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On the Spartan blog, Derek Sinclair (aka Spartan Derek) has outlined the roadmap for the third edition of Firestorm Armada, due out in August. In the article he also talks about design decisions that are being made for 3.0, including changes to some core mechanisms of the game.
One of the most significant changes away from the game itself is that Spartan now has community and design teams for Firestorm. It might not look like a big change, but it's one that should have a far-reaching and positive effect on the game.
Derek also opened a thread on the Spartan Forums to invite a conversation with the community, and several of his posts there have gone into more detail about 3.0 in response to some great posts from community members.


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Questions and Answers with Street Artist Oh Captain My Captain (OCMC)
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When you walk through the mean streets of New York, perhaps you've seen some glamorous street art on your travels. Faces from an era gone by line the streets, but who do those faces belong to? What do the letters next to the faces mean? OCMC is short for Oh Captain My Captain. As you read on, find out more about OCMC. Oh yeah!
According2G: Tell us about your background. How long have you been doing street art? How did you get started?
Oh Captain My Captain: I've been doing street art for a few years now. Basically, most of my free time was spent skateboarding bowls/pools. I had a bad accident falling in a bowl which left me with a brain injury and some lost memory. Doctors told me I couldn't skate for 6 months, as no one knew if I were to fall how it would affect my memory at that point. I always liked pop art so while I was recouping I started getting more into it. I couldn't afford to buy it but thought I would just make my own. I loved Warhol and I wound up learning to silkscreen from one of Andy's silkscreen printers. Then I was off and running…
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OK, I've been quiet about this for a bit. But I had other things to do, like attending the Balisage Conference. In the meantime I've had a rethink. I have realised how poorly written Jetspeed is. To create your own Jetspeed website you have to modify an existing website. Yuck. It should just be a product that you ADD things to, like webapps or portlets. Drop them in and away you go. Instead there is all this tinkering with the internals of a complex progam.
So I am returning to Pluto. It's very simple a cleaner. OK, there's no so many features but I can add those. Also, I have decied to use JSPs to define the portlets. I can rewrite the servlet code I have for Alpha and fit it very nicely into Pluto. And the best thing is Pluto is tiny - just 20MB. That sure beats over 200MB for Jetspeed, and that was small.


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Awards season hasn't quite begun, but Aamir and Anushka have already bagged a new title. At year-end, PETA India announced the results of its annual competition — naming both 'PK' stars the country's 'Hottest Vegetarians'!
"Both made choosing plant-based foods more popular than ever in 2015," say the good folks at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), adding that other celebrities in the running for the title included the inimitable Amitabh Bachchan, 'Tanu Weds Manu' co-stars Kangana Ranaut and R Madhavan, actress Alia Bhatt and actors Shahid Kapoor and Dhanush.
It seems Aamir turned vegan after watching a video wife Kiran Rao showed him on the subject, while Anushka has supported being vegetarian for several years. "It is very important what you eat, as that is what you are," says the actress.
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A typical household would be blocked from getting a mortgage of more than $405,000 under income-related lending restrictions being considered by the Reserve Bank.
As house prices begin to rise again, the Government is refusing to rule out debt-to-income limits as a potential response to cool the housing market and prevent "a bubble emerging".
If adopted, the policy would stop people from borrowing too much relative to their income. It is already used in the United Kingdom, where most buyers cannot get a mortgage higher than 4.5 times their annual earnings. But opponents say any such policy would hit first-home buyers hardest, making it even harder for them to attain home ownership.
Debt-to-income limits were raised by the Reserve Bank yesterday after it warned the Government that resurgent house prices were a risk to the economy. Governor Graeme Wheeler said the average house price in Auckland was nine times larger than the average income, making it one of the least affordable metropolitan markets in the developed world.
The bank has raised the idea before, but said yesterday that it was now "seriously considering" the measure.
Prime Minister John Key would not rule out an income cap. "We don't want to see a bubble emerging in the housing market," he said yesterday.
"And potentially if there are recommendations, the Government is not ruling out adopting those recommendations or allowing the Reserve Bank to do it."
It is the latest in a series of policies to be considered by the Government to address soaring property prices, which was highlighted in the Herald's Home Truths series.
Another potential policy, a land tax on offshore buyers, was all but ruled out this week after new data showed non-residents were having a relatively small impact on the housing market.
Independent economist Shamubeel Eaqub said income limits would be an effective move, though further measures to ramp up supply and fix expensive planning rules were also needed. The limits could help relieve debt pressure and put the brakes on house price inflation, he said.
"If you can't borrow much relative to incomes, then the asset price can't increase very much relative to incomes."
Others said an income cap could keep first-home buyers out of the market.
Property Institute chief executive Ashley Church said it would limit a typical family to a mortgage of no more than $400,000 - based on the median household income of $90,000.
"The policy could very well kill off the one thing that can fix the Auckland housing crisis - the construction of new homes," he said.
Labour Party housing spokesman Phil Twyford said his party supported the limits, but only if they were targeted at speculators.
"First-home buyers should not be asked to take a hit yet again for this Government's failed housing policy," he said.
The Reserve Bank said it would prefer the restriction to apply broadly, rather than singling out Aucklanders or investors. It predicted that income-related limits would affect investors more than first-home buyers.
Mr Eaqub said if the limits applied only to Auckland, they would simply "export" housing affordability problems to surrounding regions.
Debt-to-income limits Q&A
What are debt-to-income limits?
A limit on what a person or household can borrow relative to their income. They are designed to restrict banks' lending, to prevent economic instability and cool house price inflation.
How would they affect home-buyers?
Overseas, buyers have been prevented from borrowing more than 4.5 times their income.
The median household income in New Zealand is around $90,000, which means most families would not be able to borrow more than $405,000. A household would need an income of $180,000 to afford a median-priced Auckland house ($812,000).
How soon could they be in place?
Neither Government nor the Reserve Bank has committed to the limits. They would need to amend their Memorandum of Understanding before a cap could be introduced.
Restrictions would leave few options
For new parents Gemma Mann and Mike Alsweiler, having their ability to buy a house restricted by their income would be just another hurdle in an already tough property market.
The Auckland couple, who the Herald followed as part of its Home Truths series, were already considering leaving Auckland to find a more affordable house - even if it meant saying goodbye to their families.
But if New Zealand followed the UK by setting a mortgage lending restriction of 4.5 times the borrower's annual income, they could be locked out of the Auckland market all together.
Mr Alsweiler understood the reasons behind the proposed move but said it was "frustrating".
"It's another hurdle to jump."
The couple, who had a joint income of $110,000-$120,000 a year, had hoped to borrow at least $500,000 to buy a house in the range of $600,000.
But they'd only be allowed to borrow up to $495,000 at the lower end of their estimated income if the ratio was set at 4.5.
While Mr Alsweiler expected their salary to continue to grow in coming years, with an 8-month-old baby, he said they were working less.
He wasn't sure what they'd do if they couldn't borrow, but there were few options left other than leaving Auckland. However, even that wasn't a great option, he said.
"We might save $100,000 on a house, but is that enough to give up family and a job?"
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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24 comments:
- All Things Chic 2 said...
Hi... Just found your beautiful blog. I love your way of doing things , and now I'm inspired ...Thanks...I just started blogging and I would like to invite you to visit by blog...Blessings Lori
- February 21, 2012 at 8:44 PM
- Karen Harper said...
Those are breathtaking shots Sandy. I can only hope that someday I will be a fraction of that talented in photography. She is truly an artist.
- February 21, 2012 at 8:54 PM
- Shabby chic Sandy said...
Breathtaking is the perfect word for those shots. I love the first one--the blurred chandelier and that rose at the bottom. That photo is a treasure--thanks for sharing with us! It inspires me to try to be more creative with my photography.
- February 21, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- Jacqueline~Cabin and Cottage said...
Hi Sandy! I suppose it comes down to a matter of taste, but I LOVE the style of these photos, and understand what you are saying about the photographer enhancing the mood of the space. Completely dreamy!
- February 21, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Bella said...
Hi Sandy,
Your vision and hers have created a dream... ethereal!
- February 21, 2012 at 9:36 PM
- Norma said...
It takes a vey rare talent to capture the soul that inhabits a space, it's truly been accomplished in these magical photographs. They are utterly enchanting.
- February 21, 2012 at 10:28 PM
- Mariette said...
Dearest Sandy,
Emma is a very talented young photographer; no doubt. But you are a very keen observer in the way you worded her work here. Classy work girl, you are getting better and better at it. Seems that your mind is free to formulate your most inner thoughts about the romance you created around you. Wishing you lots of success on your way up; up and up!!!
Love to you,
- February 21, 2012 at 11:14 PM
I am in love with both shots,so dreamy,so romantic,so beautiful....
Love to you Sandy x
- February 22, 2012 at 1:03 AM
- It's me said...
Beautiful pictures..........love from Holland.......xxx...
- February 22, 2012 at 3:04 AM
- Debra @ Common Ground said...
What amazing photos, just magical!
- February 22, 2012 at 3:06 AM
- Linda said...
Breathtaking, Sandy! Simply.
Wishing you a beautiful day,
Linda at BeautifulIdeas
- February 22, 2012 at 6:33 AM
- Julie L. Light said...
These photos are stunning! Sound like y'all had a fun time.
Have a fabulous day!
- February 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM
The shots are ethereal - just gorgeous. And I love the way you described how Emma 'danced' to get just the right angle and light. :)
Wishing you a lovely one, Sandy!
- February 22, 2012 at 10:43 AM
- à la parisienne said...
Her shots are definitely taken with a romantic eye...and her style of photography is quite unique-a nice breath of fresh air.
These are perfect works of art that showcase YOUR work of art!
- February 22, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Rhonda said...
I bet your were in a trance watching Emma work, right? To see things through other's eyes, is so much fun.
I love soft lighting and shadows, she captured your window and lamp so well.
xo Rhonda
- February 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- NanaDiana said...
How amazing it is to watch someone like that work. It is an art in itself. Breathtaking shots!!! I think about you often and am keeping you in my prayers as you move forward- xo Diana
- February 22, 2012 at 8:04 PM
- Bring Pretty Back said...
Sandy , PRETTY as always!!! And ,don't you just LOVE it when someone "gets" you!!!!!
Have a pretty day!
- February 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM
- A Cottage Muse said...
Oh Sandy, her photos are wonderful!
Seeing these beautiful images has made me feel that I have gotten to know you a little more!
Hope you are well!
- February 23, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- Marie Arden said...
Oh these are stunning. She is very talented! What wonderful treasures to have of your studio. My thoughts are with you and I hope the next weeks bring you some spring weather and some joy.
- February 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Made in Persbo...Carina said...
Hi Sandy,
Oh I just love the photos of your cottage in evening light! Must have been a wonderful visit!
Warm hugs, Carina
- February 23, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- Lili said...
Breathtaking! I love the way you described the photo session too, it sounds so incredible. xo ~Lili
- February 23, 2012 at 3:56 PM
- Sizzle and Zoom said...
Dreamy, beautiful photos!
- February 23, 2012 at 5:12 PM
- susan said...
The pictures are beautiful! I'm intrigued by the description of your decorating style. I'm following and would love you to stop by and visit me. Thanks!
- February 25, 2012 at 8:38 PM
- Katherines Corner said...
heavenly, as always. Thank you for linking to the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop linky party xo
- February 25, 2012 at 11:59 PM


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Why I Love the Author Community
In honor of Valentines Day, I want to share a post from my blog that still warms my heart. It's about an New Adult book and I know this is YAtopia, but I hope it's okay because it contains characters from my YA Book Pretty Amy who are now in college AND it also includes a former YAtopian ;)
It's also really about how supportive this community of authors, writers and bloggers can be and THAT is universal regardless of genre.
Anyway here goes:
I want to tell you guys a story. It's sort of a fairytale.
About a week a ago I received a response to a tweet about The Next Forever being available from Daisy Whitney, author of the super-awesome Mockingbirds series that said:
I was floored. I LOVE the Mockingbirds series. Sure she is going to be publishing the BREAK-UP ALBUM with my publisher and my editor this year, but she didn't have to buy my book. It was very nice of her and I thanked her.
I kind of thought that would be it, but then a few days later she tweeted she was starting my book (eeeee!)
and then a few days after that she tweeted the tweet below to ALL OF HER FOLLOWERS (7,000 of them)
I couldn't believe it. It was so nice and so unexpected and so generous. She didn't have to do any of it and then it got better. She agreed to let me use her quote.
"Sharp, heartfelt and sexy with characters so well-developed and nuanced that they feel completely real." - Daisy Whitney, author of The Mockingbirds and When You Were Here
How awesome is that?
And, Daisy isn't even the only author who has amazed me with her generosity lately.
There have been so many who have supported me by posting reviews and tweets and FB posts, especially my girls at Entangled Publishing who I could NEVER do this without, but there was also another fairytale.
Nyrae Dawn author of Charade http://www.nyraedawn.com/ came through in a really big way for me right before The Next Forever came out and totally didn't have to.
The schedule for this book was CRAZY and we were doing the read-through for it up until the weekend before it came out. That meant there were no galleys to send to authors to get blurbs. I knew Nyrae a little bit from twitter and I LOVED Charade, so I went out on a limb and asked her if she would be willing to blurb The Next Forever.
This was 3 days before it came out. I told her I completely understood if she didn't have time because the schedule was so tight. I also said that if she couldn't make it by the time the book came out that was fine too.
Then I crossed my fingers.
An email came back from her saying that she'd love to read and blurb it. I was so excited and knew that even if the book came out without a blurb on the cover, it would have a great one in the next couple of weeks. But then she AMAZED me by finishing it over one night and sending me the blurb the next day just so it could be on the cover for release.
"An honest, raw, sexy night of self discovery. I loved Joe and Amy's story!"- Nyrae Dawn, Bestselling author of Charade (AND FORMER YAtopian!)
These two women are super-talented authors who certainly don't need to do anything for someone so new to the game like me, but they did and I am so grateful.
Why I love the author community is that you learn that people can be really wonderful even when they don't have to be.
Why I love the author community is that now that I'm a part of it, I can hopefully give back too.
Do you guys have any author, writer, blogger fairy-tale stories?
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Lisa Burstein is a tea seller by day and a writer by night. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University and is glad to finally have it be worth more than the paper it was printed on. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her very patient husband, a neurotic dog and two cats. Pretty Amy is her first novel. She never went to her senior prom.
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It's definitely Chrissy Teigen's style to wear revealing clothes, and Sunday was no exception when she attended the 2015 Daytime Emmy Awards at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. She was joined on the red carpet by her husband, John Legend, who looked smart and neat in a blue suit and patent leather oxfords.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend at the 42nd Daytime Emmy Awards held at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, on April 26, 2015
The Lip Sync Battle co-host sizzled as she posed on the red carpet in a braless look, pairing a plunging cape blazer with a pencil skirt. Her daring yet edgy two-piece outfit by Olcay Gulsen was styled with a crystal-embellished clutch, a pair of onyx earrings, and a diamond-encrusted cuff. Giving the sultry ensemble a hint of class, she styled her hair in a swept-back high ponytail and wore gorgeous makeup with smoky eyes and nude lips, highlighting her bronzed skin.
Chrissy Teigen in a plunging Olcay Gulsen outfit at the 2015 Daytime Emmy Awards in Burbank, California, on April 26, 2015
The 29-year-old model added a few inches to her height with a pair of Gianvito Rossi strappy sandals, which feature triple buckled straps, toe bands, open toes, and 4 inch stiletto heels.
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Hello readers!
After being all day up and away, I finally managed to find some time and write this post. I will probably not have time to write every day , but when I do, I will.
So what I wanna share with you today is my first photo shooting experience (there were only three). I can remember that day like it was yesterday. It was in August 2011 (I know it's been a year and something, but these are my favorite pics of them all!) , few days (I think two) before leaving my hometown and coming to Germany (in order to start my master here). On one hand, everything that was happening was pretty hectic - I had to pack all my things and also to stay as much as I can with my family (because, you know, when you're the only child this process it's never easy), and on the other hand we (me & my dear-photographer-best-friend) wanted to have this photo session before I leave. I was supposed to go pick her up, so before leaving home, I put in a bag some clothes, shoes and make-up items. The location she chose was very nice, outside the city, but before getting there, we went to the mall, because apparently it was too early - we had to wait for the sun to go down a bit and get close to sunset. After getting to the right spot, about two hours flew by and we didn't even feel it. The great thing was that it's only been us there , so it was pretty fun and relaxing.
She is very talented and the result (one month later - all the waiting almost killed me, sorry again for stressing you!) impressed me deeply. Unfortunately we are too far away from each other for this to happen more often.
I chose the ones I like best.
If interested, you can always check her work on www.anacuamic.com or here, https://www.facebook.com/anacuamic !
See you soon,
Nov 5, 2012
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Happy Birthday Richard Dawkins!
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If evolution is real, and I have no reason to believe it is unless I chose to blindly believe the opinions of some, but not others, then it is not Richard Dawkin's idea. What Richard is doing is trying to put a puzzle together that was created by something else while denying the exist of that 'somthing else' whose ideas he is only just discovering.
During Darwin's time, science was at war with Religion. There was no hope in hell that the theory of evolution was going to draw God into the equasion and therby disguising the presence of intelligence in the design to make it appear that the design designed itself without the need for a designer.
We know this to be true in everyday life. How many people speak without thinking? Build without a blue print? We all do for goodness gracious, for to think before speaking and build from a well thought out blueprint would hint of thought preceeding physical manifestation and we know this cannot be true. In the regard, man bucks the trend. Along with w whole bunch of other species that have problem solving capacity. But that's it. Before this it was the other way around. No thought went into designing anything despite the magnificance and genious of the creation that results.
Who can believe such crap? Oh yes, science and religion are at war. All common sense and objectivity gets thrown out the window. Silly me.
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
Actually Twinkledorp,
There is no reason whatsoever to rely on authority to hold an informed opinion about the veracity of evolutionary biology. There is a wealth of evidence that supports it. Science isn't a matter of opinions, or rather opinions aren't how scientific positions are derived. For the establishment of a robust scientific generalization what we need are evidence producing experiments and we need lots of them.
Also Richard Dawkins has never claimed that modern Evolutionary theory was his idea. He was just a student and later a professor of evolutionary biology. Certainly he is interested in the puzzle of life (all scientists like a good mystery), but we think we can be quite certain (based on reliable scientific evidence from various fields) that your "something else" was "selectve forces." So clearly Dawkins couldn't be said to denying this "something else," his books are fairly clear on this point.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hey Max.
Just consider me a Skeptic. Whilst you may believe your scinetific methods tell you one thing, I am not going to go on 'faith' and believe evolution is all that you believe it to be.
What others 'know as a scientific fact' is of little importance to me. I have yet to be convinced for a few reasons:
1). Though born Atheist, my free thinking process has lead me to the conclusion God exists, though not the Christian or religious God
that you might assume I may be referring to.
2). During darwin's time, Science and Religion were at war. Scientists were scratching at the bit to 'give ot to' the Religious folk and there was no way in Hell they were going to have God play any part in the evolutionary process were thus 'intelligence in design' had to be excluded from their conclusions.
This poses a massive credibility problem and therefore any conclusions drawn should be taken with a grain of salt. After all, the main objective at the time (which continues today) was winning the war with Religion therefore objectivity was sacrificed in the name of 'Victory'.
Sorry Max11.
Evolutionist will need to do a bit of evolving themselves to ensure objectivity and good old common sense in their work unless of course you believe houses are built without blusprints, and people speak 1st and then think, which in your case I could almost be convinced is true.
Stop by and visit my site anytime.
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
Better still, answer me this.
Is a bridge built in the absence of thought, or does the building of the bridge occur only after the deisgn or 'blueprint' is made?
Prove it - in other words, show me the 'thought' that produced the blueprint - any blueprint.
If you cannot and you 'can't', am I to assume thought does not exist and therefore no blueprint could be made from thought and that the bridge could not be made from the blueprint?
This is what evolutionists are asking us to believe.
So I'm asking you, when did the change take place? When exactly did thought for the 1st time 'preceed' physical manifestation of that thought. Please provide fact based evidence for your answer. This should not be hard considereing the overwhelming evolutionary facts you have to draw from.
I am allowing you the opportunity to demonstrate your massive power of logic and reasoning and delightfully 'put me to shame' in your not so subtl smug and arrogant way.
Do, once again, when did thought 1st come 1st and physical manifestation come 2nd?
I await with beta breath.
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
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What I want to know is how the blueprint maker got all the necessary blue. I mean, it's not like there was much around on the early Earth, when the methane skies were orange. There can't be blueprints without blue, can there?
I'm not sure what was said by the person whose comment was deleted but it could not have been pleasant. I can only assume evolution is taking a step backwards in his (?) case.
@ Steve Zara
I'm not sure if your'e attempting to be non-assumingly funny or saracastingly mocking.
If you leave one having to guess then the point you are trying to make becomes irrelevant.
I'm sure your'e a nice fellow so I will assume the best in you and go with the 1st option which was a stab at humour. If I am wrong I will not know it unless you write back and state your clear position.
Till then, all the best!
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
How could I mock the necessity of creation? There is so much suffering in the world, that it could only be the result of a creator. Evolution is about survival of the fittest, and so how could it allow creatures riddled with parasites to live? How could it allow some animals to die slowly of starvation when their teeth wear out? There is no way that survival of the fittest could result in such pain from unfitness. The only explanation is a creator, who designed in pain and misery. That has to be the answer.
Steve, you take a look only at the surface and declare that you know all that lies beneath. You don't.
Your reasoning is far too simplisitc to be taken as a serious argument against the existance of God. "If this is true, then that cannot be true". You assume a 100% correlation and leave no room for your logic to be incorrect.
You should have taken the humour option when you had the chance instead of coming back with this Hail Mary.
This is the counter argument that is equivalent to your logic:
"Science made a bridge and the bridge collapsed. Science is bad. If science is bad then science cannot be good. Therefore there can be no such thing as good science."
You see where I'm going with this Steve? Does this make any sense to you? Well this is how you sound to me.
Should have taken that humor option...
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
Against god? Who said I was against god? There is no much sign of planning that there must have been a divine creator. Just consider the equisite mouthparts of the flea, the delicate hooks of the tapeworm mouth, the smooth and rippling body of the liver fluke. Look at the way the malaria parasite fits neatly within a blood cell, the way the heart worm anchors itself in the fast-flowing blood. How can these be anything but design?
"Is a bridge built in the absence of thought, or does the building of the bridge occur only after the deisgn or 'blueprint' is made?"
Strange that you should bring up bridges that appear to have been built without thought.
For your edification I give you...
and in Kentucky..
Allow me to deal with the rest of your post.
"Prove it - in other words, show me the 'thought' that produced the blueprint - any blueprint."
This has absolutely nothing to do with evolutionary biology. I'm not entirely sure why you find this salient to our discussion.
"If you cannot and you 'can't', am I to assume thought does not exist and therefore no blueprint could be made from thought and that the bridge could not be made from the blueprint?"
More uselessness.
"This is what evolutionists are asking us to believe.
No it isn't. Thought has nothing to do with creation of stable biological systems.
"So I'm asking you, when did the change take place? When exactly did thought for the 1st time 'preceed' physical manifestation of that thought. Please provide fact based evidence for your answer. This should not be hard considereing the overwhelming evolutionary facts you have to draw from."
I'm not sure it matters when the first thought (would you care to define this please) happened. Humans are hardly the only animal that thinks in a complex way. Probably no animal (on Earth anyway) thinks with our level of sophistication. In any event it sure doesn't really matter when the first thought arose.
"I am allowing you the opportunity to demonstrate your massive power of logic and reasoning and delightfully 'put me to shame' in your not so subtl smug and arrogant way.
I'm not sure where your confusion arises Twinkledorp, you haven't framed a very cogent request, nor have you elucidated where you have problems with evolutionary biology. All you have done is get off track, or if your query is on track you have managed to frame your conundrum in the least clear, and helpful way possible.
"Do, once again, when did thought 1st come 1st and physical manifestation come 2nd?"
Again, what does this have to do with evolutionary theory Twinkledorp? Do you have a specific question about a particular lineage? How is this important to our discussion?
"I await with beta breath.
Its not beta by the way, its bated
So please clean up the terms, clarify your questions so we can move the discussion forward.
Dear Steve.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make, as you seem to be arguing for both sides.
I agree that there is a creator.
Even MAX 11 below believes that biological systems were 'created',
though without any thinking involved of course.
Twinkledorp peabody IV
Max 11 says:
"Thought has nothing to do with creation of stable biological systems".
Max, thought has everything to do with creation. That is what the whole Creation argument is about: the existance of a 'thinking' Creator creating life forms through intelligent Design.
Glad you concede that there is creation in evolution.
Max 11 says:
I'm not sure it matters when the first thought happened. Humans are hardly the only animal that thinks in a complex way. Probably no animal (on Earth anyway) thinks with our level of sophistication. In any event it sure doesn't really matter when the first thought arose.
Max, I'm shocked and astounded that such a monumentous shift in
evolutionary biology in which thought for the 1st time preceeded creation has been written off as a seemingly irrelevant event.
Thought and intelligence emerging from nothing? And this is seen as irrelevant?
It would only be irrelevant if it really was irrelevant, and that would be if thought preceeded physical form all along, and E.B.'s knew it.
Unless you can come up with a beter explanation I'm sticking with that one. After all, you did acknowledge the involvement if 'creation' in maintaining stable environments.
Acknowledgement is the 1st step to rocovery...
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
Dear Max.
One more thing. Near Death Experiences have been studied, tested, re-studied and re-tested. They are not caused by a 'malfunctioning brain' under stress. Actually, they have nothing to do with the brain at all. Cionciousness is independant of the brain and body and this is obvious to anyone who spends a bit of time researching the subject.
It is based on the revelation that I.D. is not only possibly, but pretty much a given.
What it the origin of the power source that allows the continuation of conciousness following bodily death (google Pam Reynolds; Dr. Peter Fenwick).
It is not a complcated Universe. The same power source that allows for the continuation of conciousness also accounts for the creative powers invloved in Intellignet Design.
Add this factor into the mix then you have an evolutionary theory that makes sense to the layperson who has no bee up their but in needing God completely out of the evolutionary equasion so Science and the 'tists' can 'stick it to God'.
No need to complicate things. keep them simple. NDEs do just that. They make everything else make sense.
Twinkledorp Peabody IV.
I'm using creation in its simply dictionary definition. Not in your magical sense.
Perhaps to avoid confusing you further I'll use formation instead. The formation of stable patterns in nature is all I am talking about. Stablity can occur, indeed does occur all the time without any intelligence or thought. Ecological succession, chemical equilibria, the balance between explosion and gravitational collapse of stars all seem to happen on their own without any imput from thoughtful beings. The evolution of biological systems is simply another example of this kind of thing.
Actually, they have nothing to do with the brain at all. Cionciousness is independant of the brain and body and this is obvious to anyone who spends a bit of time researching the subject.
That's amazing! I'm going to write to Bill Gates. It means he can tell his friends at Microsoft that they don't need computers to run their programs - all the work can be done by consciousy stuff! I will make sure I credit you though. You will deserve the billions from this, not me, or Bill.
Remember to get a good patent lawyer.
Thought and intelligence cannot emerge from nothing. They can however emerge from matter. Given enough time, and the right selection pressures, evolutionary history and lots and lots of luck.
However the theist does ask that everyone believe that thought and intelligence arises out of nothing. For what else is your alleged creator but the very thing about which you are skeptical.
Its hard to be sure that is your position though because, as ever, you remain dutifully unclear.
Now you are amusing the hell out of me. Near death experiences now? Hilarious. Actually what you say simply isn't true. Except for the first part, the psychology of NDEs has actually been studied quite a lot, and the answer like all studies of the brain have not been kind to dualism (the idea that the mind and body are different things). Researchers can induce NDEs by altering brain activity in a variety of ways.
I shall try to find some references for you.
Twinkledorp said,
"One more thing. Near Death Experiences have been studied, tested, re-studied and re-tested. They are not caused by a 'malfunctioning brain' under stress. Actually, they have nothing to do with the brain at all. Cionciousness is independant of the brain and body and this is obvious to anyone who spends a bit of time researching the subject."
Let me also say, that you have an amazing talent, I mean stunning, stating the blatantly untrue, with startling certainty (as the quote above demonstrates).
Mind/body duality has been about as thoroughly falsified as it is possible for a hypothesis to be falsified. It all seems to be the brain at work. And while we don't understand all the workings of the brain that give rise to consciousness, we can see plainly enough how it is affected by damage to the meat computer that produces it.
Nothing demonstrates this better than the way various physical states, and chemical addlement induces changes in conscioussness. Fatigue, sickness, extreme malnutrition, dehydration, alcohol and other drugs, brain damage, all have been demonstrated to alter conscioussness.
Also, you should think very very hard about Steve's analogy with computers. Why do they need anything at all, why not just a monitor, maybe a keyboard and mouse so you can interface with the whatever it is that carries out the programing?
Oh here you go, a nice primer on OBEs and NDEs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience#Near-death_experiences
I once had an out of body experience. It happened in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, and I was caught in a novel carotid choke. I had the distinct sensation that I was looking at my body from an odd angle and slightly outside myself, I think was about ready to tap out. There was a tunnenling of my vision which closed off to black and then I woke a few seconds later. The choke cut off blood flow to my brain, it took just a few seconds. While this is just an anecdote and cannot be adduced in support of the brain being the source of consciousness, it is a curious recurring fact that these kinds of things occur when the brain is seriously screwed with in this kind of way.
Don't you think?
Dear Max.
NDEs are real ad have nothing to do with the brain. Yes, brain function can be manipulated. But when a brain ceases functioing altogether the lights should be out. What all the fuss is about is that they are not. According to your world view this could not happen which poses quite a dilema for team Max. Yet it does happen. Oh what to do...
Take the case of Pam Reynolds who was 'put to death' by doctors who ceased the functioing of both her heart and and her brain. Her body temperature was lowered to 60 d and all blood was brained from her head so that a delicate brain operation could occur.
And yet, jjst as you would assume max, during this procedure Pam was 'more concious than she has ever been in her life'. She described the operation procedure to the doctors along with the very unique medical instruments that were used - from a vantage point near the top of the room.
Unbelieveable, yet true. I'm sure if these NDE's did not happen you would use that as 'proof' that conciousness does not survide bodily death. By the same account I offer them as proof that conciousness does survive bodily death.
What a drag these NDE's must be for your team huh?
Sorry i haven't got time to respond to the 17 other comments uyou made in the past 20 minures but considering the above I believe you'll agree I don't need to.
Twinkledorp peabody IV.
"NDEs are real ad have nothing to do with the brain."
That's amazing. Do you mean that people can talk about them without using their brains? How does that happen - does the soul move their lips?
The Pam Reynolds case is an interesting one, but having just read the timeline of the operation, it indicates that she had her NDE at times in which we would expect some brain function to occur.
Her first NDE took place prior to her core being chilled and the head being mostly drained of blood. She heard the doctor speak, and felt the drilling, or heard the drilling or was otherwise potentially informed of the drilling well before her meat computer was brought to a standstill. All times we might expect her brain to try to make sense of the sensory data it was recieving.
Then nothing for a long stretch of operating time (the time they induced standstill) There is a bump of the NDE while the blood was drain and the angle of her body was changed. She claims to have felt pulled in a direction. Stimuli that might have caused sporadic neurons to fire, while not demosntrating any kind of coherent pattern of activity on the EEG.
Her second report of NDE according to this time line doesn't occur until blood is being pumped into her body and her EEG is showing coherent readings. One of her most vivid reportings was when she was defibrilated twice.
This story as evidence is actually upon examination pretty thin, and well within the scope of nature to accomodate without leaping to your hypothesis.
For those readers who are unfamiliar with Pam Reynolds (as I was until mere moments ago)here is the interesting story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Reynolds_(singer)
Sorry Max. Despite your best efforts to discredit Pam, there are hundreds if not thousands of cases which your logic cannot apply. For example, when NDE folk have 'traveled' to differnt areas of the Hospital and 'see' people they knew and 'hear' their conversations which were repeated and varified to be true. No spasm in the brain could replicate that.
And of course there's the ever popular 'I was blind but now I can see' NDE experience where people wjo have been blind since birth have reported the ability to 'see' during their experience.
Still more troubling for team Max is when Atheists have these expereinces and are no longer Atheists. Maybe there's more to them than even you know Max.
Looks like you have your work cut out for you.
For every one or two you claim to have an answer for there are several hundred more waiting with 'beta' breath for you to set the record straight by telling them what they really experienced and that what they 'thought' they expereinced was terribly wrong.
After all, who are they to tell you what they experienced? I mean, whose experience was it anyway?
Silly them. Have'nt they read the 'Skeptics guide to answering all things NDE? They should. It would sure save you a lot of work.
Dear Max:
Atheist Carl Jung's NDE might be worth reviewing. Considered the founder of Analytical Psychology.
I'll let you guess whether or not he was still an Atheist after this experience...
Oh yeah, Steve, no one cares...
How is near death experience nothing to do with the brain when people clearly have what they consider memories of such experience in their brains? How did it get there? Are you trying to say that memories are non-physical? I'd be fascinated to know. How do non-physical memories fit with current understanding of neuroscience?
All these reports are just stories Twinkledorp. No amount of anecdote can constitute evidence of an interpretation for a phenomena, or even constitute evidence of the existence of the phenomena they purport to be about.
There are numerous problems with anecdotes because there are numerous problems with human observers. People can be mistaken about what they saw, can fill in details, can tailor (often without meaning to) their stories to the wants and desires of those listening, bias can creep into their self-analysis, all while trying to be completely honest about what they think they saw. People also lie and make shit up. Think of bigfoot and UFO abductions a moment and you begin to see the scope of the problem with anecdote and personal testimony. They just don't constitute good evidence.
As I have said, I have had OBE/NDE experiences courtesy of my martial arts. Twice have I been choked totally unconscious via carotid artery chokes and twice have I seen weird things, had conversations, imagined myself somewhere else. When I wake up I feel a sense of sweeping euphoria, and have a lot energy. While anecdotal, the fact that these experiences occur so quickly in conjunction with a direct attack on my CPU seems telling. You could do an interesting study to examine this in fact. My guess is you would find a striking correlation between NDE/OBE type experiences and such reductions in blood flow to the brain. How often do people report odd hallucinations, OBE, talking to lost loved ones etc.
I also once managed to tap just as my vision went totally black (I have experienced a tunnelling of vision several times on the mat, where blackness creeps in from the periphery of my visual field inward). It took a few seconds for my vision to return, but I was conscious and cognizant the whole time. Again an anecdote, but not qualitatively too different from any other OBE/NDE you could cite.
Why do these things happen when brain activity is perterbed well beyond normal operating conditions?
Max, I'm not sure what you experienced but unless you were flatlined without EEG reading then it probably wasn't an NDE. Mind you I do not mean to diminish what you did experience. I'm glad you came out ok.
I know tossing out the word 'anedote' is a commonly used strategy used to diminish or discredit a very real human experience. So is the 'human perception cannot be relied upon' argument which is again used for convenience as a strategy to dicredit the experience. I just don't buy it.
When an individual lying 'dead' on the operating table finds himself totally concious and aware and in a room away from the operating room and sees people he knows and hears the conversations they are saying all of which has been verified as true then the 'perceptions' of the individual seem to be operating a little bit better than fine wouldn't you say?
You toss out a lot of stuff that would contaminate personal experiences, but unless you have factual evidence that what you say is exactly what happened in each and every one of those Millions of cases then I toss it right back out as a monumentous pile of usless bunk.
I listen to what people say about their experiences and they are profound. Moving. Life-changing. They offer a glimpse of eternity and paint a picture that is so astounding that I would be doing myself and them an injustice if I were to dismiss out of hand their experiences because I assumed an 'all-knowing' belief system which has more holes in it than a sieve.
I cannot imagine being so arrogant as to place my intellect at such lofty heights that it could not be challenged by such silly things as a profoundly articulately NDE as described by Dr. Carl Jung whose analysis of his experience does not give up any reason to doubt the soundness of his reasoning about the experience itself.
I'm sure Mr. Jung is at least as intelligennt as you, and probably far, far more so. To doubt his testimony as one given by a confused individual would be assuming a position of knowledge and authority which well surpasses any which you may realistically claim to possess.
Tread carefully with this one max, for I think you will find yourself in well over your head.
I'm sorry you won't respond to my questions. They are at the core of beliefs in dualism and spirituality. They are also the reason why a large majority of philosophers and scientists reject your beliefs.
But if you want to avoid them, I do understand.
@ Steve.
Most of your comments are confusing or silly attempts to be funny. What is there to take seriously?
Science does not have all the answers, so it is irrelevant to me what they think.
Also, there is a credibility dilema that scientists face. They need to think a certain way and believe what is 'acceptable' to believe from a scientific standpoint least they be considered not be taken seriously and lose all credibility. Believe me, science has a pecking order and has close 'mind controls' within the establishment which does away with true freedom of thought and the pursuit of truth.
Just look at the garbly-gook that Max spews out. Classic recycled/regurgiated arguments taken right out of the age old play book on how to discredit and bellitlle or minimize opposing points of view.
I chose not to live this way, for it involves a great deal of fear over loss of status etc. That's why i take all that he says with a big grain of salt. there are other factors at play that influence his comments profoundly.
Stay the course I say. See things as they really are and move on. Don't be swayed by the likes of max whose responses are beyond predictable and therefore lack credibility.
Science does not have all the answers, so it is irrelevant to me what they think.
No, it isn't. If you had a stroke then it would effect your ability to speak, wouldn't it? So speech comes from the physical brain.
Now, if someone has an experience, and they talk about it, then that experience must have someone got into the physical brain. So it does not help to say that an experience 'had nothing to do with the brain'. If it had nothing to do with the brain, then there would be no possibility of talking about it.
This is one of the deep epistemological problems of dualism.
It's not that science has all the answers, it is that what you are claiming is contrary to what science has discovered over centuries. All I'm asking is how you reconcile that: How does a brain acquire knowledge of spiritual experiences?
Thought comes the mind which is then translated into speech.
During an NDE the ability to 'communicate' still exists and this is well documented. Sijnce there is no physical body, there is no need to physically 'speak'. Communication occurs through 'thought' with other 'souls' if you may.
The interesting thing about returning to the body is that the memory of that out of body experience is retained so memory can hardly be a product of the brain. The need to physically 'speak' is once again necessary so thought is once again translated into physical speech and the experience of being out of the body is then communicated.
There is no conflict, or 'problem' in dualism as you refer to it. It is only through limited understanding that problems appear. Hope this clears things up.
There is no conflict, or 'problem' in dualism as you refer to it. It is only through limited understanding that problems appear. Hope this clears things up.
Oh there is a problem. It's called the problem of interactionist dualism.
What I need from you is the mechanism of how the out-of-body experience enters the brain. As you know the brain consists of nerve cells. The state of those cells must be changed for the brain to find out about the experience. How does it happen, and where in the brain?
What you might not realise is that non-physical communication with the brain breaks conservation of energy. How is this overcome?
I think you have missed the boat in a major way with the following.
"I know tossing out the word 'anedote' is a commonly used strategy used to diminish or discredit a very real human experience. So is the 'human perception cannot be relied upon' argument which is again used for convenience as a strategy to dicredit the experience. I just don't buy it."
Nothing could be further from the truth. In no way does identifying a story, often told second or third hand, deny "a very real human experience." By itself it doesn't add up to evidence for or against something. Sometimes anecdotes add up to a very real phenomenon worth further investigating. Sometimes they don't (think bigfoot, think UFOs and UFO abduction). Even several combined anecdotes don't mean much. Where there are no controls its simply impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions. Nor is wrong to point out that people often make mistakes in observation. This in no way diminishes the experience of the person who felt, or observed something, it just doesn't add up to data supporting a hypothesis.
Thousands of people swear by homeopathy. Yet it fails in clinical trials. It does no better than a placebo. People make all kinds of observational errors, they remember hits and forget misses, they fail to think through lots of other mundane explanations. Experimental design is crucial to removing sources of error, bias and confounders. No anecdote does this.
You cannot even report on your best cases without hyperbole and subtle dishonesty.
The case of Pam Reynolds is not nearly as cut and dry an experience as you make it out to be. She was not more conscious than she ever was when she was alive. During great swaths of her operation there would have the potential for brain activity. Even during the portion of her operation where she was brought to standstill, body chilled, and blood drained there is no guarantee that she wouldn't have had random neurons firing. Any cell will have a store of ATP, will be able to carry out anerobic respiration to make more ATP for a short time before succumbing to major damage and dying.
But we also know that she wasn't keeping dutiful records of what happened when. Her report of hearing that her veins were to small happened when she was just under general anestesia, and not flatlined. The amount of time she was flatlined was around five to six minutes. So we have clinical deadness for a very tiny amount of time in the Reynolds example and no way to verify her claims of visiting relatives, or hearing singing etc. In any event, we have no way to verify when she had these vivid perceptions at all. So it is a messy messy anecdote. Impossible to draw any conclusions from.
As for Jung, it isn't very clear that he was an atheist at all, nor that his brain was in active. In 1944 Jung appears to have had a heart attack that left him clinically dead for a few minutes, but doctors were able to revive him. However we have no way of knowing at what point he had his NDE, and I am not even sure what the criteria for clinical death was in 1944, its likely that they have changed in the interim given that we understand more and can revive people much better than we could in '44. So did Jung experience these vivid perceptions during his clinical death, or during the crisis prior to or after clinical death. Or was the perception a product of central nervous system activity before and after? We simply have no way to know.
I don't ask these kinds of questions to rain on anyone's parade either. These are simply some of the problems with anecdotes. Stories without controls, are stories. They may be interesting, they may have great personal meaning, they may even be true, but we simply cannot use them as evidence of anything.
Sorry max. Your counter arguments are a desperate attempt to discredit NDEs by any 'magical/mystical' means possible. They just don't cut the cheese.
I've read Dr. Jung's account and I really believe his powers of deduction to be far superior to yours. I have no reason to doubt on his experience based on anything you have to say.
Time to recognize the limitations to your intellect which you have failed to do to this point. Do less speaking and more listening...
You have a great deal to learn, but you have to come down from your perch first.
Over and out.
I've read Dr. Jung's account and I really believe his powers of deduction to be far superior to yours. I have no reason to doubt on his experience based on anything you have to say.
This isn't actually a refutation of anything, is it?
"Sorry max. Your counter arguments are a desperate attempt to discredit NDEs by any 'magical/mystical' means possible. They just don't cut the cheese."
My review of your best cases had two goals. The first of which was to demonstrate that you had serious trouble reporting the events accurately, and that you present them only in the very best light possible.
And my second point was to demonstrate that anecdote is practically useless, and cannot be construed as useful for building a body of evidence for a hypothesis. Maybe your two best examples are actually accurate reporting of supernatural NDEs. The anecdotes that describe these events don't allow us to draw that conclusion at all.
"I've read Dr. Jung's account and I really believe his powers of deduction to be far superior to yours. I have no reason to doubt on his experience based on anything you have to say."
What Steve said.
"Time to recognize the limitations to your intellect which you have failed to do to this point. Do less speaking and more listening...
You have a great deal to learn, but you have to come down from your perch first."
I'm well aware that I am fallible, its why I like the scientific method. Its why I think anecdote is worthless for establishing facts/evidence.
"Over and out.
You should check out my latest post. Its all a long response to one of your earlier posts.
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Man, this blog sure died.
Or did it simply have a "near death experience?"
Looks like since Twinkledorp left this blog has gone extinct.
Atheists need to demonstrate (at least to themselves) their 'intellectual superiority' over non-atheists which is why since T.P. vanished the Atheists have no one left to kick around to the comments stopped.
I bet you Twinkledorp still believes in God despite the collective genious in the form of 'rational thought' served up by the 'A's. Maybe they ain't as clever as they think after all. Maybe there's more to life than meets the eye, after all, the eye is not cabable of seeing all that there is to see.
It is very illogical to only believe what one sees for this very reason. Atheists box themselves into a tiny corner by thinking this way. If it exists, it must be seen. If it cannot be seen, it cannot exist.
No, the eye is limited in its capacity therefore such assumptions cannot be made. Its the same with God. We cannot eliminate the existance of God because God cannot be 'seen'. All we can deduce from that is out eyes are too limited to see God if god does exist.
Silly Atheists. They've gotten it all wrong.
Henrietta Rothenfellow V.
Let me address only this point, because I am short on time today, and because the argument at the tail end of your post is offered fairly often.
You suggest :"No, the eye is limited in its capacity therefore such assumptions cannot be made. Its the same with God. We cannot eliminate the existance of God because God cannot be 'seen'. All we can deduce from that is out eyes are too limited to see God if god does exist."
To the first part of you point about eyes. No scientist, or rationalist, or methodological naturalist, rationalist (pick your epithet) establishes anything based soley on our physical senses alone. We use various tools to tease out a picture (approximate) of the natural world. This part of your statement seems ill formed, or perhaps just uninformed. May be you just didn't give the matter enough thought. THink about microscopes, telescopes (in their grand variety) which are just two tools that help us to compensate for our feeble senses.
The second part where you say we cannot eliminate god(s) because we cannot see him simply isn't the case. We should see the effects of god(s) prominent enough that we would have to invoke them in our explanations. We don't. There is simply no need for god(s) in our explanations, our models anywhere in science.
Proving a negative (Prove God doesn't exist, say, or prove there are absolutely no Ivory-billed Woodpeckers left in the world)is a tricky business. To have 100% certainty would require perfect knowledge. However we don't need perfect knowledge to reject a hypothesis that has no positive evidence supporting it. The burden of proof is on the person or party making the claim.
Also this lack of 100% certainty in no way justifies specific beliefs in any of the gods on offer. So it always baffles me when people use the fact that I cannot absolutely prove that no god exists, as if it somehow justifies particular beliefs in their favorite deity, or version of that deity.
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Chapter 1 Falling Out (continued)
They were still tiny motes in the sky far above. But Anira recognized the sky blue glint of their crystalline armour and could make out how they were accelerating towards the ground, towards her, with no heed for the approaching ground. That she had just left one giant glowing arrow pointing more or less in her direction did not help her situation in the least but it was better than stealthily smashing her body on the hard cobbles below. No matter. She would take care of one problem at a time. She had now almost reached her destination and was forming her hand seals with the thoughtless precision of muscle memory that had been honed for centuries expanding her presence out of her body, interlocking it with the being of the building in front of her as she landed on the wall. She open her self up to gravity and repaid her what she had owed her to accelerate her down again and cushioning her impact to the wall. By now her pursuers had detected the still red hot trail of partially molten rock on the other building and were closing in with great speed. By now Anira could make out their bodies and their streamlined helmets that resembled the head of a hawk. While they now knew exactly into which part of the city she had fallen their eyes were pointing in the wrong direction. This bought her enough time to arrive at the bottom of the street unharmed and make her escape. If she made it to the safe-house she was free.
The wall she was sliding down now was perfectly sleek had the slightest inclination, the architect was obviously trying to show off, and free of any protruding bits of masonry. It was perfect to slowly break her descent to a leisurely pace without leaving a burning trail behind her. By now the bodyguard of the ambassador had come dangerously close, they were now sparkling in the soft light of the midnight city but they had also come close enough to the ground that even they in their high-magic armour had pay their respects to gravity who would not be denied. They spread out the broad majestic wings of their armour to break their fall. When the first guard arrived at her first point of impact she had only ten or so storeys to so while her pursuer was flapping his magnificent wings positioning him in front of her cooling trail that was by now only a soft orange glow, she decided to speed things up a bit again. She changed position and in stead of sliding she was now starting to run down the wall while furiously chaining one hand seal to the next in order to pull of what she hoped would be her finally stunt of the night. After a short sprint covering most of the distance between her and the ground she jumped off used all of her atrophied shell-art skills to harden her body for to coming impact and as she slammed into the floor released all the energy that lady gravity demanded into one big gust of wind.
This should have blown up enough dust and small debris into the air to cloak her hasty retreat from her pursuers, but instead it simply passed over the slick enamelled cobble stones of Dahiri's more affluent district without any resistance. The only thing that was in the way was the donkey drawn cart of a pan maker making his way through the street to some part of the night market. Anira lost her balance as her body failed to absorb all of the remaining shock from her impact and while she could avoid planting her face squarely into the ground she did a very undignified somersault leaving her lying on her back sliding for a few more meters, while seeing out of the corner of her eyes the most curious sight of a cart full of pots and pans tumbling through the air spilling its contents all over the place and dragging behind it a scandalized donkey and an understandable surprised old man behind it. This quickly changed her original plan of closing her eyes and dying of shame to scrambling back on her feet as fast as she could and to run followed by the deafening crash of hundreds of pots and pans, the screaming of an angry donkey and the rather loud lack of sound made by one very surprised potmonger and several elite soldiers.
Sometimes the best strategy is to simply run like the wind and that is exactly what Anira did. Where magic fails one if often saved by the ancient art of sprinting. The next corner wasn't far and as she slid around it one could still hear the the noise of metal lids rolling over the cobbles or getting comfortable on the floor after doing some circles over the spot that had caught their fancy. She did not wait for the bodyguard to land and was already around the next corner when their commanding officer was barking orders to his men telling them to spread out and find their target.
Anira had to slow down partially because she was already looking out of place in her, admittedly fabulous, evening gown but also because she was by now out of breath and feeling the twangs of pain that always came when magic was cast without much caution. For everything she willed she had to find a proper source of power and if she did not or if it was not enough to pay for the effect that she had created the power she owed was taken directly from her soul. The amount she had lost was harmless she was a professional who knew her limits exactly. She could also cast by the ear without overestimating the power at her disposal. But she had been running and falling and crashing all in a panic and the exertion was taking its toll.
She had to force herself form not doubling over as she felt another spike of pain in her gut when she finally knew that she might make it through the night. At first it was just a faint smell of spices, quickly followed by the sound of voices talking, arguing and haggling. She had found one of Dahiri's fabled night markets. Giant celebrations of commerce forming a giant web covering dozens of streets stretching over several quarters and in some places extending up several storeys. Once inside one of them she'd be able to shake her pursuers for good. She moved into a stereotypical dark side alley containing large trash containers and even a sleeping bum at the end of which she could see a constant stream of people strolling past. Perfect. She decided to prepare a last goodbye message for the men behind her in form of a invocation strip. She took a slender bit of paper out of a well concealed pocket, pricked her left index finger with hairpin and wrote sigils of evocation unto it. She attached the strip onto a wall with a determined wipe of her hand. She placed a gold sansen into the half open hand of the bum as way of apology for what would happen once someone activated the invocation strip and vanished into the crowed.
Ten minutes later Anira was clad in the bright colours of a cloak in the local style and wearing a rather pretty headscarf decorated with all manner of sparkling stones which were reflecting the earth-lights of the market with enthusiasm. While her shell-art might be crap she was perfectly able to change the colour of both her skin and her eyes on a whim, it had cost her a lot of pain and frustration but this was a skill that was far to helpful for a spy like her to neglect. It also came in very handy when sent on assignments to country where the sun came uncomfortably close to the inner limit of the skyshell. She took the medallion that hung half hidden from her neck into her hand, it had the form of a simple opal disc, putting it against her forehead. She closed her eyes, carefully inching with her mind into to the artefact until she made contact and it showed her in golden lines and hues her way to her extraction point. As she opened her eyes the images projected by the medallion were still hanging in the air slowly slotting into place overlaying the real world she was seeing. She put it back careful that it kept touching her skin. Now she only needed to follow the golden dust road and all would be fine. Well until the debriefing when her boss senior executive handler Kelsheron would chew her out for her lack of subtlety. But Anira could not have cared less. Her holidays were due pretty much now and she had only taken this assignment only because free agent Suladrin had been almost killed during her last assignment and was still recovering form her injuries. He would scream, she would let the words rush past her like the autumn wind and then four weeks of blissful laziness.
"There she is!"
At first Anira did not realize that they meant her. She was still picturing herself in her home deep in the wilds doing mostly nothing followed by eating sumptuous meals followed by sleeping maybe interrupted by some sporty activities with some of her more intimate friends to liven things up a bit. Then she saw three large men in shining blue crystal armour with a pair of enormous wings folded neatly behind them all of them looking at her and already half into a sprint. The man in front furiously signing orders to his men. While Anira was not fluent in the sign language of Nomad Elites she did know enough about tactics that they would not simply run after her like three morons chasing a panicked chicken.
Now though it was back to basics. Running.
As soon as she had reached the next crossroads she got rid of her cloak. What ever they were doing to track her it was obviously enhanced with magic. Her little disguise would not help her at all to evade them. But the cloak could still be used to her advantage. As it billowed out behind her, she started weaving threads of power with her hands expanding the cloak causing its bright colours to shift in mesmerizing patterns. A cheap parlour trick, but it was fast and effective. Of course it did not work against her pursuers. Their helmets protecting their minds form such cheap mesmerism, but it worked pretty well on the everyone else on the street. The streets she was moving through was not crowded but busy enough for her pattern to attract enough people to bumble into the way of the soldiers leading into a rather neat pileup. It would take her hunters a while to force their way through the mass of undulating people, long enough for Anira to escape. The safe house was well protected against all forms of magical tracking and as long as no one saw her get inside she'd be gone.
She took great care to stay well under the awnings of the stalls lining the streets. She might be tracked by magic but she did not have to help the ambassadors men by staying in plain sight. She was pretty sure that at least part of the people trying to get her had taken to the skies again and were looking out for her from above. For some reason the idea of being stalked by human vultures made Anira enormously uncomfortable. She did not like to be reduced to a scared little animal close to death.
Just two more blocks and shed be free. Luck threw her a bone in form of an alley that was formed by two ancient squat buildings which became wider as they rose towards the skyshell, meeting some thirty meters above forming a high ceilinged tunnel. Once inside she paused for a moment to create another invocation strip like the one she left in the other alley. This one she planted squat in the middle of the way, for a moment she thought about hiding it under her headscarf but then she decided against it, she really liked the way it looked and if she was being pursued the people behind her were probably to busy to scan the floor of a dark side street for traps. If they did they would find it with scarf of with out if they didn't they were in for a colourful surprise. She kept running. No one appeared behind her. Perfect. Only one and a half blocks left.
She came to a skidding halt almost falling when a large blue figure cut out of sapphire with the body of man and the head of a hawk landed in front of the alleys exit. The figure stood up slowly turning to face her and, folding his beautiful giant wings behind his back started moving towards her. Finding her footing again Anira was half turning following her instinct for flight when she saw that the creature in front of her puled out a thick compact onyx rod form his belt. She recognized it the weapon and new that running was not really going to help this time. She also noticed that she was sick of running. And that she actually wasn't afraid but rather very angry. The evening had gone so well, everything was perfect until that stupid idiot of an ambassador had decided to impress two pairs of breasts with his office instead of being the good host he was supposed to be. And not only did he just throw open the doors announcing his arrival with a loud "tadaa", it was also pretty much the only thirty seconds where she could not possibly hide or talk her way out of the situation. And now she was being hunted like a rabbit through a city by a bunch of idiots dressed up like animal men. No. This would end now.
"Out of my way boy." she growled.
The soldier in front of her ignored her. Instead he started to sing in a deep resonant voice some ancient hymn of incantation. The rod in his hand reacted to his voice, sigils starting to glow golden on its matte black surface.
"I did warn you." she said suddenly changing her stance into that of a runner in mid sprint. She inhaled pulling in the power of the air and the heat of the night city into her body, her fingers started moving in complex patterns moulding the energy she was drawing in.
Now lines of power started to converge on the rods surface. Little sparks dancing over its surface while the soldiers voice slowly grew deeper and steadily louder.
Anira was still drawing in breath, the air around her body now starting to waver in the heat haze of the power she was accumulating.
Then with one powerful shout she released the energy she had drawn in, exploding into motion running towards the soldier, striking the space directly in front of his breast plate with a smash of her elbow releasing a shock-wave of energy and moving past him in a blink of an eye.
She stood still. behind her two parallel lines were gleaming in fading radiance where her feet had slid over the floor as she decelerated. Behind her the rod in the hand of the soldier quivered and fell out of his hand. The sigils fading. Only when the weapon had hit the floor with a loud clinking noise did the soldier move. He was caught by an enormous force sent flying into the air his brilliant blue armour exploding into a million tiny pieces as he spun around showering the alley with the remnants of his priceless uniform that had taken months of work by the most skilled grand high master sanctificers of the Nomad Empire. Anira exhaled.
Two other guards had appeared at the far end of the alley. They only hesitated for the shortest of time when they saw what had happened to their comrade before they started to run towards their target. One of them sang a powerful short incantation extending his wings lifting off while the other kept running on the ground as there was hardly any place for one of them with fully extended wings in the little street as it were. Anira looked at them inclining her head a bit, the grinned an asymmetric smile, flipped them the bird and walked away. The enraged soldiers doubled their efforts to catch her stepping into Anira's with reckless enthusiasm.
The invocation strip exploded into a wall of light, nothing that would not be filtered by the helmets of the artefact armour of the bodyguards, but the the shaking ground sent soldier on the ground rolling in form of a magnificently armoured ball of disoriented arms and legs right into the next wall. While the one in the air was surprise and shocked by the stone hewn sentinels stepping out of the walls unsheathing their four meter swords. A second rate illusion that only lasted a few seconds but long enough to shock the airborne man into an ill advised evasive manoeuvre that ended with an intimate moment with a building and a crumpled heap of soldier on the ground.
By the time the two man had regained their footing and some of their dignity Anira had entered a small inconspicuous building which had folded it self neatly into the ground when no one was looking, leaving nothing behind but a dusty street corner. Anira followed a one way, one use underground tunnel which left behind nothing but solid rock. On thing the Free Agency was quite proud off was the near perfection of their safe houses. Inside it Ailu Leyka an old friend of Anira and long time handler was waiting for her.
"Back already?" Ailu asked.
"Yes things did not quite go according to plan." Anira answered.
"Did you complete the assignment?"
"Perhaps?" Ailu gave Anira a look that was half question mark half exasperation. "What exatly is that supposed to mean?"
"Well" answered Anira now looking a bit like a child caught stealing biscuits "technically I should have gotten the information..."
"Technically?" hope left Ailu's voice to die quietly in a corner.
"I did not get to sift through the ambassadors memory crystals and copy the information that I should get. But" and Anira's face lit up, "I grabbed all of the Ambassadors memory crystals and took of with them."
"That means we certainly have all the information our client requested, our target has no idea why we where there and the Agency gets to sift through all the rest of the information we got out of the mission. See everybody wins!"
"You know that Kelsheron will have your head on a plate for this right?"
"Phhh. He will do a lot a screaming. I will go into my holidays and no one will stop me because they will think that I am slipping. And once I am back it will be all water under the bridge."
"That easy... eh?"
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In the Counterknowledge article by number6 Scientology 101: What is the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)? prominent Scientology critic Chuck Beatty has posted a comment that deserves to be widely read and not buried so we are reproducing it here.
Besides being endlessly available to all manner of people seeking help and truth, Beatty is a scholar of great intellectual humility. He modestly presents us with a suggested research program on the Truth Rundown in the RPF. In doing so he reveals its shocking core.purpose: tracking down any "false vilification" of David Miscavige and eradication of all such thoughts from the minds of RPF'ers.Beatty has called for the release of Hubbard's Truth Rundown writings into the public domain for research. 2008 has witnessed many important internal church documents becoming publicly available. We hope the Truth Rundown materials will soon be among them.
Chuck Beatty:
Someone needs to research the "Truth Rundown" which is arguably the most important "spiritual" therapy that one cooperatively delivers and receives with one's RPF partner. This "Truth Rundown" the name broadcasts the irony of it. Hubbard's authorization of such bold names to his spiritual rundowns is classic L. Ron Hubbard. The "Truth Rundown" is second only in such crassness, to another Hubbard rundown called the "Superpower Rundown." But on the RPF, one spends arguable one's MOST concerted redemption focus on the "Truth Rundown." It MUST be researched in detail, someday, and it alone will stand to show just how close Hubbard's Scientology spiritual therapy (fraud therapy) is to brainwashing. I hope to hell someone gets the Truth Rundown writings of Hubbard out into the public domain, and that some advanced Scientology observer does the homework and research.
Most troublesome, is this exact scenario. The Truth Rundown deals with a Sea Org member's false vilification of one of the Sea Org's top ranked executives. In particular, any false vilification of David Miscavige, would be addressed by the person on the RPF.
Realize it is only the top ranked people who have years of dealings with Miscavige, intimate day to day dealings on various Sea Org strategic big and small administrative and otherwise dealings, that a Sea Org member might encounter David Miscavige's irrational and explosive temper tantrums.
Well, if a Sea Org member who was overwhelmed and physically abused by Miscavige were to be sent to the RPF, they likely have some instances of them "falsely vilifying" Miscavige.
But Miscavige deserves to be vilified.
But people are made to do their Truth Rundown therapy processing, and change any harbored ill feelings for Miscavige to glowing good thoughts for Miscavige.
This subject, David Miscavige, he's supposed to be a good guy.
People on the RPF, who have BAD experiences with Miscavige are made to change their thoughts.
This is roughly how the Truth Rundown is brainwashing, in that harbored ill feelings that Sea Org members HAVE (rightly) for David Miscavige are attempted to be "redeemed" out of them, on the Truth Rundown.
Hubbard didn't entertain the thought that he, or that his supreme leaders/executives could be wrong.
Hubbard's extremist therapy processing leads to thought crime eradication, in that a person would have to change their "viewpoint" from a bad viewpoint to a good viewpoint, in order to succeed in completing the Truth Rundown.
This is brainwashing.
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Jul 1996 - Mar 2003
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