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Does anyone know of this bullshit? If you don't prepare to laugh your ass off.

Feng Shui is the belief that by moving your furniture around in a particular way, you will develop good kharma and as a result succeed in life. That's right, moving furniture = success, according to this.

On top of that, there are actually people who do this for a living. They are hired by some poor sap, go into their house, and "feel" the vibes in that house, and move furniture accordingly. This costs the customer thousands of dollars.

Humerously enough, on the great show "Penn and Teller: Bullshit" they proved this was, as the title of their show would suggest, bullshit, by hiring numerous "Feng Shui experts" to see if they were consistant with eachother. Of course, they were not. One "expert" would move a table on one side of the room, then another "expert" would come and move the table elsewhere, claiming that it's previous location was causing bad Kharma (keep in mind, it's last location was chosen by another, expenive, Feng Shui expert). This would continue for some time, they continued moving shit around, completely contradicting the previous expert, and then having another expert contradict them. No consistance = no credibility.

It's similar to astrology, in the way that it's totally stupid and only credible to guillable sucktards, who else would think that moving pieces of wood would increase your success in life.

Wow there truly are some stupid dumbasses in this world, here let me go move my couch and Ill create something that will get me billions of dollars. Pssssh bullshit. Where the hell do people come up with this shit?

Actually the whole money thing needs one to have a three legged frog placed with in a 180 degree arc near the primary door of the home, and upon leaving you put a coin in its mouth, upon returning remove it....

I know its pretty silly, although its one of those things that seem to have been around for ever and has a large following (a cousin of mine follows it and arranged my apartment, I thought the floor plan was tosh, so I moved everything back)

Yeah, that's another thig, it's like they go out of their way to make the layout as impractical as possible. On that bullshit show, they were putting stuff right in the middle of the walkways, and having shit in front of doors, it was really dumb.

That's it exactly. And I have always wondered how this "thousand year old art" is suddenly equiped to deal with where a lava lamp should sit, or what colour a TV should be.

The principle behind feng shui is that improving your immediate physical environment can improve your mental state, and this can lead you to being more successful. For example, reducing clutter and increasing organization can make it easier for one to concentrate. Inconsistencies between feng shui experts are due to the fact that there is no single method of feng shui; there are at least three.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The principle behind feng shui is that improving your immediate physical environment can improve your mental state, and this can lead you to being more successful. For example, reducing clutter and increasing organization can make it easier for one to concentrate. Inconsistencies between feng shui experts are due to the fact that there is no single method of feng shui; there are at least three.


That doesn't make sense, how can one experts movement of a certain item be considered "unlucky" by another expert, shouldn't they all at least be able to recognize the good kharma caused by another experts movement of an item, even if it's using another method of feng shui?

Also, since when does organization include putting furniture in a walk way, or in front of a door way? If anything these feng shui experts caused MORE clutter and more disorganization.

I think it's a matter of decency here. I mean, I wouldn't put the bed in the middle of the room, between the door and the window, it doesn't seem very comfortable and I would probably wake up with an awful headache. See, I don't need a f*cking Feng Shui lesson to tell me that.

Funny, I thought Feng Shui was some kind of asian slang for a good-looking place

Originally posted by BackFire
That doesn't make sense, how can one experts movement of a certain item be considered "unlucky" by another expert, shouldn't they all at least be able to recognize the good kharma caused by another experts movement of an item, even if it's using another method of feng shui?

Also, since when does organization include putting furniture in a walk way, or in front of a door way? If anything these feng shui experts caused MORE clutter and more disorganization.

There are two traditional forms of Feng Shui; the Form School and the Compass School.

The first deals primarily with orientations, and the second deals primarily with mathematics.

The Form School and the Compass School can be applied separately or in conjunction as the East / West School.

There is also a third, non-traditional form of Feng Shui called the School of the Five Stars.

The reason different experts reach different conclusions is because they are not practicing the same form of feng shui. Each school deals with a different methodology, i.e. orientations, mathematics, numerology, etc.

Originally posted by BackFire
That doesn't make sense, how can one experts movement of a certain item be considered "unlucky" by another expert, shouldn't they all at least be able to recognize the good kharma caused by another experts movement of an item, even if it's using another method of feng shui?

Also, since when does organization include putting furniture in a walk way, or in front of a door way? If anything these feng shui experts caused MORE clutter and more disorganization.

Not if you're smart enough to understand it.

Don't take this offesively BF, I'm not saying you're an idiot or anything.

It's just I understand it.

my mom does that for a living!

nah Im just joking... I think it's bullshit... but I think my mom really believes in it...

I has something to do with blocking the angles that would lead bad energy fields to come in contact with your body, I think.

I know Backfire,I think it is a peice of idiocy. My mom bought a book on it and it said things like placing crystals in your living room to take bad spirits away and to not have a bathroom. It was so hilarious and for those who understand it like u Black [email protected] don't know what to say....

if you dont believe in feng shui you are going to hell

The only aspect of Feng Shui I believe is that you should always leave the toilet seat down. Coz bad spirits come through the pipes or something.

Originally posted by Whisper
The only aspect of Feng Shui I believe is that you should always leave the toilet seat down. Coz bad spirits come through the pipes or something.

Yes thats true in my house anyway

Two words: placebo effect.

^Yeah pretty much.

I always knew Feng Shui was rearranging furniture.. never knew it had anything to do with "karma" and whatnot.

Originally posted by Afro Cheese
^Yeah pretty much.

I always knew Feng Shui was rearranging furniture.. never knew it had anything to do with "karma" and whatnot.

It has nothing to do with karma or spirits or half of the nonsense people in this thread are going on about.

So what is it besides just rearranging furniture?

Originally posted by Afro Cheese
So what is it besides just rearranging furniture?

It is a design principle that improving your immediate physical environment can improve your mental state, and this can lead you to being more successful.

So me cleaning my room is Feng Shui? Cause I definitely feel better with a clean room, and can get things done better.

Originally posted by Afro Cheese
So me cleaning my room is Feng Shui? Cause I definitely feel better with a clean room, and can get things done better.

That's probably the most practical form of Feng Shui in existance.

It's only in the Western world of man-made things that 'Feng Shui' is about furniture. In the East, it refers to the aesthetic balance and order of the ethereal in a domestic setting. It's literal translation is 'Wind Water'.

You have just been educated.

Did you know that a certain Mr Lau lost all his children to a malevolent (put in the "total loss of descendants" position) oven! but when the problem was corrected he had another baby... and to his utter stupefaction it was a European child!

Feng Shui movie is much cooler than Feng Shui in real life.

*moves bed somewhere different*

now....something doesnt feel right in my karma....

*suddenly dies*

that was probably it

Originally posted by BackFire
Does anyone know of this bullshit? If you don't prepare to laugh your ass off.

Feng Shui is the belief that by moving your furniture around in a particular way, you will develop good kharma and as a result succeed in life. That's right, moving furniture = success, according to this.

On top of that, there are actually people who do this for a living. They are hired by some poor sap, go into their house, and "feel" the vibes in that house, and move furniture accordingly. This costs the customer thousands of dollars.

Humerously enough, on the great show "Penn and Teller: Bullshit" they proved this was, as the title of their show would suggest, bullshit, by hiring numerous "Feng Shui experts" to see if they were consistant with eachother. Of course, they were not. One "expert" would move a table on one side of the room, then another "expert" would come and move the table elsewhere, claiming that it's previous location was causing bad Kharma (keep in mind, it's last location was chosen by another, expenive, Feng Shui expert). This would continue for some time, they continued moving shit around, completely contradicting the previous expert, and then having another expert contradict them. No consistance = no credibility.

It's similar to astrology, in the way that it's totally stupid and only credible to guillable sucktards, who else would think that moving pieces of wood would increase your success in life.

Even through I try to respect other people's views I find this funny and unbelieveable untrue.jm

The best piece of "Feng Shui" advice I can give is as follows: -



Always hide your porn in a place that won't be easily stumbled upon by your wife/husband/parents/siblings/kids when re-arranging furnature or looking for something else totally unrelated.

It's good advice. Especially if your taste in porn is a little bit leftfield too.

the japanese definetly come up with some weird shit.... although I think there might be some validity to the feng shui, most of it is mental. If you think you will succeed, you will....sort of thing.

Although you wont catch me with my couch in the middle of the room because it gives good vibes. The only reason for my couch to ever be anywhere its not supposed to be, is to be able to watch tv at an angle with less glare.

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If anyone is interested I provide Feng Shui $ervice$. eyes

Originally posted by Curl_Up&Dye
the japanese definetly come up with some weird shit.... although I think there might be some validity to the feng shui, most of it is mental. If you think you will succeed, you will....sort of thing.

Although you wont catch me with my couch in the middle of the room because it gives good vibes. The only reason for my couch to ever be anywhere its not supposed to be, is to be able to watch tv at an angle with less glare.

Feng Shui was developed 4,000 years ago by the Chinese.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Feng Shui was developed 4,000 years ago by the Chinese.


Oops sorry....
I get them confused sometimes, because they do a lot of the same things.

the simpsons put it best (episode where Selma goes to china to adopt a child, the paint homer like a budah and leave him outside the adoption agency for him to infiltrate in and steal a baby)
Guard: we cant leave this budah here, it would be bad feng shui
Guard 2: feng shui? isn't that aload of crap we make the west believe to sell small tables?
Guard: oh yeah. well lets move him anyway

I believe in the whole less clutter concept, as well as not having electronics in your bedroom, and the fact that green plants increase positive energy, and the colour of your walls has an affect on mood.

Like in my bedroom I don't have anything electronic except my digital clock, and I keep plants around, and I dont have crap lying everywhere.

eep.....my computer is next to my bed....i have a stereo in here as well...maybe thats why my life sucks cry


and clutter.....i wont even go there....

I say we do a test, re-arrange it and see if your life improves

possibly! whats the rules and stuff for feng shui stuff? i dont want to die if i move my bed somewhere....

I have a computer, a scanner, a printer, a stereo, a TV and DVD player, a GameCube, an Xbox, and a guitar amp... Plus I have shit lying everywhere

I have a solution to the beam in my garret room ceiling! It is a very kitschy Chinese windchime!

Originally posted by Curl_Up&Dye
the japanese definetly come up with some weird shit.... although I think there might be some validity to the feng shui, most of it is mental. If you think you will succeed, you will....sort of thing.

Although you wont catch me with my couch in the middle of the room because it gives good vibes. The only reason for my couch to ever be anywhere its not supposed to be, is to be able to watch tv at an angle with less glare.

It's chinese

feng shui, feng shui. oh my wife has just died and im depressed what do i do CLEAN MY HOUSE oh great that'll help

lol

hello chief undersecutary and legal advisor mist

good interior design does have a profound psychological effect in that it makes one happier with their environment...but the belief that interior design can alter one's destiny is just retarded. just one more thing for gullible rich dummies to piss their money away on...........come to think of it..........maybe i should learn feng shui$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Originally posted by BackFire
Does anyone know of this bullshit? If you don't prepare to laugh your ass off.

Feng Shui is the belief that by moving your furniture around in a particular way, you will develop good kharma and as a result succeed in life. That's right, moving furniture = success, according to this.

On top of that, there are actually people who do this for a living. They are hired by some poor sap, go into their house, and "feel" the vibes in that house, and move furniture accordingly. This costs the customer thousands of dollars.


That sounds utterly stupid and laughable. Sounds like something outta of an IKEA commercial.

It actually works, the Chinese don't say it will change your destiny it will improve your life, it will improve how you feel and that will make your life better and that can improve your destiny.

Its just one of the many ways to make you feel better

hahahahhaahahahaha

Did you know that an interior designer has no need of scaffolding?

oh thanks

This subject makes me want to Feng Shui in my pants...

Originally posted by Linkalicious
This subject makes me want to Feng Shui in my pants...

I often do that to self harmonize and stuff

oh

A lot of Feng Shui is superstition, and most practicioners nowadays are just out to make a buck. But it does have its origins in the I Ching (the Book of Change) which is a highly respected and much studied work of Chinese philosophy. Feng Shui is a very deep rooted cultural phenomenon which today has become little more than a tongue in cheek feel-good thing for most Chinese people. Some Westerners have adopted it because it's exotic.

The I Ching is the primary text of Taoist thought which has a history going back 5 centuries before the birth of Christ. It's not strictly a religion, just as Buddhism isn't, but a philosophy of living in harmony with the world. Like Platonic philosophy, it attempts to prescribe behavior from how to live mundane everyday life, to managing the entire state.

There are elements of mysticism, art, mathematics, philosophy, psychology and superstition all rolled into one body of work, which is why it has been the subject of study even to this day.

Feng Shui, literally translated Wind Water, can more accurately be described as a methodology of choosing living conditions which are harmonious with you as a person, your surroundings, and your life situation. I call it a methodology, and not a science because a lot of it is based on conjecture or subjective belief that certain mathematical patterns actually reveal the universe's secrets. A lot of it is based on trial and error, seeing providence in coincidence, simply because coincidence recurs.

Total B.S.

Originally posted by Cipher
Total B.S.

Insightful.

Thank you.


Actually, other than making things more convenient and/or efficient, I think
the rest of it is in a person's mind. They convince themselves the room is better.......

Originally posted by Cipher
Thank you.


Actually, other than making things more convenient and/or efficient, I think
the rest of it is in a person's mind. They convince themselves the room is better.......

As someone else has said: the placebo effect. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it's not excessive.

True.


Anyone ever see that episode of Sealab 2021 with the Feng Shui guy?
Classic......

Well... If someone, by moving their furniture around, suddenly feels a lot better... more power to them.
What makes for person A may not work for person B. That's the damn thing about life. There are no absolutes save that we all die one day...
(Man, that was deep. I'm up too late).