2013.10.03 07:00 - Twelve tons of world peace

Wol Euler recovered this session from the autologging database.

DR42 Resident's current display-name is "Marjorie Chardin".
DR42 Resident: ηαмαѕтє Storm
Storm Nordwind: Namaste

--BELL--

DR42 Resident: Where did you get the animation that you played with "Namaste"?
Storm Nordwind: Hmm... I do not remember. It is 7 years ago since I got it!
DR42 Resident: I was given mine at the Buddha Center 2 1/2 years ago.
Storm Nordwind: The creator seems to be someone called Sylvia Trilling.
DR42 Resident: Mine is linked to a gesture, but the file is no longer in my inventory, unless it is packed up in a box someplace.
Storm Nordwind: Managing what one has is always a challenge. ;-)
DR42 Resident: Sometimes I want to simply delete my entire inventory. (Well, almost all of it.)
Storm Nordwind: There is an easier way: just get a new alt.
DR42 Resident: Seems Ms. Trilling is still active.
Storm Nordwind: There are still a few veterans of Second Life here. We have lasted a long time, though I sometimes wonder whether that is likely much further into the future.
DR42 Resident: So many of my friends have left SL, either because of losing interest, or actually dying.
Storm Nordwind nods

--BELL--

Storm Nordwind: My feeling is that the regular population is declining, since I don't believe that leavers are being replaced by sufficient joiners anymore. The platform may not fit modern expectations and can be difficult to learn for many people. There are easier "social" options, and true "creators" are always few.
DR42 Resident: True. I started in spring of 2005, took a break for a year, but it seems so empty. So many regions have a few people, but many are simply abandoned land. I wonder why LL doesnt get rid of many of them.
Storm Nordwind: Even maintenance like that costs money. I've yet to be convinced LL are willing to spend much more on SL.
DR42 Resident: There are dozens of regions of LL built homes that you get with a premium account, and 90% of them are empty.
Storm Nordwind: That is just LL's way of demonstrating that they don't understand their clientele!
DR42 Resident: So, what would you do to promote world peace?
Storm Nordwind: I don't know what people mean by world peace. :)
DR42 Resident: Everyone acting based on non-self. World peace would follow.
Storm Nordwind: I don't believe that is possible or even feasible. I prefer to promote more achievable aims.
DR42 Resident: Kids getting a good breakfast?
DR42 Resident: Everywhere.

--BELL--

DR42 Resident: I hear geese flocks flying south. First time this year.
Storm Nordwind: We are expecting our first snowfall of the winter tonight.
DR42 Resident: The snow from last winter just melted, it seems.
Storm Nordwind: There were no flowers here last Spring, so no fruit this Fall.
Storm Nordwind: Still, it is a beautiful gold outside my window.
DR42 Resident: I have about 3 ton of fire wood to stack for the winter.
Storm Nordwind: A wise precaution, no doubt.
DR42 Resident: That is in addition to the 9 already done.
Storm Nordwind: Twelve tons of firewood... seems like the lyric for an as yet unwritten song. :)
DR42 Resident: "You stack 12 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt."
Storm Nordwind: We are showing our age! ;-)
DR42 Resident: When people ask me about my musical tastes I tell the I like the oldies.
Storm Nordwind: And before what time do the oldies start for you?
DR42 Resident: Grieg, Mahler, van Suppe, Bach.
Storm Nordwind smiles

--BELL--

DR42 Resident: but I will listen to Isao Tomita or Wendy Carlos (and, yes, I remember when her name was Walter), Copland.
Storm Nordwind: And I will occasionally bear moderns such as Holst and Nielsen. :)
DR42 Resident: I like philip Glass.
DR42 Resident: And Frederica von Stade.
Storm Nordwind: I almost never play music nowadays, neither for myself nor by myself. Before I emigrated, I listened to speech radio all the time. Now I don't even do that!
Storm Nordwind: On the other hand, I am never bored.
DR42 Resident: There is a classical music radio station that I listen to all the time. They were the folks who figured out how to do stereo FM radio.
Storm Nordwind: Growing up with the BBC Home Service - later BBC Radio 4 - I felt no need to go elsewhere. Now I do not have it, and nothing comes close by way of replacement.
DR42 Resident: Can't you stream it over the 'net?
Storm Nordwind: Yes. With 7 hours delay! (Due to time zone differences)
Storm Nordwind: So all my favorite morning and early afternoon programs have come and gone.
Storm Nordwind: But it's OK - thank you for your concern and suggestion. :) My needs are very few. I scarcely bring it to mind anymore. There is so much to do every day. So much to create. So many people to serve in so many little ways.

--BELL--

DR42 Resident: That is a personal contribution to world peace.
Storm Nordwind: No. It is simply service to those I meet. It does not help me or anyone else to think of it in any more grandiose way.

--BELL--

DR42 Resident: It isn't grandiose, but it is thru the simple and kind everyday acts that we bring peace forward.
DR42 Resident: . Have a wonderful day.
Storm Nordwind: I think it's discouraging for many people to think in terms of world peace. It will never come, so their efforts may seem to them as futile, wasted, insufficient, and a thousand other discouraging things. How much better to make a difference to the person next to you!
DR42 Resident: I need to run and do errands.
Storm Nordwind waves