2011.06.25 19:00 - Resuloving

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

Pema Pera: hi Susan!
iwandertoo Resident: hi Pema
Pema Pera: good afternoon
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Pema Pera: how was your day so far?
iwandertoo Resident: very busy day
iwandertoo Resident: how about you?
Pema Pera: oh, just had breakfast
Pema Pera: quiet Sunday morning
iwandertoo Resident: sunday morning...reading ny times...bagels...
Pema Pera: :-)
Pema Pera: yes, that would be another simultaneous incarnation for me :-)
Pema Pera: given that I am supposed to live in NYC
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Pema Pera: but now it is more rice than bread, here in Japan
iwandertoo Resident: nods
iwandertoo Resident: how long are you in japan for?
Pema Pera: hi Steve!
Pema Pera: another two weeks
Pema Pera: then a few days back in New York City
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Pema Pera: then off to the Play as Being retreat in Canada
iwandertoo Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Pema, Susan
stevenaia Michinaga: Nove Scotia sounds delightful this time of year
Pema Pera: oh yes, the weather was perfect last year
Pema Pera: perfect for humans and perfect for mosquitos
Pema Pera: there were far more of the latter . . . .
stevenaia Michinaga: they do love us
stevenaia Michinaga: some it seems more than others
iwandertoo Resident: eat lots of garlic...
Pema Pera: does that really help, you think?
Pema Pera: hi Aphrodite!
iwandertoo Resident: not certain
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya
Pema Pera has the firm good intention not to make any Vespa jokes . . . .
Aphrodite Macbain blushes
Pema Pera: that was really charming, Aphro! (*^_^*)
Aphrodite Macbain: I've TOTALLY changed the script!

Long story . . . about performances in the new Molecule theater

Pema Pera: oooohhhh what a pity
Pema Pera: now we will never know what happened
Pema Pera: now it's a Harley?
Aphrodite Macbain: hmmm come to the show and you will
Pema Pera: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: I now have an aphrodite outfit, complete with wings
stevenaia Michinaga: I too could not think of a more appropriate character for the part
Aphrodite Macbain: hehe
Pema Pera nods
Aphrodite Macbain: not sure how venus feels about this
Pema Pera: hi Paradise!
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya paradise!
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Aphrodite Macbain waves too
Paradise Tennant: hiya pema aph susan stev good to see everyone :)
Aphrodite Macbain: It's nice to be sitting here peacefully with the sound of the fountain
Pema Pera: and the birds :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes :)
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: yes, It's hard to tell which is coming in my window and which from my speakers
Pema Pera: yes! I have that often
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Paradise
Pema Pera: especially early in the morning, when there are not many other sounds yet
stevenaia Michinaga: I found thursday evenng's session very interesting, will you be posting it soon?

Steve was referring to Paradise's session.

Aphrodite Macbain: yes-except crows, seagulls and finches
Aphrodite Macbain: what did you discuss on hursday?
Pema Pera: seagulls singing the blues . . . .
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Paradise Tennant: smiles :) guiltly
Paradise Tennant: will do it before I go to bed tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: transhumanism, a bit, death, afterlife
Aphrodite Macbain: is reminded of finding Nemo and the gulls "mine" "mine" "mine"
Paradise Tennant: I think it went on long after a i went to bed >
Aphrodite Macbain: wow
stevenaia Michinaga: extending life
Aphrodite Macbain: karma?
stevenaia Michinaga: an action packed hour
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm, it could ahve been mentioned
stevenaia Michinaga: along with god
Aphrodite Macbain: a lot of transitioning going on
stevenaia Michinaga: or maybe that was storm
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Pema Pera: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: big topics
Aphrodite Macbain: all in one hour
stevenaia Michinaga: yesw, Paradise truly knows how to facilitate
Aphrodite Macbain: anyone agree on anything?
Pema Pera: hi Eos!
Paradise Tennant: hiya eos :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Eos
stevenaia Michinaga: waves to Eos
Eos Amaterasu: hello gang!
Aphrodite Macbain: how's the east coast?
Eos Amaterasu: soggy
Aphrodite Macbain: :-(
Aphrodite Macbain: normal
Pema Pera: would anybody like to suggest a topic for Saturday nite conversations?

Aphrodite brought up an adventure topic:

Aphrodite Macbain: Eliza and I and Bleu and Wol went to an amazing sim/instllation this afternoon. I was stuck there for almost 2 hours
stevenaia Michinaga: stuck?
Aphrodite Macbain: Don't know if it is a possible topic but it makes me realize how engaging SL is
Pema Pera: oh please do tell us!
Paradise Tennant: listens
Aphrodite Macbain: fixed to my chair- Dungeons and Dragons on a higher level of techichal wizardry
Aphrodite Macbain: dangerous stuff
Pema Pera: do you have the slurl?
Pema Pera: or the name?
Aphrodite Macbain: the objecive was to get to the top of the mountain without being desroyed, kicked out, waylaid, bludgeoned etc
Aphrodite Macbain: angry Gods: An Apocalyptric Vision
Eos Amaterasu: they're doing the bludgeoning?
Aphrodite Macbain: Angry Gods: An Apocalyptic Vision, UWA VIRTLANTIS (49, 65, 1) - Moderate
Eos Amaterasu: like Angry Birds?
Aphrodite Macbain: the devil is,. You enter thru a long tunnel, you are given wings and a halo and a set of instructions
Aphrodite Macbain: and then it's up to you to figure out the way to the top
Aphrodite Macbain: Eliza and Wol kept saving me
Aphrodite Macbain: by TPing me out of the drop of doom etc
Pema Pera: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: they are both guardian angels
Aphrodite Macbain: indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: Beign Aphrodite didn't help me in he least. I guess I am a lesser goddess
Pema Pera: a drop of doom a drop of bliss . . .
Aphrodite Macbain: Being
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Eos Amaterasu: did you get to the top of the mountain?
Aphrodite Macbain: no. But close
iwandertoo Resident: "a drop of bliss..." samud could come up with a poem from this
Aphrodite Macbain: befoe I was plunged into the fiery ocean off a cliff
iwandertoo Resident: eek...
Eos Amaterasu will not try this at home

Aphrodite took up Susan's hint:

Aphrodite Macbain: a drop of bliss - and what is this - but a gentle kiss
iwandertoo Resident: :)
Pema Pera: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: hope he's OK
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: or she
Pema Pera: and yes, Susan, samud is getting really rapturous these days -- love those poetic messages!
Pema Pera: hi Storm!
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Storm
iwandertoo Resident: yes
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Storm
Storm Nordwind: Hi all
Eos Amaterasu: ~~ Storm
Aphrodite Macbain: ready for tomorrow Storm?
Storm Nordwind: yes :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm looking forwardto it
Storm Nordwind: I hope it'll be of some benefit
Aphrodite Macbain: rezzing - a new word in the English vocabulary
Storm Nordwind: Of uncertain etymology
Paradise Tennant: smiles and waves at storm
Eos Amaterasu: resolving?
Pema Pera: taking residence?
Aphrodite Macbain: resolving,? achieving resolution?

And voila, a title for this session:

Storm Nordwind: Resuloving - That's my interpretation
Eos Amaterasu: synonym for realizing?
Storm Nordwind: *Resolving
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: I lik e resoloving
Eos Amaterasu: I like "resuloving" :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: snap!
Eos Amaterasu: hi Arch
Storm Nordwind: But I've heard resurrecting too
Pema Pera: hi Arch!
Storm Nordwind waves
Aphrodite Macbain silently slips away to eat dinner
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Arch
Eos Amaterasu: aph de-rezzes
Pema Pera: enjoy your meal, Aphro!
Paradise Tennant: enjoy aph :)
Storm Nordwind: derezzing her meal
Pema Pera: rez: a Native American reservation (from the web)
Eos Amaterasu: rezzing my experience
Archmage Atlantis: From here, I can see u all
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Pema Pera: Ah, I found a nice meaning for "rez" !
Pema Pera: Meaning of "Rez" Hungarian name In Hungarian, the name Rez means- copper haired.
Pema Pera: http://www.meaning-of-names.com/hung...-names/rez.asp
Archmage Atlantis: I also do not feel compelled to sit as man
Pema Pera feels very well rezzed

Sanfroggy joined us, for a first time visit.

SanFroggy Resident: hop...
Pema Pera: hi Froggy!
stevenaia Michinaga: hello Froggy
Eos Amaterasu looks around
SanFroggy Resident: am I interrupting something?
Archmage Atlantis: Frogs are a good topic
Pema Pera: no, feel free to join us
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://wiki.playasbeing.org/ -- We record our conversations there. Do you mind being included in our blogs?
Archmage Atlantis: The white ones are mating nearby
SanFroggy Resident: so how do I grab a pillow?
Archmage Atlantis: Touch
Pema Pera: right click and choose sit
Storm Nordwind: Or you could just sit on one of these blue or tan cushions instead
Pema Pera: please join us in the circle
Archmage Atlantis: Nice, Froggy
SanFroggy Resident: goodness. that was a Tiny piullow :)
stevenaia Michinaga: that is the pillow for the smaller set
Pema Pera: :-)
SanFroggy Resident: It kinda bent me in half there :)
Archmage Atlantis: Frogs can be small
Paradise Tennant: smiles :) we do have some tinies that visit :)
Archmage Atlantis: Yet still important
Paradise Tennant: the normal cushions are awkward for them :)
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: ding
Pema Pera: how are you enjoying SL so far, Froggy?
SanFroggy Resident: I like it, but sometimes its too laggy :(
Pema Pera nods
SanFroggy Resident: it takes away some of the enjoyment.
SanFroggy Resident: why I am facing the wrong direction?
SanFroggy Resident: hop hop..
Paradise Tennant: if you put your mouse over one of the cushions and right click it will give you a sit option :)
iwandertoo Resident: waves. best to everyone.
stevenaia Michinaga: the blue and brown pillows work fine
Paradise Tennant: sl can be a trying when you are new to it :)
Pema Pera: bye Susan!
Eos Amaterasu: bye Susan
Storm Nordwind waves
Paradise Tennant: nite nite susan sweet dreams
SanFroggy Resident: well that's not exactly what I had in mind :p

Froggy then lands comfortably an a cushion.

stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Paradise Tennant: smiles :)
SanFroggy Resident: oof... finallyu!
Pema Pera: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: terrapin station
SanFroggy Resident: so what do you guys talk about?
Paradise Tennant: life .. :)
Pema Pera: different each time . . . mixture of the mundane and the exalted :-)
Paradise Tennant: and pretty much every topic under the sun
Pema Pera: mostly mundane
Paradise Tennant: and moon
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: and beyond
Eos Amaterasu: ponds
Pema Pera: Vespas
Storm Nordwind: dreams
Eos Amaterasu: this and that
SanFroggy Resident: I see.
Archmage Atlantis: I don't speak Finnish, or German, or Africans....but I used to know ppl who dd
Archmage Atlantis: I only deformed
Pema Pera: the core of our approach is to take short breaks
Pema Pera: kind of micro meditations
Archmage Atlantis: I speak US English
Pema Pera: stopping what you do and looking around to smell the flowers
Archmage Atlantis: Flower I know
Pema Pera: and some of us, in RL, do that for 9 seconds every 15 minutes
SanFroggy Resident: I speak English, and a bit of French
Pema Pera: like a 1% time tax
Storm Nordwind: Those are some fabulous photos you've taken Froggy, shown on your picasaweb page :)
Pema Pera: (see http://wiki.playasbeing.org/About_PlayAsBeing/Basic_Ideas)
Archmage Atlantis: After 3 years the wild flowers are returning to the everglades
SanFroggy Resident: thanks Storm :)
SanFroggy Resident: so you've built all this area Storm?
SanFroggy Resident: looks nice
Archmage Atlantis: He did....but will be modest about sayin it

Arch made a correct prediction :)

Storm Nordwind: Thank you. :) Very much of it, yes. Many of the people who help here have their own plots too and there's much individual stuff too
Archmage Atlantis: Told ya so
Paradise Tennant: smiles storm :) is a wonderful builder :)))
Eos Amaterasu: a local deity
SanFroggy Resident: wow... I've only just started, about a month ago. Tried my hand at creating things :)
Storm Nordwind: As well as this pavilion, there's an old English pub, a cafe next door, and art exhibition dome, and art museum and a theater now!
SanFroggy Resident: that's neat :)
Storm Nordwind: Many people get addicted to building. Beware Froggy! ;)
Pema Pera: Storm also offers great tours, by balloon and other flying objects
Pema Pera: from carpets to busses
Archmage Atlantis: The venue is important.......the interaction gives it life
Storm Nordwind: When it's not too laggy, it can be very immersive
SanFroggy Resident: I have a large bubble transporter... if only I can get it to float :p
Archmage Atlantis: Geek speak welcomed here
Storm Nordwind: There are some things you can do to reduce lag - it's not too bad here
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: ding
SanFroggy Resident: dong
Storm Nordwind: And amazingly, these meetings have been happening every six hours for more than the last three years! (In this pavilion for most of that time)
Paradise Tennant: the chat logs are on the wiki page :)
Pema Pera: bye for now, good to see you all again!
Storm Nordwind: Bye Pema!
Paradise Tennant: namaste pema :) enjoy lunch :)
SanFroggy Resident: bye Pema
Pema Pera: will do!
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, please feel free to join us at 1:00 or 7:00 AM and PM every day
Archmage Atlantis: Yep, Pema and Storm
Pema Pera: nice to meet you, Froggy
Archmage Atlantis: They created this place
Pema Pera: (and yes, great photos -- just saw them on the web)

I left, indeed to get some lunch

stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy lunch Pima
Archmage Atlantis: I must go
Paradise Tennant: nite nite arch
Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams
SanFroggy Resident: How do anthropologists say they're sorry?
Paradise Tennant: ?
Storm Nordwind waits and listens
SanFroggy Resident: they anthropologize :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles :)))
SanFroggy Resident: :)))
Storm Nordwind: padum-ching!
SanFroggy Resident: a bit of froggy humor
Storm Nordwind: The name of what we do is "Play as Being" - and humor fits right in :)
SanFroggy Resident: so its a role play at being... you? :)
Eos Amaterasu: it's a role playing as being you :-)
Eos Amaterasu: in SL, in RL, both, ?
Storm Nordwind: Have a look on our wiki (http://wiki.playasbeing.org/) for lots more detail :)
Eos Amaterasu: we humans have the pretense of knowing
SanFroggy Resident: I bookmarked it, will check out later, thanks :)
Storm Nordwind: You're most welcome :)
SanFroggy Resident: Another picture for the web gallery :)
Storm Nordwind smiles
Paradise Tennant: smiles thinking that the sim aph mentioned might be worth exploring .. any one up for a bit of adventure :)
stevenaia Michinaga: pass the tp over :)
Storm Nordwind: What did say about it?
SanFroggy Resident: scuse me, adventure where?
SanFroggy Resident: frogtgy is a bit distracted
Paradise Tennant: before you arrived one of our members mentioned a sim she had visited with a couple of other folks form pab
Eos Amaterasu needs to go to bed
Eos Amaterasu: good night, all
stevenaia Michinaga: night eos
Paradise Tennant: it is called I believe angry Gods: An Apocalyptric Vision
SanFroggy Resident: that's a good pic :)
Paradise Tennant: and I think there is a goal of getting to the top of a mountain
Paradise Tennant: nite nite eos
stevenaia Michinaga: sounds like a friendly enough place
Paradise Tennant: lol
Storm Nordwind: Sounds a fun way to try out this new viewer
SanFroggy Resident: I don't know... I'm a very solitary froggy.
Paradise Tennant: I think there are trials and tests
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: well you could come for a bit froggy and if you do not like just tp out :)
Paradise Tennant: I have never been there so cannot speak for it being worthwhile but aph wol and bleu and eliza liked it :)
Storm Nordwind: Froggy has escaped from the spawn and the tadpole swarm... and rightly guards her solitude
SanFroggy Resident: thanks everybody... I better be hopping off now :)
stevenaia Michinaga: night Froggy
stevenaia Michinaga: any luck finding it?
Paradise Tennant: smiles ok :) have a lovely evening
Paradise Tennant: yep have it
Storm Nordwind: On search
Paradise Tennant: will go ahead and tp you two ok :)
stevenaia Michinaga: okies