2009, -1/+13Burning money is kind of silly, ritual-wise. And since feng shui is more practicality than ritual, even sillier. You don't need to burn a million dollars when simply stashing a few coins and/or a piece of jade in a hole under the the spot where the front door of a building will be works just as well. We in the West do something like it — it's called "time capsule in the cornerstone."
Let's look at a few of feng shui's precepts:
A house that's directly across from a T-intersection is considered to have bad feng shui. Now visualize a bus or a truck, with failed brakes, rocketing down that street and right into the house. How does feng shui recommend fixing that situation? Having steps up to the house's front door. They won't stop a brakes-gone truck but they'll give you a second more to get the hell out of the way.
Same situation, another remedy. Say the street doesn't allow trucks on it, but you're still looking at a street with hundreds, maybe thousands of cars heading directly for your front door all day and all night. That's not a comfortable sight, even assuming they aren't speeding and use their signals. It's like being a sitting duck in your own living room. How to fix? A fence, a line of bamboo, say, blocking the view of the street and oncoming cars.
Feng shui holds that water flowing past the front of the house brings riches to the landowner. How so? Well, from a practical outlook, at the very least, you can fish for your dinner. You can also set up a water wheel to grind grain, or, in modern technology, power a turbine to provide electricity.
Another feng shui principle: solid wall to the north. No windows, no doors. If there is any opening, it should be a fireplace. Why? In China — and much of the northern hemisphere — the coldest, nastiest weather comes from the north and can penetrate seals around windows and doors; wind and rain blow in, mildew forms on the sill. In an old Chinese house, there's supposed to be a fire in the hearth all the time; the fire creates rising hot air which creates an induction layer and keeps the cold from sinking down the chimney into the house. A flue trap could work, too, but it could have imperfect seals. An inversion layer of rising hot air and sinking cold air doesn't.
Another principle: Mirror opposite the front door. Think from a security stance: how often do you glance over your shoulder when entering your house? Would you see a robber, looking to clock you over the head, as you enter your house? You'd see him instantly in a mirror, and you wouldn't even need to turn around.
Bead curtains. Call me a hippie, but I use them. It's another security measure: they're impossible to sneak through. It's like the mockingbird floors in Japan.
Feng shui sounds like a crock of nonsense at first blush to the Western mind but if you think about it, there's a lot of common sense there. - ThermiteTerrace, on 06/26/2009, -2/+10What's a 'feng shui master'? I wasn't aware that feng shui had a ranking system. Or is this the equivalent of white business middle-management types slapping 'guru' on the end of everything???
- Fishn2, on 06/26/2009, -0/+6A+++ would read again.
- captainchris, on 06/26/2009, -0/+4rich people in asia are as crazy as rich people get.
- Plopfish, on 06/26/2009, -1/+5While I will not agree or disagree with anything about this I will say that you may want to watch Pen and Teller's ***** episode about Feng Shui. If you have Netflix you can stream it from their site.
- barryiggins, on 06/26/2009, -4/+7ME CHINESE! :D
ME PLAY JOKE! :D - vakeraj86, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3I spent two summers studying in China, the first in Shanghai and the second in Beijing. You have no idea how ridiculous these newly wealthy Chinese people are with their money. The buy the most ridiculous, unnecessary ***** just to show it off, go partying every night and the hottest nightclubs, and in general flaunt their wealth.
- chuckDontSurf, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3"value its use in efficient and balanced design"
Yeah, that sounds great, but then there's also all the ***** about buildings having different "areas" (e.g., the "money" corner of the house), and how to stimulate different areas to effect those parts of your life. Total crap. And this isn't even touching on chi--the foundation of feng shui--which has no scientific support whatsoever. - MisterFurious, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2He was following Krusty the Clown's principle.
"There nothing like a cigarette. Unless it's a cigarette lit with a $100 bill." - inactive, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2<3
- IgorUnchained, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2It is like in America where you meet a waitress who insists she is really an actress.
- Petestreet, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2Here I am burning money.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkellystudios/307 ... - Gemfinder, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1"Jefferson Bible" ?!
[laughing] Kudos for doing your homework.
Anyway, I wasn't going to go into a lecture on feng shui, I just picked a few of the many thousands of points that I thought would make a point. If only for the sake of the "tl;dr" crowd. - herbalizer, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2sure beats giving money to the poor for fun
- amasiancrasian, on 06/26/2009, -4/+5As with any trade, there is an apprenticeship to mastery route for feng shui. It is a 3,000 year old tradition, and the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean value its use in efficient and balanced design, just as there are master sculptors, architects, and designers.
Please don't troll or post ignorant comments showing a complete lack of regard for a millennial history. My cousin and uncle are feng shui masters and design the workplaces for companies such as Bandai and Toyota to bring a harmonious design (there are proven psychological effects of fengshui design--read wikipedia for more information). - curtisag, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Who hasn't taken a quarter and put it on the railroad track? Great fun for kids.
- chuckles08, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2in every picture i see of him he looks like an absolute c***
- Myztry, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1She chose to burn money that she didn't need it. So what? It's no different than hording money. Neither stimulates the economy - not that there is an obligation of stimulus.
People just get sensitive about symolic tokens of value such as money because they dream that is may slip into their hands. A kind of defensive greed for what others hold. Really it's just paper. - juankovo, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Somehow I doubt one guy would be able to offset Bernanke's helicopter fleets.
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1How anyone could bury you is inconceivable.
edit: I guess I could imagine them doing it because you wrote it in 1 line when it probably should have been in 2, but that's the only reason. - ThermiteTerrace, on 06/26/2009, -2/+3ME SEND FORTUNE UP IN SMOKE :D
oh god what have I done - chuckDontSurf, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1It sounds like a crock of nonsense because of all the talk about the "flow of chi." What you just wrote sounds like the Jefferson's Bible of feng shui, removing all of the mystical mumbo jumbo and spiritual quackery. Sure, having a less cluttered house has a positive psychological effect. Not having headlights from traffic coming through your front door is much more relaxing than the opposite. No mysterious force is needed to explain these things.
BTW, I noticed you skipped over the idea of buildings having "areas;" e.g. putting a plant in the money area will help bring more $ into someone's life. - fitzfan, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1gcnaddict, actually you are wrong. It influences local currency. If you closed off all trade and started printing money in the USA, it would cause inflation. Burning money is just the opposite. There is the same amount of goods and services in the country, but a smaller supply of money to obtain those items, so prices go down.
- charlie55, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2well by burning the money and shrinking the supply, you are making the money the poor have be worth more. so you are kinda giving money to everyone when you burn money.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1serious ***** business.
- idavidtang, on 06/26/2009, -2/+3But screwing the government cause China holds a weak currency monetary policy.
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2He was just doing his part to control inflation. /s
- hushermit, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1The KLF did it first and did it best.
This axiom applies to most things in life. - DarkCloud515, on 06/26/2009, -1/+1Burn money for fun... I have faith in myself that I can achieve that. But I won't be burning money for fun, I'd like to invest it in community projects. You know what an extra $10 - $20 million could do to your local school or hospital? I like to think I could do a lot. :-\
- FmyLife, on 06/26/2009, -1/+1***** this guy.
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -1/+1Wang.
- gcnaddict, on 06/26/2009, -1/+1"you are kinda giving money to everyone when you burn money."
Incorrect. If a person has nothing of value, the person does not benefit from the money being burned.
In addition, this only really has any effect with inter-currency business. On a local basis, things don't really change (except for the possibility of imports being cheaper, though this would need a significant amount of money to be burned). - steam00, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1Mirror summary from fanta:
http://www.capcodes.net/fanta/showmovie.asp?mid=61 ... - Thorpe, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1ME LIKEY
- Thorpe, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1What a waste of resources! Go watch Home.
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1Of course it is. Do you know how many peole in China go to bed hungry every night?
- facepalmjpg, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1"bartender-turned-feng shui master"
He probably enjoyed watching his clients throw away their money and decided to try it himself. - joejitsu, on 06/26/2009, -2/+0I'm rich bitch!
- Rogor, on 06/26/2009, -3/+1I see the recession is really hurting asia. The new world order isnt quite what the conspiracy stoners had in mind.
- megaton, on 06/26/2009, -10/+5If I had >$1B, I'd burn it for fun, too. *****, I'd construct a building and blow it up for fun. As a finale of my nightly, private fireworks shows. In my own tiny, private country. For fun.
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