After One Week?
Jim’s eyes are bloodshot and he’s whining about Mercury being retrograde, but it looks like he has something to show here…
This is his game’s world (he says it’s just one place in the game) after about a week.
hmmm…. interesting….
—————Rocky T.
I don’t usually ask anybody how they’re feeling lately. Everybody’s so fragile (with pretty good reasons most of the time) that just asking is enough to bumb the best of us out. But, my friend Jim has been ‘messing around’ with the role playing game he’s been wanting to put together forever. and it looks like he’s made a significant breakthrough lately. He showed me what his virtual world might look like in the near future, and I gotta tell you, I’m impressed.
Especially since what he showed me is something he did in one night. (with a tutorial in one hand and his new game cloud server account on two computer monitors.)Most of his landscape is still a checkerboard, and most of the really good stuff came with the package he downloaded, but I’m still impressed.
—–Rocky T.
Jim's "Work in Progress"
Okay, I woke up this evening feeling that something weird was going on somewhere very near.
Pins and needles in my mind and soul.
Now I’m hearing ice holes on CNN talk about the “U.S. budget saving compromise bill” that everybody is hoping will save the world from U.S. budgetary default.
And I’m hearing it in their voices. Nobody is telling the truth about anything. Everybody knows they’re not telling the truth. It’s like the citizens of the U.S. are demanding an explanation for the choice of a colour of paint on a statue and blustering politicians are standing up and crowing about the shape of a preferred paint brush. Does no one understand what’s actually going on there?
John McCain praising Ronald Reagan’s valiant attempt to save the U.S. economy from an enormous deficit does not convince me in the slightest. Ronald Reagan tried to unfund every program the conservative republicans disapproved of, and in so doing created the biggest deficit up to that point in history. The strategy is to create a phony deficit and blame it on what they believe are ‘entitlement’ programmes so they can convince their voters that they have to save the planet by gutting social security, welfare, medicare, medicaid and all the programmes that are designed as a ‘social safety net’ when the conservative republican ideal is ‘to hell with the poor, they exist to give us a force of slaves that we should be able to order around, kick and kill as we see fit’.
What’s happening right now is a bloody obvious attempt to sabotage the U.S. economy and blame it on somebody. That somebody will be whomever the winners in this debacle can point at and claim, “It’s their fault we’re in this hole. They broke the economy.”
No they didn’t. The U.S. economy was gutted by string pulling puppeteers who are plotting to throw the world into continuous chaos for their fun and profit. And everybody else is waiting for the dust to settle.
People dominated by fear are easy to manipulate.
You’re being manipulated.
You have nothing to fear but fear itself.
—Have fun,
—–Rocky T.
Standing on a hill in Vermont, I was thinking that rain storms would gradually erode all the soil, carry it down to fill the valleys.
I was then in an army, standing on sandy desert hills in Asia. Maybe Afghanistan. When I was on guard duty I noticed that sand was sliding into an area near me and disappearing. When I went to check it out, I woke up inside a cave. I was happy to be away from the army and realized they couldn’t find me in the cave because there was always new sand covering the cave’s small opening. I was on a fairly wide ledge (which I guessed had been excavated by someone, but kept filling up with sand and gravel that slid down the mountain at this place and filled in the cave’s opening unless somebody built something to deflect the sand around the cave’s opening.)
Beyond the ledge was a heck of a drop. Down below was a nearly flat area that was covered with odd patterns of sand that had been pushed into sort of dunes, like water had flowed through there. And there were random piles of rounded stones that may have fallen from the walls, and been eroded by rivers that probably came with the monsoon rains or melting snows, I guessed that when the floods came and water flowed into the cave intense currents swirled around and maybe there was an opening somewhere, or a deeper cave or something…
Moving along the ledge I found a stash of clothing. for instance there were quite a few pairs of brand new underwear in perfect condition, several pairs were stuffed with paper money. I got the idea that somebody had been planning to escape into the cave and hide out there, but never made it. Beyond the stash of clothing (which was being covered by sand that kept sliding in through small openings that kept being covered over by the sand slides.) was an area where much of the sand and gravel and fallen rock had built up gradual slope that looked like a safe way down to the cave floor.
Time must have passed. I felt like I had spent years in the cave and an expedition of explorers came. They uncovered boxes and boxes of books and notebooks and tons of notes. I was amazed. They were amazed with me and wondered how I’d survived down there in the dark. But I kept telling them it wasn’t that dark, sunlight kept coming in from somewhere.
—weird?
—–Rocky T.
Rocky, Could you post this for me?
—thanks, —–Jim
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Saturday, 16 July, 2011:
I had remembered the dream I couldn’t remember yesterday, I think I wrote down details, somewhere….
We went to see Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part II last evening at the 9:15 show. And had come home. It was after midnight, maybe something like 3 am when I plunked down beside my spouse-ling on the couch where she was messing around with Farm ville on her laptop while we were listening to coast to coast am and the television was on CNN, muted with subtitles, Whatsisname King was interviewing Harry Potter actors and showing teasers from the film.
1.) (fell asleep on the couch) I dreamed I was in my grandparents house in Connecticut (which has been sold now, would have been about 10 years ago. Both grandparents having passed over.) My spouse-ling was there and she told me she wanted to go to bed. Then I was alone, downstairs near the kitchen. I immediately noticed that the house was flooding and ran to the bathroom where I could hear the toilet running (water was now about thigh deep, maybe 2 & 1/2 feet deep.) I raised the lid on the back of the toilet and stopped the water from continuous running and it immediately went way down, was like only ankle deep within seconds. My mother came out of a room across the hall from the bathroom in her nightgown. I asked her if she noticed the flood. she said yes. I told her I’d dealt with it, she said she guessed I had since the water was now gone.
2.) Dreamed about my grandparents. (my father’s mother and father, both of whom have left this mortal coil. Same ones who owned the house in dream #1.) I saw my grandfather and told him I’d heard my grandmother cough and was worried about her. He saw me and hugged me for all I was worth and then some, I corrected myself, “I meant I heard my sister cough.” he continued hugging me. I was slightly chagrinned to realize he was pressed against my hand which was clutching something near his crotch and tried to move, but couldn’t. He didn’t say anything, but I could feel what was pretty close to divine, unconditional love coming from him. When I woke up I realized I had fallen asleep and was holding my spouse-ling’s hand, not whatever else I dreamed I was clutching against my grandfather’s private parts.
3.) Behind the scenes at a techie facility that housed a MMORPG. I was inspecting the 4 underwater forms of sentient amphibian races, there were normal, spectral, chaotic and something else.) Around me were several other techies, a new elder, and a rather new player who had found out where this facility was and come in to see what our operation looked like. One of the other techies invited the newbie into a restricted area and had him log in and pull up his character. This techie teleported the newbie’s character to the underwater module they were testing and since this character was a spectral amphibian, had him swim into a spectral home world. While these two people (the techie and the newbie player) were busy checking out the features of the spectral’s safe homeworld, I moved to where another techie was showing the newly hired elder player (who’d played a while and been promoted, then hired as paid staff) and I told them about the newbie who was in the other room being shown around the spectral home world. This techie asked the new elder if he had a spectral character yet, elder said no. techie said, well, we better give you one in a hurry, okay? and they brought up the elder’s account, rolled him up an invisible spectral elder character and used the intercom to ask the newbie in the other room what his character’s name was. They gave the elder’s new spectral character the name Posidius Rex and showed him how to find the character in his domain, and teleport to him invisibly, how to inspect the character without the character knowing he was being inspected. the techie noted that this spectral character had been rolled a bit hastily and was deficient in stats important to his choice of race and occupation. The techie said, “Okay, we’re going to give this character a quest- let me take over and watch- He brought up a screen of what the character was seeing and another of what the elder was seeing, sent the newbie the message, “You suddenly sense that you are in the presence of greatness.” and had the elder materialize in front of him, informed the newbie, “You realize you should bow to Posidius Rex” the newbie bowed. The elder character spoke, “It is rare that we allow one so young to find our homeland, but I brought you here for a reason. My great great granddaughter has been kidnapped by our enemies. They do not know you, you are insignificant to them. I need you to find their camp, infiltrate their ranks and report back to me their where-abouts. Do you accept?” The newbie bowed again and said yes. “Thank you, as a gift I will grant you extra health and strength and give you an invisible talisman that you can use to contact us when you have found her. If you fail or are discovered to be a spy, this talisman can be used to end your life before they torture you. Just be sure you are nowhere near my great great granddaughter when you auto destruct- it will destroy everything within fifty meters.” And the techie raised the newbie’s character’s health and strength and had the elder character hand the newbie “an invisible talisman” and created the talisman on the spot with ESP powers and a couple other enchantments. It could be used to teleport characters around the game world. the techie told the elder that an elder would have to activate the teleportation powers, hopefully at a critical point in the quest. Then had the elder bow and tell the newbie, “Thank you, look around here all you wish, when you are ready to depart to the surface world, find me, I will be here, I will send you on your way” The newbie bowed and went back to swimming around his top secret homeworld.
—–Rocky T.
Friday, 15 July, 2011:
1.) (I went to bed feeling sick)
A.) I saw a friend’s daughter <she’s 13 years old these days> and went to give her a hug. She held me off long enough to look around and make sure none of her friends were watching and then reluctantly let me hug her.
B.) I was talking to several bloggers and comparing notes about who we could interview if we wanted to. I gave a series of numbers that somehow related to the rock group Heart. The other bloggers were impressed that I knew those numbers and guffawing that would never in my wildest dreams be able to get them to agree to an interview/get them to appear live on my blog (It made sense in the dream.) I told them that John Mellancamp was supposed to have stayed at the local Quality Inn, gone to their nightclub (?) and jumped up on stage during a live music night and sat in with who(m?)ever was playing that night.
C.) I moved to a bar (?) (I never go to bars) and a woman with very short blond hair came in and sat next to me. She had a hairdo something like Annie whatsername from the Eurythmics had at one point. And she was talking a lot, kind of nervously, sighed and said, “Well, there’s this thing about ‘T-U-T-H-F-S-Y’ but I was really upset that they never had one of these things on a ladies night when women could drink free, I mean, how would you take it if we were speed dating and I said, ‘shut up and help me make a baby’? I waited for her to shut up and look and me and said, “Yes!” She laughed and said, ‘Yeah, but you’re a good friend-” and she smiled I looked down at my pants and said, “Well, somebody really likes the idea.” She glanced down and blushed and gave me a hug. (I couldn’t feel the hug, even in the dream I noticed that I couldn’t feel the hug.)
#2.)Today is Harry Potter day at the local theatre. I was buying tickets for my lady and me and the clerk said “That will be $36.00.” I looked in my wallet and counted my bills and reached in my pocket and counted my change and said, “Exact change okay?”
#3.) I went to sleep remembering the hotel bar and John Mellancamp. I started dreaming before I was actually asleep, no moment of blackout or anything and then I kind of moved out of the dreams and remembered bits and pieces of conversations. I heard something on the bed beside me that might have been a muffled voice or it may have been one of the cats exercising his weird vocal talents in the next room or something. I’ll probably remember dream #3 later. (I had remembered it when I sat down here, but it took me half an hour to tweak our network to get internet flowing through all the routers and bridges to my computers in this room and right now I’m drawing a blank.)
—–Rocky T.
Okay, let me see…
Do you think there’s an international conspiracy of ‘shadow government’ types who believe they’re above the law?
Above all Law?
Do you believe that anybody manipulated into debt should be forgiven?
Do you think that ‘manipulated’ should include “had their ability to resist diminished by high pressure tactics by banks, weird chemicals in their food, and subliminal suggestions/attacks by television commercials, etc.”?
Do you believe it’s too late to take back our government and make them answer to us?
Answer in email to ttalxalot@gmail.com
—thanks,
—–Rocky T.
Okay, I’m a bit off the beaten path, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
I heard that a ‘psychic’ has forecast that in the future, slightly more enlightened earthlings will ‘know’ that Judaism, Christianity and Islam were all necessary to each other and showed a progression that most earthlings cannot grasp yet. I don’t know whether this ‘psychic’ had an agenda or whether he believed that more evolved humans would sample each of these Religions in turn or whether he believed that followers of one of these Religions or other were more enlightened or evolved than followers of the others.
One thing I want to say is that we have to remember that Religions are presided over by humans. Most humans in the Religious communities have an agenda. Their power and livelihood are derived from their ability to subjugate those who follow his or her religion (Usually ‘his’).
After The Prophet died (may God continually bless Him) Human men took over the hierarchy of the emerging Islamic religion and ignored His wishes and relegated his favourite daughter to second class citizenship and spread their delusions as Holy Law in order to become more rich and powerful.
The Christian Bible was edited and several books that had been included were declared heretical by a human who called himself ‘the Pope’ at the time of the Nicene conference. This man was probably more interested in tightening his control over the humans who subscribed to his religion than serving his vision of God.
All Religions were founded by people/saints with direct experience of and connections to the Divine. All Religious founders were basically spreading the same message which had to be slightly modified to fit the culture where that message was delivered.
Spirituality is how we connect with the Divine. Religion is how humans warp Spiritual movements for fun and profit.
There are only two kinds of people in this world, Angels in Training and Angels in Distress. Some of us have one foot in each camp. Some of us are centipedes.
“So many paths to Nirvana and so many claim they know the only way. Do your dharma, do your best. Let others argue and confuse themselves to death.” (I forget who said that-)
God Bless us every one.
—–Rocky T.
