my mind begins to hum...

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

______________________










In a secular context, mindfulness is attracting increasing interest among
western psychiatrists as a non-pharmacological means of dealing with
anxiety and depressive mood states.

Recent research points to a useful therapeutic role for mindfulness in a
number of medical and psychiatric conditions, notably chronic pain and
stress. In fact, recent research suggests that mindfulness-based cognitive
therapy can be used to prevent suicidal behavior from recurring in cases
of severe mental illness (Journ. Clin. Psych. 62(2) 2006).

Practitioners of Hakomi look at people as self-organizing systems,
organized psychologically around core memories, beliefs, and images;
this core material expresses itself through habits and attitudes that make
people individuals.

[the fire elf]

what is irrelevant, superfluous, or inconsequential?

with perception organs, there's a direct range of experience...

and there's the reality of a mankind with capacities precariously extended
through turning found chemistry into kinetic energy...

there's vast fields mechanistically made of use...

and a fount of enabling matter sucked from the crusts...

you might be able to match bowls...

but can you match the force and power of compressed life?

even as modernity expands it's ability to consume it,
it dwindles...

it has led them, it has carried them, it has transfixed them into a conundrum

and the longer the course is held, the harder the wall will hit

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

'99

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[Toolmaker]

[the fire elf]

ahh...

but could i relate to being in betwixt choices

would i look and place myself in a category of surname

and do they really determine who gets an army
depending on where you touch???

[Toolmaker]

ahh...
but could i relate to being in betwixt choices

relate? getting a second try at being late? be twix? cover yourself in chocolate goodness.

would i look and place myself in a category of surname

don't look. close thine eyes and tap at the screen.

and do they really determine who gets an army
depending on where you touch???

no, you get to choose the puppet that gets watched on a box.

[the fire elf]

tardiness for what, prey tell?

tis nought but man and beast and other things

and you shant find true pudding in that box you see



but why cover myself...

when other's fill your whimsy demands

[mayavin]

but can you irrefutaly prove puppetry?

[mayavin]

what if they're more autonomous than previously imagined?

[mayavin]

False Compromise

If one does not understand a debate, it must be "fair" to split the
difference, and agree on a compromise between the opinions. But one
side is very possibly wrong, and in any case one could simply suspend
judgment. Journalists often invoke this fallacy in the name of "balanced" coverage.

___

Bertrand Russell, in a lecture on logic, mentioned that in the sense of
material implication, a false proposition implies any proposition. A student
raised his hand and said "In that case, given that 1 = 0, prove that you
are the Pope". Russell immediately replied, "Add 1 to both sides of the
equation: then we have 2 = 1. The set containing just me and the Pope
has 2 members. But 2 = 1, so it has only 1 member; therefore, I am the
Pope."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

[the fire elf]

therefore, I am the Pope.

Appeal To Complexity

If the arguer doesn't understand the topic, he concludes that nobody understands it. So, his opinions are as good as anybody's.

[Toolmaker]

but can you irrefutaly prove puppetry?

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

when the strings are slack the show still goes on

[the fire elf]

and when the dialogue ensues, is there no outcome?

what is the end of tossing verbatim?

where does good natured ribbing leave you?

when there's loss of knack, what cost do you frown on

[mayavin]

Doctors and nurses often administer sedatives to patients in order to dull
the patient's anxiety related to painful or anxiety-provoking procedures.

They increase tractability and compliance of children or troublesome or
demanding patients.

Conformism is a term used to describe the suspension of an individual's
self-determined actions or opinions in favor of obedience to the mandates
or conventions of one's peer-group, or deference to the imposed norms of
a supervening authority.

beer and smoke will make it all seem better...
but it is mere seeming.

[third person perspective]

in·veigh
[Origin: 1480–90; < L invehī to attack with words,
equiv. to in- in-2 + vehī pass. inf. of vehere to ride, drive, sail (cf. wain)]

[the fire elf]

it's like trying everything in newness...
newness in the way it's presented...
newness in the joyful abandon which could strike at any time...
newness being...


look past the thingamajiggers and doohicks...

novel thought doesn't fall from a tree

footprints, if studied studiously, would reveal different ways of walk

compared here to there

[mayavin]

green themed reading:

[the fire elf]

dear god, how they make me yearn to break things...

to assault their false sence of security, nestled in thier lives,
they are likened parasitic intrusions into earthskin

kicking mirrors off cars... thrashing... crashing...

the irrefutable absoluteness of reality
coalesced in the wrenching and sundering of non essential

i do not wish them to fear life...

but, my, how i long to rattle the foundations of the abomination

to loose righteous spite

to level

to burn

ah...

but to revel in destruction
at the cost of confinement from further

thus, surely, i waive the action off

i storm the ground

i clear my mind

and i toss my hate a bone

[mayavin]

memo:

[mayavin]

(capital I after arrow)

[the fire elf]

ordinances concerning the beach at hand (subjective perspective):

17.12.250 Overnight use and camping prohibited.

A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not camp on or use for overnight sleeping purposes any beach, or bring a house-trailer, camper or similar vehicle onto any beach.
B. A person may, upon issuance of a permit by the director, park and sleep overnight in a camper or similar recreational vehicle at Dockweiler Beach. The director may, in the interest of public health and safety, place reasonable conditions on the issuance of overnight permits.
C. A person may camp on or use for overnight sleeping purposes any beach between July 13, 1984, to August 26, 1984, at any site(s) designated by the director as a place of temporary accommodation for visitors to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games within the assigned space(s) for the period of authorized use upon securing authorization to use the campsite(s), payment of the use fee, and compliance with conditions of use. (Ord. 84-0091 § 1, 1984: Ord. 12283 § 1, 1980: Ord. 10025 § 4, 1970: Ord. 9767 Art. 3 § 50, 1969.)

17.12.350 Loitering between midnight and 6:00 a.m. prohibited.

A person shall not loiter on any beach at any time between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. (Ord. 10025 § 6, 1970: Ord. 9767 Art. 3 § 54, 1969.)

sourced: http://ordlink.com/codes/lacounty/index.htm

nix the bugbites...

think one of these carried scabies to me...

a little gift from venice

[mayavin]

how many seats are moving at any given moment?

to speak ignorantly of the subject: emphatically... bleah

to extrapolate a 2000 year old mystic foible


but that somethings could be undone,
though; shall not all when the sun climaxes?

[mayavin]

[quote][quote="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20380094/wi ... ?gt1=10316"]The ingredient Americans consume and excrete the most was caffeine...

The science behind the testing is simple. Nearly every drug — legal and
illicit — that people take leaves the body. That waste goes into toilets and
then into wastewater treatment plants.

“Wastewater facilities are wonderful places to understand what humans
consume and excreteâ€