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EP - Ethics Particle

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Dear hearts,

I headed off to bed Sunday night and the "Apollo" thread was languishing the entire day and into the evening, apparently :confused2: then this morning, I sign on and find more new material than I would ever dream of to enjoy, digest, ruminate upon - and, time permitting, acknowledge. :melodramatic::coolwink:

Lakey said this:

"Sorry TMT, somehow I missed your post #5490 but I just read it now.

Thanks TMT, I am glad I was able to capture some understanding of what you were saying in my reply! No matter who the being is and how OT we are, it seems as if every being benefits when they take the time to communicate something and it gets duplicated by another or lots of other beings."


And it speaks volumes to me. :yes::clap:

One thing specific re the wonderful child prodigy Jackie Evanchko (spelling?) - she was thoroughly lauded and appreciated earlier on the board - Mystic posted her performance on "chatbox" multiple times and I wrote a lengthy (for me) post re the quality of her communication and saying that the only version I could find that had a similar emotional impact on me was a young Maria Callas in a concert performance from around 1960.

So Lakey and JohnnyTMT - I never see you two on chat! :confused2: Do you ever visit there?

I too am at a loss as to how to adequately respond to Johnny's loss of his Carolyn... but then, I expect he knows pretty much exactly how I feel and in time the words will come. :yes:

A bunch of us are so much alike that it's really kind of spooky :nervous::whistling: and you are in that motley crew, Sweetie - so there! :whistling:

:biglove::smoochy: EP

P.S. I said on chat that I was so smitten with A. M. Martinez that I could scarcely breathe - here's why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VDmUINALmM
 

The Magic Thetan

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Sorry TMT, somehow I missed your post #5490 but I just read it now.

Thanks TMT, I am glad I was able to capture some understanding of what you were saying in my reply! No matter who the being is and how OT we are, it seems as if every being benefits when they take the time to communicate something and it gets duplicated by another or lots of other beings. Thanks for the comments on the level at which Bashar is operating at vis a vis our own.

Thanks for turning me on to Joan Loosli's number. We really were close for nearly a year just before she got married to Jacob Loosli. They married in 1978 I believe and then I married in 1981. All four of us Joan, Jacob, my wife and me were on lines at ASHO and the Loosli's invited us over for dinner and we reciprocated. When my wife, now ex wife got pregnant in 1982 we went to dinner at the Loosli's and Joan hatted Evy on the ins and outs of pregnancy and she recommended the Le Maas method. Jacob and I became friends of sorts. He really liked his Mateus wine as did I. They came to visit us in Fullerton around 1984 when my Son was about 2 or 3. They had a daughter, Sophie, about 3 1/2 who was platinum blonde and had a very dynamic personality. actially giving orders to boss the grown ups around Their Son, Remi was about 7. We took videos with our old Beta Max camera and still have them. I last watched them around 1991. After that, many of Joan's musical associates went over to Mayo's AAC and Joan and Jacob sorted of sided with Mayo while I, like an idiot, sided with C of S. As a result our going to one another's homes socially came to an end. I did call Joan to invite her to something around 1986 and she told me that she had split up with her husband. he called me personally twice. He was upset with the situation and wanted my take on it. He went back to Switzerland to think things over. He wrote me a letter stating that he considered me a friend and thought we would see each other again in this life. I responded with dittos but have not heard from him since then. He is a very nice man. I never saw Joan again either after about 1985, maybe 1986 and I met her in 1977 so we had an 8 or 9 year run as really good friends.

Joan and Susan put on a concert where they both sang at Joan residence in 1978. The Todhunter's parents were there as were both my parents. What a concert it was. Susan sang one of my favoite arias from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, "Vedrai Carino" and I believe Joan sang "Che faro sensa Euridice" from Glucks' Iphegenia in Aulide, another of my favoites. I requested those two arias from them. Susan sang another Aria from Verdi, I believe, which was one of her personal favorites. It is about a tormented woman singing, "I lived for art and art alone so why am I forsaken and unhappy" Susan sang that aria at every recital I ever saw her give.

On Barber Shoppe Quartets, I have a limited experience. Every spring the City of Fullerton has their downtown district closed off to cars and holds a huge night time extravaganza called a night in Fullerton. They always had a barber shop quartet singing at a downtown Fullerton Church and I saw several of those. I went with Finished man to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda in 2007, maybe early 2008 to a Barber Shoppe Quartet concert which was extremely good. Occasionally I would see groups performing on the streets at Disney land.

With my good memory, I would here many of the songs sung in movies and such and know so many of the lyrics by heart. My favorites are "A bicycle built for two", "Down by the old mill stream", "Down by the riverside" "Come away with me Lucille, in my merry Oldsmobile."

Here's a link to my favorite song but it is an instrumental and not a Barber Shop Quartet rendition.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrX8YpiJgA&feature=related

Lakey

We will have to get together and share stories sometime. We followed Sophia's growth from the time she was born to present day. She is very beautiful today. She was a bridesmaid at our daughters wedding. Both Joan and Sophia and often Rami sang at our annual Christmas caroling party, and participated in our Halloween and star Wars parties. Joan and Sophia also sang at both of Carolyn's memorial services, and Joan and I have a movie and lunch date this week I even dated Susan briefly before I met Carolyn. Maybe we can all get together for a reunion dinner. Suggest it when you talk with Joan. All the Best John
 

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I duplicate you. For me, there is still a very alive "WHO" stuck to the OT identity that retired into that cave. The robotic-ness that ensued til the end of that cycle has faded. The last time I stirred that sleeping python it put me back to sleep. We leave so many parts of ourselves abandoned in and about this universe in an effort to escape into newer more hopeful goals. Scientology was like honey to a bee. But then it seemed like fly paper. I feel the pathos in this.

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lkwdblds

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Time Warp - Sophie looks like Joan, Joan looks great!!

We will have to get together and share stories sometime. We followed Sophia's growth from the time she was born to present day. She is very beautiful today. She was a bridesmaid at our daughters wedding. Both Joan and Sophia and often Rami sang at our annual Christmas caroling party, and participated in our Halloween and star Wars parties. Joan and Sophia also sang at both of Carolyn's memorial services, and Joan and I have a movie and lunch date this week I even dated Susan briefly before I met Carolyn. Maybe we can all get together for a reunion dinner. Suggest it when you talk with Joan. All the Best John


God Bless the Internet. If Al Gore invented it, I now love Al Gore (just kidding). God Bless ESMB and Emma. How delightful to see photos of Joan and Sophie. Sophie and Joan have the same facial structure. Joan was only 23 when I met her, Sophie is more than that now.

So you dated Susan, too. When I was dating Joan and she went to Spain to see Jacob, Susan and I went on several dates as friends. One date in particular was to see a concert at Royce Hall at UCLA which featured the Mozart Symphonia Conertante. The string group playing it featured Pinchus Zuckerman and David Primrose. What a glorius night seeing this grand performance with such a fine musical connosieur as Susan Todhunter. I also took her to a Japanese restaurant in Gardena where we sat on mats and were served by a special staff. Glorius times! My high point with Joan was her break out singing recital at the Manor Hotel for Scientologists. I was a bit late, driving in from Orange County and I was told she was running around saying, "Where's Gary, Where's Gary, I can't start without him" As it turned out, at most I was two minutes late. I parked my car in the CCLA parking lot and ran in to the recital.

Yes, by all means, let's set up a dinner reunion. Its a shame ex wifie, Evy won't be there. I could probably get her to come because she and Joan had developed a bit of a fiendship in the 80's but I don't think it would be in good taste to invite her. I could come stag or I could probably get Edey from Kangen water to come or Purple Haze might be interested in coming. I would love to bring Edey, she would fit in the best. She is a mixer with great people skills, Purple would also fit nicely or I could just go stag.

Some things are meant to be, Johnny, and a reunion with you, Joan and her family and me just seems so "in the cards".

Lakey
 

The Magic Thetan

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God Bless the Internet. If Al Gore invented it, I now love Al Gore (just kidding). God Bless ESMB and Emma. How delightful to see photos of Joan and Sophie. Sophie and Joan have the same facial structure. Joan was only 23 when I met her, Sophie is more than that now.

So you dated Susan, too. When I was dating Joan and she went to Spain to see Jacob, Susan and I went on several dates as friends. One date in particular was to see a concert at Royce Hall at UCLA which featured the Mozart Symphonia Conertante. The string group playing it featured Pinchus Zuckerman and David Primrose. What a glorius night seeing this grand performance with such a fine musical connosieur as Susan Todhunter. I also took her to a Japanese restaurant in Gardena where we sat on mats and were served by a special staff. Glorius times! My high point with Joan was her break out singing recital at the Manor Hotel for Scientologists. I was a bit late, driving in from Orange County and I was told she was running around saying, "Where's Gary, Where's Gary, I can't start without him" As it turned out, at most I was two minutes late. I parked my car in the CCLA parking lot and ran in to the recital.

Yes, by all means, let's set up a dinner reunion. Its a shame ex wifie, Evy won't be there. I could probably get her to come because she and Joan had developed a bit of a fiendship in the 80's but I don't think it would be in good taste to invite her. I could come stag or I could probably get Edey from Kangen water to come or Purple Haze might be interested in coming. I would love to bring Edey, she would fit in the best. She is a mixer with great people skills, Purple would also fit nicely or I could just go stag.

Some things are meant to be, Johnny, and a reunion with you, Joan and her family and me just seems so "in the cards".

Lakey

Love It.Call Joan. Invite her to read some of our post, and let's find a date and do it. With the Scn convention and other things I am tied up until Sept 15th. So let's set a date after that.
 

The Magic Thetan

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On the Desire to Admire and Retire the Misery

Thanks TMT, I am glad I was able to capture some understanding of what you were saying in my reply! No matter who the being is and how OT we are, it seems as if every being benefits when they take the time to communicate something and it gets duplicated by another or lots of other beings.

And it speaks volumes to me.

:confused2: At breakfast at Denny's this morning I sat contemplating the beautiful compassion of Ikwedblds, EP-Ethics Particle, Pepin, SweetnessandLight, and the many other beings I can FEEL who seek to assist me in my Desire to Admire and Retire the Misery I went through with Carolyn, and other miseries I have known.

Although I have greatly overused the phrase, this willingness and ability to duplicate and understand me, means so much to me.

At breakfast I wondered once again why I sometimes want to share with others the magnitude of pain and misery I encountered. (and/or created)

I find that, at times, I am creating and energizing ideas that are the essence of a classic problem. "a series of conflicting ideas on the same subject".

On the one hand, I create the idea that all I want for myself, and anyone else who wants it, is love, joy, fun and a state on ongoing ecstasy that is so totally satisfying, it can't possibly get any better, and then it gets better. (This is the kind of love I experienced three times - the kind I was referring to in Post # 5490, the kind that makes reality transforming OT car-teleporting experiences seem like nothing)

On the other hand, I create the idea and desire to have someone duplicate the extent of the misery I went through (And/or created). I want to give all the details, and get all the acknowledgment and duplication I feel I need to retire the desire to have anything to do with misery. Yet I "know" that focusing on crap is crap, and can lead to more crap. On the other hand, it can lead to the vanish-ment of carp when a loving being, or beings, who are able to compassionately duplicate the magnitude of the insanity and misery we create,do so. I remember Ron saying once. "If you think you can suffer now, wait until your OT."

Not a very enticing invitation to be OT, except when you realize that it is capacity to experience that has increased as a result of your shedding your "Limitation Mastery" abilities. (By the way, I have never felt that it was "necessary" to have misery to really experience joy. I find I can experience joy just fine without having to be aware of it's opposite.)

:happydance::dance3:Yesterday I had a fantastic experience guiding a person I am training to be a Wizard Counselor (My name for a master Description Processing (Phoenix Lectures chapter) Auditor). I brought her, and myself, to a acute "mind and crap blowing" awareness that we are OT (Aware of our God-Self that never really went away) when we fully realize that we are creating it all.

So why do we create crap that we suffer from? And why do we then need or want someone exterior to us to see and acknowledge the magnitude of misery we created?

Maybe we are simply egoically seeking a Cosmic academy award for pushing the boundaries of stupidity far beyond the current capability of The Gods to duplicate and comprehend. And then we wonder why we need "The God's of Earth" to duplicate us. For it seems, that it is only those who are "Misery Making Masters", who have also somehow survived being the effect of their own creations, that have the capacity to duplicate, admire and retire the magnitude of misery and stupidity we "Gods of Earth" create.

So in conclusion, I truly do desire to admire and retire the crap, and I love and admire your compassion and willingness to assist me to do so.

So with regards to all the crap we made, may I invite us all, to raise our right hand and arm in a BOLD Italian Gesture and say to ourselves, and the Multi-Verse,

"With regard to all the pain, misery, crap and Limitations we orchestrated so masterfully into existence,
Forget About It!!!"
 

The Magic Thetan

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So Lakey and JohnnyTMT - I never see you two on chat! :confused2: Do you ever visit there?

I have never been on a chat. I am a little reluctant to start as I feel I need to go to a ESMB Anonymous group as I am becoming to addicted to the wonderfulness of you all, and i need to work more on my WonderProject.

I too am at a loss as to how to adequately respond to Johnny's loss of his Carolyn... but then, I expect he knows pretty much exactly how I feel and in time the words will come. :yes:

Thanks. Your being at a loss for words communicates volumes. However, when the words come, I'd like to hear them.

A bunch of us are so much alike that it's really kind of spooky :nervous::whistling: and you are in that motley crew, Sweetie - so there! :whistling:

Spooky, but wonderful. Makes me want to go find the "Laugh In' video again. "Very Interesting..."
 

FoTi

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I'm all for more stories here.

I need some help. Could somebody, who knows, please tell me how to empty out my PM box without emptying out all of the PMs. I have to clean it out because it's getting full, but I don't want to clean all of them out.
 

RogerB

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Me and My Beloved Carolyn

Catching up Raffo . . .

Jezzuzz this thread is busy . . . . with all the posts and their quality, ya could make a full time career just reading it! :D

Raffo, I was stunned to fullness of joy by the pictures here and later.

I just have one thing to say to you at this time . . . . man, you know how to live a life! You know how to have fun and to create joy for others! :happydance: :yes:

I've missed you and your big smiling face these last 20 years . . . you let me know when you're in this neck of the woods next, and I'll do the same for you, ya hear!?!

Rog
 

afaceinthecrowd

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:):cheers2::flowers: Thanks for the compassion and understanding. I can't tell you how much that means to me

What about an advanced alien being such as Bashar? Would he or members of his more advanced race be able to experience this type of incident and still remain upbeat and retain a spirit of play.


These things would never occur in Barshar's 4th Density reality. Therefore they would never be confronted. It seems that only in this 3rd Density reality do we have the confront or stupidity to create things that seem to exceed our ability to tolerate.

Love has been the greatest of all experiences for me. At times, it far exceeded all of the reality transforming magic I was blessed with. The apparent loss of this love, or the apparentcy of it being tuned to pain and misery, is the greatest pain I have known. It is a game of Limitation Mastery and Suffering that I wish to ADMIRE AND RETIRE FOREVER, and maybe that is what this life of transition is all about, the discovery in depth that we have created it all, so that we may at last be done with games of suffering and misery.

:rose:How did you like the descriptions of Barbershop Music Magic? Hope you, and everyone who loves great performances get to experience this kind of magic. love john

I beg to differ with you TMT...As far as I’m concerned, a being is as advanced as they are able to and willing to experience and wisdom doesn’t come from “dwelling on a higher plane”…it comes with the scar tissue.

Face:)
 
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I'm all for more stories here.

I need some help. Could somebody, who knows, please tell me how to empty out my PM box without emptying out all of the PMs. I have to clean it out because it's getting full, but I don't want to clean all of them out.

go to our PMs

starting with your sent messages, just for practice, click on the little square box to the right of your most recent message, go down past the last message to the blue line at the bottom. in there is a "selected messages:" toggle it from "Move to folder" to "download as TEXT" then hit "go"

you have just saved that message to your harddrive as text
 
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