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01-12-2008, 04:00 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: California
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So I got lost on the entrarwebz one night...
Hi. I guess you can call me Saturnalia, or even Satia, which makes me think of "satya" which is this groovy Sanskrit word describing all the wonderful shit that goes on outside of reality. I'm really into studying the etymology of words. I like oranges and coconuts, especially if mixed together, maybe with a bit of sake. I'm here to find some Scandinavian boys that I can trick into having some form of love affair that ends in me moving the fuck out of America. 
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01-12-2008, 04:15 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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*tips shades, takes a look-over*
Scandinavian boys, eh? I know just the guy for you. An enigmatic Swede with the air of a royal god. Or rather, the snotty attitude of one who thinks he's a god.
Welcome.
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01-12-2008, 05:53 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
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Welcome to the boards!
My mom knows Sanskrit. She told me that it was a hard language to learn.
Good luck with the whole love affair thing.
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~ inscription at the Temple of Delphi
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01-12-2008, 06:04 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tennessee
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Originally Posted by Methadrine
*tips shades, takes a look-over*
Scandinavian boys, eh? I know just the guy for you. An enigmatic Swede with the air of a royal god. Or rather, the snotty attitude of one who thinks he's a god.
Welcome.
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IIRC, Meth; he is also reminiscent of the lead singer of this little ol' band from back-in-the-day.
Anyways.
Welcome to the forum! What sort of music interest you?
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How to tell a Goff from a Goth:
Goffs think you have to rip off the wings of a butterfly to show your love.
Goths know that love has already broken the wings of a butterfly on a wheel.
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01-12-2008, 06:56 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Near Southampton
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Welcome. You seem cool.
What music do you like?
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01-12-2008, 07:07 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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Originally Posted by Methadrine
*tips shades, takes a look-over*
Scandinavian boys, eh? I know just the guy for you. An enigmatic Swede with the air of a royal god. Or rather, the snotty attitude of one who thinks he's a god.
Welcome.
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Nooo..
You are mine and Honeythorn's.
Silly Meth.. We established THAT loooong ago. 
Welcome, Saturnalia! I love etymology as well. It's fascinating.
Saturnalia is an interesting name if you are female, seeing as how it honors the god Saturn..
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01-12-2008, 07:45 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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What our local stud Meth is modestly saying is that he is a Swede.
Love your avatar. Do you like Lacuna Coil? Clan of Xymox?
Given your interest in words, do you have any favorite authors?
Welcome.
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01-12-2008, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Ana CA, USA
Posts: 186
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Greetings and Salivations.
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01-12-2008, 10:17 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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As they all have said... welcome. I hope you enjoy your time here. Don't mind the trolls, they go away eventually.
Nice hair, by the way. Pepe's in Camden does falls just like that.
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01-12-2008, 05:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Welcome. Scandinavian eh? I like Scandi crust, but I'm not from there. OH Korinna you make me sad, nobody wants me! Anywho have a good time and cheers!
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01-12-2008, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
Posts: 6,909
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Uncle Sam wants you, Stormtrooper.
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No Gods. No Kings.
Not all beliefs and ideas are equal.
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01-12-2008, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 4,448
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Yeah I know he does, I've been getting letters from every branch of the armed forces three or four times a week, it's crazy.
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Remember, short controlled bursts.
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01-12-2008, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Fascination Street
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The newbs are improving again! I also like your hair, and I second Bete Noire's question.
Welcome!
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We do wrong no-one forgets
Deliver me from evil
Deliver me a paper
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01-12-2008, 07:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: California
Posts: 27
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Thank you for the warm welcome!
Since everyone seems so interested in my musical preferences, they include Metal, Electronica, Industrial, EBM, (real) Punk Rock, Electro-Ambient, Goth, Classical piano and violin and Show Tunes.
To answer HumanePain, I read mostly non-fiction, including mostly topics of various world religions and mythologies, ancient societies, social and political works, etc. Right now I'm reading Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" and some other book on Santeria of which I forget the author's name.. o.O
The fiction I have read has been mostly Chuck Palahniuk, Dean Koontz and... erm... Harry Potter..... >.>
As for my name, I am very much fascinated with Saturn (Cronos) and the myths that surround him and with that old Roman holiday/three-day-orgy that was Saturnalia. Oh, and Saturn was the coolest character on Sailor Moon. :P
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01-12-2008, 07:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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And Saturn ate his children too. That makes him morbidly fascinating as a mythological character.
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01-12-2008, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Ana CA, USA
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And is the namesake for saturday and also the ruling planet, at least for me, as a capricorn.
Plus it's just one of the coolest planets in the solar system, especially with the hexagon on, I believe, the north pole.
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01-12-2008, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Yeah! What's up with that geometrical rotation band in Saturn's upper atmosphere? It defies known physics.
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01-12-2008, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Ana CA, USA
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Yeah! What's up with that geometrical rotation band in Saturn's upper atmosphere? It defies known physics.
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It's a trip, no less so than the gigantic patch of nothing they found in the universe that shouldn't exist, they figure if they can find it on the opposite side of the universe it may go a long way to proving multiple universes, or the multiverse.
That coupled with the blackhole they just found that's 18 billion solar masses and actually has a blackhole orbiting it (blows the f'in mind i tell ya).
But what's really cool is that some of the projects going online this year will be able to take pictures back before what we know as stars and galaxies existed when the hydrogen left that came from the big bang was still inert.
*goes on into nerd land*
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01-12-2008, 07:49 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 797
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Originally Posted by Dreggas
It's a trip, no less so than the gigantic patch of nothing they found in the universe that shouldn't exist, they figure if they can find it on the opposite side of the universe it may go a long way to proving multiple universes, or the multiverse.
That coupled with the blackhole they just found that's 18 billion solar masses and actually has a blackhole orbiting it (blows the f'in mind i tell ya).
But what's really cool is that some of the projects going online this year will be able to take pictures back before what we know as stars and galaxies existed when the hydrogen left that came from the big bang was still inert.
*goes on into nerd land*
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*blinks rapidly*
When did I fall out of the effin' loop? I love Astronomy, use to be up-to-date, but I've not heard any of this.. O_o
I need to get back to being informed.
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How to tell a Goff from a Goth:
Goffs think you have to rip off the wings of a butterfly to show your love.
Goths know that love has already broken the wings of a butterfly on a wheel.
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01-12-2008, 07:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Ha, I was just going to talk about Satya but I saw you already know it. But I have it understood that it means the 'truth' and the 'perpetual', which is more to say totality rather than what lies outside of this reality.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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01-12-2008, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Originally Posted by Dreggas
That coupled with the blackhole they just found that's 18 billion solar masses and actually has a blackhole orbiting it (blows the f'in mind i tell ya).
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It's not that impressive actually. Black holes have event horizons. Our solar system could orbit a black hole forever so long as it has a stable orbit outside of the event horizon.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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01-12-2008, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Ana CA, USA
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Originally Posted by DepthsofSpace
*blinks rapidly*
When did I fall out of the effin' loop? I love Astronomy, use to be up-to-date, but I've not heard any of this.. O_o
I need to get back to being informed.
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If you use yahoo, just setup your myyahoo page to include news from space.com as well as reuters science and AP science, they keep me happily sedated with nerdy goodness.
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01-12-2008, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Ana CA, USA
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
It's not that impressive actually. Black holes have event horizons. Our solar system could orbit a black hole forever so long as it has a stable orbit outside of the event horizon.
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we do technically orbit a blackhole since there is one at the center of the galaxy. What is impressive is the fact that the blackhole in question is so massive (it's the largest one yet) that another blackhole orbits it.
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01-12-2008, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Oh ok, I get what you're saying. :P
What I said was in fact based on the black hole in the Milky Way, because I used to believe the galaxy would eventually collapse in on itself because of it, and I thought we were talking about something of the sorts.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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01-12-2008, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: California
Posts: 27
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Ha, I was just going to talk about Satya but I saw you already know it. But I have it understood that it means the 'truth' and the 'perpetual', which is more to say totality rather than what lies outside of this reality.
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I described it as "what lies outside this reality" because it is believed that what we experience and perceive is not real and that satya is the "true" reality that controls everything behind the the veil of our fucked up world.
It's related to dharma, where satya is the way things are supposed to be, dharma is the rule we must live by to make it that way.
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