--OutpostMir--'s New Writeups

vore (idea)

2007-06-23T23:44:31Z

Vore, generally short for voraphilia, is best summarized as the fascination and/or eroticizing of the idea of one being swallowing another being, whole and (generally) alive. It is generally thought of as a more obscure fetish - at least, more so than, say, BDSM, although online, the community of people who are in some part interested in vore is of a considerable size for such a specific kink.

As a fetish, vore has its roots in both the furry community and giantess (or GTS) fetish. In both, the theme of predator/prey domination (or, in the case of GTS, femdom) made vore a logical extension of either fantasy. Furry art and fiction forms a sizeable part of the total body of vore material available online, and entire websites and message boards exist for the discussion of giantess fantasies, several of which do involve being eaten.

Vore can also be thought of as related to cannibalism, although voraphiles are often quick to distinguish between the two. It is,…

Middle Tennessee State University (place)

2007-06-21T01:00:12Z

Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU for short) is a public university in Murfreesboro, TN, and with an enrollment of 22,863 students as of the fall of 2006, it is the largest such school in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, with just over 2000 more students than the next largest school, the University of Memphis. The majority of the campus is located in the rectangle formed by E. Main Street, Middle Tennessee Boulevard, Greenland Drive and Rutherford Boulevard, just east of downtown Mufreesboro.

MTSU was established on September 11, 1911 as Midddle Tennessee Normal School, one of three such schools as demanded by the state General Assembly's 1909 General Education Bill. The initial school had a two-year teacher education program, which was expanded into a four-year Bachelor of Science degree when the school was reorganized as Middle Tennessee State Teachers College in 1925.

The college rapidly out-grew its initial purpose of being a teacher…

Sidelines (thing)

2007-06-20T03:37:38Z

Sidelines is the student-run and editorially independent newspaper of Middle Tennessee State University, a public university in Murfreesboro, TN. As of June, 2007, it is published twice a week during the Fall and Spring semesters, and once a week through the months of June and July. Its office is located in room 269 of the John Bragg Mass Communications Building, adjacent to the James E. Walker Library on the Rutherford Boulevard end of campus.

Sidelines was founded as The Signal in 1912, and began publication in the spring of 1913. The paper was equal parts newspaper and literary magazine, and the creative writing and essays of students often ran side-by-side with news articles about the new teacher's school. A lack of money and staff problems caused by World War I caused The Signal to be discontinued in 1918.

The paper returned in 1921 as The Normalite, again as a combination literary magazine and newspaper,…

Gabriel's Message (thing)

2002-11-04T23:03:31Z

A traditional Christmas Basque carol (also known as The Angel Gabriel), created by Sabine Baring-Gould, believed to be based upon a 13th or 14th century Latin carol entitled Angelus Ad Virginem. The lyrics are a narrative of the Annunciation of the birth of Christ, as told in Luke 1:26-38 (-OM-'s note: I'm hoping I'm quoting the right reference here...the infancy narative in Matthew doesn't match up with the words to this hymn, so Luke seemed to be the closest match in canon. If anyone can prove me wrong, please let me know.) Baring-Gould's version is based upon the Basquecarol 'Birjina gaztettobat zegoen, which he translated into English and reduced from 6 verses to 4, as well as giving the Archangel the familiar Victorian image of white "wings as drifted snow". Ahh, the joy's of translation...

The song is quite possibly one of the more obscure of Christmas songs, at least in the present day. A brief spin around the Web shows the song appearing on a…

The Rising (thing)

2002-09-11T02:09:03Z

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band

Can't see nothing in front of me
Can't see nothing comin' up behind
Makin' way through this darkness
Can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
Lost track of how far I've gone
How far I've gone and how far I've climbed
On my back's a sixty pound stone
On the shoulder half mile outta line

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Left the house this mornin'
Bells were ringin' through the air
I was wearin' the cross of my calling
Home was a fire, I come rollin' down hill

…

The Holy Person (idea)

2001-02-19T19:27:35Z

Back to The Dhammapada

Chapter Twenty-Six -- The Holy Person

Exert yourself, O holy person! Cut off the
stream (of craving) and discard sense desires
Knowing the destruction of all conditioned things,
become, O holy person, a knower of the Uncreate (Nibbana)!
When a holy person has reached the summit
of the two paths (meditative concentration and
insight), that person knows the Truth and all fetters
fall away.
One for whom there is neither this shore
nor the other shore, nor yet both, one who is free of
cares and is unfettered--such a one do I call
a holy person.
One who is meditative and stainless, settled
and whose work is done, free from cankers, having
reached the highest goal--such a one do I call
a holy person.
The sun shines by day, the moon shines by

…