Feng Shui

**Errogie** · 04-Oct-09, 13:01

I've recently been enlightened about the importance of having a good Feng Shui adviser to offer offer advice on building developments or indeed any major rearrangement of furniture and decor.

This happened during a tour of Hong Kong when I asked why a hole had been left in the middle of a large block of flats and the explanation was that the Feng Shui doctor had requested that the space should be left to allow the resident dragon an easy access route from his hill top lair down to the sea. Similarly a swimming pool had been added to another high rise building because it too closely resmbled one of the candles commonly burnt at Chinese funerals.

So then I learn that our local hydro electric scheme at Glendoe above Loch Ness is to be closed for at least a year after a major rock fall in the tunnel down to the loch just two months after her majesty opened it. Suddenly the answer to this disaster is apparent, Scottish and Southern Energy failed to consider the effect of their development upon the Loch Ness Monster particularly the implications of messing up the energy fields and ley lines upon the lochs most important and much valued resident.

I therefore feel that I must study the art more fully so that upon my return to Scotland I am able to offer my services to Highland Council's Planning Service as a very reasonably priced Feng Shui consultant upon Wind Farms and any other such devlopments. Regrettably, I feel that it may be too late for Dounereay.

**Gizmo** · 04-Oct-09, 13:14

Originally Posted by Errogie

I've recently been enlightened about the importance of having a good Feng Shui adviser to offer offer advice on building developments or indeed any major rearrangement of furniture and decor.

This happened during a tour of Hong Kong when I asked why a hole had been left in the middle of a large block of flats and the explanation was that the Feng Shui doctor had requested that the space should be left to allow the resident dragon an easy access route from his hill top lair down to the sea. Similarly a swimming pool had been added to another high rise building because it too closely resmbled one of the candles commonly burnt at Chinese funerals.

So then I learn that our local hydro electric scheme at Glendoe above Loch Ness is to be closed for at least a year after a major rock fall in the tunnel down to the loch just two months after her majesty opened it. Suddenly the answer to this disaster is apparent, Scottish and Southern Energy failed to consider the effect of their development upon the Loch Ness Monster particularly the implications of messing up the energy fields and ley lines upon the lochs most important and much valued resident.

I therefore feel that I must study the art more fully so that upon my return to Scotland I am able to offer my services to Highland Council's Planning Service as a very reasonably priced Feng Shui consultant upon Wind Farms and any other such devlopments. Regrettably, I feel that it may be too late for Dounereay.

Is this post a joke?, or do you also believe in little green men from Mars, the easter bunny, and Fairies at the bottom of the garden?...geez oh, what a load oh codswallop.
Perhaps i should go fetch that pot of gold from the end of the Rainbow i just saw?, or maybe i'll just send my pet Leprechaun to fetch it on his magical bike made from stardust

**crayola** · 04-Oct-09, 13:18

My Glesga pal Big Shui does Hydro homers, he'll fix it for them.

**redeyedtreefrog** · 04-Oct-09, 13:21

I know, let's all go buy some unicorns to ride to the Feng Shuei doctor! Then we can invite Dumbledore to tea in our feng-shuied underwater palace, which we built with the help of the mermaids!

**Gizmo** · 04-Oct-09, 13:27

Originally Posted by redeyedtreefrog

I know, let's all go buy some unicorns to ride to the Feng Shuei doctor! Then we can invite Dumbledore to tea in our feng-shuied underwater palace, which we built with the help of the mermaids!

Come on now, don't be silly, everyone knows that Dumbledore is real

**Stefan** · 04-Oct-09, 13:29

I wouldn't make too many jokes about feng shui... it might back fire...

**gleeber** · 04-Oct-09, 13:32

Originally Posted by Stefan

I wouldn't make too many jokes about feng shui... it might back fire...

I was going to make a flippant comment about Errogie getting more like his brother every post and whether feng shui could be genetic, but ive changed my mind.

**black16i** · 04-Oct-09, 13:42

well av hurt ma foot and am struggling to get ma fengin shui on now,

**Gleber2** · 04-Oct-09, 14:20

Ah, blessed are the sceptics. Then I wonder, is sceptic synonymous with ingnorant. There is a fair body of people who believe in the concepts of Feng Shui and the Chinese and Japanese have been civilised for an awful lot longer than the West. I have been a firm believer in the concepts of Feng Shui for a long time. After all, there must be something we have done wrong to have reduced the planet to the state of barbarism that it is presently enjoying.

**davem** · 04-Oct-09, 14:57

Its just tidying up - no biggie! You don't want dragons trippin over stuff.

**redeyedtreefrog** · 04-Oct-09, 15:23

Originally Posted by Gleber2

Ah, blessed are the sceptics. Then I wonder, is sceptic synonymous with ignorant.

No, any good sceptic would change their mind presented with good strong evidence, of which feng shui has none.

Originally Posted by Gleber2

There is a fair body of people who believe in the concepts of Feng Shui and the Chinese and Japanese have been civilised for an awful lot longer than the West.

There once was a fair body of people who believed the Earth was flat, there are a fair body of people who believe in White supremacy- Doesn't make it fact.

**canuck** · 04-Oct-09, 17:28

Errogie, it sounds like your journey has been most enlightening.
Return safely!

**ciderally** · 04-Oct-09, 17:51

I'm fair Feng Shui'ed oot......

**domino** · 04-Oct-09, 18:23

Everybody to their own as long as it does not harm anyone>.

**Errogie** · 05-Oct-09, 11:52

Two thousand years ago the Chinese had a civilisation and technology which was far ahead of anything recorded in Caithness at the same time.
We still make use of a lot of it today from fireworks to acupuncture so perhaps we need to have an open mind about feng shui, but hey, what has happeened to the famous org sense of humour and horizontal thinking which was it's trademark of several years ago?

I'm afraid that some of the more recent contributors need to lighten up.
Occasionaly feel like i've strayed into the A.G.M. of the Citizen's Advice Bureau, or even the famous handbook for my last Lada car which of course all have a legitiimate place in the order of things but don't (in my opinion) provide the greatest entertainment.

**Stefan** · 05-Oct-09, 12:45

Lada... I had one once... terribly enjoyable car if walking is the alternative... not sure about dragons in the boot though...

**Gleber2** · 05-Oct-09, 16:40

Originally Posted by Errogie

Two thousand years ago the Chinese had a civilisation and technology which was far ahead of anything recorded in Caithness at the same time.
We still make use of a lot of it today from fireworks to acupuncture so perhaps we need to have an open mind about feng shui, but hey, what has happeened to the famous org sense of humour and horizontal thinking which was it's trademark of several years ago?

I'm afraid that some of the more recent contributors need to lighten up.
Occasionaly feel like i've strayed into the A.G.M. of the Citizen's Advice Bureau, or even the famous handbook for my last Lada car which of course all have a legitiimate place in the order of things but don't (in my opinion) provide the greatest entertainment.

Weel sed check!!!!

**redeyedtreefrog** · 05-Oct-09, 19:02

Originally Posted by Errogie

Two thousand years ago the Chinese had a civilisation and technology which was far ahead of anything recorded in Caithness at the same time.

Still doesn't mean they know everything. The whole world hasn't adopted communism, have they? And China are utterly terrible at controlling their emissions.

Originally Posted by Errogie

We still make use of a lot of it today from fireworks to acupuncture

Acupuncture doesn't work.

Originally Posted by Errogie

I'm afraid that some of the more recent contributors need to lighten up.
Occasionaly feel like i've strayed into the A.G.M. of the Citizen's Advice Bureau, or even the famous handbook for my last Lada car which of course all have a legitiimate place in the order of things but don't (in my opinion) provide the greatest entertainment.

Sorry for not "Lightening up", but I just can't leave it alone when people think things like this are real.

**Gizmo** · 05-Oct-09, 19:35

Originally Posted by redeyedtreefrog

Acupuncture doesn't work.

I'll second that, i've had acupuncture dozens of times, on my knees and back, and while it does seem to give some short term pain relief (a few days), it certainly does NOT work in the long term.