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Unfortunately Torbjørn Jagland is no longer in charge of the piece prize. If he had been, I would say Kip could have just as big a chance as anyone else

I have put down Kips birthday in my calendar

75.

Especially if I'm also visible drunk

You've got me!

Some collect books, some photographies, dry flowers...i see nothing odd about collecting pebbles, especially considering them coming in sorts of nice colours and shapes

I did the same when i was little, collecting pebbles/shells at the seaside...and i would have collected them again, were i somewhere where there were any pebbles/shells.

Oh yeah, i can imagine that making it all the more beautiful

I had to google the aforementioned gentleman....though i'm sure kip already has him in mind if not even his phone number

i used to collect different types of rocks too, at school whenever i'd find them. bird feathers for a while. was never big on the seaside for all the sand crabs, flies, feeling of seaweed on your leg.

i guess living there all your life will do such things.


now i collect lapis lazuli.

indeed, since you rascal have the sea nearby

I can collect pieces of broken concrete here in all their miraculous brokeness lol

Hmmm

Your twin brother collected seashells, but you didn't...

I'm not sober, and now I'm confused...

My beloved gave me a rock to watch over me when I was sick and he couldn't be there.

Nothing more comforting and steadfast than a rock.

The visit with my old teacher was very good. Now that I know her address, I can go visit her! I was actually thinking that she would be irritated at me when I said months ago that I would email her, but never did, but she was quite happy to see me, and nearly cried when I gave her the picture I painted.

Here's three great passages from the Goddess book:

[I think you'll like this one, Raleigh.]

"A Zen student said to his Zen master, 'Am I in possession of the Buddha nature?'
And the master said, 'No.'
The student said, 'But I've heard that all beings are in possession of the Buddha nature: the stones, the flowers, the birds, the people.'
'You're right,' said the Zen master, 'all beings are in possession of the Buddha nature, but not you.'
'Not me, why not me?'
'Because you are asking this silly question.'

"There are two kinds of philosophers in the world: those who have understood Immanuel Kant, and those who have not. Kant worked on the problem that had already been announced by Locke: How do we know what we experience through our senses is really there? Do our senses distort? Kant begins with what he calls the a priori categories of logic. We can't even think of anything except in terms of subject and object, right and wrong--pairs of opposites, logical categories. Without these categories, there's nothing to discuss. Kant then brings up the point that what our senses do is put time and space around us, and everything comes to us through the a priori forms of time and space. But suppose there was not time and space: then there would be no separateness."

"...In one of the little chapels devoted to [the goddess Cybele] are two leopards, the male and the female leopard facing each other. We would have to go between them to get to the Goddess, so they are the threshold guardians. What does this mean, this pair of opposites facing each other? They represent the threshold of passage from the field of secular thinking, where 'I' and 'You' are separate from each other in an Aristotelian sense...to a world transcendent of that kind of bipolar thinking, more in the way of dream logic, where the dreamer and the dream, although they seem to be two, are actually one. The ultimate mystery of the universe is transcendence of the phenomenal world, which is made up of opposites, Kant's a priori categories of thought. When Adam and Eve fell, the first thing they experienced was the knowledge of good and evil--that is to say, knowledge of pairs of opposites. Before they didn't know any distinctions. We are kept out of the garden by our knowledge of pairs of opposites. Leaving that behind, going back to the place of innocence--beyond the rational discrimination of this and that--going back to that transcendental realm is the passage past the clashing rocks, beyond the guardianship of the threshold of the guardians at the temple."

Joseph Campbell wrote some brilliant stuff.

[Yes, I typed out all of this by myself. ]

Froya: It's alright; I love collecting things and looking for stones.

Someone is stone crazy

Touch some stone

Aww, that is so nice!

Really... I should feel very comforted then