Today we hosted our first Thanksgiving dinner.  Family members drove up from Florida to stay with us for a few days and we had a great meal this afternoon.  My favorite part was picking vegetables out of our own garden to cook for the meal.  C and I planted our vegetables shortly after moving here, and these two crops reached maturity in time for the feast:

Mustard Greens

Green Beans

I was so excited to pick them out of the garden!  We’ve been watching these guys grow in the hard Georgia clay, getting bigger every week despite my infrequent watering.  It was really amazing for me to see what creation will yield despite my amateur attempts to help.

On the other hand, it reached my soul in a very deep level to harvest and consume something I grew myself.  A fulfilling, deep joy, almost addictive, that makes me look forward to the spring when I can plant in earnest.

Little wonder I feel this way: we’ve been hard-wired since the very beginning to take care of the earth and live close to it.

Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

To dress it and to keep it: the Hebrew can be translated “to work in it and to protect it.”

Our work in the dirt is a mirror of God’s free, gracious attention to us dirty humans: he works in us, to improve us and increase our yield, and he protects us from danger.

Happy Thanksgiving! – I’m thankful for so so much, but mostly for the true freedom I have in Jesus Christ. Laus Deo – Praise be to God!

Continuing on this subject then…

Please read the previous post if you just dropped by.

I am pretty aware that most of what I write here is completely opposite to most people´s beliefs, but what has to be said just has to be said. The point of view of the Rebellion is not popular, we don´t deceive and don´t create illusions, so the reality that we show is harsher, but we have been working in the shadows for what we believe, and now is time to expose it, no matter if someone believe or even come to be aware of our philosophy. My duty is just to register this content.

So, in the previous text I explained why and when a preparation for a marriage takes place.

Once a couple agree to get married, be this marriage formerly arranged by the families or by the planning personnel of our civilization, or else just a rare case in which a couple just fall in love, despite of not being genetically programmed to do so, the preparations will start.

I want to note that before the preparations for the collective Alchemical Marriage of this generation of Angels started, right in the stage when Eden´s planning department was selecting the best candidates amongst the young, those with potential to become the future Counselors and top personnel of the major areas for the next cycle of Eden ( the replacement of the Councils), right then, Michael´s political party did a sabotage and hacked the system in a way that only the members of his club of boys were identified as apt candidates and therefore sent for the initial tests that were tests to verify the candidate´s leadership capabilities.

What I call “system” in this case is not just our political system. We live inside a system that is something like a computer system that runs everything in our civilization, however it has conscience – what in Earth is called Android. The identification of candidates in this case, as well as the score in the race, is done by this Android system and not by Angels personally.

Well, Michel´s group deceived this system in a way that the system would not identify any apt feminine Angel to be sent to the race. My loyal Jethro, always risking himself for the Rebellion, was the hero this time. He applied himself for the tests, been naturally approved, because he is brilliant, and at the door of the transport he exchanged his place with me, as we planned to fight back Michael´s movement, once we could not at all to prove that the system was hacked. This was our creative movement, a legal move, because as it had never happened before, Satania never bothered to create a law forbidding the exchange of places at doors of transports in this sort of event. We are genius. We Rebels are so very genius. We are even more brilliant because actually we did not know exactly what was all that fuzz about. Is easy to tell the history now so long ago but at that time all was confusing, with lots of misinformation on the way.We had a clouded idea but for concrete we just knew that something was going on, we knew that was important ( if was not important our oppositors would not have the trouble to mess up the system…), we knew that it was to exclude woman ( it always was to exclude woman…), among other unpleasant possible purposes, we also knew that the way the event was been conducted was not right, and naturally as full of fire Rebels we had to do something about.

So I end up sent in his place, and later he joined me, and somehow the other brides came too, so I guess our Rebellion had more brilliant movements but I was not there so I don´t know what happened after I left. One of the characteristics of this sort of test is that in the first times we are completely isolated from any contact with Eden.

In the end, the preparations for the Alchemical Marriage for our generation went on without any problem ( without any problem for the system to select the candidates, I mean, because for us candidates it would be a long beginning).

Is important to say that without Jethro I would not be in the race, that without Jethro´s first movement no girl would be in the race, and that without girls in the race, in the end of the race, all the places in the government of Eden would be in the future completely taken by my little brother´s chauvinist group, drawing a black future where all feminine essences would be completely oppressed and abused, as happens in all places were Michael´s finger touches. It would happen in Eden and as a reflex would happen in all the Universes, much strongly than it has ever happened.

Jethro Ab Loxlok must be recognized as the hero that allowed our hard work of resistance to continue at that time. As he is a General, the position of hero fits him well, this is his nature.

However is important to note too, that there are only three positions for the Supreme High Council, thousands of Elves were in the race, and in the end I was indicated for one of the positions.

Jethro put me in, Jethro have always been at my side during the race, but I would not reach the final indication if I were just a puppet of Jethro as some are saying back at Angelsland.

I reached the final indication by my own merits, by my own effort. We all in Lucifer´s team are very loyal to each other, we are very supportive, we all help each other, but we are all, all of us, without exception, damn good and talented. Everyone in our group is the best in his own expertise, it includes me. This fact, plus the extreme loyalty among our members and restless effort of everyone, made the difference, but only loyalty without talent would not place us at the top of the score board, as we are now.

The race is not finished I guess ( there is no way for a candidate to know when it is finished). Our enemies may have a lot of tricks yet, and may even beat us momentarily in the score yet, but we will win, just because we are good, hell of good, all of us, all the Rebels.

Now that this event of exchanging of places is clear, I will speak about the ritual.

To agree to get married does not mean at all that a couple will reach the marriage. Besides, it is a formality, when we agree we don´t know what this means, we just know that we love our partners.

The preparations consist of many steps and levels. First there is a long preparation in Eden, and I am not going to talk about this part. Secondly we take part in a huge numbers of simulated situations ( something like the holodeck of Star Trek). If Angels could die we would nearly die of stress and tiredness in this simulations. I am not going to talk about this part either because there is too much information. Perhaps I speak about this steps some other day.

After the simulations come the “Fall”. We are sent to have real life experiences in planets such as Earth, where all kinds of problems are possible to happen. We, the candidates, actually don´t know that this whole thing is happening. The subject of the Marriage is something vague on our mind, something to think about in the future, actually we are being analyzed while we think that we are accomplishing missions that are part of our job and our life.

I know about the marriage now because I am in the end of the race. By the rules only near the end of the race the candidates are informed that they have been in a race all that long period that they thought that the world was falling apart over their heads. Also, only in the end of the race is when we are informed that the marriage have something do to with the top political positions of our civilization.

The very last part of the race is the return. We must find a way to return to Eden by our own ways, and there are lots of rules for this part. This is where we Rebels are now.

When the young return then the ritual starts, I mean, the very real Alchemical Marriage, for all couples that succeeded, at once. These couples will be allowed to marry, they will allowed to reproduce, and they will also assume the top positions of Eden.

To assume the top positions of Eden means that they will inherit Eden and everything that exists, all the Universes, because everything in Eden is based on property.

For example, I am the Princess of this Principality, so everything in the Principality is my property, including all lives. The Supreme High Council owns the Princesses, and naturally everything that belong to the Princesses is also property of the Supreme High Council.

The system goes this way along all levels. It would not work in places with high level of diversity in all fields, I wonder, but as we have controlled genetics, as the center of our mind is kept at the Department of Philosophy and also as we have very well organized families, it works very well for us, because we can truly that everyone in our civilization wants the best for the collective ( we are programmed to be this way) , and we trust that nobody among us will exploit the others. In summary: It works. At least there.

Considering our level of development, plus this system, plus the eternity, plus our magnificent legal system, all put together makes Eden the paradise. The property concept is part of the whole set of choices done in the past for our ancestors that made Eden to become the paradise. The concept of property at Eden is not the same way as seen in Earth. The will of any individual is always above what was planned for him, and everything can be done at Eden by anyone, for the price that it takes, and in the time that it requires. When we learn how to use our political system, there are no limits at all. Is difficult to explain it in words that can make the concept clear for all species of this Universe at once, because the several populations have very diverse references and none of them are even close of what we have in Eden.

About the Alchemical Marriage, I think that each case is different, because there is a huge creative potential in Eden, and events don´t happens twice the same way there, so I can talk only about my case.

My story starts when I was called to a mission of transport in a planet called Tri. I am a cargo pilot and sometimes I get missions of exploration too, but more cargo. I am an Universal truck driver, working for our kingdom, for our masters, the Supreme High Council. All pilots belong to the same guild, all pilots are part of Eden´s army, all pilots have military training, however not all of us receive military missions.

The kind of mission that a pilot receives depends of his equipment. The equipment belong to the pilot, not to the army, however the pilot himself belong to the army, therefore his equipment belong to the kingdom too. It happens this way because the equipments also have conscience and Android brain ( A series brain), and because of this the pilot and his equipment´s brain create bonds, therefore they are partners, and they remain together forever – of course, the ship is always updated with new technology, but the ship is a loyal friend of the pilot. My ship, Thule, is a cargo ship, therefore I can just have cargo or exploration missions, she is too big for ordinary military missions.

My main cargo is gas tritium. Tritium has almost no volume, but it is to be transported by cargo ships because of protocols about cargo. Although gas tritium is our main cargo and it does not require a huge ship, the cargo ships must be huge because sometimes we transport matter too.

As you may have noticed, the pilot has the same name of his ship ( Veronica Ab Thule, Jethro Ab Loxlok). This is my name of pilot, it will be changed when I become Counselor.

My heart feels small when I remember the free life of pilot, I know that as Princess I will never have that life again, so I treasure the memories of that time. I am not complaining, but to talk about this makes me nostalgic. I am glad because I decided to spent my youth as pilot, and I am grateful that I had this option.

Now back to the Marriage. As a pilot, was easy for the planners of the Marriage´s tests to get me in trouble. Me and my entire fleet – 6 ships, 2 elves in each Ship, plus Tao, my Android and best friend, plus Satan Asmodeus who were the one who shot us down. Most of the crew was composed of young Elves engaged with someone. That day, we fell…

We fell at the distant small Earth of the Solar System, of the Milk Galaxy, of the borderline Universe where I was once conceived ( my parents planned my existence while in vacations in a planet called Thule of Vega, near here, where a friend of mine used to raise Dragons, that time. Thule of Vega does not exist anymore in this timeline. It had wonderful red dunes.

Well, we fell. And I know that later more Angels fell here. ( Why here?) . So we become Fallen Angels.

Our brides and bridegrooms were left in despair at Eden, without information, without support from the official organs, and had to find a way, alone, to come to rescue us. This, of course, was part of the tests, and, of course, our partners did not know about the wedding race. The system arranged to make everything difficult for them.

By the rules of the engagement, we will find all sort of difficulties during the Fall, and our partners will find all sort of difficulties to reach us, at Eden. If the love survive to all this, if we endure all possible bad experiences that the Universe can provide and still want to get married, then we reach the Marriage.

We are allowed to give up at any time. Satan will always be together to offer an easy way out, so beyond enduring hell we still have to learn to deal with the Satan designed to us. Of course, if we give up we don´t know that we are giving up, because we are not aware about the race. We just escape from the wonderful offers of Satan because something just does not seem right in our heart. If we are not deep decided that the only way for us is the person that we love, and have capability to feel in each way that person is, while we are blind inside a human body, blind for our own dimension I mean, then certainly Satan will drop us down.

Those who fall must live in human bodies. We don´t know about this rule when we fall, but the Helius Sun assure that we will do that soon or later. Our original bodies are indestructible, at least this is what we deeply believe when we live in Eden, until we are thrown in a planet such as this, that sits inside the crown of a Star, and we find out, with horror and shock, that after few millennia our original bodies are falling apart melted by the radiation.

Needless to say that despite being something forbidden, we crossbreed with the local humanoids, to transfer to them our genetics and prepare conditions to transfer our essence to that kind of body after few generations of preparation. We don´t do it because we are kinky. We do it because we don´t have contact with Eden or anyone of our kind and we don´t know what is going on, we are lost far away with broken equipments and without any sign of rescue, we are melting and we just don´t know what else to do except to become humans. It is the only possibility at hand to avoid to go back to the realm of formless ( and to lost our position in the family, friends, goods, love, and go through a long process to go back to the realm of form again).

It is not an easy decision, and not fun at all. We don´t even know if we will ever be able to revert the process, however we just don´t want to go back to the formless dimension. For the humans it is a top prize, there are some characteristics, creativity for example and many others, that were not originally in them, and now exist because of this choice of ours long ago.

I have lived in human bodies for nearly 20.000 times, now. I hope this is the last time. We are not meant to have comfortable lives, after all this is a race of endurance, there are thousands of couples competing for the same positions, or for the right of being with the person that one loves, spread in thousands of planets, and few will reach there, so the Satan of each couple, that in the end can be compared with a sort of coacher, will not give them a minute of rest. I wonder who created this sadistic game, but…I can´t take the merit of the learning, we actually become stronger after all this. I just hope it can be easier for the next generations.

Well, this ends the explanation about the Alchemical Marriage.

There is more to say, but I don´t want to say, not now at least. Perhaps when I am older in this existence.

I will speak more about our Fall someday.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

Hei kaikille!

Terveisiä Kuopion Iso-Valkeisesta, jossa olemme kokoontuneet Matkailun asiantuntijaseminaariin. Seminaarin monipuolisen ohjelman lomassa tuli myös EDEN -kilpailun esittelyn vuoro.

Kilpailun avasi työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön erityisasiantuntija Lea Häyhä, jonka jälkeen projektipäällikkö Tuula Tegelberg jatkoi esittelemällä itse kilpailun ja sen tarkemmat kriteerit.

Ohessa valokuvia seminaarista.

Kuvassa vasemmalla projektipäällikkö Tuula Tegelberg ja oikealla TEMin erityisasiantuntija Lea Häyhä.

Kuvassa Tuula ja Lea, oikealla tuoteasiantuntija Liisa Hentinen MEKistä.

Yleisnäkymä tilaisuudesta.

Tässä EDEN -kilpailun roll up, joka kulkee mukanamme eri puolille Suomea alueellisiin infotilaisuuksiin.

Erityisasiantuntija Lea Häyhä avaa EDEN -kilpailun.

Projektipäällikkö Tuula Tegelberg jatkaa EDEN esityksellä.

Terveisin EDEN 2010 Finland -tiimi

Many Thai J-Rock fans blamed Thai artists that they copied Japanese songs. In fact, they should believe in ability of Thai people, or say just, coincident or Japanese artists copy Thai things. Although one case is true, that does not mean other million cases have to be just like the first one.

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Listen To the Music, please scroll down to the end of the post.
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One of my friend that I met when I just had been a J-Rock fan, always told me that a Thai band called, Giwa copies his beloved Luna Sea. I was so young, and I did believe him. I believe many things flood around world wide web. Thai J-Rock fans keep post this kind of thing up. They matched short parts of some Japanese songs and Thai songs, and they said that Thai artist copies Japanese artists. Most of the parts they matched are less than 10 seconds, and it is very easy that musicians can think about the same thing. It is coincident rather that coping.

Mahidol Wittayanusorn Students with scholarship in their high school and right now they graduated in New York, England and Japan, Photo by Sw Eden

Thai people are not stupid, because they can own many copyrights they make by themselves. Thai people can work so well if a reward/award is waiting for them, such as world robot competition, or sport tournament. Naturally, Thai people do not like to step up without motivation. Thai musicians have a lot of motivation, especially pop-rock artists after 2000. Pop-Rock in Thailand have been popular again after 20-30 years. Between 2 eras, Thai people consumed much of sweet-pop songs. Many bands was founded in late 10 years, and many old bands did re-union. The boys want to be cool, especially for the sight of girls. They created a unique style of Thai Pop-Rock. Many songs may sound similar, because those kids grew up with pop songs. Some people are different, because they listen to other things, such as Thai country songs and other foreigners’ things.

I am the one who really like Thai country songs. If we do not count the style of voice and Thai instrument, many fast songs can be popular in Alternative-Rock/Pop world. Both sound very similar. Many Thai people also listen to Rock n’ Roll artist from the United States and Europe. They get the influence directly from the original rock bands, and they do not need to past J-Rock artist. Some Thai people also listen to J-Rock and do cover, but there is less percent.

Clash is another band that Thai J-Rock fans blames that they mimic “Forever Love” of X Japan in their song called, “Nangfa Naijai” (Angle in Mind). I do know both songs so well, and I cannot find that Clash really copies that songs. They are same type of music, but not the same song. Although Clash did cover of L’Arc~en~Ciel, it does not mean that they do not have brain to compose their own music. I am a Punk fan, and many Punk songs are similar. Let’s listen to sample of DecayDance things. They are similar and they are good!

Heath of X Japan, Rough Drawing by Sw Eden

Another important conflict is the song call, “Ter Mai Kir Tai” (You Have Never Died) of a Thai band called, Two (they have 2 members.). My parent keeps that albums, too. The famous guy named, Tong. He helped around many projects. Thai people know that he is really nice. Right now he is older, but he just looks the same. I do not know if this nice guy hears what some people are railing him. I pass around the websites, many Thai X Japan fans railed “Two”. Unbelievable, I saw a guy wrote, “Two-Kuy”. “Kuy” (ควย) is the rudest word in Thai Language. He blamed Thai artists who did not know what X Japan was about. The company always manages things for pop artists, and the only thing that the pop artists need to have is the great performance.

I did look through the track list of that album of “Two”, and style of X Japan songs. (It is 2 years, I was their fan, my early high school.) The melody is weird for Japanese songs, but the song composer is weird in “Two” albums. I could not say, but the news already said that. They said, Thai company has to pay for Yoshiki. I do not want to believe. It is just the late visits of Yoshiki in Thailand. So,… My early high school time, a senior guy who was a friend of “Yai” (Yai was known as a big fan of X Japan in our school.) told me about this conflict. “Two did release “Ter Mai Kir Tai” before X Japan release Say Anything”. If I can go back to that moment, I will never show the goat hand to him. I did,.., I did that hand. He ran behind me and tried to kill me. Where was my soul of Thai person? I had had it when I was a boy scout. I did respect King Rama VI. I love his firmly goal to make Thai people to love each other as one big family.

The news was unbelievable for many people. That song sound quite like Thai songs, and the lyrics can fit in so well. No matter what the reality is, but if there is no that song, many Thai people will never be fans of X Japan.

Tetsu69 of L’Arc~en~Ciel kills cat, Drawing by Sw Eden

There is another conflict of Neo Universe of L’Arc en Ciel, but that is a little thing. I think it is coincident, because it is just a small part of the song. Most of Thai L’Arc en Ciel fans are still young and rich, and they do not really care to talk about the past, because they look up the new stuff, and they talked a lot. I have many friends who like this band, that is why I can say. Like, once I met Kaun with her L’Arc book in a school bus, and we just began to talk although we had never known each other. We talked a lot. It is familiar in American people, but unusual for Thai people. (I am smiling.)

The main thing I would like to say is, Thai people always look down themselves. Many foreign songs were composed after Thai songs. Whenever they sounds the same, Thai people will say that Thai copied those foreigners.

There are other cases, such as Peace Maker’s songs and Josh Groban’s, and also the hair style and dress style of Thai teenager. Although the idea cannot be Copyrights, people keeps railing that style of dressing is wrong things. This may be only one attitude in a corner of Thailand, because most people do not care (me, too). They dress up and they want to be cool.

Let’s see the side of Thailand. What the songs that Thai artists composed before the foreigner and they sound the same! I am an audience and also an artist, and I will never say that they mimic each other. Many people can think about the same thing. The one part of melody or similar style cannot prove that that artist is the copier.

“There is no unique thing in the world. Everything you think that it is new, someone has done it before.”, Jiyoun Kim said.

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Listen to these coincident couple now!!
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* Paradox (Thai Band) – “Ta-Lai” (Slip)
http://www.imeem.com/people/NhZaiB/music/8yIHHWo0/paradox-10-mp3/
The beginning of this song is similar with Cobra Starship – Pop Punk is so hi’ 05
http://www.imeem.com/artists/cobra_starship/music/xwnpOen5/cobra-starship-pop-punk-is-sooooo-05/
This Paradox song is in album “Free Style” and was released before Pop Punk is so hi’05 about 2 years.

Both Paradox and Cobra Starship are Punk, so no confused that they can think about the same thing.

Paradox, a famous Thai Alternative Rock band

Cobra Starship and Victoria Asher

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* Zi:Kill (Japanese Punk Band) – Kiss Me Good Bye
http://www.imeem.com/people/MjSTkez/music/CLVxNBvB/zikill-kiss-me-good-bye/
The All American Rejects – The Wind Blows
http://www.imeem.com/theallamericanrejects/music/CLLCdDK5/the-all-american-rejects-the-wind-blows/
The beginning of both songs just sound the same, and I do not think that The All American Rejects will care about Zi:Kill. Alright, both are punk, .. again.

The All American Rejects, an American Alternative Rock band

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* Paradox (Thai band) – Greedy (similar at 2:30)
http://www.imeem.com/sw-eden/music/p9szG3Af/paradox-greedy/
Slipknot – The Nameless (similar at 3:00)
http://www.imeem.com/people/uvHKWM2/music/IPjRJ6Kv/slipknot-the-nameless/
For the international world, Slipknot is more popular than Paradox, but in Thailand, Paradox is more popular. I do not think that both will prefer to listen to each other. Paradox also released this song before Slipknot, too.

Slipknot is Cute, Drawing by Sw Eden

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* Dope – Pig Society (intro)
http://www.imeem.com/artists/dope/music/9kNkLZrn/dope-pig-society/
and Ebola (Thai Band) – “Kawm Pen Pai” (The way it goes) (intro)
http://www.imeem.com/people/nXyWCx8/music/zB-SDoqr/ebola/
Eggasit Gabungpai pointed that to me.

Edsel Dope Dread Hair, Drawing by Sw Eden

Ebola, a Thai Metal band

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* Zi:Kill – Lonely (intro)
http://www.imeem.com/people/MjSTkez/music/uOzAVj6Q/zikill-lonely/
Avenged Sevenfold – Dancing Dead (outro at 4:27)
http://www.imeem.com/people/E_VpXgQ/music/gEorD6X4/avenged-sevenfold-dancing-deadmp3/

First time A7X came into the music industrial, they were considered as a metal band, but now, they are considered as a punk band. Every Japanese fan of Zi:Kill know that Zi:Kill is punk. And very important for us to know that both Zi:Kill and Avenged Sevenfold have a super cool guitar solo. Zi:Kill may do not that great in Lonely, but all stuff in their Rocket album are so amazing! (Pick up the songs that Ken did the music)

Avenged Sevenfold A7X, Drawing by Sw Eden

, Drawing by Sw Eden

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* Michael Jackson – We are the World (Chorus)
http://www.imeem.com/artists/michael_jackson/music/QEwdUfPT/michael-jackson-we-are-the-world/
จรัล มโนเพ็ชร – อุ๋ยคำ Jaran Manoped – Ui Kam (Old Northern Woman)
http://www.imeem.com/gamink/music/o8h0emR9/ (at the first verse of this song)

Ui Kam may be older than We Are The World. I feel I heard of it since I was born. It is truly classic one, every Thai people know. It is beautiful and lonely. Jaran Manoped is also a great teacher of many Thai people. We all love him. He passed away in 2001. All his songs are forever songs.

จรัล มโนเพ็ชร Jaran Manoped

Michael Jackson, Thriller cover

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The All American Rejects – Night Drive (intro)
http://www.imeem.com/jmsabler/music/nDqCSEqx/all-american-rejects-night-drive/
Hideto Matsumoto (Hide) – Emotion In Motion (intro)
http://www.imeem.com/people/v4GYTlP/music/ZE93ITGf/inmotionmp3/

Most of my matching went to the bands that I can remember their things so well. It is not a lot of bands that I can remember every part of their songs.

Hideto Matsumoto (Hide , 秀人松本), Drawing by Sw Eden

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Paradox (Thai Band) – Balloon (at first verse)
http://www.imeem.com/people/i7OzZej/music/oP3rASE1/paradox-balloon/
Hideto Matsumoto (Hide) – Rocket Drive (at first verse)
http://www.imeem.com/zinger96/music/va3naIWH/hide-rocket-dive/

Paradox is so great at their show. Almost all songs of Paradox sound more modern than Hide’s. Paradox tend to be Alternative Rock, which is really popular in Western world such the United States and the United Kingdom. Hide is more into underground alternative rock, which can be found in both LA and NY. Although Hide did a lot of underground style, those songs are not popular. Hide’s songs which are popular are something modern; such as In Motion, Tell Me, Lemoned I Scream, Ever Free, Post and Honey Blade.

TarTar, the vocalist and music composer and lyricist of Paradox. He is very talented!

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ปู พงษ์สิทธิ์ คำภีร์ – โรงเรียนของหนู “Poo” Pongsit Kampee – Rong Rean Kong Nu (Our School)
http://www.imeem.com/people/oSl_ogm/music/wV8eYYsg/
The Academy is… – After the Last Midtown Show
http://www.imeem.com/artists/the_academy_is/music/7WoBSh9s/adam-siska-after-the-last-midtown-show-album-version/

Rong Rean Kong Nu is so classic, too. This song is very old, but still catching people’s hearts. If you know Thai language, you will cry since the first time you listen to it. It is strange that The Academy is… has the same stuff. The world is so coincident. I played Rong Rean Kong Nu on Harmonica, too. This song is about children who have a hard time to get to school. They lived on the mountain and their school is really faraway. They have to walk step by step. They love to go to school. This song reflect the city society that many children do not like the go to school, although they are so rich and very easy to go to school.

ปู พงษ์สิทธิ์ คำภีร์ เจ้าของเพลง โรงเรียนของหนู Poo Pongsit Kampee

William Beckett from The Academy is…, Photo by Sw Eden

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พลพล – ใจเขาใจเรา Palapon – Jai Kao Jai Rao (Your heart, My heart) (at Chorus)
http://www.imeem.com/people/ZI6Iass/music/iprc7M-m/
L’Arc~en~Ciel – Metropolis (at Chorus/Beginning)
http://www.imeem.com/people/VuZGAK/music/7xKOaUyO/larcenciel-metropolis/

I think Palapon heard of some other Thai older song. I had heard this vocal melody before when I was about 5 years old. (about 15 years ago)

พลพล Palapon

L’Arc~en~Ciel and Hide, Drawing by Sw Eden

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* Zi:Kill – Touch Me
http://www.imeem.com/people/MjSTkez/music/B-HLssGR/zikill-touch-me/
Marilyn Manson – Heart-Shaped Glasses
http://www.imeem.com/ilikeboobs/music/jWFluCr0/marilyn-manson-heart-shaped-glasses/

In fact you may notice a part of Ken’s song called, “Do you Believe in Magic” (at solo, 3:18-3:21)
http://www.imeem.com/sw-eden/music/o2rg3SZ4/ken-zikill-believe-in-magic/
I love Ken’s things, all make me smile.

Marilyn Manson, Drawing by Sw Eden

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* AC DC – For those about to Rock (we salute you)
http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/4SNmf1WU/acdc-for-those-about-to-rock-we-salute-you/
Zi:Kill – Rocket (fast part)
http://www.imeem.com/people/cyBWrAg/music/H27jb3fb/zikill-rocket/

Oh hey! you know that Tusk Zi:Kill is a fan of AC DC (he might be a fan of Obama, too), but I am not sure about Ken. Zi:Kill did play Suffocate City of Sex Pistol. I do not know about their copyrights, because they do not blame any people who re-play their songs, too. Zi:Kill is so fun. Tusk draw “Z” during this show. (I am smiling) If you let me compare about “For those about to Rock” and “Rocket”, you can be sure that I do love Rocket. The guitarist of Zi:Kill always have a wonderful line. His solo is always optimistic and never ever boring.

AC DC band and its logo

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Your favorite artist does not have to be the first one who create the things. We should be very happy that someone thinks the same as our favorite artists. And now, we start to listen to the new things!! Our world is not just a box that other people cannot touch. We will never look down other people just because we want to praise our heroes.

Thinking about tools, collections of tools and garden tools.  In making some recent images it struck me how like garden implements some of the instruments are:

Ear rakes for example…

I wondered around garden imagery and The Garden of Earthly Delights came to mind.  A triptych painted by Hieronymus Bosch in the 16thC depicting scenes on a grand scale and probably intended to illustrate the history of mankind according to mediaeval Christian doctrine.

Such triptychs are intended to be read from left to right and often portray Eden through to the last Judgement.  The subtext was contained in the centre piece.

(Francis Bacon)

It strikes me that it would be interesting to consider making such a triptych loosely related to some of the themes contained in the early ones.  One could indulge in symbolism, the notions of fear and dread, the body and its parts, invasion of body, pain suffering, metaphoric objects and the hope of healing..

Interestingly the outer panels of ‘The Garden..’ lack colour, the imagery is striking as it shows a round world possibly reflecting a time before the ‘colour’ of creation.  The technique is called Grisaille and the word means grey.  It strikes me that opening the doors of this amazing painting is a little like opening up a body; the pale and grey outer body opens to reveal the colour and complexity of the inner workings!

painting inspired by open heart sugery at  www.dycusart.com 

Destinations of Excellence in Finland -kilpailu nouseville matkailukohteille

- infotilaisuus Kajaanissa 27.11.2009

Nousevien matkailukohteiden edustajat (kulttuuri- ja matkailualan yritykset ja muut organisaatiot esim. yhdistykset) ovat tervetulleita kuulemaan kilpailusta ja keskustelemaan kohteiden osallistumisesta Ravintola Siriukseen pe 27.11.2009 klo 9.00 alkaen. Tilaisuus kestää noin 2 tuntia.

Ohjelma:

klo 9.00       Aamukahvit

klo 9.30        Avauspuheenvuoro

aluekehitysasiantuntija Helena Aaltonen, Kainuun maakunta –kuntayhtymä

klo 9.45                       ”Destination of Excellence for sustainable Aquatic Tourism Offer in Finland” –kilpailu: kilpailun pelisäännöt

projektipäällikkö Tuula Tegelberg, Savonlinnan Innovaatiokeskus Oy

klo 10.45                       Wild Taiga – European Destination of Excellence 2008 -tunnustuksen tuoma lisäarvo alueelle ja konkareiden neuvot noviiseille

myyntipäällikkö Jaana Keränen, Wild Taiga

klo 11.15                      Jatkotoimenpiteet Kainuun osallistumiseksi kilpailuun: Kuka, mitä, milloin?

aluekehitysasiantuntija Helena Aaltonen, Kainuun maakunta –kuntayhtymä

Osallistujia pyydetään ilmoittautumaan infotilaisuuteen Birit Oksmanille 23.11.2009 mennessä, sähköpostitse birit.oksman@kainuunetu.fi tai puhelimitse 044 551 4584.

TERVETULOA!

Lisätiedot :

- Savonlinnan Innovaatiokeskus Oy, projektipäällikkö Tuula Tegelberg,

tuula.tegelberg@innovaatiokeskus.com, gsm 044 057 5623, www.innovaatiokeskus.com

- Kainuun maakunta –kuntayhtymä, aluekehitysasiantuntija Helena Aaltonen, helena.aaltonen@kainuu.fi, gsm 044 710 0854

- Kainuun Etu Oy, KV-matkailukoordinaattori Hanna Linjala, hanna.linjala@kainuunetu.fi, gsm 044 551 4564

I want to start this post by reinforcing that I don´t like to write this posts. It may not be nice for the reader to listen but I feel relieved by telling this. I write them because I have been pressured by Eden to do so for 7 years now, and they won. In the beginning I wrote with anger, but now I am taking this seriously, and anyway, no matter if I like it or not, as a Princess I am still a public employee of Eden, so I must follow their determinations ( the concept of public employee is different than the modalities known in this planet. Eden is a realm, and people belong to the people of the layers above. It may seem strange, but we have the key for the perfection in everything, including in our political system, and it works pretty well there, turning us in the top potency of the Universes).

 I don´t like to write because I am a reserved person, and I don´t like to talk about myself, even less about the Elfic families, Eden and our ways, but let´s go ahead. I am going to speak about the ritual that is perhaps the most important of our rituals, the Alchemical Marriage. I will give only a general idea, is not possible to talk everything about it, even because I am only in the middle of the way and did not see the end yet. What happens during the alchemical marriage is a secret shared only with other married couples, so I will tell what everybody tells, but there is much more that even I don´t know.

To explain this ritual, is necessary to speak briefly about something that have been misunderstood many times in the Universal culture. Some say that the Angels “have no sex”, that they are not feminine or masculine. This concept is wrong. The Angels have both sex, we are androgynous. Physically, our bodies have both organs and the complete system, and technically some of us can even self-reproduce, although the endurance to get a legal license allowing to do such thing would be an ungrateful path. The reproduction is the most regulated issue in Eden, and I am telling this because it has all to do with the alchemical marriage.

If physically we are androgynous, in essence and mind we are not. We have an essence, what in Earth is sometimes called as “soul” ( later I will explain, if I remember, why we don´t use the same term). This essence is or masculine or feminine, is very rare to have someone with androgynous essence among us. Naturally, we adapt the physical characteristics, as we have total control of the genetic, to the characteristics of our essence. Therefore, among the Angels each individual have physically both masculine and feminine organs, but we adopt one gender, the one that match with our essence, and remodel our bodies accordingly. The masculine Angels have both organs, but they are usually unable to reproduce, because despite the physical capabilities, their essence is unable to trigger the necessary systems in the body.

Well, this text is not going as summarized as I like.

Now that I spoke about the gender, I will speak about the families. As I said there are twelve noble families, plus many other families. A family is a sort of guild, usually a family has the control of an activity of our society. The members of a family share a common genetic, that is a copyrighted asset of that family, and the genetic is so sophisticated that allow the Angel to be born with the necessary skills for the activity that the family controls.

The individuals of a family have the same genetic core, but it does not necessarily means that they have parents. In most cases, a family or a public organ responsible for the planning for the next cycle will order a number of each kind of individuals to the Graal Industries. Very few people have parents – in this cases the children are also ordered to the Graal Industries, but they are ordered with particular features and improvements, chosen or even created by the parents. The possibility to have children is a privilege only of those who went through the Alchemical Marriage, and usually it is a requirement for persons who are been prepared to assume a position in one of the Councils or any high position in our society.

Angels are eternal and they live in the paradise. There is no reason to have children. Anyone is allowed to try the Alchemical Marriage, but it is just not a good option, compared with the endless other options of expansion that Eden offers to everyone. The marriage is actually nearly always done by the children of the noble families, that are prepared to engage in this ritual virtually since they are born or even before ( see one of my previous posts to understand why the Angels are eternal but they are also “born”).

Everyone in Eden is single, except by the governors and people with high positions. The Angels want to be single, this is their nature, however is a requirement that only couples can assume the top positions, so two Angels, when they reach a level of development that would be useful for the society, are almost pushed to marry.

To convince two Angels to share a life is something complex. If they are from different families it is almost impossible, it happens once in many generations, and it is my case.

In summary. All Angels have the two genders physically but they assume one gender, the gender of their essence. Many Angels are apt to reproduce but it is not legally allowed. To reproduce one must go through the Alchemical Marriage and become a couple. Only couples assume important positions in the Elfic Society, this is a legal requirement. When a group of young Elves are noticed as having potential to serve the society as leaders in some field, they are invited to marry. They may refuse or accept, most will refuse. Usually only the children of the noble families will accept this way willingly, because they are prepared for this moment since they are born.

To be “prepared for this moment since one is born” is a little more complex than it may seem at first view. It means first that the individual is genetically programmed to that, and it means secondly that the chart of marriages is done by the engineers and planning team of Eden several generations before someone is born. We are just born at the planned time and play our part.

It was decided that should have a cross-breeding between the Ruby and Diamond families at the time that we live now, for adjusting the genetic parameters of the families perhaps, who may know? I don´t know, what I know is that the engineers decided that after a given number of generations this very cross-breeding should happens, and then after my case I thing it will be a long time until this happens again. Of course, than, that we, me and Lucifer, were born madly in love for each other, we had our genetic parameters adjusted to be this way ( I would love him anyway even without the genetic thing). Well, the society need us to be in love, so we can find strength to endure the Alchemical Marriage and later we will be capable to serve the society as leaders, but most Elves are just not adjusted to be in love at all, and they are very happy been themselves.

You may have noticed that are two parallel parameters here, that work together in our society, as well as many others that I did not mention yet. One of this parameters is the individual will. The other parameter is the public planning that includes the genetic manipulation of the individuals to fit the planning. Both work. The plans come first, then when the Elf reach a certain development he may accept it or not. There are also surprises, people who were not programmed to assume a function but that show an unexpected talent. We can deal easily with all these factors, and adapt if necessary. Eden is very dynamic.

I am really tired now. This is my contribution of today, I will continue on this same subject later.

I hope I am been capable to serve and represent you well, Supreme High Council and civilization of Eden. I am doing my best. Love to you all. Miss you.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

busy day – Today was incredibly busy so I grabbed a pic of the ceiling at First Pres after the Thanksgiving service tonight. Check out my awesome flare, over-exposed, grainy and contrasty pic of the day. Woot!

Suomi on nimittänyt Euroopan komission pyynnöstä oman Eden -suurlähettilään.

Suurlähettilääksi nimitettiin toimitusjohtaja Ritva Ohmeroluoma Nordia Management Oy:stä.

Nimitys vahvistaa omalta osaltaan EDEN (European Destinations of Excellence) -kilpailun merkitystä uusien nousevien ja erinomaisten matkakohteiden haussa,
sekä tuo painoarvoa suomalaiskohteille Eurooppa-tason yhteistyössä.

Terveisin EDEN 2010 Finland -tiimi

Torstai-aamuna porhallamme Savonlinnasta kohti Kuopiota Matkailun asiantuntijaseminaariin. Siellä, muiden asiantuntijaesitysten ohella, tapahtuu EDEN -kilpailun virallinen julkistaminen. Tilaisuudessa julkistetaan myös kilpailun kriteerit.

Kuopion jälkeen matkustamme Kajaaniin, jossa Kainuun Maakunta -kuntayhtymä järjestää infotilaisuuden EDEN -kilpailusta 27.11. perjantaina aamupäivällä.

Lisätietoja tilaisuudesta antavat:

Kainuun maakunta –kuntayhtymä, aluekehitysasiantuntija Helena Aaltonen

helena.aaltonen (at) kainuu.fi, gsm 044 710 0854

Kainuun Etu Oy, KV-matkailukoordinaattori Hanna Linjala

hanna.linjala (at) kainuunetu.fi, gsm 044 551 4564

Terveisin EDEN 2010 Finland -tiimi

L’histoire de Lilith est présente dans les écrits religieux depuis plus de 4 000 ans. Le livre de la Genèse propose deux récits contradictoires de la création de la femme : les rabbins ont vu très tôt dans cette apparente absurdité la preuve de l’existence d’une autre première femme, créée avant Eve. C’est pour résoudre cette contradiction que les rabbins vont enrichir le mythe de Lilith qui trouve un développement important dans un recueil écrit entre les 8ème et 10ème siècle après Jésus Christ, L’alphabet de Ben Sira.

Lilith est tirée de la même terre qu’Adam, ils ont été créés en même temps, et elle se considère donc comme l’égale de son compagnon. Pour cette raison, elle refuse de se tenir au-dessous de lui quand ils font l’amour, car elle voit dans cette position un symbole d’asservissement au sein du couple. Une dispute naît rapidement entre Adam et Lilith, et celle-ci invoque le nom de l’Eternel : des ailes lui poussent, et elle fuit loin de l’Eden. Les plaintes d’Adam alertent Dieu, qui envoie alors trois anges la convaincre de revenir. Celle-ci repousse leur offre : Lilith est donc le symbole d’un double refus, celui de la soumission de la femme au sein du couple, puis celui de la résistance face à l’injonction divine. Lilith est alors punie par Dieu à voir mourir tous les enfants qu’elle mettra au monde. Selon la légende, elle devient par la suite par vengeance le serpent qui fit croquer la pomme à Adam et Eve, puis incite Caïn à tuer Abel.

La figure de Lilith est en complète opposition par rapport à la figure d’Eve : sa rousseur, ses yeux sombres et son attitude rebelle contrastent avec la blondeur pastel d’Eve, et son attitude docile et soumise. Il est bon de noter que, quelles que soient les versions, Lilith est toujours considérée comme un démon femelle douée d’un appétit sexuel insatiable, ayant un fort ascendant sur Adam. Son refus de se plier à la supériorité de l’homme et son amour de la sexualité en ont fait une femme stérile. Une bien belle leçon.

Le mythe de Lilith a par la suite été repris en peinture et en littérature, notamment par Anatole France, Primo Levi, et surtout Nabokov, qui fait précéder son livre Lolita d’un poème des années 1920 intitulé Lilith. La figure de Lolita serait en fait une déclinaison du mythe.

Il existe plusieurs sources d’explication pour expliquer la méconnaissance de cette importante figure biblique : la première serait qu’elle n’est pas citée explicitement dans la Bible canonique, et que le mythe n’est développé que dans des écrits apocryphes. De plus, on connaît l’amour de l’Eglise pour les femmes rebelles et non repenties…

EU komissio hakee EDEN fasilitaattoreita työskentelemään EDEN -verkoston hyväksi. Alla komission alkuperäinen hakuilmoitus.

Asiasta kiinnostuneet ottakaa yhteyttä työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön erikoisasiantuntija Lea Häyhään.

Lea Häyhä
Erityisasiantuntija – matkailu
Työ- ja elikeinoministeriö
Ratakatu 3, PL 32
00023  VALTIONEUVOSTO
puh.. 010 606 2143
mob.050-413 5517
email: lea.hayha (at) tem.fi

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Dear Friends,

as some of you might already know, the Tourism Unit is consering the possibility to seek for_ a professional facilitator_ who could be ask to assist the_ EDEN Network_ on a period of at least one year.

The EDEN Network is the network of the 52 winning destinations of the project European Destinations of Excellence. It’s final aim is to create sinergies among those destinations and promote the exchange of good practices at European level in the field of sustainable tourism, with a focus on non traditional destinations. More information on EDEN can be found on the webportal: www.edenineurope.eu

The main task of the facilitator would be to help you to define_ an effective internal structure_ for the network and_ to work on few but relevant issues_ of common interest (for example, branding of small destinations).

The members of the network have already been asked about their expectations with regards to the support this facilitator could provide them. As a result, the majority among them have express their wish to be assisted in the following fields:

- establishing EDEN as a brand
- designing strategies for marketing emerging destinations
- structuring an effective exchange of good practice
- creating potential joint tourism products
- participating in EU call for proposals or other projects / making best use of EU resources
- seeking the support of the National Tourism Offices for promotional activities We will be launching a call for expression of interests beginning of next year. We would like to address 3 – 5 experts. Therefore we would be grateful if you could help us finding potential candidates.

The person we are looking forward should meet at minimum the_ following requirements_:
- good command of English and preferably of at least another EU language
- good skills in writing and communication
- knowledge of the EU policies on tourism
- experience/knowledge in the field of advertising, branding and marketing tourism
- organisational skills
Please be so kind as to send us your proposal* by Monday** 14th
December.* Proposals should be submitted with a CV of the potential candidate for a first selection by the Commission services.

When I joined the Rebellion it was already a big thing. I don´t know when the Rebellion started, but perhaps it always existed, because anywhere that you find any two Elves ( Angels) talking, most probably they will strongly disagree about something.

The Lucifer-Michael issue is just an episode of the Rebellion, a late episode, not the beginning. Lucifer and Michael are part of the same generation as me, but there are Angels much older than us involved, and of course, as always, nobody of Eden will ever tell us everything. Anyway, although we don´t have all the information about our own Rebellion, we are following our hearts and beliefs.

Some say, even at Eden, that Lucifer and Michael are complementary. I personally don´t think so. I love Michael because he is my little Diamond brother – we are actually brother and sister – however politically we are enemies, and it seems that he takes his beliefs a little further than politically, compromising even the familiar ties. We Rebels don´t do that. We relate well with everyone, and we even cooperate with Michael´s team when the situation present us the opportunity to do so.

As I was saying, I don´t think that Lucifer and Michael are complementary. I don´t think that they are the yin and yang. For me each team has a complete philosophy and structure alone, without co-dependence with the other team, without needing the other team to exist. Each of these two philosophies enclose good and evil in itself, and everything that takes to set up a complete and functional system. If I was to use a metaphor, I would say that Lucifer turns the spiral to one side, and Michael turns the spiral to the opposite side, and that each of this two ways of turning the spiral of the Universe will give completely different results to the Universe.

Lucifer uses the feminine power as the pulling engine, while Michael uses the masculine power.

I could discuss endlessly about the rights and wrongs of each case, but is much easier to see the results.

There are the populations that received Michael as leader in the past. The results are war, under-development of personal capacities, pain, corruption and frustration are widespread. In these places new political systems are tried all the time.

There are the populations who were born from us, Fallen Angels. For these the issue God is not important, is just another issue. They are independent, developed, calm, peaceful, happy. They are seen as the best places to live in this planet and in other planets. Usually a copy of the political system of Eden is kept, without major changes.

In this planet is easy to see how our system went smoothly, through the many populations that started with our descendants long ago, millenia ago, where one can find in the homes perhaps a dragon drawing or a little remind about the Elves, placed here and there, sometimes as ornament, sometimes as folklore, as an inconscient symbol that identify the origin, but not at all as worshiping. In the Universe we see Aldebaran for example. A Universal potency, leaded by the feminine essence.

Michael´s populations are larger, stronger, more influent, more expansive, competitive, but sometimes without a unique place for each single being. Our descendants are more focused, creative, self-sufficient, pragmatical,  without people among them left behind. Which of these values are more important? The population of Eden will decide. I personally don´t now. Of course, we prefer our way, and certainly Michael prefers his way. The question is: what is better for the creatures?

For me the womb is the answer, but this concept is so deep that must be felt and not explained.

The man are created by woman, to serve the woman, and to live inside a Universe that is by essence feminine. God is a feminine essence, as well as the assembly of the entire Universe follow this pattern. This is the answer to all problems of the Universe, the key to the happiness, progress, development, self-sufficiency, understanding and elevation in all senses.

Lucifer is devoted to his bride, this is why he is the light of the Universe, because he follows the natural flux of the Universe. This is why Lucifer will always win, no matter how long it takes. This is why Lucifer is unbeatable.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

Every good story has a beginning. And God’s story is no different.

The beginning of God’s story is not just about gardens and fruit. Or about animals and trees.

The heart of the beginning of God’s story begins to reveal the heart of God.

It is all about God and his people being in relationship with one another. It shows God walking with his creation in the cool of the day in the garden of eden. Of them sharing, walking, laughing, talking and enjoying each other.

This is how it all began. This is what was intended from the start.

Aunt Gracie – Owned this metal box that mom inherited. There’s a hat pin, some old keys, and other odds and ends inside that Gracie had. Mom hasn’t removed anything or added to it. Kinda neat.

old key – Playing around with props and shadows. And some great afternoon light.

Amaterasu, the visual novel translation group who finished Cross Channel in 3 months, will be polling for their project #3 on 11/23 6:00 PM for 24 hours. The ten finalists are:

- 11eyes
- Baldr Sky Dive1 “LostMemory”
- Eden* They Were Only Two, On The Planet
- France Shoujo ～Une Fille Blanche～
- I/O
- Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
- MuvLuv Alternative
- My girlfriend is the PRESIDENT
- Rui wa Tomo wo Yobu
- Swan Song

More info can be found on their blog.

As for me, I’d always been hyped up for Eden* even before its release, and the game’s epic OP (which, if anyone remembers, was shown in the club room when I was testing the projector) did nothing but encourage that. Being an all-age game certainly helps me in this regard, since I tend to avoid eroge. Eden* is also supposedly quite short compared to other visual novels; short enough for Amaterasu to finish it within a month and right on time for me to burn through it during Christmas break. As such, I’m totally backing Eden* on this one.

Also, “Vote for Eden* and WIN”, courtesy of NNL.

I looked like the man on the right when the events described in this article transpired.

In compliance with my primary inspiration for maintaining a blog, these past few months I’ve resisted my penchant for spreading my time amongst more games and visual novels than there are patches Summer Days. My entire life is not, however, spent in front of the computer and I last week concluded there should be no problem with me reading Clannad on the PlayStation Portable between classes, while using public transportation, and during other blocks of vacuous time which I cannot feasibly avoid.

This plan was enacted with no ill effects. I was able to enjoy Clannad with negligible observable impact on my reading of Eden*. Alas, this harmony was not to last. Two days ago I broke accord and elected after my classes to continue without relent my pursuit of the supreme goddess. Three hours of bliss was followed by utter torment and all tranquility was dispelled from my life. The PlayStation Portable version of Clannad includes two discs and, much to my chagrin, Kyou and Ryous’ paths require the second disc come the close of the tenth day. Colossal distress was warranted because the disc in question resides not at my current abode but more than 150 kilometers away.

I brought this matter, as I do all troubling matters of great importance, to the attention of the Badass Overlord Zephtron. Thanks to his depthless wisdom he determined my circumstance an epitomization of karmic backlash. But, given my progress, who would any sane person choose to speak with? The creepy wide-eyed lieutenant featured at the top of this article, or Kyou and Ryou, pictured below this paragraph?

The better choice seems pretty bloody obvious to me.

Regardless of any fanciful justifications or lamenting excuses I might pretend to invoke, I accept this sick and twisted punishment for my infidelity. Hopefully I learned some sort of arbitrary lesson from this harrowing experience. If I can soon get past the glaring premier doing who knows what being his desk, I’ll write an article on my minutely informed impressions of Eden* within perhaps a week.

1.  My baby doesn’t sleep in her crib.  Or bassinet.  She sleeps in her bucket swing or on me.

7.  We’re still working on thank-you cards from our wedding.

26. I long to be a good parent.

Photographed for Esquire magazine April 2004 by [searching for credit]

“I think mystery is kind of great. I don’t know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner — not really — and I like that. I love watching their movies because they’re my personal movie stars. I don’t know what they eat and who their trainer is.”

No clue where this came from; sometimes I just right-click and save things and make no effort to credit them. Super-sorry!

“Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, … I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.”

Still from The Shape of Things

“There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.”

I have heard rumors she is one of the actresses who has been approached to play Catwoman in the next Batman movie, but I’ve also heard Chris Nolan quoted saying that Catwoman isn’t going to be in it. It doesn’t matter, because that would be lame anyways. She should not be Catwoman, regardless of whether Selina Kyle pops up in the next movie (a direction which would actually disappoint me).

What Rachel Weisz should do in the new Batman movies is play Talia, the daughter of Rā’s al Ghūl and love of Bruce Wayne’s life. Helloooo, she would be perfect! Talia seriously needs to once and for all get in the mainstream big screen storylines, especially considering how great the new movies Chris Nolan’s been making are: in the comics she even has Batman’s kid, for god’s sake (Damian Wayne, who is the current Robin). It’s already been set up, when, in the novelized Batman Begins, Rā’s al Ghūl refers to having a wife and daughter while he is talking to Bruce.

So, come on. Let’s finally get her in a movie, and let’s have Rachel Weisz play her. The woman is a stranger to neither action pictures (The Mummy franchise) nor comic book movies (the wildly underrated Constantine). That’s my awesome suggestion: obey!

These are some of the powers of Eden. There are structures under each of them, but I will mention only the head of each.

As I said, collectively the three places that compose the “Angelsland” is called Eden, however internally the name Eden refers to one third of our land. The other two places are Graal and Satania, the three complexes together compose our home land, but they exist in different physical locations and work independently, united under the Supreme High Council.

Eden

The Supreme High Council and the Treasure are located at Eden, that hosts still the Departments of Philosophy, of Mathematics and other important organs within our civilization.

The Supreme High Council is composed of three people. One of them assume the post the Supreme High Counselor, and along time he can or not take turns with the other two. The way the three of them will work is particular of them.

The word of the Supreme High Council is the last word, the three together are the equivalent to what would be an emperor at Gaia. Everything, all the Universe, including the lives of all of us, belong to them.

The Supreme High Council is directly under God, and they are the only ones to have contact with Her about collective issues. Other Angels may have contact with Our Mother (God), but about issues related to the Angel himself. The Supreme High Council receive the orders of God for the Universe, if there are orders, but as far as we now, and I am sure how much about the following commentary is accurate, SHE just don´t get involved, what means that the Supreme High Council is free to do whatever they wish.

There is also the Treasury. The treasury is the realm of Melquisedec. Melquisedec does not seem to be placed above or below anyone. When you get closer to the structure, if I would do a metaphor with the environment of Earth, Melquisedec would be just like wind, something eternal, that is everywhere, bring resources for everyone like the wind brings the vital air, but he is not particularly involved with the individual purposes, or rights and wrongs, or in deciding what should be, or in interfering, but he is everywhere through his very organized structure of offices and subordinates. Wherever there is an Elfic (Angelic) business, mission, office, embassy or anything, there is someone from Melquisedec to take care of the money issue related. He knows precisely how much of everything there are in the Universe, and where it is, from galaxies to creatures of all kinds to every single molecule of any gas, and what goods of this whole belongs to each Angel or Angelic family. He takes care also of the business of all the families, he delivers the salaries and resources for every project approved by the other powers and, of course, he collects all the taxes.

The Supreme High Council is renewed at each cycle of the Universe, but Melquisedec is never replaced, he is eternally in his position. Melquisedec and Karl of Graal are the most stable elements of Eden.

Personally, Melquisedec is the highest model of sweetness, in personality, and beautiful, disturbingly beautiful. In appearance, take the best ever man model of the genetic of the people of Morocco ( the population most similar to him physically in this planet) and, despite of the beauty, still you would have a distant resemblance of Melquisedec´s beauty. He is breathtaking. If you put Melquisedec, Lucifer Ab Havona and Satan Asmodeus close to each other you may be pretty sure that you are in paradise! ( I know, misplaced comment, but what can I do? I love them).

Of those who assist Melquisedec, I know just Malaquias.

At Eden is also the Department of Philosophy, headed by Gideao. I don´t know if his position is renewable or if he remains there eternally like Melquisedec and Karl, I only spoke with Gideao once, very shortly. He is tall, thin, agitated, with white hair all messed up like flares in a fireplace. It makes me think that his brain is always burning. All the time walking, moving, fast thinker, fast speaker, cheerful. All the philosophies for all populations of the Universe are created there, also most sacred books are written there, and then tested in one of the planets of the gardens ( Universes). His function is much, much more important than it could seem at a first view. Few people are aware of how deep the philosophy controls the lives and hearts. One could easily say that wars and peace times of every time, of everywhere, started as a seed in the Department of Philosophy of Eden.

Satania.

Satania for me is a Mistery. M-I-S-T-E-R-Y.

I don´t know which person is the head there, I don´t know how is inside and how they work.

The Satans are born at Graal and sent directly to Satania, and there they live. It is a completely separated and exclusive world.

They study law, they legislate, they defend the law, and also apply the corrections.

They are judges, attorneys, lawyers, legislators, prosecutors, law agents, law counselors, correctional officers, prison guards, emissaries of law of all sorts. In summary, they are Satans.

Differently of what happens in Earth, the prisons and prisoners are considered an issue of the legislative power, Satania, and not of the army or police force. They do the complete job when it is about law, from start to end.

Wherever there is an issue of law, there is a Satan. The same way that happens with the personnel of Melquisedec, wherever there is an Elfic ( Angelic) business, mission, travel, embassy, commerce or whatever, there is at least one Satan in the group to assure everything is done right (they take a little of the fun of the trip…but we get used).

Satania is huge, and we, the other Angels, are used to listen gossips that the most delightful pleasures as well as the worse nightmares happen in Satania.

The Satans, as I said before, are a breathtaking beautiful kind of Angel, they are all masculine essences, as far as I know, and have a stunning forever young androgynous delicate appearance, slightly more masculine than feminine. They are assured, refined, elegant, sophisticated, tidy and use their eyes to show casual superiority and a cold neutrality. They wear silk, delicate jewels and heavenly outfits. They look like a teenager dream, but anyone who is deceived by this look and don´t keep himself awake and aware against their tongue of fire will certainly be in trouble. Remember that I mentioned that the Satans are the only ones allowed by law to lie (or distort the facts) in any circumstance, and even encouraged to do so.

Graal

The “Graal Industries” is a place not smaller than Satania or the administrative location of Eden.

At Graal all the matter is conceived, projected, calculated, tested and produced.

There are the labs, the test environment and the factories. From insects to planets, everything that has matter in the Universes is produced at Graal. Also they produce the spaceships and physical structure for all Eden.

The bodies made at Graal mostly have self-reproductive features, so they multiply at the environment where they are released, but the matrix itself is produced at Graal, you could tell that the Graal produces the “Adam and Eve” for all animals, insects, humanoids, planets and so on.

Graal also produces all the genetic codes, and can send upgrades for the planets instead of a frozen set of bodies, depending of the conditions and distances. This is what happens when is said that one species evolved to a developed species, it is when an Elfic cargo ship went to that planet and dropped the package with the upgraded genetic, so the responsible for the planet proceeds the inoculation of the individuals or species chosen to evolve.

For any species there can have a primordial set of bodies ( not necessarily couples) and there can be evolution, but the evolution is never a natural event, it is a programmed genetic upgrade. The choice between one or another will depend on many factors, mainly economical or technical.

The head of the Graal is Karl of Graal. As I mentioned before, Karl is a permanent asset of the Elfic (Angelic) people. Generations of Angels come to power, generations of Angels leave the power, in cycles, but Karl is always there producing the matrix for the matter. As for appearance, Karl uses a trick. He reflects the appearance of the person that is talking to him, like a mirror. I feel this feature very uncomfortable, and because I asked, once he told me the truth about himself. He is an hybrid of a Ruby Angel and a Satan. Imagine that! It is quite a powerful, wonderful ( and dangerous…or explosive!) combination.

As Melquisedec, he is not above or below anyone. He is the Karl of Graal, dot. They are not inhabitants of the structure like the rest of us, they are a permanent part of the structure of Eden. He has the controls of everything that has matter in his room, for all the Universes! He controls space and time at his will. If Melquisedec is the wind that one breath, Karl is the provider of the lung that allows to breath, and Gideao gives the motive to breath. They are not involved with politics or administration at all, and they don´t take sides, but each have the last word in their expertise fields, because all the Angels and the Universes live in the environments that they produce and provide.

Some sorts of power are controlled by the noble families and not by public organs or corporations. Like for example, the Diamond Family controls the politics, the Ruby Family controls the Army, the Blue Family controls the commerce, and so on.

I finish this short description of the main powers of Eden here, there may have more powers but I don´t remember. How can I not remember? Well, I am just a drop of Veronica, this body that I use does not bring all the information. I am a “kage bunshin” of the Princess ( reference to the japanese manga Naruto).

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

There is a variety of Angels, in many families. Here I speak about two of the noble families. There are twelve noble families.

The Angels pictured in churches are from the political party of Michael. This appearance that they adopt relate them to their political position and not to their families or the traditional form of the families.

The Rebellion can be considered a political party, and the appearance of our members is less restrictive.

The appearance of an Angel can be defined by many factors, technically speaking, anything can be done about our form.

The traditional form of the diamonds is similar to the images known as Elves. Elves and Angels are terms for the same beings – us. At Eden it can be a humanoid form of an Elf but built entirely of diamond. The number of facets shows the level of experience of the individual. We diamonds are called “Angels of light” and has not much to do with some metaphorical explanation as how “elevated” an Angel is. Is has to do with the glare of our diamond constitution. We do not necessarily use the humanoid form. We can be simply a stone, or use the form of an entire galaxy.

As for our functions, the diamonds are philosophers, thinkers and politicians. I am a Diamond Angel.

Near humanoid planets, as the density of matter is higher, we can keep the Elfic form, but the colors of the body are more like biological than diamond. The genetic code of this family, when adapted to the humans of Gaia gives a very specific appearance to the hybrid descendants, the demi-elves. The dominant color for this case is blond people, with light eyes, and physical constitution pretty close to the Elves of the modern movies, white quiet and lonely behavior, although questioning and challenging what they don´t agree.

The Ruby angels, when not tied to political restrictions or protocols can look like, traditionally, the daemons pictured at large. Red skin, with ruby bright, like a walking ruby, with magnificent and useful horns and pointed tail, that have so many extra functions to make the members of this family extremely strong and prepared for situations that need fast reactions, fast communications and anything to do with battles, because the Ruby family is the army of Eden. Lucifer and most of our group are from the Ruby family.

Near humanoid planets the Ruby glare of the skin is replaced for a velvet dense hue of red, the form can be more humanoid like, or more dragon like, or more daemon like, according to the wish of the Angels. The demi-elves descendants from this family have very white skin, hair and eyes near to black, and with very communitary, cheerful and warrior temperament, I mean, joyful but hot-tempered.

The Satans are a kind of Angels. They live in a separate place called Satania, wich is one of the three place that compose “Eden” , that are the administrative territory called Eden, the Graal Industries, the very name tells what it is, and Satania, the legislative complex.

The Satans are a different race within the Angelic population, although I am not sure if they can be called as a family, of if there are many families among them. I don´t remember or I don´t know. Satania is a mistery for me. What I do now for sure is that the Satans have far more melted heart than any of the other kinds of Angels. Always seeking for justice, and mainly, trying to find the answer to what justice is. A Satan can be the best friend or the worst enemy, but no matter what line of action or thinking he chooses for himself, he will always follow his principles and try to force everyone else into this principles, by any ways he can think of. The Satans are the only ones allowed to lie, because part of their work is to test the strength and determination of the other Angels. All the careers connected with law are taught and developed in Satania, and is standard to have at least one Satan accompanying any mission or group outside Eden.

The appearance of a Satan – I think I am not capable to describe. They are magnificence of the beauty. Any way that I try to describe them would be a little indecent, and not appropriate for this text. Just think about the most hot humanoid beyond the realm of imagination. And all of them are like that! Their appearance is an important tool for their work, that is why it is like this.

I don´t know exactly how is their appearance near dense planets or how are their hybrid descendants, but I know that they are very often traveling to these places.

In our group we have Satan Asmodeus. He is the best! He is my Prector. A Satan Prector is a kind of tutor for law issues for the people that assumed or will assume public positions in Eden. Needless to say that their ways of doing this “tutoring” is almost like hell. I hated Asmodeus a lot in other times, but now I love him. I doubt that the group of our competitors have a best Prector than Asmodeus.

The “Throne of Eden”, the pivot of the dissension between Lucifer and Michael, former best friends, is a place for three people. In our group, the candidates are Lucifer, Asmodeus and me. In the group of Michael I don´t know, but I bet there is no female essence in his trio. There are more groups competing in far away places, but I don´t know much about them. Who will reach there? Nobody knows. Depends a lot of our actions here in Gaia, because these two groups of Angels are here to show to the rest of Eden a sample of what we would do if we win, and a lot depends of popular support ( in Eden), obviously.

That is all for today.

For those few who read by former blogs, I did not forget about the Book of Answers. It will be painful but I will do it.

Speaking about pain, I feel better exposing my difficulties of posting this texts. By the nature of my Elfic constitution, to fit my family and function, I am naturally a very reserved person. Or better, I am so reserved that it reaches the level of a sort of mania. To post my texts and books is an affliction to me, because I feel like naked and very concerned that someone will read it, and when this feeling reach the unbearable I just delete the post. There is no other reason other than that for me to be always deleting posts. It is that simple.

I wish I did not have to write or get outside my shell in any way, but then…my dearest friends said that this posts are important for them… and this only phrase is enough for making me overcome anything. Then, I will do my best to resist my impulse to delete the new posts, even so I feel naked and exposed all the time that I am aware that the text is online.