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I am a bit more used to the place and am not at all sure. As a part of long standing depression and
chronic pain I seem to have some sort of state of being that has become ok with being alive in any given moment and the rest can be set to the side.
Self-Definition
I concede myself as a self aware consciousness. I further see myself as human, male, presenting masculine straight. Tall, balding, overweight, glasses wearing and spiritual come in to that picture too. Depression, fibromyalgia and diabetes all play into a picture of me.
Ok face it Bambi is a boy's name!
Ok I am not bright. I personally do not believe in a Guiding Creator God though I have a vague conception of a prime mover of the universe I name Genetrix Prime, A divine feminine. I do not believe in God or Gods in the usual sense of mono and poly theists but do have experience with non corporeal companions that can be as helpful as the bodied folk that I bump elbows with. These may be part of my own mind sane or insane but I do and have experienced them so no need for belief. Meditation does effect the mind and body (not agreeing that they are separate).
If I am solely an end product of a cosmic accident i am ok with that but it does not mean that Humans do not have capabilities that are not yet understood.
Ok, love ya! buh bye!
If I am solely an end product of a cosmic accident i am ok with that but it does not mean that Humans do not have capabilities that are not yet understood.
Ok, love ya! buh bye!
Being Ill brings depression so much closer to the surface. the division of energies i guess.
I have retired as a drunk.
I still indulge in sweets to my diabetic detriment but not so often but still to ease a kind of pain.
I do not sear my flesh with heated wire but worry small wounds to larger ones; giving way to fresher scars and lingering open sores.
Some times i do not give way on what is important and lose just the same. Yes the politics are important.
When can I pass on the pains that I have no reason to retain?
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your ABC's of Me, tag 26 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
A - Age: 49
B - Bed size: California Queen
C - Chore you hate: dishes
D - Dog's name: n/a
E - Essential starts your day item: water
F - Favorite color(s): Red n purple
G - Gold or Silver: skin
H - Height: 2M 6'6"
I - Instruments you play/played: drum
J - Job title: house elf
K - Kid(s): 1
L - Living arrangements: flat with da dykewife and da boysun
M- My Mom's name: Irene
N - Nicknames: baby giant
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: oi vey : lots
P - Pet Peeve: cyclists not following traffic regulations
Q - Quote from a movie: "True Love"
R - Right or left handed: sinister
S - Siblings: 0
T - Time you wake up: now and then preferably afternoon
U - Underwear: Under there.
V - Vegetable you dislike: canned baby corn cobs
W - Ways you run late: death or dismemberment
X - X-rays you've had: head to foot
Y - Yummy food you make: Curry Dal
Z - Zoo favorite: Tigers
THREE PLACES I HAVE LIVED
Ete, Edmonton, Lafleche
THREE TV SHOWS THAT I WATCH
none really willingly
THREE PLACES I HAVE BEEN
Trail
Climax
Swan Hills
3. Calgary
SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Tag 10 people including me. Have fun.
(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
() Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x ) Neverending Story
( x) Blazing Saddles
(x ) Airplane
Total: 8
(x) The Princess Bride
() AnchorMan
() Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
() Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
() The Princess Diaries
() The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 10
() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
() American Pie
() American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 14
(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
() Resident Evil 1
() Resident Evil 2
() The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
(x) The Village
() Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 19
() Finding Nemo
() Finding Neverland
() Signs
(x) The Grinch
( x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
() 13 Going on 30
() I, Robot
() Robots
Total so far: 21
( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
() Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
() Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG
Total so far: 23
() A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
() Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
()Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
() Halloween
( ) The Ring
() The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
() Flubber
Total so far: 23
() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x ) Practical Magic
() Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
() Hellboy
() Secret Window
() I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 24
(x)The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
( x) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x ) Sixteen Candles
(x ) Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
() The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 29
() Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
( ) Ocean's Eleven
( ) Ocean's Twelve
() Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(x ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
() Predator II
() The Fog
(x) Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George
Total so far: 31
( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
(x ) Christine
() ET
()Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x ) Rush Hour
() Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 35
( ) Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
() Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x)The Terminator
( x)The Terminator 2
( )The Terminator 3
Total so far: 41
(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
() Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
( )Cruel Intentions
( )Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 50
( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
() The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
() The 40-year-old Virgin
Total so far: 52
(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 58
( ) Basketball
() Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
() Elf
(x ) Highlander
() Mothman Prophecies
() American History
( ) Three
Total so Far: 59
( ) The Jacket
(x ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x ) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard
Total so far:65
( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
() Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
Total so far: 68
(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
() The Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
() Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness
Total so far:70
(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 76
( x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
( x) The Matrix Revolutions
(x ) Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(x ) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal
Now Add them up and...
Put "I've seen __ of 239 films" in the subject line and re post it.
The Government has missed an opportunity here. The law should seek to allow any person or agency contracted or licensed to perform civil duties the right to enforce their own deeply held convictions. Notary's Public could deny service to First Nations peoples because they always lie. Motor License Issuer's could refuse women permits because driving is immodest and women can't drive anyway. The Marriage Commissioners should also be able to refuse to do Inter-racial Marriages as well as inter-faith ones. Poll Clerks should be able to deny Roman Catholic voters as they are just pushing a Papist ideology.
Lets face it if one group of Government endorsed agents is allowed to opt out of serving part of the population why should any other agent not have the same right to opt out of serving any part of the population? Then, why not those in direct employ of the government as well?
If this government is going to endorse legalized hate then they must make the playing field level in the interest of basic human rights.
http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=1ea28d
1. Tao Te Ching - Lao Tsu
2. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
3. Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler
4. Collected Works - Carl Jung
5. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
6. Spiral Dance - Starhawk
7. Stranger in a Strange Land - R. A. Heinlien
8. Analects - Kung Fu Tzu
9. KJ Bible - various artists
10. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
11. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
12. The Harrad Experiment - Robert Rimmer
13. Chuang Tzu - Chuang Tzu
14. To Sail Beyond the Sunset - R. A. Heinlien
15. Dhammapada - Gautama Buddha
Is this the reason for the rise in atheist awareness campaigns in the part of the world that it is safe to mount such a thing? These media notes tell us that Atheists do not fly into buildings, kill doctors, or strap explosives around themselves to become human bombs.
I do not see it taking too long before the anti-theist/religionist fanatics move to violence to "promote" their causes of hate.
It all works well for the powerful for people to hate so the rational atheist must be pushed to become someone that hates. anti-theism and anti-religionism are tools. Who is being used?
Facebook | Imre Pallagi's notes:
Using ONLY SONG TITLES from ONE artist, and using each title only ONCE, cleverly answer these questions.
Pick a band/artist: Bif Naked
1. Are you a male or female: Regular Guy
2. Describe yourself: Choking on the Truth
3. How do you feel about yourself: Succulent
4. Describe your ex: Over You
5. Describe your current guy/girl situation: Lucky
6. Describe your current location: That's Life
7. Describe where you want to be: Canadians
8. Your best friends: My Whole Life
9. Your favorite color is: Red Flag
10. You know that: I Love Myself Today
11. What's the weather like: Ahhhh
12. If your life was a television show what would it be called: Story of my Life
13. What is life to you: My Innocence
14. The best advice you have to give is: Nothing Else Matters
15. If you could change your name what would you change it to: King of Karma
I was upset because the government in the form of SGI would be stealing from me again so soon.
I was accused of racism but could truthfully deny that charge; He, in my mind had deprived my family of a thing. race was not at issue.
I was stopped when he hit me. I have an impression but not knowledge that he was on the phone. I felt and feel that i had moved in a safe way in the parking lot. A woman three cars back felt differently.
DDW does not like conflict and worked to calm us both down. she succeeded. mostly.
still angry I hurt her. I put blame on her for things she did not do. for admitting fault, for helping the other driver. the first she did not do and the latter is and was the right thing to do.
SGI will steal from my family. I will try to find my own peace. with luck it will stay with me.
Namaste
I am sorry I greeted my brother with anger when we both were distressed
I allow others the option of experiencing the world on their own terms.
I must ask the "scientific" antitheists if they personally can prove why lights come on when they flip a switch or if they are just accepting someone's assurances of how electricity works? I have just as much trouble with the violence of antitheists as I do with that of the religious.
That said I do not see many atheists or antitheists talking their kids into dying because of their beliefs as some religionists do. I think that "big pharma" is evil in that it creates dis-ease to go with new meds and that the policy of profit over humanity is vile but see the return of polio and other preventable infections because of the delusion of the anti vaccine movement as a parallel evil.
Douglas Adams did not get the idea of fairies in the garden which is sad as his greatest contributions were analogous to those fairies. 42.
Truths are not constants. well with the possible exclusion of love.
I want my fibromyalgia under control - status: good luck mofo
I want my depression manageable - status: geting there.
I want more contact with people that inspire me - status: variable, find em and meet up... get together with existing ones dammit.
I want work.
I want the new pentax 55mm f1.4 lens - status: material crap no great worry.
I want to take a lot more images and more variety - status: in progress.
I want to take better images - status: subjective
I really want to feel better
Tips for dealing with people in pain:
Tips for dealing with people in pain
Ideas for friends & family
1. People with chronic pain seem unreliable (we can't count on ourselves). When feeling better we promise things (and mean it); when in serious pain, we may not even show up. Pain people need the "rubber time" (flexible) found in South Pacific countries and many aboriginal cultures.
2. An action or situation may result in pain several hours later, or even the next day. Delayed pain is confusing to people who have never experienced it.
3. Pain can inhibit listening and other communication skills. It's like having someone shouting at you, or trying to talk with a fire alarm going off in the room. The effect of pain on the mind can seem like attention deficit disorder. So you may have to repeat a request, or write things down for a person with chronic pain. Don't take it personally, or think that they are stupid.
4. The senses can overload while in pain. For example, noises that wouldn't normally bother you, seem too much.
5. Patience may seem short. We can't wait in a long line; can't wait for a long drawn out conversation.
6. Don't always ask "how are you" unless you are genuinely prepared to listen - it just points attention inward.
7. Pain can sometimes trigger psychological disabilities (usually very temporary). When in pain, a small task, like hanging out the laundry, can seem like a huge wall to high to climb over. An hour later the same job may be quite OK. It is sane to be depressed occasionally when you hurt.
8. Pain can come on fairly quickly and unexpectedly. Pain sometimes abates after a short rest. Chronic pain people appear to arrive and fade unpredictably.
9. Knowing where a refuge is, such as a couch, a bed, or comfortable chair, is as important as knowing where a bathroom is. A visit is much more enjoyable if the chronic pain person knows there is a refuge if needed. A person with chronic pain may not want to go anywhere that has no refuge (e.g. no place to sit or lie down).
10. Small acts of kindness can seem like huge acts of mercy to a person in pain. Your offer of a pillow or a cup of tea can be a really big thing to a person who is feeling temporarily helpless in the face of encroaching pain.
11. Not all pain is easy to locate or describe. Sometimes there is a body-wide feeling of discomfort, with hard to describe pains in the entire back, or in both legs, but not in one particular spot you can point to. Our vocabulary for pain is very limited compared to the body's ability to feel varieties of discomfort.
12. We may not have a good "reason" for the pain. Medical science is still limited in its understanding of pain. Many people have pain that is not yet classified by doctors as an officially recognised disease. That does not reduce the pain, - it only reduces our ability to give it a label, and to have you believe us.
From Sharon Roe - UK
they represent agreements, contracts if you will, about being together.
Provincial governments in Canada allow some mainstream religions to do some hocus pocus that the government will accept as a "legal" marriage and they make some provisions for a civil ceremony that also fits the "legal" thing. Common law is this thing where you get the obligations and some of the rights of a legal marriage if you live together too long or long enough though the assumption only seems to apply to straight couples.
in my opinion Churches nor government officiants nor random time limits marry people.
People marry. People choose to form a unit.
Institutions need to get the fuck out of the way of consenting adults defining themselves as family.
Right now we have laws that are contrary to our own Constitution and Bill of Rights. The laws that allow one religious officiant file legal papers but do not allow others favour one religion or type of religion over another.
Allow me to set a definition: Plural Marriage is the consensual union of more than two adults as a family Unit. This can mean a Nice Muslim family with one fellow and up to 4 wives, a radical Mormon Polygamous family, 3 women coming together, or three traditionally married couples becoming a family of three women and three men. The permutations are endless and wonderful.
We have a fellow in government that claims "Canada's Values" cannot allow this. A nation cannot have values. A government is in place to protect the rights of all not to enforce a moral stance. If the rights of a minority are trampled in the rush to enforce the ideals of one parochial vision then it is a short trip to see the opinion of Theocratic ruling classes taking hold in all areas of Canadian society.
If this is to be allowed will we have laws forbidding the practice of your religion? Banning people of colour from white establishments? Maybe people that do not fit the right demographic will be denied the vote; after all its not that long ago that the First Nations of Canada were not allowed to vote and women only got to do that a bit before.
Government is in place to protect the people. Making sure that there are not forced Unions is one place that they have a role in marriage. Assuring that people get fair value from the family unit when it totally or partially breaks down is another. (I think it could be done better than having competing lawyers draining the finances of the families)
Consider that if you want to forbid some group its will and rights yours may well be next. What Cult will choose the "One Right and True Way" in the end?
I accept possibilities. I know that the assertion of absolutes is a fairly sure way to be wrong.
I tend toward Science and Reason with the proviso that any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magick. (apologies to and acknowledgement of A.C. Clark) We do not know the limits of the universe, the depths of our oceans or the limits of human ability.
I understand the need to take a stand in the face of the lunacy of faith and belief forced by government and other powerful institutions. but what I do not get is the rise of Antitheism and the dogmatic faith based assertion that there is no god. A reasonable atheist says i do not believe in god but being rational does not equate the absence of proof or that disbelief as proof of absence.
i await experience. In some cases i trust that those dong science can better understand some things than I do as I lack both experience and the skills to interpret the results of experience as described. I do this with scholarly study of the Bible, and why lights come on when I flip a switch. I do not believe nor take this on faith but rather i await understanding through further work in the areas. I will adjust my own understandings based on new information.
That the bible is not True, Truth is not proof that there may not be a divinity that made some effort to be involved in humanity in some small isolated way. Maybe that brit was really Teusday Lobsang Rampa but even if he was the books could still be full of shit.
These antitheists posing as reasoned people are as dogmatic and faith based as those religionists they oppose. Remember while one can believe there is no god there is no proof that there is not any more than there is actual proof that there is.
maybe science will catch up. In the mean time I will get inoculations and accept the possibility of magick.
- John Lennon
How would you like to die?: A better man than I am, and much beloved
-Proust
"I distrust those people who
know so well what God wants
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires."
- Susan B Anthony
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Nietzsche
"'There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ... Create a nation of law-breakers, and then you cash in on the guilt.'"
-- Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"
"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
- Susan B. Anthony
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Nietzsche
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
once upon a time the right wing in Canada were Canadian rather than US bootlicks; evidence:
We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
-John G. Diefenbaker
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
-Nietzsche
"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities."
-Erica Jong
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
- Oscar Wilde
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
-Abbie Hoffman
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. - Hunter S. Thompson
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up. - George Carlin (thanks for your life George)
Many people feel that they don't require anybody else's help or support to be happy. Since their happiness is not dependent on others, they do not harbour any thoughts about other people's happiness.
- Amma (The Hugging Saint)
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
- Sinclair Lewis (1935)
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- Siddhārtha Gautama, Buddha
Condoms are not the answer to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, Pope Benedict said Tuesday while on his way to the continent for a seven-day visit.
this is consistent with Church policy on birth control and some other group's policies on non whites.
Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.
“I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
We now have a Science Minister that thinks evolution is a religious matter.
