Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[TeaDidikai]

Nuri

YAY! My dad's treadmill died. He thinks he can fix it, but he has to get parts first. So he bought an elliptical!

I love ellipticals. Yay for being able to work out again.

Yay for the Nuri!  

[maenad nuri]

TeaDidikai

Nuri

YAY! My dad's treadmill died. He thinks he can fix it, but he has to get parts first. So he bought an elliptical!

I love ellipticals. Yay for being able to work out again.

Yay for the Nuri!

And just as I promised last night, I already started working out. Only 15 minutes, but that's 15 minutes more than nothing.  

[TheDisreputableDog]

I must confess I am terminally amused by the deo's Shadow podcast. In particular at this moment, the skit from #24 along the lines of "what would it be like if a Dionysian-styled revel took itself as seriously as an airline?" xd

I don't remember how I stumbled upon it today but it is good background noise for making websites all alone.  

[maenad nuri]

The sub-zero temps do not make my car happy. As in, the heater got the car marginally above freezing.  

[CuAnnan]

Karma.
We all know what it isn't.

I was walking to the train station with a friend of mine, who happens to be my house mate and a devout Christian. We were discussing the old company I worked for. The only other developer there (there's a junior, but she's not up to much) had his second interview in my new place of work today. He's a competant programmer and I gave him my recommendation.
I mentioned, tongue in cheek, that it made me a very bad person. He said that it was justice. I stopped for a moment and considered it. Justice would have meant an external influence which wasn't there.
I informed him that Karma would be a better description of what happened and then used the situation at hand to explain to him that the western bastardised carma is wrong. I used the fact that a company needs its employees and therefore its Dharma is to treat them appropriately. Fairly, even. And that by failing to do so, it incurred Karma and that Karma can be seen as the summation of all your deeds.
I really hope he gets the job and comes to work in Nirvana with me.  

[CuAnnan]

Oh yeah, Tattoo pics  

[maenad nuri]

Nuri

TeaDidikai

Nuri

YAY! My dad's treadmill died. He thinks he can fix it, but he has to get parts first. So he bought an elliptical!

I love ellipticals. Yay for being able to work out again.

Yay for the Nuri!

And just as I promised last night, I already started working out. Only 15 minutes, but that's 15 minutes more than nothing.

I'm dying....just so you know. I may be somewhat skinny, but no endurance.  

[saint dreya]

Cuchullain

Oh yeah, Tattoo pics

heart heart heart  

[Deoridhe]

Wing: One could say the hamingja of the owners and managers of the company tanked, as well, due to mismanagement.

One of the more frustrating discussions I had illustrated, for me, the profound disconnect between avowed atheists and what they think all religion is. One stated to me, quite difinitively, that my religion could only have to do with supernatural things. I said, on the contrary, hamingja is a very observable thing, a part of natural forces, and not at all supernatural; it is, if you will, a gestalt of a number of different natural forces within a single person or family.

He was, unsurprisingly, completely uninterested. The topic very shortly thereafter became consumed in afterlife theory, a topic I find profoundly uninteresting but which, for some reason, many atheists and Christians seem completely consumed by.

More and more I find myself divorced from mainstream society, leaping from rock to rock of upg. It's good exercise.  

[Pelta]

Deoridhe

More and more I find myself divorced from mainstream society, leaping from rock to rock of upg. It's good exercise.

Indeed. And it's amazing how many people don't get the "supernatural" thing. It can't be supernatural! That means it's above natural! That just doesn't make any sense! xp  

[maenad nuri]

Deoridhe

The topic very shortly thereafter became consumed in afterlife theory, a topic I find profoundly uninteresting but which, for some reason, many atheists and Christians seem completely consumed by.

Gods, that is one discussion I hate. There are so many theories about Greek afterlife, that I just stopped caring, and will figure it out when I get there. Until then, this life is important. This is the life I need to be remembered for.  

[maenad nuri]

That was an interesting episode of House. The patient was Romani, and they managed not to be terribly insulting nor overly romantic. Not perfect, by any means, but hey, start?

The moment it was revealed, I went, "I wonder if this will cause Tea to explode or be happy or ...I dunno"  

[queertastrophy]

Nuri

That was an interesting episode of House. The patient was Romani, and they managed not to be terribly insulting nor overly romantic. Not perfect, by any means, but hey, start?

The moment it was revealed, I went, "I wonder if this will cause Tea to explode or be happy or ...I dunno"

I was wondering that myself. ninja  

[Deoridhe]

Nuri

That was an interesting episode of House. The patient was Romani, and they managed not to be terribly insulting nor overly romantic. Not perfect, by any means, but hey, start?

The moment it was revealed, I went, "I wonder if this will cause Tea to explode or be happy or ...I dunno"

I'm still wondering how he was dating an outsider. sweatdrop  

[TatteredAngel]

Hahaha! I was thinking all that too watching House tonight. So glad I'm not alone. xd

Also, belatedly, yay on the tattoos, Cuchullain!