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YamiYaiba
Greenhorn
Well, there has been a lot of talk of things changing into (correct me if I'm wrong) "a monstrous venomous creature" or something like that. Not too far off from reincarnation...sorta.....
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:22 pm
gheritt
Boot
Re: Metempsychosis
chaotic_mind wrote:
Now, I can't quite get my head around why the Operator used that word.
psychotic means she went crazy upon "dying" and moving to a new "body" (the ilovebees server).
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:15 pm
IJustPlayHalo
Guest
Metempsychotic I would think the suffix would make it sound like she had already transferred, not gone crazy. A person suffering from psychosis is psychotic, so a person "suffering" from metempsychosis is a metempsychotic.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:18 am
yanka
Fickle
Melissa wrote:
My very being, my life's circumference and trajectory, can best be understood as an emergent property arising from the interplay of the following precepts:
worldline . I think this is wildly irrelevant to the puzzles (or whatever they should be properly called) at hand, but I think their choice of scientific quotes is kinda awesome. Basically, from Newtonian causality to Cartesian emphasis of the observer's status (which, in my feeble understanding, is the philosophical cornerstone of quantum mechanics) to relativity to string theory! I wonder if they found TOE in Haloverse
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:18 am
testmonkey
Guest
I havent seen this mentioned but
Quote:
"Tongue cut out. (Can't remember her name either.) I love
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:55 am
kazzai
Boot
Whoops NVM
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:24 pm
Shad0
I Have No Life
Re: Philomela
testmonkey wrote:
I havent seen this mentioned but
Quote:
"Tongue cut out. (Can't remember her name either.) I love
sister 's husband, King Tereus of Thrace, who raped her and cut out her tongue so she couldn't tell. The gods turned Philomela and her sister Procne into nightingales (or swallows, depending on which source you consult). I find this reference particularly interesting because there is also a reference to Philomela in T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland The Wasteland ? *cough*SP*cough*
Titus Andronicus , who also has her tongue cut out -- and her hands cut off for good measure -- after she is raped so that she can't identify who did it. This tragedy similarly ends with Titus baking the two rapists into a pie and serving them to their mother. How very delightful.
The Little Mermaid also has her tongue cut out in the original Hans Christian Andersen story, in exchange for the witch's potion that makes her human. Boy, that guy just didn't like women!
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:59 pm
floorneyne
Veteran
speaking of fairy tales... don't sleeping princesses always get woken up by princes? well, at least in sleeping beauty and snow white (i think... lord knows i haven't kept up on my fairy tales over the years). anyway... who is this princess' prince charming?
_________________"If he's so smart, then how come he's dead?" --HJS
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:12 pm
Omega-X
Boot
floorneyne wrote:
speaking of fairy tales... don't sleeping princesses always get woken up by princes? well, at least in sleeping beauty and snow white (i think... lord knows i haven't kept up on my fairy tales over the years). anyway... who is this princess' prince charming?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:23 pm
Astald
Unfettered
So far the only male seems to be the Pious Flea. And he doesn't seem very charming or princly to me.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:44 pm
nil
Greenhorn
But he is certainly Pious, a trait to which any good, charming Prince might aspire.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:27 pm
kingchaos2
Decorated
I might be a Beauty and the Beast thing.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:47 pm
kingchaos2
Decorated
I think the Queen is writing to us on the website. If you go to ilovebees.com/hives.html, there are some words that read "that task". On the "honey" page there is some text that reads, "of my most basic functions. With a more comprehensive and goal-oriented vision, I am now overseeing ". This is all in the same color as the email recieved from ladybee777SPLAT hotmail.com today in the section about the queen's diary. Therefore, I think that this could be the Queen's text. If you switch the two phrases around and put them together you get...
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of my most basic functions. With a more comprehensive and goal-oriented vision, I am now overseeing that task
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:45 pm
clamatius
Decorated
I suppose since you posted this in two threads I'll trout them both. It's the Operator's text alright , only the actual context is much more likely to be:
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With a more comprehensive and goal-oriented vision, I am now overseeing // the process of my own regeneration into a hybrid body
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:01 pm
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