equanimity

equanimity
A	noun
	1 	composure, calm, calmness, equanimity
 		steadiness of mind under stress; 
         "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity"

I do not think I've ever learned the trick of it.
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I love it when people talk about me

It's even better when they dream about me.

I walked through the door (the room was still painted red) and sitting on my bed was amul. But it wasn't Amul like I remember Amul. I remember a handsome, sultry man with a slow smile. This dream-Amul was cute, but not even close to my memory image. However, I was unsurprised to see him there as I felt him to be a good friend and not unusual to find him in my room.

Excerpt is from the journal of a woman I met at Frolic Con back in April, whose only ever known me IRL for three days. What's particularly interesting to me is that she's never even met (f)AD, and I don't even think she knew what the acronym stood for. A couple of friends told me that, one particularly boring day, they opened up separate windows with both my and (f)AD's live journals and tried reading them in chronological order.

That's really strange and cool, comforting and worrisome all at the same time.

( heavily amended )

Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game

Excerpt from an excerpt within the article (click pic for article):

Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission -- both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state -- especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice.

The mind simply boggles.

ganked from psychomofo

In this RPG....

http://slithytoves.sytes.net/~dave/rpggen/

(random campaign generator)

The PCs are simple, God-fearing conspiracy theorists in a tavern who, with their can-do attitude, fight dictatorships for hostages, all in iambic pentameter.