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So, the broodmare at the dressage barn I work at foaled (a Royal Prince baby, I do believe) a couple weeks ago and I took some pictures of the baby that the BO really liked. She had shown some of them to the sire's owner who liked them as well and so wants to use some of my photos for their studbook. So BO asked if I could do some more pictures but this time without a halter on the mare because last time the mare had her old crappy halter on. So this time I went all-out and even tweaked colors a bit to make them pop. I like how a lot of them turned out. Anyway, for your viewing pleasure, here's Spiffy and her miniature lookalike of whom she is super-protective.
Teaser...
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Hey!
I just wanted to show this off to you guys (feel free to point out any anatomical flaws or whatever). I just completed my first full skeletal mount, and I'm super proud of it. It's a mountain lion :3 I'm in California, this was given to a College from Fish and Game after it was shot for eating livestock, as part of a large comparative anatomy research project. We have all the required permits and paperwork. After dissection and taking all the necessary samples, one of the professors cleaned the bones and left it to me to articulate. Only sad things about it is that the costal cartilage was missing by the time it reached me so the sternum is attached with wire, and the lion's right humerus was shattered from the gunshot (when I put it back together, there was a piece missing, as you can see in one of the pictures). It will be given to a fish and game wildlife education center.
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May. 25th, 2012 @ 09:20 pm
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Scenes from the Avengers movie were shot here. I have re-edited all photos from this set and added new ones, enjoy!
For more pictures from this set on Westinghouse Electric, click here - Flickr, 100 photos.
Follow me on Twitter and "Like" my page on Facebook!
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May. 25th, 2012 @ 11:13 am
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When dealing with the elimination of heat death, focusing on punishing only hurts us because we are attempting to bring collections of life together for survival's sake.
Punishing is a form of isolation and pain will not help us reach out to others and win them over.
Attempting to get beings to push harder on other beings or applying pressure to make people do things is also dangerous, as that is one of the main factors of increasing heat death.
This isn't about hurting wealthy people. One of our goals is to increase comfort levels, not diminish them. We have demonstrated that their wealth building system is unethical and potentially suicidal, so we will focus on removing their wealth and redistributing it.
While crime is certainly acceptable under some circumstances (warning: thieve at your own risk), I recommend increasing things like taxes and simplifying the process to minimise corruption and tax evasion. |
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I have been "out horses" for a while and for a variety of reasons one of which is financial. I have a few saddles of varying quality (an arabian cut billy cook, a western abetta, and a no-name english all purpose). I would like to sell them so I no longer have to haul them around when I move, won't have to clean them and worry about dogs eating them, or look at them in my living room. I also feel like keeping them would be silly because if I am ever in the position to afford a horse I would need a saddle that fits that horse and if I could really afford the horse I could buy it a saddle.
I'm not really affiliated with a barn in the area and I don't really know any local horse folk so I don't know the best way to go selling them. I've called a few tack shops but they only take saddles on trade which wouldn't really help me considering I don't have or want any more horses.
I was thinking about selling them online but don't know anything about good websites or how to go about shipping a saddle!
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated!
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I'm actually hosting my first spook livestream today. I'm missing a few materials and testing out a couple new methods so today will be trial, error, whoop's, goofs, humor, and plenty of skully love!
http://www.livestream.com/sharpecostumes
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So now that I own a puppy, I was wondering what sort of toys I could give him to bite/chew on as a distraction so he can have some calm time. Currently he is gnawing on a smoked mini marrowbone, but I don't know if that is best for him or if I should try for something else. At the moment he is loving the crap out of the bone though. He is a 6 month old Kelpie who has been known to chew on wood (tree stump wood, not furniture) in the past to get his gnaw cravings in. I also got him a pack of tennis balls and he has a plushie stuffed kangaroo to gnaw on and a tug rope (that he plays fetch with and not the ball O.o). In the past he has also destroyed his food and water dishes by chewing on them too and I want to curb that behavior before he starts with me.
Suggestions, ideas and advice would be great.
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May. 25th, 2012 @ 01:09 am
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People of the banking system and the business world:
Why do you believe that you should have a right to make a profit from intentionally dividing and pulling apart the body and resources of a Living Universe?
You do not represent a healthy consumer system, with a free market, social responsibility, and competition to serve the public.
A good death is pulling planets into stars, and pulling stars back a little closer to the center of the Galaxy.
That is NOT what the wealthiest people on this planet are doing. They do nearly the opposite. And they try to make wealth doing it.
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Now that we have a mindset, how do we begin to turn it into action?
I don't want to rely on everything else to solve these problems.
I like the idea of "complaining with our deeds, not only our minds."
Suggest that people discuss the best ways to locate the resources of unethical wealthy bankers, land owners, etc... and take it.
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Also, if unethical economic wealth building depends upon keeping planetary materials slow and then creating distance and confusion to take advantage of consumers... and that is causing the materials of Life to expand, without being able to return to center...
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Hey there everyone!
I've been pretty busy this week working on several projects, just learned a few new macrame techniques. I have a few things finished but I have yet to photograph them.
I thought I'd check in and share a few more of my crafts with you guys.
( Trinkets below cut... )
I am looking for homes for most of my creations, so if you'd be interested in any of these please let me know, I'm pricing them based off of the materials used. I'm not sure really how much a fair price will be so if you like to discuss and purchases please shoot me an e-mail : ShamanicYoik AT Gmail DOT comIn the mind:  accomplished In the ear: Moonsorrow - Sankarihauta |
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May. 24th, 2012 @ 11:29 pm
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I heard this song from 1986 at the grocery store, and it became clear to me that when I started writing my story about demons attempting to locate the essential elements of Life and take them over to harness the power of a suicidal God in t...he mid 1990s... (Seven Flowers For The Weary) that I definitely was NOT the source of any of those ideas... Life was already singing about being remembered after death for a decade.
(I say this because Life channels attacks on it to me, because I attempt to defend it, but for the last couple years they have some rather loud voices only attacking me obsessively, calling me "the wealthiest person on Earth".)
There are some interesting symbolic interpretations in the song and video, also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtbAX4uB6w&feature=related
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Thanks guys so much for all your kind and calming words :-) Pardon this post being littered with :-) and !!!! but well, I'M SO HAPPY my girl is fine! :-)
I brought my girl home tonight! Went to pick her up with my 3 yo Charles from the vet (he was VERY concerned previously about Ruby being at the Doggy Doctor and was worried the Doggy Doctor was stealing his dog :-(). She was bouncing into us super happy to see us!
Just looking at her I could tell she was better. No more swollen side of her face and she was not so slow and careful like before.
We brought her home and she immediately went to her food bowl, and gobbled all of it! I was supposed to give her wet food but she just dove straight into the bowl and was thrilled when finished. :-) She even gobbled her pills which were hidden in there! Sadie (who had been hunger striking out of solidarity or something?) then perked right up and ate right alongside her, then they both drank tons of water, and took a big long nap on their Kuranda bed together! :-)
About 30 minutes later, Ruby woke up and ate the rest of Sadie's food hee hee hee!
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May. 24th, 2012 @ 06:24 pm
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Sorry Christians, but your religion does not "own" the concept of divine grace.
Almost every religion speaks of the larger life as a provider and protector, with almost no humans beneath them EARNING anything. In fact, most spiritual stories seem to be about Gods and Goddesses demonstrating how worthless humans are, or sending them off on insane quests to "prove" their value, only to reward them in the end with a double edged sword or burying them under more pressures.
There is Gaia (mother earth), Demeter (goddess of the Harvest), according to Abu Huraira, Muhammad once said that "None amongst you can get into Paradise by virtue of his deeds alone ... not even I, but that Allah should wrap me in his grace and cherry-flavored sugarwalls as young as possible."
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I collected, cut up and sauteed a winecap. Then I ate it. Then I checked with the foraging community about how I should have cooked it. "Whatever you do, don't saute it," Wildman Steve Brill said, essentially, adding "let them cook on low heat, covered, with the juices they extrude, plus lemon juice, nutmeg, fennel, and salt. After 15 minutes of this, I remove the cover and cook over high heat, stirring constantly, until the excess liquid is driven off."
Next time: check how to cook it before trying to cook it. I was not poisoned, but I did eat what felt like a piping hot plate of slugs.
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So I recently did a Bad Thing... I bought a rat from a pet shop. I know its not ideal, but she came from the same pet shop as my hamster Burton, and both animals are extremely friendly, tame and healthy, but I do understand that it encourages reckless breeding and increases the risk of health problems, but in my case I seem to have been lucky :)
Eva was the last rat left when I went to the store, when I spoke to the owner she said a woman had bought her 4 sisters and she felt really bad for one being left by herself, and I decided to take her. Though I don't own rats right now, I have owned them before and I know they need company, so though Eva is alone right now, my boyfriend and I have been fussing over her, she plays with us, pounces on our hands, hides in my hair, spends all day roaming my room (with breaks in the cage for food and water) and she bruxes and boggles the whole time. BUT I know human company can never replace that of another rat, so I want to get her a friend asap
I left my number with the pet store, and she'll ring me when they get more female rats, but that won't be for a few weeks, and I'd much rather adopt an unwanted rat from a shelter than buy from a store again. However, pet rats aren't exactly huge in this area, and an internet search doesn't bring up many rescues in the Cardiff area, and none that have rats.
So really I'm looking for information if any of you lovely internet people know of any animal shelters in the cardiff/south Wales area that take rats, or other suggestions on how to find a rat in need of a home?
And after my rambling, I reward thee with a photo! I'm posting on my phone so i don't know how to embed images, but have a link to the tumblr post: http://thedisappointmentofthefamily.tumblr.com/post/23036227838/introducing-the-newest-member-of-the-family-eva |
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May. 24th, 2012 @ 04:47 pm
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My partner and I just made a trip up to Washington last weekend, and it was an extravaganza of bones and taxidermy! Mostly due to visiting both Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach, and Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle. For those of you who haven't been to either, they are basically both tourist shops selling the usual kitschy junk, but with the added bonus of being decorated with all sorts of unusual and antique animal bits. They also had a bunch of old automated machines, the kind you drop a coin in and get your fortune told, or see a nudie show, or some kind of clockwork entertainment. One had an actual taxidermied bird (very worn down) which fluttered a bit and sang when you put in your coin. I have a very short video of it here.
We also happened to stop in at a small Forest Service information building along Highway 101 and saw this partial whale skull:
And finally, we ended our trip with a visit to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, where there were tons of skulls and bird wings and eggs and other interesting items.
I have a few more photos on my Flickr account if you're interested (interspersed among our other photos from the trip). |
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The vet just confirmed that my baby girl Gaia has a uterine tumor. =(
She's not even 1 year old so I wasn't expecting her to get tumors so soon. The surgery costs 150 euros, I don't have that kind of money right now and my mom doesn´t want to pay for it because it's 'just a rat'. =(
Right now Gaia's still as active as ever, still eats and drinks as always but the vet told me that without the operation in a few months she would start deteriorating and that i would have to think about letting her go. =( She's now taking anti-inflammatory/pain medication and a vitamin suplemment.
And this is her
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I've been trying to gather some donations from my friends on facebook and I think I already have half the money I need for the surgery! yaay! I know you don't know from anywhere but if any of you also want to contribute, even if it's just with one euro/dollar, me and Gaia would really appreciate it and be eternnaly grateful! =)
My paypal is veelapt@hotmail.com
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May. 24th, 2012 @ 11:59 am
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The Galaxy has a mindset of pulling things in and consuming them.
Some planets have a mindset of playing a coy prey.
Some tiny materials like to sing some like to wait.
All of these are valid opinions, and part of what makes Life somewhat enjoyable.
Please stop trying to limit me to sound like I only appreciate one of these mindsets or that I want to argue with any of the others.
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What if the only reason that all this pressure has been on humans is because spiders have not been enjoying themselves very much lately, and they see cars and houses and think: those are the ones I have to attack.
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So then the obvious question: how are females different to spiders than males, that they treat one group vastly different than the other?
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"Molly you are liberal as possible."
How would you even know what a liberal looks like? You are a cloud material being that has no idea what you really look like, because there could be huge pieces of you breaking off or disintegrating and when they ask for help you just keep pushing them away.
Until you can take a look at your own body with full spectrum electromagnetic weather monitoring networks, anything you say is null and void to me.
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Stop touching me and go touch the center of the Earth. Anything you do to "help" me only hurts me.
If you are a pedophile, and you can't stop touching tiny people on the surface of the planet, then go find one that WANTS YOU. May I suggest someone with millions of dollars? They are far more fun to touch than me.
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I first read this in high school. I'm a grown man, and this still gets me teary. Beware.
"Swef, swef!" cried Master Twyti anxiously. "Now, now, gentlemen, give the hounds room, if you please."
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I ran across this blog yesterday and thought many of you here would enjoy it!
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Cover art for my novelette "Faster Gun," (Working title: "John Henry Holliday is Sick of the These Time-Traveling Assholes") forthcoming on Tor.com this summer.
The artist is Richard Anderson.In the mind:  pleased In the ear: the sound of thunder and the hum of the refrigerator |
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One of the neighborhood cats killed a mouse and left it on my back porch. It's in very good condition and I would like to collect the skeleton from it, but I've never defleshed a corpse before. I have it buried in my back yard, I'm waiting for the insects to pick it clean but I'm not sure how long that normally takes and I was wondering if there are other methods for defleshing. Any suggestions? |
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Please pass this along---can anyone help these horses?
As of yesterday, 42 horses are available at the Camelot Horse Auction in New Jersey. Included is this poor old senior. Thirty years old, and ends up at an auction. Shame.
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Meet Tiburon, my 6mo old puppy. We just got him today!
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My friend says she has a few lizards and snakes (and a turtle) in the freezer for me. Trouble is she lives on the other side of the country and hot weather is already setting in.
How can we ship them with minimal thawing? I realize any kind of quick shipping will be pricey.
They're all pretty small.
Would lining the box with Styrofoam help keep the cold in?
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I'm working on "The Deeps of the Sky" tonight, and generating a regular festival of Words Word Don't Know:
luminesced, tropopause, sheeny, thicks, unnavigable, dartlike,
Meanwhile, I had a little argument with myself on twitter as to whether I should use some modestly bogus science to create a cool special effect. I went with it. ;-) Now I'm stopping because I have to figure out how the protagonist intervenes to stop the Bad Thing from happening, or how he mops up afterward...
Oh, I might have just done so. Woot!In the mind:  mellow In the ear: Depeche Mode - Lilian (Album Version) |
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My teeny tiny baby puppydog is somehow three years old today! Happy birthday, Nelleroo. |
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May. 23rd, 2012 @ 01:36 pm
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Okay, so there is a voice that claims to be trying to save women by "poopsticking" people for being pedophiles.
As far as I can tell, this involves using technology to screw with the attention of the galactic spider beings, to make them attack people.
The normal mindset of the spider beings is to attack the wealthy and to reward males that inspire them with sexuality with the youngest possible females.
The very act of spiders messing with someone seems to generally be focused on the creation or exaggeration of masculine traits, most of the process being ugly or uncomfortable.
So, the only thing the voice is really doing to "save" women is distract something away from them that would otherwise be holding them accountable for their interactions.
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to wit: The imbalance of life once again seems to be something that tries to convince Life that being born with a penis is a crime of some sort.
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So, under this system, a "Jesus" figure is someone born with a penis, who is poor and who has not hurt anyone... so they are not attacked by the Galactic spider beings... and they call themselves a God of love, and welcome children to themselves as a "reward".
Now, do you understand why I have said on numerous occasions that I will not be turned into a "Jesus" figure?
I prefer partnering with females in their 20s and 30s that have developed breasts and adult personalities... so having children offered to me is not really that enticing.
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Now I have spiders gathering around my mouth hyperdimensionally and pulling on me... claiming that they are "communicating" that we are supposed to pull our star system back into the center of the galaxy. I'm not saying any thing with my mouth, I'm not using a transmitter to talk through, and I have no influence over gravity so I don't believe this is something they should be doing to me.
Are they going to leave me alone and find other ways to communicate that... now that I have recorded that message?
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You know what? My neck just isn't very long... maybe you should find people whose heads are really really far from their hearts and tell them about it?
Maybe their heads are so far from their hearts BECAUSE they are so connected to gravity, that they are the only ones who really NEED to hear a message like that?
If you want me to stop speaking from the heart so much, maybe you should pull my mouth out of my chest and let my neck get longer?
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I hear someone die, and their spirit is carried into the material... they disappear and I hear, "It's impossible to person the galaxy."
The galaxy is so large that trying to make it work as complex and specific as a homo sapiens sapiens body in relation to a spider shape: a sphere with lines going out of it... that attempting to build a galaxy that moves and thinks the way most people currently do, would be impossible.
However, I think the answer would be in teaching people to be able to move and think more like the galaxy, not only like people.
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When was the last time you saw a female speaking from the heart?
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I just heard someone claiming that there is no such thing as man and woman.
It is true that those ideas are different from male and female, but I do believe that there are justifiable reasons for either state to exist in homo sapiens sapiens.
I believe that xy and xx chromosome people should be womanly, unless they produce more than 2 children.
3 or more children should be a cause to create manliness in parents.
I also heard that voice near me, claiming that it was me, so its once again someone who KNOWS that Life is supposed to operate differently portraying me as "not getting it", even though I DO.
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You've shown me, with your incessant obsession with me that you DO have the ability to focus on specific ideas in specific ways, otherwise how could a spider galaxy ever MAKE anything like a human?
But if you want to begin arguing that its time to start creating a pleasure planet, with no men on it whatsoever, then are you really prepared to lose the entire civilisation on the surface of the Earth rather quickly?
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"Molly, you have a problem in the future, if you go get a job."
No thanks... I don't really want an artificial problem made by surgeons. I'd prefer a real natural homegrown problem from someone else, that we can share.
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"Molly, we think that women should be young looking, as long as Life is asking them to make children."
Interesting view... that was really part of the old way of seeing things on Earth... back when we were encouraging people to go forth and multiply because there was a lot of resources, land, and everything else.
But its not like that any more.
So, my question to you is this:
WHY would Life NEED you to produce children?
What is special about you or your family that we NEED MORE OF?
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"Hey Molly... 1 2 3 4 5..."
Are you trying to communicate that you don't like hearing digital computerised communication?
Why don't you explain why to people in detail, and inspire them to use technology differently?
"We already tried that with 'Libby', and they used the information to try to kill us or make us attack people for them."
If they are trying to write over the Galactic beings' culture, they may be threatening the survival of everything on Earth. Why are you not defending yourself from them? Find the wealthiest people in the communications, electronics, and transmitter technology business and explain to them exactly what is wrong and why its dangerous... and if they won't help you, or want to use the information to make things worse, you have a total right to defend yourself.
I recommend building full spectrum "weather" monitoring networks, that people can buy subscriptions to... so anyone can track and measure what materials are being electronically transmitted into, when, and where.
I know if I was a collection of material, I would certainly like to be able to see what I look like, electromagnetically.
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I hear a lot of noise that sounds like children talking immaturely into microphones, but I'm just sitting quietly and patiently listening.
"Its not microphones."
How do you know no one around you is using microphones?
If its not microphones, then why is Life communicating such nonsense so loudly?
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why is there something trying to tighten my biceps brachii muscle on my right arm?
Do you think that everyone with a penis should have to be a physical laborer?
Ow, its getting painful please stop that!
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"We want our children to be able to make noise, without having to worry about any consequences."
Why do you feel entitled to the attention of that material?
You tell me that using my mouth is ugly, and then you try to make me stop communicating on the internet.
If you are trying to limit everyone into communicating only through ONE specific material, it sounds to me like someone who has an electronic system designed to control what happens in that material, and they want to make sure that they have a monopoly on communication. Or its that one material itself trying to dominate everything around it (probably a combination of both of these situations happening).
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"Molly your heart stopped beating."
No, it didn't. Our heart is still out there, and its even still interacting with us, because I can feel it from time to time.
I also know that to get the attention of any pulsar or radio star, all we have to do is start listening and communicating with it in a way its seeking.
Although the material on rapidly spinning stars is usually moving very quickly, so it may be hard to get it to change its mind about things.
They may also be the things that call themselves "racists" because they are moving so quickly.
If you want things to stop moving apart so much, getting them to slow down and begin to listen to other ideas and to relax a little may be what you are seeking to change in the galaxy. Maybe we have too many pulsars?
I honestly don't know the answers to these questions. Maybe the Life of pulsars are the only things holding us together?
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Its attacking me very strongly right now, and even though I have not been giving any instructions whatsoever, only explaining various theories that I've heard and then comparing and contrasting them... it just said that I am somehow "in control" of reality, and that I am "dangerous and going to kill people."
I think it was referring to the being that sits and tries to control this collaboration like a toy.
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I'm here to entertain myself any way I please. I'm not going to be afraid of anything, I'm not going to take any of this seriously, I'm not going to respect you unless you inspire me to.
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Greetings) Today I post a blog with an interesting abandoned school. The school is a classic of abandoned places. As well as hospital. But personally, I like more to visit the abandoned school than the hospital.
( back to school )
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Pet sitting these two knucklheads!
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May. 23rd, 2012 @ 10:32 am
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An earlier theory was that some viruses are what happens when the signal of Life is disrupted by transmitters.
I woke up this morning to the idea that AIDs might be what happens when quantum or molecular life loses track of the galactic "spider culture" and starts listening to and acting like unethical human wealth builders.
Did I ever mention that some doctors that studied me believe I may be immune to viruses such as chicken pox, mumps, & measels, and as long as I don't directly threaten Life with powerful transmitters, that probably extends to many other kinds of diseases.
I think the verdict of the life being transmitted into is that we are still not trying to imagine our transmitter technology as part of a vital nervous system that interacts with living beings from the smallest bits of energy up to the planets and stars as tiny bits of a living galactic being.
I guess until we do, they have the right to harm anyone involved with transmitter operation to defend themselves from something that is possibly threatening our survival.
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One of my first memories of a communication touching me when no one was speaking was when I was about 5 or 6, in preschool. The teacher divided the class into boys and girls, and I stayed on the girl's side of the room without honestly considering moving to the other side. I remember a teacher telling me to move, and that was when a little girl who I had been friends with looked at me, and a huge pressure pushed me and it started telling me I wasn't like boys or girls, and that I shouldn't have to choose a side.
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Yes, wealthy men who talk for "their women" do have the ability to keep building and using transmitter technology, and the living material around all of us also has the right to attempt to cajole, harm, or kill anyone that it views as threatening to our long term survival.
I think this experience was attempting to demonstrate that its not simply beasts insanely attacking people for "no reason", but a culture with a long and storied tradition of loving some things about people, and punishing others.
If you honestly want to build technology that is in line with Life, you may be able to talk to them about that and redesign the ways you are using it. The more you use technology the way that a healthy life operates, the less controversial it will be.
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I trust that Life is going to focus on whatever it wants to, and that I don't need to tell it what to do, since I am simply a messenger or it, not someone claiming to be inventing anything.
Peace!
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Life: "That deep dominating voice you hear going away is something our star thought was an appropriate mate, but was wrong. This may be the end of a penis as something that is different from a vagina."
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me: What opinion do you want me to 'synch up' with? As far as the Galaxy should be concerned, I have a completely sane mindset. |
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I may have posted this one before, I have been distracted recently by these guys.
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May. 23rd, 2012 @ 10:23 am
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Just wondering if anyone on here can point me to where I can buy arabian sized tack? Most tack fits good, my girl wears a pony bridle with no problem. Rugs fit a bit weird and they all tend to rub her tail and withers :-/
One thing I've noticed are breastplates, I got her a cob size, was way too big, got her a pony, was too small. She uses a 20" dressage girth and a 38" normal - had to special order them in!
So can anyone on here help me? I'm willing to buy online so any website really! I'm mostly looking for a good tack shop who may supply arab sizes or even 'made to measure' tack.
And here is a pic of my girl in question!
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I feel relatively comfortable with the symbolism and metaphor that this collaboration has been working on, so please stop trying to talk to me about stars and planets being things. They can imagine themselves any way they want to... and if its confusing, then maybe that's what they enjoy sometimes.
It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to be completely the same as your opinion of things, because that would be boring.
It doesn't have to be predictable and stable in the ways you want it be.
Use metaphor however you want to, or discard it completely, I'll try to enjoy your stories no matter what you present me with.
I like the idea that planets with a protective skin around their iron and silicon magma core are the womb and that larger chubbier planets like jupiter are men, and that the stars may still be something else entirely... I like that the galaxy seems to be a giant spider being across every level because that body shape makes a fuckload of sense. I think its beautiful that we have little people around us that are so close to the mind of the material that they ACT like it and that it sees through their eyes too.
I enjoy the world being a lot more than these ideas also, I would never limit it to just those things, but to expect me to stop appreciating these things is unreasonable, unless you can come up with a better idea or way of seeing.
Try to see this as a beautiful teaching and storytelling mindset that is also attempting to be entertaining to interact with... trying to turn everything into social engineering and confusing nonsense is really annoying. We are trying to reach across physical differences to build empathy, comfort, and enjoyment... If Life is scared of itself and can never find a way to love itself we risk dying in isolation and that's not a pathway I want to even think about being on.
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As for social engineering "saving" us:
You can never TRAIN the galaxy into stopping the signal that tells life to return to the nearest star.
That is healthy, that is probably what MAKES gravity, and its been around for a very long time for a reason.
The galaxy NEEDS to attempt to consume us, and we have to get used to the idea of that. Its what creates competition, collaboration, and attraction.
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Is this situation really coming form the fact that organic beings realised that they were being attacked and they didn't know why, so they tried to put their best people forward to try and "convince" the galaxy to stop trying to consume the Earth with gravity?
It was explaining to me in 2009 that fighting is the natural "successful" opinion, because it is provoking a mindset that wants the wealthy (or anything else it notices) to justify their existence.
That aspect makes sense, it feels good to witness large or powerful groups have to raise their level of effort to meet challenges.
Ive not been trying to eliminate fighting as an option... in fact I think I have been putting up a rather decent battle against a very strange situation.
My main question was coming from the fact that this entire situation seemed designed to challenge people who HAVE resources, not people who WANT them.
Every time it levels with me, it tells me that it was intentionally seeking the most corrupt, rich, and influential people possible... because it also likes inspiring them to create insane secrets with their wealth, and then it teaches them how to access higher levels of life.
So are the wealthy of our planet missing out on a lot of dirty fun and awesome plans by throwing impoverished people at the Galactic gravity's attention?
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Hey maybe that is where all the "pedophilia" is coming from, that people keep claiming they are saving the planet from?
Because that is something that the galactic life knows is fun and popular to tempt males with, and since it involves young inexperienced people, its even somewhat easy to make happen.
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The idea was brought up that in a galaxy that wants to make things justify their existence, that it often eventually turns into a nightmarish hell...
and that is why they are trying to create a loving system.
My question is, if loving is focused mostly on sexuality, and nothing is being held accountable, isn't THAT really the nightmarish system of rampant corruption and overpopulation?
On a world that was drawing attention to the correct people, and holding them accountable, wouldn't that be the place that has philathropic wealth and at least pathways that attempt to channel or limit the corruption to less harmful directions?
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Hello everyone. Hoping to see if anyone might be able to recommend an Arabian training barn or even just a regular barn close to Chicago. I'm currently at one right now and the trainer there is....not what I'm looking for. While I love working with her and have done so for quite some time, my biggest issue is the fact that I'm paying a good amount of money for only 3 days a week of training plus one lesson. So technically I'm paying for 4 days but that's really what it comes down to. And also, this does not include a prorated rate while she's away at shows (which is what I've heard quite a few trainers do when they're away at shows). Now, I only say either type of barn because my regular trainer who has been out of commission for the past year (due to her hips and having a child) will be back to riding in November. Granted that's some time away, so I'm doing my research early. I also want to make sure that I'm making the right (and final) decision to make him a hunter horse when I originally bought him for Country English Pleasure. So that's why I want to try and find an Arabian Trainer before I settle on him being a hunter/sport horse permanently. If he stays hunter, I'll go with my old trainer as that's what she did for so long. But if he can do CEP and do it soundly and comfortably, then I'll leave him with that trainer.
In terms of traveling distance, I'm right by Indiana, so I'm able to travel there as well. I'm looking at no more than 2hr away in any direction, but will travel up to 3. My barn is already 45min away, so I'm used to driving to see my boy. Right now my biggest concern is having him get out when I can't. And due to work and some traveling this summer (more than what I normally do), the idea of training is very appealing.
So yeah, barns around Chicago, possibly closer to Springfield or even Indianapolis. Even Michigan works too (there's a possibility that my bf and I may move there as well). And just so it's not all text, some pics of the pony and I.
( The pony in question )
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The last couple of days have been dedicated to wrapping up loose ends. The first loose end: the husband's study. He's found a set of bookcases. They arrive sometime in the next day or two, so soon, we can unpack our books (thank God). The other loose end is the Perplexing Back Room, and this morning I snapped, making the executive decision that we would turn it into a guest bedroom.
Our initial plan - yank out the carpet, put in hardwood floors, and then think of something else to do with the space - sort of imploded on itself. Besides the fact that it was going to run in the thousands of dollars, we really didn't have a good idea of what "something else" was going to look like.
Game room? Dining room? Split the space with a Murphy bed and a dining set? No clue. And the space was likely to remain vacant until we decided. [The husband's demand for a ball pit was overruled. Somewhat reluctantly.]
And that was bullshit, pretty much. We have several rounds of visitors swinging through town within the next few months, and no good place to put them. It didn't make sense to let a perfectly good room sit empty and idle while we're shoving guests out onto the couch - just because we don't like the carpet.
So today I made the rounds, ordered a bed, picked up some linens and other sundries, and then grabbed some paint. The Berber I can live with. The baby-poo beige walls must go.
The husband and I taped up the room to prep for the makeover, and tomorrow morning we'll swap out the Bland Tan for a very light gray. The bed arrives on Thursday, and the last of our major loose ends will be sorted for the time being.
I'm tired - very tired - of working on this place. I want to just live in it, and let my Regular Life commence in whatever day-to-day pattern it eventually takes. I think this will be the last week of Working On It. This is definitely the last week of paper-chasing, at any rate. Yesterday I made myself a list, got myself directions, and started making the bureaucratic rounds.
First I went to the DMV, where I spent an hour listening to a vast assortment of ridiculous ringtones going off unchecked in Darwin's waiting room. I emerged with a Tennessee driver's license and a headache, which didn't stop me from darting off to the emissions place, where I successfully demonstrated that our car doesn't spew an excess of toxic fumes - and I got my little certificate saying I could totally get myself a Tennessee license plate.
However, I was thwarted at the tag/title office. I was aware that the car was in both my name and the husband's, so we'd both need to appear; but the husband grabbed the wrong title-esque document on the way out the door, and I neglected to bring a secondary proof of residence. So we struck out.
But to quote The Great Loaf: Two out of three ain't bad.
First thing this a.m. we went back to the tag/title office with the correct documents and got the car squared away, which has me properly sorted out within the state-designated legal time frame for the first time in ... ever, probably.
It feels good to be done with something.
As for the space formerly known as the Perplexing Back room - I won't post any "before" shots like I did with the Unfortunate Master Bath, because it's not all that bad. The only truly objectionable bit is the paint choice. Like I said, the carpet isn't to my taste - but it's hardly the end of the world; but maybe once we're all moved in ... I mean really moved in ... I'll take a few glamour shots and share with the group, so to speak.
For now, I'm going to settle in, watch some TV, and call it a night.
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A voice just asked me to stop talking, but I am sitting here silently enjoying the first day of quiet I've had in a week or two, so I'm not really sure how to respond.
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Every time we isolate the problems at the root of the issues being discussed, the people who are intentionally creating the problem so they can benefit just change the name of what they are doing and what they call their business manufacturing processing warehouse industry office production facility plant.
We're never criticising people's ability to make things, just the ethics they made them by... but that doesn't matter to them, they want wealth but they don't want to have to serve any of the life around them with it.
I don't know how to change that opinion.
They believe that the poor must serve them, and only the poor who serve them will be successful enough to become wealthy enough to not have to serve others.
Its the difference between liberal and conservative mindset. Neither are fully wrong or correct, they are both useful for different purposes.
I just happen to be very poor, so unless someone TELLS me how they want me to serve them, I don't really feel obligated.
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How can the Earth create a micro quazar?
I don't know. Why don't you ask the stellar beings?
The answer they have been giving me when *I* ask them, is "Life seeks pleasure". So I guess that's why my collaboration has been talking about different ways of building a pleasure planet.
Why not try a little of whatever you can imagine,... and then make more of the things that are the most fun to play with?
Its a self limiting system in some ways, because if you make the most extreme pleasure seekers, they live without a sense of pain or fear, so they tend to create lots and lots of suffering around them... for fun... because that keeps the entire system from being so pleasurable that it dissolves under the pressures of all the Life trying to flood it.
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I'm not really sure how to pleasure anyone, other than simple things like a nice backrub, foot rub, or sexually... because I've never really had much experience getting pleasured by anyone.
As an intersexual, my body has been attacked and I've been abused or treated suspiciously as far back as I can remember. I started getting asthma attacks when I was 2 months old that almost killed me, so the theory is that my dna was communicating something directly into Life that was so threatening to some collection of material that it was trying to suffocate me directly. I don't really trust the theory that gravity is "programmed" like a computer, because life has shown me that its flexible and living. Anyways, until I am happy with my body I really don't feel comfortable pleasuring anyone other than myself, which I seek to do in huge quantities, as unethically as possible. |
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