So, I promised to share some of my experiences and the more time I spent remembering them, the feelings started to bubble up again.

It’s essential to stay present and not relive traumatic events.

I have survived quite a few memorable, dangerous, traumatic situations, yet the one most prominent in my mind is the day, my friend (let’s call her) Eddy, didn’t show up for a weekly event we attended at the time.

It just struck me as odd that she didn’t show up, without calling or picking up the phone.

At the end of a long tiring day, I just couldn’t get myself to drive straight home. Instead I went on the freeway and drove straight to her house. I had grown more anxious throughout the day, and when I approached her house, I saw the TV running in a dark living room – my heart sank. I parked the car and peeked into the window – just to find my friend passed out in a chair.

I didn’t know if she was alive or dead. I knocked at the window and thought I detected some movement.

While searching my purse for my mobile phone to call 9-1-1, I kept knocking on the door and window.

She finally moved and woke up. Staggered to the door, she , and obviously high on some heavy opiates.

At closer examination I noticed the cloth line around her waist with loops for her hands.

I went into the garden just to discover a noose hanging from a tree with a ladder near by.

She apparently planned to kill herself because of a bad break up, drank all day and took pills, which (thankfully) kept knocking her out.

I saved her life – there’s no other way to put it, and our bond since this is that of sisters.

This is a prime example of what Empaths do, or how we experience our surroundings.

We’re sensitive to other’s pain, changes in energy, aura, environment.

It’s imperative to know your limitations as this is not a fun game or fun hobby to have.

This is a lifetime of emotional ebbs & tides. There’s hardly a way out, so we might as well make the best of it.

I have chosen to channel my energy into animal welfare, which seems to come natural to me.

I used to rescue animals [from the pet store] as young as 5-6 and volunteered in shelters in Europe and the States since I was a kid.

I’m now in my early 40’s and have come to find that I could care less about recognition. However, posers and snake oil sales people irk me.

Nobody chooses this, it’s a trait we’re born with. Actually we’re all born with it- but only a few are aware and sensitive. How, or when this develops, I don’t know.

I can remember incidents as young as when I was a toddler.  Also dreams! The most vivid dreams, of three-dimensional shapes in different giant sizes.

I’m still a vivid dreamer and also traveler. One of the main reasons why I wanted to start this blog, is to connect with others in the same boat.

I’m not interested in being sold the latest “secret” or join some cult.

Interesting, regular people, with egos in check.

Astral Travelers Unite

PLEASE tell me you’re out there.

Namaste

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[PureInsight.org] I am in a quiet park on an island. There are many trees here that are tall and green. With the tide coming and going, I can hear the sounds of the sea in harmony with the wind. I sit down, calm my mind and begin to understand the deep meaning of life.

Looking at people passing by, I feel a calmness that takes me far from this earthly realm. At this moment, I feel no connection to my human body. My mind is empty and peaceful. I understand that the reason why gods created man—such a perfect creation—is to give beings a chance to cultivate with a human body so that we can return to our origin.

The human body is precious. For a determined cultivator, the human body is a way that leads to Heaven. Created by gods, a human body helps one to repay karmic debts through reincarnation, as well as demonstrating the saving power of the Buddha Fa. This is why it is precious.

We should cherish the human body. With the physical body, through the painful process of paying karmic debts, one learns the consequences of doing bad deeds—harming both others and oneself. The human body helps me to better understand karmic relationships as well as feel the boundless compassion and power of enlightened beings. It also reminds me that sentient beings needs to be looked after since they are lost in a maze.

Once we understand the real purpose of the human body, we will remain clear-minded in this material world and not be disturbed by bad elements. With no bad thoughts, we will not be attached to superficial things but instead cherish the gift of life bestowed by gods. Then the efforts by gods to create mankind will not be in vain. Gods are waiting to see if these human bodies can be well-utilized by Dafa disciples during the Fa-rectification period.

In my serene calmness, I am also looking at the beings who did not have a chance to obtain a human body. In the past hundreds or thousands of years, they have been here quietly preparing a good environment for sentient beings to know the truth of Dafa. In preparation for today, these beings have been waiting with determination for such a long time, regardless of hot, cold, windy or other harsh weather conditions. Looking at them, I said, “Come over, everyone. I will give each of you a purple lotus flower.” Upon hearing this, they were all excited, saying, “I want one! I want one!” Then, I solemnly sent out the words “Falun Dafa is good” into the surrounding dimensions.

While writing this article, many gods gave me hints that it is very important to let people know the preciousness of the human body and its real purpose.

Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2009/9/28/61790.html

Outline:

III. Immorality in the Church (5:1-6:20)

Section 1: Immorality Defiles the Church (vv. 1-8)

For this first section, I am going to quote Matthew Henry’s Commentary and then clarify something:

The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that crimes should sometimes be committed by professors of the gospel, of which even heathens would be ashamed. Spiritual pride and false doctrines tend to bring in, and to spread such scandals. How dreadful the effects of sin! The devil reigns where Christ does not. And a man is in his kingdom, and under his power, when not in Christ. The bad example of a man of influence is very mischievous; it spreads far and wide. Corrupt principles and examples, if not corrected, would hurt the whole church. Believers must have new hearts, and lead new lives. Their common conversation and religious deeds must be holy. So far is the sacrifice of Christ our Passover for us, from rendering personal and public holiness unnecessary, that it furnishes powerful reasons and motives for it. Without holiness we can neither live by faith in him, nor join in his ordinances with comfort and profit.

Now to clarify verse 5.  It reads:

deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

I was not quite sure what this means, as it seems strange to tell someone to deliver a person to Satan in order that they might be saved.  I think, though, what the John MacArthur Study Bible says about this makes sense:

“Deliver” is a strong term, used of judicial sentencing.  This is equal to excommunicating the professed believer.  It amounts to putting that person out of the blessing of Christian worship and fellowship by thrusting him into Satan’s realm, the world system… The unrepentant person may suffer greatly under God’s judgment, but will not be an evil influence in the church; and he will more likely be saved under that judgment than if tolerated and accepted in the church.

Section 2: Immorality Must Be Judged (vv. 9-13)

⁹ I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰ Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. (vv. 9-11)

Paul had sent an earlier letter to the Corinthians instructing them not to associate with the immoral.  The Corinthians misunderstood Paul, thinking that he meant that they should stop associating with the immoral in the world, and therefore, stopped having contact with the unsaved.  Paul meant, however, that they should not associate with those who claim to be Christians, but continuously sin.

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³ But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.” (vv. 12, 13)

John MacArthur explains this verse this way:

Paul never intended himself or the church to be judges of unbelievers outside the church, but to judge those inside (cf. 1 Pet. 4:17).  Those on the outside are for God to judge and believers to evangelize.  Those who sin on the inside, the church is to put out.  Verse 13 is quoted from Deut. 17:7. (John MacArthur Study Bible)

It is not our job to judge those outside of the church.  God will judge them.  It is those inside of the church that we must examine.

How social are you in World of Warcraft?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418707306&sid=1&pageNo=1

I avoid grouping Cross-server as much as possible, since I don’t care about people that I won’t meet again.

I avoid BGs for same reason

I avoid arenas for that and the fact I can’t stand being in small enclosed scenery that never changes.

I used to know people on my server a LOT.

Now I barely recognize them anymore, outside of the guild.

I’m sad that there’s no rivalries and awesome server communities anymore.

Too many teleports.

Flying mounts giving immunity killed open world stuff.

You hardly ever see anyone outside of Dalaran anymore.

Makes me sad, really. You had something great going, server heroes and villains and people you cared about – good and bad.

Now it’s just random faces that pass by and then are gone.

I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but…

“Social” isn’t about chatting, mate.

Social in an MMO is running around doing stuff and interacting with other people – sure, chat’s a part of it, part of communicating in general, but that’s a rather small part of it to me – on a PVP server it should be anyway.

You should have grand heroes and arch-nemesis and huge adventures and really cool scenery and every day should have a moment like – YOU REMEMBER THAT FIRST TIME YOU RAN INTO FERALAS? – Yeah, that moment. When you’re just in awe of the stuff that you just saw and felt and witnessed.

OMG THERE’S THAT BAS****RD GET HIM GUYS!

What?! They killed AND camped Kenny? Saddle up, boys – we’re going to Stranglethorn Vale!

We want player heroes. We want player villains. People want someone to look up to. If you build tight-knit communities then people will continue to play your game long after the graphics and the gameplay has been by-passed.

Sure, you want new people too, but really it’s the social aspect that keeps people at it. And that’s decidedly NOT contained in a chatbox. It’s in the world around you, the WORLD of warcraft.

The way things are sitting with BGs, arenas, LFD and LFRaid – might as well play XBOX 360 – plug in, choose game, loading screen – do your thing – log out – done.

That’s not being social or experiencing adventure. That’s just instant gratification that’s tossed aside as soon as something newer and shinier comes along.

Of course, that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Been there.  Got the Tshirt. 

I was listening to Trade chat last night,  and a debate ensured about the right of the transfer trash to make comments about the realm.  Lots of GTFO the server you “transfer trash” occurred  – and of course then came the “  I’ve been on the server since….  “  

 I became a Alliance on Dath because my priest was just so much easier to level  – people wanted me! ( untill I wanted to play Shadow)  – and Dath was my home for a long time – I had talked about leaving – but it was all I really knew so I stayed.   Enough people I knew left the server and I followed them to a ‘better progressed’ server  – the land of GDKP milk and Honey, and where I am so much more of a little fish in a sea of raid geared up & skilled up people. 

I am transfer trash. 

When arriving on a new server – full pimped out in purps I would not recommend 

1)  Posting in trade ” Elem Shammy – New transfer  LF High end raiding guild. Pst. 

This will result in a trade wide attack of the difference between the founding members  of the server,  and the bad’s or people who transfer for the glory of being on an awesome(r) server. 

2)  Posting in realm forums  LF for Raiding Guild – may result in a replys such as this “stay on your crappy server. we are full and don’t want your badnes.. you getting the hint yet?” 

I did neither -  But yes the server is full.  I had a queue of 300 + on the weekend at one point. I’m pretty sure horde side is locked to transfers at the moment. I like it.  I think the pool of gearing / of raiders / of hardcores are certainly higher than what I am used to – and I do not have it me to be a 6 day a week raider. 

The realm suits and sates my needs and desires for what I want out of Wow at the moment.  

Still miss organised raiding though. 

So yes I am transfer trash – but really  most of the realm is – doesn’t make the people less skilled / geared .  Bads are less likely to leave servers if born there,  so I would like to think that it was the transfer trash that made it a more desired realm. 

I so should make my bank alt guild that name…

Strange as it may seem, light emerges between any openings no matter how small the gap, even if not seen at all. Light will find you in the oddest places, even on certain faces.

Light is a fertile effervescent matter appearing between the spirit of humanity and the consciousness of the physical realm? 

The morning light is the excitement of the spirit and the perception of the imagination.

Illumination is the beauty of our character and the changing impressions left in our hearts

By Moonjean ©2007

opportunity cost

Definition

The cost of passing up the next best choice when making a decision. For example, if an asset such as capital is used for one purpose, the opportunity cost is the value of the next best purpose the asset could have been used for. Opportunity cost analysis is an important part of a company’s decision-making processes, but is not treated as an actual cost in any financial statement.

I have been very busy making money on nearly all of my other investments and have been as yet unable to analyze the last results. The grades are excellent and the way the high grade deposits are clustered around Golouma there may be a lot more there .. The new trenching looks excellent and im sure there is a lot more to be discovered under the laterite cover surrounding the trenches.

that being said i have sold some of my position to re-deploy to stocks that are making me money. I will continue to hold Oromin for the buyout whenever that may occur. If things look like they are coming together i will again be a buyer with the profits im making on GRL TML MLA NES.h TCC TUO DEC REZ and RLM

floating
on the wave
slipping below
the line.

we applaud
that which has just passed
to extend the moment
that was.

the unborn ghosts
of time ensphere us
making us late
when we show up early.

the thing
about bubbles
is that they almost never
always last.

For the past few days, I have been wide awake.

For the past few days, I have had less than 3 hours of sleep.

I have been listening to Stereogum Presents OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer.  I cannot stress how much I love it.  I mean, OK Computer, itself, is a favorite album of mine.  However, having these talented musicians cover their songs and add their own styles to it makes it even more amazing.  Nonetheless, I have something great to listen to while my eyes remain open throughout the wee hours of the morning.

I’ve explained this to three people already, and each time I begin explaining, I no longer make any sense.  Regardless, lately, I’ve been feeling out of my life.  I feel like I am no longer living the life I have been living just days ago.  It’s like I have entered this separate realm in which it is much like actual reality, but it isn’t.  Kim says I am going through an existential break down of my life.  I can’t get over how awesome that sounds.

I am immune to everything now.  Drinking nyquil will no longer put me to sleep.  Taking pills will no longer make me drowsy.  I am a lost cause.  I think that is sort of awesome too.

My misfortune is awesome.  It makes me laugh.  But, I’m not laughing.  It brings forth the idea of laughing.  Yeah.

I was listening to Ryan Adams earlier and this story played in my head.  You see, often, I create stories in my head.  Actual stories, not thoughts.  For the most part, they are a little abnormal and may give a person the right to think that I am slightly crazy, but I think they are pretty awesome.  I’m going to stop saying awesome eventually.  Tonight is just one of those awesome nights to mention awesome as much as possible.

This story, though, was great.  When I say “great,” I don’t mean that you would really appreciate it or even want to read it.  It was just…it was just…awesome.

If I could draw, I would draw the characters in my mind.  I always remember my stories, but I tend to forget what the people look like.  I can’t draw in detail, though.  That’s not so awesome.

Marissa Nadler feat. Black Hole Infinity cover of No Surprises is currently my favorite song as I type right now.  It is definitely beyond awesome.

Emosewa.

The highly-anticipated TVB anniversary series of year 2009, Beyond the Realm of Conscience (宮心計) finally ended last Sunday. I do not buy Astro on Demand package here in Malaysia, so I have to wait intensely for today to watch the last two episodes of the series.

My comment on it;

Thrilling

Exciting

Interesting

Fantastic

BEST!!!

Nothing more I can say, overall the plot is very nice, touching and unforgettable scenes, excellent actors and actresses, good directors, capable staff, fantastic theme songs, etc…no doubt that this series will win the TVB 42nd anniversary awards (Best Series Award), overwhelming Rosy Business. Honestly, Rosy Business is nice, but not as exciting as Beyond the Realm of Conscience.

One more thing, best actress should go to Tavia Yeung. Her performance especially in the last few episodes of the series are awesome, thrilling…her facial and eyes expression are super cool, and make you to love her evilness. This is the first time she acted as the villain (main villain somemore) and she portrayed the character well. Sheren Tang from Rosy Business might win the Most Favourite Female Character one. Great improvement and performance by Tavia.

Some screenshots showing the evilness of Tavia in the series:

Cool, isn’t it…what a fantastic series…this series recorded the highest ever TVB ratings, the final episodes achieved 46 rating points, peaking at 50, similar to Moonlight Resonance (TVB series) and Jewel In The Palace (non-TVB series). These three series share the same title of series with highest ranking points. Honestly, this time the series is aired in Malaysia and Brunei on the same time too (under Astro on Demand package), hence to be exact, this series has won it, if includes Malaysian and Brunei viewers.

Will TVB make this kind of exciting series again? Hope so…now waiting for 4th of December to watch the TVB 42nd anniversary awards, it would be a birthday present for me if Tavia win best actress, and this series win best series…since that day is exactly my birthday date too…so coincidence…

It’s Friday the 13th, but there isn’t really anything special about this blog other than the fact that it should help new players. If it doesn’t then I am very sorry.

The best way to choose your realm is to base it on three factors. These three factors affect your game play greatly. The three factors are location, play style, and population.

• Location – East coast, West coast, China. If you live on the East coast stick with the East coast realms. The closer you are to the origin of your server the less lag you will encounter. Lag = Bad. Lag kills people.
• Play style – Normal, PvP, RP, and RPPvP. For beginners I recommend a Normal realm. Normal realms have many friendly and welcoming leveling guilds.
• If you join a full server, most likely you will have a lot of lag and a lot of competition. Medium realms are pretty good for leveling since you don’t have much competition, but you can usually get a group together for dungeons. If your computer doesn’t have heart attacks on full and high realms, then go ahead and join one.

Population also includes realm forums. If the forum is active with a lot of guild ads, discussions, and doesn’t seem to have a lot of realm issues it’s a pretty good realm to choose since it has an active community. If the forums are dead, it’s a stagnant community, I wouldn’t start in that realm.

If you don’t mind waiting for quest givers to respawn, and don’t mind being corpse camped, and killed a lot a PvP realm is for you.

Remember, just because you are on a Normal realm that doesn’t mean there won’t be any world PvP. If you see a flagged Night Elf in Arathi Highlands, by all means kill it. If you’re waiting for your party to get to the Scarlet Monastery and you see a not so hidden flagged rogue undead, just kill it. They both had it coming anyway. Also remember that choosing your realm is completely up to you. It depends on your play style. If you like being alone, then go on a low population realm. If you love knowing that there are tons of people just like you around you, join a high population realm. Realms always will affect your experience of the World of Warcraft.

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When it comes to software, I like to try all available features (even the most obscure ones) and sometimes I end up in a situation where my chances of recovery seem pretty slim. I recently managed just that by setting my OpenSSO top realm (/) to inactive…
Why would I do such thing I hear you say? Well I was trying to solve some issues related to our OpenID 2.0 extension and was experimenting with various realms, so there you have it…

The result of this great inspiration of mine is that I could not log anymore to the admin console; a tad annoying…
The solution (thanks to Shivaram!) is to edit the LDAP configuration tree and change the value of ou=services,dc=opensso,dc=java,dc=net and set it back to active. That’s it, you’re in!

Now me thinks we should change the console so as to prevent this from being possible…