2009.02.14 07:00 - The End of the Tunnel

The Guardian for this meeting was Pema Pera. The comments are by Pema Pera.

When I entered, I found Wol talking about her swordmanship.

Scathach Rhiadra: Hello Wester:)
Wester Kiranov: hi scathach
Scathach Rhiadra: brb
Scathach Rhiadra: back
Wester Kiranov: i was just checking if there was anybody here - it's pretty hectic here, two small kids fighting for my attention
Scathach Rhiadra: ah, I just came for the same thing
Wester Kiranov: here in rl , not here in sl
Scathach Rhiadra: Hello Wol:)
Wol Euler: hello scath, wester.
Scathach Rhiadra: ah:)
Wol Euler: I too came by to ebnsure that thte sesion was covered until Pema made it out of the tunnel :)
Scathach Rhiadra: like your katana:)
Wol Euler: thank you :)
Wester Kiranov: same here
Wol Euler: I had alwys been interested in kendo, but only now have a fast enough connection to be able to use it
Scathach Rhiadra: is there a Kendo group here?
Wester Kiranov: hi doug
Scathach Rhiadra: Hello Doug
Wol Euler: several!
Scathach Rhiadra: Hello Pema
Pema Pera: Hi there!
Wester Kiranov: hi pema
Pema Pera: a bit of lag here, from my train seat . . . :)
Wol Euler: and also several different, incompatible, fighting systems.
Pema Pera: on my way from New York to Boston
Wol Euler: my katana can only be used in one particular system
Wester Kiranov: seen the light at the end of the tunnel already?

Alas, lag would stay with me, for most of this session, producing quite a few out-of-context sentences that showed up a few sentences later than I had written them.

Wol Euler: hello pema, doug
Myna Maven: Hello everyone.
Scathach Rhiadra: Hello Myna
Wol Euler: and hello myna
Pema Pera: I'm out of the tunnel, yes
Wester Kiranov: hi myna
Pema Pera: otherwise couldn't be here :-)
buddha Nirvana: Hi all :)
Scathach Rhiadra: Hello buddha
Pema Pera: Hi Buddha!
Wol Euler: actally, as long as the session is covered, and now that Pema is here, I will log out of this slow computer and return on my laptop. Back in a few minutes.
Pema Pera: thanks Wol!
Scathach Rhiadra: ok
Myna Maven: What does it mean when it says "PAB listener: I was given an invalid key, my target person will not be recorded."
Scathach Rhiadra: hmm, maybe it didn't recognise someone
Pema Pera: ah, I think you have not yet been registered as a guardian, Myna
Myna Maven: OK.
Pema Pera: Wol will add you to the list soon -- that may be a reason; we'll have to ask her
Scathach Rhiadra: it records even first time visitors, so should record everyone
Pema Pera: yes, but perhaps Myna clicked on the listener?
Scathach Rhiadra: ah:)

Time to welcome Myna!

Pema Pera: by the way, welcome Myna, as our latest new guardian!
Pema Pera: Myna kindly agreed to take a weekly slot as well -- I'll announce that on the email list soon
Myna Maven: What is the "listener"? I clicked on the cushion but nothing else.
Pema Pera: later today
Pema Pera: ah, the base of the fountain has a "recording" device
Myna Maven: Right, thanks.
Pema Pera: if you click on there, you can claim the chat log
Myna Maven: Oh, I see.
Pema Pera: (which I just did, this is my session)
Pema Pera: any time during the session, when you claim a log, by clicking, the result is that after the session you will be mailed an URL address for the chat log file
Pema Pera: very convenient
Myna Maven: That is convenient.
Pema Pera: Buddha, may I ask, have you been playing with the 9-sec exploration?
Scathach Rhiadra: yes, it works very well
Wester Kiranov: is that the whole session you get an url for, or just the part you were there?
Scathach Rhiadra: all of it, Wes
Pema Pera: (Buddha must be in Nirvana again, I take it :-)
Scathach Rhiadra: :)
Pema Pera: How about you, Myna?
Pema Pera: Did you explore the 9-sec recently?
Myna Maven: I have been doing it since I first found Kira.
Pema Pera: and may I ask what happened?
Myna Maven: So have been doing it for about a month or more?
Pema Pera: wonderful!
Myna Maven: Taking time out in this way is something I've done for longer than I can remember....
Myna Maven: But downloading the bell, I have been using it with my son and myself during the day
Myna Maven: We homeschool and it gives us both a nice reminder
Pema Pera: how nice!
Pema Pera: a school bell for the school of life, and all that at home!
Myna Maven: :)
Myna Maven: My son says, "It's great."
Scathach Rhiadra: :)
Myna Maven: He's eleven.

He must be our youngest member!

Pema Pera: What is his reaction to the 9-sec outings?
Myna Maven: Very at ease with them.
Pema Pera: great!
Myna Maven: Bye Buddha
Myna Maven: And it is a very nice reminder to sit back and reflect..
buddha Nirvana: excuse me all _/\_
Scathach Rhiadra: bye buddha
Pema Pera: and how about you, may I ask what happens when you take "time off" for 9 seconds?
Pema Pera: tc Buddha!
Pema Pera: <- Myna
Pema Pera: (sorry, lag)
Myna Maven: Well, as I've said, I have done this for a long time...
Pema Pera: (my lines take a while to appear, depending on the bends in the train track I guess :-)
Pema Pera: Hi Fluffy!
Pema Pera: Come join us
Pema Pera: Fluffy feel free to join us
Pema Pera: take a seat if you like
Pema Pera: We get together a few times a day to chat about the nature of reality, and everything else, and we have a wiki http://playasbeing.wik.is/ -- We record our conversations there. Do you mind being included in our blogs?
Pema Pera: -> Fluffy
Wester Kiranov: i'm going togive my full attention to my kids again now. bye!
Scathach Rhiadra: bye Wester:)
Pema Pera: bye Wester!

Exit Wester, enter Fluffy

Fluffy Monday: hello
Scathach Rhiadra: Hello Fluffy
Pema Pera: Hi Fluffy!
Fluffy Monday: were is hot of mee
Fluffy Monday: joke
Fluffy Monday: were is german
Fluffy Monday: ??
Fluffy Monday: who is germa
Pema Pera: Bist du Deutsch vielleicht?
Fluffy Monday: ja
Pema Pera: Ich bin Hollaender
Fluffy Monday: wie alt bist du
Pema Pera: und die Wol spricht auch Deutsch
Wol Euler: jawohl
Fluffy Monday: ah
Wol Euler: tach zusammen
Wol Euler: and happy valentine's day to us all
Pema Pera: ganz alt, einer alte Griese :)
Fluffy Monday: yes
Pema Pera: (sorry, I have minutes lag sometimes . . . )
Fluffy Monday: happy valentins tag
Fluffy Monday: hast du einen fruend??
Pema Pera: (very slow connection, I'm afraid -- so I must sound like an oracle, speaking at odd timings)
Pema Pera: :-)
Wol Euler: so business as usual, then? ;-)

I misunderstood Wol; she was refering to my oracle nature, not my lag (^_^)

Pema Pera: well, no, normally I am well connected these days
Wol Euler: no, I meant the oracularity.
Pema Pera: just this Amtrak train winding through Connecticutt . . . .
Wol Euler: :)
Pema Pera: hahaha
Pema Pera: btw, don't let me stop you from conversing -- I'll just oracularly intersperse my comments :)
Wol Euler: I'm cooking lunch, unfortunately, so will be fairly intermittend
Wol Euler: I had a late start today and Just never caught up :)
Scathach Rhiadra: hmm, I hate days like that:)
Fluffy Monday: moment ich muss kurz raus ichbin dann gleich wieder da ok?
Wol Euler: klar :)
Pema Pera: my last month has been like that . . .
Wol Euler: wb fluffy
Pema Pera: gruess dich, Fluffy
Fluffy Monday: hi
Fluffy Monday: hey scathach can i have your skin?
Wol Euler: o.O
Scathach Rhiadra: not when I'm wearing it, no:)
Pema Pera: hahaha
Fluffy Monday: ok
Fluffy Monday: idiot
Fluffy Monday: scherz
Fluffy Monday: joke
Pema Pera: you came into SL a few weeks ago, Fluffy?
Fluffy Monday: yes
Pema Pera: have you enjoyed it so far?
Fluffy Monday: yes
Fluffy Monday: an dyou?
Fluffy Monday: and you
Pema Pera: we may be too serious for you . . . we are talking about the nature of reality, was die Wirklichkeit wirklich ist . . . .
Fluffy Monday: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ß

I guess we may indeed have been too serious for Fluffy

Wol Euler: und ob es wirklich ist.
Pema Pera: genau
Wol Euler: und sogar ob es "wirklich" ist
Fluffy Monday: ah
Fluffy Monday: wol you are german
Fluffy Monday: hast du eunene freund??
Wol Euler: no, I'm english but I live in Stuttgart
Fluffy Monday: or girlfriend?
Corvuscorva Nightfire giggles.
Fluffy Monday: cool
Fluffy Monday: kannst du gut deutsch
Pema Pera: Kuck mal hier, Fluffy: http://playasbeing.wordpress.com/summary/einfuehrung/
Wol Euler: I'm taken, but thanks for asking :)
Wol Euler: and thanks again, I have been in Stutgart for 15 years, it'S easy to pick up a language when you live in it all day.
Pema Pera: (so far, we only have one translation of PaB intro, in German -- would be nice to have a few more, for different languages)
Fluffy Monday: ich steh auf dich
Scathach Rhiadra: don't think Irish would be much use, nobody speaks it:)
Wol Euler lacht. Aber du kennst mich gar nicht. Bin vielleicht die schlimmste Zicke der Welt.
Fluffy Monday: haha
Fluffy Monday: nein nein
Wol Euler: lese mal in mein Profile
Fluffy Monday: schertz
Wol Euler: letzte seite
Pema Pera: but Irish would sound nice, though, even if we don't understand it!
Fluffy Monday: aber ik find dich lustik
Pema Pera: (Wol revealing her true nature)
Scathach Rhiadra: ok, I'll translate the notecard into Irish:)
Pema Pera: actually, and a bit more seriously, it would be great to open a wiki page, with translations of the note card into many languages

Any volunteers to provide translations?

Wol Euler: heheheh
Scathach Rhiadra nods
Fluffy Monday: ämm
Fluffy Monday: wer kennt dode
Fluffy Monday: ?7
Fluffy Monday: ?
Fluffy Monday: wer wohnt in deutschland
Fluffy Monday: ??
Fluffy Monday: ich will frei sein
Fluffy Monday: ich will frei sein frei wie ein stern der am himmel steht
Pema Pera enjoying the leisurely Saturday morning, the shadows of the branches fleeting by behind the window of the train, while watching the scenery here in SL on the other window on his lap . . . what a funny way of blending worlds
Scathach Rhiadra: :)
Wol Euler: fluffy, nur wir beide sprechen deutsch (plus pema, sorry). ich finde es unpassend, in der Gruppe ein Privatunterhaltung zu führen, ganz ehrlich gesagt
Fluffy Monday: :-D
Fluffy Monday: ok
Fluffy Monday: ich kann aber nik so gut english
Wol Euler: (brb, kitchen noises)(
Fluffy Monday: sry
Fluffy Monday: was
Fluffy Monday: what
Fluffy Monday: how are you old
Fluffy Monday: ready

I reported another RL/SL cross over event.

Pema Pera: Yesterday for lunch Adams visited us in Princeton, with some of his students who helped put together the Sacred Art exhibit
Pema Pera: was fun to meet them in RL
Pema Pera: So we had Fefonz and Lia and Adams and me, with three of the students
Corvuscorva Nightfire: oh that's so cool!
Pema Pera: did he enjoy it?
Pema Pera: Our plan is to make the exhibit permanent
Wol Euler: cool.
Pema Pera: would be such a shame of all the work to let it go
Pema Pera: So we're thinking about a different building or buildings
Fluffy Monday: ok
Pema Pera: yes indeed!
Scathach Rhiadra: yes, it would be good to keep it permanently
Fluffy Monday: i going well i understand you not in english
Fluffy Monday: i say not how old i am
Wol Euler: true age is an inner matter in any case
Fluffy Monday: bye
Wol Euler: bye fluffy, take care.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye, Fluffy...have fun in sl.
Scathach Rhiadra: bye Fluffy
Wol Euler: mach's gut, viel spass.
Pema Pera: tschuess, Fluffy
Fluffy Monday: oki shanks47#
Fluffy Monday: bye :)

Exit Fluffy, and some soul searching by Wol.

Wol Euler: was that too hard, pema?
Pema Pera: too hard?
Wol Euler: my telling her off...
Pema Pera: oh no, she was asking for it, probably had little idea of what we're doing here
Pema Pera: :-)
Wol Euler nods.
Scathach Rhiadra: :)
Wol Euler: good.
Corvuscorva Nightfire: time for me to go..see ya.
Pema Pera: now the question is, how much of an idea do we ourselves have . . . :-)
Wol Euler: bye corvi,take care.
Scathach Rhiadra: bye Corvi:)
Pema Pera: bye Corvi!
Corvuscorva Nightfire: bye all.
Pema Pera: it's so interesting to see the flow of conversation being so different for each session, with no prior warning as to silly, serious, or just flowing quietly
Pema Pera: pretty much like a corner cafe or living room or such
Pema Pera: unpretentious yet interspersed with interesting tidbits
Wol Euler: (kitchen again)
Pema Pera: interesting to contrast with Kira Workshops, like the phenomenology one, which is quite a bit more intense
Pema Pera: each has its own advantages
Scathach Rhiadra: mmm, that is true:)
Pema Pera: this is more relaxing, for sure :-)
Pema Pera: but sometimes it is also great to really get a bit deeper into a topic, like in those workshops
Pema Pera: well, it's 8 am I see, I'd better get back to work . . . preparing for my upcoming meetings
Pema Pera: nice seeing you here!
Wol Euler: Dinner is ready, I'll have to go too. See you all at 1pm?
Scathach Rhiadra: bye Pema:)
Scathach Rhiadra: bye Wol:)
Wol Euler: bye all, take care.
Scathach Rhiadra: I must go too, see you Myna:)
Pema Pera: bye for now!