posted August 18, 2004 08:43 PM              

"MM" are my real-life initials, by the way...hehe

okay so is the Misfit a boy or a girl?

posted August 19, 2004 01:46 AM              

Swerve has the same b-day as (one of my favorite philosophers) Arthur Schopenhauer, "the Great Pessimist".

posted August 19, 2004 02:01 AM              

"Light from the darkness"

I am still searching for its meaning....

posted August 19, 2004 02:21 AM              

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posted August 19, 2004 02:28 AM              

You are an Aries/Taurus cusp-dweller, born in the ethereal year of the Golden (Earth) Goat. Those born during a gold year are likely to meet with an extraordinarily lucky life. Good for you.

I'm a Scorpio born in the yellow (earth) year of the Horse. Horses and Goats tend to get along famously and, its true, I never met a goat I didn't like. My archetype is the hill, or mountain. Yours is the valley. (("Paging Doctor Freud..."))

Virgo -

A Virgo Tiger. I'm not sure what your color is, but your element is fire. Tigers and Horses were evidently made for each other. Of course, I don't know any tigers... they're all turning 30 or 18.... I'm going on 26.
The good news is, I'm fairly regressed for my age. Also, if what I hear is true - that girls tend to mature an average of two years faster than boys - I'd say I've got maybe a year on you, two years tops. I don't know about you, but my chart says its probable I'll end up with somebody significantly younger, or older, than myself. And, to tell you the truth..... As far as I can tell, I've got no prejudices against dating 18 yr old girls. On the contrary....

Just out of curiosity.....

What are your Moon and Rising Signs?

Or, better yet, your birth times and locations; if its not too much to ask.

posted August 19, 2004 02:57 AM              

Just like me.

So let the fire burn bright.....

posted August 19, 2004 03:03 AM            

By the way LibraSparkle.. I am slightly leaning forward, bum tauntingly exposed for a swat. I like to live on the edge.

posted August 19, 2004 03:16 AM            

um..I dont know what time I was born. It wasnt recorded...But astrojunkie helped me figure it out a while back and its gemini. I'm pretty sure of that. It explains why I get along with air signs and why I'm not the most typical virgo.
My moon sign is scorpio.

posted August 19, 2004 03:25 AM              

I'm '75 ... what's that make me?

Pixie, just for you, love:

... and maybe a little of this too

posted August 19, 2004 03:25 AM              

I hope this unsolicited, disjointed rant isnt too self-righteous, but:

Being a (more-or-less) quintessential Scorpio, I think its only natural for me to answer your post about the "light from the darkness" phrase which has kept you puzzled all these years.

There is a fine poem by "Saint" John of the Cross, called The Dark Night of the Soul. Its about losing and finding oneself in God; stepping into the darkness of the unknown, in order to discover oneself anew in the light of day.

It is a truth, as sacred as it is ancient, that we must first become blind to something before we can ever truly see it. Because all things are aspects of the One, in order to percieve them clearly, we must see beyond the inherent duality of distinctions; only when all things have been lost in the One, can they be found (in the One). Just as, for a person to truly know their homeland, they must first know the world entire. Who knows anything (the Son), knows everything (the Father) as well.

Another Christian mystic, Pseudo-Dionysius, spoke of truth as "the darkness above the light". The anonymous classic, The Cloud of Unknowing, is entirely concerned with presenting ultimate reality as a kind of uncreated, omni-present blind-spot.

Without an object to catch and reflect it, a ray of light can travel through infinite time and space, in absolute darkness. You are nothing at all, if not that which brings light from the darkness.

"[Where light is the brightest, shadows are the deepest.]"
- Wolfgang Von Goethe

"[The stars only come out at night.]"
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Or, for that matter:

Here the ways of men part: If your desire is for happiness and peace of mind, believe; if you wish to know the truth, inquire.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but, rather, to assure themselves that the life which they are living, and which is both habitual and agreeable to them, is the one that coincides with the truth.
- Leo Tolstoy

As long as your desire is pleasure, and you cherish your desire, carry on playing like a child; you are not man enough for this.
- Hakim Sanai

Ignorance is bliss. - Source Unknown

Consciousness is unrest. – Arthur Schopenhauer

He who increaseth wisdom increaseth sorrow.
- Ecclesiastes

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest; the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- Lord Byron

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
- Fyodor Dostoievsky

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Andre Gide

One cannot reach the dawn except by the path of night.
- Kahlil Gibran

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
- The Bhagavad-Gita

Where there is suffering there is holy ground.
- Oscar Wilde

Have pity on me; for the hand of God hath touched me.
- Job

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
- Heinrich Suso

I found it hard. It's hard to find. Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
- Kurt Cobain

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli

What keeps most people from suffering very much is lack of imagination.... Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
- Marcel Proust

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I wish I was like you; easily amused.
- Kurt Cobain

If any man come to me, and hate not his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
– Jesus of Nazareth

In the psychopathic temperament we have the emotionality which is the sine qua non of moral perception; we have the intensity and tendency to emphasis which are the essence of practical moral vigor; and we have the love of metaphysics and mysticism which carry one's interests beyond the surface of the sensible world. What, then, is more natural than that this temperament should introduce one to regions of religious truth, to corners of the universe, which your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt, thumping its breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn't a single morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors?
If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.
- William James

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- Aldous Huxley

Much madness is divinest sense, to a discerning eye; much sense, the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority in this, as in all, prevails - assent and you are sane; demur, you're straightway dangerous and handled with a chain.
- Emily Dickenson

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
- Mark Twain

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
- Edgar Allen Poe

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
- Solomon

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly.
- Michel de Montaigne

What good is a philosopher who offends no one?
- Diogenes (the Cynic) of Sinope

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
- Plato

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful.
- Lao Tzu

Be good and you will be lonely. - Mark Twain

[Despair] is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
- Graham Greene

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
- Hamlet

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
- Samuel Johnson

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
- Albert Camus

Some amount of suffering is always necessary. A ship without ballast cannot go
straight.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
- Sigmund Freud

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
- The Holy Bible

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
- Felicia D. Hemens

Great men have always been of a nature originally melancholy.
- Aristotle

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne