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I have too many interests

! Want, Need, Must Have !, *! The Sanctuary !*, Aikido, Ask Roargathor, [moderator]

Authentic and Honest Relationships, Beautiful Nice Person, Buddhism, Conscious Relating, Critter Lovers, Ethics and Morals, Feminists Who Don't Hate Men, Firefly, Geekgirls, [moderator]

Geeks? You thar?, Hopeless Romantics, Hot Geeks, How to date women, I Just Think It's Neat, Intellectual Barbarians, Intentional Community, Philosophy of Science, Separation of church and state, The Pie Extremist Group P.E.G., Things Overheard, [moderator]

Training Buddies, Tribe Moderators,

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Another very patient dog.

Favorite Onion Articles

Testify!

Blarrgh

February 5, 2009

I know she isn't a troll. For one they're not that short. ;)

Mark

January 12, 2008

An incredible person whom I love very much.

Paula is incredibly smart, funny, quick witted and caring person. Saying I'm happy to have met her is a gross understatement. She illuminates the lives of everyone around her.

She's truly a very special person.

Unsu...

November 15, 2007

HAGEN DAS!

TWO OF THEM!

Timb...

May 18, 2007

Paula is an amazing person. When I interact with her I find that I often learn something new, often about myself, often about other people, and typically about what community and openmindedness are about. She has a strong sense of what is right and wrong and I sense that she will stand her ground to make a point--just no puppy-eyes please! At the same time Paula seeks community with a very open mind, with a fortitude to take on issues that some may shy away from with an eye to resolving disputes. I'd consider picking her in first rounds if I were trying to put together a team.

RedTux

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April 4, 2007

I know I've written one before for Paula, but I feel she deserves another, unprompted and out of the blue.

Paula is a rare person. She endeavors with all she is to be a true friend, someone who is there to listen and offer advise or an opinion as needed. I have leaned on her in the past as I'm sure she has leaned on me, that is the mark of a true friend. Lately after going through some of my own crap, some of it my own doing, I have come to truely appreciate the time and effort she takes to listen to someone and care about how they are doing, even when it may frustrate her.

Anyone who can consider Paula as their friend is truly honored.

June 5, 2006

This is the new title of Paula's "what I've been talking about on Tribe" type module:

Blah Blah [big word] Blah [insight] blah

Can I just say, Paula, that I love you <lol>? The addition of "[insight]" is golden. Know thyself, hell...*spoof* thyself. You rock : ).

Thanks for being my BFF.

Unsu...

March 24, 2006

Truly a kind, good person, except for her incessant need to torture young children. We try to look past that little foible.

Kidding aside, Paula is somebody worth knowing. She seems to be infinitely giving to her friends but can receive just as well. She has always offered me help if I tell her I'm struggling. This is from somebody I haven't known that long too.

Oh yeah, she's smart and fun to talk to as well. That's always a good thing. Yay!

Remy

January 14, 2006

Paulapalooza!
She of the geeky people.
Fear her wrath, minions!

She has her own cult.
It's not the Kool-Aid kind, though.
We all eat bacon.

I respect her path.
She's strong emotionally
As well as in flesh.

Not a trendy gal.
She knows what she wants from life
And works to get it.

Laughs loudly and long.
Puts her cards on the table.
Also writes haiku.

Who else do you know
Who can write an ad like that?
I am not that brave.

RedTux

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November 5, 2005

The Paula is a very interesting and multi-faceted person. At first you think you have a concept of what she's like, but then you see another aspect of her and are intregued further. Her grasp of information is beyond amazing and lends to many a facinating and interesting conversation. At her core she is a caring and open person to those who are deserving of it. A truely amazing person to be in the presence of.

October 16, 2005

You know, Paula is so cool...you people should start making with the testimonial action here. I mean, hell-O, she has her own Cult...what, are the members too full of Koolaid to come out of the Tribe and glorify her name here?

Today, I had a horrible, terrible, awful, really crappy day. Paula just drove all the way over here to bring me lemon bars, and brownies, and pecan thingies, and Doctor McCoy and Spock, too, since I totally needed the Logical/Medical combo plate of mojo to go with all of the sugar. How many people would think to do all of that?

Paula rocks.

July 24, 2005

Love, love, *love* this woman. I've never been so like and so unlike someone in my whole life, and even with the push-me-pull-you bits, knowing her for the past 9-ish years has been one of the most amazing, enlightening, profound, and just downright fun experiences I have ever had. Paula can be scrappy, she can fix a motorcycle, she can play some mean pool, and she looks damned good in one of those generic white tank tops with the politically incorrect colloquial nickname. She can also pick the perfect glassware for an afternoon luncheon, find the one exquisite peach in an entire bushel, and can tie up a gloriously intricate gift with absolutely no tape (do you know how hard that is?!!). It's useless to attempt to distill such a long friendship into a paragraph, but I will say that I am always stoked that Paula is my RL pal, because spending time with her has been such a gift to me. She's the coolest...well, besides me, but this isn't about me ;).

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Quotage: Clinging and Emptyness

"Emptyness is not something sacred in which to believe. It is an emptying: a letting go of the fixations and compulsions that lock one into a tight cell of self that seems to exist in detached isolation from the turbulent flux of life. This emptying leads to a falling away of constrictive and obstructive habits of mind that - as in removing a barrier across a river - allows the dammed up torrent of life to flow freely.

Letting go, even momentarily and unintentionally, of that desperate and obsessive grip on self does not obliterate you but opens you up to a fleeting and highly contingent world that you share with other anxious creatures like yourself. This can be frightening; for the only certainty in such a world is that at some point you will die. You realize that your self is not a fixed thing or personal essence but a tentative and confused story hastening toward its conclusion. This might prompt you to scurry back to the familiar perceptions, beliefs, and routines in which you feel secure. But once the process of emptying has started, to cling to such consolations will hinder you from feeling fully alive. To become empty...is to encounter the raw, unfiltered contingency of life itself. The challenge of emptiness is to plunge into life's torrent rather than hover uncertainly on its brink. "

Thinkety think think

Thoughts that give me pause.

Still working on all of these, but as I have thoughts about them, I'll elaborate.

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1]Hegelian dialectic = thesis-antithesis-synthesis

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2] This above all to thine own self be true, ~=> And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. [Most people only know the first part.]

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3] Romans 14:13-14 [I'm not christian, but it causes one to ponder the judgement & hinderence that goes in the name of christianity, yet the bible says not to judge or hinder.]

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4]The truth about suffering is that it exists. Life is suffering. Birth, aging and dying is suffering. Our reaching into the world of dreams, our desire to fulfill what cannot be fulfilled is what brings us our suffering. Only when we have broken the mirrors of illusion can we end our suffering.

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5]"Harmony is Dynamic"

6] I am the nail.
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7] Life is contingent.

8] You can opress and deprive a people to a great degree, even persecute and starve them to death, but the moment you take away what they believe is their 'god-given' right, even the most meek will rise up and turn against the most powerful. They will turn the world on its ear and overwhelm even the most established of institutions.

9] Ghandi's 7 things will destroy the world: Wealth Without Struggle, Pleasure Without Conscience,Knowledge Without Character, Commerce (Business) Without Morality (Ethics), Science Without Humanity, Religion Without Sacrifice Politics Without Principle.

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10] Take_the_Middle_Road

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11] Masakatsu Agatsu: The Greatest Victory is Self Mastery.

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12] Irimi : Awase

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"luctor et emergo"

Memories

Like Kitten, Sometimes I Can't Give Up

Logophilia

I love words, I find them to be fantastic ways of understanding culture and history, but it's also just fun to discover esoterica. For example; did you know that Catholic originally meant 'liberal' or 'Universal'?[^1] Or that man is simply a root of person and that in Old English one was either a waepmann (male) or weifmann (female)?[^2] The origin is associated with a Sanskrit word of Manu which is also associated with the Indo-European word Mind.

Some other fun and obscure words are :

Cacophemism ~The substitution of a mild expression with a harsher one; opposite of "euphemism"

~also a Cacophonophilist is a person who loves harsh sounds. A Maledicent is given to evil speaking. Of an utterance: slanderous.

Colposinquanonia ~ The assessment of a woman's attractiveness based on her bust.

Dactylonomy ~ Calculating mathematical values using one's fingers.

Dystmesis ~ inserting a word in the middle of another in an unlikely or unexpected place; a form of tmesis. "Unbe-freaking- lievable."

Enclitic ~ A word or syllable which is joined with the preceding word in such a way as to lose its own independent accent. "Prithee," which is a shortening of "pray thee," and "em" in, "Get'em!".

Floccinaucinihilipilification ~ The categorization of something that is useless or trivial.

Gesticulation ~ To indicate or express with gestures.

Gargalesthesia ~ The perception or judgment of tickling.

Glossolalia ~ Fabricated, non-meaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or some schizophrenic syndromes.

Hamartiology ~ The doctrine of sin; that part of theology which treats sin.

Homophone ~ A word which has the same pronunciation as another but different meaning, derivation, or spelling. differs from homonym

Lethologica ~ The inability to remember a particular word; as it might be on the tip of one's proverbial tongue.

Malapropism ~ The ludicrous misuse of a word or words, especially in mistaking a word for another resembling it.

Misandry ~ Hatred of males.

Mondegreen ~ A misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing, especially of the lyrics to a song. The origin is from the ballad of the 'Bonny Earl of Murray' in which the phrase 'Laid him on the green' is warped into Lady Mondegreen.

Mumpsimus ~ A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.

Quidnunc ~ An inquisitive person; a gossip; a newsmonger.

Parrhesia ~ Frankness or freedom of speech.

Perpilocutionist ~ One who expounds on a subject of which he has little knowledge.

I'm sure this page will be updated. Check back and I'll ad more words.

[^1]Oxford English Dict (online)

3. In current use: a. Of universal human interest or use; touching the needs, interests, or sympathies of all men.
a1631 DONNE Serm. lxvi. (1640) So are there some..Catholique, universal Psalmes, that apply themselves to all necessities. 1704 SWIFT Mech. Operat. Spirit (1711) 279 All my Writings..for universal Nature, and Mankind in general. And of such Catholick Use I esteem this present Disquisition. 1838-9 HALLAM Hist. Lit. III. v. §4 Catholic poetry, by which I mean that which is good in all ages and countries. 1844 EMERSON Lect. New Eng. Ref. Wks. (Bohn) I. 264 A grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object. 1867 FROUDE Short Stud. 363 What was of catholic rather than national interest.

b. Having sympathies with, or embracing, all: said of men, their feelings, tastes, etc.; also fig. of things. (Closely connected with 8.)
1586 BRIGHT Melanch. iv. 16 The stomach becommeth the most Catholicke part in all the bodie, carying a more indifferent affection to what soever is receiued then anie part beside. 1817 COLERIDGE Biog. Lit. I. iv. 73 Others more catholic in their taste. 1620 J. PARKINSON Paradisus xxvi. 215 Such as are Catholicke obseruers of all natures store. 1833 LAMB Elia, Books & Read., I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. 1851 CARLYLE Sterling I. iv. (1872) 31 Of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic). 1878 STEVENSON Inland Voy., On these different manifestations, the sun poured its clear and catholic looks. 1879 TOURGEE Fool's Err. xxxviii. 271 A man of unusually broad and catholic feeling.

[^2]Oxford English Dict (online)

In Old English the words distinctive of sex were wer WERE n.1 and w f WIFE n., w pmann WAPMAN n. and w fmann WOMAN n.; both the masculine terms became obs. by the end of the 13th cent., leaving English with no means of distinguishing the two major senses. The genderless uses of man to mean ‘human being’ or ‘person’ are now often objected to on the grounds that they depreciate women, and are freq. replaced by human, human being, or person.

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