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05-19-2009, 03:54 PM
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#1201
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Damn. I want Cherry Garcia FroYo now. D:
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05-19-2009, 03:58 PM
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#1202
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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The one flavour I love is not sold here. They used to have it in the cinema but alas not for many years now. Coconut Cream Pie how I loved thee..........
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05-19-2009, 04:03 PM
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#1203
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Ooooooh I found things I want.
New glasses- http://news.bmezine.com/2004/12/14/p...blishers-ring/
And if one of my eyes falls out or is removed- http://news.bmezine.com/2009/04/20/w...-class-cyborg/
Unrelated, I have some new stuff from Lush. I smell of heather-honey and wild jasmine because of their Flying Fox shower gel and temple balm. Plus I got a mega moisturising fig soap so that my skin's silky-soft and highly strokable, and I was given a free chunk of their Reincarnate shampoo with henna and rhassoul mud for shine and condition.
I gave the cinnamon foot-cream to a girl at work, who seems to love it dearly.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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05-19-2009, 04:15 PM
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#1204
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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Flying fox is one of my favourite Lush scents. I've run out of the shower gel though. Cerridwens Cauldron is my favourite bath melt . YUM.
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05-19-2009, 04:21 PM
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#1205
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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I'm in love with BPAL, personally.
You Lush-lovers.. any of you guys ever use their Caca-Noir henna?
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05-19-2009, 04:29 PM
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#1206
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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I dislike the messiness of henna so I've nver used it. Plus if you don't like the result you can't just use a normal dye over the top to cover it. The boxes always warn against it so I assume some hideous reaction may occur.
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05-19-2009, 04:32 PM
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#1207
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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The indigo in Caca-Noir CAN end up turning hair blue-green, if one tries to bleach it out..
I am PROBABLY allergic to PPD, and am unwilling to risk using a chemical dye.
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05-19-2009, 04:34 PM
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#1208
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Korinna- BPAL only ship in the states. Lush have a UK arm, so I can buy these things.
Otherwise I would be wearing the scent of War, Wrath, or Gluttony (Good Omens, Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Deadly Sins collections respectively).
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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05-19-2009, 04:38 PM
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#1209
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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That's tragic, Del! D:
I have Bengal, and LOVE it. I also have Fenris Wolf, but I have to be in the right mood for it.
Edit: I could always order some for you, and ship it myself.
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05-19-2009, 04:47 PM
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#1210
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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I'm half tempted to accept, but I've just bought some Lush stuff for a friend in Arizona as a belated gift, have had to buy a new microwave because the one here's died, have had two nights of take out, and still have rent to pay and two weekends before my pay comes in.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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05-19-2009, 04:47 PM
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#1211
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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That 70s Show is pretty funny.
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05-19-2009, 04:48 PM
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#1212
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Let me know when you have more income, then :]
I'd buy it for you as a gift, but I'm skint.. :[
Yes, it is, Oph. Do you have a particular episode in mind?
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05-19-2009, 05:12 PM
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#1213
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by korinna5555
Let me know when you have more income, then :]
I'd buy it for you as a gift, but I'm skint.. :[
Yes, it is, Oph. Do you have a particular episode in mind?
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Not really. I was just watching it because nothing else was on, but it was enjoyable.
Anyway.
The girl I've been fucking seems to have turned her interest to a lady who is going to offer her a real relationship.
This brings out jealousy in me.
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05-19-2009, 05:15 PM
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#1214
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In the Desert
Posts: 4,270
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The episode where they go to the old school rocks.
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05-19-2009, 05:19 PM
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#1215
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In Antarctica with the Penguins
Posts: 1,521
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All the king's horses and all the king's men make up the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse and they couldn't be bothered to give 2 shits about Humpty Dumpty...
...just sayin'.
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Droppin' knowledge since 1986.
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05-19-2009, 09:09 PM
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#1216
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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I just met a bloke who can teach me Arabic.
Plus, I bumped into a really hot chick who is as obsessed with languages as I am.
Today is improving, despite that bastard I name Winter Southerly.
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Everyone has a ghost...a phantom behind us which slows and drags us down.. This ghost or spectral has a name..."Regret".
"I've never regretted anything..." - Light Yagami
Life is a shit sandwich. Unfortunately, it's always lunchtime. How much bread you have goes a long way toward determining how easy it is to swallow.
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05-19-2009, 09:57 PM
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#1217
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In the Desert
Posts: 4,270
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Tekajo sends a heartfelt FTW to all the good people of Gnet.
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05-20-2009, 03:04 AM
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#1218
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I can't sleep so I took to reading, I was too lazy to get up and get my copy of the Tao Te Ching so I looked it up online, and look at the difference between translations for poem 26, I was pretty sure I never read the poem before so I got up eventually and checked:
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The heavy is the root of the light.
The unmoved is the source of all movement.
Thus the Master travels all day
without leaving home.
However splendid the views,
she stays serenely in herself.
Why should the lord of the country
flit about like a fool?
If you let yourself be blown to and fro,
you lose touch with your root.
If you let restlessness move you,
you lose touch with who you are.
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Thats from http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/co...ote-v3.html#26
This is Thomas Cleary's translation (the book I have):
Quote:
Gravity is the root of lightness;
calm is the master of excitement.
Thereby do exemplary people travel all day
without leaving their equipment.
Though they have a look of prosperity,
their resting place is transcendent.
What can be done about heads of state
who take the world lightly in their own self-interest?
Lack of gravity loses servants of state;
instability loses heads of state.
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The difference in the translation almost changes the meaning of the poem, rereading the first one now you can probably take it as a political commentary but reading it first its easy to see how it can be interpreted in other ways. Its not really a mistranslation but worded differently its more ambiguous.
Sorry for the long post, just thought it was weird. Methinks that perhaps I should pick up Chinese, its offered under the Religious Studies program at my school, I haven't taken any courses on Taoism yet but I'd like to know more about what it actually says and how it should be interpreted, I understand now why some religions insist on keeping their holy books in the original language.
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05-20-2009, 10:45 AM
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#1219
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
Posts: 8,030
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Yeah, funny how people frequently quote their holey books as if they were perfect and yet what they have is, at best, a translation of a translation.
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05-20-2009, 11:49 AM
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#1220
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sheffield UK.
Posts: 2,065
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Duane
Tekajo sends a heartfelt FTW to all the good people of Gnet.
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Tell him hi from me please. : )
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05-20-2009, 01:13 PM
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#1221
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Duane
Tekajo sends a heartfelt FTW to all the good people of Gnet.
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Aww, I can't believe he got banned. Tell him to make an alt account and come say hi.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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05-20-2009, 03:23 PM
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#1222
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Bliss
Posts: 4,374
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Out of anyone on the forum... why would Tekajo get banned? That's mind blowing!
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I Like Cheese!
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05-20-2009, 07:51 PM
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#1223
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,424
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I have leftover chinese for lunch <3
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05-20-2009, 08:33 PM
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#1224
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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I love this. This friday I'm having my birthday party *
I was only allowed to invite 40 people tops.
But I'm Alan!
The thing escalated quickly. Now I have a DJ and two bands that asked me to play, and there's gonna be at least a hundred people. Probably more than 200.
It will be a nice celebration of two decades of existence. I'm so excited; seriously.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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05-20-2009, 09:16 PM
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#1225
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,424
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I'd hate to have a party of that magnitude...
Well done to you though! Hope you have lots of fun! =D
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