For justprompts. What do you believe in?

I was raised Catholic, you know. I can tell you the Seven Sacraments. I can give you the Act of Contrition, the Lord’s Prayer, the Fail Mary and a grab bag of other integral mantras both in English and in Latin. I can give you the Holy Days of the calendar (It’s the second week of Advent, incidentally), the four gospels, and can name off the top of my head a dozen of Liturgical Rites. I can tell you, or at least give a general idea of the structure of the church. The Patron of lost things, of music, of the sick - I can give you them, if you like. I haven't got a religion; it's a compilation of facts.

In Catholic school, you don’t believe in God, per se. You believe in nuns, who are a lot more concrete about matters of faith than a lot of answers you get, or don’t get, I suppose, these days. But I’ll tell you, mine isn’t a faith so much as a habit. Hollow rituals that don’t mean much. If you go to church often enough, the motions become second nature: stand, sit, kneel, sing. You don’t spend your time thinking about God, or contemplating your place in the universe. You balance your check book, you go over your shopping list, you stand, sit, kneel, sing. Movement without thought, that’s what life in the Church – or any religion, I suppose – can do to you.

God is a distant and scary thing, and yet at once all-loving, and all-merciful. You find out that God sacrificed His only Son to save us, and protected the Jews and showed benevolence to the Gentiles. He also cast out an uppity child, bombed Sodom and Gomorrah for having a bit too much fun, and decided the best way to bargain with dictators is to decimate the population with plagues and frogs and vengeful angels. You learn that he’ll send people to an infinity of pain and torment for finite crimes. Usually, I’ve noticed, people will either imagine Him as just one or the other, because it’s rather hard to reconcile the one image with the other.

This is what I’ve come to believe: God cast out Adam and Eve after tasting the forbidden fruit, because once they’d had a taste of deeper knowledge, they’d next eat from the tree of life. Then they would be as gods, immortal. Like Him. He was afraid.

I believe that some time in the distant past, God left. Very quietly. Without anyone realizing he’d gone, so now we mouth prayers and sing hymns to an abandoning Father.

Like any truth Catholic, I believe God is dead.

But I’ll adhere to his laws, anyway. The ones that suit me. Because you need to have some sort of a center, don’t you? Like the greatest of religious minds, I find the Scriptures broad enough that they can be interpreted to mean anything. I’ll take the ‘no suicide’ bit, and the ‘honor thy parents’ bit… maybe skimp over ‘thou shalt not kill’, and ‘thou shalt not bear false witness’ because, really, so long as you get most of them down, it ought to count. And that’s all anyone needs, I think: solace. I sleep well.

Whatever gets you through the night, right?

миссис К меня сегодня опять довела до истерики. НО , я как подозреваю, Наталья поговорила с НВ, и теперь миссис К со мной ласково-сахарным голоском разговаривает) Приятно черт возьми:)

 

                                                              Ama Lamia.

                          Дневник любви к вампиру.

Привет. Моё имя – Кирилл. Фамилию свою не люблю называть, так что, если повезёт, узнаете попозже. Мне 21 год, я закончил школу и вот уже как 3 года занимаюсь фотографией.

Живу я в Подмосковье в частном домике вместе со своим дедом, но очень часто бываю в Москве, в основном – по работе.

Глупые факты о моей работе – я работаю на журнал, скорее развлекательный, чем научно-познавательный, который специализируется на мистике. Я у них, естественно, фотограф, причём сотрудник я – очень уважаемый. И вот почему.

Только мне ТАК сильно везёт поймать в кадр какую-нибудь чертовщину. Снимая бесславные Московские местечки только я с вероятностью 100 процентов могу запечатлеть на своей плёнке то призраков, то непонятные силуэты, то пятна крови, которые невозможно увидеть невооружённым глазом или снимая то же место без помощи меня на другую камеру. Это сложно обьяснить. Сам поражаюсь. Но самое интересное – это не просто визуальные эффекты. Там, где моя камера видит кровь, выясняется, действительно когда-то кого-то убили, там, где страшные лица в агонии проступают сквозь стены на моих снимках, при сносе стены – замурованные люди, и я уже не говорю о призраках…

Но на самом деле мне хочется заниматься немного другим. Я хочу заниматься профессиональной фотографией и снимать пейзажи, людей, растения, животных… Но пока это невыполнимо – на своей работе я очень занят, и свободного времени у меня почти не остаётся.

Разве что…

По ночам.

а я подстриглась.
челка теперь как у мальчика эмо - не вижу ни хрена.
с другой стороны - не видно немытой посуды и голодного кота.
рада.

Узнай можешь ли ты быть донором

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Wandelhalle

да, еду. Завтра ))

Итак, друзья мои (в особенности night_fly  ))) кто что знает о?...
Банкгок-Паттайя. Куда идти, что смотреть?
А как из Паттайи добраться до Пхукета?

Самой себе сложно в этом признаться,но это так... Да...влюбилась как никогда... Вернее никогда до этого и не влюблялась! Это и прекрасное и мучительное ощущение!И моя перая запись в дневнике посвящена именно этому Хочу скорее к любимому, надеюсь так и будет скоро...очень скоро, надо только потерпеть немного!

и стоило ли так переживать?

Мурашки по коже... комок в горле...слезы на глазах...улыбка на губах...растворяюсь в звуках и эмоциях...Нино Катамадзе

В колонках играет - Snoop Dogg
Нет!Он меня не бросит,ведь так?Я не смогу пережить лето,как бы ни хотелось!

Я готова с ним на все...Мне плохо без него,а он говорит,что мы не сможем видиться летом...

Может,кто-то сможет посоветовать,как мне пройти через это?Пожалуйста,спасите меня!!!:suicide2:

Друзья! Мы будем играть 5го октября в клубе "Мёд" ул. Садовая_Каретная д4-6 начало в 19 00. Приходите!

Щас делала презентацию по МХК про японскии театр и искала картинку для фона....

Мне так понравились картинки с изображениями сакуры..

....

=)

Ничего не мешает мне в очередной раз поверить.А что в этом такого?Когда человек доконца не испорчен,есть надежда на его перевоплощение и преобразование его собственного "Я".Может ему и не нужна помощь,но точно нужна поддержка.Хотя мне это надоело.Но все же человек имеет право на ошибку,человек имеет право на множество ошибок,на то он и человек,что совершает ошибки и анализирует их,*но не всегда*.А,ладно,всегда давала шансы,всегда верила,не веря,часто надеялась с отсутствием надежды.Будь,что будет...а все-таки мне не все равно,хотя очень хочется идти с этим рядом,но не прикасаться к этому.А все-таки мне не все равно,но хочется наплевать на это.А все-таки мне не все равно,и никогда я не буду относится к этому с сарказмом,а ведь хочется.

I want desperately to believe in you
In your love, your life, in who you are
in relation to me
I want to see--where we could go
and who we might be, you
in relation to me

Sappy love songs
Romantic gestures
I want to kiss you meaningfully
In sunny or stormy weather
I don't want to be
A caricature of me anymore
And I need to think you'll even that score

This has to last
This has to stay true
My checkered, tattered past
Needs you to be you

My pastpresentfuture selves
Want to know you
Want to see you speak you desire you
Into being
in relation to me

We, she and he, need you to believe
In me in relation to you
It's not going to be easy
Me loving you loving me
In all our intricacies

There will be a tapestry to weave
Of our past together
Our future, for what ever forever
We may find
I promise to love your mind

While I want desperately to believe
It's nigh impossible...
For, you see....
My checkered, tattered past
Just won't leave my heartsoulmind be
free
To believe in the exquisite
Mind-blowing idea

That is you
in relation to me




Torrin C. Smith

I'll be honest. I wrote this a few months ago, for a love that I hadn't found yet. Perhaps I've found it despite myself. :)

Идём сюда, нажимаем "Развлечения", выбираем игру "Микробы" (четвертая сверху). Первые 4 уровня проходим легко, а потом засада. Как быть? :(

патом научусь этим дневом пользоваться и альбом создам с маи творчеством))

Christ, they could not have made the ending to Final Fantasy Crisis Core any more sad.

I won't spoil anything, but the game is pretty much everything you already know, with a lot of new things thrown in. You know it's going to end sadly. There was no real closure with some of the elements, such as a certain character they introduced, but everything else was wrapped up pretty nicely.

I mean, it ended how FF7 started, and it was really neat to see a lot of the perspectives with updated graphics.

I think the only complaint I had was that the cutscenes were unskippable, which is tolerable and understandable. They don't tend to be that long.

Towards the beginning of the game, it seems to suffer from a MGS4 syndrome, where Zack'll fight a bunch of soldiers, and you can only watch the FMV. I would have preferred to do every fight in the game, and then after the fight is over, watch the pieces of the FMV. But this ends as soon as you get into the real bulk of the game, and is nonexistant by the end of the game.

There are a few scenes, such as the one where Sephiroth is training with Genesis, that I would have liked to control a different character for a fight, and maybe played that out, but the game probably only had the settings worked out for Zack and Zack alone. Again, that's understandable. The FMV was beautiful for that scene though.

I'm sorry, there was one other time in the game that made me a little angry, detail specific. Skip over this part if you hate any and all spoilers (I guess you can call them that) You're moving around the basement of Shinra Mansion, and as you fight enemies you get coffin keys. Now I'm pretty sure, through the mind of every gamer that's playing this game, that loved FF7, they're thinking 'Oh shit! Coffin keys? To open coffins, clearly! Vincent slept in a coffin for a long time. We're going to get to see fucking Vincent! Fuck yeah! Square loves him a lot, how could they not put him in?!'

So there's a total of four coffins, you open up the first. Damn three monsters. That's okay, we got three more left. I'm gonna get to see Vincent. The monsters were weak because I was overpowered. (I'll talk more about that later) Alright, next coffin, in the same room. Well, I got materia out of that one. That's not too bad. I'll just sell it if I don't want it.

I move down the hallway, and get into the next coffin room. I move to a coffin, tell Zack to open and the screen goes black, as if about to enter a cutscene, but then goes right back to the game, showing Zack standing over the casket removing the lid, looking shocked, and saying 'Hmmm... There's someone sleeping in here. I better leave him alone.'

What a bullshit cock load of ass. That's it? "Oh, I better leave him alone." Jesus Christ, Ignoring the fact that it's not Vincent, you have to fight everything that comes out of a treasure chest, other coffins, yet you see a man that's pale and could probably be a vampire, and you don't fight that fucking thing? Zack is the way that Jay is with things that move. Except instead of fuckiing, he kills them. What a piece of garbage.</avgn>

Anyways, that's probably the biggest fault I knew of. They make several nods to most all of the characters of the game, with the exception to Barret or Red XIII. Which is understandable. Barret isn't leader of AVALANCHE yet, and Red XIII is either still free, or is one of Hojo's test samples.

And Aerith seemed to be drained of a personality. Now, I was the one that always thought Aerith seemed to lack a personality in the original game, where as everyone else called her 'mysterious, and kind.' I just thought they didn't give her a lot of dialogue, but that's just me. She seemed really simple in this game. Like, she REALLY was an uneducated girl from the slums, she had trouble speaking more than a few sentences, and had very simple goals. Except for the whole she's an ancient, and has the knowledge of the planet, I dunno.

Now, the game has missions, you get to choose from 10 stories, and you get 5 or so sets of missions, and then within those, you get another 5 or 6 sets of missions. You can do the missions as soon as you unlock them. Some of them will be ass hard, like the ones that focus on ending the war in Wutai. But this game doesn't work on the traditional Get EXP Level UP routine. You have a DMW, which is a slot machine, basically, and everytime you get 777 you level up.

Well, These missions caused my DMW to go insane, and I got to level 30 or so by the time I was at the ingame second mission, where I probably should have been 10 or so. That's not a terrible thing, but I remember when games used to put level caps depending on where you were at in the game. I never thought that was a terrible idea. I was always fond of the level cap being really low, that way the boss fights last longer, and are usually more epic.

Overall, it was a pretty great game. Good graphics, especially in the FMVs, they're Advent Children property, (Which I thought was exceptional) The ending was pretty sad and moving, the gameplay is a bit lacking, as it gets to the point where you can just tap X repeatedly and win every battle, unless you have to press the shoulder button, switch to magic, THEN tap x repeatedly to win. The dodge was a bit powerful. You could dodge to break anything, and it was immediately responsive, and it could avoid anything. Even if it was area, as long as you were dodging, you're good. The music is partly rehashes of FF7, which is just fine by me. They were more technoish, and it was pleasing on the ears. I actually couldn't bring myself to mute it to put other music on, so that's pretty good. The storyline is what we all know. They add in a few characters, but they get a nice little story arc that makes you think that everyone that wants to become a maniacal godlike figure can.

Overall, I would recommend this game. Fans of Action-JRPGs will like it, fans of FF7 with worship it, and fangirls of bishie anime characters will slobber all over Zack's completely defined abs.