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You've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with the ABC's of YOU. At the end, choose 26 people to be tagged. You have to tag me so really you just need 25 more people. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you - but not in a creepy stalker kind of way ;-) (To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your ABC's of Me, tag 26 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.) A - Age: 29i B - Bed size: QUEEN C - Chore you hate: dishes E - Essential start your day item: get online F - Favorite color: black G - Gold or Silver: platinum or white gold H - Height: 5'5" I - Instruments you play: none K - Kid(s): none L - Living arrangement: with the parents N - Nicknames: G, Gingee R - Right or left handed:right S - Siblings: Mo, Xochi,Temo, Ana, Desiree, Garciana, and Anita's like a sister too ;-) U - Underwear: white W - Workout style: nonexistent Z - Zoo favorite: gorillas ... our cousins tehehe I tag runa, Ithiaca, Yksi, mac leod, and anyone else that would like to do this. Please let me know when you do. =)
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Suffering In Solitude: She chased the cats with her vampiric addiction. The Last Supper: Pigs... Longpigs |
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I still remember the first time I saw the Thriller video by Michael Jackson. I was about 5 year's old and my mom and dad were present. I was a little scared due to the zombies but recall being awed by such a great video that it sticks in my memory to this date. Also back then my dad had gotten me a Madonna poster and this was all the start of my personal musical journey in regards to musical taste. Yes it started with pop music more importantly the King and Queen of Pop. Much later in life well not that much later but in my later elementary school years the media painted him out to be a monster, a child molester. At first I believed it and having been molested myself I didn't want anything to do with this great talent's music! In my mid 20's I read somewhere that Macauley Caulkin, the very person Michael Jackson supposedly molested was Jackson's child's godfather. It was then that I realized I shouldn't put such faith in the media and then that I decided to go back to my roots as a Michael Jackson fan. His death has truly saddened me. I wasn't hit by Heath Ledger's death a year ago no matter how young he was. But this death hits much harder. I've posted my favorite Michael Jackson songs on my profile and added a Michael Jackson layout as my personal way to honor this great man of our time! He truly will always be the King of Pop! Let us not cry for he may be in a better place but let us remember what we loved about him and continue to support him by listening to his music and doing whatever else we can. May he Rest In Peace and live forever in our hearts.      |
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1. Where did you begin 2008? at a nightclub 2. What was your status by Valentines Day? 3. Were you in school anytime this year? 4. Did you have to go to the hospital? 5. Did you have any encounters with the police? 6. Where did you go on vacation? 7. What did you purchase that was over $100? 8. Did you know anybody who got married? 9. Did you know anybody who passed away? 10. Did you move anywhere? 11. What sporting events did you attend? 12. What concerts/shows did you go to? 13. Describe your birthday. 14. What is the ONE thing you thought you would not do, but did, in 2008? 15. What have been your favorite moments? 16. Any new additions to your family? 17. What was your best month? 18. Who has been your best drinking buddy? 19. Made new friends? 20. Favorite Night out? 21. Other than home, where did you spend most of your time? 22. Have you lost any friends this year? 23. Change your hairstyle? 24. Have any car accidents? 25. How old did you turn this year? 26. Do you have a New Years resolution? 27. Do anything embarrassing? 28. Buy anything from eBay? 29. Get married or divorced? 30. Get hit on? 31. Been snowboarding? 32. Did you get sick this year? 33. Are you happy to see 2008 go? 34. Been naughty or nice 35. What are you looking forward to most in 2009? |
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Most people I speak to don't remember Rosaline, a character in Romeo and Juliette. She has a small role and is only mentioned a few times but never seen. I've worried that names could be like spells or witchcraft but chose Rosaline for my furry name anyway. Back to the story of Romeo and his precious Juliette, Rosaline was the one he loved before Juliette came into the picture. I kind of wish I knew what happened to Rosaline though. My guess is her fate may have been better than theirs. |
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I'd try and come up with an original horror film about cannibalism since that probably creeps others out as much as it does me. For others it would satisfy their fetish. I've always found cannibalism to be a scarier subject than demon possession. |
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The stories of the Popul Voh contain many of the fundamental elements of Maya culture. What follows is a story of origin of human beings. It follows the creation of earth. As we shall see, it took them several tries to get it right. They planned the animals of the mountains. They gave out homes to the deer and birds. The deer were told they would walk on all fours and the birds were told to build their nests in the trees. They were told to talk but they didn’t speak like people; they just squawked, chattered, and howled. Because they didn’t pray to the Bearer, Begetter, Maker, Modeler, they were told to accept their service and that their flesh would be eaten. Then comes an experiment with human work, the human design by the Bearer, Begetter, Maker, Modeler. They made them out of earth and mud but it couldn’t walk or multiply so they just let it be a thought. Later they made the manikins, woodcarvings, human in looks and human in speech and there was a peopling of the face of the earth. But there was nothing in their hearts and their minds, no memory of their mason and builder. They had no blood, no lymph, no sweat, nor fat. They were killed when the Heart of the Sky devised a flood for them. A great flood was made; it came down on the heads of the manikins, woodcarvings. They were pounded down to the bones and tendons, smashed and pulverized to the bones. Their faces were smashed because they were incompetent before their mother and their father, the Heart of Sky, named Hurricane. And it used to be said that monkeys are a sign of this. So this is why monkeys look like people. And here is the beginning of the conception of humans and the search for the ingredients of the human body. They went on thinking in darkness, as they searched and sifted, thought and wondered. These are the names of the animals who brought the food: fox, coyote, parrot, crow. There were four animals who brought news of the ears of yellow and white corn. This was when they found the staple foods. These were the ingredients for the human flesh, human design, and the water was for the blood. It became human blood. Corn was used, along with the water Xmucane rinsed her hands with, for the creation of grease, which became fat. The Popul Vuh makes clear the importance of maize for Maya culture. It was what the gods used to fashion human beings and had been the staff of life for them ever since. Maize was a great deal more than the economic basis of Maya civilization; it was the focal point of worship. Without it the Maya would’ve lacked the leisure and prosperity to erect temples and pyramids. Without it, it is improbable that the peasants would have submitted to the unceasing and stupendous program of building directed by the hierarchy. The Maya laborer knew that he was building to conciliate the gods of sky and soil. To the Maya corn is still peculiarly sacred. It is the gods’ supreme gift to man, to be treated with full respect and not a little humility. Each stage in the farming round was religious celebration. The Indians did regard the maize as a god, although they took good care not to let the friars know it. The Indians consider it better to feed the earth with their dead bodies in payment for the products it gives them when they are alive. In our urban civilization the productivity of the land is something rather remote which is taken for granted. The Maya, who has to struggle against climate, tropical pests, and a too exuberant vegetation, sees things in a very different light. Even now, with crops introduced from Europe, 80 percent of his food is maize. He eats it with every meal so the failure of that one crop is a disaster to him. The concept of a crop as a live being was and is fundamental in the Maya pattern of thought. Maize is the gift which the gods could bestow on man only after considerable effort. According to Maya legend, maize was once stored beneath a great mountain of rock. It was first discovered by marching army ants. The fox, who is always curious about his neighbors’ doings, saw the ants carrying this strange grain and tried some. Soon the other animals and then man learned of this new food, but only the ants could penetrate to the place where it was hidden. Man asked the rain gods to help them get at the store. In turn, three of the gods tried, but failed. Then the chief rain god, oldest of them all, was prevailed upon to try his skill. He sent the woodpecker to tap the surface of the rock to find the weakest spot. When it had been discovered, he told the woodpecker to take cover under an overhanging ledge while he tried to split the rock. With all his strength he hurled the mightiest thunderbolt against the weak point, and the rock was riven asunder. A flying fragment of rock hit him, causing it to bleed freely, and ever since the woodpecker has had a red head. There resulted four types of maize-black, red, yellow, and white. |
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The Lipan Apache Worldview concerns the worldview of Apache Indians as it existed at the time Columbus arrived in the New World. These Indians were situated on the Southern Plains, in what today is the Texas panhandle, northeastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, and southwestern Kansas. Spaniards, led by Coronado, first visited the region in 1540 but didn't stay. A permanent settlement was eventually begun in New Mexico in the early 1600's but Apaches weren't under Spanish control. Apaches were relatively recent arrivals around 1500 A.D. They and their ancestral cousins, the Navajo, were once part of a large linguistic group known as Athapaskan speakers that lived in southwestern Canada. For reasons unknown, groups of Athapaskans began migrating south, switching back and forth between the Rockies and Great Plains. The Lipan were bison hunters that traded highly priszed bison bi-products to Pueblo Indians who lived to the west in New Mexico. Central to sixteenth century Querecho philosophy were several pervasive beliefs related to power, ideas which in many ways shaped and tempered other beliefs. From the persoective of all Athapaskans, nature was suffused with supernatural power, and all things both animate and inanimate had life and volition. Power beings are always considered to be a mixture of both good and bad essences. Only in recent times has power been defined as disparitely good and evil. Morality per se centered on the participation of man, animal, plant--and all other phenomena--in the system's equilibrium. Essential to man's acquisition of power was knowledge. Knowledge of the "social rules" attributed to power was itself power. Athapaskans acquired knowledge of power in one of two ways. First, a person could acquire knowledge through visions or dreams about the class of objects after which the power was named. Second, power could be obtained by purchasing from another person the chants, prayers, and ritual procedures that activate and control it. According to the Lipan Origin Myth, all living things inhabited the underworld. Wind, Crow, Beaver, and Badger were the first to emerge. Badger was the only one of the four who faithfully returned to tell his fellows in the lower world that it was dry in the upper world of earth. Four men, Indians were then sent to the world above. Everything was prepared for the people of the lower world to come up. After their emergence, the people moved around the edge of the earth clockwise. All those people were animals, birds, trees, and bushes. Real humans had not yet arrived. The different kinds of animals, birds, grasses, and trees represent different tribes. The Lipan were the very last to stop the journey and find a home. The sun is the man, the moon is the woman. The hunter has to be careful about using all the parts of the animal. Most of the important game animals were once monsters who were forced to agree to aid humans, but who also imposed certain conditions on humans that had to be observed. The seemingly impeccable memory of Apaches helps explain why these stories do not become altered much over time. Apaches believed words contained power, demanded respect, and were important. Persons holding status, medicine, or powere were expected to have a thorough understanding of all stories related to their specialties. Power gradually decreases over time, both in quality, quantity, and accessability. Elements of the idea of renewal can be found in important Apache ceremonials. The most significant group ritual for Apaches was, and is, the Girl's Puberty Ceremony. Gender reflects balance and power in the cosmos as well as unpredictability. The Girl's Puberty Ceremony combines, among other variables, the powers of fertility, wisdom, strength, and patience in the girl's embodiment of Changing Woman on one hand, with the powers of the male singers' songs organizing the ritual as the first humans organized the beginnings of life on earth, on the other. Although deemed proper in certain situations, sexuality was perceived as potentially very harmful. In large part, the negative connotations attached to sexual relations stemmed from the belief that witchcraft was intimately associated with sexual activities. Boys had vision quests, which assisted them in becoming men by providing them with a deeper understanding of the meanings of their place in the world. The vision quest was a solitary philosophical experience wherein the boy acquired a greater intellectual sense of self and identity, while also viscerally discovering his place in the world and developing independence from his parents. |
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I get inspiration from nature for the visual arts and from books or movies for any stories I may write. |
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*Concerns the worldview of Apache Indians as it existed at the time Columbus arrived in the New World. |
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I found out about the furry fandom months ago on LiveVideo with a video making fun of it. I thought some things, such as meeting up at conventions to have sex in fursuits, sounded strange and not everyone does that. I've found that there are plenty of cool furries, including my mate, whom I really adore. He's such a sweetheart and he's handsome. I barely met him and I strongly believe it was meant for me to learn about this great fandom where I've met so many new awesome friends. There are many great artists and I have some of my favorites at www.furaffinity.info/user/soleil . |
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I decided to do the Internet dating thing for two reasons: 1) Just because it could be interesting meeting someone this way. 2) I have a close friend that married someone she met through the Internet. At first I was on a few different dating websites before I found out MySpace was one of the best ones. For about a year I've been on MySpace with no luck. My explanations are I'm too shy sometimes, there are some wierdos, and there are sooo many options to choose from for these guys. Now I'm on Pounced.org and have had quite a few guys contact me in a short amount of time. The most recent one was very cute and may help me get over the asshole I kind of like for some bizarre reason that I may go into detail about later. I just hope we keep talking for awhile because he's such a nice guy, is really cute, young, and from England. He seems ambitious too. It would be wonderful if I meet someone that becomes my husband because at my age and the rate I'm going I'll be an old maid. Like many girls, I've thought of marraige for a long time. Marraige is the ultimate expression of love in my opinion. It's saying I'm in this for life. Of course, if things go bad divorce shouldn't be out of the question. |
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OK so I may have started shit with people before even in subcultures or fandoms that I ended up becoming interested in or found that I've already had an interest in but didn't realize it. However, I think saying people are social rejects is a bit harsh. To be honest, we're all a bunch of social rejects since every subculture, counter culture, and/or fandom rejects the other one. |
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I'm supposed to go to church today and my mom was raised Methodist so I suggested we go to that one recently. I like it that they have some liberal beliefs which is what some believe isn't ideal but for me and many others "the right church" is the one you like right? I believe liberalism is ideal in a church setting. I was baptized in the Mormon church a year ago and got my eyebrows tattooed without thinking about it. LOL I heard it wasn't that big of a deal but I'm not sure I fully believe in the teachings of Mormonism after all. Besides they're strict and you have to wear dresses to church! Anyways, the good thing is they have A LOT of social activities. I've always liked the way the Pentecostal and some Baptist churches are livelier. I learned to love the Catholic church when I was younger but I don't like that hierarchial system nor do I feel that it's good for the priests to never marry like some other pastors do. Oh yeah the pastor at this Methodist church is a woman! Yay! I think maybe if they could marry there would be less problems of child molestation cases with the clergy. Fortunately, I've never been involved in this situation; however, I believe these kids that say it's happened to them. |
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