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2024.05.20 20:56 Typical_Employee_434 What merch would you like to be made for the 10th anniversary?

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2024.05.20 12:37 Glittering-Ad5648 UPDATE: Tier list rankings!

UPDATE: I'll be ranking the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees by tiers, for this I'll be giving the artists who were inducted as performers a tier letter based on influence, innovation, impact & originality.
Tier list:
S = Immortals, Icons & Legends A = All Time Greats & No Brainers B = Solid & Proven Performers C = Average/Borderline D = Marginal/Not Important
1986
Chuck Berry: S James Brown: S Ray Charles: S Sam Cooke: S Fats Domino: S The Everly Brothers: S Buddy Holly: S Jerry Lee Lewis: S Little Richard: S Elvis Presley: S
1987
The Coasters: A Eddie Cochran: A Bo Diddley: S Aretha Franklin: S Marvin Gaye: S Bill Haley: A BB King: S Clyde McPhatter: B Ricky Nelson: A Roy Orbison: S Carl Perkins: A Smokey Robinson: S Big Joe Turner: A Muddy Waters: S Jackie Wilson: A
1988
The Beach Boys: S The Beatles: S The Drifters: S Bob Dylan: S The Supremes: S
1989
Dion: B Otis Redding: S The Rolling Stones: S The Temptations: S Stevie Wonder: S
1990
Hank Ballard: B Bobby Darin: D The Four Seasons: B The Four Tops: S The Kinks: S The Platters: A Simon & Garfunkel: S The Who: S
1991
Lavern Baker: C The Byrds: S John Lee Hooker: B The Impressions: B Wilson Pickett: A Jimmy Reed: B Ike & Tina Turner: A
1992
Bobby "Blue" Bland: B Booker T. & The M.G's: B Johnny Cash: S The Isley Brothers: A The Jimi Hendrix Experience: S Sam & Dave: B The Yardbirds: A
1993
Ruth Brown: A Cream: A Creedence Clearwater Revival: A The Doors: S Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers: C Etta James: A Van Morrison: S Sly & The Family Stone: S
1994
The Animals: A The Band: S Duane Eddy: C Grateful Dead: S Elton John: S John Lennon: S Bob Marley: S Rod Stewart: A
1995
The Allman Brothers Band: A Al Green: A Janis Joplin: S Led Zeppelin: S Martha & The Vandellas: B Neil Young: S Frank Zappa: A
1996
David Bowie: S Gladys Knight & The Pips: B Jefferson Airplane: A Little Willie John: B Pink Floyd: S The Shirelles: A The Velvet Underground: S
1997
The Bee Gees: A Buffalo Springfield: C Crosby, Stills & Nash: B The Jackson 5: A Joni Mitchell: S Parliament - Funkadelic: S The (Young) Rascals: C
1998
Eagles: A Fleetwood Mac: A The Mamas & Papas: C Lloyd Price: D Santana: A Gene Vincent: A
1999
Billy Joel: A Curtis Mayfield: A Paul McCartney: A Del Shannon: D Dusty Springfield: A Bruce Springsteen: S The Staple Singers: B
2000
Eric Clapton: A Earth, Wind & Fire: A Lovin' Spoonful: D The Moonglows: B Bonnie Raitt: B James Taylor: A
2001
Aerosmith: A Solomon Burke: B The Flamingos: C Michael Jackson: S Queen: S Paul Simon: A Steely Dan: A Ritchie Valens: C
2002
Isaac Hayes: B Brenda Lee: C Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: A Gene Pitney: C Ramones: S Talking Heads: S
2003
AC/DC: A The Clash: S Elvis Costello & The Attractions: A The Police: A Righteous Brothers: C
2004
Jackson Browne: B The Dells: C George Harrison: A Prince: S Bob Seger: B Traffic: B ZZ Top: B
2005
Buddy Guy: B The O'Jays: B The Pretenders: B Percy Sledge: D U2: S
2006
Black Sabbath: S Blondie: A Miles Davis: S Lynyrd Skynyrd: A Sex Pistols: S
2007
Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five: A R.E.M: S The Ronettes: B Patti Smith: A Van Halen: A
2008
The Dave Clark Five: C Leonard Cohen: A Madonna: S John Mellencamp: B The Ventures: B
2009
Jeff Beck: B Little Anthony & The Impreials: B Metallica: S Run - DMC: S Bobby Womack: B
2010
ABBA: A Jimmy Cliff: C Genesis: B The Hollies: D The Stooges: S
2011
Alice Cooper: B Neil Diamond: B Dr. John: C Darlene Love: D Tom Waits: A
2012
Beastie Boys: S Donovan: B GNR: A Laura Nyro: D RHCP: A The Small Faces/Faces: B
2013
Heart: C Albert King: A Randy Newman: B Public Enemy: S Rush: A Donna Summer: A
2014
Peter Gabriel: A Hall & Oates: B Kiss: B Nirvana: S Linda Ronstadt: B Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam: C
2015
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: D Green Day: A Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: C Lou Reed: A SRV & Double Trouble: B Bill Withers: C
2016
Cheap Trick: B Chicago: C Deep Purple: A N.W.A: A Steve Miller: D
2017
Joan Baez: B ELO: C Journey: D Pearl Jam: A Tupac: S Yes: B
2018
Bon Jovi: D The Cars: B Dire Straits: C The Moody Blues: C Nina Simone: A
2019
The Cure: A Def Leppard: C Janet Jackson: A Stevie Nicks: D Radiohead: S Roxy Music: A The Zombies: C
2020
Depeche Mode: A The Doobie Brothers: C Whitney Houston: A Nine Inch Nails: A The Notorious B.I.G: A T. Rex: B
2021
Foo Fighters: B The Go - Go's: B Jay - Z: S Carole King: C Todd Rundgren: C Tina Turner: A
2022
Pat Benatar: C Duran Duran: B Eminem: S Eurythmics: B Dolly Parton: A Lionel Richie: C Carly Simon: C
2023
Kate Bush: A Sheryl Crow: C Missy Elliott: A George Michael: C Willie Nelson: A RATM: B The Spinners: B
2024
Mary J. Blige: A Cher: B Dave Matthews Band: B Foreigner: C Peter Frampton: C Kool & The Gang: B Ozzy Osbourne: B A Tribe Called Quest: A
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2024.05.19 10:36 Glittering-Ad5648 RRHOF rankings UPDATE!

Ranking most to less important inductees year by year!
I'll like to do something interesting regarding the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & it's gonna be ranking the most to less important inductees year by year. I'll be doing this based on influence, innovation, cultural impact, critical acclaim etc. Note: I'm gonna be focusing on the performers so others in Musical Influence & Excellence would not be included. So here's the rankings.
1986:
  1. Chuck Berry
  2. Elvis Presley
  3. James Brown
  4. Little Richard
  5. Ray Charles
  6. Sam Cooke
  7. Buddy Holly
  8. Fats Domino
  9. The Everly Brothers
  10. Jerry Lee Lewis
1987:
  1. Aretha Franklin
  2. Muddy Waters
  3. Marvin Gaye
  4. Bo Diddley
  5. Smokey Robinson
  6. BB King
  7. Roy Orbison
  8. Carl Perkins
  9. Jackie Wilson
  10. Bill Haley
  11. Ricky Nelson
  12. Eddie Cochran
  13. Big Joe Turner
  14. The Coasters
  15. Clyde McPhatter
1988:
  1. The Beatles
  2. Bob Dylan
  3. The Beach Boys
  4. The Supremes
  5. The Drifters
1989:
  1. The Rolling Stones
  2. Stevie Wonder
  3. The Temptations
  4. Otis Redding
  5. Dion
1990:
  1. The Who
  2. The Kinks
  3. Simon & Garfunkel
  4. The Four Tops
  5. The Platters
  6. Hank Ballard
  7. The Four Seasons
  8. Bobby Darin
1991:
  1. The Byrds
  2. Ike & Tina Turner
  3. Wilson Pickett
  4. John Lee Hooker
  5. The Impressions
  6. Jimmy Reed
  7. Lavern Baker
1992:
  1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  2. Johnny Cash
  3. The Yardbirds
  4. The Isley Brothers
  5. Booker T. & The M.G.'s
  6. Sam & Dave
  7. Bobby "Blue" Bland
1993:
  1. Sly & The Family Stone
  2. The Doors
  3. Van Morrison
  4. Cream
  5. Etta James
  6. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  7. Ruth Brown
  8. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
1994:
  1. Bob Marley
  2. John Lennon
  3. Elton John
  4. The Band
  5. The Grateful Dead
  6. Rod Stewart
  7. The Animals
  8. Duane Eddy
1995:
  1. Led Zeppelin
  2. Neil Young
  3. Frank Zappa
  4. Janis Joplin
  5. Al Green
  6. The Allman Brothers Band
  7. Martha & The Vandellas
1996:
  1. The Velvet Underground
  2. Pink Floyd
  3. David Bowie
  4. The Shirelles
  5. Jefferson Airplane
  6. Gladys Knight & The Pips
  7. Little Willie John
1997:
  1. Joni Mitchell
  2. Parliament - Funkadelic
  3. The Bee Gees
  4. The Jackson 5
  5. Crosby, Stills & Nash
  6. Buffalo Springfield
  7. The (Young) Rascals
1998:
  1. Eagles
  2. Fleetwood Mac
  3. Santana
  4. Gene Vincent
  5. The Mamas & The Papas
  6. Lloyd Price
1999:
  1. Bruce Springsteen
  2. Curtis Mayfield
  3. Billy Joel
  4. Dusty Springfield
  5. Paul McCartney
  6. The Staple Singers
  7. Del Shannon
2000:
  1. Eric Clapton
  2. James Taylor
  3. Earth, Wind & Fire
  4. Bonnie Raitt
  5. The Moonglows
  6. The 'Lovin Spoonful
2001:
  1. Michael Jackson
  2. Queen
  3. Aerosmith
  4. Steely Dan
  5. Paul Simon
  6. Solomon Burke
  7. The Flamingos
  8. Ritchie Valens
2002:
  1. Ramones
  2. Talking Heads
  3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  4. Isaac Hayes
  5. Brenda Lee
  6. Gene Pitney
2003:
  1. The Clash
  2. The Police
  3. AC/DC
  4. Elvis Costello & The Attractions
  5. Righteous Brothers
2004:
  1. Prince
  2. George Harrison
  3. ZZ Top
  4. Traffic
  5. Bob Seger
  6. Jackson Browne
  7. The Dells
2005:
  1. U2
  2. Buddy Guy
  3. The Pretenders
  4. The O'Jays
  5. Percy Sledge
2006:
  1. Miles Davis
  2. Black Sabbath
  3. Sex Pistols
  4. Lynyrd Skynyrd
  5. Blondie
2007:
  1. R.E.M
  2. Patti Smith
  3. Van Halen
  4. Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five
  5. The Ronettes
2008:
  1. Madonna
  2. Leonard Cohen
  3. John Mellencamp
  4. The Ventures
  5. DC5
2009:
  1. Run - DMC
  2. Metallica
  3. Bobby Womack
  4. Little Anthony & The Imperials
  5. Jeff Beck
2010:
  1. The Stooges
  2. ABBA
  3. Genesis
  4. Jimmy Cliff
  5. The Hollies
2011:
  1. Tom Waits
  2. Alice Cooper
  3. Neil Diamond
  4. Dr. John
  5. Darlene Love
2012:
  1. Beastie Boys
  2. Guns N' Roses
  3. RHCP
  4. Donovan
  5. Small Faces/Faces
  6. Laura Nyro
2013:
  1. Public Enemy
  2. Donna Summer
  3. Albert King
  4. Rush
  5. Randy Newman
  6. Heart
2014:
  1. Nirvana
  2. Peter Gabriel
  3. Hall & Oates
  4. Linda Ronstadt
  5. Kiss
  6. Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
2015:
  1. Green Day
  2. Lou Reed
  3. SRV & Double Trouble
  4. Bill Withers
  5. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
  6. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
2016:
  1. N.W.A
  2. Deep Purple
  3. Cheap Trick
  4. Chicago
  5. Steve Miller
2017:
  1. Tupac Shakur
  2. Pearl Jam
  3. Joan Baez
  4. Yes
  5. ELO
  6. Journey
2018:
  1. Nina Simone
  2. The Cars
  3. Dire Straits
  4. The Moody Blues
  5. Bon Jovi
2019:
  1. Radiohead
  2. Janet Jackson
  3. The Cure
  4. Roxy Music
  5. Def Leppard
  6. The Zombies
  7. Stevie Nicks
2020:
  1. Whitney Houston
  2. Nine Inch Nails
  3. The Notorious B.I.G
  4. Depeche Mode
  5. T. Rex
  6. The Doobie Brothers
2021:
  1. Jay - Z
  2. Tina Turner
  3. Foo Fighters
  4. The Go - Go's
  5. Todd Rundgren
  6. Carole King
2022:
  1. Eminem
  2. Dolly Parton
  3. Eurythmics
  4. Duran Duran
  5. Pat Benatar
  6. Lionel Richie
  7. Carly Simon
2023:
  1. Willie Nelson
  2. Kate Bush
  3. Missy Elliott
  4. The Spinners
  5. RATM
  6. George Michael
  7. Sheryl Crow
2024:
  1. A Tribe Called Quest
  2. Mary J. Blige
  3. Ozzy Osbourne
  4. Kool & The Gang
  5. Cher
  6. Dave Matthews Band
  7. Peter Frampton
  8. Foreigner
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2024.05.18 15:05 Dacarolen Catelyn Darklyn, Lady of Duskendale

Reddit Account: Dacarolen
Discord Tag: @augie0443
Name and House: Catelyn Darklyn
Age: 21
Cultural Group: DuskendaleCrownlands
Appearance: Standing at around five feet, four inches, Catelyn Darklyn is a woman with a frail appearance and pale coloring. Black of eyes and chestnut coloring of hair, her soft silks and frail demeanor create an image of delicate aura. With a soft smile and soft tone, she initially does not seem like much but she stands out through her eagerness for extravagant and exotic attire.
Trait: Steward
Skill(s): Architect (E), Avaricious (E), and Scrutinous
Talent(s): Dancing, Singing and Acting
Negative Trait (s): N/A
Starting Title (s): Lady of Duskendale
Starting Location: Opening Event
Biography:
Much like their city, the Darklyns have seen better times and brighter horizons than the twilight of the now. On the onset of the conquest, Dannis Darklyn led his family and arms in support of Aegon Targaryen, the Great Conqueror. For his zealous support, the man was rewarded with a post upon the newly forged small council - a reward Dannis time and time again fought to keep for himself.
Yet in assisting Aegon (though in truth many shall argue he had no choice on the matter) Dannis abetted the conditions that began the decline of Duskendale. With the forging of the Seven Kingdoms into one realm, a capital was needed. Thus arose King's Landing. With the rise of King's Landing, Dannis Darklyn has seen his own home begin to wither away in the shadow of a greater holding.
So too has his family withered. His son, Young Robert Darklyn, died in a hunting accident in 20 AC - and this young lord in turn left two daughters and a miscarriage.
Catelyn was born in 4 AC amidst the end of the conquest and the various wars that came along with such a cataclysmic move. Eldest of two daughters, Catelyn was never intended to sit upon the Dusk Chair. Her father held hope that one day his wife might yet sire a son, but in the end these hopes and prayers went unanswered. Catelyn was joined two years later by another child, but alas it was another daughter, a Meredyth Darklyn.
She did not begin formal education until she turned six, but eventually her father began grooming her to be heir. Her tutors proved to be indulgent and controlling, constantly reminding her of her status as future Lady of Duskendale while also chastising her for any acts of freedom or defiance. Her early days were spent in study and prayer, a regiment which allowed for little freedom or time for herself. After all, why does a child need any moment to themselves?
Growing up, Catelyn proved to find her parents a distant set of individuals. Her father kept a firm distance from his heir and daughter, often remarking to his councilors ‘what am I meant to tell her? What could we possibly speak about?’ Her mother in turn often spent her time at court in King's Landing, immersing herself in the growing court culture there as a way to cope with her inability to sire a "proper heir." Amidst all this, Catelyn grew closest to her grandfather Dannis, who took a keen interest in ensuring his granddaughter’s wellbeing and education. Undoubtedly this interest being fueled by his increasing worry over the legacy he'd leave for his house.
For all the abandonment and absence of her parents, Catelyn did enjoy her happy moments during childhood. Catelyn and her sister often spent their summers at Sunhail Tower, just south of the city, where the isolation of the tower - manor freed them from the near suffocating smells of Duskendale. It was here, amidst the walls of the manor, that she spent her summer days dreaming about the folktales and stories often uttered by the wet nurses at bedtime. Amidst these walls, she could allow her mind to wander in the presence of the images of past kings and legendary figures; a Darklyn King Alexander I images of The Mother and Maiden, and tales of the Crab Kings were all part of an assortment of stories and folklore that kept her mind dreaming during these few moons of respite.
This respite ended in 20 AC, when her father perished. With her grandfather still in King's Landing, Catelyn was forced to ascend to her family's seat. She became Duskendale’s true lady in 23 AC, when her grandfather at last left for the countryside, exhausted from the years of petty politicking in the royal court.
Catelyn has ruled Duskendale for two years, and yet she's already left a mark upon the minds of her smallfolk. She is young and comely, a fact which endears her to the smallfolk. Yet Catelyn is also extremely introverted, keeping away from the world while often indulging her days in poetry, writing and constant thought on magnificent works for Duskendale. However, Catelyn has taken time to travel her lands, humble as her holdings are in comparison to the days of the Dusk Kings of old. She enjoys speaking with the smallfolk, and often proves generous to those smallfolk who show her kindness and grace during her travels.
Yet her councilors and vassals find themselves increasingly worried for their futures. Catelyn has promised to build a new castle outside Duskendale along the shores of Blackwater Bay, a castle of white marble and of paintings in the style of the Free Cities. A true keep for the tales. All that remains to be seen is what runs out first; her dreams or her coffers?
Family Tree: https://www.familyecho.com/?p=IT4ER&c=96b63z8qtyw3uiz3&f=848637710707852203

Supporting Character(s):

Jonos Darklyn (General), Catelyn Darklyn’s uncle and keen worry. Her uncle Jonos is known for being a rigid man, traditional in his view of faith and quick to embrace martial options.
Meredyth Darklyn (Scholar), young sister to Catelyn Darklyn and her keen friend. Unfortunately, Meredyth is said to suffer from worse afflictions than her sister and is known for being mentally distant from the world.
Corliss Darklyn (Magnate), the flashy cousin of Catelyn. Young Corliss is known for being vibrant and open to the world. While he's no party animal, he is no stranger to the affairs of court both at home and in King's Landing.
Ellyn Darklyn (Medic), the sweet cousin of Catelyn. Ellyn is known for being a vibrant personality much like her brother. However, much to the worry of the local septon, she's a woman of little faith who has been vexed by the mysteries of the mortal world.
Corlys Darkgood (Master at Arms), master at arms for Duskendale.
Gerold Darke (Warrior - Swords), the most prominent fighter from Duskendale.
Dannis Darklyn (Magnate), the leal vassal of Aegon the Conqueror and talented Master of Coin (former). His age has brought him exhaustion, but his talents remain honed as ever, if unused.
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2024.05.18 14:14 MallAffectionate9 Ser Marq Grafton, Heir to Gulltown & Lord Mathos Grafton, Lord of Gulltown

Reddit Account: MallAffectionate9
Discord Tag: m.ro
Name and House: Marq Grafton.
Age: 32.
Cultural Group: Valeman Andal.
Appearance: Taller than a Grafton has any right to be at six-foot-four, wide of shoulder and hard with muscle. Blonde and fair-skinned, with wavy short hair and an equally short beard. Blue-eyed and handsome, most commonly dressed in fineries bearing the colors of his house.
Trait: Strong.
Skill(s): Two-Handed Weapons (E), Andal Knight (E), First Man Warrior.
Talent(s): Hunting, axe-throwing, playing dice.
Negative Trait(s): N/A.
Starting Title(s): Ser, Heir to Gulltown, the Magnificent.
Starting Location: King's Landing.
Timeline:
7 BC - Marq is born in Gulltown as the first child of his parents, Ser Mandon Grafton and Lady Janyce Templeton.
3 BC - Marq's younger sister, Maris, is born in Gulltown.
0 BC - Marq's father, Ser Mandon, dies after Vhagar sets the Gulltown fleet on fire during the Battle off Gulltown. Marq becomes the heir to Gulltown.
1 AC - Marq is sent as a page and cup-bearer to Runestone, and quickly develops a fierce rivalry with Godric Royce.
4 AC - Marq is sent off to [placeholder] to squire for [placeholder].
11 AC - Marq is knighted for valor at one of the many melees hosted at Driftmark.
12 AC - Denys Waynwood, fourth son of Lord Jasper Waynwood of Ironoaks, becomes Marq's squire.
14 AC - Marq wins a melee at Driftmark.
16 AC - Marq attends the festivities in the Kingswood, only narrowly escaping with his life but distinguishing himself as a warrior and not a mere tourney knight.
20 AC - Marq marries Corenna Corbray, the first-born daughter of Lord Corwyn Corbray of Heart's Home.
21 AC - Marq places well in the lists at the Strawberry tourney, though is defeated by Ser Roland Arryn. The two befriend eachother. Marq also knights his squire, Denys.
23 AC - Marq places second in a melee at Driftmark.
25 AC - Marq travels toward the capital for the name-day celebrations of the two heirs to the throne to represent his lord grandfather, who cites reasons of age for not attending - but in truth just refuses to attend a dragon's celebrations.
Family Tree: Link.
Supporting Characters:
Lady Maris Grafton - Ship Captain - Younger sister, Captain of the Beacon Fire and the de-facto Admiral of Gulltown. Wife of Ser Jonos Arryn.
Maester Osfryd - Scholar - Maester of Gulltown, a landed knight's bastard from a small village near Rosby. An experienced historian who dabbles in the healing arts - among other things.
Non-Archetyped NPCs:
Ser Gerold Grafton - Lord Commander of the City Watch of Gulltown, uncle.
Ser Jon Grafton - Son of Ser Gerold, cousin. Married to Lady Margaery Manderly, cousin of Lord Damon Manderly of White Harbor.
Rhea Grafton - Daughter of Ser Gerold, cousin.
Uther Shett - Seneschal.
Mandon - Septon.
Alys - Septa.
Ser Qyle Stone - Master-at-Arms.
Ser Creighton Arryn (of Gulltown) - Captain of the Guards.
Ser Pate the Sailor - Harbormaster.
Alloquo of Braavos - Shipwright.

Auxiliary Character:

Name and House: Mathos Grafton.
Age: 74.
Cultural Group: Valeman Andal.
Appearance: Wrinkled and nearly bald, with white hair and equally white whiskers - save for a stubborn bit of his moustache that maintains the Grafton coloring, Mathos looks just about how you'd expect a man of his advanced age to look like. Standing at five-foot-ten, the years have withered away what was once a slim albeit muscular body. Blue-eyed and fair-skinned, with an authoritative look about him. Though he just looks old now, he was considered a dashing young man in his prime.
Trait: Numerate.
Skill(s): Avaricious (E), Scrutinous
Talent(s): Finance, reading, hawking, brooding.
Negative Trait(s): Elderly.
Starting Title(s): Lord of Gulltown, Warden of the Bay of Crabs, Protector of Trade, Ser, the Old.
Starting Location: Gulltown.
Biography:
Timeline:
49 BC - Mathos is born as the second son of his sire, Lord Maladon Grafton.
30 BC - Mathos is knighted after a naval battle in the Narrow Sea, where a Gulltown merchant convoy comes under attack by pirates from the Summer Isles.
29 BC - Mathos is wed, and soon after his first-born son, Mandon, is born.
26 BC - Mathos embarks on a journey across the world, travelling from the Arbor to Qarth. During this time, his elder brother Alesandor throws himself out of the Moon Door at the Eyrie for reasons not entirely clear to anyone else, making Mathos the heir to Gulltown.
22 BC - After the death of his father from injuries sustained during a duel of honor against the Lord of Longbow Hall, Mathos becomes the Lord of Gulltown.
19 BC - Mathos's second-born, Gerold, is born at Gulltown.
12 BC - Mathos enacts a new customs policy, bringing in lucrative amounts of exotic trade from Essos. With his new-found wealth, he finances a vast fleet to be constructed.
7 BC - Mathos's grandson, Marq, is born at Gulltown.
3 BC - Mathos's granddaughter, Maris, is born at Gulltown.
0 BC - Mathos' eldest, Mandon, dies at the Battle off Gulltown after the Gulltown armada's defeat of the Targaryen fleet. While the Vale of Arryn, and Gulltown with it, swears fealty to the three-headed dragon, Mathos swears a vow of vengeance in secret.
7 AC - Mathos discreetly finances a Riverlander plot to assassinate King Aegon I Targaryen, which succeeds.
11 AC - Mathos's grandson and heir, Marq, is knighted.
20 AC - Mathos arranges a marriage between his grandson, Ser Marq, and Lady Cyrenna Corbray, and a second between his granddaughter Lady Maris and Ser Jonos Arryn.
22 AC - Mathos withdraws from the council of advisors at the Eyrie, citing reasons of advanced age.
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2024.05.12 21:58 DreamPig666 Some photos I found on an old phone of some bookshelves at Museum of Morbid Anatomy before they closed in 2016.

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2024.05.11 23:41 Clasheer A call upon death

While Carl was fighting his own battle, the trio took on the admiral, but couldn’t find a single opening in his attacks. Much like their last battle during the jailbreak, Kane began to overmatch the defense of William and Díaz, doing it all, while deflecting Johnathan’s attacks. The fight looked one sided, but didn’t seem like it would end soon, up until Kane dealt a vital blow to William’s left shoulder.
The attack was similar to the ones before, but this one didn’t heal. Instead, the arm became numb and unable to move. It became clear, that it wasn’t a bluff, that Kane knew how to deal with Aion. Blocking wasn’t an option anymore, so they switched to the offensive, but with one of them impaired, they didn’t have much success either.
Knowing this was the truth, all of them showed off transformations, similar to Kane’s.
Johnathan still had his sword remaining, but got a silver armor over his arms, held together by a strap on the back. His eyes and his hair turned from brown to grey, and the sword started shining white. The handle, which was azure before, became pitch black, contrasting the light with darkness.
In both of Díaz’s hand, flames appeared, but instead of orange, they were burning with every color of the rainbow. The blue flames were the hottest ones, coming from the heat that broke down the water in the air and caught the hydrogen on fire. These flames were strong enough to melt stone and burn through diamonds.
William’s was a little different. There was no change in physical appearance. Everything around him started to wither away than go back to its original state, and repeat it over and over again, excluding him. This created a zone around him, where he could trap anything, living or not, in a constant cycle, unable to move. This was the extension of the ability he used on the general before.
Kane viewed each one of them as inferior to his, because they weren’t the extent of the powers. He had a harder time against these three, who could give Ainsworth and Vukič a run for their money, but eventually he found the upper hand.
Johnathan only strengthened his physical attributes like durability and strength, but still lacked against special attack, which began breaking the armor apart. It didn’t take long to shatter the upper armguards to pieces, clanking as they fell onto the ground. Losing his armor, he wasn’t able to defend against the next attack, which hit him right in the stomach.
He started spitting up blood, and dropped to the ground, unable to move. While he was on the ground, he got hit on the back, and lost both of his lungs. With this, only minutes of his life were remaining.
Seeing how, despite the three of them attacking at the same time, one got taken out, they went all out. Both of them were looking for revenge for the previous humiliation.
William tried to get close as possible, to doom Kane for eternity, but when he got close enough, he got hit by another attack. It was the same, when he undid it at the escape attempt. What he didn’t calculate, was that he Díaz didn’t know how to defeat it. He got caught up in the zone, and was rendered useless. With now his right eye gone, he wasn’t able to determine the distance between themselves, and missed every attack.
With one final blow to the chest, his heart stopped beating. Kane decided to end Díaz’s suffering and stopped his heart as well. With the three of them defeated, he took off the blindfold, and went looking for Byron, to see what’s taking so long, but he felt a strange sensation from his back, going through his body.
When he touched his chest, he could feel a cold metal, and when he looked down, he saw a shining, white blade piercing through his torso. When he tried to destroy it, the sword was pulled out, and there was a hole left. The strike came from above, where his shoulder blades connect to his spine, went through his neck, his aorta, and out of his chest. With how much damage he conceded from this attack alone was able to knock him on his knees, but regenerated the destroyed parts quickly. When he turned around, he saw Johnathan standing over him with a triumphant smile.
After he said this, his body got enveloped in darkness, it reopened the scar he got before and started flowing through it. Both his heart and his mind were filled with nothing, but the only idea to kill every single pirate. When the darkness disappeared, he was covered in dark clothes, with a constant laughter, like a madman. His skin turned dark gray, and his eyes and hair reflected the color in his heart: black.
But before he could attack the three of them, a beam of light flew through his scar, repairing it once again, while he collapsed once again. Once the light reached the floor, it created an even brighter beam, reaching for the sky.
Check out the full story up to this point: https://www.wattpad.com/story/365789475-seas-of-change
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2024.05.06 13:01 omegacluster Album Anniversary List 2024-05-06

Today's anniversaries are:
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2024.05.02 04:30 JohannGoethe Dialogue 2 Nietzsche arrives at the event location

Dialogue 2 Nietzsche arrives at the event location
See: Dialogue table
Abstract
Second draft attempt; script cut ✂️ (didn’t work).
Background
In Aug 67A (1888), Nietzsche writes to Carl Fuchs that he was “born posthumously”.
On 15 Oct 67A (1888), Nietzsche turned 44.
This year he writes The Anti christ (restricted), said to be his last finished book (private), in the preface of which he says that this book was written for someone not yet born.
On 13 Nov 67A (1888), Nietzsche sends his Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist), originally titled “I tell myself my life”, to the publisher (restricted). This is his “auto-existo-graphy”, in Abioism speak, aka his Biography, as he does not plan on being “existive”, aka alive (no mod), the following year (private).
On 3 Jan 66A (1889), Nietzsche sees a horse (exmormon inside joke) 🐎 being flogged, runs to it, tries to protect the horse, the police 👮‍♂️ are called; Nietzsche is put in a Psychiatry hospital, and looses his mind, or rather will (private) to power (private), i.e. becomes crazy (restricted) forever thereafter.
» It is amazing how 9+ (of 15) or 60% Reddit links here are defunct? What a mess? I can’t even write ✍️ a paragraph in Reddit, with working links? I need to get back to Hmolpedia so that I don’t have to deal with this 60% plus dead-link issue!
Script
See: Dialogue 1 Nietzsche agrees to come to the party! (✂️)
On 2 Jan 66A (1889), the day before Nietzsche was about to loose his mind, amid the horse flogging incident, Nietzsche wakes up in the year A1111 (3066), at the 1,000-room Holbach Hotel 🏨 / Goethe Elective Affinities reaction Estate “event location” for the party, in his own personal extended stay multi-room space, surrounded by his 1,100+ personal library, draft notes, writing material, and related necessities, and a kitchen filled with is usual dietary needs, and hotel safe filled with enough money to pay for whatever needs he might have, throughout the course of the party.
Nietzsche, looking around strangely, gets out of bed 🛌, and sees his personal library 📚, arranged in the room around him, similar to that shown below, but not exactly in its original state, rather in a more futuristic ordering:
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After examining the room, and looking out of the window 🪟, where he sees a strange futuristic looking land:
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a knock ✊ is heard at the door. Nietzsche opens door. LibbThims is standing there.
2.1 Thims
German English
Hallo, Nietzsche! Ich bin Libb Thims, die Organisatorin der Veranstaltung. Hello, Nietzsche! I am Libb Thims, the event organizer.
2.2. Nietzsche
German English
Wie bin ich hierher gekommen? Wie sind alle meine Bücher hierher gekommen? How did I get here? How did all my books 📚 get here?
  1. 3 Thims
German English
Sie befinden sich im Hotel Holbach-Goethe und dies ist Ihr persönliches Zimmer. You are at the Holbach-Goethe Hotel 🏨 and this is your personal room.
  1. 4 Nietzsche
German English
Es gibt ein Hotel, das nach Goethe und Holbach benannt ist? There is a hotel named after Goethe and Holbach?
  1. 5 Thims
German English
Ja, aber dies ist ein Hotel 🏨 in der Zukunft, 1177 Jahre nach Ihrer Zeitrechnung, um genau zu sein. Yes, but this is a hotel 🏨 in the future, 1177-years from your time, to be exact.
  1. 6 Nietzsche
German English
Du bist verrückt! Du hast mich unter Drogen gesetzt und hierhergebracht? You are crazy! You drugged me and brought me here?
  1. 7 Thims
German English
Nein. Ich schreibe eine Geschichte, in der sich die besten 1000 Köpfe 1111 Jahre nach der ersten Entdeckung des Atoms durch den Menschen treffen. Wir befinden uns jetzt im 2. Dialog dieser Geschichte. No. I’m writing a story where the top 1000 minds, see: invite list, meet 1111-years after the atom is first seen by humans, and have a series of Socratic dialogues. We are now in the 2nd dialogue or “script part” of that story.
  1. 8 Nietzsche
German English
In this ”invite list”, I am shown as IQ:190/#29. What does this notation mean?
  1. 9 Thims
German English
The number 29, means that in my A67 (2022) rankings of the top 2000 geniuses and minds of all time, which took me 30+ years to make, you are ranked as the 29th smartest person ever.
2.10 Nietzsche
German English
29th smartest person ever you say?
2.11 Thims
German English
Yes.
You could have gone higher, MUCH higher, given aphorism #1 of 1,400 aphorisms of your Human, All Too Human (77A/1878), which I repeat to you (below):
Aphorism #1
The following is aphorism #1, of the 1,400 aphorisms, of Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch Fuer Freie Geister):
German English
Alles, was wir brauchen und was erst bei der gegenwärtigen Höhe der einzelnen Wissenschaften uns gegeben werden kann, ist eine Chemie der moralischen, religiösen, ästhetischen Vorstellungen und Empfindungen, ebenso aller jener Regungen, welche wir im Gross- und Kleinverkehr der Cultur und Gesellschaft, ja in der Einsamkeit an uns erleben: “All that we need and that could possibly be given us in the present state of development of the sciences, is a chemistry of the ‘moral’, ‘religious’, ‘aesthetic’ conceptions and ‘feeling, as well as of those ‘emotions’ which we experience in the affairs, great and small, of society and civilization, and which we are sensible of even in solitude.
wie, wenn diese Chemie mit dem Ergebniss abschlösse, dass auch auf diesem Gebiete die herrlichsten Farben aus niedrigen, ja verachteten Stoffen gewonnen sind? Werden Viele Lust haben, solchen Untersuchungen zu folgen? Die Menschheit liebt es, die Fragen über Herkunft und Anfänge sich aus dem Sinn zu schlagen: muss man nicht fast entmenscht sein, um den entgegengesetzten Hang in sich zu spüren? But what if this chemistry established the fact that, even in its domain, the most magnificent results were attained with the basest and most despised ingredients? Would many feel disposed to continue such investigations? Mankind loves to put by the questions of its origin and beginning: must one not be almost inhuman in order to follow the opposite course?”
2.12 Thims
German English
But, your mind 🧠 “cracked”, a decade later, on 3 Jan 66A (1889), the day before I brought you here, after seeing a horse 🐎 being flogged.
2.13 Nietzsche
German English
I cracked, you say?
2.14 Thims
German English
Yes. On the days following your horse flogging incident, you began writing “crazy” like letters to all your associates, signed “Dionysus“.
2.15 Nietzsche
German English
That is possible? I do consider myself to be like Dionysus, incarnate.
2.16 Thims
German English
Dionysus is an Osiris rescript. You have much to catch up on.
2.17 Nietzsche
German English
Osiris?
2.18 Thims
German English
Yes. This was decoded years before you, e.g. by Sergey Uvarov, in his On the Mysteries of Eleusis (143A/1812), and other pioneers of ReligioMythology.
Thims shows Nietzsche the entertainment room of his suite, replete with its own bartender, upon request, which he can use to entertain guests:
https://preview.redd.it/bljh0u0roxxc1.jpg?width=1185&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac365f890fd27e19544cd782f556c3ad89fd1fa4
2.19 Nietzsche
German English
I do not drink alcohol! It is a drug like Christianity. From both I abstain.
2.20 Thims
German English
Many say that is why you cracked?
2.21 Nietzsche
German English
Hmm?
2.22 Thims
German English
I would suggest you pour yourself a drink, to process your new situation.
2.22 Nietzsche
German English
You must be a Christian, sent by my father, trying to trick me?
2.23 Thims
German English
This the key 🔑 to your room, which is room #2, the same number as our dialogue.
[under construction 🚧]
Script Blanks
Thims
German English
Nietzsche
German English
Notes
  1. The invention of the lightbulb occurred in 76A (1879) by Thomas Edison; and used in Germany three years later.
External links
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2024.04.29 01:03 geopolicraticus Science and Friendship

Science and Friendship
The View from Oregon – 286
Re: Science and Friendship
Friday 26 April 2024

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Dear Friends,
The most valuable thing for a scholar is not his alma mater or his library or his list of publications, but a friend. Having someone who can be critical and yet appreciative of your ideas is a rare thing. My experience is that rare friends come and go through life, and while their presence is a boon, it can’t be counted on. On the contrary, one can count on the fact that even a good friend will not last long in one’s life. An intellectual friend has a distinctive role—it’s not necessarily the same person with whom you shoot pool, though it could be that also—and so particular qualities are required to fill that distinctive role. They must be one of the most intelligent people you’ve ever known, so that they can offer intelligent criticism, but they must also be sympathetic, and not merely or exclusively critical. They must know something about your area of research, enough to intelligently engage with any of the ideas you use, and they must know enough about you have some sense of what you are trying to accomplish and where you are trying to go, intellectually speaking. To find all these qualities together in one person is a rare thing. It has been my experience that such individuals are only rarely within one’s sphere of acquaintances.
What I particularly have in mind when I talk about a friend being the most valuable thing a scholar can have is the earliest development of an idea or ideas. When a new idea appears to you, and especially an idea that seems to have great potential, it is difficult to be objective about it. If the idea is exciting and seems like the kind of thing you’d like to devote the rest of your life to developing, you stand in need of friendly and constructive criticism. This is where an intelligent friend comes into play. You can bounce ideas off anyone, but just anyone won’t know about your intellectual background or what you’re trying to do. And someone who is knowledgeable about the field to which the idea in question is related is not necessarily going to be sympathetic either to you or to your idea. Both sympathies are key to having a good conversation about a developing idea.
I’m sure that this was always the case with analog society, but it has been made particularly obvious in digital society—and here I am talking about social media—that many people enjoy being awful, and many people who enjoy being awful derive a sadistic joy from denigrating others and their ideas. If you throw an idea out onto social media it will probably be ignored (unless you are famous), but, if it isn’t ignored, it will probably be savaged. Having a new idea savaged can kill it, or kill your enthusiasm for it. Killing your enthusiasm for an idea is as good as killing the idea itself, since, as Hegel said, nothing great is accomplished without passion. Hence my above specification that a friendly critic needs to be sympathetic both to you and to your idea.
An idea is eternal, and it remains what it is whether or not any human being pays attention to it. But an idea needs a human mind to bring it into human history, to show its relevance, to interpret it within the present social framework, and to bring it to life. No idea, however great it may be, enters into history without someone who can be the vehicle of that idea. When a great idea is channeled through a great mind, it can change the direction of history. All of this requires that at least one human being sees the potential in an idea, and devotes himself to its exposition. This requires enthusiasm, or something like enthusiasm, for the idea. A friendly critic will understand all of this intuitively, and he will help you gain some insight both into yourself and into the idea. And if he is a true friend, he will warn you away from an idea that is a blind alley, no matter your enthusiasm for it. Our time in this world is short, and we can only engage with so many ideas in a lifetime. We must choose well, or we waste our lives. A friendly critic will help us to choose well.
When an idea is young, it is as tender and as delicate as a green shoot that pokes its way out of the dirt underfoot. If anyone steps on it, it may well be killed. But if it is tended, it can grow into some mature plant. For an idea to be properly tended, it requires a certain kind of stimulus. Criticism is necessary, but it must be criticism based on love, not hostile, angry, or destructive criticism. Some of the most helpful advice I have ever received was difficult for me to accept, and it felt cruel to hear it, but it was never unkind, even when it was expressed forcefully. Sometimes criticism needs to be forceful, but it never needs to be malicious. Again, the friendly critic will understand all of this intuitively, and will offer a mixture of criticism and support that will make it possible for an idea to grow and mature. We often call this process “bouncing ideas off someone,” and this is as good of a metaphor as any other (as good as the metaphor of an idea as a tender, young shoot). We know, however, that we can’t bounce ideas off just anyone. We need the right surface for our ideas to bounce back to us in an orderly and productive way. This is what the friendly critic does for us.
Much of what I am writing here is reflective of my own experience, and what I am missing also reflects my own experiences. Many people go through higher education precisely to find mentors who will help them to make the difficult choices of where to invest their scholarly energies, guiding them to the fruitful questions and warning them away from the dead ends. And even after one’s apprenticeship, one has the ongoing fellowship of colleagues who can be the kind of friendly critic I have described. No doubt all of this is true, but since it’s not part of my experience I can’t speak to it. And I have heard a few stories from those within institutionalized scholarship to know that there are people within institutions who are just as eager to be awful as people on social media.
My mom used to use the evocative expression, “never met a stranger,” to describe individuals who are naturally sociable and have a manner than endears them to others. Such an individual often makes a great friend, but I don’t think that many intellectuals are like this. A lot of intellectuals are painfully introverted and have difficulty socializing. It comes with the territory; being engaged with ideas usually means being inward-looking, while being engaged with other people and with events and occurrences in the world usually means being outward-looking (in other words, I’m talking about introverts and extroverts—one need not be dogmatic about the distinction to observe that it is often roughly accurate). Again, I’m speaking from my own experience, and your mileage may vary. What doesn’t vary is that the optimal development of an idea occurs in a context in which many distinct minds each bring their own perspective to it, each bringing out what the other misses, and this requires a community of individuals with a shared interest in the idea in question.
Ideally, science is like a circle of friends. I have often referenced Imre Lakatos’ conception of a scientific research program, as this is a crucial part of scientific research that received little or no attention prior to the work of Lakatos. It is the existence of a scientific research program (among other things) that distinguishes contemporary science from ancient science: large numbers of people over a large geographical area and over a long period of time work cooperatively on a related cluster of ideas, which advances a field of research in a way that not even the most prolific individual can match.
In my recent video on Arnold Toynbee I quoted from MacNeill’s biography of Toynbee such that, “Had he been able to create a Cambridge school of world historians… his influence might have been greater in the long run.” (p. 209) This problem is felt with particular urgency in history and the study of civilization, and Toynbee represented both. Because he established no school, i.e., no scientific research program, he remained and remains a lone figure. In France at about the same time, the Annales school was established and it has had a highly influential career, still today, after many changes, influencing the way history is written. Of course, a few people still read Toynbee (I read Toynbee), but it’s not the same as a group of scholars working together on an interrelated set of concepts. A writer with devoted readers in every generation is a kind of thread running through history, but a writer around which a research program forms is a community, and a community is a living and evolving entity. It is this living and evolving nature of a research community that keeps an idea alive without stagnating. A stagnant idea will soon be forgotten; a living idea will grow into a social role that will shape minds over generations.
A human mind, I wrote above, brings an idea to life; a community of minds brings an idea into a social milieu, i.e., it brings an idea into communal life. It is no longer merely lit up by a single consciousness like a bare bulb hanging in an empty room, it is now under a battery of floodlights. This kind of scrutiny would destroy a trivial idea—some ideas are meant to haunt only single mind, as idiosyncratically personal as the peculiar pattern of floaters that one sees in one’s field of vision. Such idiosyncratic ideas—we could call them the floaters of the mind’s eye—are fine, but strictly limited in scope. But a fundamental idea, an idea of fundamental importance, which possesses great potential for development, will not wilt or wither under scrutiny; rather, it will be stimulated to greater growth, only realizing its full potential when so scrutinized.
Best wishes,
Nick
PS—I have finished listening to Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way. This is a classic of the genre, but I’m not sure what the genre is. Is it a classic of classicism? That sounds a little awkward. In any case, having recently re-listened to Hamilton’s The Echo of Greece, I realized I wanted to listen to The Greek Way, which depicts the apogee of ancient Greek civilization, of which the other book depicts the mere later echo. The chapters on tragedy and the tragedians were particularly good. I hope to soon listen to Hamilton’s The Roman Way.
PPS—I have also finished listening to Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor and Dee Ranieri. This was a short book, only a little over four hours. Being so short, and covering a figure to whom libraries of books have been devoted, it felt a little perfunctory. Cantor was known as a medievalist, so it is difficult to understand why be bothered to write this little book on Alexander the Great. It doesn’t present any unusual, distinctive, or compelling argument, nor does it place Alexander in a novel light, so it seemed a little pointless.
PPPS—I’ve finished watching all of The Expanse. I previously discussed this television series in newsletter 118, when I had watched the first three seasons. I started over from the beginning, re-watched the initial three seasons and then watched the remainder that I had not previously seen. While there were parts of the show that annoyed me, this was more than made up for by the overall effect. Politically, this is one of the most savvy shows I have ever watched, and it is among the best science fiction series ever produced, if not the best. It is easy to nitpick and find fault (with a little effort I could produce a long list of things I didn’t like), but its virtues outweigh its faults, and to a significantly greater degree than other science fiction dramas.
PPPPS—Last week I mentioned that my paper, “A Complexity Ladder for Big History” is now available in the Journal of Big History. There is going to be a book published based on this special issue on complexity, so contributors will have an opportunity to revise and resubmit their papers. This is a fortunate turn of events for me, as I have thought of several things that I would like to add to this paper, and now I have the opportunity to integrate my expansions and revisions. In particular, I’ve been thinking about the relationships among nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales, and the relative role of convention in elaborating a ratio scale when no natural units of measurement present themselves. No natural unit is beyond metaphysical reproach, and no convention is purely arbitrary, so that the apparent gap between metaphysical truth and conventional postulate is not as great as it seems to be.

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2024.04.27 16:15 M0rtrek_the_ranger The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962, in the public domain) Classic MST3K episode starring Jan In The Pan about a scientist who wants to bring his decapitated fianceé a new body while keeping her alive with Neck Juice

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2024.04.25 21:36 luckyjim1962 The State of Florida's acknowledgement of John D. MacDonald

In its "Florida Artists Hall of Fame," the state of Florida includes a decent short biography of John D. MacDonald, with good background on this life and work. It also notes just how central MacDonald was to putting Florida on the literary (or at least genre fiction) map:
MacDonald's "McGee" series is credited as the spark that ignited an entire genre of Florida-based fiction built around the state's struggle to deal with enormous social and ecological problems brought on by a spiraling influx of people.
Such prominent novelists as Carl Hiassen (whose "McGee" is an ex-governor-turned-environmentalist named "Skink"); James W. Hall; Randy Wayne White; Laurence Shames; S.V. Date and Tim Dorsey continue to write in the best tradition of MacDonald's "McGee" series. Hiassen is quoted as calling MacDonald "the first modern writer to nail Florida dead-center, to capture all its languid sleaze, racy sense of promise and breath-grabbing beauty."
MacDonald's influence on literature was hardly confined to Florida. Novelists Kurt Vonnegut, Dean Koontz , Jonathan Kellerman, Mary Higgins Clark and Stephen King were long-time admirers. King called MacDonald "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller."
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2024.04.23 02:01 TonyYumYum My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks Free Audiobook and Review

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2024.04.20 08:40 Humalapuu On encounter groups, and it's relevance today.

I'm currently reading a book by Carl Rogers, "On Encounter groups". The book is written in 1970, and Roger writes how .. "It would be difficult to find a medium- to large-sized city in our country today in which some sort of intensive group experience is not available. The rapidity of the spread of interest has been incredible." And on top of that, there was no funding to these events by any foundations or the government. There seemed to be a spontaneous demand for these "human relations training groups", as described in the book.
(What is an encounter group? Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-groups )
This got me thinking: Are these kind of group experiences still relevant in U.S. and other countries? I couldn't find any information when searching about it so perhaps they are not as prevalent as they once were?
My interest is, whether these group experiences have now been aimed towards solely to organizations and companies, and withered away from the needs of common people. As Carl Rogers pointed out .. describing sensitivity training groups as "...the most significant social invention of the century".
I highly recommend reading the book, it's a treasure. you can loan it freely from archive . org.
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2024.04.20 08:38 Humalapuu On Encounter Groups, and it's relevance today.

I'm currently reading a book by Carl Rogers, "On Encounter groups". The book is written in 1970, and Roger writes how .. "It would be difficult to find a medium- to large-sized city in our country today in which some sort of intensive group experience is not available. The rapidity of the spread of interest has been incredible." And on top of that, there was no funding to these events by any foundations or the government. There seemed to be a spontaneous demand for these "human relations training groups", as described in the book.
(What is an encounter group? Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-groups )
This got me thinking: Are these kind of group experiences still relevant in U.S. and other countries? I couldn't find any information when searching about it, so perhaps they are not as prevalent as they once were?
My interest is, whether these group experiences have now been aimed towards solely to organizations and companies, and withered away from the needs of common people. As Carl Rogers pointed out .. describing sensitivity training groups as "...the most significant social invention of the century".
I highly recommend reading the book, it's a treasure. you can loan it freely from archive . org.
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2024.04.16 13:35 CoolandAverageGuy video games

The Player (Solar Smash)-----19 minutes
Lucky the Ninja Cat (Doodle Champion Island Games)----2 1/2 hours
Van (Ninjala)----3 hours
Jacob Marshall (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013)-----3 1/2 hours
Princess Arzette (Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore)--------6 hours
Richard Conway (Gunpoint)-----6 1/2 hours
X2 (Star Wars Battlefront)-----6 1/2 hours
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Rookie (Lego DC Super-Villains)-----43 1/2 hours
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Lord Vortech (Lego Dimensions)----54 1/2 hours
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Delphinus (Skies of Arcadia)----58 1/2 hours
Pinocchio (Lies of P)-----58 1/2 hours
Kyle Crane (Dying Light)----60 1/2 hours
[Update] Jake Conway (Ride to Hell: Retribution)----62 hours
Gingerbrave (Cookie Run Kingdom)-----65 hours
Korsica (Hi-Fi Rush)----65 hours
Chai (Hi-Fi Rush)------65 hours
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Sekiro (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice)------70 hours
Crymaria Levin (Valkyria Chronicles 4)-----71 hours
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2024.04.16 06:49 Thunder_breeze Longest word Reddit post ever, here you go. You’ve probably been waiting huh? Well it’s finally happened. Is this title getting **ANNOYING** perhaps? Or- whatever, you’re just wanting to see the post. And if this breaks Reddit I will not be held responsible for it because it wasn’t my intentions.

Once taken place in a terribly dreadful time, there was a small cat-licking bird that lived on a not-so-big lane by my house whose name was Charles just like every other soul, male or female, that lived on my smelly, stinky, orange , old, rotten, messy, busted cul-de-sac between Belmont and Rose which are both awfully gay Streets Like North street or some shit that reminds me of a celebrity like Paris Hilton or some blonde loser that doesn't even know the capital of her own country, which is the United States of America aka: The U.S.A which is a pristine nation of beauty, opposing to a country as the country of Somalia and Belgium, a part of Europe, which doesn't even have a government, it's just in a complete state of anarchy just like my mind and soul which are both filled with outrageous nonsense that I'm typing down right now into some fat long sentence that probably makes no sense but who cares I'm trying to set some sort of weird record here like most ducks snorted or some weird thing like that and if I do set some sort of record I will be in the Guinness Book of chimkin nungets World Records (though anti-American and pro-European, a place of pitty and despair as Somalia is) which was always my dream because that book has a whole bunch a cool and weird stuff in it and I would Become famous and add to the weirdness of the book like some of their records which reminds me of the Rob & Big where Rob sets all of those skateboarding Records And Big Black eats bananas and donuts and three weeks later they both get plaques saying the record they set and I want to get one of those so that's why I'm writing all of this stuff down without ever using a period or some other sentence ending mark like an exclamation point or a question mark or any other symbol that could possibly end my streak of words that is really long now and would take me a while to count just like counting sheep which is supposed to put you to sleep but it really keeps you awake because you want to keep counting and counting until you don't know what comes after trillions, but that would take Years or something because it would take a while just to count a trillion seconds or minutes would be even worse just like how ducks are worse that geese because they are more aggressive around their young unlike great white sharks which are often eaten by their mothers when they are born and the ones who do make it out alive have no mother to teach them how to hunt or whatever because none of that matters because us human beings have mothers unless they die or run off with some CEO of a big company or someone else who makes a lot of money and then they leave you with your dad and you are jealous of your friends if you have any because they have moms and you don't because your mom was some greedy pig who wanted money but ended up only getting the money part and she bought drugs because she was depressed and ended up killing herself from an overdose and you wouldn't even know about it until you become some rich person and check the files somewhere and learn that she died of a overdose and you eyes get all teary and then you start crying because you know that you wouldn't be alive without that woman you called mom and I just found out right now that the longest sentence is like 10,000 words so I have a ways to go and you have to go with me so let's go to 6th gear and throw out some words like Emphysema which I had to do a report on in 4th grade because we had a ton of projects and this was the disease one and we chose diseases out of a hat and I came out with Emphysema which is a form of lung cancer which is 98% caused by smoking which reminds me of the way my dad describes smoking: "you get plant leaves, wrap them in paper, light it on fire and suck on it" which is normally a sentence but not today because I'm setting out on the quest for a long sentence that I'm typing up which reminds me of a story my grandpa told me about himself when he was "your age" about how they covered the letters on the type writers and they had to type so that they could memorize where the letters are on a type writer and my grandpa says he will never regret taking that class because it helped him out a lot when it came to typing and now a days he is not bad a typing at all because He is almost as fast as me because I am a pretty fast typer and writing this article isn't taking very long and expect being pretty far pretty soon at the pace I'm going right now so there are going to be some serious records getting busted when I'm finally finished writing this article on this dumb website which will probably end up huffing this article even though it is fun-packed and joyful and keeps the reader reading when they use that excuse to mom saying "just one more sentence" but that sentence is 10,000 words long and still continuing to go at a reasonable pace and it is going to shatter most of those long sentence records just like how the chargers are going to shatter the most consecutive years without a super bowl win record and I doubt that they will win one in the near future but they patriots are going to win some serious super bowls because they are the best team ever even better than the cowboys or 49ers and no one cares a bout them so go patriots and boo chargers even though I live in San Diego and Like the Padres I hate the Chargers because they are bad and the padres are bad too but I don't care because they are my favorite team and the dodgers are my least favorite along with the Yankees because the Yankees get a lot of money to spend and the padres and marlins get almost nothing and then the Yankees buy a-rod for a lot and the Rays get almost no money but are still fighting for first place this season without expensive players like Derek Jeter or a-rod or Johnny Damon or whoever because they are an all around better team that can beat the Yankees even though the Yankees can beat the royals a lot who really suck because they suck more that the padres do and so do the mariners and Rockies even thought the Rockies went to the world series last year they lost and haven't stopped losing for a while now, either and they are last place in the NL west and that is where the padres used to be but they started hitting home runs and winning games and are dong pretty good right now despite having little offense except for Adrian Gonzalez who is leading the NL in RBI's even though he is on the team who scores the least runs in the league but they are not last in homeruns though they are like 5 away or something but I’m not sure so screw that and let's talk about something fun like water or food or dirt or something but I think food is the best because their is a lot of things to talk about with food like you r favorite food which mine happens to be some spicy burrito form Chipotle mexican grill and it is very good just like this macaroni my mom made one time that had bread crumbs on top and it was very good like all of the food they serve on top chef which I wish I could be a judge for because they have a lot of good food on that show and it makes my mouth water whenever I watch it and that is why I watch it because the food is totally awesome and sometimes I hate the people but they end up getting eliminated like the Dance crews in France's Best Dance Crew which is a great show and you should watch it because people do good dancing like the JFrabbawockeez because they won the first season and they are very good just like supreme soul and So real crew and phresh select and super cr3w and I’m only at 1500 words right now so I have to write some serious stuff like a life biography about myself and anything I’ve ever done which includes going to big bear to ski, fishing, breathing, swimming, going, farting, eating, sleeping and a whole lot more stuff which reminds me of 4th grade again when my teacher was debating with the class whether "a lot" was one or two words and all of the kids including myself said one while the teacher said two and he was right and we were wrong but no one cared because we all had fun arguing about and I have fun arguing with my friends about football and not baseball because in baseball we all like the same team but in football I like the patriots and my friends like the chargers and the 49ers and the eagles and the saints but my team always woops their team's ass and they say that the patriots "cheat" and that's how they won even though the patriots just pwned their team and they suck and my team is good but we all agree when it comes to baseball because we all like the padres and we never really argue over anything in baseball which is my favorite sport and I play it and I am good a it and I want it to be my profession but I doubt that that will happen so my backup plan is being a cop because you get all of the benefits and you get paid after you retire which is good news and I would also like to be some government dude or something like that because they get the benefits too so it would be cool to work for the government which reminds me that my principal worked at the white house and taught the president email because he was the computer guy or something like that so h knows a whole bunch of computer crap like my dad and he is fat too so everyone makes fun of him and I think he huffs kittens too but I am not sure and about that and what the hell is up with all the noob and kitten huffing on this gay ass website like all of the things like "the writer may have been huffing kittens" and stuff like that it really annoys the hell out of me just like other things such as when people clip their finger nails it makes that weird noise that get me all crazy and I hate it just like how me friend hates the sound of chalk on a chalkboard which I find soothing and relaxing but he gets really annoyed and psyched out and he is also very pale-skinned and so is the rest of his family so it must have been some genetic thing like twins and clones and whole bunch of other confusing science crap that I learned a long time ago in 7th grade or something. Before I continue, I'd like to thank today's sponsor: RAID: Shadow Legends™. RAID: Shadow Legends™ is an immersive online experience with everything you'd expect from a brand new RPG title. It's got an amazing storyline, awesome 3D graphics, giant boss fights, PVP battles, and hundreds of never before seen champions to collect and customize. I never expected to get this level of performance out of a mobile game. Look how crazy the level of detail is on these champions! RAID: Shadow Legends™ is getting big real fast, so you should definitely get in early. Starting now will give you a huge head start. There's also an upcoming Special Launch Tournament with crazy prizes! And not to mention, this game is absolutely free! So go ahead and check out the video description to find out more about RAID: Shadow Legends™. There, you will find a link to the store page and a special code to unlock all sorts of goodies. Using the special code, you can get 50,000 Silver immediately, and a FREE Epic Level Champion as part of the new players program, courtesy of course of the RAID: Shadow Legends™ devs. which was when we watched movies in class like UHF which has "Weird Al" Yankovic in it and it is very funny because "Weird Al" Yankovic has to save a TV station with a whole bunch of weird shows like wheel of fish and rauls wild kingdom with a whole bunch of cool animals like flamingos and turtles and stuff like that but who cares lets get to the meaty part of this article which is the part where I write the longest word known to man which is Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine which is cut out because it has 189,819 words so Wikipedia had to cut out the middle part and the longest word is the name of a protein which is the largest known to man to so big names go to big things is apparently the moral of this story ladies and gentleman the road doesn't stop here and I have to continue no matter what you say or think so I should just write some story now that has no periods so lets start with a guy named Carl who liked fish and women and he went to Clara’s house and they had a good food but that isn't enough of a story to set the record so I think I’ll just stick to writing random crap which really makes no sense at all and here is some random picture that shows a guy who has two legs and another guy who has three who is mocking the guy with two legs because he rips his flesh in disgust every night and you think about who would be dumb enough to rip their flesh instead of cut the ring off or something that doesn't involve entirely gruesome crap like that and I have another life after this one just like how cats have 9 lives I have three because I’m on my second one right now and it is great and you might think I’m a whole new person but you are thinking wrong it's just when I died I came back t life and next time I die I’ll come back to life again and then when I die I’ll be dead for sure which reminds me of Stephen king's book called pet sematary which is coo because people come back to life because there was a burial ground that bring people back to life if they are dead and that book is a great book and you should read it along with the Harry Potter series which has magic in it and it is cool too so don't shank yourself when you are cutting that meat for dinner or you might die of massive blood loss or might just need a band aid I mean that works too or you don't even need a band aid because I don't use them and I have never gotten and infection in my life so maybe I’m lucky or have an alligator immune system or something but I don't use band aids and I don't use Neosporin on my cuts so I’m some sort of miracle I guess but I’m wasting twenty minutes of my miracle life on this retard article that I just want the Guinness book of world records to see and go that is the longest thing ever and have me in their book so I’m striving towards that goal right now and I’m not stopping until I hit at least 3000 words and then I’ll do the construction thing and finish thing up tomorrow or sometime after now and I will be the author of the longest single sentence on the planet earth which will be a real accomplishment on my part so you can be real jealous right now because I am making history right in front of you and if you are still reading this I am truly impressed because this article must be getting really boring by now and maybe your not even reading this just scanning the article for periods which I’m afraid you will not find until the very end of this article which is a very, very, long way away and if you are a slow reader well sucks for you but now I have to use that construction thing and I will finish this and now I am back after a hard day at work but I’m still going now so get ready to rumble with this long thing called a sentence that is as long as Mt. Everest is tall and the Marinas Trench is deep and speaking of the ocean fish of all kinds live in the ocean such as puffer fish which are poisonous to eat if not prepared right and will make you die after and you ADMINS BETTER NOT DELETE THIS BECAUSE IT IS SOME RECORD and if you do delete it well I will have this saved and what will you do then you people who will want to delete this because you don't care about people trying to break records so don't delete this or I will boycott Uncyclopedia and will be very mad at you guys like how I am Mad at Tim for being so annoying just like Celebrities and loud people and people who don't brush their teeth which makes me think of killing myself except I wouldn't do that because I am some sort of miracle as you probably read before or not because you are tired of reading this jumble of words that are still making a grammatically correct sentence that is breaking records right now and I won't stop until you let me break some serious records like longest sentence and some other weird stuff that I might get an award for or something but I also want that Guinness record plaque that you get for setting a monster record like most consecutive noses picked with boogers in them or something completely obscure like that which is like a bunch of the articles on this website which are actually some times funny like how to solve a one by one by one Rubik’s cube which made me laugh pretty good and the star wars one is good too so never delete those two because they are funny unlike this article because this article is more boring than funny but who cares some retard might laugh at this bundle of crap and I think that I will put that crap tag on this article so people know that this article isn't really funny but that it is long and boring like Dances with Wolves and some other long movies that you actually fall asleep during which is hard for me to do so I tend not to nut I did when I watched Dances with Wolves because it was really boring like counting sheep to a trillion or some other large number that some little kid says he wishes he had that many dollars but he will never get that many dollars because there isn't even that many in circulation right now and if there was that would be some major inflation right there so don't think you can get that much money kid because then you would not be doing this country a favor which it desperately needs I might add so instead burn money instead of make it and lower inflation rates and do everyone a favor except for the people who are already really rich and don't care about inflation and would rather drive an escalade instead of a Prius in times like this with all of the gas prices and stuff that would drive up your bill but they don't notice because they have a lot of money and don't care therefore they should die and burn in hell with all of the lawyers and other bad people on this ball we call earth that really isn't a perfect sphere because of the mountains and valleys makes it look all jagged but from space it looks like a sphere but looks may be deceiving so don't think that the world is a sphere no matter what other people say and tell them to eat themselves when they try to convince you that the earth is really a sphere but it isn't just like how most ignorant people think that Columbus found America but he really didn't that was Leif Erickson, but Columbus really found the Bahamas thinking they were penis outside of china and he was wrong so everyone forget Columbus and remember some other sailor like Henry Hudson who tried to find the northern passage but didn't so his crew killed him but a he was a great man any way so remember him instead of Columbus or remember William Penn who created Pennsylvania or remember your grandma or someone but not Columbus so go ahead and think that the earth is flat even though it isn't and it can have for corners if you think about it so go die and fall off a cliff or something interesting like that or at least get a life that want’ to penis e a cool record like the one I'm setting right now so go to a pawnshop and buy a life or kill yourself and get a new one or something weird like that or I will force you to and if you are still reading this you are an amazing human because I forget most of the stuff I’ve written already except for the great white shark thing at the beginning of the article and I remember that I need to go see some good movies tomorrow or sometime in the near future like within a week or something but forget that I'm only at 3500 words now so lets go to 4000 penis and then maybe I’ll call it quits because this is boring and I would rather write another article that is good and long but not all one sentence like this one so let's come up with some final five hundred words or so to say before I stop writing all of the nonsense so let's brainstorm ideas like poo, ducks, lemons, flanges, more ducks and star wars which sound about like enough and I like star wars out of there so let's talk about some penis star wars stuff like Kit Fisto who has weird tentacle things on his head and Ki-Adi-Mundi who has two brains and is on the Jedi which is penis honor and privilege because it is and Kit Fisto gets killed by Palpatine in the 3rd movie like Mace Windu who is cool and I like his light saber because it is purple unlike the standard blue and green colors which I prefer green out of but most people seem to like the blue colors but who cares about them they like blue and green is better so you better not like blue or you are some lame person that will be lame for the rest of your life like some people who think that they are cool but are really posers and they live their life not knowing that they are continually mocked and made fun of all of the time behind their backs and that they are really dumb or something so go out and tell all of the posers you know to not be posers anymore and tell them that they should go jump in a lake or something insulting like that and make them run and cry and you can laugh at them and hope they don't tell their mom who will be mad at you so maybe you shouldn't even do that you should just laugh at them behind their backs while they live the poser life and I'm near 4000 words now so let me slow down now yeah I have about a hundred words left so let me write down the exact amount before I stop writing so let me finish this thing up by talking about donuts and their fried goodness and how they make you fat and stuff but they do taste good so you should eat them because they are good and they taste good even though you could get fat but no one cares so eat them and be happy and I am starting to near 4000 now so just be a bit patient and this has been fun guys so let me finish right about, where you should wait for it, and wait, 'till right about, where we are almost there, having just two more for that you should wait, while this actually isn’t going to stop because I want this to keep going for a little while longer so that I can still break some record but man am I tired so I think I will actually shut up now, nope this has to continue forever and will continue for years and then a Bert killed the 3-legged guy and ate his orange while pooping and then I shall say the bird's name is "a bird who walked across the street killed a guy with a Minecraft nose and stuff. Jesus Christ is my lord and savior.You guys probably think that that is the worlds longest sentence, but it's not,because I just keep on adding commas, and it's pretty easy, if you think about it, so anyway there is this girl at school and she's my friend, and all but she's turning really mean, its a different person, and I'm trying to beat the record, but that girl, who likes this boy, who likes this girl, and who likes this other boy, and that same kid likes this other girl, but that girl like another guy, but the guy is actually a 40 year old man that eats penis for a living for the ability to never show the meerkats who's doing the write things oh and my last remark is that socialism does not work because look at Europe and Greece which is failing miserably; America always wins, there is no doubt about America's beauty, Amen and I just made it longer, and longer still as I continue to talk and talk and talk and talk throughout this, though I believe it would be referred to more as typing, so I will continue to type and type and type and type and type until I grow bored of it, and I have so I will take my leave soon, but not before I say that I somehow managed to make this already super long sentence longer, so HALLELUJAH, but we are not done yet everything I just said IS NOT RELEVANT to daily life, if you read this all you have no life, did u mention I like waffles and pancakes and people and gay marriage. 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2024.04.14 13:16 LuckNorth6244 Tw: cannibalism

Before going into the dream I want to give some context:
The evening of this dream I had a session with my therapist where we discussed the fact that my sense of connection and support towards myself has been strong lately. After the session I asked my subconscious to send me a ‘soul’ dream, something that would give me material to think about. Also just before going to bed I was reading memories, dreams and reflections (Jung’s auto biography)
Also my dreams for the last few months have often featured themes of pregnancy, caring for babies or young children and abortion.
The dream:
I’m looking after a baby, who is sat up on a table in front of me to my right. I front of the baby is a tray of raw bloody meat and in the tray their is a fetus in a plastic zip lock bag. The baby I’m caring for starts to eat the fetus, a man in the apartment opposite me is watching it happen through his window. I keep cursing at the baby and crying but the baby keeps eating it and choking so I have to hit it’s back to make sure it doesn’t choke. At some point I feel I will have to kill the baby, this baby was not meant to live but now it’s getting bigger after eating the fetus and I feel it is not possible to kill it anymore because it is it’s ‘own person’ now. There was something also a general feeling in the dream that Carl Jung was taking something out of me.
The feelings in the dream were anxiety, fear and disgust.
I’m looking for different perspectives on how to approach the message of the dream, any help would be appreciated! Thank you
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The theme of redemption, forgiveness, and the intricacies of human nature is explored in Allen Eskens' suspenseful mystery thriller "The Life We Bury." Joe Talbert, a college student, is assigned to write 'a biography' for his English class and the story goes on. He picks Carl Iverson, a Vietnam veteran who has been found guilty of murder and is dying of cancer in.
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2024.04.01 15:32 IrinaSophia Saint Mary of Egypt (April 1st)

The biography of this wonderful saint was written by Saint Sophronios, the Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Once, during the Honorable Fast [Great Lent], a certain hieromonk, the Elder Zosimas, withdrew into the wilderness beyond the Jordan, a twenty-day trek. Suddenly, he caught sight of a human being with a withered and naked body whose hair was as white as snow and who began to flee from the sight of Zosimas. The elder ran for a long while until this person crouched down in a brook and cried out: "Abba Zosimas forgive me for the sake of the Lord. I cannot face you for I am a naked woman." Zosimas then tossed his outer garment to her which she wrapped around herself and then showed herself to him. The elder was frightened upon hearing his name spoken from the mouth of this woman he did not know.
Following his prolonged insistence, the woman related her life story. She was born in Egypt and at the age of twelve began to live a life of debauchery in Alexandria where she spent seventeen years in this perverted way of life. Driven by the adulterous flame of the flesh, one day she boarded a boat which was sailing for Jerusalem. Arriving at the Holy City, she wanted to enter the church in order to venerate the Honorable Cross, but some invisible force restrained her and prevented her from entering the church. In great fear, she gazed upon the icon of the All-Holy Mother of God in the vestibule and prayed that she be allowed to enter the church to venerate the Honorable Cross, all the while confessing her sinfulness and uncleanness and promising that she would go wherever the All-Pure One would direct her. She was then permitted to enter the church.
Having venerated the Cross she again entered the vestibule and, before the icon, gave thanks to the Mother of God. At that very moment she heard a voice saying: "If you cross over Jordan you will find real peace!" Immediately she purchased three loaves of bread and started out for the Jordan where she arrived that same evening. The next day she received Holy Communion in the Monastery of St. John and crossed over the Jordan river.
She remained in the wilderness for forty-eight years in great torment, fear and struggle with passionate thoughts as though with wild beasts. She fed on vegetation. Afterward, when she stood for prayer, Zosimas saw her levitate in the air. She begged him to bring her Holy Communion the following year on the shore of the Jordan where she would then come to receive it.
The following year, Zosimas arrived on the shore of the Jordan in the evening with Holy Communion. He wondered how this saint would cross the Jordan. At that moment, in the light of the moon, he saw her as she approached the river, made the sign of the cross over it and walked upon the water as though upon dry land.
After Zosimas administered Holy Communion to her, she begged him to come the following year to the same brook where they had first met. Zosimas came and discovered her lifeless body on that spot. Above her head in the sand was written: "Abba Zosimas, bury the body of the humble Mary on this site; render dust to dust. I died on April 1, the same night of the saving-suffering of Christ, after having received Communion of the Divine Mysteries." From this inscription Zosimas first learned her name and the other and awesome miracle was that, she, on that same night the previous year, when she received Holy Communion, arrived at this brook which took him twenty days to travel. Thus, Zosimas buried the body of this wonderful saint, Mary the Egyptian.
When he returned to the monastery Zosimas related the entire history of her life and the miracles which he had personally witnessed. Thus, the Lord knows how to glorify penitent sinners. St. Mary is also commemorated on the Fifth Sunday of the Honorable Fast (Fifth Sunday in Lent). The Church holds her up as an example to the faithful during these fast days as an incentive for repentance. She died about the year 530 A.D.
(by Saint Nikolai Velimirovich)
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2024.04.01 15:30 IrinaSophia Saint Mary of Egypt (April 1st)

The biography of this wonderful saint was written by Saint Sophronios, the Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Once, during the Honorable Fast [Great Lent], a certain hieromonk, the Elder Zosimas, withdrew into the wilderness beyond the Jordan, a twenty-day trek. Suddenly, he caught sight of a human being with a withered and naked body whose hair was as white as snow and who began to flee from the sight of Zosimas. The elder ran for a long while until this person crouched down in a brook and cried out: "Abba Zosimas forgive me for the sake of the Lord. I cannot face you for I am a naked woman." Zosimas then tossed his outer garment to her which she wrapped around herself and then showed herself to him. The elder was frightened upon hearing his name spoken from the mouth of this woman he did not know.
Following his prolonged insistence, the woman related her life story. She was born in Egypt and at the age of twelve began to live a life of debauchery in Alexandria where she spent seventeen years in this perverted way of life. Driven by the adulterous flame of the flesh, one day she boarded a boat which was sailing for Jerusalem. Arriving at the Holy City, she wanted to enter the church in order to venerate the Honorable Cross, but some invisible force restrained her and prevented her from entering the church. In great fear, she gazed upon the icon of the All-Holy Mother of God in the vestibule and prayed that she be allowed to enter the church to venerate the Honorable Cross, all the while confessing her sinfulness and uncleanness and promising that she would go wherever the All-Pure One would direct her. She was then permitted to enter the church.
Having venerated the Cross she again entered the vestibule and, before the icon, gave thanks to the Mother of God. At that very moment she heard a voice saying: "If you cross over Jordan you will find real peace!" Immediately she purchased three loaves of bread and started out for the Jordan where she arrived that same evening. The next day she received Holy Communion in the Monastery of St. John and crossed over the Jordan river.
She remained in the wilderness for forty-eight years in great torment, fear and struggle with passionate thoughts as though with wild beasts. She fed on vegetation. Afterward, when she stood for prayer, Zosimas saw her levitate in the air. She begged him to bring her Holy Communion the following year on the shore of the Jordan where she would then come to receive it.
The following year, Zosimas arrived on the shore of the Jordan in the evening with Holy Communion. He wondered how this saint would cross the Jordan. At that moment, in the light of the moon, he saw her as she approached the river, made the sign of the cross over it and walked upon the water as though upon dry land.
After Zosimas administered Holy Communion to her, she begged him to come the following year to the same brook where they had first met. Zosimas came and discovered her lifeless body on that spot. Above her head in the sand was written: "Abba Zosimas, bury the body of the humble Mary on this site; render dust to dust. I died on April 1, the same night of the saving-suffering of Christ, after having received Communion of the Divine Mysteries." From this inscription Zosimas first learned her name and the other and awesome miracle was that, she, on that same night the previous year, when she received Holy Communion, arrived at this brook which took him twenty days to travel. Thus, Zosimas buried the body of this wonderful saint, Mary the Egyptian.
When he returned to the monastery Zosimas related the entire history of her life and the miracles which he had personally witnessed. Thus, the Lord knows how to glorify penitent sinners. St. Mary is also commemorated on the Fifth Sunday of the Honorable Fast (Fifth Sunday in Lent). The Church holds her up as an example to the faithful during these fast days as an incentive for repentance. She died about the year 530 A.D.
(by Saint Nikolai Velimirovich)
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