2013.01.12 19:00 - no more feathers

The Guardian for this meeting was Santoshima Resident. The comments are by Santoshima Resident.

Catrinamonblue Resident: 's current display-name is "Catrinamonblue".
doug Sosa: hello.
Catrinamonblue Resident: hi :)
doug Sosa: many months since I've been here.
doug Sosa: should I stay quiet?
Catrinamonblue Resident: it's ok I'm still rather new to PaB :)
doug Sosa: i guess I am again after such a long time.
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: San should be along soon I think, she is listed as guardian for this session
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Druth :)
doug Sosa: hello druth
druth Vlodovic: hey guys
doug Sosa: why are we here on a saturday night?
Catrinamonblue Resident: nothing else to do?
druth Vlodovic: boring lives?
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
doug Sosa: such honesty!
druth Vlodovic: lol, what's your excuse?
doug Sosa: first time house is empty on months. for a few hours, so, taking advantage of quiet time, well, so it goes. Curiosity?
druth Vlodovic: why has your house been so busy?
Catrinamonblue Resident: nice to have quiet
doug Sosa: well, the usual is two of us and shira the dog and then christmas and lots of guests and new neighbors so sinners to meet them..
doug Sosa: sinners should be dinners. slip :)
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
druth Vlodovic: :)
druth Vlodovic: I was wondering what sort of parties you were having
druth Vlodovic: hi wet san :)
doug Sosa: i always wonder.
doug Sosa: san dissolved?
druth Vlodovic: too sweet
Catrinamonblue Resident: there you are San :) still having viewer troubles?
doug Sosa: in the water because shima means island?

— BELL —

Santoshima Resident: no, because video game viewer gone awry. different meaning on the name
Santoshima Resident: sorry to be late ... was watching ballet film
druth Vlodovic: are you bringing equanimity to the problem?
Santoshima Resident: whatdid i miss?
Santoshima Resident: hello to all
Catrinamonblue Resident: not much just introductions :)
Santoshima Resident: i see, well please continue
doug Sosa: what ballet?
Santoshima Resident: a film
Santoshima Resident: called "first position"
doug Sosa: (introductions were very short)
doug Sosa: sounds like a warmup
Santoshima Resident: i think that we might or might not have met before, Doug Sosa
Santoshima Resident: but i see you've got PaB on your list
Santoshima Resident: good to meet you :)
doug Sosa: good. we may or may not.
doug Sosa: hVE MET
doug Sosa: have met
Santoshima Resident: indeed
Santoshima Resident: even now
doug Sosa: so much to meet so little time.
Santoshima Resident: how is everyone?
druth Vlodovic: I joined "playing rough" but it doesn't seem to have any notices
druth Vlodovic: it seems pabbers were talking about conspicuous consumption
druth Vlodovic: I remember a discussion like that but am unsure if it is the same one
doug Sosa: where?
doug Sosa: when?
druth Vlodovic: shortlybefore the playing rough group was founded,according to the description
druth Vlodovic: do they meet?
doug Sosa: playing rough? What is it?
druth Vlodovic: umm,a group you are a member of
Santoshima Resident: a group on your profile list
doug Sosa: me?
druth Vlodovic: I got it from your profile lol
Santoshima Resident: yup
Santoshima Resident: me too
doug Sosa: ouch. i had no idea.
druth Vlodovic: it seems to be a wee bit inactive at this time :)
Santoshima Resident: greetings aphrodite macbain
doug Sosa: wow, looked at my profile. hardly recognize the fellow.
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Aph
druth Vlodovic: hey aph :)
Santoshima Resident: dusting off an old avi, Doug?
doug Sosa: aph, the goddess?
Aphrodite Macbain: hello
Santoshima Resident: none other
Aphrodite Macbain: that's me
druth Vlodovic: we are just picking on doug
doug Sosa: yes, as you see i have no more feathers.
Santoshima Resident: let me look
druth Vlodovic: we have to be careful of themes change when new people come in :)
Aphrodite Macbain: feathers?
Santoshima Resident: was just going to ask

— BELL —

doug Sosa: well, before i was picked on for getting people to to playing rough bt nobody was htere.
Aphrodite Macbain: how did you play rough?
doug Sosa: i tried to beat the bell so made too many typos.
druth Vlodovic: a grouprelated to "enoughness" I would suppose
doug Sosa: no idea, its in my profile.
Aphrodite Macbain checks doug's profile
druth Vlodovic: and enoughness is related to equanimity, which is our theme, yayyy!
druth Vlodovic: I think we get brownie points for mentioning the theme during a session
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: equanimity is us
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: not
druth Vlodovic: even better than zencrafters
Aphrodite Macbain: smiles
Santoshima Resident: zencrafters? ... better explain
druth Vlodovic: "total enlightenment in under an hour"
doug Sosa: why the hurry?
Santoshima Resident: yoiks ... fast food
druth Vlodovic: based on the advertisement for an eyeglass company
Aphrodite Macbain: as in lenscrafters ...
Santoshima Resident: uh
Catrinamonblue Resident: groan :)
druth Vlodovic: we do that here,and even take breaks
doug Sosa: conspicuous under consumption
druth Vlodovic: since the goal is nothingness underconsumption seems a good thing
Santoshima Resident: what goal?
doug Sosa: yea, its the conspicuous part that causes problems.
druth Vlodovic: nothingness, equanimity, openess, acceptance all the same thing really
druth Vlodovic: why is conspicuous bad?
doug Sosa: showing off being nothing!
druth Vlodovic: didn't jesus complain about people doing good things for show?
druth Vlodovic: what do you show off if you have nothing?
Aphrodite Macbain: wow
Santoshima Resident: wow, what, aph?
druth Vlodovic: I suspect you have to have a lot of ego to show off how egoless you are
druth Vlodovic: sigh, let's pick a topic for next drop, maybe we will get rolling yet
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm grappling with what druth said
doug Sosa: what's "drop"?
Santoshima Resident: ah
druth Vlodovic: the pause,when you "put down what you have (including titles, descriptors etc) to see what you are"
Aphrodite Macbain: a metaphor for letting go of one's biases, attitudes, firmly held beliefs
Aphrodite Macbain: to see what is left behind

— BELL —

Catrinamonblue Resident: stronger than I though I could be :)
druth Vlodovic: lol,i started with considering the idea of relying on others for personality and spiritualprogression, but all I got was a sudden feeling of being carried effortlessly by people
druth Vlodovic: which isn't the moral my conscious mind had decided upon :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
druth Vlodovic: does anybody else have images to share from the drop?
Aphrodite Macbain: I just meditated on my essentials
doug Sosa: so we are back to the beginning, before most of you were here, why are we here on a Saturday night?
Aphrodite Macbain: nothing better?
druth Vlodovic: to be carried by others over our obstacles?
Catrinamonblue Resident: it's a place to be, to learn, to know what we are
Aphrodite Macbain: Is that a bad thing?
Aphrodite Macbain: to be carried by others?
Santoshima Resident: doug, i asked in an IM, but need to ask now, since don't know youfrom here: is it ok that your words be recorded in the PaB online public wiki? needing to know ... for the record :)
doug Sosa: didnt see the im, yes its fine, though i may regret it some day (night).
Santoshima Resident: thanks
Aphrodite Macbain: We are social beings. I need others to maintain a state of equanimity
Santoshima Resident: you do?
Aphrodite Macbain: Is that a bad thing?
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm afraid so San
druth Vlodovic: "no person is an island"
Santoshima Resident: dunno, is it?
Aphrodite Macbain: When I feel isolatedand alone, I am unhappy
doug Sosa: shima is an island.
Santoshima Resident: your sense of balance dependts on others in what way?
Catrinamonblue Resident: we all need to have people around us, the problem happens when we can not stand to be alone
Santoshima Resident: shima is not the name
Catrinamonblue Resident: then I think something needs to be looked at
druth Vlodovic: santo-island? :)
doug Sosa: santo shima?
Santoshima Resident: santosha
druth Vlodovic: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: I need edge around m?
Santoshima Resident: means contentment / satisfaction / ease with what is
Santoshima Resident: acceptance
Santoshima Resident: a goal
Catrinamonblue Resident: I love what I called my stay at home alone days :)
Aphrodite Macbain: ahh- a state to be envied
Santoshima Resident: not envied
Aphrodite Macbain: are you ever home alone Cat?
doug Sosa: after being contented i like to be uncontented, after being uncontented I like to be contented. so it goes.
Catrinamonblue Resident: not so much right now but I used to have about a day a week by myself
Catrinamonblue Resident: loved the time to be alone with me :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hmm I am alone most days of the week
Aphrodite Macbain: and occasionally see friends
Aphrodite Macbain: many of thoes friends are in SL
Santoshima Resident: & not raising children
Catrinamonblue Resident: that's when you look at volunteer opportunities to help keep you busy
Aphrodite Macbain: no, not raising children
Catrinamonblue Resident: Druth has an uncle who is a bachalor
druth Vlodovic: two actually
Catrinamonblue Resident: he is out and about nearly every day
doug Sosa: the goddess of love without a lover? What irony? the malevolence of the uncontented gods.
Catrinamonblue Resident: the man has more energy than I do
Catrinamonblue Resident: and volunteers at many places
druth Vlodovic: it is probably easier that way doug :)
Aphrodite Macbain: who says she has no lover?
doug Sosa: alone most days?
Santoshima Resident: please excuse me, triad and Doug — gotto go
Aphrodite Macbain: I am also very busy. I just live alone
druth Vlodovic: have fun san
Catrinamonblue Resident: bye San :)
Aphrodite Macbain: triad?
doug Sosa: by bless.
Aphrodite Macbain: waves
Catrinamonblue Resident: I have been told that we need to learn to be alone sometimes
Catrinamonblue Resident: to learn to be okay with ourselves
druth Vlodovic: are we us when others are around?
Catrinamonblue Resident: maybe not
Catrinamonblue Resident: only the masks we want to be seen in
doug Sosa: or when they are not. either way, deep puzzle.

— BELL —

doug Sosa: I must evaporate. love you all. bye
druth Vlodovic: mist well
Aphrodite Macbain: bye
Catrinamonblue Resident: bye Doug
Aphrodite Macbain: Well — it's 8pm and all seems to be well
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for asking me to join you.
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
druth Vlodovic: we needed a crier :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: good to have you
druth Vlodovic: otherwise we might be here all night
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks both of you. Time for dinner
Catrinamonblue Resident: night
druth Vlodovic: run along now :)