The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.  

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Riddle Sideways: Hi Yak
                     --BELL-- 
Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning
Riddle Sideways: you started rezzing much shorter then grew into yourself :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: ur skirt rezzed grey to me :)
Riddle Sideways: suppose it needs washing
      clicks advanced->rebake
Yakuzza Lethecus: now it got color
Yakuzza Lethecus: well, it´s actually good that ur mentioning it, i don´t see these things anymore, i just come here and even tho the subject is mindfulness all of it slips away slightly
Riddle Sideways: slipping away is good. It was noticed, noted and then was not important enough
Riddle Sideways: so it slips away
Riddle Sideways: making room for the more important (who judges that) to come forward
Riddle Sideways: and the fault is not with you
Riddle Sideways: my practice of seeing edges is probably limiting
Riddle Sideways: funny things happen at the edges
Riddle Sideways: am liking funny things
Riddle Sideways: like to laugh

Yakuzza Lethecus: good metaphor for many things :)
Riddle Sideways: ah metaphor...
Riddle Sideways: was in a conversation last night
Riddle Sideways: that metaphors got in the way
Riddle Sideways: we noted how struggling for new or more accurate metaphor
Riddle Sideways: was getting in the way of the actual subject
Yakuzza Lethecus: what was the actual subject ?
     Behold, Yak fell into the trap of asking the GoC if there was some hidden agenda item that was brought here 
Riddle Sideways: ah, it is an actual topic for here/now
Riddle Sideways: :)

Riddle Sideways: have been pondering . Playing with:
A. Being/G-d is Everything which includes the dualism Good and Bad.
B. As we strive toward Being-ness/Godly-ness we move toward goodness and remove badnesses.
Is there any contradiction in those statements? both true? how does that work?

Yakuzza Lethecus: i am not sure if badness is really getting removed on the way to beingness
Yakuzza Lethecus: beingness actually sometimes sounds a bit selfish to me
Riddle Sideways: maybe
Yakuzza Lethecus: one issue why i don´t contribute too much is that i don´t like my own contributions, i think in this and that direction all the time but am not a deep thinker
Riddle Sideways: there are many kinds of thinkers. Need them all to contribute
     Gentle Reader please to take 90 seconds right now! to reflect on you vs. what Yak has just said...
            Please take the time that we did to conside, ponder, reflect, analyze, grok what Yak said about you.

                     --BELL-- 
Yakuzza Lethecus: i might think on social justice in one moment then on how pricetags filter ppl socially then how trivial that thought actually is and stop thinking deeper because i start thinking about how other ppl think if i say something trivial and stupid
Riddle Sideways: self-censorship is horrible. what if we all did it?
Riddle Sideways: when reading all the great chats in the logs. Then reading some stupid Riddle: remark :)
Riddle Sideways: want to delete it
Yakuzza Lethecus: i like sitting and reading a good chat, yesterday druth and zen and the others where talking about free will and i had a lot to google for still i said only hi and bye as usually
Riddle Sideways: yet your mind was racing with new, useful and refreshing thoughts on their topics
Yakuzza Lethecus: i was interested i just don´t know how to constructilvly contribute, i wonder how to preserve quality in communicative exposure, and not bubbling words around like i often do
Yakuzza Lethecus: even that sentence sounds bubblish :P
Riddle Sideways: :D
     Like Yak, of all the useful, relivant, insightful, encouraging, supportive, etc. and etc. thing Riddle could have typed (oh well) all that came out was ":D".  What would you have said?

Yakuzza Lethecus: so it´s to be around ppl who actually have something to say how to not get lost in a constant flood of opinions
Yakuzza Lethecus: i watch the news and go habitually to a couple of newssides
Riddle Sideways: Hi Bruce and Aph
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey aph and bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Yaku, Aph, Riddle.
Yakuzza Lethecus: i don´t have the feeling i learn anything, i feel conceptless
Riddle Sideways: overly critical? self-censoring?
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Zen.
Riddle Sideways: Hi Zen
Yakuzza Lethecus: there are quiet a lot of thoughts comming up when i read but can´t really elaborate and verify those thoughts
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey then
Riddle Sideways: what if we all waited until we had something of great value to add to the chat
Zen Arado: Hi all
Riddle Sideways: and do not say those little things
Riddle Sideways: would be very silent here
Zen Arado: agree Riddle
Riddle Sideways: besides bubblish is fun and educational :)
Zen Arado: bubblish :)
Zen Arado: that's what I speak :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: or the questions are getting to big to fast for me
Yakuzza Lethecus: like the financial crisis right now, a constant question is ,,what does the financial market today contribute to the real economy ?"
Yakuzza Lethecus: or of course issues on free will are interesting for me for ages
Zen Arado: I don't think anyone knows
Yakuzza Lethecus: so i just mentioned that to riddle that i liked ur discussion yesterday zen
Zen Arado: it's all cnjecture
Riddle Sideways: their own little sub-world/reality
Zen Arado: oh ty Yaku
                     --BELL-- 
Riddle Sideways: was Pondering / Playing with:
A. Being/G-d is Everything which includes the dualism Good and Bad.
B. As we strive toward Being-ness/Godly-ness we move toward goodness and remove badnesses.
Is there any contradiction in those statements? both true? how does that work?

Zen Arado: A seems better
Zen Arado: goodness/badness what are they?
Zen Arado: just our judgements
Riddle Sideways: maybe concepts that contribute little to real-ness
Yakuzza Lethecus: hi xirana, sam
Riddle Sideways: Hi Xir
Riddle Sideways: hi oO
Xirana Oximoxi: hi everyone:)
Zen Arado: Hi Xirana, Sam
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Xir.
oO0Oo Resident:
oO0Oo Resident: ☻/
oO0Oo Resident: /▌ Hi :-)
oO0Oo Resident: / \
Riddle Sideways: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, 0!
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Sam
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Riddle Sideways: that little wave comes across so neat in the logs :)
oO0Oo Resident: 〜waves〜
oO0Oo Resident: ☻/
oO0Oo Resident: /▌
oO0Oo Resident: / \
oO0Oo Resident: relaxes to catch the drift... ;)
Zen Arado: just drifts...
Riddle Sideways: yak, note how little was added to the Goc introduced topic :)
Riddle Sideways: your topic is better
Aphrodite Macbain: drifts away
Zen Arado: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Helloo from Toronto (waves)
Bruce Mowbray: Hello up there in Toronto!!
Yakuzza Lethecus: hello to toronto :)
Riddle Sideways: Hi Toronto
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Zen Arado: sometimes we all just wants to sit quitly
Xirana Oximoxi: HI Totonto:)
Zen Arado: and listen to others
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Zen Arado: I feel I push my own views too much
oO0Oo Resident: Yes ... there is a consensus about that Zen... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
Riddle Sideways: soon the phones will ring and we will all have to contribute to those conversations. Now is nice to sit quietly, maybe (or not)

Zen Arado: my views are the only ones I've got I guess
Riddle Sideways: and there are some that do not give enough of their views
Zen Arado: tho they change a lot
Zen Arado: yes
Zen Arado: of course my views are the right ones :)
Aphrodite Macbain: having a hard time
Tess Aristocrat: good morning..
Xirana Oximoxi: :)) Exactly Zen :))
Zen Arado: Hi Tess :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Tess!
Yakuzza Lethecus: hello tess
Xirana Oximoxi: hello Tess:)
oO0Oo Resident: o/ :)
Zen Arado: you're a white cloud Tess
Tess Aristocrat: oh?
Zen Arado: to me anyway
Yakuzza Lethecus: tryting to become godly just makes us less godly if we just be we might get more godly but might not even realize how blessed we are, bubbling around a bit :P
Zen Arado: yes Yaku
Riddle Sideways: Hi Tess
Zen Arado: we can only be what we are anyway I think
Tess Aristocrat: ㋡
oO0Oo Resident: Yaku :)
Riddle Sideways: btw - does anybody know how to make an av that is the white cloud?
Zen Arado: why are we so unhappy with the way we are?
Xirana Oximoxi: that's right Zen, but we can show it to others or not :)
Bruce Mowbray: When I'm a cloud, I just wait.
Bruce Mowbray: a bit like cocoon . . .
                     --BELL-- 
Xirana Oximoxi: sometimes it can be due to the pressure of the values of our society... pushing us to be always perfect, always the best...
oO0Oo Resident: to be like gods?

Xirana Oximoxi: when I am a cloud I try to put a peice f clothes again or the skin again and sometimes it works and it makes download all the avatar
Riddle Sideways: or hit advanced->rebake
Riddle Sideways: but how to make a rez cloud avi? as a wearable?
Xirana Oximoxi: I tried to answer the question of Zen about why we are unhappy the way we are, Sam (if you are asking me) :))
Bruce Mowbray hits [advenced] rebake to see if it makes him even more handsome.
Tess Aristocrat: I'm going as this for Halloween ㋡

Zen Arado: why dioes society do that I wonder?
Riddle Sideways: or how to be in the cloud when RL forces drawn/rendered person :)
Tess Aristocrat: lollll
Tess Aristocrat: yes
Zen Arado feels like a cloud
Aphrodite Macbain: Society doesn`t DO anything. It`s our needs and passions that make us unhappy
Aphrodite Macbain: That`s the theory, anyway
Zen Arado: we think it should be different than it is
Bruce Mowbray: Good point, Aph - - so "Occupy Yourself," as Eos puts it.
Bruce Mowbray: Good point, Aph - - so "Occupy Yourself," as Eos puts it.
Yakuzza Lethecus: sometimes i think i just have to decide to be happy, somehow sometimes i just allow myself often i just want to be sad somehow i have the feeling i kind of decide that
Bruce Mowbray wonders why that line duplicated itself. . .
Yakuzza Lethecus: in a more tacid way
Xirana Oximoxi: we live in a society where we receive a lot of rules to follow... so general values influss us too:)
Aphrodite Macbain: Occupy myself with what?
Aphrodite Macbain: me thinks that it duplicated itself because it was important

Bruce Mowbray: It's in an email to all guardians this morning, Aph.
Riddle Sideways: allow or decide, either
Aphrodite Macbain: Oh, oK the one from Eos
Bruce Mowbray: And I agree with Yaku that being happy is sometimes just a simple decision. . .
Zen Arado: I'm not clear what he is saying
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- attitude is everything
Tess Aristocrat: I think as we strive toward 'Being-ness" we strive toward non-dualism..eh?
Aphrodite Macbain: you have a choice to be hurt or angry or not.
Zen Arado: sometimes happiness, sometimes sad...we entertain them all..
Aphrodite Macbain: Though I must say it`s hard to not have an emotional reaction to things that are important to you
Tess Aristocrat: with each person, their own 'truth'
Bruce Mowbray: For me, happiness is often an unforeseen by-product of "right thinking."
Bruce Mowbray: Happiness happens.
Zen Arado: maybe we can't be happy unless we are also sad sometimes
Zen Arado: otherwise we wouldn't notice we are happy
Tess Aristocrat: and...also, pertaining to individual happiness or sadness: How you were raised; what defined your happy or unhappy
Aphrodite Macbain: I have to go now. I am being a rude guest...
Tess Aristocrat: it is so different with everyone
Zen Arado: yeh..is my happy the same as others 'happy'
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! all
Zen Arado: ?
Tess Aristocrat: oh, be well Aphrodite (((hugs)))
Bruce Mowbray: For me, happiness is the fifth "Immeasureable"
Xirana Oximoxi: bye Aph, have a nice day!! :)
Riddle Sideways: by bye Aph
Zen Arado: bye Aph
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, Aph!
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Aph
Zen Arado: why should we be unhappy? ponders
Bruce Mowbray: When the first 4 Immeasureables are in line, the fifth happens spontaneously.
Zen Arado: yeh but can we force ourselves to be happy?
Zen Arado: by techniques?
Xirana Oximoxi: maybe not push, but learn to be happy
Riddle Sideways: out of the corner of perciption comes something funny that makes us happy
Tess Aristocrat: Well, we were unhappy at least once in our lives, even if it was because we dropped a piece of candy in the dirt.
Zen Arado: to me it is more about seeing through the foolishness that I allow to make me unhappy
Tess Aristocrat: and when we were young, if we were lucky, we learned to also self-soothe
Zen Arado: oh yes...it is a very common condition isn't it Tess?
Zen Arado: self soothe....nice
Zen Arado: and soothe others
Bruce Mowbray: May I offer an example of how "foolish" my own happiness is?
                     --BELL-- 
Tess Aristocrat: ㋡
Bruce Mowbray: Yesterday . . . the farmer across the road harvested his soybeans. . . and the NOISE bothered me and I let it make me unhappy. BUT, TODAY my own farmer is harvesting OUR corn, makeing the SAME noise, and I am happy. ((HOW FOOLISH!))

Tess Aristocrat: loll
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Zen Arado: funny how noises seem to bother us more as we get older Bruce
Riddle Sideways: funny how a point of view changes everything
Zen Arado: I have a friend who is driven mad by kids next doot playing in their yard
Xirana Oximoxi: maybe yesterday you had a little headache and today not :)
Riddle Sideways: I have a friend who is driven happy by kids playing
Bruce Mowbray: yes, Zen, but especially me -- since damage to auditory nerves last summer - - I now have to wear ear plugs whenever I am in public places. . . but that doesn't need to "make" me unhappy.
Zen Arado: ah ok Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Again, as Yaku said, it is my own choice. . .
Zen Arado: why can't we accept that sometimes we will be unhappy?

Yakuzza Lethecus: a strange thing that bothers me a bit is for example that a house is being build here in front of my window, i see the workers the workers might see me, i think if the workers think if i am watching em, i am sitting here everyday and appreciated it more when i only saw green grass, now i think about being seing and seeing them all the time, i wonder why i think about that at all, i somehow can´t switch the thought ,,just off"
Zen Arado: but it will be only temporary?
Yakuzza Lethecus: and actuall concerning happyness i was googling for paul watzlawick before

Zen Arado: you could always draw the blind Yaku
Riddle Sideways: ah, thanks Yak
Zen Arado: peole can look in where I live
Xirana Oximoxi: even if we accept that sometimes we will be unhappy, when it happens it's not fun :)
Tess Aristocrat: Change is sometimes difficult for us.
Zen Arado: no but maybe if we accept it more it won't be so bad?
Zen Arado: if we think it shouldn't be like this our thoights magnify it
Xirana Oximoxi: yes...you are right Zen :) sure it helps to wear unhappiness
Zen Arado: yeh we resist change Tess
Tess Aristocrat: When our view changes, when they clear land, etc..it makes us uneasy..we don't like it.
Zen Arado: yeh maybe that is it
Zen Arado: same with our bodies
Bruce Mowbray: For me, it's a matter of putting "self" at the center of experience. . . and that's the beginning of all troubles.
Zen Arado: we want the to stay yoing and healthy
Zen Arado: yes Bruce
Tess Aristocrat: Yet, we can come across the same cleared and green flowering meadow six months later and think, 'what a lovely view'
Bruce Mowbray to himself: Who is the "self" who wants to stay young and healthy?
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Zen Arado: we create a false structure of self and then protect it
Bruce Mowbray: exactly, Zen.
Zen Arado: life is perfect as it is
Bruce Mowbray: I feel an urge to write my 99-Days report now, so I shall be away.
Zen Arado: used to read that in Zen books but never believed it
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks, everyone. Have yourselves a HAPPY day!
Riddle Sideways: ok, bye bruce
oO0Oo Resident: bruce :)
Zen Arado: bye Bruce ;)
Tess Aristocrat: Bruce, be well!
Zen Arado: you too :)
Xirana Oximoxi: I also go now, take care all! :)
Zen Arado: waves happily
Riddle Sideways: waves bye
Tess Aristocrat: ㋡
Zen Arado: bye Xirana
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye xirana
oO0Oo Resident: Xirana :) tc
Riddle Sideways: can read those books over and over, then sometime/somehow something sticks (or not)
Zen Arado: yes
Zen Arado: or clicks
Riddle Sideways: waiting for aha moments :)
Zen Arado: so slow to get them
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, i always hope for those here :)
Zen Arado: my life near its end before I get some
Tess Aristocrat: ㋡
                     --BELL-- 
Zen Arado: aha and a cookie
Zen Arado: great
Tess Aristocrat: ok, I'm going to wander off as well, take care all of you ㋡
Zen Arado: bye Tess :)
Zen Arado: I better go too
oO0Oo Resident: All the best Tess. Thanks for coming.
Riddle Sideways: just put paul watzlawick onto the 'read later' (love that service) and noted how large that stack is :(
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye tess
oO0Oo Resident: Zen :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: and zen
Riddle Sideways: by tess and zen
Riddle Sideways: So many sites, so little time :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: take care riddle
Riddle Sideways: thank you all,
oO0Oo Resident: Bye Riddle. Nice to see you. :)
Riddle Sideways: and take care
oO0Oo Resident: Yaku :) Good to sit with you :)
oO0Oo Resident: Be well friend.
Yakuzza Lethecus: take care sam
oO0Oo Resident: :)