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[the public couldn't handle it]

rather than "everybody hated it" how about reframe the tone to "the public couldn't handle it"?

Agreed.  That way we can make up contradictory complaints from various sections of society. Letters should also refer to the 'recurring' pieces, like the horoscopes, etc, etc.

There should also be a non-existent piece authored by "Stephen C., Third Outer Head, AISB" that receives complaints/complements.

[As an aside, I'm working through Issue 01. Sorry about the dragging. I'm in a slump, and leaking mucus.]

The next person to reply had better quote some dead spag. 

You asked for it:

Sweet Merciful Fuck! LMNuendo!

Yah, these type of connections are pretty hard to confirm (mainly due to the spread of sloppy neo-pagan webpages that are just lists of "Names of the Goddess" with no citations or research included).

I think I may have run into something when I was researching the [Rhea/Tabiti -> Ma-Cybele -> Ma-Bellona -> Enyo -> Eris] connections. Will check.

So, I've been playing the Fallen Empire: Legions FPS and it totally rules, but they don't give you all of the controls/tips in the loading screen. So, for anyone interested, here's the breakdown of control:

http://forum.beta.instantaction.com/smf/index.php/topic,2674.0.html

And here is a good video describing how to "ski" with jumpjets (this movement technique is one of the keys to the game), along with other general N00b advice which I found very helpful:

http://www.legionsplayers.com/videos/survival-guide/

[cease trying to control and manipulate your experience]

Exactly Ritchter,

"When you cease trying to control and manipulate your experience, meditation spontaneously happens." -(The Impact of Awakening, pg 23)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyashanti

Have you read the "What is Chi?" thread, we went over some no-mind theory in there.

My cabalmate Grog the Unkindly has good things to say about instantaction.com.

Trying it out right now, with one of their capture the flag FPS's. The main interface is browser based, and you can join a 'party' in the main lobby so you can all go into the right game server together.


Will post again with gameplay opinions.

I think the Internet Safari blog should be the distribution point. Overlap audiences.

  Thanks for adding to the thread, Honey!

When the wind blows through the scattered bamboos, they do not hold its sound after it has gone. When the wild geese fly over a cold lake, it does not retain their shadows after they have passed. So the mind of the superior person begins to work only when an event occurs; and it becomes a void again when the matter ends.

- Hung Ying-ming 1596

Speaks for itself, really.

"Being a Hindu deity means having hundreds of arms while refusing to help anyone."

LOL, thank you, that is one of my original quotes. More to come soon...

Can I offer a slight alteration on the meme?

"Being a Hindu deity means having hundreds of arms while refusing to give anyone a hand."

RAW calls these 'moments of imprint vulnerability', although I'm pretty sure Vex already knew this.

Introductory for the opposing concept, perhaps?

And published mirrored, so each can be read right to left, but it's opposite is upside down?

THIS.

SNIP'D

Very true. I find that focus in swordfighting is very different from focus in circuit building. If' I'm soldering something I'm focused on the wire, the solder, the iron tip and nothing else... If I focus like that in fencing, I die. In fancing, the focus is more like an alertness... the former seems like a tight beam flashlight, while the other seems like a broader spotlight on my opponent, rather than just his sword tip, or my dagger, or if my pace is right, etc.

In practice, all of those are important to focus on, but in the fight, its almost as if I have to rely on the robot to run those things, while I'm alert to the opponent and what they're up to.

Nice quote Telarus.

I find it's helpful to cultivate a "Thousand Yard Stare" when I'm at the swordplay.  Look at EVERYTHING at once, evenly, without focusing on any one point.  It's kind of like setting your eyes to pick up any motion, but not focus in directly on it.
This is effective both for seeing motions that a single pointed awareness would miss, as well as keeping your opponent from seeing where you're staring. 
To them it looks like you've "glazed over" or "gone away", which some find unsettling.
You can choose to stare at a unique part of them, (ex: leg), and then strike somewhere different. 

The "Thousand Yard Stare" seems a good metaphor for the technique.

This reminds me of a Ninjutsu technique that I taught to JohnnyBrainwash on the way down to the last Kallisticon. Basically, to prevent you from going "nightblind" you have to change how you are physically using your eyes at night. Most of the time (esp. in daylight) it's more economical to make very small movements with the head and to make much 'larger' movements with the eyes, so that the object of focus is in the center of your field of vision.

This works well because the center of the retina (the fovea) contains only Cones (color sensitivity). At night, this usually means things in the center of the visual feild become 'lost' or 'blacked out'. As there are less Rods(brightness sensitivity) near the center of the eye, and as those Rods can become fatigued from overuse (straining to make out details in the dark), the normal daytime way of looking at things becomes useless (and a liability in combat/sneakery).

The solution that the Ninjutsu schools came up with (and this was before they had a good idea of how the eye was structured, mind you), was to lock the gaze forward in the head (the "Thousand Yard Stare"), and then swing the head left and right to allow the peripheral Rods a greater chance to capture the faint reflected light.

This explanation will be worthless unless you actually try it at night.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/vision/retina.html

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