Early in one morning, late at night Two dead boys got up to fight One was blind, the other one couldn't see So they called the devil for referee Back to back they faced each other Pulled out their swords and shot each other The deaf cop heard the noise And went to arrest the two dead boys If you don't believe this lie is true Ask the blind man, he saw it too!
I think you're right, he's just looking to get people's knee-jerk reactions and then leaves through the back door.
And you're also right about every country trying to do their best about civil rights. For me, North Africa has no equal. Those people will give you the shirt off their back! The U.S is also a very great country, the people here have big hearts. Europe I'm biased against. My worst years have been living in Europe and anti-antisemitism there is well and alive. The brown is not welcome in Europe, just tolerated.
Done that at 17 one summer. It was really cool. We started from my home town, Marseilles, and went through Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg Holland, Belgium and back south to France.
As far as advice, just have plenty of cash for trains, bring a good map ( we have GPS nowadays, though) Someone who knows how to navigate and speak more then just English and the other usuals ( good boots, water, blah blah )
Now that was 1987, I don't know what the experience will be nowadays, I mean a lot, but a lot of Europeans harbor negative attitudes toward Americans so you might bring someone who speaks fluent French without an accent, like....Me!
When I was 20 I looked 15, when I was 30 I looked 20 and now I'm 37 and I look 30. I had to show ID to people to convince them I was my age. Why would anyone believe someone would try to make him/herself older than they actually are? ( legal stuff put aside, of course)
I have sinusitis so most the time I have a hard time distinguishing odors but when I do, I'm like a hound! As far as "scent of a woman" goes there are only two smells I distinguish, sweat and Yummyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
I can see teenagers lying about their age to get in a club or buy cigs but adults? Maybe some women lie about their age too and there are some who won't even mention it but lying about it is just plain...Juvenile!
It is the end of this system of things and the beginning of a new one. The changes happening now are only precursors of things to come. The weather, the air, earth and its crust, the deep magma and the ozone layer, Humanity, the sun and the universe all are reacting to an inevitable calling, a heralding of a new era, a new age and a new realm where the physical and spiritual finally espouse each other in divine harmony and peace. Both realms are violently churned and chaotically "compressed" in a symbiotic coupling. It's been a long time coming, billions of our years yet a fraction of a second compared to the infinity of existence. We all feel it, in the back of our mind. Every creature, physical and spiritual will be affected and changed. It cannot be changed, it cannot be stopped. Your question is noble but futile. Still, would I sacrifice myself to stop it? I personally, if I ever could, would not even think of such a blasphemy.
Your words validate my presumptions about you. If there is but one person who truly understands the meanings of my posts and some of my " wordings" then my writings haven't been in vain. Indeed, it is good to know a kindred soul who shares in the same spirit. Standing side by side under His luminescent emanation filtering through the window of our reality. Need I say more...?
I don't believe one can completely leave their body while OBE, otherwise what exactly is sustaining the body? I believe we are " Indivisible Dualities" so as far as that's concerned I'm not too worried about it. Furthermore, I wouldn't do that as the end-all and be-all of the experience. It happened once beyond my control and I don't exactly feel like using it as a game. One thing comes to me while writing this. It reads something like: ( not exact quote ) " There are those who enter the house of the Father through the front gate... and those who climb over the wall at the back and steal..." something about treasures this or another...
My point is I wouldn't mess with anything I don't know or have had advance knowledge or wisdom about. I understand there may be people who do those kind of things but let's just say I know better.
Damn! Hell, I've been out of the dating scene for a bit but gosh, I haven't lived as a hermit! And practice date? How exactly does that work? Do you tell yourself you're not fooling your date while you're actually faking to want to be there with this particular person?
Wouldn't it be safer to take your blow up doll to the restaurant and movie theater??
Then we DO have something in common, you and I, for my experience is somewhat the same and also this:
" Note that no religion or church had anything to do with this change in me. The certainty that I have now did not come from the teaching of some pastor - it was God who gave it to me."
Oxymoron
Look i the mirror!!