I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!
We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.
Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.
It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good.
One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.
I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.