Anyone here into Fêng Shui?

by nicolaou 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  LittleToe

  Mark:Have I mentioned recently how nice it is to have you back?

  By the way, it's not interior decorating.

  It was remiss of me to leave my comments at that. By way of explanation, I was highlighting those aspects of it, since that is it's main application in the Britain. Here they also have a pile of stuff similar to "warding", but that's another tale.

  Nic:
  Good for you
  You'll probably come away with the same opinion, but it'll be an informed one, and may hold some comments of interest.

  BG:
  ~waves back~
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  love11

  Interior decorating is probably to Feng Shui as modeling is to martial arts.

  I don't understand how feng shui wouldn't be like interior decorating. Both are manipulating your environment around you. By the way, have you taken any interior decorating courses? It's not what you think it is, all fluff and pretty pillows. There is a science to it and a tried and true method or set of rules. You need to learn drafting and the history of every period of human interiors. True, it's not exactly like interior decorating but it is very similar- both rearrange your interior environment. One does so by spirit filled reasons and the other is about how the brain reacts to certain colors and dimensions. It's more like comparing modeling to photography than modeling to martial arts. By the way, some interior decorators expand their business and specialize in feng shui. Also, my parents owned their own wallpaper removal business and I was always around decorating my entire life.
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  Pleasuredome

  i dont like any oriental food
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  Markfromcali

  Hey Ross, nice to see ya.

  Love, I made the comparison because the stuff I have seen takes far more into consideration than the stuff in your house. There are more dynamic factors that are figured in than what you see in the stuff you typically see. I suppose it may be interesting when there is an integration of the two, but it may very well be that because of the amount of study that is involved in each you are either doing a little Feng Shui with a lot of interior decorating or a little interior decorating with a lot of Feng Shui, or just a little of both.

  Having seen an accepted authority at work with an authority in other arenas learning from the former (the student was an acupuncturist/oriental med. doc and an internationally recognized martial arts authority) I get no sense that they really care what the place looks like, the end result didn't really have much bearing on the beauty that interior decorating would create but is more functionally oriented. The things you can see are minimal actually, so you can do the rest of the decorating how you want. Again there are different systems of Feng Shui, but I seriously doubt any of them are only concerned with appearances alone. So while there is obviously some overlap it appears to be quite small, because it is not just about placement of things and color schemes. So while I can appreciate the amount of study that goes into interior decorating, I have to conclude it is simply it's own thing.
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  SeymourButts

  g01 12/8 22-23 Significantly, most libraries catalog books on fêng shui with writings on astrology and fortune-telling. In fact, Webster?s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary describes geomancy as ?divination by means of figures or lines or geographic features.? (Italics ours.) Thus, it is widely accepted that fêng shui and other types of geomancy are forms of fortune-telling. They involve divination and spiritistic practices, which are nothing new to mankind. Some popular styles of decorating and landscaping, Oriental or Occidental, may have originally been influenced by false religious practices like fêng shui. Oftentimes, though, such styles have entirely lost their religious significance. Still, it would be a clear violation of God?s law to use fêng shui to divine the future or to bring good luck or good health. To do so would be to violate the Bible?s clear-cut command to avoid touching anything ?unclean.??2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Jehover just doesn't like ANYTHING does he.
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  love11

  Jehover just doesn't like ANYTHING does he.

  That's funny, anything that makes someone feel good, nope that's evil! lol Ok Mark, I see your point. It's kind of like comparing a herbalist m.d. and a oriental medicine doc. Both are very similar and can be intermixed but yet completly different careers. I agree.
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  Markfromcali

  It's all good guys, I feel compelled to say I don't really care who believes in what anymore, I certainly don't think about believing this or that - it's just nice to be chatting with you all.
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  drwtsn32

  All you ever needed to know about it...from a totally unbiased source. ;)
  
  http://www.skepdic.com/fengshui.html