2009.07.03 13:00 - God as a Source and Stories

The Guardian for this meeting was sophia Placebo. The comments are by sophia Placebo.

I arrived and Adams almost at the same mint ,he started the discussion about God as a source and being as a source 

sophia Placebo: hello adams ^^
Adams Dubrovna: Hello Sophia :)
sophia Placebo: how are you ?
Adams Dubrovna: I am very goo. How about you?
sophia Placebo: good too
Adams Dubrovna: Nice outfit again today :)
sophia Placebo: ty
Adams Dubrovna: I have been meaning to ask you something and this as good a time as ever
sophia Placebo: shoot
Adams Dubrovna: Pema often talks about using Being as a resource
Adams Dubrovna: When I was younger I used to feel I could use God as a resource
Adams Dubrovna: I lost that feeling
Adams Dubrovna: a long time ago
Adams Dubrovna: but I am connnecting the two
Adams Dubrovna: I wonder if you might have any experience along those lines
sophia Placebo: resource of what ?
Adams Dubrovna: hehe
Adams Dubrovna: well I once thought thaat God could affect my life
Adams Dubrovna: I don;t know what Pema means yet
Adams Dubrovna: I believed I was guided by God
Adams Dubrovna: I could relax and put myself in his hands
Adams Dubrovna: Hello Wol :)
sophia Placebo: hmm
sophia Placebo: Hi Wol
sophia Placebo: there was a number of instances when this happened
sophia Placebo: the feeling was at its peak i mean
Wol Euler: hello sophia, adams
Adams Dubrovna: It is a good feeling when it happens
sophia Placebo: usualy thats whats we do daily , our God is the -resource of every gift -
sophia Placebo: but at certain momnets one is uncertain which path to follow
Adams Dubrovna nods
Adams Dubrovna: That, of course, is the tricky part :)
sophia Placebo: some times it might be spritual path but at many times just a a life crross roads
Adams Dubrovna: one of the tricky parts
sophia Placebo: you might call it a trick
sophia Placebo: but in most times i felt lost
Adams Dubrovna: Looking back I seemed to feel it helped me look outward
sophia Placebo: outwaord?
Adams Dubrovna: from a less selfish point of view
Adams Dubrovna: that God wanted something of me
Adams Dubrovna: that I had a duty to consider others in the picture
Adams Dubrovna: that could be worded better
Adams Dubrovna: but I have been connecting it to love, to looking with the heart
sophia Placebo: hmm yes the heart part
sophia Placebo: thats whats matter
sophia Placebo: God dont look to our shapes or clothes but whats within our hearts
Wol Euler nods
Adams Dubrovna: trying to remember how to divie/me nods
Adams Dubrovna: not sure were the other text came from
Adams Dubrovna: I was just nodding
Wol Euler: :)
Wol Euler: your secret thoughts are leaking out.
Adams Dubrovna: hehe
Adams Dubrovna: weven secret from me
Adams Dubrovna: even
sophia Placebo: if you trust him , and think he would take care of you and would help you , that nothing but good comes from his hmm how i should name it , how life run against our desires
Adams Dubrovna: good way to put it
Adams Dubrovna: we sometimes don't know what is good for us
Wol Euler: yeah

Tarmel joined us

Adams Dubrovna: Hello Tarmel :)
sophia Placebo: if you belive in that and put it in your heart when you seek him , he would guid you
sophia Placebo: hello tarmel
Wol Euler: hi tarmel
Tarmel Udimo: hello all!
sophia Placebo: you may hate something but in it is your good
Wol Euler: or love (be addicted to) something that is killing you
sophia Placebo: you may love something but in it is your -bad?-
Adams Dubrovna: Sometimes it is a matter of looking at ourselves from a different direction
sophia Placebo: true

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sophia Placebo: wierd tail ,but inovative one
Wol Euler: mine?
sophia Placebo: hehe yes
Shyama Sheryffe: hi all !
Wol Euler: sort of a mechanical neko, you reminded me of this outfit
sophia Placebo: hi shayama
Wol Euler: hello shyama
Adams Dubrovna: Hello Shyama
Tarmel Udimo: hi shyama
Tarmel Udimo: no topic today?
Adams Dubrovna notices there are always new heights to climb in SL
Tarmel Udimo: :)
Adams Dubrovna: I think we kind of finished with our starting topic
Adams Dubrovna: ready for a new one
Tarmel Udimo: OK
Adams Dubrovna: Is one of GOC today?
Tarmel Udimo: Wol?
Adams Dubrovna looks around
Adams Dubrovna looks at his feet
Wol Euler: sophia, didn't you take over Solobill's slot?
sophia Placebo: i did ?
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Wol Euler: congratulations :)
Wol Euler: I see you claimed this session already :)
Adams Dubrovna picks up the cue
Adams Dubrovna: Congratulations Sophia :)
Adams Dubrovna: Yaaaaay
sophia Placebo: isnt my session is friday ?
Tarmel Udimo: yes thanks sophia
Wol Euler takes your hand gently. This is Friday.
Wol Euler: and has been for several hours already :)
sophia Placebo: ok i thought i was mistaken
sophia Placebo: thank you all :))
Wol Euler: :)
Tarmel Udimo: well there has been a lot of chopping and changing
sophia Placebo: i just noticed today that tomorrow is saturday
Adams Dubrovna: :)
sophia Placebo: totally out of time
Tarmel Udimo: yes reality is a strange thing
sophia Placebo: i missed a wedding cause of that
Wol Euler: oooops
Adams Dubrovna: ouch
sophia Placebo: i thought wed is thursday
Tarmel Udimo: was the wedding today?
sophia Placebo: no 2 days ago
Tarmel Udimo: you've missed it for sure then:)
sophia Placebo: lol yes i did
Adams Dubrovna hopes it was not your own
sophia Placebo: hehe
Tarmel Udimo: me too
sophia Placebo: poor groom
Wol Euler: awwwwwww
Wol Euler: lucky groom, surely.

Handfasted for a year and a day , wonders about that day

Tarmel Udimo: you know in the 'olden' days people use to get handfasted
Tarmel Udimo: they would have a ceremony where a ribbon was tied around their hands
Tarmel Udimo: and they would be together for a year and a day
sophia Placebo: year !
Adams Dubrovna: Oh my, now people try to keep them apart before the wedding
Tarmel Udimo: then if after that they decided to stay together they would repeat the custom
Adams Dubrovna: :)
Wol Euler: wow.
Tarmel Udimo: the ribbon was only symbolic:)
sophia Placebo: so its a year and a day contract wedding baseclly
sophia Placebo: then they renaw it
Tarmel Udimo: yes basically
Tarmel Udimo: didn't need the church to sanction it
sophia Placebo: intersting
Adams Dubrovna: :)
Tarmel Udimo: http://medievalscotland.org/history/handfasting.shtml

Story time

sophia Placebo: wanna hear a story ?
Wol Euler: sure
Adams Dubrovna: I need to go meet Storm in a minute. Nice to see you all. Take care :)
Adams Dubrovna: sorry to miss the stiry
sophia Placebo: bye adams nice to meet you too
sophia Placebo: On a frigid and snowy winter day Mullah Nasruddin was having a chat with some of his friends in the local coffee house. Mullah Nasruddin said that cold weather did not bother him, and in fact, he could stay, if necessary, all night without any heat.
Tarmel Udimo: bye Adams
Wol Euler: bye adams, take care
sophia Placebo: We'll take you up on that, Mullah Nasruddin . they said. If you stand all night in the village square without warming yourself by any external means, each of us will treat you to a sumptuous meal. But if you fail to do so, you will treat us all to dinner. - All right it's a bet, Mullah Nasruddin said.
sophia Placebo: That very night, Mullah Nasruddin stood in the village square till morning despite the bitter cold. In the morning, he ran triumphantly to his friends and told them that they should be ready to fulfill their promise. But as a matter of fact you lost the bet, Mullah Nasruddin , said one of them. At about midnight, just before I went to sleep, I saw a candle burning a window about three hundred yards away from where you were standing. That certainly means that you warmed yourself by it.
sophia Placebo: That's ridiculous, Mullah Nasruddin argued. How can a candle behind a window warm a person three hundred yards away?
sophia Placebo: All his protestations were to no avail, and it was decided that Mullah Nasruddin had lost the bet. Mullah Nasruddin accepted the verdict and invited all of them to a dinner that night at his home. They all arrived on time, laughing and joking, anticipating the delicious meal Mullah Nasruddin was going to serve them. But dinner was not ready. Mullah Nasruddin told them that it would be ready in a short time, and left the room to prepare the meal. A long time passed, and still no dinner was served.
sophia Placebo: Finally, getting impatient and very hungry, they went into the kitchen to see if there was any food cooking at all. What they saw, they could not believe. Mullah Nasruddin was standing by a huge cauldron, suspended from the ceiling. There was a lighted candle under the cauldron.
Adams Dubrovna: :)
sophia Placebo: - Be patient my friends, Mullah Nasruddin told them. Dinner will be ready soon. You see it is cooking.
sophia Placebo: - Are you out of your mind, Mullah Nasruddin? they shouted. How could you with such a tiny flame boil such a large pot? - Your ignorance of such matters amuses me, Mullah Nasruddin said. If the flame of a candle behind a window three hundred yards away can warm a person, surely the same flame will boil this pot which is only three inches away.
Wol Euler: :)
Wol Euler: Nasruddin is a delight :)
Tarmel Udimo: very nice story:)
sophia Placebo: hehe he is
Adams Dubrovna: yes
Wol Euler: may I tell one too?
Tarmel Udimo: nods
sophia Placebo: what amaze me about him is that he is a real man ad did these things physcally

Wol telling another story

Wol Euler: Mullah Nasruddin was sitting one day playing chess with his friends in a cafe.
sophia Placebo: sure wol
Adams Dubrovna waves
Wol Euler: As a funeral procession came by, he stood up and faced the street, removed his turban and bowed deeply.
Wol Euler: then sat back down and resumed his game.
Wol Euler: His friends were awed. "A magnificent gesture, truly worthy of a mullah!" they said.
Wol Euler: "well, " he replied, "it's the least a man can do for his wife."
sophia Placebo: hehe :))
Tarmel Udimo: hehehe
Tarmel Udimo: :))))
sophia Placebo: what a mullah
Wol Euler: yeah, a very wise and sensible man.
Tarmel Udimo: well I hate to be a party pooper but back to RL for me
Wol Euler: bye tarmel, have a good day.
sophia Placebo: buy tarmel
Tarmel Udimo: grins
Tarmel Udimo: back to bed:)
sophia Placebo: next time i'll bring poetry
Wol Euler: what? ah, of course, it's saturday already for her
Wol Euler: plase do!
sophia Placebo: hehe
Wol Euler: it would be great to have a regular literary PaB session.
sophia Placebo: is tarmel in east ?
Wol Euler: we could make it a theme, everyone presents a book
Wol Euler: yes, she's in Ausralia
sophia Placebo: that would be lovely thing
sophia Placebo: or present a quoet
Wol Euler: mmhmm, that would be good too
Wol Euler: well, I too must get to bed.
sophia Placebo: happy dreams
Wol Euler: goodnight sophia, see you tomorrow!
Wol Euler: thanks, you too :)
sophia Placebo: goodnight :)