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Hatshepsut

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CBS News with a report on the upcoming release of Mark Twain's Autobiography.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6966458.shtml

Of particular interest is the included excerpt from March 30, 1906.


The more things change, the more they remain the same.


Mark A. Baker

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/sunday/main3445.shtml

Now, all these years later, there's a NEW book by Mark Twain: His autobiography, about to be published as he specifically instructed, 100 years after his death.

Robert Hirst is curator of the Mark Twain Papers at UC Berkeley, where a small army of editors has been laboring for six years to reconstruct the autobiography just as Twain wished it to be.

Oh Goody!

I just finished reading one biography about Charles Dickens. The pen and ink illustrations included for his stories were fantastic. :yes:...
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I'm going to check out what the UC Berkeley channel might have on this at its website about Twain.
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Mark Twain 1909 extracted from video clip by Thomas Edison
 
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Auditor's Toad

Clear as Mud
"You put your finger on the essential narcissistic evil of LRH.

Somebody raised from childhood in the Sea Org would be trapped in the Sea Org -- no education, no contacts outside Scientology, no experience in how to function in the outside world. Where could they go if they left? Worse, where could they go if they were tossed out?

Then give them power over others, give them a relatively better lifestyle, but with the knowledge that it would all go away in a flash if they failed to please the guy at the top. What evil could such a person resist committing, if it was ordered by the one who held their existence in his hands? "


OMG ! You so hit the nail on the head. I had such a hard time putting that into words. I distinctly remember going to an " EO " who was 2 nd generation raised in the SO. She was all set to "handle" my ethics ( she was equipped with doing the purif and no doubt an instant hat of her post ). She couldn't have been much before I got onto OT VII and I was probably older than her parents and probably had been 'in" longer than either of 'em.

Did I mention I didn't get along very well with these brash kids who had no common sense whatsoever? It was mutual, they didn't like me either - and they could never devise a way to make anything stick on me. God knows they tried :)
 

RogerB

Crusader
Thankyou! Thankyou!

I think possibly that if you could locate the main second dynamic engram a person was motivating from or trying to prevent from ever happening again you could bring some sanity back to many. Kind of Power Processes for the 2nd Dynamic. :wink2:

Face is right in saying women are recovering from centuries of oppression. That is more of a 'cult of women' engram. Something recorded in the group mind of the akasha belonging to the female identity. :p Not everyone wears this like a coat, obviously. :unsure:



Well said facey. :)

Perhaps one of my motivations for getting involved with Scientology was that I had been severely overwhelmed in life and any effort to fight back would've resulted in certain harm. I was sitting in powerlessness. This emotional wound is probably something I brought along with me into this life and into the family I was born into. My father was Calabraise and brought the tradition of invalidating and subjugating women with him when he married my mother. I was quickly given to understand that everything took second or third place to the 'flashing lights'. I was fast to adopt an attitude of extreme prejudice against that 'way' of being in the world. To hell with the future, to hell with the offspring. Validation of oneself was never so sweet as when gotten thru sex. I observed it being used as a JUSTIFICATION by mom :duh:

I had noticed this extreme hurt in a lot of young women who had turned to same sex partners. I never regarded this as a hormonal situation where they really were 'gay'. I thought they were just deeply deeply psychically wounded. As if observing what had been sacrificed to the 2D was so over the top that there was a decision not to grant it any credence any more. It wasn't until later in life that I realized I was wrong about this reality. I am straight. :p My point is these areas of empowerment and disempowerment stick to our ridges like glue. Super Glue. They leave service facsimiles often never inspected.

The bigger the ego the more empowerment issues are motivators. :yes: And I have had to ask myself "Do Motivators in and of themselves carry an urge to be dramatized?" Well, silly question...or is it? But who hasn't seen individuals carrying around 'energy packages' that have to do with these encapsulated hurts and valences on the 2D...looking for opportunities to replay themselves..

It takes CHARACTER to not take advantage of opportunities presented in a vulnerable/inviting human being to experience your own power. I believe we are naturally inclined to spot fertile ground on which to act out our pet dramas to a point of evanescence within ourselves. We want to neutralize our angst in a completed cycle of action and an acknowledgment. :clap:
The second dynamic has so much insanity. It is a feast of role playing. It is not always rational. We all have our love map. Women will continually think a certain type is her man, and men will have a certain imprinted 'love type' they follow consciously or not. :yes:

I know in my life I have often allowed myself to be scripted to any way the dominant male wanted to create me as being. Now I am super sensitive to what beingness is being projected on me via their filters. There is such a wild wild diversity of what attributes men will choose to endow a woman with. Total arbitraries. Phenomenally diverse, and saying much about where they are. This is where you find out about one's character. What role we will pigeonhole another in so as to 'have' some idea or other about ourselves. All arbitraries. :thumbsup:
To make something of someone or nothing of someone is a choice.
My two cents to include in this brief lonely hearts club section of our thread. :p

That above is quite brilliant, Hats. :yes:

Folks do project onto others and create them "as" whatever it is their own case demands.

It takes a strong and sane person to remain free from and not be affected by it.

Too many people, in actuality, sabotage themselves by trying to be "acceptable." They, of course, are in actuality too weak as Beings to maintain own integrity and, as whores, "be acceptable."

It is also true that many folks are simply not aware that they are being "created as" . . . it is simply the usual for them to be molded and pushed about like a ping-pong ball.

Rog
 

afaceinthecrowd

Gold Meritorious Patron
That above is quite brilliant, Hats. :yes:

Folks do project onto others and create them "as" whatever it is their own case demands.

It takes a strong and sane person to remain free from and not be affected by it.

Too many people, in actuality, sabotage themselves by trying to be "acceptable." They, of course, are in actuality too weak as Beings to maintain own integrity and, as whores, "be acceptable."

It is also true that many folks are simply not aware that they are being "created as" . . . it is simply the usual for them to be molded and pushed about like a ping-pong ball.

Rog

Yes, Rog...this is a brilliant and remarkable post.:yes::yes::yes:

Thank you, Hats…this one is brewin’ in me rumen.:coolwink:

Face:)
 

Leon

Gold Meritorious Patron
I'm not going to wade into the discusion of Lakey's troubles on the 2-D. But I want to comment a tad on that thing of a person's body being his entire case. The statement is true but needs to be understood in context. It certainly has nothing to do with one's physical beauty or lack thereof.

From the start of this universe all the way down there is one common thread to everything a thetan has done wrong - it is that he continually substituted for himself with a creation of his. Whenever something went wrong he'd say 'it wasn't me, it was . . . '. And that . . . was always used as a substitute for himself. The more he assigned responsibility to it the more he became it. All the way down to today were it takes some major ex[periences to convince a guy that he is really not is body, for the body is the fashionable substitute at present. His body is his case.

As an aside, the most aberrated people I have audited, bar none, were all very beautiful people. Startlingly so. There can be no greater curse than to wish someone a really beautiful body which gets admired and desired by all. This totally pins them to the body with aesthetic bands and makes case gain almost unattainable, since in a very real sense they are continuously mixing practices and so are resistive cases, per definition.

A solution that works is the worst "solution" of all.
 

FoTi

Crusader
Thankyou! Thankyou!

I think possibly that if you could locate the main second dynamic engram a person was motivating from or trying to prevent from ever happening again you could bring some sanity back to many. Kind of Power Processes for the 2nd Dynamic. :wink2:

Face is right in saying women are recovering from centuries of oppression. That is more of a 'cult of women' engram. Something recorded in the group mind of the akasha belonging to the female identity. :p Not everyone wears this like a coat, obviously. :unsure:



Well said facey. :)

Perhaps one of my motivations for getting involved with Scientology was that I had been severely overwhelmed in life and any effort to fight back would've resulted in certain harm. I was sitting in powerlessness. This emotional wound is probably something I brought along with me into this life and into the family I was born into. My father was Calabraise and brought the tradition of invalidating and subjugating women with him when he married my mother. I was quickly given to understand that everything took second or third place to the 'flashing lights'. I was fast to adopt an attitude of extreme prejudice against that 'way' of being in the world. To hell with the future, to hell with the offspring. Validation of oneself was never so sweet as when gotten thru sex. I observed it being used as a JUSTIFICATION by mom :duh:

I had noticed this extreme hurt in a lot of young women who had turned to same sex partners. I never regarded this as a hormonal situation where they really were 'gay'. I thought they were just deeply deeply psychically wounded. As if observing what had been sacrificed to the 2D was so over the top that there was a decision not to grant it any credence any more. It wasn't until later in life that I realized I was wrong about this reality. I am straight. :p My point is these areas of empowerment and disempowerment stick to our ridges like glue. Super Glue. They leave service facsimiles often never inspected.

The bigger the ego the more empowerment issues are motivators. :yes: And I have had to ask myself "Do Motivators in and of themselves carry an urge to be dramatized?" Well, silly question...or is it? But who hasn't seen individuals carrying around 'energy packages' that have to do with these encapsulated hurts and valences on the 2D...looking for opportunities to replay themselves..

It takes CHARACTER to not take advantage of opportunities presented in a vulnerable/inviting human being to experience your own power. I believe we are naturally inclined to spot fertile ground on which to act out our pet dramas to a point of evanescence within ourselves. We want to neutralize our angst in a completed cycle of action and an acknowledgment. :clap:
The second dynamic has so much insanity. It is a feast of role playing. It is not always rational. We all have our love map. Women will continually think a certain type is her man, and men will have a certain imprinted 'love type' they follow consciously or not. :yes:

I know in my life I have often allowed myself to be scripted to any way the dominant male wanted to create me as being. Now I am super sensitive to what beingness is being projected on me via their filters. There is such a wild wild diversity of what attributes men will choose to endow a woman with. Total arbitraries. Phenomenally diverse, and saying much about where they are. This is where you find out about one's character. What role we will pigeonhole another in so as to 'have' some idea or other about ourselves. All arbitraries. :thumbsup:
To make something of someone or nothing of someone is a choice.
My two cents to include in this brief lonely hearts club section of our thread. :p

Interesting post. Please post more on this if you have more.
 

Hatshepsut

Crusader
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As an aside, the most aberrated people I have audited, bar none, were all very beautiful people. Startlingly so. There can be no greater curse than to wish someone a really beautiful body which gets admired and desired by all. This totally pins them to the body with aesthetic bands and makes case gain almost unattainable, since in a very real sense they are continuously mixing practices and so are resistive cases, per definition.

A solution that works is the worst "solution" of all.

Well then, I guess all of us old geezers are safe. :D
 

FoTi

Crusader
I'm not going to wade into the discusion of Lakey's troubles on the 2-D. But I want to comment a tad on that thing of a person's body being his entire case. The statement is true but needs to be understood in context. It certainly has nothing to do with one's physical beauty or lack thereof.

From the start of this universe all the way down there is one common thread to everything a thetan has done wrong - it is that he continually substituted for himself with a creation of his. Whenever something went wrong he'd say 'it wasn't me, it was . . . '. And that . . . was always used as a substitute for himself. The more he assigned responsibility to it the more he became it. All the way down to today were it takes some major ex[periences to convince a guy that he is really not is body, for the body is the fashionable substitute at present. His body is his case.

As an aside, the most aberrated people I have audited, bar none, were all very beautiful people. Startlingly so. There can be no greater curse than to wish someone a really beautiful body which gets admired and desired by all. This totally pins them to the body with aesthetic bands and makes case gain almost unattainable, since in a very real sense they are continuously mixing practices and so are resistive cases, per definition.

A solution that works is the worst "solution" of all.

This post is really confusing to me. could you please explain more?
 

Hatshepsut

Crusader
CBS News with a report on the upcoming release of Mark Twain's Autobiography.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/17/sunday/main6966458.shtml

Of particular interest is the included excerpt from March 30, 1906.


The more things change, the more they remain the same.


Mark A. Baker

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...Schnazzy dresser


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...At home with friends in Stormfield Connecticut.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
 

purple haze

Patron with Honors
"I have to give the best possible advice I can give. "

Not that you asked.....but......

Oh, boy ! I have dear men friends that are long married to a woman I'd not make it day with. And dear women friends that are long married to men I can't believe they would have ever gone out on a date with. And lord knows many people wonder why my wife could have ever even talked to me way back when.

And, to me, that is how relationships are. And how is that ? Highly unique !
I do know a relationship takes ( and I stole this from where I forgot ) one "no" to cease.

Like most men, I do appreciate physical beauty. And I have long said that physical beauty is 2 % of the whole package while who is home is 98% of the package. And I can tell you some of the women I really really love never won a beauty contest 'back in day' or last week.

My specific little things I like to do? ( and I stole all these from different people and places along the way )

I always feel like my wife has always been better to me than I have to her so I'm always looking for an opportunity to do something to catch up a little.

Her tolerance for a suprise is high, so I like to do things to suprise her - be it fresh flowers, a trip up into the mountains, or a trip away.

I do my best to pay attention to what she likes and do my best to present it to her.

For us Xscn, to me, most aspects of a relationship are like accessing a list...go to what is reading and handle it.

And on 'hooking up'? Hard to put in words but sometimes a person is not really visible to another person. Doesn't matter what one does to get the attention of the other person it just isn't going to happen. Not a matter of 'like' or 'dislike' as it is a matter of being visible as a being to another where they are. That is my opinion.

On "hooking up", I was chasing her so hard I didn't notice she was chasing me. She was chasing me so hard she didn't notice I was chasing her. Once we paid attention to the obvious -LOL! - we got married. Those watching the "chase" thought it was pretty funny :)

But, hey, I've had so many people say my relationship with my wife ( and hers with me ) is magic because they don't see us doing anything to "work" on it.

And as another poster so beautifully said in words to the effect of " In the same room if she is reading a book and I'm on my 'puter, we are making love".

But I surely wouldn't want to even begin to tell someone else what they "ought" to do to find, begin, or maintain any relationship.

If people ask I do suggest they spend as much time planning their relationship as they do the wedding, ( Stole that, too.)

all beautifully said :clap:
 

lkwdblds

Crusader
I like this post!

My two cents? You reach too much.

You want her intensely. She withdraws. You are no game.

He does not NEED her. He has lots of options. He'll accept her if she reaches for HIM, but he does not need to make an effort to reach for her. His withdrawal creates a game for her which is exciting. He is the Alpha male, somebody whose capture by her would give her status among her friends.

Observe closely and tell me if I'm making a correct evaluation.

This post was sort of what I was looking for. I believe that what you said is correct. Of course, I am not an idiot, I have already thought of this. I have tried to mock up ways to withdraw or back off on intensity but probably the intensity comes through.

My ex wife's new boyfriend started dating her when she was deeply committed to another man. He hung in there for months as her dance partner once a week for Salsa lessons. She would not even hold hands with him or kiss him good night. The Dance Club they frequented was having a big bash one week and ex wife had casually mentioned that she saw a dance outfit in the newspaper that she would love to have. A few days later a big box arrived from UPS. It contained that dance outfit and other dancing paraphanalia worth about $500. These were very expensive garments from Nordstrom's. She was thrilled beyond belief. the following two weeks huge bouquets of flower arrived 3 times each week. The house was full of roses, orchids, huge boquets of flowers. That week she broke off with the other boyfriend and started dating the Salsa dancing guy regularly with full benefits.

That guy reached and he reached hard. The clothing gifts and the flowers got him an exclusive 2D with my ex wife. He was in a hole and looked like he did not have a chance and a few weeks later, the other guy was history.

From this, I see that reaching hard does not always lead to "no game" and rejection, rather if the reach is done artfully, it can be a winning tactic.

Today, my phone was ringing off the hook with attractive women. From about 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM, I received the following - 1 email and 4 phone calls from Edey, 2 emails and 3 phone calls from Lorinda and 1 email and about 3 calls from Purple Haze. I was setting up a lunch date with Lorinda and after that we spent the whole day together, just talking at her house and me giving her a back, neck and head massage and then going to some kind of evening class.

Edey kept calling and calling and everytime, I would tell her, "can I call you right back, I am on the phone with Candy or Lorinda." When I called Edey back, then suddenly Candy would call in or a male workman would call in. Edey would say, take your call and call me back. She must have called me 6 times during the afternoon and left 6 voice mails. This was the biggest withdrawal I have ever done on any woman in my life and it was no act, all these calls were actually continuosly coming in.

ON THE LRH DATUM - "YOUR BODY IS YOUR CASE" Very few on this thread take LRH at face value anymore. This sentence doesn't mean a lot to me. Let's say one's body is beautiful, does that mean their case is lighter or is having a beautiful body a curse as one poster suggested and a beautiful body means a heavier case.

That statement is so obviously flawed and at odds with the truth that it is ridiculous. If LRH felt that way, why did he write bulletins on vitamins and nurtrition, bulletins such as "PEP". Why did he bring out the purif? The purif proves conclusively that your body is not your case. By sweating out toxins, it is stated that the body becomes purified and the person gets case gain and is set up better for future levels. Obviously, its the toxins inside the body which contribute to case. In the condition we are in on this planet, the body is a very useful instrument which beings use. One needs to have a body to study processing tech, to administer the tech and to receive it. The body is a pretty amazing technical achievement and it deserves to be treated with some respect and to be cared for.

Do you want to end up like LRH with a disease ridden body, whose mind was in dementia while his teeth were rotten, his hair stringy and unkempt and his fingernails long and unkempt. Meanwhile, his organs were toxic and his body contained doses of medicinal drugs. Certainly, it is folly to cite LRH as an authority for anything whatsoever to do with the human body. He was in treason to his own body throughout his entire life. Did he achieve great case gain because he totally neglected his body? If he did, then at least one could justify citing him as an authority. Quite the contrary, his case was in terrible shape at the time of his death. He went out on the bottom of the tone scale and not the top. Left to his own devices, LRH kept messing up his case. Otto Roos tried to clean him up with a team of Class XII's and was declared an SP for his efforts.

Later on, LRH messed up his case so badly, while only 66 years old that he was about to die. David Mayo came in and was able to save his life and Mayo's reward was to be declared suppressive. Then there was no one left who could help LRH and he went downhill rapidly and died in a very poor state both as to body and case. To use LRH as a reference on body issues is just plain silly!
Lakey
 
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Hatshepsut

Crusader
Interesting post. Please post more on this if you have more.
I'm spent. I just wanted to skate around the idea that sometimes BPC seems almost to be imbued with a life of its own. (anima ferocima) :p It's as if some folks 'emit' bodies of thought intended for encapsulating another towards the purpose of being one role so they can be the respective one. ( uh, like witchcraft) We sometimes need to grind our axe against something to polish out all the corrosion. Others don't always accomodate with an invitation for themselves to be the stone so you can smooth out your issues to a flat point. But sometimes they do :p

For instances....

I had a boyfriend who was volatile when he was drunk. No future. I needed to just run him off. However I did not want to be the loser who was going to be solo again. My postulate for his future was that everyone see how obvious it was that he messed up. An old girlfriend of his who was much older and wanted to take him appeared. She woulda put him back on the winning side of the ledger. I Q and A'd until she was gone. Then I let him go.

Many people getting a divorce are petrified that the other is going to flourish and prosper like never before once the clinging albatross is off the neck. Some engineer things with quite some strong intention... projecting their goals for each another's future malaise on the time track. When love goes wrong.... :grouch:

Its the theory of relativity.

Amongst sisters who hasn't postulated that the other's husband would not end up being the only 'hero' around.
Or that the younger sister would not marry first.

That the old girlfriend who dumped you would be depressed and overweight with tons of kids by the 10th class reuinion.
These are like evil envisionments on the second dynamic that get anchored by anger and loss. Relationships can be treacherous ground. The more intimate they are the more suseptible to the 'spells' or curses the other wishes on you.:omg:
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OK...now I'm spent. (Of course I jest.) So don't take me seriously. :spitcoffee:
(I know the majority of us are on very good terms with all of our exes... Seriously )
 
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Ted

Gold Meritorious Patron
The Dalai Lama Says...

Dalai Lama: "There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion."
 

Enthetan

Master of Disaster
As an aside, the most aberrated people I have audited, bar none, were all very beautiful people. Startlingly so. There can be no greater curse than to wish someone a really beautiful body which gets admired and desired by all. This totally pins them to the body with aesthetic bands and makes case gain almost unattainable, since in a very real sense they are continuously mixing practices and so are resistive cases, per definition.

The tragedy of beautiful women is that physical beauty does not last. They go through their teens and twenties with every guy desiring them, wanting to talk to them, and enjoying being in their space. Then they get into middle-age, the attractiveness starts to fade, they gain a few pounds, and get very depressed.
 

Enthetan

Master of Disaster
This post was sort of what I was looking for. I believe that what you said is correct. Of course, I am not an idiot, I have already thought of this. I have tried to mock up ways to withdraw or back off on intensity but probably the intensity comes through.

My ex wife's new boyfriend started dating her when she was deeply committed to another man. He hung in there for months as her dance partner once a week for Salsa lessons. She would not even hold hands with him or kiss him good night. The Dance Club they frequented was having a big bash one week and ex wife had casually mentioned that she saw a dance outfit in the newspaper that she would love to have. A few days later a big box arrived from UPS. It contained that dance outfit and other dancing paraphanalia worth about $500. These were very expensive garments from Nordstrom's. She was thrilled beyond belief. the following two weeks huge bouquets of flower arrived 3 times each week. The house was full of roses, orchids, huge boquets of flowers. That week she broke off with the other boyfriend and started dating the Salsa dancing guy regularly with full benefits.

That guy reached and he reached hard. The clothing gifts and the flowers got him an exclusive 2D with my ex wife. He was in a hole and looked like he did not have a chance and a few weeks later, the other guy was history.

From this, I see that reaching hard does not always lead to "no game" and rejection, rather if the reach is done artfully, it can be a winning tactic.

There's a perhaps-subtle distinction between "I WANT you" and "I NEED you". The salsa guy very strongly and unambiguously communicated interest and desire, without coming across as needy.

Today, my phone was ringing off the hook with attractive women. From about 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM, I received the following - 1 email and 4 phone calls from Edey, 2 emails and 3 phone calls from Lorinda and 1 email and about 3 calls from Purple Haze. I was setting up a lunch date with Lorinda and after that we spent the whole day together, just talking at her house and then going to some kind of evening class.

Edey kept calling and calling and everytime, I would tell her, "can I call you right back, I am on the phone with Candy or Lorinda." When I called Edey back, then suddenly Candy would call in or a male workman would call in. Edey would say, take your call and call me back. She must have called me 6 times during the afternoon and left 6 voice mails. This was the biggest withdrawal I have ever done on any woman in my life and it was no act, all these calls were actually continuosly coming in.

This was a perfect withdrawal, even if inadvertent. What was communicated was not "I'm not interested in you", but "I have all these other women interested in communicating with me that I can't cope, please understand".

Check your PM in a minute.
 

purple haze

Patron with Honors
Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama: "There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion."
A friend just gave me this book and I'm enjoying it. Love the quote you chose.:yes:
 

lkwdblds

Crusader
More incite from Hats!

I'm spent. I just wanted to skate around the idea that sometimes BPC seems almost to be imbued with a life of its own. (anima ferocima) :p It's as if some folks 'emit' bodies of thought intended for encapsulating another towards the purpose of being one role so they can be the respective one. ( uh, like witchcraft) We sometimes need to grind our axe against something to polish out all the corrosion. Others don't always accomodate with an invitation for themselves to be the stone so you can smooth out your issues to a flat point. But sometimes they do :p

I like your first sentence, I can relate to that phenomena. It is an original look at what as going on. That's you Hats, capable of speculating on something going on that is not necessarily already written up by LRH, AW or others!

For instances....

I had a boyfriend who was volatile when he was drunk. No future. I needed to just run him off. However I did not want to be the loser who was going to be solo again. My postulate for his future was that everyone see how obvious it was that he messed up. An old girlfriend of his who was much older and wanted to take him appeared. She woulda put him back on the winning side of the ledger. I Q and A'd until she was gone. Then I let him go.

Many people getting a divorce are petrified that the other is going to flourish and prosper like never before once the clinging albatross is off the neck. Some engineer things with quite some strong intention... projecting their goals for each another's future malaise on the time track. When love goes wrong.... :grouch:

Not me! I still love my ex wife and worked very hard helping her get the best possible new 2D. I knew of all the men she was dating and counciled with her in selecting the best man. I am proud of my performance in that arena!!

Its the theory of relativity. Amongst sisters who hasn't postulated that the other's husband would not end up being the only 'hero' around.Or that the younger sister would not marry first.

That the old girlfriend who dumped you would be depressed and overweight with tons of kids by the 10th class reuinion.
These are like evil envisionments on the second dynamic that get anchored by anger and loss. Relationships can be treacherous ground. The more intimate they are the more suseptible to the 'spells' or curses the other wishes on you.:omg:
imagesCAQSF0NL.jpg
OK...now I'm spent. (Of course I jest.) So don't take me seriously. :spitcoffee:
(I know the majority of us are on very good terms with all of our exes... Seriously )

I love your last sentence, "The more intimate they are the more suseptible to the 'spells' or curses the other wishes on you." In my case my ex wife and I were not intimate once we had our two kids. The many years of non intamacy must have enabled me to not have any wish to curse her but instead to help her - those years might have made it easier for me, but my basic intention is to help people. It is extremely difficult for me to embark on actions intended to harm people. I would do it if someone messed with my children and hurt them but that is about the only instance where I would try and hurt someone.

Hats, as I and others have told you, you have the ability to penetrate various actions going on in people's minds and to formulate fresh new looks at what is going on. This is quite an ability! Perhaps "Intuitive Technical Incite" would be a good name for it. Please continue your use of this ability and may you continue to develop it even further. By the way, your use of the vodoo doll is a riot, just hysterical!
Lakey
 
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lkwdblds

Crusader
Another winner from Enthetan!

There's a perhaps-subtle distinction between "I WANT you" and "I NEED you". The salsa guy very strongly and unambiguously communicated interest and desire, without coming across as needy.

Thank you! This is really very helpful to me!!

This was a perfect withdrawal, even if inadvertent. What was communicated was not "I'm not interested in you", but "I have all these other women interested in communicating with me that I can't cope, please understand".

Check your PM in a minute.

The difference between WANT and NEED was very illuminating to me. That is something major which I can work with.

As my schedule and my phone line kept filling up with women who wanted to communicate with me, Edey seemed to retaliate.

First she asked if she could come to lunch with Lorinda and me and also watch the session which I was going to give Lorinda. I told her I would have to ask Lorinda and did so. Lorinda said that she did not want Edey to watch the session because she wanted my view on things from the session, not colored by Edey's view which she already had. However, she wanted Edey to come to lunch with us. We set it up that the three of us would have lunch together and then we three would also go together to the class in "miracles" which Lorinda was taking me to at 7:30 in Irvine.

When Lorinda and I finished our session, we called Edey to set up lunch and Edey told us that she already had lunch with her close female friend Kadriya. She explained that Kadriya asked her to lunch and she did not know how long our session would last so she accepted Kadriya's invitation.

Lorinda said fine and then we agreed that Edey would meet us at the Miracles course in Irvine at 7:30. About 6:00, Edey called and said that Kadriya had invited her to some course that evening and that she owed it to Kadriya to go to that class instead of the Miracles class with Lorinda and I.

Here is an interesting thing. Edey asked me to drive over to her house and said that we could squeeze in about a 30 minute visit and then each go to our own Class and make it on time. I decided it was not worth it to drive to her house for only 30 minutes so I turned her down. That was another nice withdrawal done unintentionally by me!! She argued with me that she hadn't seen me all day, and we could get a 30 minute visit in. Now, looking at it, I think she was not feeling that good and was going to get me to give her a 30 minute massage, and possibly blow some entities from her space. Anyway, I insisted that it was not worth driving to her house for only a 30 minute visit.

Meanwhile, I was spending the whole evening with one of her best friends. I did not intend it that way, but that really was a beautiful withdrawal that flowed naturally and must have made me appear strong in her eyes. The fact that she fought back and withdrew from both me and Lorinda is also interesting if that is really what happened.

She fought back by withdrawing from our lunch date and evening class which she had agreed to and then tried to affirm her mastery over me by insisting I drive from Lorinda's house to her house, about a 10 minute drive and then spend only 30 minutes with her - just time enough for a short massage and session. I did not allow myself to be manipulated. Boy, talk about being needy, had I taken the bait and driven over to see her, I think my esteem with her would have really sunk. The way things went down, my esteem in her eyes had to increase.

A SMALL GAME, BUT IS IT REALLY - This is a game, a relatively small game on the macro level, just my life and my 2D and the case I have in the area. I am pursuing it for several reasons. I guess number one is that I am hoping to receive tips such as those given by Enthetan, Candy and a couple of others, which can help me. Also, this 2D type of stuff generates a lot of views and a lot of interesting replies. Tempers even heat up once in a while and after all, I AM THE FOUNDER OF THIS THREAD AND THIS IS HOW I STARTED BUILDING IT UP IN THE FIRST PLACE - AIRING MY OWN DIRTY LAUNDRY IN A PUBLIC FORUM. IT ALWAYS GENERATES SPIRITED DEBATE AND LEADS TO VERY INTERESTING POSTING. SINCE I DON'T HAVE THE TECHNICAL BACKGROUND TO MATCH WITS WITH OUR TOP POSTER IN TECH (THANKS AGAIN DON KEELER) I HAVE TO RESORT TO SHTICK, MAKING MYSELF LOOK STUPID AND AIRING MY DIRTY LAUNDRY BEFORE THE PUBLIC. Go Figure!

Thanks again Enthetan for your positive effort to give me tech tips to assist me in this.
 
from today's Wall Street Journal

Kiva Expands Microlending Reach to U.S. Businesses

By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN

Kiva, a nonprofit known for helping foreign entrepreneurs receive microloans, is working to broaden its reach to struggling small businesses along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Earlier this week, the San Francisco-based group signed a partnership with Accion Texas-Louisiana, a microfinancing organization that provides loans to start-ups and existing businesses in Texas and Louisiana. It's the third such institution in the U.S. that Kiva has partnered with in the past year.

"Awareness of microfinance is really low here," says Premal Shah, president of Kiva. The organization's website features a directory of 400,000 entrepreneurs around the world seeking microloans, of which less than 1% are based in the U.S.

Microloans are small loans generally available for businesses that don't qualify for traditional loans or other investments. Loan amounts typically fall under $35,000, and as little as hundreds of dollars in some developing nations.

Visitors to Kiva.org can send money through the site to any of the entrepreneurs listed on it. Kiva then passes that money onto its microfinancing partners who work directly with those entrepreneurs. Loans to U.S. businesses average $7,000, include a low interest rate, and are valid for about 10 months, says Mr. Shah.
[SBmicro] Lance Cheung

Bernard McGraw turned to microfinance for his restaurant, Bernard's Creole Kitchen.

Bernard McGraw received a $4,000 microloan from Accion Texas-Louisiana earlier this month for his San Antonio, Texas, restaurant, Bernard's Creole Kitchen, which he launched in 2006. The eatery had outgrown its original location, and though Mr. McGraw found an affordable alternative, he didn't have enough money to hire employees and buy the equipment he needed to succeed in it, such as an industrial-size refrigerator.

Mr. McGraw says his bank refused to loan him the money he needed, suggesting he seek out microfunding instead. When he contacted Accion, he says a representative for the organization and another for Kiva walked him through the application process, which took about two hours to complete. When he received word that he was approved just a few days later, "I was floored," says Mr. McGraw. "I was not expecting that at all."

Kiva, which recently received a million-dollar grant from Visa Inc., has helped entrepreneurs around the globe obtain more than $150 million in microloans since its inception in 2005. It's one of several so-called "crowdfunding" sites that have cropped up in recent years to help entrepreneurs raise money, including KickStarter and IndieGoGo.

Write to Sarah E. Needleman at [email protected]
 
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