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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Hypnotize Someone
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HOW TO HYPNOTIZE SOMEONE ? HYPNOSIS IS "A SPECIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE WITH CERTAIN PHYSIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES, RESEMBLING SLEEP ONLY SUPERFICIALLY AND MARKED BY A FUNCTIONING OF THE INDIVIDUAL AT A LEVEL OF AWARENESS OTHER THAN THE ORDINARY CONSCIOUS STATE." ACCORDING TO "STATE THEORY", IT IS A MENTAL STATE, WHILE, ACCORDING TO "NON-STATE THEORY", IT IS IMAGINATIVE ROLE-ENACTMENT.WHILE UNDER THIS STATE OF MIND, ONE'S FOCUS AND CONCENTRATION IS HEIGHTENED. THIS INDIVIDUAL IS ABLE TO CONCENTRATE INTENSELY ON A SPECIFIC THOUGHT OR MEMORY, WHILE BLOCKING OUT ALL POSSIBLE SOURCES OF DISTRACTION. HYPNOSIS IS USUALLY INDUCED BY A PROCEDURE KNOWN AS A HYPNOTIC INDUCTION, WHICH IS COMMONLY COMPOSED OF A LONG SERIES OF PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS. HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS MAY BE DELIVERED BY A HYPNOTIST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUBJECT, OR MAY BE SELF-ADMINISTERED ("SELF-SUGGESTION" OR "AUTOSUGGESTION"). THE USE OF HYPNOTISM FOR THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES IS REFERRED TO AS "HYPNOTHERAPY", WHILE ITS USE AS A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT FOR AN AUDIENCE IS KNOWN AS "STAGE HYPNOSIS".
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
The Path To True Manhood And A Great Relationship And Marriage Part Ii The Epiphany Continues
My buddy David saw his letter in yesterday's episode, and erupted with a continuation of his epiphany, which has even more valuable insights that you won't want to miss, so read on!If you missed yesterday's episode, you really missed a treat, so go back and catch up. Today's is even more insightful and significant than yesterday, as the floodgates appear to have been opened. Without further ado, more from my friend David:THANK YOU!I could tell it had all the earmarks and thanks for further clarifying some of the points, which inspired me further:Stress basically comes from what? Doing things we don't want to do, feel compelled to do or don't enjoy doing. Being an Alpha Male is who we are meant to be and nature gears us up for it from the moment of conception according to all scientific evidence. We are genetically programmed for it and are hence born to be precisely and elegantly an Alpha Male, nothing less.So when you throw in the BS of trying to get us to be anything other than MALE, our stress levels rise accordingly because we are doing something AGAINST OUR NATURE! As you pointed out, it is not a question of gearing ourselves up for more stress to save our relationships, it's a question of how much relief we want in our lives, our relationships and our minds.How popular was the song "Take This Job and Shove It!" because it echoed so many peoples despair over their jobs? When it finally clicks in men's minds how HUGE a stress it is for a woman to be bored, is it any surprise she's ready to sing "Take This Relationship And Shove It?" because it has all the earmarks of being a JOB now and not a source of pleasure, safety, trust, fun and excitement, or anything positive at all?We all fantasize about being free. How magic a honeymoon is because you have PERMISSION to enjoy yourselves with no restraints. Run on the beach naked? No Problem! Tickle and tease? Go for it! Get frisky wherever and whenever? Hoo Yah!What restrains this behavior at home? It's not the kids, it's not the job, it's not her. You have stopped giving yourself PERMISSION to be yourself. You have now become locked up behind the cell door of "expected behavior" and the constant stress that goes with it. Your creativity goes by the doormat, your fun hangs on the coat rack by the door, and your stress amps up as you walk in. You now have two jobs. Work and home. Is it any wonder things go south? Now your relationship and marriage has turned into a job, a bad job, for both of you! And at this point, could life together such any worse? Not much!Why do we lose patience with those who are not men any longer? Because nobody tolerates a fake. Someone who lives a lie in an attempt to please. Our natures scream against it. We are following our nature when we seek to open the eyes of those in lock down. Yet they - like a caged bird - have grown so used to it being "normal," they no longer see the bars. It has become safe, and they have become your "comfortably unhappy." Our frustration grows because we are trying to free them and they don't want it. It's too hard. It's too much work. They're safe. The constant bombardment of whining wears anyone down. You can hear so much of it before it becomes sickening. It becomes so clear, so obvious you stare in disbelief how obvious it is and they can't see it!And just how safe is it if she's out the door after trying, fighting and begging you to step up and you keep closing the door every time she tries to open it? She wants her man back and he only wants his safety. It is a fact lions, tigers and most any large animal in a zoo will fight to keep its territory in that little cage even when offered a larger open space in front of it. They have to poke and prod it into freedom. What size prod will it take for men to learn?D.H. Lawrence wrote a lot of poetry, and some of it sounds strange until you find the context, such as one that was featured in "G.I. Jane" (another shining example of women acting more like a man than men do):"I never saw a wild thing feeling sorry for itself. A bird will fall, frozen dead, from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself."I never saw the significance of that until we started discussing this, and the lion analogy reminded me that we were once wild, but now, like the lion, we can't tell the difference between what we have and something better, and feel sorry for ourselves because "she just doesn't understand," and "we do everything for them and they just don't care." Yeah, right.The question would then simplify to - "Do you give yourself permission to be a man or do you enjoy your cage too much?" Asking someone else's permission does not free you of responsibility. It adds to it. It now makes YOU responsible for yours and her decisions because you didn't make them. You may see the responsibility as being hers because she made it. What you have done in fact is make her FEEL responsible for not only her issues, but now she has to take care of yours as well. Now she is feeling more caged by the minute. Trapped behind bars she does not want, did not build and YOU put her there. Any wonder she starts to resent you?So if any man ever asks a woman for permission as an attempt to be sensitive, what he is asking her in her mind is, consciously or not, for her to join him in his cell, in his enslavement, in his BOREDOM. What woman in her right mind would agree to any such thing? Is it any wonder every instinct in her is screaming 'LEAVE RIGHT NOW!" Or that eventually, if he doesn't straighten up, she listens to the voices inside and either leaves or puts him out?Think about what being true to our nature means. One aspect is being able to sense the falseness in others. It becomes easier to tell from the smallest of hints. Women cultivate their true nature as a part of growing up. It builds and enhances their nature to more effectively deal with life and their relationships. Because they are strengthening their true nature, anyone being false hasn't a chance of fooling them. It's also why when they are not being true to their nature but fighting against it as most feminists do, it's harder for them to tell when someone is false.Understanding body language helps, but when you sense it as a part of your nature, it takes minimal education to its nuances for the recognition to expand.Is the light of truth harsh reality or a beacon of freedom?Harsh reality slaps you in the face with papers, storming out the door in anger, or affairs.The beacon of freedom frees you from the need to act, to pretend, to lie to yourself or her any longer.And if you don't have to pretend any more, think what freedom that gives you to have some fun again! There is no longer any pressure to "perform!" No longer wondering what will set her off or make her happy. It's now simply a matter of who you are that makes her wet just thinking about what is to come.Her tests are easy to pass because you simply react as a man. You don't have to learn how to handle each situation in detail. You don't need examples. You simply call it what it is, make it clear you know what's up and she'll love you for it.Maybe that's why there's such a negative reaction by women growing stronger and more outraged at all the dating and attraction "skills" being taught. They find out about them, check to see if you're using them and make it clear in no uncertain terms what they think of you. I even saw a CSI Miami episode where the women were having great fun making fun of and embarrassing men "caught in the act" of "running game" on them.To my mind it also taints the image of what men perceive about fixing relationships. It's learning another set of skills to deal better with their women when in fact it's nothing of the kind. Like you said. It's about being reborn as the man you were intended to be. Stop looking at it as a skill, an act, a set of learned behaviors you need to practice. It's learning to forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made and realizing nothing would please her more than to see you making mistakes and having successes on your way to being the man she wants. The mistakes she'll forgive, and help you learn from when she sees you actually doing something. The successes she'll reward you with in ways you had no clue she was ready to give you to make sure they keep coming!Finally it will begin to sink in she REALLY DOES want you to succeed. It's in her best interest, her long term sanity and safety. She can relax and be your woman when you relax and BE her man. The nagging and carping stop when you begin. Then maybe you'll realize the picking at you is not her trying to drive you nuts, it's her trying to wake you up! Once she knows you are back among the living again and not hiding behind "expected behaviors" anymore, the rewards won't cease.Oops! Gotta get ready for work. I've been thinking the logical conclusion to this is how misunderstood the picture of an Alpha Male is in most men's minds. It's gotten so idealized it seems unapproachable, when indeed it is our natural state.Later!DavidAre you getting all of this? Could it be made any clearer for you? This is the way of the world, and if you don't "believe" it, ask a woman! Ask her what it feels like to be with a man who bores her, a man who doesn't listen to her, a man who won't step up and act like a man, a man who won't lead, and either whines about having to make decisions or even worse, is so insecure that in lieu of leading, he attempts to control everything, including her. I did...Indeed, I asked a great many, and learned from them. And I taught their boyfriends and husbands, and we then refined everything and once it was all proven, I began teaching other men, and they in turn are teaching thousands more as they live in relationships and marriages that most would think impossible, when indeed if a foundation of compatibility is there, true happiness that lasts is easily attainable.Care to join us? Go to http://www.makingherhappy.com and download your copy of "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage" and get started. Or stay in your cage. It's your choice, so make a good one.In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!David Cunningham"Being a man is something to which one should aspire, not something for which he should apologize." --David Cunningham
July 24 09 The Boyfriend List By E Lockhart
So, after Going Bovine, I briefly read The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart in one day, since I had heard so much about it and it was due at the library soon.
The Boyfriend List is about Ruby Oliver. A girl who was reasonably happy, that is, until she kissed her ex boyfriend and her social life blew to smithereens. She goes to therapy now. Her psychologist asked her to write a list of all the boys she was romantically involved with. This is her story.
I loved this book! Ruby was a quirky and fun character. I liked the pacing and the chapter structure as well as the writing. Also I loved how the frog on the cover was relevant to the novel. Really well done novel, although I preferred The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. One question though: What is up with E. Lockhart's protagonists always falling in love with assholes? Something to ponder.
Like my new background? I needed a change. I might try to get someone to do it for me though, if I come across the money to do so. *sighs* Also, I'm considering having a review structure so my reviews are more fun and interesting. Any suggestions? I'd love input!
Emma Out!
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Thursday, December 25, 2014
Its Not A Conversation Anymore
The scene is beautifully done. Watching the full movie gives it even greater context and meaning as well.
What Danny DeVito's character talks about in regards to equating honesty to curiosity, and how life's mistakes and regrets are what build character are deeply in line with the first section of my book. You can approach women as a human with curiosity. Or you can approach them as a marketing rep, trying to pitch yourself to them. One is a man of character and one isn't. And as DeVito says, a man with character (or attractiveness) has it tattooed across his face -- it's impossible to hide or fake or even demonstrate, as it's always being demonstrated in everything he does.
There's another great scene in this movie where Kevin Spacey's character (Larry, off-screen), asks "Bob," the young evangelical Christian being lectured above, if he and his wife married each other because they loved each other, or married each other because of their principles (religion). Bob is obviously horrified by this question. Larry says something to the tune of, "You're a principled person Bob. Your wife is too. You both stand for something, which is great. But sometimes people don't marry the person, they marry the principles. Are you sure you and your wife didn't marry each other's principles?"
What this all gets to is that to have a true connection and true attraction between two people, one must present oneself honestly. And to present oneself honestly, one must be self-aware, or as DeVito says above, one must have regrets -- one must be aware of one's own faults and have practiced self-forgiveness. Because you can't accept and love the faults in others until you accept and love the faults in yourself.
Rather, you'll only fall in love with their pitch, with their marketing rep; and they with yours. And you will lock each other into a relationship based on principle, not personality.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Gentile Russian Neo Nazi Group Busted In Tel Aviv Region
B"H
Great idea! Deport the gentile neo-nazis! If only we would have had that law when Arafat was still alive... oh, yeah, I forgot... he was a nazi, not a neo-nazi...M
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123630
by Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Police have busted a group of Israeli neo-Nazis in the Tel Aviv region and found a gun and explosives. The youths are non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union.
Although the nine arrests were made a month ago, a gag order on the case was in place until Saturday night. Police had been investigating over 20 people involved with the group ever since the vandalizing of a large synagogue in Petach Tikvah over a year ago. The neo-Nazis had painted the walls, as well as the insides of prayer books, with Nazi graffiti.
The teenagers are from Holon, Petach Tikvah and even the Samaria town of Karnei Shomron. They reportedly have ties with neo-Nazi groups overseas via the Internet and some boast Nazi tattoos.
When police raided the homes of the neo-Nazis, they found video documentation of dozens of other crimes. The group's members had been found to regularly beat religious Jews and foreign workers in Tel Aviv. One video shows members of the group surrounding a Russian heroin addict and, after the man admits he is Jewish, beating him mercilessly, along with another man who tries to assist him.
The group was also found to have in its possession explosives and an M-16 assault rifle.
The members remain in police custody and an indictment in the case is expected Tuesday.
Police say all the members of the neo-Nazi cell received Israeli citizenship, which grants citizenship to anybody with a third-degree Jewish relative - even by marriage. The policy has come under criticism in the past, with the Jewish Agency coming under attack for continuing to allot resources to recruiting descendents of Russian Jewry to immigrate even after nearly all Russian Jews who wished to leave had done so. In recent years, as high as 40 percent of those immigrating from Russia are non-Jews according to Jewish law.
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit says, "Giving automatic Israeli citizenship without making any demands is worth zero. We have to change our immigration laws to those of a regular state... Jews from all around the world are invited to live here, but first they must be temporary residents, and prove they are loyal to the State, and only then can they become citizens - and not the opposite."
ADL Defends, MKs Outraged
The Anti-Defamation League, founded to protect Jews from neo-Nazi groups and anti-Semitism, released a hasty statement in Hebrew from its Israel office in defense of the neo-Nazi group. "The youth are angry at Israelis for holding them in contempt and lash out with hatred," the statement said, calling upon Jewish Israelis not to blame all Christian immigrants from Russia for the behavior of a "fringe group."
MK Effie Eitam (National Union) said he plans on submitting legislation that will prevent non-Jews from immigrating to Israel under the Law of Return. The legislation would require matrilineal Jewish roots. "In recent years the State of Israel has become a refuge for people whose hatred of Jews and Zionists burns in their hearts," he said.
The current formulation of the law is based on the early Zionist premise that anyone who would have been considered a Jew under Adolf Hitler's Nuremberg Laws should be considered Jewish for the sake of immigration to Israel.
MK Zevulun Orlev (NRP) and MK Collette Avital (Labor) each said they would also submit legislation that would strip neo-Nazis of their Israeli citizenship and deport them to their countries of origin, after first serving prison terms. Former Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) also echoed the call for deportation, calling the neo-Nazi groups an "erosive cancer" in Israeli society.
Monday, December 15, 2014
How To Avoid Gossip And Stay Popular
Friday, December 12, 2014
How I Became Smoke Free
NOW, MY QUIT IS STILL VERY NEW SO I AM BEING DILIGENT IN KEEPING AN EYE ON MY TRIGGERS WHICH ARE NORMALLY STRESS RELATED OR EMOTIONAL RELATED. I DID HAVE SOME HABITS LIKE MY FIRST MORNING CIGARETTE WITH COFFEE (BIG ONE!) BUT THROUGH THIS PROCESS, I REALIZED THAT I SMOKED OUT OF BOREDOM..A LOT!
I WOULD HEM AND HAW ABOUT QUITTING AS I STATED IN THE BEGINNING OF 2011 THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE THE YEAR I QUIT AND STARTED OFF VERY STRONG ONLY TO GO RIGHT BACK WITHIN A FEW WEEKS. ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO I WAS SEARCHING YET AGAIN TO FIND A WAY FOR ME TO 'COMFORTABLY' QUIT SMOKING. LET ME SAY THIS...COMFORTABLE WAS HUGE FOR ME BECAUSE ANYONE WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THIS KNOWS THAT THIS IS NOT EASY NOR IS IT COMFORTABLE WHICH IS WHY GOING COLD TURKEY NEVER WORKED FOR ME.
THE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS I PERSONALLY WENT THROUGH WERE HORRIBLE AND AS I POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG THE RAW GODDESS, SMOKING IS AN ADDICTION AND THAT IS THE WAY I TREATED THIS ALL ALONG WITH WHAT I WILL EXPLAIN FURTHER. FOR ME, I NEEDED TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE MIND WORKED IN ACCORDANCE TO NICOTINE ADDICTION SO I WENT ABOUT RESEARCHING THIS AND ON MY WEB TRAVELS I LANDED ON THE WEBSITE OF DR. ANDREW WEIL AND ON HIS WEBSITE HE RECOMMENDED DR. GURGEVICH'S HYPNOTIC TONIC AND FOR 25 I ORDER IT. IT'S A SELF-HYPNOSIS 2 DISC CD SET.
AFTER RECEIVING THIS CD SET AND LISTENING TO IT THOROUGHLY AND WRITING NOTES THIS IS WHAT I DEVISED THAT GOT ME TO QUIT. MIND YOU, THE WHOLE TIME I WAS SMOKING AS THIS PROGRAM HAD ME WEAN OFF CIGARETTES AT THE PACE THAT WORKED FOR ME. HERE IS WHAT I DID:
1) EVERY MORNING I WOULD LISTEN TO A GUIDED MEDITATION DESIGNED TO RELEASE THE HABIT OF SMOKING AND AFTER THAT I WOULD THEN LISTEN TO DISC ONE OF THE SELF-HYPNOSIS SET I BOUGHT. IT WAS A TOTAL OF ONE HOUR OF MEDITATION AND SELF-HYPNOSIS
2) I UPPED MY WATER INTAKE TO DRINKING ABOUT 8-10 CUPS OF WATER A DAY AS WELL AS DRINKING 2-3 CUPS OF ORANGE JUICE A DAY. I CONTINUED TO SMOKE NORMALLY WHILE DOING THIS BUT WITHIN A FEW DAYS I BEGAN TO NOTICE MY CRAVINGS SLOWLY DIMINISHING.
3) EVERY NIGHT I WOULD DO THE SAME THING AS I DID EACH MORNING. ONE HOUR OF MEDITATION AND SELF-HYPNOSIS. I ALSO WOULD DRINK A NICE CUP OF HOT NIGHTY-NITE TEA TO HELP ME SLEEP. I WAS ALSO CONSCIOUSLY WORKING ON LEARNING TO SLEEP BETTER. DUE TO MY MAKING CHANGES, I HAVE DECREASED MY COFFEE INTAKE, UPPED MY WATER INTAKE AND NOW DRINK MORE HERBAL TEAS THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
4) I COMPLETELY CLEANED MY HOUSE, ALL MY CLOTHES AND MY CAR, GOT RID OF ALL ASHTRAYS AND TOLD MY HUSBAND AND 21 YEAR OLD SON TO NO LONGER SMOKE IN THE HOUSE. I NEEDED TO BE FREE OF ANY LINGERING RESIDUE OF CIGARETTE SMOKE AND THE AWFUL SCENT THAT CLOGGED THE FIBERS OF MY CLOTHES. I ALSO DISINFECTED MY HOUSE ABOUT THREE TIMES OVER.
5) I CHANGED TO A BRAND THAT I LOATHED WHICH IS MENTHOL AND BEGAN TO EXPAND THE TIME I WOULD LIGHT UP A CIGARETTE. WITHIN A WEEK I WENT FROM SMOKING A PACK AND A HALF A DAY DOWN TO 8 CIGARETTES. I ALSO KEPT MY CIGARETTES IN VERY INCONVENIENT PLACES MAKING SMOKING MORE OF A CHORE. THE POINT WAS TO 'DELIBERATELY SMOKE' INSTEAD OF HOW I HAVE BEEN LIVING MY LIFE THE LAST 26 YEARS WITH THIS ADDICTION. IT'S A MATTER OF RE-WIRING EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE WHEN IT CAME TO MY SMOKING.
I CONTINUED TO DO THIS UNTIL I GOT DOWN TO HAVING ONLY 3 CIGARETTES A DAY AND THEN FINALLY I JUST STOPPED! THAT'S IT! I NEEDED TO WORK WITH MY MIND AND "*TEACHING*" IT NEW MESSAGES, NEW IMAGES AND A NEW WAY OF LIVING.
I WILL SAY THIS, IT HAS NOT BEEN EASY AND THERE WERE DAYS THAT I JUST WANTED TO CRY BUT OVERALL I HAVE TO SAY THE WAY I DID THIS MADE THIS PROCESS LESS PAINFUL THAN GOING COLD TURKEY. I AM NOW FREE! I AM FREE TO DO ALL THE THINGS THAT I COULDN'T DUE TO MY SMOKING ADDICTION. I AM NOW FREE TO WORK MY BODY IN WAYS I COULDN'T AND LEARN TO LIVE A MUCH CLEANER LIFE!
I CAN NOW CONTINUE WITH CONFIDENCE THE SCHOOLING I HAVE BEEN DOING IN LEARNING CRYSTAL HEALING AND REIKI AND OTHER HOLISTIC PRACTICES KNOWING THAT I NO LONGER LIVE WITHIN A "SMOKE SCREEN" AND FOR MY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY I AM TREATING MYSELF TO A SPA RETREAT VACATION AS I AM SAVING UP ALL THE MONEY I WOULD HAVE SPENT ON CIGARETTES TO GO TOWARD THIS VACATION. I'M THINKING EITHER HAWAII OR SEDONA, AZ!
I'M VERY PROUD OF ME!
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Ta1Ta Chapter 15
- The Ta'ainvel -
- By Khan -
15.
A few weeks went by and Jonas received his promotion.
Charlotte brushed up on her knowledge on flying and was
soon training with a simulation of the actual pilot
controls. The Humans were both very excellent pilots their
force commander reported to Jante.
A few more weeks went by with little break in routine
and finally, at four p.m. a Monday afternoon, Charlotte for
the first time walked into the bridge as a member of its
crew.
Jante had unconsciously avoided having Charlotte
anywhere close to Ayshala but now he realised that he
hadn't wanted Ayshala to be able to react to the fact that
he loved a Human, another woman.
Now she walked towards where the two, Jante and
Ayshala, stood near the central. The floor was completely
bare, as all three chairs were down in the airlocks beneath
them, red rings where the command stations used to be, and
all of them had a clear view of each other.
Ayshala studied Charlotte with frank curiosity, softly
sniffing the air. She glanced at Jante, and then did what
Jante had hoped for all along but never imagined she would
do.
She stepped forward and embraced Charlotte.
"Be welcome Charlotte," she said warmly to the startled
woman.
"Charlie, call me Charlie," was all Charlotte could
produce.
Ayshala stepped back a little behind Jante and waited.
"Well Charlie. Now you are here. Now you are a pilot.
Nervous?" Jante looked sideways at Charlotte.
"No I'm not nervous at all. Of course I am nervous you
daft cat. Its not every day I get to work as pilot on a
starship."
Ayshala raised an eyebrow at the word 'cat' and several
of the other people working on the bridge turned to look
with amusement at their new commanding officer.
Jante cleared his throat. "Yes, well. Shall we get on
with it then?"
Ayshala responded by speaking a code into her
communication device, then saying "Initiate pilot system,
new functions. Proceed with start-up."
The rear hatch opened with a hiss, letting the command
station rise into the bridge and thud into place.
"Configure system for three pilots, Commander Jante
e'Darin, First pilot Ayshala b'Fairn and Second pilot
Charlotte Westings," she continued.
Charlotte responded to the computer asking her to take
her place at the command station. She sat and placed her
hand on the scanner and the computer reported it had
registered the new pilot. She stepped off the chair and it
sank back into the floor.
"Right, that's that. Now we have two hours left on this
shift, then we're off duty, all three of us," Jante said.
"I'll miss the bridge, I'll admit that," Ayshala said.
"Even if we had the same routine on the way to earth, I
still loved to pilot this oversized tub. Now the
astrogation computer does all the piloting."
"True, its not a fitting place for pilots to spend
their time off the bridge but what can we do," he replied.
"Nothing, for eight more years."
Jante contacted the other ships and received reports
that they also had closed down the pilot section of their
bridge. They had also begun to train a third pilot as they
found the system a clever one. To split the ship's
responsibilities on three was easier on the pilots as well
as on the people living in the ship. On the other two
ships, however, the commanders had decided to retire and a
message soon came to Jante that the commander of the
Handrillian had also decided that her time was up. The
three former starship commanders were still respected and
obeyed but they were no longer sought out for orders.
A year passed and Jante decided it was time to do
something about his and Charlotte's relationship. One night
he took her to the restaurant in the rear dome and after a
pleasant evening asked her to be his Mate.
"Oh, I thought I was already mating with you," she said
with a wry smile.
"You misunderstand. Being someone's Mate is in your
society called being married."
She happily said yes and that night they became Mates.
The ceremony, Jante explained, was ancient and had been
conducted in nearly the same way for thousands of years. He
said it was a return to nature of sorts, a primal mating
ritual.
There was a small garden beneath the Sanctum that was
reserved for this ceremony, a meadow with wild flowers and
several stands of trees. The garden was allowed to grow as
it pleased and was in the eyes of the Ta'ainvel a holy
place.
That evening Jante took Charlotte to the garden. He
took her just inside the doors and removed all she was
wearing except her overall. He carefully let out her hair
that was tied into a bun and allowed it to fall over her
shoulders, then removed all of what he was wearing himself,
except his blue overall. When she looked up she gasped. The
ceiling of the room was five yards above her and made of a
transparent material and through the ceiling she could see
water. The central lake of the Sanctum lay just above and
Jante had opened the huge hatch in between to emit
starlight refracted by the ever-shifting waves of water.
The result was a ghostly light, but not frightening, that
played over the meadow and the trees.
He let the claws of his right hand extend and told
Charlotte to stand still. When she stood there silently
looking at him he swiftly raked his claws beneath a
startled Charlotte's chin. As the overall slid off her in
shreds he quickly made sure he hadn't touched her with his
claws.
Whispering into the darkness he said, "I know you don't
have claws, so just tear the overall off me."
So she did, ripping open the zip that ran down the
front. He stepped out of the overall and leaving it by the
door, and after removing both his and her underwear, took
Charlotte's hand and walked naked across the starlit
meadow. He took her to a spot at the centre of the large
room and motioned for her to sit down. He gave her a small
knife and then lightly cut Charlotte across her cheek with
a claw.
She understood and did the same with the knife. Jante
touched the blood in Charlotte's face and traced out three
lines running down and halfway underneath his own chin with
it. She did the same. He then leaned forward and gave her a
kiss, putting a clawed hand around her neck. With his Mate
in his arms, Jante lay down on the starlit grass.
The ceremony would be simple, he had said, and it was.
When the lights in the Sanctum above started to come on
and lighten the dark meadow, Jante woke from his sleep
beside the naked Charlotte. He gently roused her and took
her hand walking towards the doors out of the garden.
They reached the doors and found two neatly folded blue
overalls lying by the wall.
"There is another part of the ceremony but that is now
more symbolic than needed. There was a Watcher, a person
who saw to the two Mates and that they were not disturbed
by anyone, or anything. Now their task is simple, take the
old overalls and replace them with these new ones."
Jante bent down and picked up the smaller one for
Charlotte, then put the other one on.
"Ayshala asked to be Watcher," he continued, "do you
mind?"
"No, I don't mind. I've know Ayshala long enough to
love her as a sister," Charlotte replied smiling.
She got into the tight overall and when she noticed a
stripe of gold threads tracing the joint between her hip
and her left leg from the small of her back to the crotch
of the overall, she asked about it.
"I have one as well," he replied and pointed to it.
"Its a sign of our union, a sort of wedding ring you Humans
would say."
Outside they found their things as they had left them
and put those on as well. They walked hand in hand through
the lighted corridors towards the bridge.
Reference: relationships-rescue.blogspot.com
Friday, December 5, 2014
Active Characters
Well, on pondering the outcome of the finale on Sunday night, I decided it was a perfect example of why we popular fiction authors write proactive protagonists.
For those of you not addicted to this show, (that I swore I would NEVER watch when I first heard the premise, but find more addictive than crack -- not that I've tried crack, just saying), the final two contestants were Amanda and Pavarti. Two very pretty girls who'd both been contestants on previous seasons and were part of the original "favorites" tribe.
I read a few blogs about the outcome and I think it's fair to say that most fans of the show expected Amanda to win. The final winner is based on a vote of the last 8 people voted off the show before them, and so it's expected that the players who have done the most backstabbing will lose, because the "jury" is raw from just being turfed off and often want revenge. That's the way this show normally goes -- the most liked player generally wins at the end -- and so the contestant who gets the power to choose who to take to that final vote with them, typically takes someone the others don't like, and that's what Amanda did in picking Pavarti. Pavarti had flirted with a bunch of the jury members -- men and women -- she'd lied to just about everyone, and she'd staged a coup against one of the most popular and powerful players, Ozzie, who was so angry he wouldn't even let her talk that night.
Now Amanda, in my mind, was no angel in the game. In her "confessional" interviews, (when it's just her and the camera), I thought it was pretty clear that she had a strategy and was pretty smart about the game and pretty smart about who to trust and who not to trust and how to keep people trusting her. She was good at the game.
BUT... In the final tribal council she made a huge mistake. She decided to play the innocence card. She sat there with her big brown eyes wide open and told people how trustworthy she'd been. How she'd been lucky to be in the right alliance. How she'd only lied to people she believed had lied to her. How she'd been really loyal to the people she'd given her word to.
While Pavarti took the opposite tack. She owned up to all her devious actions and, in fact, took more credit for the powerful "women's alliance" forming than I thought she deserved. I know we only see what the producers/editors want us to see, but it seemed to me that Cirie and Amanda were both pretty big players in orchestrating the amazing blindsides these girls pulled off. But Pavarti took the credit/blame. Even as everyone they'd tricked was spitting venom at her, she just sat there, didn't get defensive, and said, "Yes, I did it. I fooled and tricked you all."
And it worked. In spite of everyone saying how much they hated her, the majority of them voted for her to win the million.
Why? I think it was at least in part because Amanda cast herself as the passive character. The one who sits back and lets things happen to her. This let Pavarti take clear hold of the active role. The one who makes things happen.
And the cast, the jury, the people voting, didn't see what we'd seen at home. They hadn't heard Amanda scheming behind their backs as we had. They hadn't seen her taking action. (Except maybe with Erik, but that was so funny, no one except Erik would hold it against her.) So, they believed that Amanda had been passive most of the game and gliding along on the Pavarti ride. And they went with the woman of action.
And I took that as a good lesson for why readers like active characters.
See? It ties in.
Post Script (that I could probably fit in above if I weren't too lazy to do some editing, but I really must get back to my manuscript...)
This outcome was also a lesson about not letting your protagonist cry. I think Amanda's tears, that many took as false the night she chose Pavarti over Cirie, really worked against her. Fresh from seeing her acting job in tricking Erik, many questioned the sincerity of her tears, plus they made her seem weak. Now, I'm a big crier myself, but readers don't generally like their main characters to cry. Just saying.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Married Couples Happiest After 3 Years
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