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The Case Of The Double Bodies
"Lila began to meditate. Immediately she entered the highest state of
consciousness free from all distractions (nirvikalpa). She was in the infinite
space of consciousness. There she saw the king once again, on a throne,
surrounded by many kings who adored him— but they did not see her. She wondered:
are they all dead, too!
Again, by the grace of goddess Sarasvati, she came back to her palace, and saw her attendants asleep. She woke them and asked them to request the members of the royal court to assemble at once.
Seeing all the members of the royal court, Lila was puzzled: she thought, 'This is strange, for these people seem to exist in two places at the same time—in that region which I saw in my meditation and here in front of me. Just as a mountain is seen both inside the mirror and outside it, this creation is seen both within consciousness and outside it. But, which of these is real and which the reflection? I must find out from Sarasvati'. She adored Sarasvati and saw her seated in front of her.
Be gracious, O Goddess, and tell me this. That on which this world is reflected is extremely pure and undivided, and it is not the object of knowledge. This world exists both within it as its reflection, and outside as solid matter: which is real and which the reflection?."..
"O Rama, Sarasvati and queen Lila immediately sat in deep meditation, or nirvakalpa samadhi. They has risen above body-consciousness. Because they had given up all notions of the world, it had completely vanished in their consciousness. They roamed freely in their wisdom-bodies. Though it seemed that they had travelled millions of miles in space, they were still in the same 'room', but on another plane of consciousness. They saw all that was already in the mind of Sarasvati, and which Sarasvati wanted to show to queen Lila."
Swami Venkatesananda, The Concise Yoga Vasistha
State University of New York Press (October 1984), pp. 55-57
Shri Adi Shakti: The
Kingdom Of God [1999]
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One day Kash was just very relaxed and meditating on bed without squatting, i.e., he was sitting on the edge of the bed instead on the floor. He had done so on a number of occasions but was not told anything.
However, this time he was asked why he was not squatting on the floor like the rest of the family. He then explained that it did not matter how he meditated. Whatever position his physical body was on Earth, in the Sahasrara his spiritual body always remained in the proper meditative stance. Immediately after achieving Sahaj Samadhi he bursts through the celestial clouds and sees his spiritual body below, always in deep meditation beside the Eternal Throne of the Supreme Spirit. He then slowly drifts down into his ethereal form or, sometimes, just walks and sits into it.
It makes no difference in what physical position he is meditating on Earth — lying down, slumping, cross-legged, kneeling. His spiritual self is always in an upright position inside the Thousand-Petal Forest, squatting and meditating besides the Golden Throne of the Holy Spirit, day and night. After meditation Kash just gets up and walks away from his spiritual self. In fact he can see his spiritual self still meditating, even after 'leaving' it.
His material body fits his spiritual body precisely, together with whatever clothes he is wearing. He explained that his ethereal body does not have any type of attire. Once he enters this body, the two bodies merge into one and function as one."This soul is a nonmaterial entity, which does not depend on the body. Rather the body serves as its vehicle in the physical body ... The soul (also called the spirit) of the individual is the seat or locus of his personality, self, and consciousness."
This foot-soaking experience was properly recorded on May 23, 1995, at 8:30 p.m. He meditated while seated on a chair, his feet soaked in a container of water with some salt added. (This is a cleansing technique used to drain negativity from the body into the water.) He explained that he floated into his spiritual self and then put his legs down into the carpet of clouds. His feet were immediately immersed in water that somehow formed in the clouds beneath. The meditation then continued as normal with Shri Mataji and Her Spirit People.
Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom Of God, 1999, pp. 580
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The intention of the Spirit of truth is the restoration of an alienated, deceived humanity... The teaching role of the Paraclete tends to be remembered as a major emphasis of the Farewell Discourses, yet only 14:26 says She will teach you all things. (Teaching is, however, implied when 16:13-15 says that the Spirit will guide you into all truth, and will speak and declare.) Franz Mussner remarks that the word used in 14:26, didaskein, "means literally 'teach, instruct,' but in John it nearly always means to reveal." (Stevick 2011, 292-7)
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"And when Jesus foreannounced another Comforter, He must have intended a Person as distinct and helpful as He had been."
F. B. Meyer, Love to the Utmost
"The Paraclete has a twofold function: to communicate Christ to believers and, to put the world on trial."
Robert Kysar, John The Meverick Gospel
"But She—the Spirit, the Paraclete...—will teach you everything."
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"Grammatical nonsense but evidence of the theological desire to defeminize the Divine."
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"The functions of the Paraclete spelled out in verses 13-15... are all acts of open and bold speaking in the highest degree."
David Fleer, Preaching John's Gospel
"The reaction of the world to the Paraclete will be much the same as the world's reaction was to Jesus."
Berard L. Marthaler, The Creed: The Apostolic Faith in Contemporary Theology
Bultmann calls the "coming of the Redeemer an 'eschatological event,' 'the turning-point of the ages."
G. Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament
"The Paraclete equated with the Holy Spirit, is the only mediator of the word of the exalted Christ."
Benny Thettayil, In Spirit and Truth
"The divine Paraclete, and no lessor agency, must show the world how wrong it was about him who was in the right."
Daniel B. Stevick , Jesus and His Own: A Commentary on John 13-17
Stephen Smalley asserts that "The Spirit-Paraclete ... in John's Gospel is understood as personal, indeed, as a person."
Marianne Thompson, The God of the Gospel of John
"The Messiah will come and the great age of salvation will dawn (for the pious)."
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"The remembrance is to relive and re-enact the Christ event, to bring about new eschatological decision in time and space."
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Michael Welker, God the Spirit
The Paraclete's "Appearance means that sin, righteousness, and judgment will be revealed."
Georg Strecker, Theology of the New Testament
"While the Spirit-Paraclete is the true broker, the brokers they rely on are impostors."
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"The pneumatological activity ... of the Paraclete ... may most helpfully be considered in terms of the salvific working of the hidden Spirit."
Michael Welker, The work of the Spirit
"The pneuma is the peculiar power by which the word becomes the words of eternal life."
Robert Kysar, Voyages with John
"The gift of peace, therefore, is intimately associated with the gift of the Spirit-Paraclete."
Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of John
"This utopian hope, even when modestly expressed, links Jesus and the prophets to a much wider history of human longing."
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"Because of the presence of the Paraclete in the life of the believer, the blessings of the end-times—the eschaton—are already present."
Robert Kysar, John
"They are going, by the Holy Spirit's power, to be part of the greatest miracle of all, bringing men to salvation."
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"The Kingdom of God stands as a comprehensive term for all that the messianic salvation included... is something to be sought here and now (Mt. 6:33) and to be received as children receive a gift (Mk. 10:15 = Lk. 18:16-17)."
G. Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament
"But today is the day I declare that I am the one who has to save the humanity. I declare I am the one who is Adishakti, who is the Mother of all the Mothers, who is the Primordial Mother, the Shakti, the desire of God, who has incarnated on this Earth to give its meaning to itself; to this creation, to human beings and I am sure through My Love and patience and My powers I am going to achieve it.
I was the one who was born again and again. But now in my complete form and complete powers I have come on this Earth not only for salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation, but for granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the joy, the bliss that your Father wants to bestow upon you."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
London, UK—December 2, 1979
"I am the one about which Christ has talked... I am the Holy Spirit who has incarnated on this Earth for your realization."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
New York, USA—September 30, 1981
"Tell all the nations and tell all the people all over the Great Message that the Time of Resurrection is here. Now, at this time, and that you are capable of doing it."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
Cowley Manor Seminar, UK—July 31, 1982
Guest: "Hello Mother."
Shri Mataji: "Yes."
Guest: "I wanted to know, is the Cool Breeze (Pneuma) that you have spoken about, you feel on the hands the Cool Wind of the Holy Spirit, as spoken about in the Bible?"
Shri Mataji: "Yes. Yes, yes, same thing, same thing. You have done the good job now, I must say."
Interviewer: "Is it the Holy Spirit?"
Shri Mataji: "Yes, of course, is the Holy Spirit."
Guest: "Aha... I am feeling it now on my hand through the [not clear]"
Shri Mataji: "It's good."
Interviewer: "Did you want to say anything more than that?"
Guest: "No, I just... That's all I wanted to know because I..."
Shri Mataji: "Because you are thoughtless now. Enjoy yourself."
Guest: "Thank you."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
Talkback Radio 2UE, Sydney, Australia—March 31, 1981
Second Guest: "I just want to ask Mother about a quotation from the Bible."
Interviewer: "Yes, what's that?"
Guest: "It says, 'But the comfort of the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in My name would teach you all things.' I would like to ask Her about that."
Interviewer: "Could you just repeat the quotation again?"
Guest: "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things."
Interviewer: "And that's from where?"
Guest: "John chapter 14, verse 26."
Shri Mataji: "I think you should take your realization and then you will know the answer to it. Because, logically if it points out to one person, then you have to reach the conclusion, isn't it? That's a logical way of looking at things. But I am not going to say anything or claim anything. It is better you people find out yourself."
Interviewer: "Does that answer your question?"
Guest: "Is the, is the Comforter on the Earth at the present time? Has the Comforter incarnated? Mataji should be able to tell us this because She said that through these vibrations on Her hands, She ..."
Shri Mataji: "Yes, She is very much here and She's talking to you now. Can you believe that?"
Guest: "Well, I feel something cool [Pneuma/Prana/Chi] on my hand. Is that some indication of the ...?"
Shri Mataji: "Yes, very much so. So that's the proof of the thing. You've already started feeling it in your hands."
Guest: "Can I?"
Shri Mataji: "Ask the question, 'Mother, are you the Comforter?'"
Guest: "Mother, are you the Comforter?"
Shri Mataji: "Ask it thrice."
Guest: "Mother, are you the Comforter?"
Shri Mataji: "Again."
Guest: "Mother, are you the Comforter?"
Shri Mataji: "Now, what do you get?"
Guest: "Oh, I feel this kind of cool tingling [Pneuma/Prana/Chi] passing all through my body."
Shri Mataji: "That's the answer now."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
Talkback Radio 2UE, Sydney, Australia—March 31, 1981
"The Paraclete and the disciples (vv. 25-26): The theme of departure (cf. vv. 1-6; vv. 18-24) returns. There are two "times" in the experience of the disciples: the now as Jesus speaks to them (v. 25) and the future time when the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father in the name of Jesus, will be with them (v. 26). The Paraclete will replace Jesus' physical presence, teaching them all things and recalling for them everything he has said (v. 26). As Jesus is the Sent One of the Father (cf. 4:34; 5:23; 24, 30, 37; 6:38-40; 7:16; 8:16, 18, 26; 12:44-49), so is the Paraclete sent by the Father. The mission and purpose of the former Paraclete, Jesus (cf. 14:13-14), who speaks and teaches "his own" will continue into the mission and purpose of the "other Paraclete" (cf. v. 16) who teaches and brings back the memory of all that Jesus has said. The time of Jesus is intimately linked with the time after Jesus, and the accepted meaning of a departure has been undermined. The inability of the disciples to understand the words and deeds of Jesus will be overcome as they "remember" what he had said (cf. 2:22) and what had been written of him and done to him (cf. 12:16). The "remembering" will be the fruit of the presence of the Paraclete with the disciples in the in-between-time. In v. 16 Jesus focused on the inability of the world to know the Paraclete, but in v. 26 the gift of the Paraclete to "his own" is developed. As Jesus was with the disciples (v. 25), so will the Paraclete be with the disciples in the midst of hostility and rejection (v. 16). As the story has insisted that Jesus' teaching has revealed God to his disciples, so will the Paraclete recall and continue Jesus' revelation of God to the disciples (v. 26)." (Harrington 1998, 412)
"This is the transformation that has worked, of which Christ has talked, Mohammed Sahib has talked, everybody has talked about this particular time when people will get transformed."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
Chistmas Puja, Ganapatipule, India—25 December 1997
"The Resurrection of Christ has to now be collective Resurrection. This is what is Mahayoga. Has to be the collective Resurrection."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
Easter Puja, London, UK—11 April 1982
"Today, Sahaja Yaga has reached the state of Mahayoga, which is en-masse evolution manifested through it. It is this day's Yuga Dharma. It is the way the Last Judgment is taking place. Announce it to all the seekers of truth, to all the nations of the world, so that nobody misses the blessings of the divine to achieve their meaning, their absolute, their Spirit."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
"The main thing that one has to understand is that the time has come for you to get all that is promised in the scriptures, not only in the Bible but all all the scriptures of the world. The time has come today that you have to become a Christian, a Brahmin, a Pir, through your Kundalini awakening only. There is no other way. And that your Last Judgment is also now."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
"You see, the Holy Ghost is the Mother. When they say about the Holy Ghost, She is the Mother... Now, the principle of Mother is in every, every scripture — has to be there. Now, the Mother's character is that She is the one who is the Womb, She is the one who is the Mother Earth, and She is the one who nourishes you. She nourishes us. You know that. And this Feminine thing in every human being resides as this Kundalini."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
Radio Interview, Santa Cruz, USA—1 October 1983
"But there is a Primordial Mother which was accepted by all the religions; even the Jews had it... In India, this is called as Adi Shakti. In every religion they had this Mother who was the Primordial Mother."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
TV Interview, Los Angeles, USA—11 October 1993
Total number of Recorded Talks 3058, Public Programs 1178, Pujas 651 and Other (private conversations) 1249
"What are they awaiting but for the Hour to come upon them suddenly? Its Signs have already come. What good will their Reminder be to them when it does arrive?" (Qur'n, 47:18) "As the above verse indicates, God has revealed some of Doomsday's signs in the Qur'n. In Surat az-Zukhruf 43:61, God informs us that 'He [Jesus] is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it...' Thus we can say, based particularly on Islamic sources but also on the Old Testament and the New Testament, that we are living in the End Times." Harun Yahya
Good News (An Naba) of Resurrection (Al-Qiyamah): Videos 3474, Audios 1945, Transcripts 3262 and Events 2413
"Concerning what are they disputing?
Concerning the Great News. [5889]
About which they cannot agree.
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!"
surah 78:1-5 An Naba (The Great News)
5889. Great News: usually understood to mean the News or Message of the Resurrection.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'n
Amana Corporation, 1989
[Moderator]: "Any other questions?"
[Audience]: "Pardon me for asking this question, but, earlier you talked about the Resurrection and you mentioned about the scriptures, where like in the Hindus scriptures they talk about the Kalki Avatar who will come for the Resurrection, and for the Christians, I know they talk about the return of Christ and all the religions talk about this Resurrection and the belief in the coming of the Messiah. So I just want to know since you say you are going to give the resurrection to us, what is your station?"
Shri Mataji: "In Russia?"
[Audience]: "And are you the promised Messiah? Shri Mataji, are you?"
Shri Mataji: "I see now I am not going to tell you anything about myself, to be very frank. Because see Christ said He was the Son of God, and they crucified Him. I don't want to get crucified. You have to find out. When you become the Spirit you will know what I am. I don't want to say anything about myself."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
Toronto, Canada—October 5, 1993
"Jesus then goes on the offensive against the scribes and Pharisees, pronouncing seven woes against them (Matt. 23:1-36). The final woe identifiers them with all those in Israel's history who have murdered and opposed the prophets. From Abel to Zechariah, all the blood of the righteous will come on them as they typologically fulfill this pattern in the murder of Jesus (23:29-36). They are the wicked tenants who think to kill the son and take his inheritance (21:38). They are seed of the serpent, a brood of vipers (23:33). Their house (the temple?) is desolate, and they will not see Jesus again until they bless him as he comes in the name of the Lord (23:37-39). Somehow, through the judgments Jesus announces against them, salvation will apparently come even for the people of Israel. As Olmstead puts it, Matthew "dares to hope for the day when many of Israel's sons and daughters will embrace Israel's Messiah (23:39), and in that hope engages in a continued mission in her."" Hamilton 2010, 377
"It is the Mother who can awaken the Kundalini, and that the Kundalini is your own Mother. She is the Holy Ghost within you, the Adi Shakti, and She Herself achieves your transformation. By any talk, by any rationality, by anything, it cannot be done."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
"She is your pure Mother. She is the Mother who is individually with you. Forget your concepts, and forget your identifications. Please try to understand She is your Mother, waiting for ages to give you your real birth. She is the Holy Ghost within you. She has to give you your realization, and She's just waiting and waiting to do it."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh
Sydney, Australia—Mar 22 1981
"The Kundalini is your own mother; your individual mother. And She has tape-recorded all your past and your aspirations. Everything! And She rises because She wants to give you your second birth. But She is your individual mother. You don't share Her with anybody else. Yours is a different, somebody else's is different because the tape-recording is different. We say She is the reflection of the Adi Shakti who is called as Holy Ghost in the Bible."
THE MOTHER: Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
Press Conference July 08 1999—London, UK
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PechaKucha Night 37
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Growing young again
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Natural Eyesight Improvement
Are you tired of wearing glasses? Your eyesight can return to normal in the same way that your body naturally heals cuts, broken bones and illnesses! There are no exercises involved, we just need to return to the simple, relaxed, vision habits we learned as a child. This talk will challenge the beliefs and myths about our eye's ability to heal!
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"Kris will explain to the audience some of the benefits of sailing on a tallship, showing different aspects of what can be achieved and allowing for thought beyond perceived horizons.
Outlining what sailing is like as a career, the travel to far distant lands without the trapping of tourism. More young people are needed to get involved bringing new energy."
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Falling in love with tequila
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While doing her Masters of Science in Biomimicry, through Arizona State University Sarita recently learnt about an awesome tool called Life's Principles. She will briefly introduce people to this tool, as well as the field of Biomimicry.
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Find out what you're made of
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J. Virginia Rubery
Rubery, J. Virginia, 94, of Kenyon Road in Cranston, died on August 27th. Ginny was predeceased by her husband Tom L. Rubery and is survived by her three children: Ginny Pasonelli, Carol Mercier, Dan Rubery, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She was the eldest daughter of William A. and Josephine (Maughan) Higgins. Predeceased by siblings William, Russell, John Higgins, Geraldine McCarthy and Patricia Champagne, she is survived by her sister Margaret O'Brien, her brother Robert Higgins, and many nieces and nephews. Ginny taught for 20 years in the Cranston Public Schools. She loved reading, doing crossword puzzles, and dancing. At the request of the family there will be no visiting hours. However, friends and relatives are invited to join with them for a Mass of Christian Burial Tuesday at 10:00am in St. Matthews Church (corner of Park and Elmwood Avenues) Cranston. The burial in the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery, Exeter will also be private. In lieu of flowers donations to St. Matthews Church 9 Frances Avenue Cranston, RI 02910 would be appreciated. Her children would like to express their gratitude to the loving staff at the Alpine Nursing Home in Coventry who took such great care of their mother. Their dedication and kindness will never be forgotten!
Carl and JoAnn LaBranche - 08/28/2011
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time.
Lynn DeLucia - 08/28/2011
She was a beautiful lady,who I had the pleasure of spending some time with at Alpine and at St. Matthew's Church. She was always so positive, upbeat and a wonderful role model for all! I will miss her. My heartfelt sympathy to her family, and my prayers are with you Ginny during this difficult time.
Marilyn Bressler - 08/28/2011
It is so very difficult to lose a mother.She is so many things to her family and friends.She is the epitome of Love for all,especially her children. Ginny, your love and hers are eternally bound together in God's family. May your pain be brief in the knowledge that love lasts forever.
Deb and Mike Fortin - 08/28/2011
Dan, So sorry to hear about your loss. You and your family are in our prayers.
Bob & Dianne O'Brien - 08/29/2011
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Paula Greene - 08/29/2011
my prayers are with you all. I am just hoping there is one big gathering going on up there to welcome her, if my father is involved there will be some sort of spiked beverage!
Warren & Irene Cushman - 08/29/2011
Carol, we remember the many years we talked and laughed together with your mother across the back fence. She was one grand lady. We are sorry for your loss.
Pat Pyne - 08/30/2011
Ginny, Joe and family.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time.
Karen McGrath - 08/30/2011
Ginny so loved her books! We missed her once she moved to Alpine. Our deepest sympathy from all the staff at the Auburn Branch Library.
Mary Lamoureux - 09/10/2011
My thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time. Your mom was a very special lady and will always be remembered. May you memories help you heal.
My Deepest sympathy,
Martha Delaney Mulcahey - 09/12/2011
Virginia was an Alpine Nursing Home roommate to my dearly deceased Aunt Martha, Martha Toye Kelty, for a few weeks a few years ago. Virginia had also been a student at Rhode Island College of Education in my mother's day (Jane Helena Toye, who married and became Jane Toye Delaney, a librarian and teacher for the Providence School Department.) Virginia was most pleasant while recalling some of her stories about my dear late mother and late father, Joseph Patrick Delaney of the College of the Holy Cross, who also was a football player, scholar/athlete, an educator, and an administrator in the Providence School Department and Johnson & Wales University. Aunt Martha was upbeat while having Virginia as a roommate because they were both such good conversationalists. In my view, Virginia and Martha were compatible for remaining knowledgeable about current affairs and for being good sports during NFL Football games and similarly popular sports events.
May God mercifully receive Virginia's soul into heaven and send comforts to her family and friends.
Barbara Olean - 03/17/2014
To Virginia's family
Dear Family,
I just came across Virginia's obit. I worked with her at Gladstone and have many warm memories of her kindness and sense of humor. My sincere sympathy to you for her loss.She was one of a kind.
Barbara Olean


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Hearty home-cooked meals you can keep in your freezer
AFTER a long day at work, sometimes the last thing you want to do is go home and cook.
Luckily for Stanthorpe locals, Liz Arnold has a passion for cooking, and it's this love of being in the kitchen that inspired her to start her frozen meal delivery service A Meal or Two.
"I've wanted to do something like this for ages," Liz said.
"I thought right, the time is now.
"I started thinking 'Right-o I'll get my van up and running in no time flat' and eight months later it's all happening."
Since starting up just three weeks out from Christmas, Mrs Arnold is surprised with the number of people already ordering her dinners.
"I'm amazed at how many people are ringing and asking for them,"
"They're just plain home-cooked meals."
Mrs Arnold's passion for cooking comes from a young age.
"I've always liked cooking, my mum taught me to cook," she said.
"It's always just been a passion and I'm not a chef, I'm just a home cook and just enjoy it."
The A Meal or Two menu offers a wide variety of meals to choose from, served with vegetables sourced from her husband's farm and other locals.
"The thing that people mostly are ordering are the rissoles and the corned beef fritters," she said.
"It's quite hilarious: I cook more corned beef for fritters than I do for the corned beef."
Looking forward a year she hopes to be cooking just a few more meals without expanding in size.
"I hope to be plodding along, happy to just go and do it," she said.
"I don't want to go to huge, I don't want to mass produce food, I just want to put in a family roast and make eight meals and freeze them."
Meals cost $10 each and must be ordered by 9am Monday for a Friday delivery.


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July 12th - 14th
A cosplay repair station will be available for attendees this year.
Hours of Operation
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm
( Masquerade Ball) July 13th Friday Night 9:30 PM - 12:00 PM (18+ ONLY)
July 14th Saturday Night 9:30 PM - 12:30 PM (18+ ONLY)
We have a full weekend of competitions for you! Strut your stuff and show off your style in our cosplay contests - adults and children having separate opportunities to win prizes!
Adult Cosplay Contest
1st: 2018 Kobe-Kon Cosplay Contest Trophy and $100 Anime World Gift Card
2nd: $50 Anime World Gift Card
3rd: $25 Anime World Gift Card
Youth Cosplay Contest (12&Under)
1st: Two Free Regal Movie Tickets
Seattle Indie Games will be at Kobe-Kon 2018 to provide you with hot trendy indie games.
Puzzle Depot by Laughing Manatee Games
At Last Alone by Stev Weidlich
Overworked by Team NPC
CATcher by fluffy
The Witching Hour by Ashley Rivas
Unstable Scientific by Masha and Dustin Soodak
convergence by cloverfirefly
Erno Lights by Herman Chau
Buoyancy by Team Buoyancy
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Poisson Blanc Regional Park holds the environment dearly! Proud of its accomplishments since its inception in 2008, especially of the removal of more than one ton of garbage collected on the islands and Le Bastion's LEED Gold Certification; the Park is presently working on a new environmental program. The project is inspired by the Sépaq Ecological Integrity Monitoring Program. It focuses on six factors (air quality, water quality, biocenosis state – the living species –, space organization of the territory and quality of the infrastructures1) that are critical to the environment's preservation.
Called the Programme intégré de suivi du territoire; the project started in 2013 with a first tour of the campsites. The collected information aims to make an inventory and complete our knowledge of the territory and adjust our practices accordingly. The CPPB, which is responsible for the Park's management, wishes to offer and develop sustainable tourism products.
1 The Ecological Integrity Monitoring Program (EIMP). Réseau Parcs Québec - SÉPAQ, May 2011.
"with respect to a park, a condition that is determined to be characteristic of its natural region and likely to persist, including abiotic components and the composition and abundance of native species and biological communities, rates of change and supporting processes."
According to the Canada National Parks Act; S.C. 2000, c. 32


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Yahoo! News predicts the future, calls election for Bush
Great Scott! Someone at Yahoo! News must have gotten their hands on a flux capacitor. They've called the election for Bush already, and it's not even November yet!
At around 2pm Pacific time, this page contained a color-coded election map, a state-by-state breakdown of popular and electoral vote counts, and a table summing up the results, showing that Bush had won both the popular and the electoral vote.
The URL now leads to a blank page, but I managed to nab a screenshot before it disappeared. Note the date in the page header. Also note that the totals indicate Bush won 30 states while Kerry won 22. That's a total of 52 states. What gives?


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Anger, hunger at refugee campsFrom SAAD MUSE in Mogadishu, Somalia
MOGADISHU, (CAJ News) – ABOUT one million Somalis in refugee camps in the Horn of Africa and the surrounding region face growing hopelessness as their displacement drags on for decades and donors become fatigued.
The Somali refugee situation, now in its third decade, is among the most protracted in the world, with a third generation of refugees being born in exile.
Nearly one million are displaced in the near region and a further 1,1 million are displaced within the country itself.
"There is a growing sense of hopelessness in the camps, because people are feeling forgotten," said Mohamed Abdi Affey, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy on the Somali refugee situation.
As the situation draws on for decades, Affey said that refugees in the camps faced challenges ranging from dwindling food rations as a drought builds in East Africa to limited access to education and skills training, particularly for the youth.
The envoy said donor attention was drawn to other emergencies including Syria and South Sudan.
"Meanwhile hunger is growing, frustration is growing and desperation is setting in and people are becoming angry."
The imminent closure of the Dabaab refugee camp in Kenya is worsening matters and left the region on the verge of humanitarian crisis.
About 300 000 Somali refugees are accommodated at the centre, the world's largest such site.
Kenya is closing it amid fears it is now a breeding ground for the Al-Shabaab terror group.
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Ecobee Smart Thermostat: I have a couple issues with it.
I was a fan of the Ecobee (3), but am losing faith. I have two thermostats. One repeatedly refuses to work with the app. I can see the status of the thermostat, but the app refuses to make any changes on the thermostat, except when I make a change on the thermostat, and then the app works for a few hours or days and then goes back to the old status. The other unit works better with the app , but won't generate usage data on a regular basis. Both were installed at the same time, but I have 3 times as much data for the one unit, with the other unit frequently showing a "still working on your report" message many months (and never actually showing any results).
I have tried working with Ecobee on this but todate they have not found a fix and sometimes have been downright rude I'm their response.
Also only one unit works with HomeKit. Not really a big deal for me because a lot of my IOT technology doesn't work with HomeKit (I don't have the HK comptible hub for my Insteon stuff, and refuse to get yet another hub for WEMO, or to upgrade my MyQ hub). I'm not really into voice commands, being happy to use the device apps and IFTTT and Stringify to integrate my tech.
I own several buildings in Chicago, where temperature control/efficiency is VERY important; and I was a Nest guy all the way (and a former Apple employee–back when Nest products were sold at Apple Stores–before the "troubles").
I gave Ecobee a shot because: I was intrigued that they were still in business and had a growing product line; I can't buy Nest at Apple; and I can't use Siri or HomeKit with Nest.
I had an Ecobee rep come to my building and give me a great demo of the Ecobee 4 with Alexa and a room sensor (and I got a free unit as long as I set it up and started using it–which I did). I gave the Nest in my unit to my sister.
I am totally underwhelmed by Ecobee.
The interface flat sucks.
It's ugly.
I am not convinced that the room sensors actually work.
Alexa is lame, when it works, which is not often.
And just like Nest, and most IOT devices, there is a serious lack of logging/notifications. I desperately want to be able to control, via a simple switch in the Settings, notifications of ALL EVENTS or SOME EVENTS, or NO Events. I envision a switch for Notifications On/Off and then a sub slider: Normal/Verbose.
I have brought this up to Nest engineers, Ecobee sales guys, and Wink support as well. Apparently l am the ONLY PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE who wants to see notification of events (and decide what level of notification). I am perfectly aware that there IS as log of EVERY event that happens on these devices, but no one wants me to see them. I can see them in my Wink Activity Log (but I don't get a notification).
Call me crazy, but if I leave my house at 5:45am and my therm goes on (or off) at its regularly scheduled time of 6am, I would like a notification. Then I can say, "hey, it's working" or "hey, I am not home, I should turn that off now."
Back to my review of your review. Having said that I am underwhelmed by Ecobee, I am sticking with it. Nest is superior in its industrial design by 1,000 MILES. It is also much easier to use/setup. But, if you actually login to the Ecobee website with a tablet or computer, you do see a TON of data. And I am a data guy. Data rules. Also, Ecobee has more serious commercial units that you can't even see on their website. They don't have the IOT screen interface (yet, I am told). So if you are in a commercial space/warehouse you might want to seriously consider Ecobee. Also, and this is very important for me, if you have many therms, and many locations, there simply isn't a better solution than Ecobee. They have have a great way of viewing a ton of devices (although I was able to give them a pointer or two, because that is how I roll).


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So wanting to pick a few brains on here regarding head choices.
Was originally going to just use my existing DAVCS heads on the Legacy but decided its a pain in the ass as the car will then be out of action for whatever time it takes to sort out so looking for some other ones to mate to the EJ257.
Turbo is going to be a HRC35/2 which is essentially a tweaked Holset HX35
Know someone with some V7 STI and BL/BP ones up for grabs so thinking they're the easiest options.
Obviously both options would need the combustion chamber altered to match the 257 bore. Guessing the V7 ones would have considerably larger port sizes out of the box so porting shouldn't be as critical as on BL/BP ones.
What kind of response loss would be expected going to the V7 ones with single AVCS over the Legacy DAVCS set?
And what kind of power can actually be achieved on the Legacy ones with minor work done to them? Think Mick was at about 270 with them on the 20x/y from memory.
Would have liked some V11 STI ones but chances of finding a set are pretty damn slim.
Also are there any other common models out there worth trying to source?


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An oasis of calm in a green environment, Avonlea Inn usually delights the guests in search of a peaceful place after a busy day. Guests recommend Avon
An oasis of calm in a green environment, Avonlea Inn usually delights the guests in search of a peaceful place after a busy day. Guests recommend Avonlea Inn for its coziness, its great food and above all, for Joseph�s hospitality and friendliness. Don�t miss a good chat with your host and let him organize your days for an unforgettable stay in Batticaloa.
11 A/C and non A/C rooms with attached bathroom and veranda.
Rates: Double A/C: 3000 Rs � Single A/C: 2500 Rs � Double non A/C: 2000 Rs � Single non A/C: 1500 Rs � Extra Bed: 500 Rs � +10% service charge.
A la carte. Barbecue on special occasions.
Ask for Avonlea�s special: Pittu with traditional crab curry, coconut milk and katta sambol or sambol.
Sri Lankan food: Rice and curry, hoppers, stringhoppers, pittu, rotti, milk rice, etc.
Indian food: Rotti, chapatti, parotta, thosai, idly, etc.
Chinese dishes: devilled items (prawns, chicken, pork, beef, etc.), fried rice, fried noodles, chop suey, etc.
European dishes: Seer fish course, grilled seafood (lobster, crab, prawns, cuttlefish), spaghetti, grilled meat (chicken, beef, pork, cuttlefish, etc.).
Fresh fruit juices, king coconut, milk shakes, lassis and soft drinks.
Laundry. International calls. Secured parking.
Restaurant room with TV. Flowered yard.
Pick up from Batticaloa railway station or Colombo airport on request.
Bicycle rental. 3-wheeler and A/C van hires can be arranged.
10 mn walk from Kallady Beach and Batticaloa Lagoon. 45 mn walk from the estuary.
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"It's hard convincing yourself that where you are at the moment is your home, and it's not always where your heart is. Sometimes I win and sometimes not." -- Jonathan Carroll
20 May 2012
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- May 20, 2012 at 5:25 PM
- likeschocolate said...
You are home aren't you? It was gorgeous here, but almost too hot for not having air conditioning. If it continues to be warn, I might have to have a fan shipped over here from the states.
- May 20, 2012 at 10:11 PM
- elena nuez said...
estas fotos son fantásticas, que suerte, en Madrid ha estado lloviendo todo el día!!!
- May 20, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- Miren Iriondo Photographie said...
Tiempo primaveral. A ver si por fin llega. Un saludo!
- May 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM
- tanïa said...
It was sunny today until it ended up in rain and thunderstorm...
Rainy Philly looks nice though!
- May 21, 2012 at 12:42 AM
- Francesca said...
no sun or spring here. i think they forgot about us!
- May 21, 2012 at 6:24 AM
- Rie said...
what a fab station!
- May 21, 2012 at 6:30 AM
- wood & wool stool said...
lovely pictures to dream away to Philly :)
- May 21, 2012 at 7:43 AM
- Sammi said...
hi jane, just thought i'd say a quick hello whilst comments are on. looks like you are well. are you back from the states yet?X
- May 21, 2012 at 11:25 AM
- T.S. Ötli said...
The sun is shining when I look to your beautiful photos ;) I love the details...
- May 21, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- Nancy Baric *negfilm said...
these are gorgeous!!!!
- May 21, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- lechow said...
- May 21, 2012 at 8:31 PM
- Janis said...
Jane, you no how to capture the essence of a place anywhere in the world. You're amazing girl! xo
- May 22, 2012 at 12:34 AM
- Don said...
It's sunny above the clouds!
- May 22, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- la casita said...
Philadelphia never looked so good!
It's sunny and hot(ish) here in poor old England!
- May 22, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- Anne said...
lovely glimpses, as always :)
greets from rainy paris!
- May 22, 2012 at 9:20 PM
- Line Houde said...
beautiful pics Jane it was sunny all week end now it'S raining!
- May 23, 2012 at 1:52 AM
- ♥ w o o l f ♥ said...
he is shining, the sun!
i find it strange the sun would be male, like i find cats to be rather female than male, which is ridiculous, i know.
love to come 'home' here.
- May 24, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- Oh Sunnie Day said...
Beautiful pics! Heading over to check out your etsy shop now :)
- May 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM
- Joanna Jenkins said...
Jane, Glad to see your comments "on". I'm loving all your photos, as always. Hope you're enjoying your summer.
xo jj
- May 29, 2012 at 6:32 AM
- La Rimule said...
I'll be in Philly next week end ! With the sun...
- July 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM
I knew a girl who was blue. So she painted her world pink. xoxo
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Discover our New Open Lobby coming soonAt Holiday Inn Leicester
Imagine your hotel lobby is no longer just a place for arrivals and departures, but instead, it's a flexible environment where you can eat, drink, work, meet, relax, socialise and have fun.
Well, we've listened to our guests and we're revolutionising our hotel lobby. That's why we'd like to introduce you to our new 'Open Lobby' concept coming soon to Holiday Inn Leicester.
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IT'S BEEN A DISMAL SUNDAY MORNING in the commune, and it has something to do with economics.
In the Pre-Schoolers' Background Briefing sandbox the bucolic socialists of the weekday rural program have been lamenting the lessons of their Grow Your Own Cotton soap opera.
I won't burden you with the details, but imagine you try to run a cotton-growing business the way the Greens and the Democrats would like to run the entire economy. That is, you adopt any old greener alternative going, dang the cost. Then you're priced out of the market, even the Gowings trendy market.
But they don't conclude their on-air whinge with any self-criticism, or a resolution to reform policy or think straighter. Instead the problem is "human nature", according to the straw-chewing Alicia Brown.
And every communard knows what it is that corrupts human nature.
It starts with Ca... and ends with ...ism.
No sooner have the radio rustics departed than we find ourselves assaulted by the whining of another bunch of special pleaders, as Julie Copland waves the banner of Art and helps Ms Robin Nevin promote her Australia Day demand for more money for the Arts.
She means more money should be taken from taxpayers on low to middle incomes so those - mostly higher-income earners - who want to see her plays can get cheaper tickets. And so that actors, playwrights, theatrical tea-ladies etc can have steady employment, without ever having to chase a vulgar audience again.
Ms Nevin is convinced the obscene dole schemes for our artists need enhancing because she has seen talent going overseas. As you would, and they will continue to do if they're good enough.
She has heard Oz actors learning foreign accents to enhance their prospects. I thought that was what actors did.
Like some agricultural misery-guts, Nevin sees a collapse in the artistic enterprise ahead of us, but offers no evidence apart from anecdote.
How can the communards of Radio National be critical of these self-seeking raiders of the cashbox, when they claim the same privilege for their own occupation of Radio National's pulpit?
One of the artistic products Ms Nevin is using tax-payer's money on is Katherine Thompson's new play, "Harbour". It's about the confrontation between the Maritime Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores.
Ms Thompson has researched her historical topic thoroughly be interviewing union officials and members.
I haven't seen "Harbour", but given the nature of Auntie's politics, Ms Nevin's politics and what Ms Thompson says I make one confident prediction:
The boss of Patrick, who broke the MUA's throttling grip on our waterfront, who made wharfies even richer than they were before while making the rest of us and himself richer too, that is Mr Chris Corrigan, will play no positive role in Ms Thompson's play whatsoever.
That's the trouble with our politicised artists. Their dramatic truths are as partial as the communards' commentary.


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Horses killed, barns destroyed as fire sweeps through San Luis Rey Downs
Several barns were destroyed and an unknown number of horses died after a fast-moving fire moved through the San Luis Rey Downs training center in San Diego County on Thursday afternoon, according to horsemen on the property.
Trainer Scott Hansen said late Thursday afternoon that he feared his 30-horse stable lost as many as 10 horses.
Hansen was at Los Alamitos for races on Thursday and was in contact with a member of his stable staff who said a majority of their horses were released from their stalls and set loose on the property to get away from the burning barn.
"I don't know the extent of the damage," he said. "I know I lost horses. I had 30 horses. My guy estimates at least eight to 10 didn't make it. That's a guess.
"They were dropping the webbings to get them out of there. The palm trees caught fire above the barn. All hell broke loose real quick."
Hansen said many of his horses could not be accounted for. Late Thursday afternoon, equine vans were granted access to the property. Loose horses were being gathered as rapidly as possible to be shipped to Del Mar.
David Jerkens, racing secretary at Del Mar, said that as of 5 p.m. approximately 35 horses were on the grounds from San Luis Rey Downs, with horse vans of all sizes arriving frequently.
"We'll worry about identifying them" later, he said. "The main thing is to get them on a van and to Del Mar."
Austin Nakatani, whose mother Michele Dollase trains a stable at San Luis Rey Downs, and trainer Sam Scolamieri said several barns were lost on a property that houses more than 400 horses.
"It's taken 75 percent of San Luis Rey Downs," Nakatani said. "There have been casualties. It's not good."
In a text message, Scolamieri said that the barns on the lower side of the property "appear to be gone."
It was not immediately clear how many horses perished.
As the fire approached, scores of horses were let out of their stalls to run loose on the property, primarily on the infield of the training track, to get them out of the barns.
Keith Brackpool, chairman of Santa Anita which owns San Luis Rey Downs, said stable personnel had no choice but to let horses loose to get them away from the barns.
"This thing came out of nowhere," Brackpool said of the fire. "They had to move the horses out of the stalls."
Nakatani said four fire trucks were on the property in an effort to salvage other buildings, such as barns and dormitories.
The fire led to the evacuation of some horses from San Luis Rey Downs to the Del Mar Horse Park and Del Mar racetrack early in the afternoon before sheriff department banned transportation in and out of the area because of the fast-moving flames.
Television pictures showed a herd of about 50 horses running freely on the track's infield, Jerkens said. Later in the afternoon, Jerkens said television pictures showed some vans leaving the property and stable staff trying to reach the horses on the infield.
Steve Rothblum, who works closely with trainer Doug O'Neill, said their stable got "six to 15" horses off the property before sheriff's officials put a halt to traffic because of the flames.
"We had vans ready but they wouldn't let them in," Rothblum said. "We turned a lot loose on the infield of the training track in hope."
Rothblum and O'Neill were traveling to San Luis Rey Downs from the Los Angeles area in late afternoon.
Rothblum was in touch with assistant trainer Leandro Mora, who was on the San Luis Rey Downs property and said the fire moved into the area at a terrifying pace.
"He said it was like an end-of-the-world scene," Rothblum said.
Santa Anita officials sent vans to San Luis Rey Downs to aid in the evacuation, but there was concern the vans would not be able to reach the facility, according to Jim Cassidy, president of the California Thoroughbred Trainers Association.
The fire started east of San Luis Rey Downs and quickly spread to the west, according to media reports. There were sustained winds of more than 20 mph in Southern California on Thursday, which made controlling fires very difficult for fire officials. There have been massive fires in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in the last 48 hours that have burned more than 120,000 acres and are not under control.
The fire started early Thursday afternoon near the junction of Interstate 15 and California Highway 76, about four miles northeast of the training center, and was said to be moving quickly because of the winds, according to media reports.
In a twitter post, the San Diego Public Affairs Bureau said Cal Fire was working with local military operations to secure helicopters to aid in fighting the fire.
An area immediately north of the training center was ordered evacuated before 2 p.m. Pacific. At 2:30 p.m., Highway 76 was closed in both directions. The highway is within a few hundred yards of the training center.
Del Mar has housed horses in the past when fire conditions existed in the region, including in the fall of 2007 when similar conditions prompted a variety of farms in the area to evacuate horses to the facility.


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Cambodian rural scenery is just gorgeous. Idyllic, lavishly green and makes me think how I wish it'll be preserved as is forever. But judging by the rapid rate of development and real estate being bought and sold even at exhorbitant prices, places and scenes like these are slowly becoming hard to find..


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Yield: Serves 10
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 yellow onion, diced
1 carrots, chopped
2 celery stalks, thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 large sweet potato, peeled and chopped
2 cups chopped butternut squash
3 bay leaves
4 cans (14 1/2 oz each) reduced-sodium vegetable broth
2 cans (15 oz each) diced tomatoes
1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 cup quinoa
1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary
2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
2 cups chopped kale, ribs and stems removed
Salt and black pepper, to taste
1. Heat olive oil in a large stockpot over medium heat. Add onion, carrot, and celery and cook until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, sweet potato, butternut squash, and bay leaves. Cook until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir occasionally so they don't stick to the bottom of the pan.
2. Add the vegetable broth, tomatoes, and chickpeas. Stir in the quinoa and season with fresh rosemary and thyme. Cook for 15 minutes or until quinoa is soft. Stir in the kale and cook for an additional 5 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper, to taste. Serve warm.
Note-this soup freezes well. To freeze, cool completely and pour into a freezer container. When ready to eat, defrost and reheat on the stove or in the microwave.
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It has been pretty heavy this burden that I've been carrying lately, and things have been quite harsh and unforgiving. But then again, when you look at my life beginning from my childhood days up until this present day, you would see and recognize the same pattern, the same theme, that have been dominating this life.
Sometimes I think maybe we are fated to chase this lost object situated between the extreme polarities of pain and pleasure. Maybe we are condemned to repeat the same cycle throughout our lonely lives. Maybe, just maybe, we are cursed to this pursuit just as much as we are cursed to our doomed destinies, and our only chance at happiness—if such a thing really exists—lies in our momentary experience of the extra-human; of the other side.
Sometimes I feel it when I look at the city view from the sixth floor of the university; when I fumble for words at the sight of the sunset and how it bleed in colors which I have no name of; how people and voices blur in the background and merge into the silhouette; how I wish it was a different person I was speaking to. Sometimes I feel it when I feel things all at once: that sharp and unpredictable prick in the heart, speaking for itself to you in a completely ethereal language, convincing you of what lies beyond us.
Religion has a word for it: heaven. Sometimes I would like to believe much more than that. A world that is completely beyond our language, beyond our grasp; that the mere concept of such a world would render it defeating or negating. It is a world that we do not know, but it is always there. And if I let you annihilate the last sentence, please do so. And then I shall fall silent and let all language retreat and run back home.
Without words, I could only feel the sweeping passage of Time, this haunting reminder that we only have a few months to spare (if we're lucky enough), and that the five four years almost feel like a dream and nothing more.
December—the syllables run dry through my palate, my screaming tongue. I want it to be over, but I do not want it to end.
Last Friday in Philosophy of Religion class, the professor related to us once again a story from his youth. His preface to the tale has had me scouring my memories for the same story as I remembered how he has told this to us before, a few semesters ago.
The story began when my the professor was a young lad studying at the seminary at the iron insistence of his father. One day, his father invited him to have lunch at a fancy restaurant somewhere in the city. His father's request confused the hell out of him. In his curious mind, he wondered why he and his father would dine in some expensive place for no reason at all other than to talk to each other. How important or urgent the subject of their conversation was beyond him. All he ever knew was the weight of the demand of his father to speak seriously with him.
They drove to the city, to this fancy restaurant which for the young man has turned into a kind of symbol for his father's enigmatic command. When they were finally seated, his father ordered what could almost pass as a buffet. The young man helped himself to all those sumptuous dishes. And it was in between the forks and the plates and the wine glasses that his father cracked his bursting question.
"Do you believe in souls?"
The young man was both surprised and repelled by the unanticipated question. What kind of a question would his father demand him an answer to and how would his father expect him to respond when in fact it was upon his father's insistence (and not upon the young man's will) that he was schooled in the seminary. Is not the seminary already an answer on its own to his father's unforeseen question? His father went on:
"I do not believe in souls. I would like some evidence. I'll tell you this: when I die and I come back, then you will know that souls exist. But when I die and do not come back, then you will know that there is no such a thing as a soul."
I could only imagine the kind of damage, demoralization, it did for the young man's mind to confuse death into a simple but rather empty dichotomy. A question—at first too simple, too casual, but later on carried on too much baggage within it. A question we simply have no answer to, not in the present and not even in the next world.
Time carried on and his father died, leaving him with the freedom to move out of the seminary and to pursue other paths of his interest, in which case was philosophy. The rest, as they say, is history.
I could see the traces of time on the wrinkled face of my aged professor; the slight glint in his eyes as they search for some faded event, the way his expression give off a hint of loss for a memory that has been too familiar that it sounded almost like somebody else's. There was no crack, no yielding in the professor's voice when he told us,
"My father has not returned."
He went on to tell us that perhaps we humans never really have souls, that if we really did have souls then why has not one single soul ever returned and told us what kind of life there is in the afterlife. Being the good old materialist that my professor was, he was fairly convinced that we only have this body, this corporeal reality, this living present.
I imagine those souls—all seven million of them and perhaps even more. I imagine them trapped somewhere, caged by something else other than the human body. I imagine my professor's father, shedding river of tears in some far off limbo, screaming to be let out and to come back to Earth with resolute answers to a question he left to his son years and years ago.
On the other hand, I imagine a different ending. I imagine those souls purged off of earthly memories, remembering nothing of the lives they led or of the people they met, remembering no pain or no pleasure or no language at all. I imagine their minds, clean as a freshly laundered sheet. And in the next world, nothing could ever stain or smother their pure, feather-like innocence, for they are no longer human there.
I imagine paradise as a kind of lacuna where no words, no violence, could trample the presence of what is always already there.
Maybe this is what Death is: as effacement, as forgetting.


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Mindscrew movies (I am seriously trying to avoid using the f word on this blog) tend to wear me down, but this one is brilliant. A great script by Michael McQuarrie, and great acting by Kevin Spacey make this a memorable story.
Mindscrew movies are hard to write about, at least if you dont want to spoil the story for those who havent seen it. Generally I tend to write more for those who have seen the film that I happen to be interpretting. And I think this is appropriate since my readers all seem to come from internet searches (I had over 500 visitors this past week, and 98% of them came via some search). I would expect that those folks who are searching on a film would more often be fans of the film who have seen it, rather than someone who hasn't. But I digress.
Most of the characters get mindhozed in this one, and the characters are not all plotting to mindream one character. And they are not all conspiring to mindbang the viewer either. I wont say what does happen.
Anyway, for an overview, five criminals find themselves in the same police station, in the same lineup for a witness. They find themselves in the same holding cell too, and they hatch a plan to make some serious cash. One job leads to another, and to LA.
If you havent seen The Usual Suspects, but you have heard of Keyser Soze, this is where it came from. My experience was this. I had heard the weird name but didnt know its origin.
Fans of The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon will get a great rise out of this story. It occurs to me now that Pynchons work certainly mustve had an influence here.
Just to further wet your appetite, everybody -- Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollack dies. Everybody except Verbal, Spaceys character. And he makes a deal for immunity. But Chazz Palminteri, is a Customs agent who aint letting him go that easy.
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Erotica Jones AKA Stripperella is an extremely attractive, unbearably beautiful, and insanely sexy dancer with a literally perfect body. Once, a man caught fire from just being near her hotness. Many people are jealous of Erotica's enormous breasts, probably around an E-cup, especially her coworkers. At the club, more people drool over her than anybody else. On a news interview, a reporter fawned over her lips, breasts, and legs. Erotica said she enjoys her pleasantly revealing outfits. Also, after being shrunk and returned to normal size, her breasts become impossibly bouncy, and about a K-cup (it gets fixed later). One of the oddest things about Erotica Jones is that her breasts often move on their own, without any motion from Erotica. Erotica enjoys wearing extremely revealing outfits to show off her gargantuan features.
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- Hate giant crabs.
- Has a literal flawless body.
- Always dream since she was a kid to be a married woman.
- She shared some similar similarly to Barb Wire (1996), both are play by Pamela Anderson, and are two sexy action women that both worked at a kind of club. But, the difference that Barb owns a night club named the Hammerhead while Erotica is a stripper from Tenderloins.
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Willowry was a teenage girl who Raven Hex took up as her apprentice in issue #7.
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Willowry is a fairly healthy teenage goth girl with long, dark-brown hair, and brown eyes with heavy eye-liner.
Before becoming a witch, she wore black shoes, fish-net stockings, a black skirt and a t-shirt featuring an inverted pentacle.
After Raven takes her on as her apprentice, she gave her a new, much more revelaing outfit, a transparent outfit with a "Black Widow" spider-web motif complete with a pair of spiders that cover her groin and right breast, as well as high-heel leather boots and black leather sleeves.
Being a teenage girl, Willowry is full of angst and fury from her neglectful home-life and peers. She yearns to have power, idolizing Raven Hex as soon as she heard about her and even taking up Satanism, thinking that Raven was a Satanist too.
While she was ambitious to learn magic, she is also rather impatient, quiting as soon as the opportunity to cast an actual spell arose itself.
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Having only spent a few weeks as Raven's apprentice, Willowry possessed a very limited understanding in Necro-magick. This is shown when she tries to do an advanced spell to give Crypt Chick her body back, only for the spell to go wrong and wear off in minutes of casting.
Willowry was a teenage girl who's family lived in Salem, Massachutes. She was constantly tormented by her classmates, ignored by the school board and neglected by her argumentative parents.
While surfing online, Willowry found out about Raven Hex and the power she possesses and took up Satanism, thinking that this was where Raven recieved her powers.
While running away from home, she was soon chased after by a pair of witch hunters who intended on raping her before killing her, thinking that she was a witch. Raven Hex soon appeared and saved her, turning the hunters into toads as an ironic punishment. Willowry pleads to Raven Hex to teach her magic, appealing to her with her sad life's story. Raven at first turns her down before finally agreeing.
She was healed in Raven's cauldron of healing oils and given a new wardrobe to represent a fresh start.
For weeks Willowry worked and studied under the craft and its many, many nuances before becoming frustrated with all of the work, wanting to dabble in spells. While out collecting mushrooms as a spell ingredient, she encounters Crypt Chick, who pleads with her to give her her life back (a promise Raven Hex broke in the past). Despite her doubts, Willowry agrees and leaves an "I quit" note for Raven to find.
She prepares the spell and manages to reanimate Crypt Chck, making her human again. She amusingly watches Crypt Chick fondly herself in ecstacy before the spell fails and her body melts away. Before Willowry can try to fix, the spell backfires and she is turned into a tree by the Goddess as punishment for "trying to separate (her) from magick".


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