2011.06.28 13:00 - A Moody Tuesday Afternoon Chat

The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments and photo are by Bruce Mowbray (whose internet connection went down after only 30 minutes.)

Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Dash.
Dash Earthboy: i was just listening to a few versions of Tuesday Afternoon on YouTube :)
Dash Earthboy: did you see what happened yesterday afternoon here?
--BELL--
Dash Earthboy: after the regular session time?
Bruce Mowbray: nope -- what was that?
Dash Earthboy: some guys came in and tried to be a very disruptive group
Dash Earthboy: Wol logged it
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Dash Earthboy: hi Fc!
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Fc! Good to see you again.
FcSeeker Resident: hello beloved ones :)
FcSeeker Resident: GTSY both too :)
Bruce Mowbray: I think he talking to you, Dash.
Dash Earthboy: Bruce, the group all had titles fancying themselves as horse aficionados
FcSeeker Resident: I am to try to surprise you even I don't know for sure if its good idea what I try to do
Dash Earthboy: yah it was kinda funny
Dash Earthboy: but mostly they were just vulgar
Bruce Mowbray: Wow --- so that entitled them to "horse around," huh?
Dash Earthboy: yah I made that joke early on too :)
Bruce Mowbray: What's that , Fc?
Dash Earthboy: hey Arch!
FcSeeker Resident: it seems not to work out
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Arch.
FcSeeker Resident: ah
FcSeeker Resident: there we go
Dash Earthboy: good one Fc :)
Dash Earthboy: way to cool us down :)
FcSeeker Resident: Hello Archmage
Bruce Mowbray: --- amazing the powers of panda.

FcSeeker Resident: can you still find a pillow to sit ?
FcSeeker Resident: I made a mistake so that I didn't notice to check that it was winter garden
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, ty for asking Fc
FcSeeker Resident: when I bought it
Bruce Mowbray: well, we have an amazing mixture of seasons, now.  I love diversity.
Dash Earthboy: :)
FcSeeker Resident: smiles
Archmage Atlantis: I like winter gardens.....they show the structure of the plan of the garden
Archmage Atlantis: Well, I like them when I look at them through a heated window, anyway
Dash Earthboy: awwww
FcSeeker Resident: so I feel that you all like...
Dash Earthboy: yes Fc :)
Bruce Mowbray: I was about to say, Arch, that underneath three feet of snow - the structure of the garden is just about all one CAN see.
FcSeeker Resident: then all is very well :)))))
Dash Earthboy: Tuesday Afternoon
Archmage Atlantis: I am used to looking through three feet of layers........Some weather of late has been making the layers deeper, Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Mmmm. . . ?
Archmage Atlantis: The floods in the Midwest, the fires in the west
Archmage Atlantis: deeper layers
Dash Earthboy: guess i'm thinking about my little garden at my farm in the mountains
Dash Earthboy: under three feet of snow, nobody could tell it was a garden much less its structure
Archmage Atlantis: Nice Dash
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, when I walked across North Dakota, I visited some of the reservoirs they are trying to use (or should say... USING) to try to control the flooding.
Dash Earthboy: I had terraced it
Archmage Atlantis: Why is Pema's image on the billboard across from me......Has he become Chairman Pema?
Dash Earthboy: poor Minot :(
Dash Earthboy: sry, lots of lag for me today
Bruce Mowbray: Sunshine put up that board during the 3-year birthday party -- and never took down.
Bruce Mowbray: I also have incredible lag, Dash.
Dash Earthboy: dang
Bruce Mowbray: In fact, I was thinking about logging off and back on to try to fix that.
FcSeeker Resident: oh
FcSeeker Resident: I again got call in RL so that I must go
--BELL--
FcSeeker Resident: namaste all
Dash Earthboy: bye Fc
Archmage Atlantis: Never mind lag, I have visual breakup
Archmage Atlantis: Oh
Archmage Atlantis: Hello, there
Dash Earthboy: hey Korel
Archmage Atlantis: There
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Korel.
Korel Laloix: Heya
Archmage Atlantis: Hi, Korel......good to see you
Korel Laloix: What did I miss?
Dash Earthboy: winter garden
Bruce Mowbray: You missed the winter garden.
Archmage Atlantis: Well, first the sun cooled, then the dinosaurs came...
Bruce Mowbray: Looks like we had a quick thaw.
Dash Earthboy: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hope there's no flooding.
Korel Laloix: Oh I saw that... brontosaurus burgers are the best.
Archmage Atlantis: Sorry, Airplane the movie skewed my brain
Korel Laloix: And I like the thawing.
Dash Earthboy: do they still have those bronto burgers out there?
Korel Laloix: They do, but the tofu sort is becoming more popular.
Archmage Atlantis: No bronto, but buffalo and beefalo are both really good
Dash Earthboy: Arch I've been listening to Tuesday Afternoon on YouTube
Korel Laloix: Range buffalo is good, the grain fed stuff is like eating grain fed beef.
Archmage Atlantis: And tofu with soy sauce can be made into a nice dish also
Dash Earthboy: *ponders tofu bronto burgers :)
Bruce Mowbray: Moody Blues. . . ?
Dash Earthboy: yes Bruce
Archmage Atlantis: Backing up, .....Tues aft on U tube?
Dash Earthboy: here's one
Dash Earthboy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjBvPHqO9KU
Bruce Mowbray: . . . now, how am I going to get that song out of my head...?
Archmage Atlantis: k, give me a min to watch it
Korel Laloix: I will save it for later.
Dash Earthboy: we around Atlanta have a huge storm system coming at us
Bruce Mowbray: I LOVE the song -- but it just keeps playing in my brain . . It's one of those "canon-type" songs (for me, anyway).
Dash Earthboy: we're right in the middle of the front
Dash Earthboy: sry Bruce :)
Korel Laloix: canon type?
Bruce Mowbray: Really? --- Seems like you've had an awful lot of those storms this year, Dash.
Bruce Mowbray: you know -- like Pachelbwl's canon. . .
Bruce Mowbray: mispelled -- omg.
Dash Earthboy: i thought of it when I made Tue afternoon the subject of an email a few minutes ago
Bruce Mowbray: Pachelbel. . .(?)
Dash Earthboy: close enough for jazz Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: The Moody Blues were/are a great group.
Dash Earthboy: yah
Bruce Mowbray: yeah, thanks! -- ha ha ha
Bruce Mowbray: Like -- up here they say, close enough for country.
Korel Laloix: I am so lost in this conversation.
Archmage Atlantis: understand.......the Moody Blues was the first lp (and only lp) my first boyfriend (if that is the term....we didn't have terms then) gave me
Bruce Mowbray: This is a conversation that was scripted by the producers of LOST.
Dash Earthboy: :)
Korel Laloix: Looking up MOddy Blues.
Bruce Mowbray: Did you see that TV series, Korel?
Archmage Atlantis: moody, korel
Bruce Mowbray: How about muddy blues?
Dash Earthboy: the MODdy Blues Squad ? :)
Bruce Mowbray: Muddy Waters.
Bruce Mowbray: Muddy Rivers.
Archmage Atlantis: River Phoenix
Dash Earthboy: Muddy Johnny Rivers
Archmage Atlantis: Justin Bever
Korel Laloix: FOund them.... never heard of.
Bruce Mowbray is checking his weather radar.
Archmage Atlantis: The dang thing is that Justin Bever is past tense now
Dash Earthboy: yah Korel, I got compared to Justin while singing some of the MB's stuff
Dash Earthboy: Nights in White Satin is one of my favs
Archmage Atlantis: I think that makes me a 5g grand
Bruce Mowbray: Yeah, Justin is sooooo 2010.
Korel Laloix: We are in Mexican Hat Utah... it is hot and windy.... go figure... lol
Dash Earthboy: no not Justin Bever -- not me... :)
Bruce Mowbray: OMG! YOU DO HAVE A STORM ON YOUR HANDS, Dash.
Dash Earthboy: awww, sounds great Korel !!
Korel Laloix: I do love a good electrical storm.
Dash Earthboy: yah Bruce it's coming
Archmage Atlantis: One of the great scandals of 1970 at Emory University was that a professor who was a friend of some of the band members in Moody Blues was using pot
Archmage Atlantis: Things change
Bruce Mowbray: OH Noooo! -- Not POT!!!!?!
Dash Earthboy: a 2-qt pot?
Dash Earthboy: what size was he using Arch?
Korel Laloix: I love pot.... seeing my competition find it and fall apart has always been a rush.... lol
Archmage Atlantis: Well, he was only using a lid
Archmage Atlantis: but still
Dash Earthboy: :)
Korel Laloix: I grew up with my mom always stoned and I saw what it did to her, so I just don't get it.
Dash Earthboy: hey Zaldaan
Korel Laloix: Heya
Dash Earthboy: glad you landed today :)
Archmage Atlantis: That is a comment I would like to address, Korel, If you give me permission
--BELL--
Korel Laloix: Which one?
Dash Earthboy: *guess Bruce is trying to rid himself of the lag problem*

Bruce's satellite internet connection went down suddenly -- and did not com back for over an hour.  That's why he disappeared.

Dash Earthboy: I'd like to hear your take on it Arch?
Dash Earthboy: your take on Korel's comment
Archmage Atlantis: The one about what substances that alter the mind did to your parent.
Dash Earthboy: yah I'm in ACOA
Archmage Atlantis: That is good Dash
Korel Laloix: She just go really violent when on pot... not like the others... I learned early to stay away from her when she was smoking pot... those where the times I ended up in the emergency room.
Dash Earthboy: ouch....like a mean drunk
Korel Laloix: She was OK when drunk. It was easy to raid her purse or the fridge when she was drunk. But when she was on pot... I hid.
Archmage Atlantis: Korel, I have never heard of anyone becoming violent......I believe you
Dash Earthboy: arch, I saw mean drunks and mean potheads at the biker bars I played
Korel Laloix: When she was popping pills as well, she was calm.
Korel Laloix: But pot really set her off.
Archmage Atlantis: Oy,.........each brain reacts differently
Dash Earthboy: yah
Archmage Atlantis: Did she love you, Korel.......or was she just a mean person?
Dash Earthboy: what's good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander, nor the goslings :(
Archmage Atlantis: Not fair for me to ask
Korel Laloix: umm... well.. My mom and I hate each other.
Korel Laloix: But I am working on that.
Dash Earthboy: Korel, from personal experience I'd advise you not to share a bank account with her :(
Archmage Atlantis: So, in accurate response to my question about whether she loved you, then no, she hated you
Korel Laloix: lol... oh heck no.
Korel Laloix: No past tense.
Archmage Atlantis: I accept that
Archmage Atlantis: And agree, not sharing of bank accounts
Archmage Atlantis: nor rescue
Korel Laloix: lol
Korel Laloix: I am working on our relationship though.
Korel Laloix: Working on the whole forgiveness thing.
Korel Laloix: But very hard to do, considering the history.
Archmage Atlantis: Is your mom working on it?
Korel Laloix: I have no sign that she is.
Archmage Atlantis: Then walk away
Dash Earthboy: you'd advise walking away Arch?
Korel Laloix: For my faith and my way of thinking, I need to work on it.
Korel Laloix: Waling away is a temptation though.
Dash Earthboy: i hear ya Korel
Archmage Atlantis: Yes Dash......but my advice is my viewpoint
Zaldaan Sirnah: are you old enough?
Archmage Atlantis: I am not living in that situation
Korel Laloix: I would rather achieve having a mom some time in the future than giving up now.
Dash Earthboy: i really like your attitude Korel ! :)
Zaldaan Sirnah: you could just leave and have a child so you can find how you treat your child similar to the way your mom treated you
Archmage Atlantis: Your true (true in parenthesis) mom may not be the biological mom
Dash Earthboy: not annoying at all :)
Zaldaan Sirnah: or you could stay and have a child and let the association's offering, for your observation, heal
Korel Laloix: I don't ever see using my womb... and I have to admit... one of the reasons is that I am afraid I could turn out to be like my mom.
Dash Earthboy: you know Zaldaan, in my social work I found many women who did what you said
Korel Laloix: But my only soft spot for my mother is that if she treated me like that, then she must have had a rough time of it when she was little as well.
Zaldaan Sirnah: the special case is the later
Zaldaan Sirnah: consider the way you see a grandparent treat their child, and how they treat their grandchild
Archmage Atlantis: The nice thing about having been aware that I am gay since I was around 9 is the acceptance that there will be no children to rescue me.
Dash Earthboy: rescue you, Arch?
Korel Laloix: lol
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, Dash
Zaldaan Sirnah: gay people adopt
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: Having a child to solve a problem
Dash Earthboy: hey again Zon :)
Zon Kwan: hi there
Korel Laloix: There are other options though.... For Erin and I, she wants to have kids and bear them.
Dash Earthboy: i've been hearing of GLBT's choosing surrogates and other things in addition to regular adoptions
Archmage Atlantis: Yes, I agree Korel
Korel Laloix: I had a private chat with one of my brothers who agreed to "donate"  .. grins
Dash Earthboy: cool Korel
Korel Laloix: So if it comes to that, we have options.
Archmage Atlantis: This is not about mechanics of producing a child......it is about love
Korel Laloix: It does worry me.
Dash Earthboy: that word "love" always makes me shudder
Korel Laloix: One of the reasons I chose Psych as one of my majors... hopefully understanding will let me change the trend as it could effect me.
Zon Kwan: what is love
Dash Earthboy: at first, until I know what a person means by "love"
Dash Earthboy: i like more accurate words
Archmage Atlantis: I apologize for interjecting some of my belief system, however I believe there is a state that is love
Dash Earthboy: can you describe that state Arch?
Korel Laloix: Could you explain that a bit more Arch, please?
Korel Laloix: lol
Archmage Atlantis: I can try
Dash Earthboy: snap
Zaldaan Sirnah: I don't want to hear it!
Dash Earthboy: i do!
Zaldaan Sirnah: kidding :)
Archmage Atlantis: Love is being with all that is.......all the people represented by av's here......even my cats represented here....
Dash Earthboy: small words please
Dash Earthboy: being with all that is?
Archmage Atlantis: I reach out and touch you here through my typing
Archmage Atlantis: And you accept my typing and type back to me
Dash Earthboy: like the guys yesterday reached out and slapped me here?
Dash Earthboy: i typed in "love" but i have a fairly specific definition of "love"
Archmage Atlantis: Tell me, Dash
Archmage Atlantis: are those the same
Dash Earthboy: i defined "love" several decades ago as
Dash Earthboy: "a pro-active concern for the well-being of the object of one's attention"
Korel Laloix: Love is a strange word and it is abused a lot as well for personal gain.
Archmage Atlantis: In September, I get to go to the university for free
Korel Laloix: Getting things out of people.
Dash Earthboy: for sure Korel
Archmage Atlantis: I will be old enough
Archmage Atlantis: Tell me what I should pass along
Dash Earthboy: hate is a pro-active concern for the demise of the object of one's attention
Zon Kwan: love should be used in the context of the purpose of the discussion
Zon Kwan: it has so many meanings
Archmage Atlantis: In the South, there is a tradition called "pass-along" plants
Dash Earthboy: and then there's apathy which many people call "love"
Archmage Atlantis: What plants should I pass along?
Dash Earthboy: yes, Zon, that's what I ask for: more accurate words
Dash Earthboy: less generic
Zon Kwan: if we talk of sex love .. lets talk of sex
Korel Laloix: The first time I had a guy tell me he loved me he then reached for my crotch... lol
Dash Earthboy: less subject to interpretation
Zon Kwan: if parent love .  . then parent love
Dash Earthboy: you've had some bad experiences Korel
Zon Kwan: if metaphysical love .. then that
Korel Laloix: He did not get anywhere though...
Dash Earthboy: well, Zon, I do believe my definition encompasses parental, metaphysical, etc.
Archmage Atlantis: Korel's experiences are data for this analysis.
Archmage Atlantis: Do not ignore data.
Dash Earthboy: who brought the couch?
Korel Laloix: My experiences are not the norm, even I recognize that.
Zon Kwan: we all define in our own way words
Dash Earthboy: good analysts need a couch :)
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: Dash, not psychological analysts
Korel Laloix: Bad ones probably need one as well.
Dash Earthboy: ah, but Zon, if we can't find agreement on what the words mean, how can we have meaningful communication?
Zon Kwan: the way we do everyday
Archmage Atlantis: Indeed, Dash
Archmage Atlantis: how can we?
Zon Kwan: talking monologues
Archmage Atlantis: I have a question
Dash Earthboy: can you explain that concept, Zon?
Zon Kwan: nope..it depends what we want to discuss
Archmage Atlantis: Who is the earliest philosopher?
Zon Kwan: concepts can be understood only in the context where they are talked about
Dash Earthboy: i think it's some unknown pre-historic gu,y Arch :)
Dash Earthboy: or something like that :)
Dash Earthboy: is that a maxim Zon?
Zon Kwan: yes
Zon Kwan: definitely
Zon Kwan: lol
Archmage Atlantis: Are we all agreed on the meaning of "philosopher"?
Dash Earthboy: wow, Bruce never made it back :(

Bruce appreciates that Dash noticed his absence -- but the satellite was still down.

Zon Kwan: no, we cannot agree on words
Dash Earthboy: Arch, I'm happy to try
Archmage Atlantis: I offended Bruce some time ago.....that he stayed as long as he did was surprising to me
Archmage Atlantis: So, .....the meaning?
Korel Laloix: Philosophers are overpaid, arrogant, close-minded weirdoes employed by universities to keep them off the streets... smiles
Dash Earthboy: The mind earns by doing; the heart earns by trying.
Dash Earthboy: one should earn their keep :)
Korel Laloix: Or that describes my philosophy professors... smiles
Zon Kwan: see
Zon Kwan: we all have our own definitions
Zon Kwan: and still we discuss
Archmage Atlantis: Second question.....are philosophers and philosophy professors the same thing?
Dash Earthboy: :)
Zon Kwan: different words
Zon Kwan: not same
Dash Earthboy: *thinks those who can do; those who can't teach
Korel Laloix: From my experience, people that claim to be philosophers aren't.
Archmage Atlantis: Can any of you tell me if Albert Einstein was a womanizer?
Dash Earthboy: how so, Korel?
Korel Laloix: But at my very mature 24 years, I am of course an expert.... smiles
Dash Earthboy: how so, Korel? :)
Korel Laloix: I just have found that people that claim to be philosophers are very group think sort of people.
Dash Earthboy: group think?
Dash Earthboy: like social?
Korel Laloix: Let me find the English.
Dash Earthboy: community?
Korel Laloix: Very set on saying what is popular -  not what makes sense.
Dash Earthboy: Korel, do you mean "committee" ?
Zon Kwan: a philosopher is one who thinks that map is the real terrain
Korel Laloix: NO not committee.
Korel Laloix: I committee will at least make a poor decision.
Dash Earthboy: ah, I see Korel, you mean PC
Zon Kwan: a mystic is one who sees only terrain but no maps
Archmage Atlantis: I think Zon understood Korel
Dash Earthboy: lots of PC going on these days
Zaldaan Sirnah: if I sit with you and have a philosophical discussion about eating, am I not still hungry?
Korel Laloix: The self-identified philosophers tend to only say what they hear.
Dash Earthboy: Zaldaan, I also have a hungry mind :)
Korel Laloix: But I am ready to admit that I might have just had seen really really really bad philosophy teachers.
Archmage Atlantis: In the flat world map, there is an edge.......and at that edge, there is a legend.......and that legend says, here be monsters
Dash Earthboy: Korel, bad teachers make a difference
Zaldaan Sirnah: but how do you feed your mind, instead of regurgitating what's in it and re-eating it?
Dash Earthboy: Arch, I'm running into many flat-world thinkers these days
Zaldaan Sirnah: the problem is that I think much thought is this way
Dash Earthboy: Arch, I'm speaking of those who cry for PEACE but offer no viable solutions to the problems causing the wars
--BELL--
Zon Kwan: waves
Korel Laloix: Heya
Dash Earthboy: bye Zon?
Archmage Atlantis: I need to go, still I must respond to Dash.......to complain about those who complain is to be who they are
Dash Earthboy: Zaldaan, my mind is fed by your thoughts
Archmage Atlantis: Namaste
Dash Earthboy: and Arch's and Korel's
Archmage Atlantis: and Blessings
Dash Earthboy: bye Arch
Korel Laloix: Ciao