I have discovered the crack that is Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Covered Tahitian Vanilla Caramels. Thank god they only come in a 2 oz. package.
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Vortex - Aug 25, 2012 9:12:39 pm PDT #19418 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
meara - Aug 25, 2012 9:21:12 pm PDT #19419 of 30001
Those little packages are very good.
Tonight my roommate had her BFF and bff's husband in town, so we all went to have salmon and look out at the water (beautiful day) and then did a bit of a dessert tour. We only hit three places and still had to ditch most of the ice cream at the last place. The fatal flaw was getting distracted by the native foods truck and getting fry bread and Indian taco. Delicious. Also had watermelon sorbet and maple pecan pork belly ice cream. There are six varieties of ice cream store within half a mile of me, plus a cupcake store ( that also has its own ice cream now!) and a pie store. And the Indian food truck.
Typo Boy - Aug 25, 2012 10:00:24 pm PDT #19420 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hey Christian, and Christian adjacent Buffistas. Were there Christian orders that did meditation in something close to the Buddhist sense? That is doing some form of meditation or prayer ritual or whatever that resulted in highly altered states of consciousness, ideally altered states that were believed to have profound mystical and religious significance?
Strix - Aug 25, 2012 10:03:32 pm PDT #19421 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Dan is in bed, I am tipsy and smonster is on the patio, talking. It was a fun party.
40 is fun so far!
Typo Boy - Aug 25, 2012 10:05:23 pm PDT #19422 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Happy Birthday STrix, and good for your having fun.
Pix - Aug 25, 2012 10:17:51 pm PDT #19423 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STRIX!
beth b - Aug 25, 2012 10:38:40 pm PDT #19424 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Happy birthday strix
Strix - Aug 25, 2012 11:00:16 pm PDT #19425 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hee; thanks, guys!!
Anne W. - Aug 26, 2012 2:42:36 am PDT #19426 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Were there Christian orders that did meditation in something close to the Buddhist sense? That is doing some form of meditation or prayer ritual or whatever that resulted in highly altered states of consciousness, ideally altered states that were believed to have profound mystical and religious significance?
Typo, I can't recall if the practice is associated with a particular order or not (I think so, but would have to double check), but Teresa of Avila definitely practiced and taught that sort of prayer.
Connie Neil - Aug 26, 2012 3:15:20 am PDT #19427 of 30001
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Typo, what Anne said. I don't think there were any orders as such that practiced that level of meditation, but there were several saints that followed an ecstatic path. Some of the hermetic mystic sorts also used a trance state. I think in the Christian tradition, that sort of altered state is considered a visitation of God on/to the individual, not something that was pursued as a group. The mystics would have acolytes who waited to transcribe the visions and would tend to the mystic's needs.
Look for saints classified under mystics or visionaries.