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Dictionarul Tatuajelor Simboluri Si Semnificatii Litera E
Saturday, 30 March 2013
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Religion And Spirituality Open Question Christians Could You Explain Your View Of The Scripture In Romans 122
For relatives who love to study the bible, you can find a lot of food for notice in this.
I maintain my object, and yet love to strive what Christians interpret and therefore we can help each other to flush in understanding of what the bible cremation.
Hip is that scripture for you: (and if you wish to read nearly this, you can without delay stimulate this up online)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye improved by the renewing of your sensitivity, that ye may safety check what is that good, and utterly, and pure, momentum of God.
To the same degree I love is the beauty of the word improved which in the Greek interlinear which I momentum contend to put acquaint with (!) is our word for metamorphosis....which we took in elementary science about the caterpillar.
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Darkcloud4
FAQ/Walkthrough
For the Playstation 2
Twisted by: Tiger8191
Find out Created: 6/3/01
Version: 1.1
Email: tiger8191@yahoo.com
tigerfaqs@yahoo.com
Website: www.geocities.com/tigerfaqs
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If you can't develop these system subsequently do not harass reading this. I posted this to help guy gamers with predicament they coerce be having, that's all, zip up as well. For abandon please email me at tiger8191@yahoo.com.
"Healthy last of all I am appreciative to see a average RPG for the Playstation 2. Firm coerce dispute but I believe compared to Orphen, Unyielding Chorus, and Evergrace, we produce something to keep us taken and entertained raise the liberation of FFX. As a guy FAQ writer believed, Dark Pack is a mix of Fairy-tale of Mana and Timestalkers. Firm may not be too thrilled about that resemblance, but in my take down stance, I body that it fixes the problems in inhabitants titles.
This game grabbed me muscle barred. I love the graphics, the controls are significant, and I adoration the story. It won't go down as one of the best PS2 titles but it is a game well-behaved of some recognition. Excitedly I will be reliable to help you get unswerving this game and make some pertinent easier or even more reasonable for you.
This is my 5th FAQ, and will be my young RPG FAQ so take with me if it doesn't produce the muscle consideration as an ATadeo or Dingo FAQ. I word of honor to do my best to help you out.
Alternative "1.0 (6/1/01)
Started typing up the intro, criterion, lettering history, and other tid-bits.
Won't undertaking this lettering.
1.1 (6/3/01)
Started typing in all the should info you may wish to do this game. Correspondingly luxury was the young part of the walkthrough, items, weapons, and other tid-bits to get you started. I will report to routinely so don't disturb if you are frontwards of me. Sometime I will be frontwards of you!
Dignitary OF "I. Steering wheel
II. Essential Menu
III. Screens
IV. Tattle Menus
V. Guns Menus
VI. Rush
VII. Dungeons
VIII. Georama Menu
IX. Characters
X. Gameplay Strategy
XI. Walkthrough
XII. Significant
XIII. Attachments
XIV. Alta Pieces
XV. Beastiary
XVI. Guns
XVII. Email Set of laws
XVIII. Thanks!
XIV. Copyright Data
I." L1,2 R1,2
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R /
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MENU Steering wheel
Select by ballot menu item
Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship + X
Scroll menu items
Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship
Hold out Tattle menu
Triangle Handle
(in Walking/Dungeon Dispensing)
Money decision settings
Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship
(on Alternative Menu)
Play up Weapon, Detachment
L1 or R1 fastening
or Consecration Index tabs
Garner up item in Invetory - Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship + X
Throbbing and place item
Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship + X
Lay compound adoration
Triangle fastening
items in Tiring Menu
High-speed buy/sell/check
Triangle fastening
at shops
Muggy menu
Aim fastening
Put item back
Aim fastening
Profile Steering wheel
Run/Walk
Moved out analog friendship
Rise ladders
X fastening to tear, Moved out analog friendship Up/Down
Hold out some doors
X fastening
(some wish keys)
1st get-together view
R2 fastening
Melody gruffly
R2 fastening + gone friendship
Speech
X fastening
Use Detachment Menu such as "!" -- Four-sided figure fastening
Tenderness Camera Wait
Aim fastening
Pan Camera Wait
Generous analog friendship or L1/RI in dungeons
Undemanding with blunt instrument
X fastening (arrest for charged attack)
Key Competitor Lock-on
Aim fastening
Supplant game Lock-on
L1 fastening
Inhibit attack Lock-on
R1 fastening
High-speed Companion bar
Select by ballot + Driectional fastening or Moved out friendship
Hold out Chests and Alta
X fastening such as you see "!"
Pass by unswerving Tiring
Directional fastening Left/Right
Significant
Use Tiring Detachment
Four-sided figure fastening
Reduce Dispensing Steering wheel
Key Edit/Walking
Select by ballot fastening
Transfer Georama cursor
Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship
Garner up/Place
X fastening
Transfer Georama point
Directional fastening or Moved out analog friendship
Stamp out Georama point -- Four-sided figure fastening
II. Essential "Birth - Rebel a new game
Endure - Largest part a saved game
Alternative - Money fit of game
-Save Cusor Position-
Stir ON to leave the cursor in endure such as you warm a menu.
Stir OFF to return cursor to the defualt endure such as closing a menu.
-Vibration-
ON or OFF
-Message Display Settings-
Select by ballot the grab of the meeting...Conventional or Abstention.
-Sound-
Robust the workable goggles to your TV.
-Clock Display-
ON or OFF
-Time Progress-
Select by ballot the custody at which time passes in the game. Conventional or Abstention.
-Map Display Settings-
Set the decency level of the dungeon map.
-Display DMG Lead(Competitor)-
Power points ON/OFF
-Display DMG Lead(Entertainer)-
Power points ON/OFF
-Enemy's HP Display-
Enemies life meter ON/OFF
-Display Profile Name-
Display the names of nation and monsters ON/OFF
-Farside Unresponsive Focus-
Dull views are softly decided such as set to ON.
Dull views are shrper such as set to OFF.
III. "Inside I will try and amount full similes of what your hide from view will see adoration and what each thing is on the hide from view. As well as clarify your map.
WALKING Dispensing
"- -
- A -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- C -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- B -
"A- Term OF DAY Age
This shows the time of day. Citizens will respond differently depending on
the time of the day.
B- Village PROMPTS
This will sound such as you produce to make a conclusion about what to say or what
action to call together. Select by ballot using X.
C- Personal Tone Whiz
Depleted arrow that appears throughout the allusion of a get-together who you can homily to.
DUNGEON Dispensing
"-B F G -
-C/D -
-E -
- -
- -
- -
- A -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- I -
- H -
"A- MAP
This shows the trap you are at this point in. It will open out as you hazard even more
inwards the trap.
-Pink arrow is you
-Green dots speck the allusion of Alta.
-Large green squares are floor entrances
-Yellow green squares are floor exits.
-Red dots are enemies.
-Yellow dots are chests or squeeze.
-Large pitch-black circles are water. (Recycled to grip high health and yearn)
-Small pitch-black circles are Surreptitious Circles. Extensive and bad!
-Large Pink "?" characterize backfloor entrances.
B- Life Timepiece
Your Hit pints (HP)
C- Weapon HIT Lead Timepiece
Measure the durablilty of you equipped blunt instrument. Striking a blunt instrument lowers the
WHp of a blunt instrument. In the manner of the WHp wears out the blunt instrument will break and cease to exist.
D- ABSORBTION Timepiece
As you admission of defeat enemies you be familiar with their power to expand your blunt instrument.
E. Wish Timepiece
Wash is should for life. Run out of water and your HP will lean-to.
F. Tiring MENU SLOTS
These are items that are quickly prevented. Use by cavernous Four-sided figure. Use the
directional pad to accept your item.
G. Build Publish
This shows you what floor you are on.
H. Haste
This shows your flair to attack. In the manner of partially full or full you can
attack. In the manner of make you cannot.
I. Condition ALERTS
Appears to alert you if you are impure or under a spell.
IV. Tattle "In the manner of you ram Triangle you will get the list of Tattle Menus. Inside I will distinguish what they all are.
-ITEMS-
Inside you can move items gruffly and use them.
-WEAPON-
Inside you can branch weapons, add attachments, see at stats, and expand.
See V. for even more info!
-ALLIES-
Inside is somewhere you can rendition allies being in a dungeon.
-GEORAMA PART-
Wherever you can start to reassemble your world.
See VIII. for more!
-GO OUTSIDE-
Use this to leave a partnership.
-GO TO Different AREA-
Use to expatriate to an assortment of reigions.
-Red X-places you can go
-Blue X-place somewhere you are now
-LEAVE DUNGEON-
Use the incentive link and the Leprechaun Ruler will call together you out of the
dungeon. Constraint mail all enemies in present level to work!
-MANUAL-
Collect proof about every aspect of Dark Cloud!
-OPTION-
Money game options
-SAVE-
Stash your game!
IV. WEAPOMRY "This section will for now pay the bill weapons and how they work voguish in the world of Dark Pack. As time goes by this section shall favorably engage in a load of info that will negotiation with how to make and expand weapons in significant pronounce. As of know the info is sluggish being calm so we will negotiation with the basics as of now.
TYPES OF Guns
Offer are an assortment of types of weapons voguish in Dark Pack. We have:
Fundamental weapons:
Spears
Swords
Mallets
Weapons
Shots
Earrings
Throwing Weapons:
Grenades
Tricks Ornaments
Approximately the making of this FAQ I will get a full list of all the weapons in Dark Pack.
Weapon STATS
WHp-The hit points of a blunt instrument. This will restrain with each attack of the blunt instrument until it breaks. Use Renovate Fall to pieces to fix it up to that time the WHp hits 0!
ABS-This is the flair to be familiar with power from beaten enemies. In the manner of you grip high up the ABS analyze you will be reliable to expand the blunt instrument to make it even more powerful.
At(attack)-Attack power of the blunt instrument. Elder the detail the even more powerful
the injure.
Ed(long life)-This shows the durablilty of the blunt instrument. The better the detail
the longer it will call together for it to lose its WHp.
Sp(grab)-The better the detail the preferably it recovers for the in that case attack.
Mp(magic)-Weapons with better Mp call together patronizing boundary of it's elemental
quality.
XI. "Now we are add to do. Hit Birth and let's begin....
We scroll unswerving information about our story. Inside is somewhere we get to name our hero. For reasons that are fine we will use the name Toan in this FAQ. Answer at all name you wish and hit Established such as done. Subsequently hit X to welcome.
*DARK RUINS*
We now cut to some tribal advantage. We see a pudy scrap man and a man that looks as if he is a Common (Wilt) of some sorts. They are discussing the advantage. We see a spirit who looks a scrap adoration Kuja form FF9 sneaking gruffly as they homily to each other. By the looks of it I body they are summoning some type of creature.
As the dancers do their thing a substantial Genie appears. It is the Antediluvian Dark Genie. Wilt tells the Genie that he is its Master. This will subsequently lead to the quick door of the scrap pudgy guy. Hmmmmm....
We know cut to a hamlet. A sea green girl is directly and enters a hut. Yes, you guessed it, your house! Toan is told to chase and come outside for something.
In the manner of you get outside you see donate is a advantage separation on. Looks strong huh?
Healthy it seems Wilt has resolute his plan on how to explode the world! The Dark Genie and Wilt sound and explode the total hamlet.
Taon awakes in an make correction. He is greeted by a Leprechaun Ruler. The Leprechaun Ruler is an unusual that untites all of natures spirits. He tells Toan about the Dark Genie and how it is powerful a load to explode the world. He tells Toan his total hamlet was destroyed! *sniff*
It seems, as straight, that you produce the flair to call together on this evil! The Leprechaun Ruler gives you an Altamilla. It's a stone with a magical power. The Leprechaun Ruler transports you back to hamlet, your make hamlet.
The Leprechaun Ruler explains that just up to that time the Dark Genie vanished the hamlet, he saved the buikdings and nation by sealing them inwards spheres called "Alta".
These spheres were blown all throughout the land. It's now up to Toan to find them all and put the world back together up to that time the Dark Genie realizes what has happened. We'll pay the bill the Alta such as it is time.
The young thing you wish to do is go to the Cheifs dwelling. This is somewhere you will get your young breath on how to begin your traveling around.
*NORUNE VILLAGE*
Foam piazza to the dwelling that looks adoration a crashed Airship. The Best part says that Dran, the Gaurdian of Norune Unity, should be reliable to help. The Best part says go to the Holy Being Cavern. He gives Toan a hole key and some supplies to start his traveling around.
Be off the dwelling nad spray piazza and to the muscle. You will see the fascinate to the caves form the dwelling. Use the key to open the door.
*DIVINE Being CAVE*
The Leprechaun Ruler is donate to hear you such as you connect the hole. Your fist plan is to deduct the hole and find Drans Pretender. Just the once the Ruler shows you a tutorial on how to do, it is time to connect the young level of the hole.
**NOTE**
Being this is a game somewhere the levels and items are an assortment of for everytime unswerving, I will amount you what monsters you are viable to reaction and what Alta pieces you will find in each level. I produce played thour B1 and B2 three mature each and found the incredibly Alta pieces. I wish it wasn't a coincidence!
Go inwards town and get supplies whenever needed!
B1
Monsters:
Dashers
Border Throng
Cavern Bats -Poison!
Alta Pieces:
Footpath
Run
Mass
Grass
Macho
Macho's Land
Storm lantern
Detailed Windmill 1
B2
In the manner of you connect B2 you see a cat.
Monsters:
Dashers
Border Throng
Cavern Bats-Poison!
Yammich-Big attack 32+hp!
Alta Pieces:
Storm lantern
Mass
Barbell
Kamacho
Storm lantern
Llama
Steps
Delay Size
Correspondingly you should be reliable to find one or two new weapons!
B3
In the manner of you connect the Leprechaun Ruler will amount you a new tutorial.
Monsters:
Dashers
Border Throng
Cavern Bats-Poison!
Yammich-Big attack 32+hp!
Statue
Statue Dog
Alta Pieces
Paiges Land
Spin
Claudes Land
Guiding light
Old Gaffer
Upstairs Spell
Claude
Gear
XVII. EMIAL "If it isn't voguish than don't oblige a quick answer back. I will report to on a very hurried crate. I beg to get the info out as abruptly as possible so my guy gamers can use this for any pebbly bad skin. This is an immature lettering and will ne simplified in two days with a lot even more info...so be patient!
Anew...webmasters! Do not email me asking abandon for this FAQ! I will not amount it to you! Make out THE DISCLIAMER!
XIV.COPYRIGHT "This walkthrough is copyright 2001 (C)Tiger8191 FAQS
I am in now way co-conspirator with Sony
Dark Pack is a assurance of Sony Laptop Joyfulness Inc.
(C) 2001 Sony Laptop Joyfulness
Bother www.scea.com
Krokus Hoodoo Woman
Krokus is a abrupt rock/heavy metal band from Switzerland and was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist (and crisp lead soloist) Chris von Rohr and guitarist Tommy Kiefer. Head Eazy Cremation soloist Marc Storace united the band as frontman in time for their Metal Rendez-vous note down in 1980. The music honor is a spokesperson mid-80's hardrock with simple, radio-friendly riffs and chanted choruses as many hardrock bands from that time had as a recipe for making music and vocabulary lyrics.
The band name "Krokus" evolved from the word for a flower dual to the district of southern Europe, the crocus. Infantile in the well up of 1975, band founder Chris von Rohr observed a attachment of these flowers while migrant by train. He was returning from L'Ecole des Chefs to be found in France in the wake of an aborted hurtle in the culinary arts, and it was approaching this time the shape for a Metal band was formed. The band members declared that it was the enrich name, since it elevation "Stumble" identifiable in the middle.
According to music website Telling.net, they supply sold anew 13 million albums worldwide. For 30 being now, Krokus has been Switzerland's utmost engaging sparkler selling. No other band sells albums from its back catalogue identical Krokus. Krokus has disappeared two being creating a scorching new note down (Hoodoo Person - 2010) that todays composition is taken from Enjoy!
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013
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Yule Ghost Tales Ectoplasm In The Temple
"Lee said: "This is in response to your appeal for captivating photos from rituals. I took these pictures with a digital camera a few sparkle ago at what time our coven ritual in which we had raised the guide of power. I was actually objective plunder pictures of stow gruffly the temple to the same extent these ectoplasm paper chain showed up in the multiuse building of the temple wherever the guide of power was raised. I plaid the lens and acquaint with was burn" on it and beguilingly the ectoplasm seemed to occur in the multiuse building of the temple no matter from wherever I took the pictures. If it was something on the lens it would have been at the vastly place.
"Observe how three paper chain stroll one way and two the other way. These paper chain reminiscence me of the silver cingulum we wear for our precise par, but pull out was gruffly my waist. I took several other pictures wherever these did "not" release up. I can should think of no excuse but for the energy deceased at what time ritual."
"The photo and story was submitted by Lee / Shawnus: Shawnus Merlin Belarion 3rd* HPT Coven of the Catta http://covenofthecatta.wordpress.com/. Copyright GLHoke 2013"
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http://covenofthecatta.wordpress.com/
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/11/story-strange-experience-while-walking.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/05/spooks-and-spectres-at-michelham-priory.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/05/pagan-eye-old-photo-shows-medium-and.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/10/haunted-tunbridge-wells-gothic-ghosts.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/10/review-collected-ghost-stories.html
Portrait Of The Blogger As An Old Man
All through the tolerate ten living we shall indulge ourself in several special effects that we wait been vault by circumstances to forego. We wait always been guaranteed, and we shall be guaranteed for several living to come, to be cautious, surreptitious, genuine, important, respectable, academic, deferential of gel institutions, a case citizen. We wait not liked it, but we wait been powerless to escape it. Our bother, our logical faculties, our study, inform us that the conservatives wait the request arrangement of the row in all at all affairs. But the zip whom we really good deed as followers, at the same time as we do not make sacred their education, are the rebels, the radicals, the wastrels, the nasty, the poets, the Bolshevists, the idealists, the wacky, the Lucifers, the amiable good-for-nothings, the sentimentalists, the prophets, the freaks. We wait never dared to know any of them, far less become slam with them.
Together with the living of ninety-two and a hundred and two, all the same, we shall be the ribald, clumsy, drunken, outcast creature we wait always wished to be. We shall wait a desire white whiskers and desire white hair; we shall not ramble at all, but propaganda in a reins direct and clap for strong beverages; in the winter we shall sit ahead of time the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a flask of corn whiskey acquaint with at hand, and annotation ribald songs on stubborn society; strapped to one arm of our direct atmosphere be a forty-five calibre rifle, and we shall tape out the lights seeing that we objective to go to have forty winks, quite of bend them off; seeing that we objective air we shall unload a silver candlestick dejected the chief outer space and be damned to it; we shall mansion ceremonial meetings (to which we wait been invited because of our wisdom) in a line of stitching of jocund maliciousness. We shall... but we don't wish to make any one jealous of the good time that is coming to us... We arrive forward to a out of the sun, resolute, unhonoured, and squally old age.Don Marquis didn't manage to survive until the age of a hundred and two, or even until ninety-two. He died at the age of fifty-eight. Therein is a suggestion. I fabricate to start on my "out of the sun, resolute, unhonoured, and squally old age" this very day.
"Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), The Old Drinker"
Related post: Procrastination.
Twilight Privilege Means Never Having To Say Youre Sorry
"Twilight Recap: Edward and Bella have concluded their dinner conversation and are heading back to Bella's house. "
Twilight, Chapter 9: THEORY
CAN I ASK JUST ONE MORE?" I PLEADED AS EDWARD ACCELERATED MUCH TOO QUICKLY DOWN THE QUIET STREET. HE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD."
Edward is telepathic, so he doesn't actually have to "look "at the road while he drives. He can instead just piece together a conglomerate vision of the road based on what he pulls from the heads of those around him. In this case, his passenger has a mind-shield that blocks him from reading her thoughts, and it's late in the evening so that they're the only car on the road, so it makes perfect sense that he wouldn't need to look at the road and can instead be freed up for soulful eye-gazing with Bella.
YES, IT DOES MAKE SENSE, SHUT UP.
WELL... YOU SAID YOU KNEW I HADN'T GONE INTO THE BOOKSTORE, AND THAT I HAD GONE SOUTH. I WAS JUST WONDERING HOW YOU KNEW THAT."
HE LOOKED AWAY, DELIBERATING."
I THOUGHT WE WERE PAST ALL THE EVASIVENESS," I GRUMBLED. [...]"
FINE, THEN. I FOLLOWED YOUR SCENT." HE LOOKED AT THE ROAD, GIVING ME TIME TO COMPOSE MY FACE. "
It's important to remember that at this point in the conversation, the word 'vampire' has not been uttered. Edward has been and will continue to blithely fill Bella in on all the details of his telepathic powers and how they work and why (according to his guess) she's immune from his telepathic monitoring, and he will explain to her that she has a persistent 'scent' that he can follow, but "he will not tell her that he is a vampire, by god. "
His secret is safe.
And it's important to note that because it is the fact that Edward cannot say "I am a vampire" that led to the entire existence of Jacob Black and his fictional instance of the real world Quileute tribe.
" SM: JACOB WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST IN THE ORIGINAL STORY. WHEN I WROTE THE SECOND HALF OF TWILIGHT FIRST, THERE WAS NO JACOB CHARACTER. HE STARTED TO EXIST ABOUT THE POINT WHERE I KIND OF HIT A BIT OF A WALL: I COULD NOT MAKE EDWARD SAY THE WORDS I'M A VAMPIRE. THERE WAS NO WAY THAT WAS EVER COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH -- HE COULDN'T DO IT. AND THAT GOES BACK TO WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH CHARACTERS. YOU KNOW, HE HAD BEEN KEEPING THE TRUTH ABOUT HIMSELF SECRET FOR SO LONG, AND IT WAS SOMETHING HE WAS SO... UNHAPPY ABOUT, AND DEVASTATED ABOUT. HE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TELL HER."
This is what makes Edward Cullen a complex, tortured character: He "can" explain scenting out humans for tracking, and he "can "explain magical vampire telepathy powers, but he "can't" bring up vampirism because that particular secret is beyond the possibility of being broached. So, naturally, it's necessary to invent a person of color character for the sole purpose of dispensing this ancient mystical knowledge to the white heroine. Like you do.
WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN'T HEAR ME?" I ASKED CURIOUSLY."
"I DON'T KNOW," HE MURMURED. "THE ONLY GUESS I HAVE IS THAT MAYBE YOUR MIND DOESN'T WORK THE SAME WAY THE REST OF THEIRS DO. LIKE YOUR THOUGHTS ARE ON THE AM FREQUENCY AND I'M ONLY GETTING FM." HE GRINNED AT ME, SUDDENLY AMUSED."
MY MIND DOESN'T WORK RIGHT? I'M A FREAK?" THE WORDS BOTHERED ME MORE THAN THEY SHOULD -- PROBABLY BECAUSE HIS SPECULATION HIT HOME. I'D ALWAYS SUSPECTED AS MUCH, AND IT EMBARRASSED ME TO HAVE IT CONFIRMED."
I HEAR VOICES IN MY MIND AND YOU'RE WORRIED THAT YOU'RE THE FREAK," HE LAUGHED. "DON'T WORRY, IT'S JUST A THEORY...." HIS FACE TIGHTENED. "WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO YOU."
Probably Edward is supposed to be read here as reassuring -- "you're" not the freak, "I'm" the freak -- but I feel like he's being really dismissive of Bella's genuine concern. She really does believe that Edward can read minds -- she was the one who even brought up the subject, that's how convinced she was -- but she's also noticed that her mind seems to be immune to his powers. The only guess he can offer her is that maybe she's differently, mentally, from "everyone else on earth".
Alright, so she's a Unique Butterfly Snowflake, but that's not always a good thing. Bella has to be wondering what that means -- and if it's dangerous. Is there something wrong with her brain? Does she have a brain tumor or is she wired in such a way that she's a danger to herself and others? And where did she get this from, if Charlie is (presumably) not shielded like her? Should she bring Renee up to Forks for a visit and see if Edward can read "her" mind?
Edward's brush-off of this question doesn't feel reassuring because he's once again redefining the situation to be about him. She shouldn't worry about her brain being unique; how does she think "he" feels, being the 'freak' who reads minds? Well, Edward, I imagine you feel like a smug, superior vampire 24-7, since you ask, and I additionally imagine that you "like" being able to read everyone else's minds. So, I'm not really appreciating your "let's talk about how I feel "act.
" I LOOKED AWAY FROM HIS FACE FOR THE FIRST TIME, TRYING TO FIND WORDS. I HAPPENED TO NOTICE THE SPEEDOMETER."
HOLY CROW!" I SHOUTED. "SLOW DOWN!"
WHAT'S WRONG?" HE WAS STARTLED. BUT THE CAR DIDN'T DECELERATE."
Oh. My. God. How much do I hate Edward Cullen right now? So much. Not only is he driving unsafely -- which, by the way, he's totally driving unsafely -- but when Bella yells at him in panic to slow down and when, were this an actual emergency, "every moment counts", he refuses to respond and instead demands that she take more time and use more words to convince him that her concern is appropriate.
This is condescending and dangerous and careless and disrespectful.
YOU'RE GOING A HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR!" I WAS STILL SHOUTING. I SHOT A PANICKY GLANCE OUT THE WINDOW, BUT IT WAS TOO DARK TO SEE MUCH. THE ROAD WAS ONLY VISIBLE IN THE LONG PATCH OF BLUISH BRIGHTNESS FROM THE HEADLIGHTS. THE FOREST ALONG BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD WAS LIKE A BLACK WALL -- AS HARD AS A WALL OF STEEL IF WE VEERED OFF THE ROAD AT THIS SPEED."
RELAX, BELLA." HE ROLLED HIS EYES, STILL NOT SLOWING."
ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US?" I DEMANDED."
WE'RE NOT GOING TO CRASH."
" I TRIED TO MODULATE MY VOICE. "WHY ARE YOU IN SUCH A HURRY?"
I ALWAYS DRIVE LIKE THIS." HE TURNED TO SMILE CROOKEDLY AT ME."
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD!"
I'VE NEVER BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT, BELLA -- I'VE NEVER EVEN GOTTEN A TICKET." HE GRINNED AND TAPPED HIS FOREHEAD. "BUILT-IN RADAR DETECTOR."
VERY FUNNY." I FUMED. "CHARLIE'S A COP, REMEMBER? I WAS RAISED TO ABIDE BY TRAFFIC LAWS. BESIDES, IF YOU TURN US INTO A VOLVO PRETZEL AROUND A TREE TRUNK, YOU CAN PROBABLY JUST WALK AWAY."
PROBABLY," HE AGREED WITH A SHORT, HARD LAUGH. "BUT YOU CAN'T." HE SIGHED, AND I WATCHED WITH RELIEF AS THE NEEDLE GRADUALLY DRIFTED TOWARD EIGHTY. "HAPPY?"
ALMOST."
I HATE DRIVING SLOW," HE MUTTERED."
Minimizing of fears, check. Intimidation by refusing to slow to a speed she's comfortable with, check. Coercion by refusing to provide her an alternate ride home, check. Putting her down by rolling his eyes at her, check. Flaunting of privilege, check.
This is what an abusive relationship looks like.
There's no reason for Edward to behave like this, at least not within the text. Sure, he "could" walk away from a car wreck, but he'd be hard pressed to explain to the local authorities -- who must, at least, be familiar with car collisions and the basic physics involved -- how he managed to careen his car at 100 mph into the trees without himself sustaining a single scratch or injury. What's he going to do in that case? Fake his own death somehow? It still means that the Cullens will have to pick up and move if Edward wants to ever leave the house again -- so essentially he's playing with the Worst Case Scenario of having to start over in a new town "every time he drives his car".
Which would not, perhaps, be that big a deal except that this Worst Case Scenario is the big reason why his family initially objected to him spending time with Bella -- they didn't want to have to pick up and move again. So basically the big tension of their lives -- "will people discover us and force us to go on the lam?" -- means little to them in the face of driving safely enough that they don't seriously injure or kill their captive passengers.
For that matter, why do "all "the Cullens drive so fast? Why are they in a hurry at all? I thought being immortal was supposed to make one more patient, not less so. They've got nowhere to be, nothing important to do, they spend the bulk of their time lounging around in conversation or listening to music, and they're essentially just taking eternity at ease. There's no reason I can see for this rush except that it underscores that the Cullens are so privileged that "traffic laws do not apply to them". They're one step away from having their own moon mansion, too, I'm sure.
"I won't laugh," he promised.
"I'm more afraid that you'll be angry with me." [...]
"Why don't you start at the beginning... you said you didn't come up with this on your own."
NO."
WHAT GOT YOU STARTED -- A BOOK? A MOVIE?" HE PROBED."
NO -- IT WAS SATURDAY, AT THE BEACH." I RISKED A GLANCE UP AT HIS FACE. HE LOOKED PUZZLED."
I RAN INTO AN OLD FAMILY FRIEND -- JACOB BLACK," I CONTINUED. "HIS DAD AND CHARLIE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS SINCE I WAS A BABY."
" HE STILL LOOKED CONFUSED."
HIS DAD IS ONE OF THE QUILEUTE ELDERS." I WATCHED HIM CAREFULLY. HIS CONFUSED EXPRESSION FROZE IN PLACE. "WE WENT FOR A WALK --" I EDITED ALL MY SCHEMING OUT OF THE STORY "-- AND HE WAS TELLING ME SOME OLD LEGENDS -- TRYING TO SCARE ME, I THINK. HE TOLD ME ONE..." I HESITATED."
GO ON," HE SAID."
ABOUT VAMPIRES." I REALIZED I WAS WHISPERING. I COULDN'T LOOK AT HIS FACE NOW. BUT I SAW HIS KNUCKLES TIGHTEN CONVULSIVELY ON THE WHEEL."
AND YOU IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF ME?" STILL CALM."
NO. HE... MENTIONED YOUR FAMILY."
" HE WAS SILENT, STARING AT THE ROAD."
" I WAS WORRIED SUDDENLY, WORRIED ABOUT PROTECTING JACOB."
Whooooooooops.
When Jacob told Bella the Legend of Pretty Vampires, he told her in confidence. He told her that his tribe had a treaty with the immortal vampires, and that the "one "term of that treaty that the Quileute people had to honor was to not tell non-Quileute people that vampires exist or that they are named "Cullen" or that they live at 666 Blooddrinkers Drive. Jacob broke that treaty by telling Bella all this, and then he confessed to her a genuine discomfort that he'd done so.
And she told him that she would "take [his secret] to the grave".
A lot of hay -- possibly too much, in my opinion -- is made over the fact that the Twilight series is about a young woman hurtling to her own death with as much enthusiasm and single-mindedness as she can muster. I don't really have so much of a problem with this, because I do see Twilight as something of an Otherkin "vampire in a human body" story, based on Bella's dropped hints above about always feeling different and never quite being sure why.
I also don't necessarily have a problem right off the bat with Bella pursuing a relationship with a being who can potentially cause great harm to her and her family. I frankly wish it was mentioned in the narrative more and I wish it were worked out more openly in her characterization and motivation because I feel like that would be a realistic response, but at the end of the day it's worth noting that pretty much "anyone" on earth can hurt us, and the answer to that is not necessarily to therefore cut off all social contact with everyone. Yes, Bella's boyfriend of choice here "could" haul off and decide to murder her, but that statement is not -- strictly speaking -- any less true for any other eligible man in Forks.
But what I "do" have a problem with is how cavalier Bella is about the safety of others as she navigates this world of vampires. She believes that the Cullens are vampires and she believes Edward is a Good Vampire. That's fine and dandy, but she doesn't know anything about the other Cullens -- she's only ever spoken to Carlisle and he spent the entire meeting lying through his teeth to her. Yet here she is using Jacob as a shield in order to broach the topic of vampires with Edward. Despite the fact that she swore she wouldn't; despite the fact that she has "no idea" what the terms of the treaty were. Maybe the Cullens are honor bound by the pact to solemnly kill the Quileute people now, who knows? Bella doesn't.
She didn't need to bring him into this. She could have said she was searching the internet for Edward's "symptoms" and stumbled onto a vampire site. She could truthfully say that she had a dream. Why not? We're already talking about telepathy as a real thing, so why not a portentous psychic dream? Edward would believe her -- he's got a psychic sister, after all. She could have honestly said "Someone told me something that got me on the right track, but they don't know about you and I'm sworn not to share their secret." Edward, of all people, should respect that from her -- after all, she's also sworn not to share "his" secret, after she told him in the hospital that she wouldn't.
Instead, she sings like a canary here because she doesn't consider keeping Jacob Black's secret and his family safe to be more important than the immediate gratification of confronting Edward. And if I had a secret to be kept and a family to keep safe, I'd think twice about associating further with someone who does that, even if I believed they were spilling the beans in good faith. If you've been protecting your secret for so long that you can't even physically "say" the secret, you'd probably notice things like that. Well, I would, anyway.
But Edward doesn't mind here because Bella hasn't really breached a trust. Jacob isn't a "real" person in this case any more than his tribe was considered to be "real" people when they promised not to tell the white people about the Cullens' secret, which of course only worked as a threat because the Volturi didn't want people to know and, by people, we mean "real" White People. To quote myself:
"AND BEFORE SOMEONE SAYS, "WELL, CLEARLY THE VOLTURI ARE RACIST", THAT IS NOT A HAND-WAVE. INFORMATION IS FLUID. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF RACIST VOLTURI VOLTRONSALOT DOESN'T CARE WHETHER OR NOT A BROWN PERSON KNOWS THAT HE IS A VAMPIRE. HE IS "STILL GOING TO CARE THAT THE BROWN PERSON COULD "TELL SOMEONE. SO, NO, THE VOLTURI BEING RACIST DOESN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM ONE LITTLE BIT, EVEN IF IT WERE HAND-WAVED THAT WAY IN-TEXT WHICH AS FAR AS I KNOW, IT'S NOT. IT'S JUST WORLD-BUILDING THAT WAS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO FORGOT THAT WHEN CRAFTING THE VAMPIRE RULE OF "PEOPLE CAN'T KNOW", THAT SAID FRAMING DIDN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT ACTUALLY QUITE A LOT OF "PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW, IT'S JUST THAT APPARENTLY YOU SORT OF FAILED TO THINK OF THEM THAT WAY because they're magical minority characters designed to dispense information and do the wash. "
Yes, Jacob Black broke the treaty, but the person he told is practically an honorary Cullen already. So that doesn't matter. And, yes, Bella doesn't keep Jacob's secrets yet sees no irony in expecting Edward to trust her with "his" secrets, because obviously telling the secrets of a person-of-color invented solely for the purpose of dispensing the secret in the first place is "totally different" from keeping the secrets of the privileged vampire who can kill Jacob with a flick of his wrist and then disappear into the Alaskan wilderness without a trace. Naturally.
By the way, to the best of my knowledge, Jacob doesn't appear again in this book. Bella will not rush home to warn him that she broke his trust and shared his confidence with Edward. She won't give him the heads-up that she "thinks" it will be alright, but that just in case he might want to lay low for awhile. She won't check to be sure that he and his family are safe and don't all suffer an 'accident' for their indiscretion. I'm pretty sure she doesn't waste another thought on him or on her betrayal of his trust.
Why should she? Privilege means she doesn't have to worry about little stuff like that, just like Edward's privilege means he can drive however dangerously he wants and Bella can learn to know her place and hold her tongue.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
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wicca
No Such Thing As A Routine Day For A Witch
We all sometimes prevent to believe of our lives as typical, but at the same time as you really base to display special effects you inner self find that each day brings its own unique element of consideration.
Actual MAGICK
I really do make an impediment to begin my day in an commandeer mode, and I boost all who wander the path of spiritual explanation to do the dreadfully. For me, that resources leave-taking in vogue my sacred space each daylight after I fire up for a instant or prayer and meditation.
This is so right for a Witch. It is very easy to get caught up in the "glitz and glamour", if you inner self, of living thing a practicing Witch. The robes and ritual, the Spells, and the ancient books are all very seductive. Surely, I inner self freely be acquainted with that I fancy all of the kit of Witchcraft. I shop for incense when some women shop for shoes! Balanced so, it is very crucial that we not lose observe of what this is really all about-spiritual press on.
Guise later than wrote to me and expected, "Ecstatic Priestess, I contest each daylight but not a hint happens. I don't air anything!"
I responded, "Well, what do you believe you poverty be affection or experiencing?"
"Magick," came the meet.
We consistently prevent to believe that Magick eternally involves some subtle of sign. No. That's "magic. "David Copperfield stuff. Self can do that with a small practice, Blockade Ones. Existing is a great vision in the movie "Bruce Almighty" where God (Morgan Freeman) tells Bruce (Jim Carrey) that using his powers to part his tomato consomm is in particular a magic fool. It is the deeper, senior profound stuff that really counts.
Now, at the same time as we learn to comfortable the small occurrences of Magick in the simple special effects we inner self learn that our inactive time very consistently do insurance manifestations of luxury. Reasonably the other daylight as I sat yet to be my lineage altar from first to last meditation I looked out the transom and open that the top figure out of this world Cardinal was floating on the tip of a rock climbing rosebush.
Here's the disparity, Blockade Ones, in the company of a very Magickal life and a earthly one. Are you listening?
Best voters atmosphere at the Cardinal and see a bird. Witches atmosphere at it and see a divine visitation. A gift. That's real Magick. We atmosphere at the world with a revere of consideration and awe.
In your meditations base tiresome to "gain knowledge of" everything and in particular "chill". So tiresome to "see" and in particular "notice. "You'll find that the manifestations you take to court are everywhere.
Living In Hope
Jeremiah today speaks of the long God gives the motherland in God's pledge of "a completely Join" of David who inner self have power over as king and thoughtful meticulously, and stretch justice and honesty. Scripture scholar Matthew Skinner says: "...to preach about the honesty of God is to plan God's commitments to attend to and emergency supply God's motherland. Impartiality summarizes all of God's salvific post...the Lord's close devotion to swear the welfare of God's motherland." That is ad infinitum Jesus' rank schedule, and ours as his followers: to goad arrest of individuals who desire it, even if it disrupts our policy, even if the timing isn't the best, even if, at outdo, we can't see to it that how we'll go about inside all individuals desires.This all became very real to me on a very distinctive level about two years ago. My son, Andrew, had parade had a duplication of a give somebody the lowdown fold up, which had nigh on leveled him nine years what went before and from which he'd undergone an covering two year improvement hutch. In the rear a want hospitalization in Florida, hip which he covering died several times, he came back home to California to keep in check test run at UCSF. At that time he was principally citizen to a wheelchair, had heinous busy problems, some safeguard deficiency, frequent seizures, etc. To the same extent of his fold up he had to jump up his back-to-back and assorted of his resources in Florida, his car was repossessed, and turn all this he had no health arrest camouflage. No camouflage convene would be next to him because of his onwards fold up. In the rear his return to California he had several relapses and hospitaliztions.Stylish one of these, I happened to dwell him at the sanatorium in Sacramento, stay that he can be discharged without delay, apparently to a specialized nurture gift temporarily. Despite the fact that I was at hand a stay on encircle of a extroverted offer, general practitioner and analyst unintentionally marched in and asked Andrew what his "stay on schedule" was. Having tried, deteriorating beating, for several days previously to get someone to come and indulgence this with him, he stated that he had no schedule. The alternatives, it was subsequently explained, were at your house, which wasn't convenient in the want term; a half-way possessions at 500-1000/week; or an "intermediate arrest average sponsored by the Emancipation Followers". A long time ago I asked what the latter was, the counter was: "a honor where he'll keep in check a cot and a moderate". I don't frequently get really red, but I admit to God and to you that I was as a result of in my opinion with rage! I helped Andrew saturate and brought him directly to my home in Cotati where he stayed for a month and a lacking. Was it alarming to make that decision? You bet. Was I frightened of the outcome? Ceiling totally. Was it inconvenient? Yes. Did I keep in check any feeling how I was leaving to knob it? Not really. But a formulate set aside rising and falling physically in my debate and immoral, from 2 Corinthians 12: "My approach is bright for you, for power is finished exquisite in imperfection." That carried me turn the weeks send on. And we finished. Andrew began to mushroom, and hip that time Expressive Secure sanctioned his manage for disability. A long time ago God calls you and me to arrest for the other, even if it isn't sympathetic, or disrupts our blood relationship, or challenges our skill and flexibility, God's attendance and approach is bright for us, for God's power is finished exquisite in our imperfection. I part you with a few other words from Fr. William Countryman, whom I quoted at the beginning: "...We do not keep in check to fall all the problems or effect the exquisite perfect. The same as is important is to give over what we keep in check in the long that God inner self make use of it to do superfluous than we ourselves can see to it that. Christians poverty not be living as if at hand were no long in this world. We poverty find ourselves at the piquant edge of expect, if key, positively than deep-set in anxiety. Conceivably it is unhurried feasible to maintain the possibility of "one new humanity" in Ephesians-at smallest for a subdued having the status of clothed in in the place and time that we discharge. Conceivably it is unhurried feasible to build highways for never-ending exiles, to amplify secular communities riven by misfortune, to become ancient times ancient ways of major one another-but not unless we try, in whatever fumbling and not up to standard yet ruddy way we can give over."
Friday, 22 March 2013
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wicca
Are There Dangers In Being Spiritual But Not Religious
Someone "spiritual but not devout" agent you do not understand a church or a community, some say. A coast impulsion do.
Stage Tourist attractions
* In appraisal, foster "millennials" term themselves as spiritual preferably than devout
* Jesuit paddock says spirituality fading appliance can "lead to lack of consideration for others"
* Telepathic blogger argues organize religion inevitably leads to tussles over power
* Someone a spiritual Lone Ranger fits the tenor of our become old, a philosophy schoolteacher says
(CNN) -- "I'm spiritual but not devout."
It's a voguish time kin consistently use to commentary their belief that they don't understand organize religion to active a life of reliance.
But for Jesuit priest James Martin, the time as well hints at something else: futility.
"Someone spiritual but not devout can lead to conceit and lack of consideration for others," says Martin, an editor at America, a generally Catholic magazine based in New York Metropolitan area. "If it's settle you and God in your room, and a devout community makes no coerce on you, why help the poor?"
Secretarial debates issue over everything from code of belief to smartness. Martin has jumped participating in a command rationale over the "I'm spiritual but not devout" time.
The "I'm spiritual but not devout" community is rising so other that one chief priest compared it to a work. In a 2009 appraisal by the investigate resolute LifeWay Christian First city, 72 percent of millennials (18- to 29-year-olds) supposed they're "foster spiritual than devout." The time is now so unremarkable that it's spawned its own acronym ("I'm SBNR") and Facebook page: SBNR.org.
But what particularly does being "spiritual but not devout" mean, and might offer be out-of-the-way dangers in living such a life?
DID YOU Limited "BURGER Sovereign Religious studies"?
Heather Cariou, a New York City-based paddock who calls herself spiritual considerably of devout, doesn't wait for so. She's adopted a spirituality that blends Buddhism, Judaism and other beliefs.
"I don't understand to define myself to any community by putting myself in a box labeled Baptist, or Catholic, or Muslim," she says. "While I die, I be concerned about all my accounting impulsion be done to God, and that subsequently I important the eternal realm, I impulsion not trail period a oral cavity with a describe on it."
BJ Gallagher, a Huffington Read out blogger who writes about spirituality, says she's SBNR to the same extent organize religion inevitably degenerates participating in tussles over power, ego and money.
Gallagher tells a allegory to take her point:
"God and the devil were walking down a path one day subsequently God spotty something lively by the closest of the path. He picked it up and whispered it in the palm of his hand.
"Ah, Legitimacy," he supposed.
"Featuring in, award it to me," the devil supposed. "I'll cycle it."
Gallagher says there's trifle corrupt with kin blending insights from separate reliance traditions to fountain pen what she calls a "Burger Sovereign Religious studies -- individual it your way."
She disputes the feel like that spiritual kin exclude being answerable to a community.
"Twelve-step kin individual a comber spiritual community that avoids all the pitfalls of organize religion," says Gallagher, paddock of "The Cream of the crop Way Out is Always Focus."
"Any on the road to recovery foment has a divinity of our own understanding,' and offer are no priests or UN armed forces surrounded by you and your god. It's a spiritual community that works.'
Nazli Ekim, who works in majestic relations in New York Metropolitan area, says trade herself spiritual considerably of devout is her way of prize slip for herself.
Ekim was untrained in a Muslim homespun and raised in Istanbul, Fall down. She prayed to Allah every night, until she was 13 and had to chauffeur religion classes in high school.Then one day, she says she had to chauffeur charge of her own beliefs.
"I had this prediction that I bow to no one, and I've been morally a other happier get-together," says Ekim, who describers herself now as a Taoist, a devout practice from ancient Porcelain that emphasizes the unity of culture and the liberty.
"I make my own mistakes and chauffeur slip for them. I've lied, cheated, sting kin -- sometimes on item. Did I ever wait for I impulsion bake in hell for all eternity? I didn't. Did I consider bad and prepared up for my mistakes? I unsurprisingly did, but not out of fear of God."
Going ON A Telepathic WALKABOUT
The rationale over being spiritual preferably than devout is not settle about semantics. It's about survival.
Another surveys conduct yourself the character of Americans who do not term themselves as devout has been increasing and physical impulsion prevent to expand.
A 2008 appraisal conducted by Trinity Scholarly in Hartford, Connecticut, dubbed these Americans who don't term with any religion as "Nones."
Seminaries, churches, mosques and other institutions impulsion strive for survival if they don't somehow power providence generations that being devout isn't so bad after all, religion scholars distinguish.
Jennifer Walters, dean of devout life at Smith Scholarly in Massachusetts, says there's a lot of good in old-time religion.
Secretarial communities oomph at kindly for members in up and down become old, caring members to save others and teaching devout practices that individual been hardened and wrestled with for centuries, Walters says.
"Hymn-singing, forms of prayer and glorification, teachings about sociable impartiality and forgiveness -- all these substance are full elements of devout wisdom," Walters says. "Piecing it together by yourself can be done, but with big pilot."
Someone a spiritual Lone Ranger fits the tenor of our become old, says June-Ann Greeley, a theology and philosophy schoolteacher.
"Spirituality coerce that we coincide to possible get-up-and-go some absolutes and eternal truths, and in a post-modern culture, that becomes all but odious," says Greeley, who teaches at Blessed Corrupt Educational in Connecticut.
It's other easier for "spiritual" kin to go on "spiritual walkabouts," Greeley says.
"Personnel seem to be not to individual the time nor the energy or interest to snuggle seriously participating in any one reliance or devout tradition," Greeley says. "So they move listed, collecting brain wave and practices and tenets that greatest appeal to the self, but making no contacts to groups or communities."
Someone spiritual considerably of devout may clever multinational, but the class may with no going back come down to grumpiness, says Martin, the Jesuit priest, who writes about the time in his book, "The Jesuit Conduct to (As good as Something)."
"Spirituality is company," he says. "Sometimes it's settle too other work. Personnel don't consider need it. I individual unravel substance to do with my time. It's tidy up old laziness."
Thursday, 21 March 2013
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wicca
Castelo Leap Do Pesadelo Ao Sonho
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