1997/10/20 18:57
kundalini-l-d Digest V97 #530
kundalini-l-d Digest Volume 97 : Issue 530
Today's Topics:
Re: outside
Re: A question about a change for the worse
The Cartesian Dirt
Re: Query about Descartes
Re: outside
Re: kundalini-l-d Digest V97 #529
Re: Mailing list
PLEASE REMOVE FROM MAILING LIST !
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Commanding Self
dfa
fw:Information Please
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:40:32
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <mistressATnospamdomin8rex.com>
To: madammumATnospamptialaska.net
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Re: outside
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To Quote Richard Bach at ya
"If your happiness depends on what someone else does, then I guess you do
have a problem.."
That might sound cruel at first, but it really isn't, coz We choose our
feelings, not another. Blaming another for how you feel is a dead end
road.. it is not responsible.
I think of reponse-able.. able to respond.. thought and decision is
involved.
... as opposed to reacting. Re-acting= repeating back the actions seen.
Acting again the same ineffective way. Monkey see, monkey do..
If someone is beng cruel to me, I can choose from several responses.
I can feel hurt and react with more hurt.
I can point out hurtfullness and respond to correct it, try to change
another.. hopeless.
I can decide inside myself that they are not meaning to be cruel, and
perhaps they have PMS or something, and choose to offer them kindness in
response, and not take their expressions personally.. but rather as a
measure of their present state. I can even offer to take on more of their
cranky energy, so they can relaease it and perhaps feel better.. and let
thier stuff release, flow thru me without catching..
Like, "you seem really cranky today, what's up with u?" ready to listen..
The choice I make, will be largely dependent on how well I am taking care
of myself.
If my energy is good and clear, I have taken the time to ground myself
and moderate my decisions and responses with spirit.... the negativity of
another will pass thru me quickly harmlessly without finding snags of like
energy to bind with.
If my energy is low, I am out of touch with Spirit and not grounded, the
negative energy coming at me will spark fire to the negative energy inside
me, the result is conflagration. will it become firestorm contagious? Will
it burn down so I can read the truth of it in the ashes?
You cannot change anybody but yerself.. but within you is the whole
world. The only way to change the experience of the world that you are
getting, is to change yourself.
One thing I do sometimes, it to put myself in an excellent mood with
meditation.. everytime something that might set me off comes up, a message
comes from within:
Is this crap more important to me than my happiness and connection to
Divinity?
If I decide it isn't, I'll start using my creativity positively, to give
myself reasons not to take it personally. If I am in a low energy state, I
will, with equally endless creativity, come up with reasons to feel hurt,
instead.
One thing I know about you, Valerian, is that you are very creative.
I tend to be straightforward saggitarian.. we offend by accident alla the
time.. we expect that folks will understand that we are good natured beings
that do not seek to harm. I spent years as a hairstylist to learn tact..
haha ..
I saw my Mom for the first time in years, a few years ago, first thing I
said spontaneously was "Hi Mom. Where did you get that awful coat?"
She had made the coat, and was upset.. it was awful, plain as chairman
mao, and made her look big as a cow,.. but I love my Ma, and was really
happy to see her.. and I did not understand my spontaneous communication,
myself.. and was just as upset a few minutes later when she went into her
usual spiel about me being too thin and too kinky..
my dear younger brother is also saggitarian, and a contractor.
He saw me for the first time in years, a few years ago, first thing he
said was "Hiya sis.. hey, you've been putting some lard on, eh?"
Then of course there was my german lover.. what an incredibly tumultous
time that was!! Oy.. messy .. and I learned so much from him !!! I am
partly of German descent, thru Mom.. and I finally understood my family and
myself a whole lot better.
Goddess kept us bonded closely for the two years battle it took, to get
over over his verbally abusive communication style, and it's stress effect
on my excema and allergies. Near the end of it, a breakthru.. helped by a
book on verbal abuse defense strategies.. it outlined the whole dynamic.
It turned out, he had never really understood what the heck I meant by
verbal abuse.. could not understand why I took his bitching so personally.
A german woman wouldn't have..
When I learned to stop reacting, he suddenly could see what I meant! Then
he could begin to understand how his power to have negative effect, which
he was secretly proud of, as it made him feel powerful when he was feeling
weak.. was doing harm, by the feedback effect of hostility on health. It
was no longer a powerful strategy, when I no longer gave it power over
emotions, my sense of self.
Germans show love by criticism. It is how they say "I see you, and I care
about your welfare. I am going to point out all of your problems for you,
to be sure you don't trip over them. If I did not love you, I would not
bother to do this. I would stand back smirking and watch you crash. An
enemy would encourage you to foolishness."
Thus, the Germans build a great Mercedes, everything that could go wrong
has been taken care of. Uh, they used a similar rationale with the
holocaust. 8(
Focusing on "problems" manifests them bigger.
I still love him so, he taught me something so valuable.. to look past
the bitching to the love I know is inside, and to speak to that love.. to
say.. "look again, life is beautiful." Instead of wallowing in agony at the
arrows I percieved slung in my direction, and having no comfort left to
offer. Years have passed, and he has grown into such positive energy, now
he finds impatience with the Canadians who are bitching about their lot..
LOL!! :)
He always said: "be happy when it rains.. if you are not happy.. it
comes rain anyway." Very cute accent, soft, of the wine country..
The Germans also say to each other, "Be happy you can bitch. A dead man
is silent." So, if someone is not complaining, they are percieved as dying.
It is a cause for concern! They are a strong people, they have learned to
take comfort in harshness.
Even German Santa Klaus, carries a stick to beat the bad children with..
I got sooo angry, when I found that out!! Child abuse sanctioned by Santa
Claus!! Aaaahh!!
My anger was my own stuff. Yukteswar's cane, and Santa's birch, and my
stocks and whips.. the loving intent, is the important thing. When I reach
for trust in love, anger fades.
When Mom gave me her opinions on how I oughta be, I used to be offended
that she did not think me good enough as I am. I percieved her opinions as
thorns to my deficiencies as a daughter.
Now I realize, she gives me these opinions becuase she thinks that that
is what good Mothers do.. she is doing it to maintain her image of herself
as a good Mom! As she learned from her german born parents. It really has
little to do with me, and much more to do with her own guilt feelings that
she was not a good mom, and so has to keep at it till she gets it right..:)!
So instead of retorting in kind.. I respond to the underlying message.
I thank her for her opinions, and tell her I love her but as I am now a
woman grown, I am going to do and be exactly as I think best for myself.
I tell her that she did a good job of raising me, and now she has to
trust to that, and allow me to live my own life. It is working.
So, I guess to answer your question, nothing is transferred.. it is not
about changing anyone else. Agape is there all along, in every being.. but
sometimes it takes German creativity, to percieve it under the layers of
fear stuff.
Your choice, to see it there, in the expressions and beingness of your
fellow humans, or not. You decide how to percieve your reality.
Your quote from the boxer said it..
"...still a man she hears what she wants to hear, & disregards the
rest...lye-la-lye, lye-la-lye-lye-lye-la-lye, lie-la-lie, lie-la-lie lie
lie la lie lalalalalie!"
So I must wonder.. why are you choosing to hear the negative, and
disregard the rest? You accept that a cat may be cruel to a mouse, that is
it's nature.. it is in the nature of humans, too..
The answer is is there, in the song, too..
"In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade, and she
carries a reminder, of every blow that laid her down or cut him till he
cried out, in her anger and his pain, "I am leaving, I am leaving", but the
fighter still remains, do do doo do do do. Hmmm hmm hmmmh mmm .
He remains because he must, if she would continue to define himself as a
fighter. She feels himself defined by her scars.. we all carry scars, that
we feel define who we are.. yet who we are is so much more than that!!! The
scars do not affect the spirit that is having the human experience.
By holding allegiance to our scars, we stay limited by the bounds of the
arena where we obtained them. 3d reality. The fighter is blinkered in a 3d
duality framework. The binary switch is fighter-or-nothing. The scars have
become the total focus of self.. yet they are truly only incidental to the
self of All that Is, that can only be discovered, by stepping out of the
arena boundaries and risking being not.
You choose to define "friends" as those who pay attention to the scars,
offering sympathy.
I define "friendship", as the people who see me, in my limitless Goddess
potential, the truth of myself beyond the scars that shaped me,
incidentally in this lifetime.
Yet, in hearing the song, I see the beauty in the Boxer and her scars,
and the valiant beauty of each human who keeps fighting needlessly, to
maintain the precious position in the arena, to maintain the value in the
scars, weeping over spilled blood.
This is taking me in mind of a left turn, which will be a separate post.
Scars are beautiful. They are mementos of human experiences.
Blessed be! Mystress.
At 21:22 19/10/97 -0800, valerian wrote:
>somewhere, my deepest impression of *human nature* is akin to the phil
>ochs version of "...and i'm sure it doesn't interest anybody outside a
>close circle of friends..."
>i love god/ess & every part of nature all alone, but seemingly can never
>trust another human to be predictably kind.
>how does one transfer *agape* to include other homo sapiens?
>v
>*********************
>valerie cooper
>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7982/index.html
>
>
Mystress Angelique Serpent,
Dominant Experiential Facilitator.
Website= http://www.domin8rex.com/serpent
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 21:06:17 -0700
From: E Jason <vv60ATnospamdial.pipex.com>
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Re: A question about a change for the worse
Message-ID: <344C2A39.A12ATnospamdial.pipex.com>
Joseph Miller wrote:
> My point is real and so is my summarizing question:
>
> "When did bad manners become an act of kindness?"
Shock teaching methods (including abuse) are employed by a variety of people from Zen
Buddhists to Sufis using Malamati techniques. Shadow will tell you of a Sri Lankan
SatGuru who has trained many Gurus famous in the West who regularly abuses would be
devotees. They come to him with problems and he tells them to 'F*** off'. He says he did
not become enlightened so as to solve others problems but to overcome his own. The
author of the Karma Sutra (a Holy Man) was reknowned for his hot 'temper'. Many
Tantrikas and Sadhus are extremely fierce and 'abusive'.
--------------------
This is from the first page of my Web Site:
In order for people to see themselves - you must draw their nature out of them. By
challenging their very deep held beliefs you will force a reaction. If people are able
to develop the dispassion needed to see what they are like they may then see the need to
improve. Such a dangerous way of working has inherent dangers but is very powerful in
its capacity for growth and learning. Some people will engage in the reaction rather
than in observing the process.
-------------------------------
Now the question is who is able or capable of behaving in such a way? Only if your ego
is sufficiently removed from a personal interaction can you work in such a way. It will
not be understood by the majority of people who will think less of you. However not all
of us require a reputation for being 'polite'.
On the whole it is considered that polite, kind courteous behaviour is the ideal to aim
for. Bad manners are usually unacceptable. Losing ones temper or becoming irritable or
abusive is usually indicative of spiritual immaturity.
You will find examples of shock teaching methods as used by Omar Kayam (the Sufi poet)
in the book Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah.
Most Kind Regards
Lobster
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:04:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: BedawnedATnospamaol.com
To: iriATnospamivyrealty.com, kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: The Cartesian Dirt
Message-ID: <971020180004_1368668796ATnospamemout08.mail.aol.com>
Rene DesCartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy. His most
noted effort is a short collection of meditations, Meditations on the First
Philosophy. In sum, he lays a foundation for pursuing an adequate
epistemology though his conclusion, however ingrained even in our modern
psyche--I think; therefore, I am--didn't answer the question asked by
epistemologically minded, that is how do we know what we know. DesCartes
determined in his first meditation that ALL is dubitable simply because we
could wake up from whatever experience we think we're gathering information
on and discover we were merely dreaming.
DesCartes' work on the Copernican hypothesis in, Le Monde, was withdrawn for
publication because of the 1633 Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo.
DesCartes reveled in the sciences and mathematics because it was one place
where he could actually find "certainty."
In the first meditation in Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes
discusses God quite a bit. I recommend your friend's daughter read it. It's
indubitably available at any public library. :)
Cartesianally challenged, Melissa
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: TRAITEUSSEATnospamaol.com
To: iriATnospamivyrealty.com
cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Re: Query about Descartes
Message-ID: <971020181212_1310906544ATnospamemout06.mail.aol.com>
In a message dated 97-10-20 17:05:38 EDT, you write:
<< From: iriATnospamivyrealty.com (iri)
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
The daughter of a friend of mine has to research Descartes' views of G-D.
Does anybody have any information on this topic? I would like to pass on the
information to her. She does not have web access,so I can not suggest to her
to search the web.
Your help will be appreciated, I am sure >>
Her local library will be full of information and the librarians will be glad
to help her find the books.
TraiteusseATnospamaol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:08:41 -0400
From: "F. Drew Leyda" <leydaATnospamvalunet.com>
To: <madammumATnospamptialaska.net>,
"Mystress Angelique Serpent" <mistressATnospamdomin8rex.com>
Cc: <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com>
Subject: Re: outside
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>*********
*****************
> "In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade, and she
> carries a reminder, of every blow that laid her down or cut him till he
> cried out, in her anger and his pain, "I am leaving, I am leaving", but
the
> fighter still remains, do do doo do do do. Hmmm hmm hmmm mmm .
**********
********
Valerie:
This is all well and good and brave BUT boxers fight people in the same
weight class and there are judges and a referee.
On the street there is usually neither, if you think you are over matched,
GET OUT, rest up, and then decided your next move.
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:20:15 -0700
From: iri <iriATnospamivyrealty.com>
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Re: kundalini-l-d Digest V97 #529
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>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:41:44 -0500
>From: MrNamasteATnospamwebtv.net (MrNamaste)
>To: indraATnospamsmartt.com, kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
>Subject: Re: PLEASE READ
>Message-Id: <199710201841.LAA06249ATnospammailtod-1.alma.webtv.net>
>
>
>
>INDRA ---- Hi, there!
>
>MrNamaste needs to be "reincarnated" --- I'm gonna set up a different
>account with a different name ----SNIP------------
looking forward to seeing you publish again under your re-incarnated name
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:45:09
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <mistressATnospamdomin8rex.com>
To: "Shaillee Juneja" <sjunejaATnospamhotmail.com>
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Re: Mailing list
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At 12:21 20/10/97 PDT, Shaillee Juneja wrote:
>I have send this message couple of times earlier too.
>
>Please remove my name from the mailing list. I do not want these mails.
>
>Many thanks,
>Shaillee Juneja
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: LilBitBitATnospamaol.com
To: sjunejaATnospamhotmail.com, kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: PLEASE REMOVE FROM MAILING LIST !
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In a message dated 97-10-20 15:22:37 EDT, you write:
<< Subj: Mailing list
Date: 97-10-20 15:22:37 EDT
From: sjunejaATnospamhotmail.com (Shaillee Juneja)
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
I have send this message MANY of times.
Please remove
sjunejaATnospamhotmail.com (Shaillee Juneja) and
LilbitbitATnospamaol.com
from the mailing list. We do not want these mails.Many thanks, Shaillee
Juneja >>
Shaillee,
I sent you a copy for your convenience...I'm trying to get my name removed as
well!
Laura
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:49:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: LilBitBitATnospamaol.com
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THANK YOU
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:04:07 -0700
From: E Jason <vv60ATnospamdial.pipex.com>
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Commanding Self
Message-ID: <344C45D7.91AATnospamdial.pipex.com>
F. Drew Leyda wrote:
> Please tell us about the " Commanding Self ".
The Commanding Self was a private posting that was sent to the K forum. My apologies.
However . . .
The 'Commanding Self' is a book by Idries Shah and refers to that which controls our
being. It can be partly understood in terms used in other systems. It refers to all in
us that clings to what it illusionary and covers our true perfect and pure nature.
When people talk of everything in and about them being 'perfect' this is the Commanding
Self trying to convince itself that it is Divine - something it is clearly not.
The Sufi Path consists of slowly removing these false selves, a process which may take
decades. Unlike quick fix and instant paths, Sufism takes time. Many people will tell
you they are Sufis - No Sufi would do so, this is considered self esteem one of the
characteristics of the 'Commanding Self'.
Sufism is very much a graduated path, that goes several stages beyond what in other
systems is known as enlightenment. Realised adepts are considered of different rank and
attributes, through association they may adopt each others finer qualities and point out
and discard the ever more subtle emanations of the Commanding Self.
Ken Mcfarlands explains it thus:
The Commanding Self
Lack of knowledge and understanding in matters of importance or high emotional value,
whether through ignorance, misinformation, or incapacity, leads to the formation of
personality structures characterized as the Commanding Self.
What is reading these words is what we would call the 'Commanding Self'.
Most Kind Regards
Lobster
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:50:09 -0500
From: James <scaATnospam414.com>
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Subject: dfa
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Get me off the e-mail list now I hate this crap
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:50:01
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <mistressATnospamdomin8rex.com>
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: fw:Information Please
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>To: Multiple recipients of list CHANNELING <CHANNELINGATnospamintuition.org>
>
>> INFORMATION PLEASE
>>
>When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our
>
>neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the
>wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little
>to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my
>mother used to talk to it.
>>
>Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an
>amazing person - her name was Information Please and there was nothing
>she did not know. Information Please could supply anybody's number and
>the correct time.
>>
>> My first personal experience with this genie-in-the-bottle came one
>day
>> while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool
>> bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer. The pain was
>
>> terrible, but there didn't seem to be any reason in crying because
>> there was no one home to give sympathy. I walked around the house
>> sucking my throbbing finger, finally arriving at the stairway - The
>> telephone! Quickly I ran for the footstool in the parlor and dragged
>it
>> to the landing. Climbing up I unhooked the receiver in the parlor and
>> held it to my ear. Information Please I said into the mouthpiece just
>> above my head.
>>
>> A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear.
>> "Information."
>>
>> "I hurt my finger. . ." I wailed into the phone. The tears came
>readily
>> enough now that I had an audience.
>>
>> "Isn't your mother home?" came the question.
>>
>> "Nobody's home but me." I blubbered.
>>
>> "Are you bleeding?"
>>
>> "No," I replied. "I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."
>>
>> "Can you open your icebox?" she asked. I said I could. "Then chip off
>a
>> little piece of ice and hold it to your finger."
>>
>> After that I called Information Please for everything. I asked her for
>
>> help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was. She
>> helped me with my math, and she told me my pet chipmunk I had caught
>in
>> the park just the day before would eat fruits and nuts.
>>
>> And there was the time that Petey, our pet canary died. I called
>> Information Please and told her the sad story. She listened, then said
>
>> the usual things grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I was
>unconsoled.
>> Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all
>> families, only to end up as a heap of feathers, feet up on the bottom
>> of a cage?
>>
>> She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, "Paul,
>> always remember that there are other worlds to sing in." Somehow I
>felt
>> better.
>>
>> Another day I was on the telephone. "Information Please."
>>
>> "Information," said the now familiar voice.
>>
>> "How do you spell fix?" I asked.
>>
>> All this took place in a small town in the pacific Northwest. Then
>when
>> I was 9 years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I missed my
>> friend very much. Information Please belonged in that old wooden box
>> back home, and I somehow never thought of trying the tall, shiny new
>> phone that sat on the hall table.
>>
>> Yet as I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood
>> conversations never really left me; often in moments of doubt and
>> perplexity I would recall the serene sense of security I had then. I
>> appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have
>> spent her time on a little boy.
>>
>> A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in
>> Seattle. I had about half an hour or so between plane, and I spent 15
>> minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then
>> without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and
>> said, "Information Please".
>>
>> Miraculously, I heard again the small, clear voice I knew so well,
>> "Information." I hadn't planned this but I heard myself saying, "Could
>
>> you tell me please how-to spell fix?"
>>
>> There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, "I guess
>that
>> your finger must have healed by now.
>>
>> I laughed, "So it's really still you," I said. "I wonder if you have
>> any idea how much you meant to me during that time.
>>
>> "I wonder, she said, if you know how much your calls meant to me. I
>> never had any children, and I used to look forward to your calls.
>>
>> I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked
>if
>> I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.
>>
>> "Please do, just ask for Sally."
>>
>> Just three months later I was back in Seattle. . .A different voice
>> answered Information and I asked for Sally.
>>
>> "Are you a friend?"
>>
>> "Yes, a very old friend."
>>
>> "Then I'm sorry to have to tell you. Sally has been working part-time
>> the last few years because she was sick. She died five weeks ago." But
>
>> before I could hang up she said, "Wait a minute. Did you say your name
>
>> was Paul?"
>>
>> "Yes."
>>
>> "Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down. Here it is
>I'll
>> read it 'Tell him I still say there are other worlds to sing in. He'll
>
>> know what I mean'. "
>>
>> I thanked her and hung up. I did know what Sally meant.
>>
>> The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. -Hubert Humphrey
>> .
>> We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by
>> embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo
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Mystress Angelique Serpent,
Dominant Experiential Facilitator.
Website= http://www.domin8rex.com/serpent
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