2011.08.19 19:00 - The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

The Guardian for this meeting was Archmage Atlantis. The comments are by Archmage Atlantis.

sinequanon Sahara: Hello Arch...Susan
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Archmage Atlantis: Hello
Archmage Atlantis: Who is GoC for this session?
sinequanon Sahara: Hi Dash
Dash Earthboy: hey y'all
Archmage Atlantis: I claimed it because no one else was here.....but ....welll.... my bad
Archmage Atlantis: And Hi Dash, Susan, Paradise, Iwander and Sineq
sinequanon Sahara: Paradise...
iwandertoo Resident: waves
Dash Earthboy: hey Paradise
Paradise Tennant: hiya susan .dash sine .. arch :)
Dash Earthboy: somewhat smaller group than last session?
Archmage Atlantis: It is early still, Dash
Paradise Tennant: yes :)
Dash Earthboy: :)
Paradise Tennant: people come and go
Archmage Atlantis: smaller at the moment
Dash Earthboy: and no sneezing so far :)
Archmage Atlantis: Turning my Abba playlist back on
Dash Earthboy: hey Roger
Roger Ormenthal: Hi all.
Dash Earthboy: hey Selectra
Archmage Atlantis: Hi, Syl
Dash Earthboy: or Syl?
Paradise Tennant: hiys syl :)
sinequanon Sahara: hi Sylectra
Sylectra Darwin: Hi Dash, hi Arch! Hey Paradise :)
Sylectra Darwin: Hi everybody :)
sinequanon Sahara: Roger
Sylectra Darwin: Happy Friday
Paradise Tennant: hiya roger :)
sinequanon Sahara: Roger you make a nice cloud
Archmage Atlantis: If it is Friday here, it must be Saturday 2 hours East of here *g*
Roger Ormenthal: Hi Paradise.
Archmage Atlantis: Silly Einstein
Roger Ormenthal: Thanks Sinequanon. Cloudy, with a 50% chance of sunshine.
Sylectra Darwin: hehe!
Dash Earthboy: that paradox of time: different days at the same time :)
Dash Earthboy: hey Parque
sinequanon Sahara: someone colled you below your dew point :)
sinequanon Sahara: cooled
Archmage Atlantis: dw point?.......Nancy Drew point?
Sylectra Darwin: Hello Parque
Paradise Tennant: would you like to sit with us parque :)
Parque Resident: sure. thanks.
Paradise Tennant: we meet 4 times a day to talk about life reality .. and the dew point
Dash Earthboy: :)@Paradise
Dash Earthboy: such a kidder :)
sinequanon Sahara: dew point is the temprature for a given parcel of air with a given amount of water vapours at which the relative humidity becomes 100%
Archmage Atlantis: I have lost track of who is new here and not so new

--BELL--

Parque Resident: I am totally new.
Archmage Atlantis: Ah. then you need a card
Parque Resident: thanks
sinequanon Sahara: if that parcel of air is cooled to that temprature clouds will form
sinequanon Sahara: or fog ..on the ground
Paradise Tennant: we record these sessions parque .. they are posted on our wiki page at playasbeing.org
Paradise Tennant: do you mind your comments being included
Dash Earthboy: grounded in a fog...sounds familiar
sinequanon Sahara: umm warm air can carry more water than cold air...so the excess water can be seen as mist or fog or clouds
Parque Resident: I don't mind, but Im not sure what's going on. And a friend is calling to me. See you another night.
Paradise Tennant: ok thanks for coming b
Dash Earthboy: bye Parque...come again !
Paradise Tennant: by
Sylectra Darwin: OK Parque, see you soon!
Dash Earthboy: finally the construction noise has stopped outside my room
Archmage Atlantis: Dash!....You have a room!
Dash Earthboy: yep
Archmage Atlantis: Sorry, bad form
Dash Earthboy: king bed, microwave, frig, a/c...all the comforts
Archmage Atlantis: Misss a week, miss a mile *g*
Dash Earthboy: :)
sinequanon Sahara: your missing a tv?
Dash Earthboy: nope...got cable
Dash Earthboy: got CSI:NY on right now
Archmage Atlantis: You know Dash
Archmage Atlantis: that means there is a child that needs help we can give
Dash Earthboy: yep
Dash Earthboy: got my ears on and eyes open for that :)
Archmage Atlantis: Has to be through a safe agency
Dash Earthboy: oops, there's the construction noise again
Archmage Atlantis: Too many bad guys out there
Dash Earthboy: yah
Dash Earthboy: well, I escorted that lady today away from danger
Archmage Atlantis: Oh, that is the topic.....what is a bad person?
Sylectra Darwin: Interesting topic!
Sylectra Darwin: To categorize another as "bad" you must first judge them against your standards.
Dash Earthboy: assuming there is such a thing as a bad person?
Roger Ormenthal: Water vapor is the most active greenhouse gas, so we should actively campaign against weather that includes it. Really, there ought to be a law.
Dash Earthboy: good point Roger
Archmage Atlantis: Roger, you are truely so conservative that you believe that, so liberal that you believe that, or so alive that you see what that means
Dash Earthboy: :)
Dash Earthboy: IYHO, Arch?
Archmage Atlantis: I do apologize.....it is my cynical side
Sylectra Darwin: smiles

--BELL--

Dash Earthboy: np :)
Archmage Atlantis: ABBA. ABBA. ABBA
Dash Earthboy: CAD ABRA
Archmage Atlantis: Talking through the silent moments.......not a good PaB reference
Dash Earthboy: hey Mila
milakel Resident: hi :)
Dash Earthboy: Arch, it just takes my mind off the construction noise
Sylectra Darwin: Hi Mila
sinequanon Sahara: Mila
iwandertoo Resident: {waves quietly...best to everyone}
Dash Earthboy: bye Susan
Archmage Atlantis: Go with the grace of the eternal, Susan
milakel Resident: ah, eternity is the theme from the previous session :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles namaste susan
Dash Earthboy: :)
Paradise Tennant: that is a good topic :)
milakel Resident: i think of infinity in this respect
Dash Earthboy: continuity can be a good thing :)
Archmage Atlantis: Please, Paradise, continue
milakel Resident: continuity is a good term. easier to grasp.
milakel Resident: a sort of local infinity
Paradise Tennant: yes ..:)
milakel Resident: out of scope of our local self it doesn't make sense
Paradise Tennant: local infinity ? a personal continuity ?
Dash Earthboy: it does seem to help with local integrity at least :)
milakel Resident: if we take reductionism approach (particle physics), we could theoretically breaking things to their components infinitely
Dash Earthboy: yah
milakel Resident: dash, it's a good one :)
Sylectra Darwin: Like folding a piece of paper a bunch of times?
milakel Resident: integrity
Archmage Atlantis: Origami?
milakel Resident: syl, at some point it doesn't make sense, i think
Sylectra Darwin: nods
Dash Earthboy: you make me feel like dancin' Mila :)
milakel Resident: is it good? :)
Paradise Tennant: unless you get into those 6 dimensions that are folded into our 4 :)
sinequanon Sahara: 10
milakel Resident: para :)
Sylectra Darwin: oooo
milakel Resident: yes, adding dimensions may change perspective drastically
Paradise Tennant: smiles at sine
Dash Earthboy: does a life have a trajectory?
milakel Resident: sorry, brb
Paradise Tennant: yes think it follows the thread of your thoughts .. thinking is the fabric of life

--BELL--

Dash Earthboy: is a thread necessarily a trajectory?
Archmage Atlantis: to me, life has a trajectory
Roger Ormenthal: I agree with Paraadise. And with regard to free will and determinism, If you exercise your free will and walk West in the US, you are determined to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Archmage Atlantis: with many more dimensions than our concious self can grasp
sinequanon Sahara: yes ...and the curvature of your thoughts would lend an orbit to your life
Archmage Atlantis: Once again, I speak into the silence.....yikes
sinequanon Sahara: much like gravity curves the space around us
Dash Earthboy: np Arch :)
milakel Resident: um, by trajectory you mean fate?
Dash Earthboy: * ponders space curvature
sinequanon Sahara: no i meant the course of a life
Archmage Atlantis: It's ok, ABBA is singing S.O.S.
milakel Resident: archy, silence can be a good interlocutor
Dash Earthboy: is midlife the high point of one's life?
Archmage Atlantis: For that I have an answer, Dash
Archmage Atlantis: No
Sylectra Darwin: lol
Paradise Tennant: hmm life always seems to have high and low points do not think it is confined to one age range
milakel Resident: if you talk about physical condition then the 20s are sure the best years :)
milakel Resident: i believe there are their own delights in each stage of life, but i'd prefer to stay in my 20s please :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Dash Earthboy: we seem to encounter strong opinions tonight :)
milakel Resident: ! :)
Sylectra Darwin: why not?
Archmage Atlantis: I look forward to my birthday next month
milakel Resident: dash, that was a very mild statement of mine :)
Archmage Atlantis: 60 allows me to look back and see the story I have lived
Sylectra Darwin: Sometimes I worry that with age comes a certain weariness and frustration; at other times I know it makes me more patient and strong.
milakel Resident: still 2 years until "when i'm 62" :)
milakel Resident: wait, 64 :)
Dash Earthboy: :)@Mila
milakel Resident: i think when paul turned 64, he didn't think they would come so quickly
Archmage Atlantis: There are young ppl who died in Iran & Afganistan
Archmage Atlantis: Yet, I do not see them as young
Roger Ormenthal: Each chapter of life has it's joys and sorrows, but the joy does not diminish with age. We may give up one ability and gain another. I think it only gets better. And if one considers the possibility of continuity of life after physical death, either with or without reincarnation, it is a never-ending wondrous adventure.
Archmage Atlantis: They faced life
milakel Resident: they faced death, that is for sure.
milakel Resident: not sure about life
milakel Resident: luci! :)
Dash Earthboy: good point Roger :)
Sylectra Darwin: I think it's hard to pick a peak in one's life...as we continue to slide past those moments into the next "now", we also look at our pasts with new perspective.
Archmage Atlantis: Lovely Luci
Dash Earthboy: good point Sylectra
Lucinda Lavender: :)
milakel Resident: luci in the sky
Sylectra Darwin: Hey Luci
Dash Earthboy: hey Luci
Lucinda Lavender: with no internet lots of the time:)
sinequanon Sahara: Lucinda
Lucinda Lavender: carry on:)
Paradise Tennant: hiya lucinda
Lucinda Lavender: hiya para:)
Dash Earthboy: oh we do seem to carry on tonight Luci :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles nice to see you :)
Sylectra Darwin: very talkative bunch, but it's great!
Lucinda Lavender: lovely!
Lucinda Lavender: sometimes I lose internet...just warning you...and so making each moment count I will say...well...not sure:)
Dash Earthboy: :)
Dash Earthboy: i resemble that Luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: what were you all saying before I came?
milakel Resident: why do you lose connection?
Lucinda Lavender: clearwire connection I think
Archmage Atlantis: Watch the movie/film.....the diving bell and the butterfly
Lucinda Lavender: ok thanks Arch

--BELL--

milakel Resident: archy, ah, it's a good one. i want to watch it.