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Post by the fire elf » Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:26 pm

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ghosts don't look like that...
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enlightenment isn't monopolized by physicality...
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Ellis says the "the founders,"
or "the fathers"
comprised an aggregate
of semi-sacred figures
whose particular accomplishments
and singular achievements
were decidedly less important
than their sheer presence
as a powerful but faceless symbol
of past greatness.


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Post by the fire elf » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:42 pm

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{reinterpretive wisdom enhancement}

"cause he's a real wonder-man,
sitting in his wonder-land,
making all his wonder-plans..."

if the lord giveth and taketh,
sh'ant the anti-lord taketh and giveth?

as one side makes one larger,
and the other makes one smaller,
what do we presume to be in motion?

when i take understanding,
it's not to say that my understanding is larger,
yet we may infer that it has been refined.

experience has shown when i give understanding,
irrespective of the context: i do not become smaller,
yet the scope of my skillfulness expands...

[para-doxicality emmitting savoriness]

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don't box me in...

if you're not moving faster than i am,
and you try to lead me,
isn't that like boxing me in?

i'll plow through speed bumps,
sometimes in the worst possible way,
just to make a point.

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do you do what i do?...
do you know what i know?...
do you be what i be?...

...then step aside

and let me work

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—Synonyms 1. ready, adroit, deft,
adept, apt, clever, ingenious.
Skillful, skilled, expert refer to readiness
and adroitness in an occupation, craft, or art.
Skillful suggests esp. adroitness and dexterity:
a skillful watchmaker. Skilled implies having had
long experience and thus having acquired
a high degree of proficiency: not an amateur
but a skilled worker. Expert means having
the highest degree of proficiency; it may mean
much the same as skillful or skilled, or both:
expert workmanship. See also dexterous.
—Antonyms 1. awkward, clumsy, amateurish.

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...one night after dinner,
he drank until he sort of passed out on the hardwood floor
in the living room.
I did'nt want to leave him there for the night,
and I didn't want to sleep by myself,
so I tried to figure out how to get him to bed.
I found a large Indian blanket,
I rolled him onto it,
and I dragged him on the blanket down the hardwood corridor.
He was quite heavy,
so this wasn't all that easy to do.
When I got to the bedroom,
just when I was trying to figure out how to get him
from the blanket to the bed,
he started laughing,
got up,
and walked really fast back into the living room,
where he lay back down and appeared to pass out again.
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irrespective
adverb
in spite of everything;
without regard to drawbacks;
"he carried on regardless of the difficulties"
[syn: regardless]

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Post by the fire elf » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:42 am

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maybe we need to make a lot more astronaughts...
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if we can manage to get all the 'yahoos' just beyond the pull of gravity...
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we just might have a chance to pause and reflect on what has been...
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a bit of an obsession with watching 'hands' go 'round in circles...
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and bad examples setting bad examples...
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while nature was forced to 'take it up the ass'
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or we could encourage the cannabilistic to take care of the problem children...
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seems more natural than trying to float around with merely one city...
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though with levitation, we could simply fling them into the sun...
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Post by the fire elf » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:21 am

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getting along together takes practice...
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while some show no inclination to make the effort,
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firmly entrenched in notions and perceptions slightly askew
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who am i but a burner?
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what do i do that is not art?
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and yet...i have not been made felt welcome, in either my totality or theirs
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because i am moldable, do not think it is anyone else's place but mine
to do that work
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if i have wrought myself around the difficuties, it is not the difficulties
which have wrought me, and they ARE NOT ESSENTIAL!
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if you must know anything...merely know that i have been, am, and shall be
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i am not one to draw attention to a cripple or maim that such is so
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let me be...not like you or others...for i am i, none other
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Post by the fire elf » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:04 pm

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the fire elf wrote:the writing on the wall looks different depending on where you stand
and how you look...

pillar of salt perspective?
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or something more pleasant?
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and do you have any idea of who's perspective you've been relying on,
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a ghost-yogi
would teach the unembodied how to union;
and with far less effort,
compared to making a soda can one with another soda can...
for it is easy to make water one with water

...it takes very little time for casper to become my little monster,
and vice versa
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Post by the fire elf » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:54 am

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[Origin: 1640–50; var. of didder (late ME diddere); cf. dodder] Cuscuta gronovii, Also called love vine. wrote:Just Cry Baby Cry
(Don't cry no more)
Cause every tear that flows falls into the ocean
And rises to the sky
And then the rain will come
Right before the sun shines...
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r. ME mette, OE gemetta messmate,
guest. See meat]


noun
the act of pairing a male and female
for purposes;
"the casual couplings";
"the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
[syn: coupling]
Mechanics.
a pair of equal, parallel forces
acting in opposite directions
and tending to produce rotation.
Electricity.
to join or associate by means of a coupler.
to bring (two electric circuits or circuit components)
close enough to permit an exchange
of electromagnetic energy.

[Origin: 1200–50; late ME callen,
prob. < ON kalla to call out,
conflated with OE (West Saxon) ceallian to shout;
c. MD kallen to talk, OHG kallôn to shout,
akin to OE -calla herald, Ir gall swan, OCS glasÅ­ voice]

to direct or attract (attention)
to cause to come; bring
to rouse from sleep, as by a call; waken

Fox Hunting.
any of several cries, or sounds
made on a horn by the hunter
to encourage.

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An omen, or portent, is a phenomenon
that is believed to foretell the future,
often signifying the advent of change.

Interpretation of omens and prophetic signs
is a form of divination.

Omens may be considered either good or bad
depending on their interpretation.
The same sign may be interpreted differently
by different people or different cultures.

Matthew does not specify how many wise men came.

...caused derivatives of the term Magi
to be applied to the occult in general
and led to the English term magic.

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Originally a Chinese game, wei ch'i (its Chinese name)
or "go" (its Japanese name)
is said to be the oldest surviving board game in the world.
Boards have been unearthed that date back to the 3rd century CE
and references in ancient records
claim the game's origins point
as far back as the Shang dynasty, 2000 BCE (Fairbairn Ch. 2).
In fact, there are a multitude of myths and legends
surrounding the game.
The legendary originator of go
was the semi-mythical emperor, Yao (ibid.).
It is said that Yao invented the game
in order to instruct and improve the intelligence of his son
(Bozulich Ch. 2). Yao is usually attributed with the creation of go,
as well as the calendar and some methods of divination.
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Post by the fire elf » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:01 am

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where have all the good samaritans gone
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which way is samarita
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soo many extra seats
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maybe they want me to talk to them
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soo much talking going on
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Post by the fire elf » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:55 am

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Brown Skin Girl
by Santana
album: All That I Am (2005)

She's a force of nature
That I can't outrun
A devil and a savior all in one
Her eyes can heal me
Or they can make me bleed
Her lips have me addicted to the poetry
Never really knowing just who I am
And I confess that I don't mind at all
Cause I would trade the world away
To stay inside this dream
I'll never find a better place to fall

I got a lover, a brown skin girl
She's got a magic of another world
And every time that I think of her, I'm on fire - fire
She knows a way, a spirtual flow
Of making me dizzy like vertigo
Her cinnamon kisses melt my soul like fire, yeah

I get a strong vibration
When she just says my name
And it drives me crazy
'Cause I don't know if she feels the same

But she likes to breathe some mystery in all she does
She laughs and says that I'm under her spell
Now I won't lie
I enjoy the ride
And pray it never ends
I feel her deeper than anything I've felt

I can't help but crave another taste of her
Like a drowning man that's praying for the rain
And how she worked her way inside
I'll never understand
She's too beautiful to ever take the blame
But she'll always fan the flame
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i send tornadoes to taste clay...
on occasion

mar 1
had to move my stuff three time from someone bitchin' abuot where i was
puddin it

drew on the wife beater
"march 3rd" on the front
"death from above" on the back

next morning's paper shew a tornado school'n someone

next day just happened to turn out to be one in a red moon

it would have been hypocritical of me to go and assist with the cleanup
of katrina's path

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yet they shall not walk without fault
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untill the ways chained are chained
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for they've yet to see beyond the reflection
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of a chaos of love and wrath
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wrought behind space of time
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midst the travells of the dream-sake
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and conceptions of what is best for what is to be
i shall place between them new paradigms as spectacle
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Post by the fire elf » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:17 am

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the laylines of coincidence,
the density of which attracts my attention,
is not readily translatable to another,
for they align or misalign with perceptual reference of the seeker.

how might one dictate every moment change
of a 3 times 360 degree radius of activity versus nonactivated potential
while strolling on playa time
to a member of the click language speaking tribe?

to attempt to do so with any apparent enthusiasm
would doubtlessly do other than make coincidensiality apparent
and would likely the impetus would be converted to 'more useful' paradigms;
leaving some one to hit another with the empty glass
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"I have great beings that are here all of the time.
I have shown them to many people in this audience at will.
No one can call a UFO down, but I can.
They are my friends and they are much greater than you."
—Ramtha

"The greatest spacecrafts, which have been verified now,
are biological in nature. They are actual living beings,
but they are a craft and they respond to thought.
The greatest UFOs have their own force-field because they are biological.
They are created to defy gravity, and they can do it."

"The greatest UFOs can superleap into quantum time in a moment.
They are made out of the same material as your body sitting here today.
It is the same material.
No wonder many people who have seen these wonderful crafts
say they look like they are alive, like they are breathing.
Well, they are alive."
—Ramtha

"Four hundred and fifty thousand years ago,
the first colony from Nibiru arrived.
Before the evolved Gods landed here, we had Homo erectus,
Neanderthal, and Homo sapiens sapiens still evolving."

"Just like you are about to find in the human genome,
Mammy already knew it 455,000 years ago.
She came down here and crossbred the semen of Enki, Enlil, and Anu
to her Earth children.
She was the mother who created the hybrid of Cro-Magnon,
which you are.
So who was the God of Genesis?
Well, it certainly wasn't Jehovah,
and it certainly wasn't Enlil,
and it certainly wasn't Enki or Anu.
I t was Enlil and Enki's sister,
a Goddess, who was the God of Genesis.
Her name was Nisgal or Ninharsag.
She was also called Mammy, hence Mother."
—Ramtha

"New study suggests that the cell
has a molecular homeowner that keeps up repairs
until a predetermined time, when the owner picks up the welcome mat
and moves out.
Once that process kicks off, the decay happens
as a matter of course," quoting Stanford School of Medicine.

In the last couple of years, JZ Knight created a colorful character
she affectionately named Gladys for her talks and presentations.
She uses Gladys to describe the homeowner of a cell,
which is responsible for cell activity and its well-being.
Here is an excerpt from one of her presentations:

What would happen to Gladys if you started to say:
"For as long as I can remember, I have lived in a part of my brain
that I have had radiant health;
for as long as I can remember, my wellness and longevity are in my genes;
for as long as I can remember, I have always had radiant health"?
Gladys would say, "I think I will move the nucleus of the cell over here.
Looking good.
No more amino acids turning into proteins of destruction.
No more teetering on one telomere.
We are doing fine."
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what...did they give up on looking for the one's with four leaves?...

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either it's degenerating before my eyes
or i'm new to looking at such
while it could merely be the budding of jaded cynicism

1. An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity,
especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others:
the public cynicism aroused by governmental scandals.
2. A scornfully or jadedly negative comment or act:
"She arrived at a philosophy of her own,
all made up of her private notations and cynicisms" (Henry James).
3. Cynicism The beliefs of the ancient Cynics.

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Judy Zebra Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton on March 16, 1946,
in Roswell, New Mexico)
is a self-proclaimed spiritual medium as well as the CEO of JZK, Inc.,
parent company of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.
Knight claims that on 7 February 1977, an entity called Ramtha,
The Enlightened One,
appeared to her and her husband in the kitchen of her Tacoma, Washington trailer.
She further claims Ramtha prepared her for out-of-body experiences.
Knight claims that since then, she has been able to channel Ramtha
by going through a process of leaving her body,
allowing Ramtha to teach through her.

She appeared on The Merv Griffin Show in 1985,
and later wrote the autobiographical A State of Mind in 1987.
Time magazine called her at that time
"probably the most celebrated of all current channellers."[1]
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment Web site claims that since 1988,
through the JZ Knight Humanities Foundation,
Knight has donated $1,181,067.93 to 200 graduating high-school seniors
"that they may pursue their educational goals."
In 1996, a total of $280,000.00 was given to 39 graduating seniors.
Yelm High School counselor Carol Parker is quoted on the Ramtha Web site:
"JZ has done a lot for the kids in our community.
Her generous scholarships have given them the opportunity to further their education."[2]

Knight now lives in a French-chateau-styled mansion...
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