2011.02.08 19:00 - Mirrors of Dignity

The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

There are treasures throughout this session: phoenix, Amaterasu and the mirror, dignity and the Egyptians, the watcher, turtles again, and at the end oO0Oo and Solobill touch it: Like we are a wellspring for which "it" to flow through

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Winged One!
Archmage Atlantis: Hey you
Archmage Atlantis: hard to find a cushion that doesn't require me to sit demurely
Archmage Atlantis: Hi Sam
oO0Oo Resident bows to Arch and Eos
Eos Amaterasu: /||\, oO
Archmage Atlantis: na-mas-te

Eos Amaterasu: What is the story of your wings, Arch?
Archmage Atlantis: Met a phoenix avi, bought the avi, kept the wings
Eos Amaterasu is stricken!
Archmage Atlantis: I tend to collect things that mean something to me
Eos Amaterasu: but being a phoenix avi it will surely rise again!
Eos Amaterasu: perhaps as you, Arch
Archmage Atlantis: My sl sister gave me the egyptian stuff
Archmage Atlantis: my former sl partner gave me the kanji
oO0Oo Resident smiles
Archmage Atlantis: perhaps eos
oO0Oo Resident: appreciate being such good friends with partners, before, during, after

Archmage Atlantis: Hello, Aph
Eos Amaterasu: Sorry, browser problems....
Archmage Atlantis: I didn't look to see whose session this was
Archmage Atlantis: Thks Eos
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Aph
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Aphrodite
Eos Amaterasu: (sorry, I entered a black-out somehow....) ... phew!
Archmage Atlantis: np, E
Archmage Atlantis: I was watching the telly and looked up, and it was time to come here.....odd how that happens

Aphrodite Macbain: Are you celbrating Egypt's rising like a phoeniz arch?
Archmage Atlantis: Interesting question Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: Phoenix.
oO0Oo Resident didn't catch that insightful possibility in Arch's costume
Archmage Atlantis: Sometimes, I think, the flame consumes the bird
Aphrodite Macbain: his collar looks Egyptian, his wings are phoenix like
Archmage Atlantis: Sometimes the bird needs a lift
oO0Oo Resident: delicate balance arch
Aphrodite Macbain: we all need a lift from time to time. just don't too close to the sun
[oO0Oo disappears...]
Aphrodite Macbain: where did samuo go?
 Eos Amaterasu: too close to the sun?
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Archmage Atlantis: Doubt that......

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: How do you feel as a woman Eos?

Eos Amaterasu: I am reflecting
Aphrodite Macbain: and are you comfortable wearing those shoes?
Aphrodite Macbain: upon what?

The story of Amaterasu Kami

Eos Amaterasu: Amaterasu Kami, the 'great being sky shining' (goddess of the sun)
Eos Amaterasu: was closed up in a cave by her brother (long story....)
Eos Amaterasu: So the crops failed, and the earth did not prosper.
Eos Amaterasu: Then, she was tricked into looking out of the cave
Eos Amaterasu: And saw a mirror
Eos Amaterasu: Shining
Eos Amaterasu: With great beauty
Eos Amaterasu: That she recognized as herself
Eos Amaterasu: And so she came out of the cave
Aphrodite Macbain: female then?
Eos Amaterasu: And the earth was warmed.

Aphrodite Macbain: Eos is really femail?
Archmage Atlantis: np, Sam.......Eos is telling us the history of humanity
Eos Amaterasu: Yes, Amaterasu is female (Eastern sun goddess)
Aphrodite Macbain: a creation myth
Eos Amaterasu: Eos is female (Western dawn goddess)
Eos Amaterasu: Also illuminates something about identity
Eos Amaterasu: Which I am now experiencing
Aphrodite Macbain: Oh. I always thought your avi was male
Eos Amaterasu: as I reflect on being female....
Eos Amaterasu: My avi was male
Aphrodite Macbain: It's a trick of the light
Eos Amaterasu: love, sister, it's just a checkbox away, ...
Archmage Atlantis: We are many sexes in and of ourselves.....the first life on any surface must reproduce
Eos Amaterasu: This was all last minute (last few hours) just before the Art of Being session Sunday
Aphrodite Macbain: what was happening during those last minutes?
Aphrodite Macbain: You were discovering yourself anew?
Eos Amaterasu: I got a scene and a female skin/shape and clothes so I could make the photo
Eos Amaterasu: but then I looked in the mirror :-) !
Aphrodite Macbain: Hah ha
Aphrodite Macbain APPLAUDS!!!
Archmage Atlantis: The second life must protect the first

Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Steve
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
oO0Oo Resident waves to Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: ~ ~ ~
Archmage Atlantis: Greetings, Stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi arch
stevenaia Michinaga: you look egyptian tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: hi ELiza
Archmage Atlantis: It is an artifact, given to me by one for who I care
Eos Amaterasu: Hi E!
oO0Oo Resident smiles at Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Hi E!
stevenaia Michinaga: I love gifts of that nature
Eliza Madrigal: :) And Hi Steve, and oO0Oo, and Arch, and Aphrodite :)
stevenaia Michinaga: my last male avatar was a gift such as that
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Eliza
Eos Amaterasu: I have been really struck by the civilization of the egyptians, especially when watching/listening to them directly
stevenaia Michinaga: you mean currently?
Eos Amaterasu: yes, Tahrir Square etc
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: It has had a 4000 year history
Eos Amaterasu: everyone talks about restoring their dignity
Eos Amaterasu: the very best of human aspiration - you can feel it, it's tangible
Eliza Madrigal: watched a video this evening ... google exec who went back for the protests, was jailed ... so moving what he described "no heroes" "all heroes"
Eos Amaterasu: and people recognize it in each other
Eliza Madrigal: not google... wait... let me get it
Eos Amaterasu: plus, they pause fives times a day!
Archmage Atlantis: No need, Eliza......it lives within us all

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: There are many different factions competing. The police, the army, the ecret police, the person on the streeet
Eliza Madrigal: Not to watch it now, but his voice somehow reaches a deep place in everyone... dignity is just the word: just you tube Wael Ghonim I guess if interested :)
Aphrodite Macbain: all tired of being disenfranchised
Aphrodite Macbain: I worry who and what will fill the vacuum
Eos Amaterasu: especially the franchise of themselves
Eos Amaterasu: that's what the dignity part is about
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- democracy takes a while to set up and make happen - see Russia and Iraq for instance
Eos Amaterasu: but the inner spirit is right there right now :-)
Eliza Madrigal: yes agree concern there, yet also poignancy of people speaking directly
Eos Amaterasu: lots of conversations happening
Eos Amaterasu: lots of self-organizing
oO0Oo Resident: have heard HH Dalai speak positively of democracy and demacratic reform of Tibet in public talks for decades.
Eos Amaterasu: but it is fragile, cause lots of pressures that brought about need to demonstrate and rise up in the first place
oO0Oo Resident: One reference: http://is.gd/hnb7kS
Eliza Madrigal clicks...
Eos Amaterasu: One thing Dalai Lama has made really public is idea that you don't have to hate your 'enemies'
Eos Amaterasu: kind of rad
Aphrodite Macbain: HHDL has given up trying to convince China to give back Tibet to the Tibetans but he is pushing for allowance of the practice of Tibetan ulture in Tibete
oO0Oo Resident: and when you say really clear Eos (smiling), it really is clear
Eliza Madrigal: mmm' taking responsibility 'as if there is no dalai lama doing it'... 'you're it' on the spot
oO0Oo Resident: glad for HH
Eliza Madrigal: (snippets from the end of that page along with own outbursts)
oO0Oo Resident: need his example
Aphrodite Macbain: As HHDL is Buddhist he would never advocate violence
Aphrodite Macbain: but sympathetic action. He would say, love thine enemy!
oO0Oo Resident: he has a spotless record in my eyes
Aphrodite Macbain: educate the heart as well a the mind
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes Samuo, in mine too
oO0Oo Resident: two wings, as paradise so kindly put it
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: two wings?
Aphrodite Macbain: heart & mind?
oO0Oo Resident: two bodhicittas?
Aphrodite Macbain: I've just finished Karen Armstrongs12 steps to a compassionate life. so wonderful
oO0Oo Resident smiles
oO0Oo Resident: made that list Aph?
Aphrodite Macbain: she quotes HHDL constantly, along with Christ, Mohammed,
Aphrodite Macbain grins sheepishly
Aphrodite Macbain: nope
stevenaia Michinaga: list?
Eliza Madrigal: she's very inspiring in her way of letting those figures relate with one another
Aphrodite Macbain: Ghandi
oO0Oo Resident: Sorry, only if Aph cares to
Eos Amaterasu: We should invite them to a session :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: It's wonderful how sh can synthesize w/o bein facile about it
Eliza Madrigal: :)

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain smile at Eos
oO0Oo Resident: what does facile mean please?
Aphrodite Macbain: superficial - too easy
oO0Oo Resident: ty
Aphrodite Macbain: yw!
Eos Amaterasu: Actually the amazing thing about the Egyptians in the square is that this stuff is built in: you just have to let go the pressure, the suppresion, and it comes out
Aphrodite Macbain: what stuff Eos?
Eos Amaterasu: the goodness in the faces, the talk that turns to dignity, ....
Aphrodite Macbain: It was alwys there - the media finally recognized it
Eos Amaterasu: starting at the end (heh heh): the fruition of civilization, people being decent
Eos Amaterasu: At least that possibility is being acknowledged
Aphrodite Macbain: yes. a fine moment that wont be forgotten.
Eliza Madrigal nods
Eliza Madrigal: and in all these things, there is the 'situation we're in' every day and what's to see in this light
Eos Amaterasu: I don't know if the "media" recognizes it, but when they step back and let the Egyptians speak,it comes through
oO0Oo Resident: Yes, Eos, I find particularly, extreme circumstances often lend more opprtunity for what you describe. I vacillate between making things too easy and too hard, then it's all a kind of gift eventually
Aphrodite Macbain: I remember this happening in the 80s when the Sandanistas took power in Nicaragua. Overthrowingthe dictator, Samosa
Eos Amaterasu: Early days of Solidarity in Poland had this feeling
Aphrodite Macbain: "For the flash of this moment, you are the best of what you are". Bruce Cockburn
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eos Amaterasu: Yes!
Aphrodite Macbain: yes - exactly Eos
Aphrodite Macbain: very inspiring. How to sustain it?
Eos Amaterasu: put it in every detail of your daily life
Aphrodite Macbain: I felt that way when Obama was elected
Aphrodite Macbain: hope
Eliza Madrigal: mm
Eos Amaterasu: yes, indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you agree Eliza?
Eliza Madrigal: very much so... worked quite hard during that campaign... how I learned of SL :)
Eliza Madrigal: twittering away... haha
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Cool
Aphrodite Macbain: what a thrill that must have been
Aphrodite Macbain: harnessing the social network
Eliza Madrigal: he exudes that 'dignity' quality and it was about that in some sense...
Eos Amaterasu: in a way the people in Egypt are less trapped than Obama is
Eos Amaterasu: cause they are breaking out of being beholden
Eliza Madrigal: yes well there is quite a machine isn't there
Aphrodite Macbain: one has to have respect for oneself before one can exude that dignity
Eliza Madrigal: when we see it, gears turning, we are waking
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Cal! :)
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening, familiars :)
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Cal!
Eliza Madrigal: haha
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Cal...looking fresh!
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: will be musing 'dignity' as I fall asleep... which I really must do, full full day
oO0Oo Resident: sometimes in those gears
oO0Oo Resident: like the great wave
stevenaia Michinaga: night Eliza
Eos Amaterasu: bye Eliza, dig 'nighty
oO0Oo Resident: Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm....
Eliza Madrigal: Night Friends :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Sleep well Eliza
stevenaia Michinaga: I must be off as well, , see you soon
oO0Oo Resident: :) Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: Ciao, Michi

oO0Oo hears critical voices...

oO0Oo Resident: Is anyone else getting vague 'voice' commentary?
Aphrodite Macbain: No...
Eos Amaterasu: No....
oO0Oo Resident: I'm hearing voice
Eos Amaterasu: Calvino seems to have mostly disappeared....
Eos Amaterasu: whups, now back
oO0Oo Resident: that's speaking critically of the discussion
Aphrodite Macbain: Maybe it's someone's radio
Aphrodite Macbain: someone who has their voice turned on..
oO0Oo Resident: no, not radio

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain whispers..'gotta go to"
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
oO0Oo Resident waves bye to Aph
Eos Amaterasu: Bye Aph
Eos Amaterasu: Any more voice, Samúð?
oO0Oo Resident: No... stopped after I mentioned it, but had been going for a few minutes. Quite specific and snarky
Eos Amaterasu: Hmm, color commentary
oO0Oo Resident: and...ahem...distinct from the...ahem voices in my head ;)
Eos Amaterasu: oh, those :-)

Eos Amaterasu: How was Art of Being Self for you, oO0Oo?
oO0Oo Resident: well, in reading the overview Bleu, I believe, had on the wiki, I realised that it was designed as a 2 month exploration, but my leap was last second, and people helped me, and it felt good to be a part of.
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
oO0Oo Resident: ty for asking. How was it for you?
Eos Amaterasu: I'd been somewhat thinking about it and reflecting on it for the last 2 months, but did not actually do anything till literally the last few hours
Eos Amaterasu: so in a way for me this is just beginning!
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Eos Amaterasu: the exploration was through the two names I had taken on when entering Second Life
oO0Oo Resident: Cal? Did you have an hand in the events?
Eos Amaterasu: Eos and Amaterasu, both dawn goddesses, of west and east, both female of course
oO0Oo Resident: sorry Eos
Eos Amaterasu: np
oO0Oo Resident: double sun
Calvino Rabeni: No Samuo, my hand in it was limited to attending the final discussion :)
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Solobill
Solobill Laville: Hello folks :)
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Solo
Solobill Laville smiles at o000o
oO0Oo Resident: i liked the view of your picture at the Dome, with the cosmic cube as a backdrop Eos
Eos Amaterasu: Ah, Calvino's cube?
oO0Oo Resident: is it?
Calvino Rabeni: The cube showing nebula belongs to Lucinda

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: I somehow walked into it and found myself in space :-)
oO0Oo Resident wonders... what exactly IS dignity...and does it actually depend on something/s
Solobill Laville: Is it externally judged, or an internal process?
Eos Amaterasu: from the experience of watching the Egyptians, it seems internally recognized
Solobill Laville: I can view your behavior and say you are "dignified", for example
Eos Amaterasu: they are volunteering it about themselves
Solobill Laville: Yes, and I can think to myself, I must be dignified...
Eos Amaterasu: they brought up the topic :-)
Solobill Laville: Why do you ask, o000o?
oO0Oo Resident: Previous discussion, to some degree about Egyptian people Solobill
Solobill Laville nods
Eos Amaterasu: they are saying, they own their own futures
oO0Oo Resident: Funny, just now realising how I have always made a connection in my mind with ancient Egyptian relics, as being dignified
Solobill Laville: Dignity would be resultant from a new government?
Eos Amaterasu: now they are waking up!
Eos Amaterasu: dignity might lead to a new government
Eos Amaterasu: but more fundamentally it seems to be a way to be, to be in your own skin
Eos Amaterasu: through your own direct perceptions and truth
Eos Amaterasu: out of that comes.... lots of dialogue
Eos Amaterasu: lots of conversations
Eos Amaterasu: lots of self-organizing
Solobill Laville: Is there a thin line that divides dignity from pride?
Eos Amaterasu: lots of being unafraid to meet
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, nothing is for granted
oO0Oo Resident: maybe pride is like making an extra thick badge out of a dignified encounter
Eos Amaterasu: or it gets crusted over, yes
Calvino Rabeni: I think of dignity as a quality of being that people have that is visible to others .. a relaxed naturalness and presence that feels calm
Solobill Laville smiles at Cal
Solobill Laville: yes, so dignity as externally perceived then? I'm thinking that may be the way I see it
oO0Oo Resident smiles at Cal
Solobill Laville: The internal variety may be tied to pride, the not-in-a good-way pride, perhaps
oO0Oo Resident: the internal is still evaluated by watcher?
Solobill Laville: Sorry, I'm making this interpersonal, not Egyptian-global :)
Eos Amaterasu: the watcher is like Gollum
oO0Oo Resident: np
Calvino Rabeni: Its an interesting question .. how "internal" qualities are really present for all to notice

--BELL--

Solobill Laville: I agree Cal, but what is this "watcher"?
Eos Amaterasu: Our pupils are raw brain
Calvino Rabeni: Mostly I think our social minds
oO0Oo Resident: watcher like gollum Eos?
Solobill Laville: Ah
Eos Amaterasu: sticks to you
Calvino Rabeni: There's a little bit here, a little bit there .. hosted in multiple places
oO0Oo Resident: touch and go?
Solobill Laville: What do you mean by "raw brain", Eos?
Eos Amaterasu: touch and touch, more usually
oO0Oo Resident: still gollum?
Solobill Laville is trying to catch up
Eos Amaterasu: there's a "retina display" through the pupils, that's part of the brain
Solobill Laville: OK
Solobill Laville: and how does that relate to the watcher, or gollum?
Solobill Laville: Or am I lost? :)
Solobill Laville: (not the first time)
oO0Oo Resident: i use watcher in the sense of that which notices
Eos Amaterasu: [20:29] Calvino Rabeni: Its an interesting question .. how "internal" qualities are really present for all to notice
oO0Oo Resident: in our own experience
Eos Amaterasu: this is where "Me seeing, Being seeing" is apropos....
Solobill Laville: OK...I'm good now, thanks, Eos and o000o (need a shorter moniker for you ;))
oO0Oo Resident: 0 works solo
Solobill Laville: thx
oO0Oo Resident: Eos?
Eos Amaterasu: ¿
Solobill Laville: :)
oO0Oo Resident: me seeing...
Eos Amaterasu: oh
Solobill Laville: Who is the watcher, 0? In a metaphysical sense
Eos Amaterasu: that's one of the "framings" for pausing....
oO0Oo Resident: OK ty
Eos Amaterasu: like switching from "me watching", from my narrow cone of me-ness
Eos Amaterasu: to being seen
Eos Amaterasu: you're not the spotlight of awareness
Solobill Laville: In my experience, there is that which notices, which is not what this mind-body has programmed to be "me"
Solobill Laville: yes
Eos Amaterasu: yeah
oO0Oo Resident: ty both
Eos Amaterasu: and the "go" part of "touch and go" cuts through endless recursion
Eos Amaterasu: there are no turtles :-)
Eos Amaterasu: ie, how to drop the watcher....
Solobill Laville: mmmm...just to verbs..watch...hear...breath
oO0Oo Resident: then dignity has no witness
Eos Amaterasu: !
Solobill Laville: :) indeed dignity has no meaning, in one sense
oO0Oo Resident: or is all pervasive
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, it can quickly be recognized all over the place :-)
oO0Oo Resident: good morning!
Eos Amaterasu: Maybe no meaning re not being about anything, really
Eos Amaterasu: but about not having to be swayed by anything, or being able to let anything be
Eos Amaterasu: touching the earth
Eos Amaterasu: perhaps extreme circumstances can help drive that
Eos Amaterasu: (like food prices shooting up 50 to 100% in less than a year)
Eos Amaterasu: (when 80% of your income goes to food)
Solobill Laville: that is a most profound act, touching the earth
Calvino Rabeni needs to make a semidignified exit
Calvino Rabeni: thank you for your presence, everyone
Solobill Laville: No judgment here, Cal, good night
Calvino Rabeni: and good evening
Eos Amaterasu: Thanks, Cal.
Calvino Rabeni: :)
oO0Oo Resident: be well Cal
Eos Amaterasu: I need to go as well - past midnight....
Calvino Rabeni: ty , you also
Solobill Laville: 'night, Eos
Eos Amaterasu: Thanks Samúð and Calvino and Solobill

--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: bye Eos
oO0Oo Resident: good morning
Solobill Laville: good morning!
Solobill Laville: Are you well, 0?
Solobill Laville is comfortable breaking the silence, when appropriate
oO0Oo Resident: :)
oO0Oo Resident: I OK Solobill
Solobill Laville: good
Solobill Laville: Have you come here for a while? (I'm an old-timer who drops in when I can)
oO0Oo Resident: I have been in SL for a bit over a month, and PaB, somewhat less than that. Yaku invited me
Solobill Laville nods
Solobill Laville: I don't know what PaB really entails these days
Solobill Laville: Generally discussions like we've been having
oO0Oo Resident: I don't know enough to make comparisons
Solobill Laville: I know Yaku :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
oO0Oo Resident: Feel lucky to have met him early in my SL experince
oO0Oo Resident: *
Solobill Laville: Right, I think maybe there is a feeling of the do-somethings (like actively meditate and practice) or the talk-alots (this is me talking, not representing PaB in any way)* disclalimer (and I still like the talk-alots)
Solobill Laville: PaB initially started as a practice and sharing group, though I do see value in meeting and sharing and talking generally, we all have unique needs and are at our own places
Solobill Laville: Your profile makes you sound like a meditator, yes?
oO0Oo Resident: interesting. I didn't know that. It feels to me to be both compelling to many people, and also naturally engenders compassion and wisdom... so in a sense good for the relative world IMHO
Solobill Laville: I think it can do that in all cases, yes.
Solobill Laville is regretting his talk-alot comment
oO0Oo Resident: I don't fel I can divide the doers/meditators and the talkers quite so neatly, i also cannot come down fully on calling myself anything in particular. I meditate sometimes, and i study a little, and I practice a little. I like to catch myself starting anew when possible, although that is now a hackneyed phrase
oO0Oo Resident: ffeel*
oO0Oo Resident: hehe
oO0Oo Resident: feel*
Solobill Laville: :)
oO0Oo Resident: it's really great for me to talk with 'old timers' ;) I mean there IS elder wisdom there
Solobill Laville: I should clarify; there is a very intellectual movement (as there has always been I think) that wants to discuss and argue many things that are not arguable

--BELL--

Solobill Laville: IMHO ;)
Solobill Laville: that was quick
Solobill Laville: Anyway... :) There is some force, I think, that naturally draws us towards searching for something
Solobill Laville: and that something is often inward
Solobill Laville: strangely enough
oO0Oo Resident: I encounter that style you describe Solobill, and it is in a way paradoxical, that persons with enormous intellect, sometimes place themselves in a framework, that does not bring them happiness, or peace
Solobill Laville: oh yes
oO0Oo Resident: me too
oO0Oo Resident: I am am not immune
Solobill Laville: It's like the captain going down with their ship
Solobill Laville: The good ship HMS Intellect ;)
oO0Oo Resident: hehe good comparison
oO0Oo Resident: and SL adds layers to this in a way
oO0Oo Resident: further away from our bodies
Solobill Laville: Well, in my exerience there is something much more fundamental; that travels through us, like creating music or prose or poetry
oO0Oo Resident: potentially
oO0Oo Resident: expressed how?

Solobill Laville: Like we are a wellspring for which "it" to flow through

Solobill Laville: Intellect can block that - because it is not-understandble, in the common sense
oO0Oo Resident: and do you recognise differnces in RL presence, to SL gatherings?
Solobill Laville remembers back
Solobill Laville: SL is the great equalizer in terms of much of the social baggage we carry
oO0Oo Resident nods
Solobill Laville: I don't know if you are male, female, GLBTQ. etc.
Solobill Laville: So all there is, is, "you"
Solobill Laville: Right?
oO0Oo Resident: or is it you?
Solobill Laville: and vice versa
Solobill Laville: yep
oO0Oo Resident: hehe
oO0Oo Resident: that explains
Solobill Laville: So, all I know, of what we share, is, what we share
Solobill Laville: So we are truly, in an envirnoment like this, in a place of communication
oO0Oo Resident: so many keyboards... the colon and the right parenthis is worn down
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Solobill Laville: But, of course, there are still subtle things going on I'd think
oO0Oo Resident: more and more subtle
oO0Oo Resident listens
Solobill Laville: Wow, my keyboard is new, shiny colons :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Solobill Laville: i do think that that is a key part of SL's intrigue, do you?
oO0Oo Resident: key is value neutral appropo...intrigue.... subtle...a scent on the wind... a sudden sharp pain... an exposure, a cold isolation, a warm situation, a knowing, a thinking i know, then a ground taken from under feet
oO0Oo Resident: key

--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: different for everyone
oO0Oo Resident: layers of subtlety.... and we are alone
Solobill Laville: we are alone...and we are everything, everything...don't forget that :)
oO0Oo Resident: every day, every hour, every minute, is a flicker between the two
Solobill Laville: Alone actually becomes meaningless; it's based in looking at ourselves in comparison to something *other*
Solobill Laville: There is no *other*; it is all within Big Mind
oO0Oo Resident: true... a reminder to try to be of more service, and less selfish
Solobill Laville: Well, that's a lot of pressure. Maybe just "be" is good enough, the rest will flow out of that, perhaps.
oO0Oo Resident nods
oO0Oo Resident: ya
Solobill Laville: I remembered on Sunday that honesty flows of out being natural, it's something that's hard to force
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Solobill Laville: Same with service, or generosity, etc.
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Solobill Laville: ok...I think it's bed time for Bonzo here
Solobill Laville: nice chatting with you O, sorry I was such a blabbermouth
oO0Oo Resident is speechless
oO0Oo Resident: :)
oO0Oo Resident smiles and smiles
Solobill Laville: OK, good night then, take care :)
oO0Oo Resident: u2
oO0Oo Resident: ty
Solobill Laville: thx