Welcome to The Pub At the End of the Universe.

[Katyani]

Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)




It's an amazing unearthing I'm doing at the moment, this sui generis expression archeology.

Songs, thank you for sharing parts of that excavation process here with us.

[Katyani]

Posted by Borden (here)


Katyani, I'm a fellow Tintin fan! Aside from Marvel comics I was also hugely into Tintin and Asterix as a boy. As for a Pub Club party ... it will be spiffing, but I do have a tendency to occasionally turn into Captain Haddock. I haven't seen that film, by the way, but hearing what Willem Dafoe says on that motorbike makes me want to see it.

Captain Haddock?! That is so funny! Good to know both you and Zebra have also been adventuring with Tintin.
Ah, yes, that movie. I think you would really appreciate it. Unusual dialogue and story, incredible photography.
I have the dvd (nothing illegal here either) and watch it from time to time.

[Calz]

My weekend ... up over 24 hours now trying to adjust to my family sleep schedule.

Good luck with that ... working overnight schedule sux.

No days off next week ... actually easier and the pay rocks ... but I miss my family.

Oh ... sorry ... don't mean to blither with minor nonsense when so many are facing real situations


My dime for the jukebox ... I am in the *mood*

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQjehHvJlQ

[Borden]

I can't believe I haven't seen that film yet, Katyani ... I keep meaning to buy the DVD. The trailers I saw looked amazing. I just looked at a list of all the Tintin book titles, and experienced one of those memory jolt moments. The way we are immersed in books as children is really something. I'm sure you know what I mean when I say that the tiny people in our avatar pictures knew how to engage a story. That's a quality I try to keep alive in myself (apart from my Captain Haddock moments, obviously), because the acceptance and lack of preconception makes for a far more magical world.

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
My weekend ... up over 24 hours now trying to adjust to my family sleep schedule.

Good luck with that ... working overnight schedule sux.

No days off next week ... actually easier and the pay rocks ... but I miss my family.

Oh ... sorry ... don't mean to blither with minor nonsense when so many are facing real situations

/headtilt/ I really don't understand that last sentence- personally I feel that the issue of missing your family because of being locked in to an artificial system such as work is a legitimate one. Rest assured, should my personal situation shift the way I'm endeavouring to get it shifted, it will not only be the drinks that are free here. It's difficult enough leveling up to super status physically, let alone having to do mundane things such as work- can you imagine Spiderman in that situation? An emergency he can't deal with because it's two hours til knock off time?

What a ridiculous and twisted paradigm we live in. *hugs*

[Borden]

Calz, missing your family because of those long hours sounds pretty valid to me. I sympathize, mate.

[Calz]

Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
My weekend ... up over 24 hours now trying to adjust to my family sleep schedule.

Good luck with that ... working overnight schedule sux.

No days off next week ... actually easier and the pay rocks ... but I miss my family.

Oh ... sorry ... don't mean to blither with minor nonsense when so many are facing real situations

/headtilt/ I really don't understand that last sentence- personally I feel that the issue of missing your family because of being locked in to an artificial system such as work is a legitimate one. Rest assured, should my personal situation shift the way I'm endeavouring to get it shifted, it will not only be the drinks that are free here. It's difficult enough leveling up to super status physically, let alone having to do mundane things such as work- can you imagine Spiderman in that situation? An emergency he can't deal with because it's two hours til knock off time?

What a ridiculous and twisted paradigm we live in. *hugs*

Okay.

My point being missing my family due to manditory overtime for a week is not on the "same level" as seperating from a deep love expected to last a lifetime or a twinflame who the vast majority of us will never experience facing serious health issues or facing virus attacks every night.

I felt a twinge of selfish spoiled guilt ... yet it wasn't enough to stop me from submitting the post.

Easier to understand now???

Yes rediculous and twisted paradigm ... no doubt.


... have another ...

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmC9tOtSTE

[another bob]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
My point being missing my family due to manditory overtime for a week is not on the "same level" as seperating from a deep love expected to last a lifetime or a twinflame who the vast majority of us will never experience facing serious health issues or facing virus attacks every night.

We're all given exactly what we need in order to do what we came here to do, and to realize what we came here to realize.

The story is told about a woman Zen master named Sono who taught one
very simple method of enlightenment. She advised everyone who came to
her to adopt an affirmation to be said many times a day, under all
conditions. The affirmation was, "Thank you for everything. I have no
complaint whatsoever."

Many people from all arenas of life came to Sono for healing. Some
were in physical pain; others were emotionally distraught; others had
financial troubles; some were seeking soul liberation. No matter what
their distress or what question they asked her, her response was the
same: "Thank you for everything. I have no complaint whatsoever."
Some people went away disappointed; others grew angry; others tried
to argue with her. Yet some people took her suggestion to heart and
began to practice it. Tradition tells that everyone who practiced
Sono's mantra found peace and healing. Thank you for everything. I
have no complaint whatsoever.

My friend Lisa, an attractive woman in her late 30's, came to one of
my seminars after I had not seen her for a number of years. She
informed the group that a year earlier she had been diagnosed with a
brain disorder that required immediate surgery. The surgery was done,
a steel plate was inserted in her head, and her doctor keeps her
under close observation. Lisa reported that now she lives from day to
day. Privately I told Lisa that I was sorry she had gone through this
whole ordeal. "Oh, don't be sorry," she told me emphatically. "I'm
not sorry at all. This was one of the best things that has ever
happened to me. It really got me to appreciate my life and
relationships. I married a wonderful guy and we are thinking about
having children. I wouldn't trade the experience if I could." Thank
you for everything. I have no complaint whatsoever.

Can you imagine what your life would be like if you simply dropped
your complaints? It's a radical proposal, since most of us have been
trained to question, analyze, and criticize everything we see. But
then we end up questioning, analyzing, and criticizing ourselves.
Then we miss out on joy, the only true measure of success.

The ecstatic mystic poet Hafiz proclaimed, "All a sane man can ever
think about is giving love." One evening I received a phone call from
my friend Cliff, a Jewish guy from Brooklyn who discovered A Course
in Miracles and became a world-class love exuder. Cliff just went
around finding good and beauty in everyone he met. On the phone,
Cliff told me, "I just called to tell you how much I love and
appreciate you."

"Well, thank you Cliff," I answered, delighted. "I really appreciate
that . . . What prompted you to call me at this moment?"

"My knee was hurting me, and I knew that the only way I could feel
better would be to give more love. So I began to think of the people
in my life who I care about, and you came to mind." Thank you for
everything. I have no complaint whatsoever.

Yes, I know, there is a voice inside you objecting, "But if I did not
complain, people would walk all over me and selfish opportunists
would genetically manipulate my food and terrorists would keep
crashing airplanes into buildings and . . ., . . ., and. . . . Got
it. Now if you went to Sono, her response would be, "Thank you for
everything. I have no complaint whatsoever."

In my book Handle with Prayer I state that the highest form of prayer
is gratitude. Instead of asking God for stuff, start thanking God for
stuff, and you will find that God has already given you everything
you could want or need, including the adventure of discovering more
riches every day.

Life is a big treasure hunt. Eventually we grow weary of seeking
treasures outside ourselves, and we begin to look within. There we
discover that the gold we sought, we already are. The beauty we
overlooked because we were focusing on what was missing, still lives
and awaits us like an anxious lover. As T.S. Eliot nobly noted, "The
end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know
the place for the first time."

Thank you for everything. I have no complaint whatsoever.

~Alan Cohen

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by Katyani (here)
Songs, thank you for sharing parts of that excavation process here with us.

It's interesting to me that you use an underwater image- I haven't actually spoken about how most of this process is underwater for me. In another world/timespace it's been undertaken in company, and in this one it's solo and I'm having to work much much harder and with more errors, and it's interesting to me you used a diver.



Have you ever seen The Big Blue? That's always the risk for those who like to dive that deep...

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
My point being missing my family due to manditory overtime for a week is not on the "same level" as seperating from a deep love expected to last a lifetime or a twinflame who the vast majority of us will never experience facing serious health issues or facing virus attacks every night.

I felt a twinge of selfish spoiled guilt ... yet it wasn't enough to stop me from submitting the post.

There is a difference between not knowing why you felt that way and not understanding the distinction.

I used to think that it was ridiculous for me to feel the way that I did because I could cite girls who had gone through way more horrendous things in their molestations: who was I to have issues when others had been satanically ritually abused? Surely their experiences were far worse than mine and so I had no cause to feel the way that I did. That one messed with my head for about 15 years before I let it go.

I get the issue. I was pointing out that I also get that using the situations of others to ameliorate our experience of our own situation is a useless endeavour that just strives in a way to downplay our experience, something I've never found to be useful- but I recognise that others have different approaches to that.

I'm not actually completely clueless, despite the way it appears at times. *sideways eyed salute*

[songsfortheotherkind]

I am really really struggling with a few things today and I'm wondering how it's going to pan out; I'm ferociously editing my communications down to nothing, I'm struggling with internal constrictions coming at me from many directions, I am being dragged down by the weeds.



In the recent past I would have poured my process out here in an effort to get a handle on it but I don't feel... *waves hands* I think it's fine for me to write here when I'm neutrally or unemotionally exploring, such as my recent post, but not the emotional stuff where I'm flailing around trying to get a bead on what's going on for me or to find my still space. I'm really finding the whole communication, expression and connection thing just too f*ucking hard to negotiate lately and my previous long silence in the world is starting to look very different from how I originally perceived it.

I'll return when I've composed it all into a neater and less emotional package.

*edit- I just had a random thought so I'll clarify- Calz, this is not about our interaction, completely different stuff. So be concerned not.

[jorr lundstrom]

Sounds like when Im trying to keep the falcon on the wings,

though the hurricanes tries to tear out the feathers form them

and thunderbolts are crisscrossing the place, at the same time

as the intestines trying to keep a sambarythm to Le sacre du printemps.

Well, I guess its different for everyone. LOL





all is well


Jorr 2.0

[Alekahn]

blue green crystalline dream within...
new sight and new song is on the way,
on the wing...from all directions.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2UTwrmGO7Q

(ferocious editing applied)

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by Alekahn (here)



blue green crystalline dream within...
new sight and new song is on the way,
on the wing...from all directions.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2UTwrmGO7Q

(ferocious editing applied)

All I have is the power to make
This space between my hands beautiful
My vast internal lands are beautiful
Turn my place in the world
To what paradise I can create

I don't know if I have the power to stop the madness
Perhaps I do
Perhaps I don't
I know that I can't change the sadness
If someone can't see things with my eyes
It's not the same as won't

I don't have answers that bring a neat conclusion
Don't have solutions that end the endless questions
Don't speak the language to end all the confusion
Don't have perspectives that cover all directions

Did I ever have to, really?
Was that my plan, was that my plan?
Or was it someone else's insecurity
Handed down, just another hand me down

You know I never did want it, truly
It was never mine, it was never mine
More of someone else's persecutions
Putting me down, just another put me down

It was always in their imagination
I was only ever in their imagination
I don't try to save the world because
There is no world that needs salvation

All I have is the power to make
This space between my hands beautiful
My vast internal lands are beautiful
Turn my place in the world
To what paradise I can create



sometimes the things you say help me through my darkness and back into the edges of the light...

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by jorr lundstrom (here)
Sounds like when Im trying to keep the falcon on the wings,

though the hurricanes tries to tear out the feathers form them

and thunderbolts are crisscrossing the place, at the same time

as the intestines trying to keep a sambarythm to Le sacre du printemps.

Well, I guess its different for everyone. LOL





all is well


Jorr 2.0

[CurtisW]

Hang in there, Songsy

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wBQELIO9E

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by Borden (here)
Remember ... with great power comes great irresponsibility.

*wicked smile*

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by CurtisW (here)
Hang in there, Songsy

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wBQELIO9E

[songsfortheotherkind]

I love the dance-

dance with me...

[REILLY]