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lilchiva

Second-Hand Mädchen

Jun 13, 2018 05:38

Well, I meant to write sooner but it didn’t happen. I had grand plans for this journal from every day since New Year’s up until this point. But, that didn’t work out and it’s been awhile. Ya know, I’ve always tended to be light on semi-publically documenting things that don’t exist solely in my imagination. So, really, when you think about it, it’s ( Read more... )

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bombasticus June 13 2018, 17:39:54 UTC

That Dream Wife is hot. We spent some time following the Teen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs7KRYdBmGI) but this is a step up. Need to confirm address. Jains get LIT. You are Gladys, much as I love the rest of the family the pips can handle themselves . . . there are robots for that.

lilchiva June 14 2018, 20:02:40 UTC

Kubla Khan really is the "win or go home" narrative of the season ( ... )

LOVE IT bombasticus June 15 2018, 02:06:40 UTC

Thanks for everything. I think the challenge lately is a lot of people are moving too fast and this stuff you are dishing up is very high throughput so it creates at best white noise. Also I catch the bits I can but by that point they're ground too fine to build back into anything equivalent on my side . . . like making a fort out of 1x1 lego. But it is having an incremental impact. Your twitterwork early last year was a lifesaver ( ... )

RE: LOVE IT lilchiva June 16 2018, 14:16:08 UTC

Now that I've rejoined the material world, it seems to me that many members of our gang have been living in the future for a really long time. And, there's also the relentless cultural narcissism. I just think there's a whole lot of "Ain't nobody got time for that" happening. There are plenty of compelling things in this world. This too could be one of them.

>The Tony Curtis Hieroglyphic Society!

There are worse titles. We're called The Tony Curtis Hieroglyphic Society! and mot The Tony Curtis Hieroglyphic Society. The exclamation point, it stays, right? Myself, I'm a big fan of the interrobang. Because how could you not be? But, the interrobang is a pain in the ass to regularly pull off.

The Tony Curtis Hieroglyphic Society‽

I have high hopes we can learn how to do what is needed ( ... )

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tdaschel June 16 2018, 14:47:27 UTC

.. thanks LUCKY STARS that eljay made-alert by Yahoo box that you'd - after long time - posted (wasn't aware, in fact, there was such a feature / so thanks to all the Kind Considerates at the Murmansk warehouse and, most of all, to *you* !)

lilchiva June 21 2018, 12:23:27 UTC

You are too kind!

I'm so happy to hear from you, it's ridiculous. How are you? How have you been?

tdaschel June 26 2018, 04:53:01 UTC

"catching up" with the 20th century, usually (without Happity Happenstance, where would i be NOW? .. case-in-point: the Goodwill store had some UK import of Angela Carter essays i'd never seen-nor-heard of .. and she's all up and over about dead Australian Christina Stead. WELL, there was precisely *one* of her titles in the local Lutheran college library : For Love Alone, 1944, and - who knew? - it's become the very thing required at these particular - sometimes *challenging* - Hours, hey !

ANGELA bombasticus June 28 2018, 00:35:36 UTC

Is this "Shaking a Leg?" We just got one too.

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mexpatriot June 19 2018, 06:41:57 UTC

And, part of keeping the Dharma is making the money. You don’t have to be rich. But, you really need to be doing your best to improve material conditions for yourself and everyone around you. You cannot uphold and protect the Dharma if you don’t have power. And, in this world, money is a basic form of power.

This is Artha. Part of that famous name Siddhartha. That's a thing! Good for you! :)

lilchiva June 21 2018, 13:26:35 UTC

Yeah. I'm really getting into the Puruṣārthas. I think it's a nice way of organizing ones life. It allows me to inject meaning without having to be definitive. I wasn't expecting that.

But, I will say, as these things are practiced in the west seems very different than how this stuff seems practiced elsewhere. My girls are always going on about how much more freedom and wealth we have just from being here. So, my guess is that my experience here is far from authentic or definitive.

mexpatriot June 22 2018, 04:39:00 UTC

Hard to say, really.

I live in the Third World and would not trade it. Life is pretty fucking sweet and much easier here than in the US. The idea of "privilege" can suck it. I've lived every way there is to live.

mexpatriot June 19 2018, 06:49:14 UTC

Have you read the Bhagavad Gita? A lot of this that you're writing is well-covered there, I give it to many of my patients. It's a quick read. I prefer the Juan Mascaro translation.

lilchiva June 21 2018, 13:28:41 UTC

Girl I know! I was so hoping you'd chime in here. I wrote all that Krishna stuff for you. :)

Hinduism and the various Dhamic offshoots are really brilliant. They are so much better than the Abrahamic stuffs. We should read that again together. I'll get started this week.

mexpatriot June 22 2018, 04:41:11 UTC

I read it often, as puja. I read it all to my wife, as she drove, on a roadtrip.

I've not been reading LJ for a bit. I need to catch up.

mexpatriot June 19 2018, 07:19:45 UTC

We've talked a lot about this stuff over the years. The best book I can recommend is Osho's Commentary on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra. IT is printed in many names. Here is a fre PDF: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0ahUKEwiJ_8felt_bAhUtyqYKHfDnBPcQFgg4MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oshoworld.com%2Fe-books%2Feng_discourses.asp%3Fpdf_id%3D148_Vigyan_Bhairav_Tantra_Vol1.pdf%26download%3DYes&usg=AOvVaw0YS5ey5YhzcDaV8JJnM3Yw