In honor of the shadow of the Mercury retro. . . let's just yack & indulge in some maybe random and

[stellanoir]

extraneous though potentially meaningful blather.

This thread is based on an impulse to have another funny thread not at all dissimilar to the silly "delete" thread which was so much more profound than the one in the lounge. Hurrrrrumph. . .and so there.

Many are dealing with a sort of collective weightiness. We all try to derive meaning from the sometimes meaningless in here.

Revelations abound nonetheless.

That's not to say or suggest that I'm beyond reading symbolism into EVERYTHING. LOL

Yet, sometimes a pencil is just a pencil though. . .REALLY.

All various forms of the delicate arts of omphaloskepsis and nephrology aside. . .maybe let's just have some free association on this thread.

Vent away. . .vent away. . .vent away. . . "OM."

(ultimate catch all disclaimer: this thread was created for entertainment purposes only)

Have fun.

Love ya all.

[BlueIris]

1. I like baby raccoons.

They look like little ducks.

[stellanoir]

2. BI

You have summarily slain me in one fell swoop. :rofl:

congrats

and :hug:

[I Have A Dream]

3. I was going to say the same thing. (Not as well as you though, stella!)

:rofl:

[cassiepriam]

27. No one, but no one, can do a non sequitur like BI

And she doesn't even know that she is a genius at them.
I am still tickled by her infamous keyboard post.

[I Have A Dream]

53. LOL! Yes, I immediately thought of that also!

Here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=245&topic_id=25931&mesg_id=26008

That post was and still is my favorite post evah! :D

[KitchenWitch]

4. I have much gratitude for not having webbed feet!

:hi:

[stellanoir]

5. woh I am equally startled by this esoteric revalation

lol

You guys are making me very happy. :)

[Sanity Claws]

6. I'm not so sure.

I live in Seattle and webbed feet could come in handy at times. Can you imagine what shoes would look like if we had webbed feet? I'll bet it would be easier to walk in high heels since the front of our feet would be wider and better able to take all the extra weight put on them by the high heels.

[KitchenWitch]

7. I completely eschew the high heels, so webbed feet would be of no benefit!

:hi:

[I Have A Dream]

8. I just realized how long that it's been since *I've* worn high heels!

It's been years! This is a good thing!

:)

[Sanity Claws]

9. High heels give you a nice wiggle in your walk.

I wear them when I want to get that special wiggle.

[Why Syzygy]

10. ms. anatomy here ..

actually it is the heart shape of your pelvis that gives women the wiggle. High heels do emphasize it though. Men's pelvic bone is shaped differently and narrower.

They don't get to have babies.

[KitchenWitch]

12. Nor do they get to have the wiggle!

;)

[stellanoir]

14. Woh you go on flats for a long while and then put on heels and boy oh boy do ya ever feel

what different the muscles are required to ambulate upon them though.

I've got a slew of them. Maybe I will consider ambulating upon them soon so I can wiggle around and cultivate alternative muscles more than I have of late. :shrug:

[Crowdance]

18. My brothers have webbed feet....well, toes.

I'm grateful I escaped that genetic destiny. My father had them, too.

[stellanoir]

19. ever heard of folks with 6 fingers ???

That's another weird one.

Anne Bolyne was decapitated, in a small part for that.

She was also falsely accused of witchcraft for many other stupid reasons. Yikes.

[Crowdance]

25. Met a woman with six toes on one foot. An extra little baby toe.

It was cute. Fortunately, perhaps, for her, the time of beheading has passed. (well, at least in this reality.)

[cassiepriam]

13. Baby raccoons look like little ducks?

This is hard to believe, but if true, sounds darling. :)

[BlueIris]

17. Yes, they look like little ducks. And their mothers are my favorite animal moms.

Mother raccoons are both nurturent and fierce. They are very sweet and loving with their babies, but view themselves as invincible against potential predators. They are like the polar bears of the rodent world in that regard.

[cassiepriam]

26. God love those mothers........... how wonderful.

[Why Syzygy]

11. I can see where this is going >

extemporaneous, let off steam, giggle. Very creative. :hi:

edit: o not e

[stellanoir]

15. Well it ain't goin' towards

thermonuclear proliferation or anything so. . .phew.

But then there is the small issue of "Pinky and the Brain" who are idiotically hell bent on total global domination which is oh so tiresome and never, ever, ever works. But nevermind.

Oh well back to navel gazing I guess.

Unless I get further distracted by some baby raccoons that is. I hope I hope.

[hippiechick]

16. navel gazing

:rofl:



Hi everyone! It's been a wierd day, indeed !!! :grouphug:

[stellanoir]

20. omphaloskepsis= naval gazing

Not to be a stickler or anything but those look far more like grapefruit.

Someone just told me on the "stellaphone" the word derivation according to the Hebrew, that the reason they are called grapefruit is because they form in clusters: like grapes.

I love grapes.

Thanks for the imagery and sorry to stickle. LOL

I'll gaze upon those for a while anyhoo. . .:)

[hippiechick]

24. stickle all you'd like, my dear ...

.... i googled 'navel oranges images' :P


mmm... oranges. sounds yummy right about now. :)

[stellanoir]

28. I stickle corrected

though I'd better drink some limeade as all this naval gazing is making me feel a touch of scurvy. e-gads.

[BuelahWitch]

62. But if you stickle your navel, doesn't it make you giggle?

:shrug: I know I do...

[ricochetastroman]

68. wrong use of the navel

if you unscrew your navel

your butt falls off :shrug:

[BlueIris]

21. Maybe this isn't random enough, but--job hunting under a Merc retro:

pros/cons?

[stellanoir]

22. "the treasure lies in the journey"

I know that sounds prosaic yet it's true. Often under Merc retro (and it's not even retro yet but it's sure as shit is wobbly) we get handed cosmic carrots that lead us on and then require readjustments later. Chill hon. You'll gt there. I promise.

[Why Syzygy]

23. Thank you

for using that phrase, "the treasure lies in the journey".
Very succinct, and most important to remember.

[stellanoir]

29. Yup it's VERY zen and

I think I might have stolen it from "Kung Fu" from when I was a kid.

Funnily enough one of my later dearest friend's dad wrote for that cool show.

Anyhoo, I think it's a great expression to be mindful of in this culture that so often tends to superficially put the "ends" before the "means" unwittingly undermining the eventual result.

That proclivity from an energetic perspective is akin to shooting oneself in the foot. Sheesh.

[davsand]

31. "Exciting positions for Christiians..."

An actual spam header I got today.

It goes on to say, "Hundred Million Dollar Christian Values Company Expanding Nationally. Get up to $7,828*/month!"

It made me giggle when I saw it because I was immediately thinking about something OTHER than a business opportunity...



Laura

[Love Bug]

41. That reminds me of a joke

Why don't Baptists have sex while standing up?
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Because it might lead to dancing! *ba-dum-bump!*

[stellanoir]

30. this ??? may be worthy of it's own thread. . .

or maybe not.

TO "co" OR TO "pro". . .that is the question. . .

I'm looking for all your wisdom and opinions on this one. . .

I read something on a spiritual site that resonated with me quite profoundly a while ago. Haven't a clue which site it was and it was before my 'puter crash last spring so I lost the bookmark.

It said that the only way truth and justice will be restored, or perhaps manifest truly for the first time in our recorded history, would be through massive collective prayer.

I've been posting spiritual/political and sometimes humorous stuff on activist boards for years, and though I hadn't started suggesting prayer except in a general sense until about four months ago.

As most of you know, I've been employing the technique suggested by Kryon of co-creation.

Well a dear friend of mine is in a heap of trouble right now and in helping him through a labarynth of obstacles over the past few months I was of course, incessantly suggesting co creative prayers as is currently my proclivity, to address whatever he was challenged by.

Every single time I suggested a co creative prayer, he'd say " I procreate with spirit" and we'd laugh about it.

Yesterday when he was purchasing something and it was bitter cold, my guidance told me to get out of the car because spirit wanted to tell me something. So I sat on a bench and looked up and all of a sudden, I was told that procreation is more powerful than co creation and more appropriate for the energies now available.

I told my friend when we got back in the car and I jokingly said "It figures with your Scorpio Moon you'd have to sex it up a bit doesn't it?" He said "spirit is all I can procreate with right now." He is traumatized due to the source of his troubles right now so is temporarily choosing to shut down that part of himself for a while but is characteristically amazingly Tantric.

So-o-o

This morning I asked Kryon to guide my pendulum as I always do and I got a thin oval (semi affirmative for my pendulum anyway) for "co" and a HUGE circle (hugely affirmative for my pendulum) for "pro."

I just looked up etymology of prefixes and the closest Latin root to "co" was "con" meaning "against."

The one for "pro" was "before or in front of."

It struck me that co suggests separation of spirit and form (duality) whereas "pro" suggests more equal interaction (greater unity).

What do you guys think about this?

Aand more importantly. . .how do you think it will it effect all those baby raccoons, good raccoon mommies, webbed feet, high heels, and naval oranges. . .?

thanks in advance as always for any and all feedback.

[stellanoir]

32. my first "procreative" effort online (not porn)

I commented with this to a cynical article on the Huff Post earlier today about the astronaut lunacy.

The article was entitled "Anything is Possible."

"We have totally misplaced our moral compass.

Under valuing basic human kindness and love and tolerance in this culture which so often rewards selfishness and greed, and reveres money regardless of whether it's acquired through ill gotten means perhaps has cost us our collective soul.

I read something on a spiritual site that resonated profoundly. It said that the only way truth and justice will be restored, or perhaps manifest truly for the first time in our recorded history, would be through massive collective prayer.

Though I've been posting spiritual/political and sometimes humorous stuff on activist boards for years, and though I hadn't started suggesting prayer except in a general sense until about four months ago, here goes.

Here is a brief excerpt from my most recent posting. . .

". . . Once again, I'm deeply compelled to put forth an affirmation in hopes of neutralizing oppressive collective presumed powerlessness. Silly me.

Anything is possible. . .? You bet.

""I procreate" with spirit that all those leaders who don't hold peace and love of the greater good for ALL in their hearts as their absolute top priority and soul's urge be exposed and stripped of all their power-PRONTO."

"Rinse and repeat."

We, the people, are generally sick tired of living in a country that has morphed into being of the corporations, for the corporations, and by the corporations, benefiting ONLY the falsely presumed "who's who of the chosen few" and masquerading as a Democracy with extremely compromised accountability in our elections.

Let's fix it with our hearts AND minds or at least try and see what happens."

Let's just consider saying the prayer and have a "lively experiment" in spiritual procreation. It won't take but a moment. It truly is worth a shot.

If what we hold in our hearts and minds is not of consequence, then we have truly lost our very humanity. That possibility is one I'll never accept. . ."

Please feel free to modify it as you see fit and consider passing it on if spirit moves you to do so."

[Why Syzygy]

33. I was almost

inclined to go with procreate rather than co-create. But reading it in context gives me pause. (It might get some giggles, so depending on what you're going for.)

The definition I got for "co" was from COM (not con), which means 'with'.
I would give you the link, but IE decided to break down with all those windows open.

[hippiechick]

34. Let us speak of yaks.

yak yak yak yak .... :evilgrin:

[stellanoir]

35. my mother says every friggin' morning

over the phone, "I have to remember to ask for non child proof caps" for her plethora of medications.

Today, I wrote it on her blackboard, "No More Childproof Caps !!!"

Do ya think that might help? I loathe what the pharmas have done to my mum. Really.

ughhh.

[hippiechick]

37. I hate what pharma has done to all of us ...

Do you watch Boston Legal, by any chance?
I love their scathing (but subtle) social commentary & wit/dialogue.
Tuesday's episode was about a young woman who was 'groped' by a rabbi she was getting counseling from, and her parents (divorced) were at odds about her being able to take a new pill which would
erase the short term memory.

The dilemma of course was yes, we can erase trauma, treat PTSD, etc ... but by erasing those things,
we also erase part of who we are, what makes us 'us', and that with the profileration of these types of meds, the pharma companies are now marketing 'mind control' ... the debate was great.

The other 'case' that the firm handled was about a judge who wanted to sue one of those 'sexual healing' places because he couldn't admit that he's gay so he went to them, they called it a 'disorder' and he paid $40k for 'spiritual treatment' to 'cure' him of his attraction to men.
The closing argument on that was fantastic.

I highly recommend that show.
Oh, and James Spader is so tasty I can barely stand to watch him :loveya:

[stellanoir]

39. Nah I don't watch the tube all that much.

But maybe I'll check it out soon.

That's a David E. Kelly (is that his name ? ) show isn't it. I used to watch Ally MacBeil (sp?) and Boston Public and was really entertained by the writing and character development.

Yup big pharma wanting long term customers and is so rarely about healing. Since I go through long periods of time not watching the tube I was astonished when I saw the plethora of commercials for phamaceuticals came out of nowhere. It used to be that all ya saw was ads for over the counter stuff.

It seems totally messed up that they do their R & D with tax payers' money, blow all this dough on advertisements that probably promote hypocondria to some extent, and over charge for their products at astronomical rates, sometimes hundreds of times beyond what they cost to make. Ughhhhhhh.

[Why Syzygy]

43. I would say

it is NEVER about healing. Don't sell many concoctions to healthy people. Then what would they do.

[stellanoir]

45. LOL I didn't say NEVER.

I heard a statistic about a year ago that more than 40% of Americans were on meds. Don't know what percentage of those are psychoactive. In Europe only 15% of the population were on them. That percentage seems far more reasonable to me is all.

When I say "rarely" I'm referring to how often it is that someone gets cured of a chronic ailment and ever can then chuck their meds for good.

I'm just an alternative medicine freak though I do believe thoroughly that different things do work to vastly differing degrees for different metabolisms.

Western medicine has just NEVER been efficacious for me probably because I have such a BIG BAD ATTITUDE about it. LOL

[stellanoir]

38. dunno quite what to say about them but

here are some picts

http://www.domestic-yaks-wild-yaks.com/domestic-yaks-wild-yaks-pictures.htm

[hippiechick]

46. Wonder what kind of (fur) conditioners they use?

:rofl:

[stellanoir]

47. Not sure. . .there wasn't a hygine link on that site but I'll betchya it might be

somethin' like . . .

Roll in mud. . .rinse and repeat.

You'll have to yak with the yacks yourself though maybe.

[hippiechick]

48. Mud ... mmmm, yummy !

I remember when I was - oh, 14 ? 15 ? - I used to buy those packets of 'Egyptian Mud' for my hair ... it was dirt, mixed with some mint and a few twigs ... Goddess only knows where it really came from :freak: ... you'd add just a little water to re-mud it, then slather it all over your hair and wrap a warm towel or plastic bag (with breathing holes, of course!) around your head for 30 minutes ... then rinse ...

Not sure it actually ever affected the condition of my hair, but I felt exotic ...

Maybe the yaks enjoy their mud-wraps for the same reason!! LOL!

:rofl:

[stellanoir]

59. I used green clay for a while and scared the children.

At least they always laughed.

[BlueIris]

36. I have NEVER in all my time on DU seen so much erotic energy

flying around here on a Tuesday night. What is going ON? It's even rubbing off on me and I am like, unarousable right now.

[Love Bug]

42. Typical me -- I miss all the really good erotic energy!

It's Wednesday morning and I totally missed it! :cry:

[Love Bug]

40. God made baby animals cute

so we don't kill them when they poop on the carpet!

[Why Syzygy]

44. I said that

about baby humans after I had one. If they weren't totaly little darlings, when they are teething, you would just pack their bag and tell them to get on the road.

[Why Syzygy]

49. Hey, Stella!

We are not the only ones praying!
Take a look >
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3100526

[stellanoir]

50. OMG

Bless his soul and gotta love him.

He just makes so much sense. Unlike the blather we hear so often.

[BlueIris]

51. Does anyone know the name for the kind of divination that involves

discerning messages from the Universe according to what songs are playing on the radio? There has got to be a name for that.

[Lilith Velkor]

52. Radiomancy

I don't know if that's the official name, but I made it up just now so I'll roll with it.

Bibliomancy is when you get messages from a bible by opening it to a random passage, although it should apply to any book according to the meaning of the word. The term for books other than the bible is stichomancy.

Of course, the way things have been going lately, I've only done it with The Great War for Civilisation, and taken to calling it "Fiskomancy."

[stellanoir]

54. Since most practices with suffixes of "mancies," "ologies," "isms," "metries" etc.

Were mostly labeled long before the advent of radio. I'm not sure if there is a specfic term.

I just call it "that synchronicity over the radio thingy." LOL

I'm sure there are more sophisticated terms though.

Call it what you will. It is totally real to me.

Woh could I ever tell you stories and having been on the radio they are even funnier.

Maybe never question wisdom from wherever it may come.

Labels are generally restricitive.

[Lilith Velkor]

67. It's fun to play with words, though

Like "phrenological" and "omphaploskepsis." (I'm gonna go look up that second one now.) :hi:

[BlueIris]

56. I just...I have been hearing the *strangest* songs playing on the radio again and again lately.

Especially after some of my more important decisions this fall and winter, and during my "What the hell am I supposed to be doing with my life?" moments.

What songs would those be, you ask? Well, Nick Gilder's "Hot Child in the City" for one. That strange tune, which I'd never heard before this fall, played in the car right after I quit the Job From Hell at that warehouse, (when my New Special Friend was still in town) after I had that really bad night in mid-December that prompted my "Help" thread here, and recently, while driving to Borders to leech off their supply of books about writing and publishing and think about my novel.

Just for giggle's here are (some of) the lyrics to "Hot Child in the City":

"Danger in the shape of something wild
Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child
No one knows who she is or what her name is
I don't know where she came from or what her game is

Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Runnin' wild and looking pretty
Hot child in the city

So young to be loose and on her own
Young boys, they all want to take her home
And when she comes downtown
The boys all stop and stare
When she comes downtown
She walks like she just don't care, yeah...

Come on down to my place, baby
We'll talk about love
Come on down to my place, woman
We'll make love..."

[BlueIris]

58. The other song, (which I just love)

and which sometimes plays when I'm, quite frankly, daydreaming of simply blowing off "the call," writing my books, moving to Hollywood after manifesting a ton of money and doing Tarot and astrology readings for celebrities: Shiela E.'s "The Glamorous Life." Did I hear someone request lyrics? (And, seriously, how can you not love this one?)

"She wears a long fur coat of mink
Even in the summertime
Everybody knows from the coy little wink
The girl's got a lot on her mind

She's got big thoughts, big dreams
And a big brown Mercedes sedan
What I think this girl, she really wants
Is 2 be in love with a man

She wants 2 lead the glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants 2 lead the glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much

She saw him standing in the section marked
"If U have 2 ask, U can't afford it" lingerie
She threw him bread and said "Make me scream"
In the dark, what could he say

Boys with small talk and small minds
Really don't impress me in bed
She said I need a man's man baby, diamonds and furs
Love would only conquer my head

She wants 2 lead the glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants 2 lead the glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much

They made haste in the brown sedan
They drove 2 55 Secret Street
They made love and by the 7th wave
She knew she had a problem

She thought real love is real scary
Money only pays the rent
Love is 4 ever and that's all your life
Love is heaven sent - it's glamorous

Lead the glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She's want 2 lead the glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much..."

[lildreamer316]

60. You KNOW I love this song!

Right up there with Sheena Easton too.

[rumpel]

55. Stella, in honor of another post

you posted before...btw, I loved the letter on that site to the Kansas Education Board

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x162118

[stellanoir]

57. I am a total devotee of the flying spaghetti monster

May his noodley appendage be upon you and yours and Ramen. LOL

[Pathwalker]

61. Saw a great license plate today: STAR4CE.

Go boldly.

[stellanoir]

63. ". . .where no man has gone before. . ."

I remember counseling a colleague years ago. She was in a not so healthy relationship. I told her to just take some space for a month or so and then said. . . "space. . .the final frontier."

She said,"so-o-o. . . you're telling me to Deep Space Nine him. . .eh . . .?"

We laughed.

She knew I'd never be that bossy really.

[BlueIris]

64. Do we, as spiritually-inclined people, believe that vampires exist?

Sorry. I watched the Masterpiece Theater adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" tonight and it wigged me out.

[stellanoir]

66. Well metaphorically yes.

Toxic individuals that take more energy than they would ever dream of giving certainly would qualify as such.

I've heard plenty of spiritualists refer to "psychic vampires" and totally know what they are talking about. e-gads

[helderheid]

65. Well you know what I have to say.

:D