ask_use24_2 misstree (finally continued from ask_use24) if you were missing something you had a good connection to and that was very dear to you, how would you go about getting it back? and sorries about never getting back to the sigils, each time i read it meaning to comment, all i could think was, "yeah, that's about right." 040122 ... Death of a Rose baseball bats vs. medevil maces? 040122 ... . do you think DOAR ment medieval? 040122 ... . What are your thoughts on turing? As a modus for testing a cross secton of a populaces strength of resolve/patriotism in the crucible of flames, when pitted against seemingly insuperable odds. Do you think that's something PM Blair and PM Dick Cheney would utilize? ... 040122 ... Death of a Rose no dammit, I mean medevil (me-devil mace!) pirates and maces...hmmm....not as good as cannons and cutlasses... yeah...you got me in a spelling error. I do apologize profusely and with much spitting. 040122 ... . DOAR - You know I think I may now understand partly why spellcheckers spellcheck, part of it probably is annoyance at words spelt wrong and wanting to teach others to spell correctly but now I also think it's kinda a power trip and control thing too. Boy do I suddenly feel insightful. U24 - What is something you learned in RL today that you didn’t previously know? 040122 ... u24 hey, no worries, misstree, it did just turn into an aimless ramble somewhat. Still haven't played with tarot, but planning to. OK, well, I'm currently looking into gnosis (see the 10 second launch technique and other articles in the sigils section of chaosmagic.com) and I'm having problems with charging and forgetting, so the 'set and forget' style detailed in the above article may help me. How this relates to your question? Well, assuming you're asking in context of (chaos)magic, I'd use a sigilisation/visualisation approach. Can you give some more info; something's telling me you're talking about a Thing? but maybe not? I still need to dedicate some time to practicing my skills - most of what I say is still based on theory. ---------------- ok, . (daxle?) The only things I know about turing are, obviously, 'the turing test', and a few historical bits (having watched a theatre performance mainly about his life, not his achievements) So, as far as testing resolve/patriotism, not sure how you'd go about this. Also, I don't keep up with current events at all, so I wouldn't be able to say what blair would do. And I only have the vaguest notion who Dick Cheney is (Vice Pres?) So, unfortunately, I'd need a lot of briefing before I could answer that. What is something you learned in RL today that you didn’t previously know? RL as in real life? (what else could it stand for? not much..) so far, I've learned nothing today. Except that if I leave home at 9, I'll get to work at about 10 to 10. I'll keep you informed of anything I learn today, though.. it'll be interesting to see if I actually do learn anything. Oh! just now learned that my boss is in Leeds today. fascinating. :O 040123 ... misstree i'll happily give you scads of details on probably sunday, i've set things in motion, but i'd rather not allow bones to be chewed until my Thing (of course ;) is returned, with all appropriate attachments (as there were other precious things with it, but a Thing is much easier to get a hook into). and of course i was asking about theory; that's all we really have, isn't it? a series of best guesses and, "i know this isn't quite right but it works" kind of things? this is the age in which i personally think that we're just begining to get a handle on whatever type of thing chaos magic really is (for i dislike the word magic, it's not parlor tricks or ritual, that's the trappings to help the mindmeat, it's best approached in a sciencelike way)... so yes, theory. :) but i gotta go, like i said, no chewing bones. i'll give ya details once i can. 040123 ... endless desire how's the weather? 040123 ... u24 :) it's raining. but according to people at work who insist on letting me know about news and events, we're going to be getting some really bad weather from canada over the weekend. or something. 040123 ... p2 what's with the recent anti-america sentiments? the cynical comment in american and the inferred analogy in big_mistake? it just seems so unlike you or perhaps just unlike my perception of you 040123 ... jane okay, first: you never emailed me on how to make a test page. but that's not really a question... second: what do you think happened with the 'cause_you_know on stairway_to_heaven? do you think it didn't work because it started with an apostrophe? if so, why is that a problem? how come there is a blathe for ' and _ & they both work? 040123 ... jane okay i guess ' doesn't work. why not 040123 ... endless desire do you speak with an accent? my brother was over there and he said it's almost as though they are talking another language because some people are hard to understand. they slur their words all together. do you have an audio_blather thing so i can hear your accent if you have one? it's funny about peoples voices. death_of_a_rose 's voice is so deep and rich. i couldn't even believe it! and minnesota_chris has the most wonderful (yet hilarious) accent ive ever heard. i dont see how people in minnesota can ever be sad if they all talk like that. and do you know who made all those blathes in row? i just love. i love going through and blathing on each one. but was it a song? it seems like son...but i dont recognize the words. then again, it's not like i know that many songs. if you ever get a chance, take a picture of the green will you? my brother also said it was really green and that it didn't seem fair that he got to see the green and i didn't because i would have loved it. i want to draw silly pictures. i dont remember which skite did but they had this blathe where they would draw pictures of things you asked for. really silly pictures and then scan them. seems like a lot of fun. or maybe take pictures with a camera. have you ever been to LA? don't come. i'll take pictures of what it looks like. unless you go downtown or to olvera street which rocks or to the beach or moutains. san franscico is much better or santa barbara or other places. LA is just busy and has dirty air with dirty places and dirty buildings. 040123 ... u24 hey, ok, p2, the cynical comment, was just me being generic, I get pissed off, and, honestly, it's not anti-america, it's anti-what-america-traditionally-stands-for-in-my-eyes - that is, capitalism and exploitation. and ignoring poverty and their own immoral actions! but, really, it's not just america, our government does it as well, and so do I, so yeah, hypocrisy, and general needing to rant spawned that one. and big_mistake was in relation to the nuturing of 'alternative' culture, not anti-american per se. Unfortunately, I don't actually have faith that that 'sub'culture will rise against it's oppressors - everyone's too brainwashed. Yeah, I'm a cynic, and it'll only get worse. :) But no, I don't hate america, or american people, I hate false ideals, and america has become a scapegoat for a lot of things that really it isn't about. ... jane; I did! twice! :) but I guess you never got them.. I'll dig around my computer and upload it somewhere for your purusal. Sorry 'bout that. Yeah, not sure why 'cause_you_know didn't work.. much weirdness - I'm guessing that it is because it started with an apostrophe. Maybe it's stored in the database as 'cause_you_know, but as filenames can't start with an apostrophe, blather got confused. ... well, everyone has an accent! and when I get a mic for the PC, I'll record my voice (in fact, I might send you a tape with the card that I promise I'll send soon - it was in my pocket all last week, I really am just lazy.. sorry. your card is on my work desk :) ) I don't know who made those blathes, AFAIK, they're the lyrics to stairway to heaven, by Led Zeppelin (trivia 'fact' (probably untrue): Led Zeppelin orginally had a different name, but were told by a producer that their style of music would go down like a lead zeppelin - hence the name change, followed shortly by massive success) I'll take pictures of Wales when I go there next week. Should be very nice. Wales is beautiful. :) London is grey. No, never been beyond Europe :) where have you been? :) 040124 ... jane wales is beautiful! oh & i was going to tell you i'm coming to london march 12-21 so if you are going to be around maybe there could be a small uk blather_convention....? 040124 ... u24 misstree, I'd probably take a little time centering myself, with candles and incense, and I've found that looking at myself in a mirror just before and after doing something of this nature helps - gives me an idea of who I am, and how I feel (we don't have many mirrors in the house, so it's unusual me for me to see how I look) then I'd probably say something like: ..... Hey, it's me again, thankyou for guiding me in recent times, I think you helped me out a few days ago [re: uni], so thanks for that, anyway, as you probably know, I've lost [...] and I'm sure you know how much it means to me, so once again I'm asking for some help, if you can help it back to me, I'd appreciate it a lot, Again, I don't know what I can give you as thanks, so if you want to drop a few hints then I'll try my best to do what I can, so, please help me get this thing back to me. Thankyou for helping. ...... not sure if that'll help you in your quest, but it should give you an idea of how I work, which will no doubt be of interest. If you want, I could make a formal request to the unknown sprirts guiding me? :) 040125 ... u24 and jane: http://cgi.project2501.plus.com/testpage.html :) 040125 ... misstree things are still rattling around in the box, friday i howled at a new moon and then everything hit a brick wall, coat was lost and found, id and phone are now also lost and not found... when i did ritual, i sent the, erm, concept of this journal i have that i did a similar working on, sent that and Nobody to snag the poetry book and associated contents... when i realized that i should do a Working, a little birdie told me i would get my bag back on saturday... i haven't gotten it back, and in fact have lost more stuff since then, but saturday was the day that other things started getting returned to me in quantity... finding jewelry that has been missing, a red flask, other things today... the dice are still spinning... ahem... just had to kinda spew the story so far... i'll let you know end results... and see mooji_moo... but a request to whatever might be listening on your end would indeed be helpful... a bit of guiding to return, whatever you see fit... and that does sound about right for the tone to take, and very similar to how i sent off the journal and Nobody, though thinking about it, i didn't specifically poke at the concept of big_momma... hrm... contemplation, some sleep and recovery, and indeed, will babble more re it... some Very Important Things are now in limbo... 040125 ... endless desire ive never been anywhere really. california, where i live. all up and down california. and ive gone to nevada a few times. and mexico once to build houses for a weekend. exciting eh? you know what's funny? i consider my 'accent' the one voice that doesn't have an accent. the bare, monotone voice and all other accents have something brilliant added to them that makes them unique. ive always wanted something different about my voice...because there really isn't anything? 040126 ... u24 Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't think I have an accent, either. No-body thinks they have an accent. but everybody does. 040127 ... u24 doar; (sorry, missed that one) maces for sure. jane; yeah, meeting up would be cool, a saturday would be better for me (but I could take a day off work if you've planned something) so the 13th or 20th? misstree; how's things? . 040127 ... jane either one - i dont have any plans yet but i thought it would be cool to go to dublin for st patty's.... also, do you have any recommendations of stuff i should do while i'm there? i've been there a couple other times before but this is the first time i'm coming alone. 040211 ... u24 Yeah, loads of things to do that are fairly off the beaten track, or at least, that you may miss if you're not pointed to them. Camden (2 stops northern line northbound from Euston) A gothic/alternative market place. Plenty of unusual things to buy, eat, smoke and wear (not all at once!) The embankment (6 stops northern line southbound from Euston) Well, I love it there, sitting by cleopatra's needle just watching the river and the people, good place to eat lunch. (and why not catch a river tour while you're there) Kew Gardens (15 stops district line westbound from the embankment) You need at least half a day to do this one, see www.rbgkew.org.uk/ for details Tate Modern (tube: southwark (can't find it on the map - it's across the river if that helps)) Modern Art Gallery, worth a visit. I think they have some Dali's on permanent display (but they might just have been on loan) Canary Wharf (DLR) not really that cool, but if modern architecture (i.e. glass and steel) is your thing then it's a must. British Museum (Russell Square) wow, it's like, history and stuff, man. Apart from those, I can't think of anything. Kew Gardens and Camden are the ones I'd definately go to, followed closely by the Tate. :) 040212 ... jane thank you darling! you did all my homework for me! now i have to find a way to get that done along with hopefully meeting up with you & going to dublin for a day... wow. i'm going to be busy. 040212 ... sum1 Was looking for the blath you had that showed the link of wear you cross referenced all the skites. for instance if I were to look for all the blaths you and say Daf wrote in together I would list both names and the results would pop up of all the blaths both you and Daf had written under. I looked inside your name at your previous blaths but I just can’t seem to find it, then again knowing my luck it'll be named under something obvious that I missed ^.^ 091024 ... falling_alone i liked the link that showed the percent of blathes i blathed on where i was last to say anything and everyone abandoned after i got there. i think it was about 70% of my blathes that no one responded to. 091027 what's it to you? who go blather from