Yuuchun
Dreams of a moonlit night

Hope that helps! ^^

I just saw your comment on my page o.O I believe this question was answered in the occ thread...but i can't remember, so! I will answer it here as well. Reapers are immortal in the since that they are ageless and cannot die; however, the reaper is still a soul and that soul can fall prey to many different hazards. 1) a soul can be killed or injured by another soul. 2) a soul can be exhausted and disappear if too much spirit energy is used up. 3) a reaper can also decide to hang up their reaper life and cross over, becoming part of the otherside

Oh yes, finger tips hurt. So goes the tendon behind the knee. Actually there are alot of painful spots ^_^;
I don't know how to spell half of the stuff I've eaten. I typically leave that up to my mom because she has studied Chinese medicine and is fluent in Chinese.
It could be pad thai, sounds about right.
The Amazon....I wouldn't want to go back there without some kind of guide or local. To many ways to die back there xP
I guess when you live by the Ocean that's true. Anytime I had the chance to the Ocean I would go.
It's sad to think that we know more about the Moon than we do our Oceans :/
I remember reading that one year of NASA's budget could fund deep sea exploration for nearly 1000 years.

I did read that, but I guess I need to read EVERYTHING. Still, thank you, you're welcome for rep, I regret nothing

(I start to feel like my character is boring )

The truth is I was too lazy and tired to read all 3 pages of long posts, so I'll try to read them later or just go with the flow.. Thank you anyway. I know hades. Greek mythology thing, right? Brother of Dzeus?

True, Asian medicine can be superstitious. I have had acupuncture before. I love it. It's easily cut down the recovery time for alot of my injuries to a 1/3 of what they normally would be.
I eat both because I have friends that aren't quite as adventurous as I am xD I enjoy eating the authentic. Usually wins me alot of respect from the chef that an America is willing to eat it and enjoys it!
Thai food is the bomb <3 The curries are mind blowing. I remember years ago I had some kind of noodle with with their peanut sauce @_@ Mindblowing.
I don't think I've had thai tea with cream? Sounds good, I'd like to try it. I tend to mix my teas lately. It's fun to experiment but sometimes it doesn't work out well >.<
Why are you scared of forests? It's beautiful and fun to get lost in. Especially on a bike.
I'm jealous, I never lived on a beach D< I got to live close to one when I stayed at my uncles place in Florida. Less than a five minute walk.

Not unrelated, persay. Humans can array time in two main ways, Teleologically (from beginning to end) or cyclically (move in circles with neither a beginning or end). Mayans and Hindus and to a degree babylonians fall under cyclical motifs, where as Christianity and, indeed, most western religions, tend to be teleological. So, while Mayans neither influenced nor were influenced by babylonians they do result from a common human method of explaining history.

Keep in mind the categories are broad and one can easily possess both. (Babylonian is an example of a belief structure that is both cyclical and teleological.

Yeah it was a come idea in that time period. The Manicheans held to a similar idea though they played of the war between the good and evil gods more heavily and evenly. It may all stem back to babylonian roots based on the wars of Ahriman and... I forget what their good god's name was, but the point is Babylonian held that the good and evil gods had their powers wax and wane in millenia long cycles. Of which there would be... 13 if my memory serves.

Anyway, the problem I've been dealing with is that "gnosticism" is a category defined ENTIRELY by anti-heretical writers like Iraneus who had no real desire for an accurate depiction of rebellious sects. As such when the Nag Hammadi texts were found around 1945 scholars pointed and said "Gnostic". However, its not clear exact what should and what shouldn't be really considered Gnostic and whether that category had any meaning with the time period (we have little evidence that anyone actually called themselves "gnostic").

I was a religion/philosophy major for my Under graduate degree but I'm doing religious studies in my graduate work.

Anyway, Gnosticism is a belief system who origins are unclear but became associate with a "heretical" christian movement in the 2nd century. Its name derives from the belief in "gnosis" which is not just knowledge but a form of redemptive knowledge known only to a chosen few. Generally the cosmology focused on how the world was created by an ignorant lesser diety (Yaldabaoth, Samael, Saklas are some names used though he is often associate with the Hebrew God). However, some aeon (greater diety, Christ in the christian forms) brought knowledge to mortals of the greater realm of Gods. This knowledge acts as salvation. Thats sort of the penny version the Gnosticism.