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I also got the hacked version of the website just now.

My first thought was wow this is pretty professional looking (except the bad grammar, etc) and they could get a job where people *pay* them to design graphics/websites. Of course not exactly this.

Relaxation? I go over details with the detached view that anything I do now is unlikely to effect the outcome. Anything physical takes my mind off stress a bit so I used to clean the car for big dates and walk up and down flights of stairs before exams.

So who got a screen shot of the shenanigans?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA at the bottom:

"Copyright 2008..."

ROFL

No, just a short one. [edit: haha, nope. Can't help myself]

Yes and no. What you do is one type of meditation, and the fact that it has a "side-effect" of getting you through some excitable patches proves that you've been affecting your own mind.

There's a lot of different types.

Many of the most formal types are about stopping or ceasing your own thinking processes for stretches of time, in order to perceive or to "be" what's left over when thought stops.

There's two reasons I can think of off the top of my head for that. Firstly, it gives you a great mental and emotional holiday, that can have powerful medium/long term psychological benefits, depending on how often you meditate. If you tend to ruminate a lot, merely the act of spending some time-out not stressing about upcoming things or feeling angsty about stuff that's happened in the near or far past can really make you feel a lot better about things. It can bring you into a zone of emotional contentment that you couldn't reach because you were too stressed by your habitual thoughts.

Secondly is a religious reason, for those who believe in it. "What's left over", when you stop paying attention even to sensory inputs, as well as to thoughts, is supposed to by your "higher self" or "soul" or "God" or "the rest of the universe as One".

The visualization thing that you do is part of the set of meditations that use visualizations for many different reasons. Some of these reasons include (some of which are scientifically proven to work, and some of which are more funky esoteric religious/spiritual stuff):

Self relaxation
Self psychological adjustment, setting stronger personal boundaries, getting over traumas, getting through or over phobias, getting through addictive impulses, etc
Aid in self-healing of physical injury/illness
Raising or manipulating "fine" energy, for yourself or passing it to other people.
Influencing your future life by opening up to possibilities "visually".

Personally speaking, a yoga class with a good teacher with physical postures beforehand and meditation and/or chanting afterward does me much more personal good emotionally than most visits to a psychiatrist. Although I must mention in fairness if you hit the right psychiatrist/psychologist, they can be excellent at helping one change oneself for the better, too. Again, personally speaking, I think psychologists are a lot more useful than psychiatrists, or at least their methods have been more useful to me. Not in help with being concise, obviously, but anyway.



Edited, Feb 26th 2009 2:15am by Aripyanfar

Yeah, it's some Turkish extreme right-wing group now. What the fuck...

Ok, guys. All you hackers out there. What the fuck do you think the Youth Commission on Crime can do about your problems?

Unless you're a teenager, in the UK, with an attitude problem, and displaying signs of antisocial behaviour, WE CAN'T HELP YOU!!! You want to install a semi-facist state in Turkey? WE CAN'T HELP YOU!!! You want to install a caliphate from Anchorage to Vladivostok? WE CAN'T HELP YOU!!! You want the Kurds to get their own country? WE CAN'T HELP YOU!!! You want the price of oil to do up/down? WE CAN'T HELP YOU!!!!

So leave us the fuck alone and go and hack some proper website, knobheads.

You just aren't trying hard enough.

Sounds like a pretty good idea. Your supply lines can never be too safe. Plus, if you kill everyone there's no one to hold a grudge. It's just a shame our ancestors didn't have the strength or spine to finish the job. Then British teenagers could get the help they so desperately need.

I usually install stuffing into Turkey.

If it's not totalitarian, it's certainly rather stern.

Edited, Feb 26th 2009 2:08pm by AshOnMyTomatoes

The logistics of it rather surprised me. Apparently it takes 3 full days, dawn to dusk, to manually kill a single town comprising 10,000 prisoners using swords or daggers. Not sure how many soldiers you're using for the job, but given it was an entire crusading army, probably quite a lot.

Presumably they gave up on finishing the job for the entirety of South-Eastern Europe because they were worried about never getting to Jerusalem at that rate. Especially since their life expectancy was about 25, in those days.

Well, it's all a bit fucked up.

The lunch went great. I talked quite a bit, they seemed really interested in what we were doing, we invited them to some future events, and gave them an exclusive on some report on Terrorism we're releasing soon. All good, it couldn't have gone much better.

The next day (yesterday), we all get called into a meeting with the Director and the trustees of the foundation. They start by telling us the foundation has lost a huge amount of income in the crisis. They lost so much money, in fact, that they can't even afford to simply shut down the foundation, since this would entail paying off everyone's pensions, and the creditors, etc...

So they're firing all the staff, except the secretary who's becoming part-time, and the Director who's also becoming part-time. Basically, they're putting the foundation to sleep until they can afford to shut it down for good. I've got 2 months notice to find a new job. No severance pay, since I had only been in the job for 1 year, eventhough I had a permanent contract.

So there we go. One day I'm having lunch with the Guardian, the next day I'm being told I have 2 months to find a new job. Pretty fucked up. I was in shock yesterday. Today I'm feeling a bit better. While it sucks to have everything you worked for taken away like that, I've got a bit of savings, so I have 3-4 month before my financial situation gets really worrying. Which, with any luck, should be enough to find something new. I didn't think I'd be a victim of the financial crisis, but there we go.

I think now is the time to hide in the countryside and become a revolutionary guerilla fighter. I'm thinking the Lake District, since it's so pretty.

Circle the office and burn it to the ground?