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DEAR ALL

Iveenia — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:48 -0800

it was in my heart - and in my soul and now i take the decision:
i will check out for quite some time - i.e. i will unsubscribe some of the groups i am in
and you will maybe see me again next year - i might also check in randomly.
it hurts me that during xmas and change of year - people can be so unhappy and cruel with each other.
WE ARE ALL HUMANS - we should get along, maybe the movie 2012 - can help to understand what i mean
love all of you - and will miss you
MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPIER 2010

ivee

yes - i created 2 again
here the 2nd one

What will you....?

gamestomper 6 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:47:09 -0800

“"the future depends on what we do in the present....what will you do? ”The gamestomper 6

Demi Moore's W Cover: Worst Photoshop Ever?

PinkNC — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:58 -0800

Wed Nov 18 2009, 12:56 AM PST

Everyone knows by now that magazines extensively airbrush the stars on their covers, and usually the celebs appreciate a little touchup and wouldn't want it any other way. But imagine Demi Moore, 47, getting her first look at the latest (December) cover of W and finding that a huge chunk of her hip has been digitally removed?

That's what the folks at Boing Boing called attention to yesterday. The mistake hardly needs to be pointed out. If you look at Moore's left hip (our right), it seems that what used to be flesh is now a great deal of white space. But, don't worry, Mrs. Kutcher's thigh still seems normal, though now it appears to bulge out below her sarong.

Magazine covers go through an exhaustive process of approvals, so it's puzzling that this one made it to press with a mistake so obvious it's visible a few yards from the newsstand.............. Check out the close-up view.

Close-up of missing hip

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Funny cats gallery

Milxiway — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:59:17 -0800

Some cat-images I like and think is fun :) Which one is your favorite?

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Words To Live By.....

blondeyy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:45:36 -0800

**Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses ALL. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.. There is no beginning or end. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present. ** (unknown)

and another Quote fm Osho :)

Iveenia — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:55:31 -0800

These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle. Very few people know what love is. Ninety-nine percent of people, unfortunately, think sexuality is love - it is not. Sexuality is very animal; it certainly has the potential of growing into love, but it is not actual love, only a potential.... If you become aware and alert, meditative, then sex can be transformed into love. And if your meditativeness becomes total, absolute, love can be transformed into compassion. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation. When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give - to give for the sheer joy of giving - then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon.

Twilight: True Love or Abusive Relationship?

genesisrocks — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:23:50 -0800

As it happens, I've only read (skimmed) the first book of the series so most of these points are not my own. At the end of this post I'll give you a link to my sources. I've read some pretty interesting articles about whether Edward Cullen is an abusive boyfriend or the perfect boyfriend. Without further ado, here are the arguments for both sides:

True Love:

Even though Bella is his personal "brand of heroin" Edward loves her too much to kill her
Edward wants her to go to college and have a normal life
Outside of the vampire thing Bella has a fairly typical life. She graduates, holds a job, reads, emails her mom, etc. and has friendships with Angela and Jacob. She does not let Edward interfere with her life.
Though Edward teases her (which some see as putting her down), he teases her about things she is confident about such as her intelligence. This way she knows he is only kidding.
He constantly tells her how beautiful she is

http://www.fanpop.com/external/7741173
http://pyroclastic.blogspot.com/2008/12/question-is-edward-cullen-abusiv...

Abuse:

Edward tries to control who Bella is friends with (messing with her engine so she can't see Jacob)
He breaks into her house and watches her when she sleeps without her knowing or her consent. This is illegal.
He invades her privacy by listening in on her conversations with friends and encourages his family to spy on her
Bella justifies his actions by claiming Edward is overprotective and only acts this way because he "loves her" Sorry but that's the number 1 abusive relationship cliche ever.
HE WANTS TO EAT HER. Look we all want to kill our partner now and then, but when this becomes the overriding theme of your relationship, you're in trouble

http://community.feministing.com/2008/07/misgonmy-in-popular-teen-liter....
http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/nikkigassley/2009/8/13/Feminism-Doesnt...
http://psa.blastmagazine.com/2008/08/16/twilight-sucks-and-not-in-a-good...

So there you go, complete with links to original articles. Probably could have cited thousands of references, but they would have gotten redundant after a while. Hope this was fair and balanced, tried to make an equal number of points for each side. Tell me what you think!

Fashion Progress and Change: Have a Perfect Frida

PorschMaher — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:59:38 -0800

Quote

blondeyy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:38:10 -0800

'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.

Divide and conquer

gamestomper 6 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:02:46 -0800

“The words of a great man comes to mind this morning as i think of what i will quote and this is what to mind. "we must live as brothers and sisters in one, big family, or die individually as fools." for if we don't come together soon....we will truly be divided and conquered. ”Dr. martin luther king