August 1, 2007
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My Internet Addiction
Up too early (7:30) because my mother’s boyfriend doesn’t know how to be quiet when he neglects to go to work. He woke me up “closing the kitchen window.” Grrrr. No fair. It seems like I never get to sleep in any more on my day off. I can still feel that headache, lurking behind my eyes. It better die quietly if it knows what’s good for me.
So here I am online again. The internet is my most serious addiction, followed closely by caffeine. You know I’m online at least once a day. What I’ll do when I go to Chincoteague at the end of the month, I don’t know. Probably go insane.
(Yes, I know I am already.) Between my webcomic collection and the online communities I frequent, I can spend several hours online every day. I have this blog here which I neglected for over a year, and I belong to http://www.myspace and http://www.tribes.net. I really do feel that Xanga is the best place to blog, but Myspace has some great discussion groups, as does Tribes. But Tribes can be a bit more rambunctious than Myspace. For instance, there is a tribe that I belong to called “how to preen your superpowers.” You’ve heard of the show, “Who wants to be a superhero?” Well we were playing at that years before the show came out. There’s also a Villains tribe and the Paranomoly Society. At Tribes, I am The Bibliophile. 
Guess what my superpowers are. Myspace has some of the best groups for discussion of books and movies, and there I am The Mystery Cultist to emphasize my love of Lovecraftian fiction. Tribes on the other hand, has some of the best groups for…. being silly I guess, as well as some excellent metaphysical/magical discussion groups. Speaking of which, I made this flow chart to try to figure out the ins and outs of psychic phenomena and how they relate to each other.
What do you think? Any additions, changes? I think I got everything, but it’s hard to say how things combine. There’s a lot of argument that telepaths don’t “hear” voices, but what if you happen to have clairaudience as well? I think some telepaths do hear voices. That’s just how it’s perceived.
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So I’ve been thinking of entering a story in L Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest. It’s a horror/suspense/dark fantasy kind of thing, actually Lovecraftian sums it up pretty well.
I was considering posting it here as a private blog for subscribers only. Anyone interested in reading and giving me their opinions?
Comments (2)
What about those who just simply know things and have no idea how they know it or where it came from? Where do they happen to fall? Not to mention that I happen to see a few catagories that I fall under with energy manipulation, dream travel, random sight of spirits (they just randomly show up in my room from time to time), awareness of energy fields (though not as colors) and a few others. And did you do your background yourself? I can never seem to get the lighting quite right with my renderings. Well, gtg; I’m in class.
Knowing without knowing how you know would be clairsentience (ESP) or precognition if it pertains to the future. Seeing spirits and energy fields would be clairvoyance. Dream travel I tend to connect with astral projection.
As for my background, no, I found it a long time ago. I can’t remember where, but it says Visualparadox.com in the lower right corner. I know that’s not where I got it though.