“
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last week she’d created a magical Thermos with googly eyes that levitated around the room, yelling, “Exterminate! Exterminate!” until it smacked me in the head.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3))
“
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
What is fear but courage's shadow?
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known...
just-
didn't-
have it.
”
”
Matthew Woodring Stover (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars Novelizations, #3))
“
Giant-chicken mode,’ I remembered.
‘Dude, my avatar is a falcon-headed warrior .’
‘I still think you could get a sponsorship deal with KFC. Make some big bucks.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Crown of Ptolemy (Demigods & Magicians, #3))
“
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: "Fuck me he's a earthbender.
”
”
Ben Aaronovitch (Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3))
“
if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed.
”
”
R.A. Salvatore (Siege of Darkness (Legacy of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #9))
“
I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile!
”
”
Gene Luen Yang (Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3 (The Promise, #3))
“
But to force growth is to kill it.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
Like remorse, the words hope and dread were wholly inadequate to describe the intensity of the feelings in the dream. Ordinary hope and dread were like avatars to these-- mere digestible representations of emotions so pure and terrible they would annihilate us in real life, rip open our minds and drive us mad.
”
”
Laini Taylor (Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3))
“
The problem is the latent human tendency to create an avatar of a person in our minds, reassembling them from the biases of our memories until the fragment of them in our heads becomes more simplified, and more and more inadequate over time.
”
”
Olivie Blake (The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3))
“
Though cast away am I from the heart of my city, black tears dribble from mine eyes at the sight of the fearful trail blazing towards her gates!
”
”
Gene Luen Yang (Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3 (The Promise, #3))
“
Avevo Joscelin, il mio Compagno Perfetto, la bussola su cui era fisso il mio cuore.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
I understood pain. It is the price of living, and of loving well,
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
Gravitons are the avatars of general covariance.
Photons are the avatars of gauge symmetry 1.0.
Weakons are the avatars of gauge symmetry 2.0.
Color gluons are the avatars of gauge symmetry 3.0.
”
”
Frank Wilczek (A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design)
“
What is fear, but courage’s shadow?
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn’t his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar. She even felt sort of maternal to him. He needed to be tucked in bed and fed willow-bark tea. That thought led to the idle speculation of what he might look like if he were well. He could be quite handsome, Lirael thought, and then instantly banished the notion. He might be an unwitting enemy, but he was still an enemy.
”
”
Garth Nix (Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3))
“
Which of you is better with that kind of magic?” “Sadie,” Carter said. “I’m more a combat magician.” “Giant chicken mode,” I remembered. “Dude, my avatar is a falcon-headed warrior.” “I still think you could get a sponsorship deal with KFC. Make some big bucks.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Crown of Ptolemy (Demigods & Magicians, #3))
“
Don't you think you're trying a little too hard to hold on to the past?
Maybe, but don't you think you're trying a little too hard to run away from it?
Not everybody's past is like yours, Aang. Some of us have to run away just to... just to live.
”
”
Gene Luen Yang (The Rift (Avatar: The Last Airbender, #3))
“
However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.
”
”
Anupama Chopra
“
C'è perspicacia nella follia.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
You dare laugh at the fall of Suyodhana and all the noble men like Bhishma, my father, Karna, and the others who fought for him? Read Jaya to know how Karna rejected the temptation to become Emperor and instead chose to stand by the man who had given him everything when he had nothing. Read how Karna was trapped by own nobility, how impossible promises were extracted from him; know how he was shot while extracting the wheel of his chariot that was stuck in the mud. Know that Arjuna did not keep his word, as any honourable warrior would have done, when he failed to kill Jayadratha before sunset, hiding behind the lame excuse that the sunset had been maya, an illusion created by an avatar. Sleep in your beds peacefully by all means, if your conscience still allows you to do so, you lucky devils.
”
”
Anand Neelakantan (AJAYA - RISE OF KALI (Book 2) (The Vanquished Series 3))
“
The avatar had advocated a simple existence, living by a shared code. Ares imagined that on those worlds, every citizen was an intellectual and a laborer, and every life was respected. They had it right.
”
”
A.G. Riddle (The Atlantis World (The Origin Mystery, #3))
“
Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
Hello?' Horus spoke in my mind. 'Any intention of calling for help, or are you happy to die on your own?'
'Yeah,' I snapped back at him. 'The sarcasm is real helpful.'
Truthfully, I didn't think I had enough energy left to summon my avatar, even with Horus's help. My fight with the Apis Bull had nearly tapped me out, and that was before I got chased by an axe demon and kicked out of a window.
I could hear Bloodstained Blade stomping his way back down the stairs. I tried to rise and almost blacked out from the pain.
'A weapon,' I told Horus. 'I need a weapon.'
I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather.
"Really?" I yelled
Horus didn't answer.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3))
“
It is not human nature to dominate, but to create. Yes, humankind falters every now and then, but you know how to learn from your past mistakes. You've done it before, and you can do it again. I believe that ultimately, you will create a civilization that preserves and protects even as it grows. Do you understand? The spirits will always have a place in this world, as long as you -- and humans like you -- create a place for us. - Lady Tienhai, Guardian Spirit/Queen
”
”
Gene Luen Yang (Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Rift, Part 3 (The Rift, #3))
“
There are ties that bind more complex than blood.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to reveal a glimpse of sky. It
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
I am the Mother of Faces. Through me, separateness came into the world. Through me, cam identity. The one became the many.
”
”
Gene Luen Yang (Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 3 (The Search, #3))
“
Not trusting my instincts any further, I loaded up a piece of high-end avatar dance software called Travoltra, which I’d downloaded and tested earlier that evening. The program took control of Parzival’s movements, synching them up with the music, and all four of my limbs were transformed into undulating cosine waves. Just like that, I became a dancing fool. Art3mis
”
”
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
“
Buddhism suddenly deteriorated in India sometime after the fourth century of the Christian era. It has been rightly said that Hinduism stifled it in its friendly embrace. Like Christianity and Judaism in Judea and Confucianism and Taoism in China, Buddhism had to be exiled from India for it to become a world religion. It was necessary for India to turn to a more primitive folk religion. Hinduism perfunctorily retained the name Buddha in a far corner of its pantheon, where he was preserved as the ninth of the ten avatars of Vishnu.
Vishnu is believed to assume ten transfigurations: Matsya, the fish; Kurma, the land tortoise; Varha, the boar; Narasimha, the man-lion; Vamana, the dwarf; Parashurama; Rama; Krishna; the Buddha; and the Kalki. According to the Brahmans, Vishnu, assuming the form of Buddha, purposely introduced a heretical religion so that believers would be led astray, thus presenting the opportunity for the Brahmans to lead them back to their true religion -- Hinduism.
Thus, along with the decline of Buddhism the cave temples at Ajanta in western India fell into ruin and became known to the world only twelve centuries later, in 1819, when a British Army corps chanced upon them.
”
”
Yukio Mishima (The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility, #3))
“
During its first week in stores, Battlefield 3 sold more than 5 million copies. The financial people at Electronic Arts established that the game had added about $370,000 to the company’s coffers—significantly more money than Avatar, one of the most lucrative films ever, earned during its first weekend in the theaters. For the uninitiated, the numbers may seem sky-high, but they were exactly in line with what the bosses at Electronic Arts had predicted. Battlefield 3 was just more proof that computer games are big business.
”
”
Daniel Goldberg (Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything)
“
In the OASIS, you got used to seeing freakishly beautiful faces on everyone. But Art3mis’s features didn’t look as though they’d been selected from a beauty drop-down menu on some avatar creation template. Her face had the distinctive look of a real person’s, as if her true features had been scanned in and mapped onto her avatar. Big hazel eyes, rounded cheekbones, a pointy chin, and a perpetual smirk. I found her unbearably attractive. Art3mis’s body was also somewhat unusual. In the OASIS, you usually saw one of two body shapes on female avatars: the absurdly thin yet wildly popular supermodel frame, or the top-heavy, wasp-waisted porn starlet physique (which looked even less natural in the OASIS than it did in the real world). But Art3mis’s frame was short and Rubenesque. All curves.
”
”
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
“
Glielo spiegai; non a parole, ma nel linguaggio della carne, di labbra, lingua e mani, del respiro accelerato e del pulsare del sangue nelle vene, nell'umore salato del desiderio. È la stessa domanda che poniamo alla nostra esistenza, e anche la risposta è sempre la stessa. Il mistero non è nella domanda e neppure nella risposta, ma nel continuare a domandarsi e a rispondersi, perché la fine è generata dall'inizio.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
inbox. It was from Ogden Morrow. The subject line read “We Can Dance If We Want To.” There was no text in the body of the e-mail. Just a file attachment—an invitation to one of the most exclusive gatherings in the OASIS: Ogden Morrow’s birthday party. In the real world, Morrow almost never made public appearances, and in the OASIS, he came out of hiding only once a year, to host this event. The invitation featured a photo of Morrow’s world-famous avatar, the Great and Powerful Og. The gray-bearded wizard was hunched over an elaborate DJ mixing board, one headphone pressed to his ear, biting his lower lip in auditory ecstasy as his fingers scratched ancient vinyl on a set of silver turntables. His record crate bore a DON’T PANIC sticker and an anti-Sixer logo—a yellow number six with a red circle-and-slash over it. The text at the bottom read Ogden Morrow’s ’80s Dance Party
in celebration of his 73rd birthday!
Tonight—10pm OST at the Distracted Globe
ADMIT ONE I was flabbergasted. Ogden Morrow had actually taken the time to invite me to his birthday party. It felt like the greatest honor I’d ever received. I called Art3mis, and she confirmed that she’d received the same e-mail. She said she couldn’t pass up an invitation from Og himself
”
”
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
“
I had Joscelin, my Perfect Companion, the compass by which I fixed my heart.
No one could ask more.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
“
Ozai: What I'm saying is this -- There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because
”
”
Gene Luen Yang (Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3 (The Promise, #3))
“
I turned in his arms, and whispered, “Joscelin Verreuil, I would die without you.” “Probably.” He smiled again. “Of melodrama, if naught else.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
I thought about Imriel de la Courcel. What would it be like, at ten years old, to learn that everything you had believed about your life was a lie? To learn that you were a traitor’s get, that your very existence was part and parcel of an unthinkable scheme, and people you’d never met would gladly see you dead?
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
I thought as much. Kushiel uses his conscience hard.” Melisande’s regard was unchanged. “You are bound for Iskandria. The Menekhetans are subtle, and Lord Amaury Trente is not. You have a gift for knowledge, and are skilled in the arts of discretion. Whether or not you bear me hatred, my son is innocent of it. If you are bound to see me rot in this gilded cage, then I charge you with his welfare.” To impart suffering without compassion… “You cannot.” My voice was shaking. “I have done all I might. The debt between us is cleared.” “No.” Melisande shook her head with terrible gentleness. “It will never be cleared, Phèdre nó Delaunay. We are bound together. Have you not realized as much?
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
It is the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning. That much, I had learned.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy: Kushiel's Dart / Kushiel's Chosen / Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #1-3))
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy: Kushiel's Dart / Kushiel's Chosen / Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #1-3))
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy: Kushiel's Dart / Kushiel's Chosen / Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #1-3))
“
And the shadows went away, revealing Sos’Umptu as a drider! But she kept growing, and no, she was not a drider, for she was beautiful, not bloated in abomination. Too beautiful to look upon. Beautiful and terrible all at once, and huge, dwarfing the driders about her, bigger even than the jade spider constructs that had come in from the entry. And Yvonnel understood and knew she was doomed. “Behold!” the creature that had been Sos’Umptu demanded. “I am the avatar of Lolth. Kneel to me. Beg for my mercy.
”
”
R.A. Salvatore (Lolth's Warrior (The Way of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #39))
“
Yvonnel shook her head, not sure if this creature before her was diabolical or rational at that moment.
“It did not matter,” the avatar said to her. “Do you not understand? Your actions? The ‘truths’ you learned? They did not matter.”
“Then what does matter?”
“My pleasure. My chaos. My power. Me. Just me.”
“Then what future?”
“Who cares?” The avatar laughed at her, and it was sincere, she knew.
“You care enough to bless the matrons,” she said.
“Do I?”
“You care enough to start wars—in the Silver Marches, in Gauntlgrym, in your own City of Spiders!”
“The ultimate chaos. War.
”
”
R.A. Salvatore (Lolth's Warrior (The Way of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #39))
“
Lady Lolth,” the avatar corrected. “The Demon Queen of Spiders. Queen of the Demonweb Pits, the Mother of Lusts. You have heard all of these?” Yvonnel didn’t respond. “And the truest,” the avatar continued, “the Weaver of Chaos. I do so enjoy the unpredictability of the world. To roll the stones down the uneven mountain and watch their bounces and deflections.
”
”
R.A. Salvatore (Lolth's Warrior (The Way of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #39))
“
She laughed even louder and that answer told Yvonnel the truth. Lolth wasn’t angry with her. Anger would imply that Lolth cared
. “What am I to do with you?” the avatar said.
“You will never have me, foul beast.”
“I already have you.”
“You will never have my heart.”
“But I will have fun nonetheless.
”
”
R.A. Salvatore (Lolth's Warrior (The Way of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #39))
“
He knew that just letting it swallow a few more spells would cause it to burst, but that didn’t seem satisfying enough to him in this moment of ultimate defiance. He didn’t know if Catti-brie and Entreri had left—but if not, it was their own fault, and so he didn’t care. He only cared about this moment before him, when he could punch Lolth—her avatar, at least—in the face.
”
”
R.A. Salvatore (Lolth's Warrior (The Way of the Drow, #3; The Legend of Drizzt, #39))
“
She was born lucky. You were lucky to be born.
”
”
Michael Dante DiMartino (Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 3 (The Search, #3))
“
Non mi sembra troppo inverosimile che, tra cinque anni, i Marriott e gli Hilton del mondo inizieranno a costruire meta-versioni dei loro hotel in Horizon, consentendo agli avatar/ospiti di incontrarsi con i loro amici nella hall, o fare brainstorming nelle sale riunioni virtuali, ovviamente
a pagamento.
”
”
Simone Puorto (Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera)
“
True telepresence is not that far off, where instead of meandering with your fingers over a 3D topo map, you will come along in real time on a virtual field trip as your avatar strolls through a lunar lava tube hundreds of meters high and a kilometer wide, illuminated by thousands of glow-pods, to observe a new settlement under construction ahead of the first astronauts, being printed directly out of lunar soil.
”
”
Erik Asphaug (When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky)
“
Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. It is all we can do to try. It is enough.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
I cannot help it that Kushiel’s Dart drives me to violent desires; I am an anguissette, and destined to find my greatest pleasure mingled with pain.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy: Kushiel's Dart / Kushiel's Chosen / Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #1-3))
“
One Nation Under God
rebellious gritty outlaw country
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July 27, 2024 at 10:39 AM
[Verse]
In the heart of these small-town roads, where the story's old but true,
We used to bow our heads in prayer, we’d pledge allegiance too.
Now the lights are flickering, the signs all point to fall,
Where’d that spirit go that used to stand so tall?
[Verse 2]
Factory stands are empty, schools don’t teach no more,
Folks drive by the church, like it's something to ignore.
We used to hold our ground, with hands together tight,
But the unity we had has vanished in the night.
[Chorus]
This country’s going to hell, can’t you hear the warning bell?
What once was one nation under God has disappeared.
We the people will soon be no more if we don’t take a stand,
It’s time to raise that flag and put God back in this land.
[Verse 3]
We got preachers out on Main Street, shouting at the skies,
But nobody’s listening, too busy with the lies.
The family dinners cold now, faith broke at the seams,
It’s high time to awake and chase those old dreams.
[Verse 4]
The fields are overgrown, tractors left to rust,
Where’s the honor and the pride, the values that we trust?
Cemeteries filled with souls who knew the way it was,
We need to reawaken and fix this just because.
[Chorus]
This country’s going to hell, can’t you hear the warning bell?
What once was one nation under God has disappeared.
We the people will soon be no more if we don’t take a stand,
It’s time to raise that flag and put God back in this land.
”
”
James Hilton-Cowboy
“
We are therefore dealing with a relatively consistent theme in which water and mist play an essential role. Graindor de Brie brings another sprite into the story, named Gringalet,3 who is described as the father of Chapalu, a monster with the head of a cat and the body of a horse. This is none other than the Cath Paluc (Paluc’s cat) of Celtic legends. According to several texts, King Arthur confronted this beast. In Li Romanz des Franceis (The Romance of the French), which was written by an individual named André before 1204, Capalu would have slain Arthur; according to the Vulgate Livre d’Artus, Capalu had been fishing in the Lake of Geneva and Arthur slew it on a mountain known today as the Cat’s Tooth.4 All of this reinforces the links between the waters and the sprites.
”
”
Claude Lecouteux (The Hidden History of Elves and Dwarfs: Avatars of Invisible Realms)
“
There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d’Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s lives and the wealth of nations as love-tokens.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
“
Was it possible that human psychology changed between the years of nine and fifteen? It seemed unlikely. What evolutionary purpose would such a change serve? Or perhaps this particular human was defective in some
”
”
Conor Kostick (Edda (The Avatar Chronicles Book 3))
“
At my “office” I wear an AR visor on my forehead. The visor is a curved band about hand width wide that is held a few inches away from my eyes for extra comfort during daylong use. The powerful visor throws up virtual screens all around me. I have about 12 virtual screens of all sizes and large data sets I can wrestle with my hands. The visor provides enough resolution and speed that most of my day I am communicating with virtual colleagues. But I see them in a real room, so I am fully present in reality as well. Their photorealistic 3-D avatar captures their life-size likeness accurately. My coworkers and I usually sit at a virtual table in a real room while we work independently, but we can walk around each other’s avatar. We converse and overhear each other just as if we are in the same room. It is so convenient to pop up an avatar that even if my real coworker is on the other side of the real room, we’ll just meet in the AR rather than walk across the gap.
”
”
Kevin Kelly (The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future)
“
A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time’s avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.
”
”
James K. Morrow (The Eternal Footman (Godhead, #3))
“
...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite three:
• Fire up AgingBooth. While hiring a programmer to create a 3-D virtual reality simulator is probably out of your price range, I personally love an app called AgingBooth, which transforms a picture of your face into what you will look like in several decades. There are also other apps like it, like Merrill Edge’s web app that shows you a live avatar of what you’ll look like at retirement (faceretirement.merilledge.com). AgingBooth is my favorite of them all, and it’s available for both Android and iOS, and it’s free. On the website for this book (productivityprojectbook.com), you can see what to expect out of the app—I’ve framed a picture of myself that hangs above my computer in my office, where I see it every day. Visitors are usually freaked out.
• Send a letter to your future self. Like the letter I wrote at camp, writing and sending a letter to yourself in the future is a great way to bridge the gap between you and your future self. I frequently use FutureMe.org to send emails to myself in the future, particularly when I see myself being unfair to future me.
• Create a future memory. I’m not a fan of hocus-pocus visualizations, so I hope this doesn’t sound like one. In her brilliant book The Wallpaper Instinct, Kelly McGonigal recommends creating a memory of yourself in the future—like one where you don’t put off a report you’re procrastinating on, or one where you read ten interesting books because you staved off the temptation of binge-watching three seasons of House of Cards on Netflix. Simply imagining a better, more productive version of yourself down the line has been shown to be enough to motivate you to act in ways that are helpful for your future self.
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Chris Bailey (The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy)
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For example, in one early experiment, we changed our entire website, home page, and product registration flow to replace “avatar chat” with “3D instant messaging.” New customers were split automatically between these two versions of the site; half saw one, and half saw the other. We were able to measure the difference in behavior between the two groups.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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Doom, meanwhile, had a long-term impact on the world of gaming far exceeding even that of Myst. The latest of a series of experiments with interactive 3D graphics by id programmer John Carmack, Doom shares with Myst only its immersive first-person point of view; in all other respects, this fast-paced, ultraviolent shooter is the polar opposite of the cerebral Myst. Whereas the world of Myst is presented as a collection of static nodes that the player can move among, each represented by a relatively static picture of its own, the world of Doom is contiguous. As the player roams about, Doom must continually recalculate in real time the view of the world that it presents to her on the screen, in effect drawing for her a completely new picture with every frame using a vastly simplified version of the 3D-rendering techniques that Eric Graham began experimenting with on the Amiga back in 1986. First-person viewpoints had certainly existed in games previously, but mostly in the context of flight simulators, of puzzle-oriented adventures such as Myst, or of space-combat games such as Elite. Doom has a special quality that those earlier efforts lack in that the player embodies her avatar as she moves through 3D space in a way that feels shockingly, almost physically real. She does not view the world through a windscreen, is not separated from it by an adventure game’s point-and-click mechanics and static artificiality. Doom marks a revolutionary change in action gaming, the most significant to come about between the videogame’s inception and the present. If the player directs the action in a game such as Menace, Doom makes her feel as if she is in the action, in the game’s world. Given the Amiga platform’s importance as a tool for noninteractive 3D rendering, it is ironic that the Amiga is uniquely unsuited to Doom and the many iterations and clones of it that would follow. Most of the Amiga attributes that we employed in the Menace reconstruction—its scrolling playfields, its copper, its sprites—are of no use to a 3D-engine programmer. Indeed, the Intel-based machines on which Carmack created Doom possess none of these features. Even the Amiga’s bitplane-based playfields, the source of so many useful graphical tricks and hacks when programming a 2D game such as Menace, are an impediment and annoyance in a game such as Doom. Much preferable are the Intel-based machines’ straightforward chunky playfields because these layouts are much easier to work with when every frame of video must be drawn afresh from scratch. What is required most of all for a game such as Doom is sufficient raw processing power to perform the necessary thousands of calculations needed to render each frame quickly enough to support the frenetic action for which the game is known. By 1993, the plebian Intel-based computer, so long derided by Amiga owners for its inefficiencies and lack of design imagination, at last possessed this raw power. The Amiga simply had no answer to the Intel 80486s and Pentiums that powered this new, revolutionary genre of first-person shooters. Throughout
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Jimmy Maher (The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies))
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The 49-year-old Bryant, who resembles a cereal box character himself with his wide eyes, toothy smile, and elongated chin, blames Kellogg's financial woes on the changing tastes of fickle breakfast eaters. The company flourished in the Baby Boom era, when fathers went off to work and mothers stayed behind to tend to three or four children. For these women, cereal must have been heaven-sent. They could pour everybody a bowl of Corn Flakes, leave a milk carton out, and be done with breakfast, except for the dishes. Now Americans have fewer children. Both parents often work and no longer have time to linger over a serving of Apple Jacks and the local newspaper. Many people grab something on the way to work and devour it in their cars or at their desks while checking e-mail. “For a while, breakfast cereal was convenience food,” says Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal. “But convenience is relative. It's more convenient to grab a breakfast bar, yogurt, a piece of fruit, or a breakfast sandwich at some fast-food place than to eat a bowl of breakfast cereal.” People who still eat breakfast at home favor more laborintensive breakfasts, according to a recent Nielsen survey. They spend more time at the stove, preparing oatmeal (sales were up 3.5 percent in the first half of 2014) and eggs (up 7 percent last year). They're putting their toasters to work, heating up frozen waffles, French toast, and pancakes (sales of these foods were up 4.5 percent in the last five years). This last inclination should be helping Kellogg: It owns Eggo frozen waffles. But Eggo sales weren't enough to offset its slumping U.S. cereal numbers. “There has just been a massive fragmentation of the breakfast occasion,” says Julian Mellentin, director of food analysis at research firm New Nutrition Business. And Kellogg faces a more ominous trend at the table. As Americans become more healthconscious, they're shying away from the kind of processed food baked in Kellogg's four U.S. cereal factories. They tend to be averse to carbohydrates, which is a problem for a company selling cereal derived from corn, oats, and rice. “They basically have a carb-heavy portfolio,” says Robert Dickerson, senior packagedfood analyst at Consumer Edge. If such discerning shoppers still eat cereal, they prefer the gluten-free kind, sales of which are up 22 percent, according to Nielsen. There's also growing suspicion of packagedfood companies that fill their products with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). For these breakfast eaters, Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam may seem less like friendly childhood avatars and more like malevolent sugar traffickers.
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Anonymous
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Cos'è il potere? Questi giovani sciocchi vi si arrendono con ogni impaurito battito del cuore. E così le ombre crescono, assumendo potere. Cos'è la paura, se non l'ombra del coraggio?
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Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
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Orgoglio, desiderio, compassione, intelligenza, belligeranza, fecondità, lealtà... e colpa. Ma al di sopra di tutto c'è l'amore. E se desideriamo essere più che umani, è quella la stella che dobbiamo seguire. Non possiamo fare altro che tentare. È sufficiente.
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Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
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It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.
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Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
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Interoperability is the biggest challenge for brands trying to enter the metaverse. The risk of betting in the wrong m-world and being left empty-handed in five years is real. Interoperability of platforms is not a prerequisite for the metaverse, but without it, we'll end up working in silos with the same (disastrous) Web 2.0's paradigm. We must make sure that environments, objects, avatars, NFTs, avatar skins, etc. can be moved from one platform to the other. I should be able to play Axie Infinity, sell my Axie on OpenSea, get paid in Ethereum, buy an avatar skin in Minecraft, and then wear it in Decentraland. That's the central concept of decentralization (and the core idea of Web 3.0). Are we there yet? Definitely not.
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Simone Puorto
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Whoever the Avatar is, it even knows about this mission,” he said.
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Joshua T. Calvert (Into the Light (Teleport, #3))
Joshua T. Calvert (Into the Light (Teleport, #3))
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Norton,” James said, first in disbelief, then in frustration. He slapped his forehead. “Of course! Norton’s the Avatar!
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Joshua T. Calvert (Into the Light (Teleport, #3))
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The nether can make you look like an avatar of the gods come to deal out wrath and ruin. But don't let yourself get so drunk on the vision of crushing and smiting that you forget the range of your power. Skilled nethermancers are more than a sledgehammer. They're also a scalpel. The nether can be used to solve any trouble you fall into—as long as you have the wit and imagination to put it to use." He crouched down and held out his palm. Sorrowen's mouse scurried into it. Dante lifted the undead rodent up to eye level. "When you're alone in Bressel, and the enemy's closing in on you, remember that it doesn't always take lightning and hellfire to save your life. Sometimes, all it takes is a mouse.
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Edward W. Robertson (The Wound of the World (The Cycle of Galand, #3))
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It was mostly in fun that I compared Lady Rozemyne to a goddess, but my words were truer than I realized. Around the time my manuscript was printed as a book, she would be widely accepted as the Divine Avatar of Mestionora.
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Miya Kazuki (Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 3)
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Foy has shown you the image of empires rising and falling. The tension that both binds and repels them is the path of the Way of Light. You are here for a reason, for you are one of its most important avatars.
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Storm Constantine (The Way of Light (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #3))
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L’applicazione della robotica in hotel rimane quantomeno sporadica e gli ospiti tendono a percepirla più come un’attrazione, al pari di un avatar Disney nei parchi a tema, che un vero problem solver.
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Simone Puorto (Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera)
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy: Kushiel's Dart / Kushiel's Chosen / Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #1-3))
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The streets are crowded with young people in elaborate getups—giant lace skirts, elaborate umbrellas, ten-inch-tall boots, eyelashes that seem miles long, face masks that glow in the dark. Some of them have their Warcross level floating over their heads, along with hearts and stars and trophies. Others have virtual pets trotting alongside them, bright purple virtual dogs or sparkling silver virtual tigers. Still others wear all kinds of avatar items, virtual cat ears or antlers on their heads, enormous angel wings on their backs, hair and eyes in every color. “Since it is officially game season now,” Jiro explains, “you will see this quite often.” He nods toward a person on the street with Level 80 and 3,410,383 over her head, smiling as several people give her high fives and congratulate her on her high rank. A virtual pet falcon swoops in circles around her head, its tail blazing with fire. “Here, almost everything you do will earn you points toward your level in the Link. Going to school. Going to work. Cooking dinner. And so on. Your level can earn you rewards in the real world,
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Marie Lu (Warcross (Warcross, #1))
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
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Actually If there is someone so called god or avatar or whatever legendary creature he/she/it is, peoples first expectation is that god has to do magics, he has to do paranormal phenomenon. Yes it happens but keep on doing that will stop the peace of the world. When I left Nalanda and visited home, I felt like 23 degree tilt in my heart. What I felt can not be proven by scientific measurements. When i was nalanda I saw many people died, those who were close to my heart cried when i left Nalanda, and I saw that. But the thing is as I said, my subconscious mind controls the universal planetary patterns, no one can predict me but universe. I decide to be good or bad or neutral or crazy to protect nature. But now people has changed at least for today alone, they think that by providing beautiful women, money they can purchase me, haha. And sexual desire is common for men and women, both needs it but the problem is sustaining with so many trust issues and challenges to be faced. How many married people are happy? or how many sexual people are happy? Yes what i do is maturation frankly speaking, and you may think that it is bad. But I am true to myself alone. Sometimes the promises I have given to people can not be fulfilled, and it is not because i forgot you but because time frame shifted. I still remember sarnam singh face when I left nalanda, he cried before my eyes. He is 100% traditional guy, i disrespected him multiple times just because he doesnt like south people much, but the knowledge he has is more than anyone can imagine. In north india also people those who are in relationships are finding it hard and challenging but people that are single face no problems there. And when I visited Vrindhavan forest once from Rajgir, I realized something beautiful, that you should be ready to face the challenges and forget about small promises that can not be kept but think about big challenges that gives reason for your soul. (I talked with someone when I was in Vrindavan forest) - Do not worry she was human.
Not mythic - My history before 3 years
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Ganapathy K
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Non mi sembra troppo inverosimile che, tra cinque anni, i Marriott e gli Hilton del mondo inizieranno a costruire meta-versioni dei loro hotel in Horizon, consentendo agli avatar/ospiti di incontrarsi con i loro amici nella hall, o fare brainstorming nelle sale riunioni virtuali, ovviamente a pagamento.
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Simone Puorto (Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera)
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Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper – Jump, Escape, and Survive in Style
If you’re a fan of fast-paced platformers with a twist of creativity and chaos, Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper is the perfect game to test your reflexes and strategy. Set in a prison escape scenario inspired by the popular Roblox universe, this game combines platforming mechanics, obstacle navigation, and high-speed jumping action for a unique experience.
Whether you're dodging guards, leaping over electric fences, or hopping from rooftop to rooftop, Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper keeps you on your toes with every second of gameplay. And if you're into jump-based games, we’ll also introduce some related titles like Mine Jump, which bring a similar sense of excitement and challenge.
What Is Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper?
Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper is an action-packed arcade game where you play as a daring inmate trying to escape a high-security prison. Your main tool? The power of jumping. The objective is simple: survive, escape, and stay ahead of traps, guards, and deadly drops.
Inspired by the aesthetics and creative style of Roblox games, it features blocky 3D visuals, customizable characters, and a world full of dynamic obstacles. Each level or run gets progressively more difficult, challenging you to jump with precision, time your moves carefully, and avoid getting caught.
What makes it exciting:
Dynamic environments – From prison cells to rooftops and escape tunnels.
Fast reflex gameplay – Quick jumps, rolling traps, and fast-paced chases.
Customizable avatars – Add your personal Roblox-style flair.
Endless replayability – Try to beat your own escape time or challenge friends.
Why Jailbreak and Jump Mechanics Work So Well
Jumping games have always had a special place in the world of arcade and casual gaming. They’re easy to pick up but require practice to master. Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper taps into that formula while adding fun themes and storytelling.
The jailbreak concept adds urgency, while the jump-based controls make every level feel like a puzzle. It’s not just about jumping high — it’s about jumping smart.
Related Games You Should Try
If you're enjoying the energy of Jailbreak: Roblox Jumper, here are a few other jumping games you’ll probably love, starting with the pixel-perfect world of Mine Jump.
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NOT A BOOK (Game Busty Adult Magazine "A Transexual's Wife Interview" Vol.5 #1)
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... where battle prevails, women must grieve.
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Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3))
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was at a loss. All right, then, it was clearly time to give up, accept my fate, throw myself on the mercy of the court, assume the role of Dexter, quiet family man and former Dark Avenger. Resign myself to the idea that I would never again feel the hard cool touch of the moonlight on my electrified nerve endings as I slid through the night like the avatar of cold, sharp steel.
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Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3))
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You should tell them,” Joscelin said shortly. “Tell them the truth. Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy #3))
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The tablets mean nothing,” Ao said, addressing all of his gods, no matter where they were. “I kept them to remind you that I created gods to serve the Balance, not to twist it to your own ends. But this point was lost on you. You saw the tablets as a set of rules by which to play juvenile games of prestige and pomp! Then, when the rules became inconvenient, you stole them …
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Troy Denning (Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms: Avatar, #3))
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As soon as they died, the souls of the dead were drawn by Myrkul’s magic to one of the thousands of places like this, the Fountain of Nepenthe—a pool or well filled with the black Waters of Forgetfulness. In normal times, Myrkul’s attraction was so strong that a soul spectre would immediately leap into dark waters, then emerge on the plain on the other side.
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Troy Denning (Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms: Avatar, #3))
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He had combined powerful variations of locate object and hold portal spells to ensure that his denizens could always follow wherever the tablet was taken. In effect, the locate object spell served as a beacon marking the tablet’s location, and the hold portal spell prevented the thief from closing his escape route.
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Troy Denning (Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms: Avatar, #3))
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Whoever said 'trash', stand where you are! Let me teach you how to spell 'trash'." Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree unexpectedly turned around and chased after them.
"Who said it? Who? Who? Where are you running? A bunch of Level 33 players and you're afraid of a tiny Level 27 Blade Master? If I'm trash, then what are you? Maybe you're non-recyclable trash? Completely worthless trash? That's right! I'm talking to you guys! 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14, 14 pieces of trash running nice and orderly! Are you all lining up and waiting to be put in the dumpster? But wait! Did you forget that you were non-recyclable? Have some awareness! You should just dig a hole and bury yourselves it it! Stop polluting the environment. Every second you exist..."
"Shut up!!" Someone finally erupted.
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Butterfly Blue (The King's Avatar)
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There are 15 dimensions in our time and space matrix.
The 15-dimensions break down into 5 Harmonic Universes called HU.
You live in HU1, which encompasses dimensions 1, 2, and 3 and holds your physical body and Inner Child.
HU2 holds dimensions 4, 5, and 6 and your Soul.
HU3 holds dimensions 7, 8, and 9 and your Over Soul.
HU4 holds dimensions 10, 11, and 12 and your Avatar, which is often called the Christ or Buddha Consciousness.
HU5 holds dimensions 13, 14, and 15 and your Rishi identity.
When you receive DNA Activation, these fragmented parts are healed and reassembled, creating a true state of At-ONE-ment with Source. This is the true evolutionary path of human consciousness.
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Deborah Bravandt
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The Higher Self does not need a walk-in at the Avatar Level or any level because the Higher Self already exists as a consciousness, thus a walk-in is an overshadowing of benevolent power — or malevolent power — to either upgrade or downgrade a person’s frequency, awareness, and intelligence in order to take action. In essence, the Walk-In is a separate Being that guides the 3D person on how to take action to fulfill a specific mission. There is still free will choice for the 3D person, so a person can choose to go against divine right order.
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Deborah Bravandt