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Originally posted by KGBMan: let add fire to the oil a little : Egor , FOr me.. What I like in Americans, which is missing in almost all russians.. Honesty, "outside the box", c'mon dude, common trend ???? in Americans ??? honesty ?????? "outside the box" ???????? jeezzz dude, what are you smokking ?? russians are no angels, but this is ridiculous....

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Hm, I don't think you read that carefully :)

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This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra

what's the Marilyn Syndrome? "Hopeless in Atlanta"

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"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."

Describe life Marilyn Monroe in two sentences. That makes the behavioral outline. Basically, not waiting for a single prince, but jumping from one to another trying to find a better match, while being emotionally wrecked most of the time.

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You nailed it 412, especially the last line about being emotionally wrecked most of the time. Reason she overdosed. Always judge others by the same standards as you would want them to judge you

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Mouse, These words sound very sensible. I like the way he has put it, and it makes the most sense. He takes a complicated problem and breaks it down to basics. I like it. Mark Always judge others by the same standards as you would want them to judge you

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Originally posted by Mouse: If someone interested here (http://www.sharedpaths.com/tools/lovelanguages.html) is a paraphrase of some book (I don't recommend the book, paraphrase is more then enough..) So the idea is that there are 5 'languages we speak': quote 1. hearing words that affirm 2. quality time spent together 3. receiving gifts and tokens of caring 4. having things done for you 5. physical touch and connection All of us need all five languages/forms of love, but there is one (or two), that is our "primary language" and crucial to our feeing love and cared for. If our partner does not speak to us in our "primary language" we feel as if something is missing, and we feel unloved, even if they are speaking to us in their own "primary language" end of quote So, the same person can be a 'high-m' for one, a 'low-m' for someone else. Well, I like the way it is being explained. Moreover it can be applied to all your friends, relatives, collegues... PS Still I don't recommend reading the whole book, as it was written by a preacher (?), I mean, it gives a specific flavor.

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This reminds me of the kind of stuff they teach you in marriage counseling. Bad flashback! If you carefully use James Bond's Love Test to screen your mate, then you'll never have to worry about all this stuff. :-) Learn the test Live the test Love the test lol "Hopeless in Atlanta"

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"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."

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Originally posted by Peaceful Warrior: Yes, love is a holy thing but like all holy things it must be maintained, how should I say it hmmmmm... You must face the darkness before you can be enveloped by the bliss of light. Therefore when you’re with a woman it is your job the purge the darkness from both you and her! I get so tired of having to smooth things out with her every time but I do it anyway because I know that she never will, at least most of the time. James, you need to find what you believe in and fight for it with an open mind and unlimited patience and understanding. My belief is very easy to defend and pretty much do anything I desire with since it is an unlimited nature of love that has no limits. My dear Margarita use to call me naive but I told her that is history has ever shown us one thing it is this... Just because it has not happened in the past does not mean it won't or can't happen in the Now! You will always have your nay Sayers but as with all things, those who fear the unknown succumb to their own ignorance. With this note, even someone as open minded and strong willed as myself has a hard time dealing with these Russian terrors, lol. Sometimes it seems they just want to get smacked :) (Just kidding, but serious at the same time.) How I deal with this increadible strain on my patience is the way I look at it. No one in all the world could qualify to test my patience like this Russian women that I know and love. Therefore all the trials and woes she throes upon me serve only to strengthen my charachter and add flavor to my personality. If I ever leave her, (GOD FORBID) I will have so much patience and understanding that no Amercian women will be able to resist my charm and Charisma MAUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. "All things have fear, but the brave put down those fears and go forth, butimes to death, BUT ALWAYS TO VICTORY!.

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Peaceful Warrior - you went quiet. I guess that is the way of the warrior. I'm jealous of course. I remember back when I was in battle - cultivating my Russian Lotus Tree. Now, I did not channel my chackras or study the ways of Kabbalah (beyond an academic approach) but I did certainly enjoy the pleasures of Kamma Sutra. lol Don't go silent yet. I am here. "Hopeless in Atlanta"

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"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."

You know, I received a headache after having read this topic (I wanted to say "nonsense"). What the hell (pardon my French) are you, guys, talking about? First of all, are you not tired from all the generalizations that keep reoccuring in one topic after another? Second of all, "honesty" is not a trait of a certain nationality, it's a character trait. And lastly, most people are looking for sex, beauty, entertainment, money, comfort, stuff, and more stuff - and not for Love, just face it.

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"Some say the Muses are nine: how careless! Look, there's Sappho too, from Lesbos, the tenth." Plato

Wrooooong!!! t t t t t t t t t t ;) Everybody is looking for love (or sex) and power in the contemporary society (especially american), if somebody excludes one of these, he does it because he's actually not really a part of contemporary society or maybe culture. love and peace ^_O [url="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=684817"] Hey, franky peoply, listen to my music! quick-quick![/url] (free download)

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Good morning Moscow. You both are sounding bitter. :-) everybody is looking for love too...it's just the hardest thing to find. When all those little intangibles that I tried to capture in the love test all magically fall into place (God's will?) then you end up with love. But if you are actually LOOKING for that - on a day to day basis - it will drive you crazy. Much easier to look for the sex, entertainment, but most importantly, to surround yourself with people and things that make you HAPPY. Why bad-mouth power or money? America was built on pioneers that came to this country seeking a better life. Probably most of you are first or 2nd generation pioneers all chasing the American dream of money and power? Nothing wrong with that. This country is all about making your own opportunity. What's frustrating is that even when you are doing well, you look around and see everybody else driving a Mercedes, and suddenly you don't feel so successful. You just have to keep things in perspective. Success is relative. :-) "Hopeless in Atlanta"

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Originally posted by James Bond: This reminds me of the kind of stuff they teach you in marriage counseling. Bad flashback! If you carefully use James Bond's Love Test to screen your mate, then you'll never have to worry about all this stuff. :-) Learn the test Live the test Love the test lol

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So, you are asking for words that affirm?

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This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra

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Originally posted by mkgilstrap: Mouse, These words sound very sensible. I like the way he has put it, and it makes the most sense. He takes a complicated problem and breaks it down to basics. I like it. Mark Always judge others by the same standards as you would want them to judge you

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Well, it is simplification; and I want to add that it is not easy to follow his suggestions at all.

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This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra

Don't worry James, I am not gone, I just have other things to attend to here and there. This might be a little off topic but it is somthing for everyone to consider, tell me what you thing all... The Brain’s Design - Why it does not hold all the data there is... Nothing is accidental in our universe. Nothing is a mistake or an unfortunate condition. This is what is meant by Intelligent Design. Everything that exists has emerged from Divine Intelligence. There is no conflict between Creationists and Evolutionists. Evolution is simply part of the Process of Creation, and all the conflict that seems to exist over the question of whether life 'evolved' or was 'created' seems to be "much ado about nothing." The human brain was designed (evolved) in a way that does not give it the capacity to hold all the data in the universe. That is not its design function. It is the design function of Consciousness to hold all the data in the universe. It is a design function of the brain to hold sufficient data to get through This Moment Now. The brain is a mechanism and must not be confused with the Mind. The Mind is where Consciousness resides. It is one-third of the Three-Part Being that we are. Each of us is composed of three aspects or elements: Body, Mind, and Spirit. Consciousness resides in all three aspects. The Body, the Mind, and the Spirit all hold all the data of the universe. Indeed, they are all the data of the universe, compressed into one location. Did you hear that? Did you "get" that? Don't just read right through that sentence and move on. Read it carefully, and consider its implications. The Body, the Mind, and the Spirit all hold all the data of the universe. Indeed, they are all the data of the universe, compressed into one location. Put into other words: The Being that you are is a microcosm of the macrocosm that we call the universe. Traditional theology says this yet another way: "You are made in the image and likeness of God." The words are more poetic, perhaps, but they mean precisely the same thing. The brain is a mechanism uniquely designed to block from our present awareness all that the Body, Mind, and Spirit knows. You may not have ever thought of it that way, but that is what is actually happening. That is the function of the brain. The brain is a Data Filter and Organizer. It takes the data that flows to it through the extraordinary senses of the Body, through the unlimited vision of the Mind, and through the total awareness of the Spirit, then organizes it and filters it in a most unusual and efficient way... First, it reduces the data to its countless component parts. Second, it sorts those parts into categories, labeled Necessary and Unnecessary in the Present Moment, then eliminates all data deemed Unnecessary for comprehension of, or survival in, the Moment at Hand. Third, it analyzes all data that it has deemed Necessary for the Moment at Hand and brings its analysis to your attention and your awareness. (These two are not the same thing. "Attention" allows you to notice something, "awareness" allows you to understand all of its implications. This is the difference between noticing and comprehending.) Fourth, it separates our awareness into at least two parts. This is what makes it possible for one part of your brain to allow another part of your brain to "think about what you're thinking about." Part One of your Awareness analyzes and presents the Necessary Data, and Part Two considers the data being presented, reflects upon it, accesses other data previously stored by the brain (see below), and makes a decision about what it chooses to do in the Moment at Hand. Fifth, it takes all the data that it deemed Necessary for the Present Moment, combines it with information on how that data was used, and stores it in its databank, in the form of what we call Memories. It calls upon this data in facilitating Future Moments. The reason that the brain was designed to perform these functions is elegant. If the brain was simply a wide open receptor, a huge retainer of all the data that exists in the universe, it would be redundant and without separate purpose or function. As already noted, it is the purpose and function of Consciousness to retain all the data of the universe, not the purpose and function of the brain. The purpose of the brain is to act as a mechanism with which we can use the limitless data of the universe, bit by bit. This broken-down data is utilized in the formulation of "reason" and the producing of "action", through which we render ourselves capable of knowing and experiencing, expressing and fulfilling, becoming and expanding Who We Really Are. In short, the brain is a tool -- a magnificent, wondrous, extraordinary device -- designed to intake, call up, analyze, and store the limitless data of the universe as it presents itself in any given moment, in order that Eternity may be experienced as Now, Everywhere may be experienced as Here, and Infinity may be experienced as This. Thus we can experience THIS, HERE and NOW. Thus we can discern discrete elements of, and encounters with, All That Is through an elegant mechanical process that allows All That Is to be known by Itself experientially. Think of it this way: The brain acts as a dam on the flow of Consciousness. It creates power by conserving energy, holding it back and allowing it to flow in measured amounts. Now when we experience a moment of expanded awareness, all that has happened is that we have immersed ourselves in the rushing waters of Everything, diving to the depths of Everywhere, and swimming in the currents of Infinity. In such moments you escape the boundaries of physicality, shifting your point of view from that of the brain to that of Consciousness, and expanding your awareness of the Ever Present Reality of God and of the True Nature of All That Is. In such moments you have completed the journey, from Knowing to Experiencing to Knowing again, and reside in a pure State of Being, in which you both know and experience Who You Really Are. And that is the Reason and the Reality: A brief explanation of Life and how it works.

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It has finally happened... Egor has become so smart he has evolved into some form of brain energy His body has melted away and he moves around the room as a sort of light source.. What has happened to Egor is just like an episode of Star Trek I saw a long time ago. Or, like the ending of Star Trek, the Motion Picture, where these two people merge and become, like, an energy source.... : ) Remember, Peaceful Warrior, a smiley face means humor... : ) No insult intended. Always judge others by the same standards as you would want them to judge you

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I love humor and I appreciate your feedback, the only time I snap is when someone labels me with ignorance and can't even explain why! Even then I'm not mad, just waiting for it all to make sense, no reason to get mad unless your trying to banish fear and move to a higher stage of energy evoloution. :)

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