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  1. Luna Bliss
    Not the way I does it! \o/ Yes I wouldn't figure a down-to-earth woman such as yourself would do such a thing. And that's quite possibly a good thing.
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    I need to postpone the class due to take place tomorrow the 11th. But join the group and let me know how you're doing with the first exercise -- send a note card inworld and I'll get back to you. secondlife:///app/group/b2042ca9-9b1d-ff97-f2b0-a27fecae87b3/about I'll post the first meeting in this spot asap.
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    Sorry about that. It's likely to be a long wait. It would be fun to attempt to change that, and I bet I could. PET PEEVE: New rules here and we must behave.
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    One thing to take into consideration is that some people experience pain when they know they have hurt others. Being mean to others, is detrimental to their own mental health as they will experience pain themselves. Yes, IFnjptiqu whatever we are...never more true for those types..
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    I think the problem maybe, Rolig (for me), is that I don't really trust people until I see how they react when they're angry. I can't see that with you too well, so I feel distrustful. Pet Peeve: My upbringing still haunts me.
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    I like Jung's way of describing this....our "shadow self".
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    I do believe that. We deceive ourselves into not accepting we have this part of ourselves. We'd need to define "evil" a bit more though. But the problem of 'denial' is great in humans -- this has been proven over and over scientifically. I can be aware of this without expecting there are monsters around every corner however -- there's just humans who have trouble accepting a painful reality. PET PEEVE: People need to be more introspective.
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    That is interesting. I am reminded of a woman I knew in school who once told me that "everyone has evil inside. I can't trust anyone who hides her evil side." That seemed to me like a sad, stressful way to go through life. My own version of self-delusion is to assume that people are good and honest unless they give me reason to suspect the opposite. I've known plenty of people who really are nasty and a few who are downright evil. On balance, though, they are the exceptions. I sleep better at night not worrying that there are monsters under the bed. Hmmm you seem to have made some bizarre assumptions from my post. I said: "I more distrust people I see very little bile from ever". EVER being the crucial word here. This doesn't mean I think everybody is a monster....rather, if I don't see any type of negativity or meanness it can mean they're trying to please everyone, and also perhaps afraid of confrontation. And so they are presenting a kind of false face. Not always, but I suspect that is the case. I'm not offended by the "bile" (unless it goes too far, which would be subjective I'm sure) -- I more think many would express a bit more of it if we didn't fear others would hate us. (not talking about griefer types, obviously, whose main purpose for being seems to be to express bile and offend others).
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    Shared experience is LL's idea, not mine. It's not my fault they're inconsistent. Shared experience requires compromise. Reality is never black & white.
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    With some types of humor, an actual part of the joke is to make people wonder, inititally, whether the joke teller is being serious or making a joke. This creates an element of surprise, which is a major component of humor. Pet Peeve: Humor is fun, but can be the source of troubles in communication.
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    Interesting how different we are. I more distrust people I see very little bile from ever...I tend to think they're hiding something. Pet Peeve: How humans have a penchant for disguising themselves.
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    So true. I think it helps if you know the person and notice they tend to be lighthearted frequently, joke quite a bit, and then suspect they might be using hyperbole.
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    lolol there was this woman in a group the other day, shining so bright, I thought at first an angel was descending from on high..
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    Your idea of shared experience is only taking into account the individual though, when 'shared experience' also needs to take into account the needs of the community. In other words, my belief is that home ownership has many rights, yes, but they should not supersede all rights in a shared space (an expanse of land where visual appeal for all members needs to be considered).
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    To be fair, some people who don't read nuance, sarcasm or jokes well may be on the autism scale. When my housemate was irritated by our landlady expecting her to go to her bank to get money to pay the gardener, she asked for PopTarts to compensate her for her trouble. Our landlady is high-functioning autistic, and actually did bring her a box of PopTarts. My housemate thought that was cute. I can be fair and explain what's happening to those who are taking something literally, as I have many times on this forum and in 1st life (I had a job working with autistic individuals). However, those who have a penchant for taking everything literally also cause a big pet peeve for me sometimes -- especially when they become argumentative and insist the other person was wrong in how they expressed themselves.
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    The problem with hyperbole and sarcasm is that there are very fuzzy lines between them and insulting, derogatory language. The lines are complicated by cultural norms (are New Yorkers and Dutch speakers really rude or are they just more comfortable with "sassy" or "snappy" language?) but they vary even more from one person to the next. A quick zinger may just be playful banter to one person but can be hurtful to others. Here in the forums, there are some posts that I not only avoid responding to but don't even bother reading any more. That's sad in a way, because I can tell that some of them are written by smart people with valid opinions. I just can't get past their hyperbole and their nasty tone, and I refuse to be drawn into it myself. One shouldn't just forgo playfulness and be a boring poster tho! That would be a pet peeve of mine...
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    They don't get hyperbole or sarcasm either, even when speaking with them face to face. I had one coworker who didn't get that I was exaggerating when complaining that a supervisor said we weren't supposed to add bathroom break time onto our regular breaks. I was doing a process that required extensive gowning, so I couldn't easily take a bathroom break in the middle of my work. I told my coworker, "I guess I'll have to just pee on the floor then." He acted horrified, like he thought I meant that seriously. Peeve: People who take all statements literally. Oh that is such a peeve of mine!! I think some are on a mission to take all the fun out of life (I really don't believe that, that was hyperbolic humor ♥)
  19. Luna Bliss
    I want a new sub-fora named "I was searching for God in 2nd life but sidetracked to YOuTube"
  20. Luna Bliss
    I'm another one, SweetMusk, who has a VR headset and plays VR games, and I also like SL, but I do not play VRChat (in fact, I despise that place).
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    A GARDEN BEGINS IN LOVE Likely everyone in this class loves nature and this is the reason why an interest in nature art manifested in 2nd life. My love of nature began in the grass-covered plains of the central part of the USA where I played in the empty wheat fields across from my childhood home. Fields of wheat grass stretched on forever, perfect for making little forts by stomping down appropriate areas to carve out our 'homes' (likely not appreciated by the farmers who worked the fields). Standing in the hot summer sun and looking across the grass waving gracefully in the breeze, in the distance the sky was ever-changing with colorful cloud formations, and even tornadoes on a stormy day, and just like in the photo below there were trees to the side of the field with a creek running through the area, complete with little gulches formed by the rain waters running through. I don't know why, but these gulches, the varying heights in terrain, especially fascinated me. Perhaps it was getting a direct glimpse of the very essence of it all, the ground from which all this beauty sprang. Interestingly, one of the first things I did in 2nd life after owning land was burrow through the terrain for hours, delighting in how the ground could change into different formations of my choosing. Where did you first develop your love of nature? Traveling back in time through the memories in your mind, can you find a place where it all began? A place where pure love and delight reigned as you experienced the world around you? It doesn't have to be the exact first experience, but only an experience where you felt in your bones the beauty of nature. Search on the internet until you find a photo resembling this spot you loved and bring it into 2nd life -- or maybe you already have a beloved photo of a 1st life place you visited and love. Bring your photo into 2nd life and place it on a prim, and then set it in the empty spot where your new garden will be manifesting as the class proceeds. Place a meditation pillow on the 2nd life ground close to your photo and sit on it, taking ten deep breaths as you slowly relax. Play a song on your PC that you especially love and close your eyes as you listen to the song -- feel the beauty of the melody, or the bass notes, or the drums, or how all the elements come together in your chosen song. Once relaxed and feeling good, look closely at your chosen photo and experience how you felt in this lovely environment when you were there in 1st life -- feel the warm sun on your skin, or the coolness from a light breeze, or the stillness if the wind is silent. Let the fragrance of the place come back -- perhaps flower scents? or the aroma of soil after a rain? Do you hear any sounds, such as bird song or insects flying around you? Is there a light breeze tickling your skin or blowing through your hair? Is the sun shining brightly, or filtered through clouds? Is the sunlight lighting up aspects of your environment, making them brighter and more alive? Or do the clouds block much of the light from resting on what surrounds you. This beautiful sensual experience of appreciating the present moment is all there within you as you gaze at your photo sitting in your soon-to-be garden in 2nd life waiting for you to fill it with this love. So at our first meeting we'll be discussing how we initially felt when gazing out at our yet-to-manifest gardens and how we feel differently upon gazing out at that same empty 2nd life space with a strong feeling of love present. Try doing this exercise several times as you gaze at your photo placed in your beginning 2nd life garden, until you feel the love you first knew when discovering the beauty of nature. It's okay if fears about your not-yet-manifested garden in 2nd life drift in and out. Just let those thoughts enter and then float away as you breathe deeply and feel the love embodied in your photo of a beautiful nature spot you know and love. A garden begins in love. Our first meeting will be Friday, August 11th at noon. Please bring your experiences for discussion, having done the above exercise. You can write a poem about it, or describe how you felt in prose, or just come prepared to talk about it. In the future we will be doing some exercises to deepen feelings of love and appreciation, but first I want to see how everyone does with creating/remembering this love on their own from past experience. After we've dealt with this first topic of "A Garden Begins In Love" (it might take several meetings) we'll proceed to the next topic, or perhaps cover it alongside the first one, the next topic being -- "Did you forget how to play"? I'll post the meeting spot soon. Here is the group if you haven't joined: secondlife:///app/group/b2042ca9-9b1d-ff97-f2b0-a27fecae87b3/about I look forward to seeing you there! ♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ One of my favorite nature poets, Mary Oliver, wrote a beautiful poem about a summer day out in nature, a day just like today: The Summer Day By Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?
  24. Luna Bliss
    Personally I have found that people want everything to be free until they try to do it themselves and find out just how difficult it is! And that, is a definite PET PEEVE of mine.
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    Were you around when someone referenced Anne Frank when describing how their freedom was limited (just being rhetorical, feeling oppressed in many ways)? I thought some on the forum were going to eat him alive. Too soon, I guess, to make light of it in any way.
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