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You stay up for 16 hours. He stays up for days on end. You take a warm shower to help you wake up. He goes days or weeks without running water. You complain of a 'headache', and call in sick. He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward. You put on your anti war/don't support the troops shirt, and go meet up with your friends. He still fights for your right to wear that shirt. You make sure you're cell phone is in your pocket. He clutches the cross hanging on his chain next to his dog tags. You talk trash about your 'buddies' that aren't with you. He knows he may not see some of his buddies again. You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls. He patrols the streets, searching for insurgents and terrorists. You complain about how hot it is. He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow. You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong. He doesn't get to eat today. Your maid makes your bed and washes your clothes. He wears the same things for weeks, but makes sure his weapons are clean. You go to the mall and get your hair redone. He doesn't have time to brush his teeth today. You're angry because your class ran 5 minutes over. He's told he will be held over an extra 2 months. You call your girlfriend and set a date for tonight. He waits for the mail to see if there is a letter from home. You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday. He holds his letter close and smells his love's perfume. You roll your eyes as a baby cries. He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they'll ever meet. You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything. He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and remembers why he is fighting. You hear the jokes about the war, and make fun of men like him. He hears the gunfire, bombs and screams of the wounded. You see only what the media wants you to see. He sees the broken bodies lying around him. You are asked to go to the store by your parents. You don't. He does exactly what he is told even if it puts his life in danger. You stay at home and watch TV. He takes whatever time he is given to call, write home, sleep, and eat. You crawl into your soft bed, with down pillows, and get comfortable. He tries to sleep but gets woken by mortars and helicopters all night long ██Did you know that I once had the longest profile on Kongregate? It's true! I swear, my profile was longer then well.. um.. well whatever my profile was longer than it was really long. Maybe 24 pythons lined up in a row or something? I dunno. I like cake, but I like pizza more. Yeah.. pizza is good. Oh no! I'm going on! Am I trying to make my profile the longest profile on Kongregate again without spamming or putting incredible amounts of names and such on my profile? It's possible, but highly unlikely. Although it's going on right now.. hmmm.. I can't even trust myself anymore! Anyway, more about pizza. When I go to school sometimes I get pizza, and the pizza that I get is very nice. Pizza was once the food that I thought was the best, but now ribs are trying to take it's place. Ribs are pretty good too, but something about them makes them a little more unpleasant then pizza. Is it the meat? Man will never know. I hang out in the Sanctuary a lot, and I've recently become addicted to Platform Racing 2. Last time I was addicted to Starfighter, and later I'm sure I might become addicted to something else. Who knows? I sure don't. Even if I did know, I wouldn't trust myself. Remember how I lied to myself about making this profile longer early in the.. well.. uh.. profile? Well, it was a lie, and now I don't trust myself even though I should. In my spare time, when Kongregate has no games for me to play, I'm looking at humor websites and such. To be honest, I'm kinda slipping interest in making games. You know what I mean, when you have good skills for making Flash but can't find a good idea? Well, this isn't it. I have a great idea, but I can't find any way to do it. You're also really losing.. interest from the project. Yeah, I'm having that brain block thing. I used to have a profile bigger then this, written with things I've done before the before, whatever that means. The before the before was before though, before I left Kong. The most dramatic leave was the first one though, but that only lasted a week. The next leave was hidden, when I said that I would be slipping in and out of an alt account and this account. Eventually I went to the alt account and left behind this account, but not for long. 4 months later, I went back on the account to check up on people. A month later I went back again, and then again and again. Suddenly, I found myself back on Kong. I was reunited with every regular that was there before in the Sanctuary. Except like.. 3 or 4 people, but they've moved on to better places. They're dead? No, they're not. I'm not saying where they moved on, but I will say that it's better. Well, you can tell by this point that I'm just squeezing the juice out of the lemon to make.. wait, what? What kind of expression is that? Oh no! I'm doing it again! What I wanted to say is that I'm "squeezing the lemon" (my head) to "get juice" (make my profile longer) and then I started doing it again. Ironic, huh? Wait, I'm doing it a second time! Even more irony! ARGHH!! This loop of me squeezing the lemon and irony can continue on forever. Wait a minute, I'm squeezing the lemon even more! No! What? ARGH!! Every time I try to stop squeezing the lemon by saying that I'm squeezing the lemon I'm squeezing the lemon again! Huh, that's a lot of lemons, right? I don't even like lemons. Or do I? I don't even know, but I like pinapples and kiwi (but not as much as ribs or PIZZA, mind you) so I guess I might like lemon. Speaking of lemons, I'm squeezing the lemon again! OH NO! You can't be serious! You know what, I'm just gonna stop squeezing the lemon and continue on with my life, and this program. You know why I'm doing that? It's because every time I want to stop squeezing the lemon, I squeeze the lemon again. Insanity, right? Wait, I said that already! ARGH! I'm squeezing the lemon again! NO! I'M GOING INSAAAAAAANE! Wait, okay, I'm not gonna say I'm squeezing the lemon ever again. I'm just gonna have to say pizza and ribs a million times to make up for it though. Do you like pizza? Yes I like pizza! Do you like ribs? Yes I like ribs! Pizza! Ribs! Pizza! Ribs! Pizza! Ribs! Can you guess where that pizza and ribs rhythm comes from? It's from that pancake and waffle song. Pancakes and waffles are not as good as pizza and ribs, so I don't know why they sing it. In fact, I don't know where the pizza and ribs or pancakes and waffles song comes from. I just heard some people sing it in my school. Pizza is good, and ribs are good, so why don't they sing about that? These are important questions in life that you should ask yourself. Well, I have nothing else to write about pizza and ribs, so I'm gonna stop squeezing the lemon like you know I'm obviously doing and just stop this profile entry. Wait a minute, didn't I say I was never gonna say I'm squeezing the lemon ever again? OH NO! I'M SQUEEZING THE LEMON AGAIN! Okay, time to abandon the idea of stopping and start squeezing the lemon again. You know what's cool? GIANT FISTS COMING FROM THE SKY!!! Even though I hated the hardness of Storm the House 3's campaign mode, sandbox with the giant fist enabled was very fun. SMASH THE TANKS! OH YEAAAH! Anyway, uh.. hm.. well, I'm gonna talk about PR2 again. PR2 is fun, and while playing tracks are fun, it's more fun to make tracks! My tracks aren't really tracks, but they're adventures. Long, 3-5 minute adventures. Try my tracks! My PR2 name is "Severe Flame", with the space. Go play my courses and rate them 4 or 5s! Please? I'M BEGGING YOOOOOOU! Ah well, I have nothing else to write about, so I'm gonna stop squeezing the lemon.. OR AM I!? DUN DUN DUUUUUN.. no, I'm sorry, I'm not. You wanna read my profile? Well, I'm not finished yet. Oh well, sorry for all the people with OPRD (Obsessive Profile Reading Disorder) but my profile is still gonna be LONG LONG LOOONG. I once had a profile that was really long too, but I think this profile was longer. Did you know most people aren't gonna bother reading this profile because of two reasons? One is that it's as long as a long thing. In the beginning of this long long profile thing I think I said 20 pythons or something. Oh well. The second reason is really obvious, and that reason is, if you didn't get it by now, I KEEP SQUEEZING THE LEMON!!! RAARGHHH!! You know what that reminds me of? Severe Flame appreciation week! It's meant to be the first week of August (my birthday is August 1st..) but it comes late EVERY year because I always forget that it's Severe Flame appreciation week! Ah well! It always ends up being sometime in November. Speaking of flame, I got something to say about Volcanohazard. It's gonna be so cool! It's like DROID, because I never fixed the "go-through-walls-at-the-bottom" glitch (yes that was a glitch) but I instead prevented it by adding LAVA! (lava?) yes, LAVA to the bottom of every rock. You're gonna be Ned, a guy who falls into the volcano and has to get out. Too bad the volcano is filled with EVIL such as LAVA, crazy thing, smaller volcanoes, gas that does certain things, and CRAZY PEOPLE! Oh, and LAVA! Oh no! I'm still squeezing the lemon! Hey, do you want to know something cool? In Flash and Computer Programming and stuff, NaN is like infinity. This means that if you get a score of NaN in something, you got the MAXIMUM possible score. If you hit NaN on a monster, they automatically die. NaN is awesome! 0 also has a weird effect. Some times, 0 will not count toward a score and become NaN. An example of this is the game Mouse 101.If you do NOTHING during the five tests, you get a score of zero. Instead of getting a Rank 1, the score of zero that you get is not counted and therefore becomes an NaN. This NaN takes you up to Rank 11! Negative numbers work in the same way, but they're usually harder to get because most games don't allow negative numbers. So, zero, negative numbers, and NaN equal.. well.. NaN, which equals infinity! It actually doesn't equal a number, but it equals a number that is.. well.. not a number. Since NaN can't be counted by a numerical score, the game automatically deems infinity for it's number. Another explanation is that NaN is not infinity, but a big glitch, which it is. However, by a big glitch I mean NaN literally affects the damage or the score and deletes it because the score still can't be counted in NaN, because NaN is not numerical. This leads to the death of a NaN-hit monster or an excessive score because of non-existent score. Sounds hard doesn't it? Well, get ready because I have a third theory. Ready? Here it is: NaN IS A NUMBER OF IT'S OWN. That's right, you heard it here. NaN IS THE NUMBER NaN. This is actually very close to the infinity theory. NaN is made a number by programs because the value can't be found. NaN is the value above Infinity. That's why NaN is worth so much in games. There's something that has gone unanswered though, and that is: How do you create an NaN? The answer comes from 0 and Infinity. Infinity never ends, while zero is a black hole. If you attempt to play around with these numbers, you get NaN. Some examples are 0 to the power of 0, infinity minus infinity, infinity to the power of zero, negative one to the power of infinity, the square root of a negative number.. ect. The list goes on and on, as we can see that NaN is also what would be described as Undefined in arithmetic terms. Additionally, this entire talk about NaN is what would be described as squeezing the lemon! ARGH! Man, I'm obsessed with squeezing the lemon. Now if only people were obsessed with me.. actually, they are. I hope. I'm kinda famous on Kong for a couple of reasons. The first one is, I'm awesome. Many people WORSHIP ME! And that they should, because I'm so awesome! Hooray! Anyway, second reason is because I started a fad on Kongregate. Can you guess what it is? I'll give you a hint.. it's on the forums a lot.. that's right! I started the mafia game fad! Yup! No mafia games were ever on Kongregate at all before I started the first mafia game! The first mafia game that I made (and was also the first mafia game overall) was called Final Kongregation. If it sounds familiar, it is. But first, I wanna tell you that Final Kongregation quickly started a new fad of Kongregate Mafia Games on the forums! Yay! Anyway, Final Kongregation is familiar because some dudes continued the series to Final Kongregation 2 and Final Kongregation 3. Too bad they didn't do it with my PERMISSION! GRRRRR.. It sucks when someone steals your idea, but it just drives me insane when someone STEALS YOUR WORK. For example, I used to have an avatar with a little guy with an XD on his face and with a fire backround. I called him.. XD Fire Guy. Not very good name? You don't name avatars anyway, so what did I care? Anyway, today I was scanning the new games to see any.. well, new games. Except I was looking for ENTERTAINING new games. So I saw some tutorial for making a character move. I look at it and get bored immediately, because it's not funny and it doesn't even have a next button. You can't stop the tutorial. Anyway, I look at the comments and see my old XD Fire guy avatar, and thought that was me. I look at it closely and see that it's no other then some jerk named Fred with 4 digits after his name! I'm really angry at this point. I go to his profile and drop him a shout about it. Didn't get a response back yet, but it's only been like an hour. WHY DID YOU STEAL MY AVATAR,FRED WHATEVER YOUR LAST 4 NUMBERS ARE!?!? WHHHHYYYYY! *sigh* Okay, so now I wish that I never saved Fred when he was drowning as a gummy wor- I mean earthworm in science class. Wait a minute, I never did! I let him drown, cooked him to death, stabbed him, and then ate him! AHAHA! HOW DO YO..u like that, Fred! That's what you get for stealing my avatar! Wait a minute, this is the most extreme case of squeezing the lemon yet! I'm actually off-topic! I'm supposed to be talking about why I'm famous on Kongregate! GET ON TOPIC SEVEREFLAME! Okay.. I need to calm down again... *breathes*... okay, I'm okay. Anyway, the third reason I'm so famous on Kongregate is because I'm so funny!* (*funny might mean funny in the terms of crazy, insane, psycho..) And the fourth reason is because I squeeze the lemon! I'm really giving the people with OPRD a hard time here.. maybe they should hate me for squeezing the lemon so much. After all, at the point the last sentence ended, I had 2,346 words in here! OUCH! THAT'S A LOT! Man, I know a perfect way to make this profile longer. I'm going to include a story about Mario that I made! It's a little more then 600 words long, so it's a long read. The story is named "Itsa Meeeeee!" and well, here it is: "3.." the game roared as Mike put his thumb on the accelerate button. "2.." it blasted as he pressed the button. "1.." the game screamed as his eyes turned into narrow slits. "GO!" the game screamed as Mario's engine exploded in a puff. "NOOOO!!" Mike screamed. He started hammering the acceleration button then stopped. "What am I doing? I'll lose this way!" he thought in his head. He gently pressed it and Mario's go-kart started to go forward, but it was still not enough. "I need to master this curve if I'm ever going to beat Luigi." Mike thought. Mike's eyes opened wide when he realized the curve was very near. He jumped off the couch and started to turn a sharp right, when he felt a wet sensation underneath his foot. He slipped and fell onto the couch, while the Wii Wheel went spinning up into the air. When he realized what happened, Mike ran to the Wii Wheel with his hands outstretched, but it was too late, the Wii Wheel landed and smashed on the floor. Mike suddenly felt himself being pushed by something very powerful, and he landed on his couch as he lost all the breath in his lungs. Mike breathed heavily, but it was no good, since Mike's vision was still blurry, and his lungs seemed smashed. A miracle happened then, as his vision got less blurry and his lungs seemed able to breathe again. All the air that needed to be in his lungs was there again, but when Mike's vision recovered enough to see the figure in front of him, it left again. He stood speechless as he heard the words "Letsa go!" from none other then Mario himself. "W-w-what!?" Mike screamed. Mario started to gun the engine of his bullet bike, saying "Ima gonna kill you!" Mike started to stand up, but by then Mario's engine boomed forward. Mike rolled out of the way, leaving Mario to crash through the wall. Mike ran towards his bike in a hurry. He started to pedal the bike as fast as he could, and started to drive around town. "What does he want with me!?" Mike thought. He turned right and went inside the local mall. "He'll never find me here.." Mike announced. He turned around to confirm it, and saw Mario about 10 feet behind of him. His legs suddenly started to pedal again, and when he turned his head forward, he realized the place he was riding in was Coconut Mall, a course in Mario Kart Wii. "ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!" Mike screamed. Mike suddenly heard a sound, a sound he recognized as the Bullet Bill power-up. He turned right just in time to avoid dying from the force of Mario riding, but then crashed into a wall. He was helpless, he knew that he was doomed unless he got a good power-up. He turned left and jumped the fountain, and looked hopefully at his hands. A shell with wings that was colored blue suddenly appeared. Mike screamed with joy "YESSS!!! BLUE SHELL!" and activated it by throwing it ahead of him. It suddenly started to dash up toward Mario and hit him, throwing his bike into the air. Mike easily sped past him and got to the finish line. A crowd cheered as Mike sped around the finish line two more times and finished the final lap. The crowd went wild as Mike finally slowed down and won the race. He started to jump for joy, laughing and crying at his victory. Suddenly, he saw a blur of red behind him. The crowd gasped as the blur screamed "Itsa meeeeee! A-Mario!". The story is over, and at the end of that last sentence (the one that said "Itsa meeeee! A-Mario!") there were 3017 words. That is WAAAY too many words. I obviously squeeze the lemons so much that I killed the people with OPRD. Yup, it was pure murder. MUUURRRDDDDEEEERRRR! Some guy just posted on my profile saying he'll beat my profile length one day, but I say nay! Hey, that rhymed! And so did that! Anyway, you know what's awesome? Creme Brulee. I thought it was expensive lame food, but then I got a hold of some and it tasted great. I'm eating some as I'm typing this profile, and it's good. Right now, my sister is yelling at me that I'm typing like a yellow shark.. wtf? She's 7 years old, and she's scared of sharks. Especially since I showed her a HUGE picture of a shark on the computer. I can understand her being scared of a picture of a shark, but she's just being ridiculous now. She's scared of the color BLUE because sharks are blue. That's total insanity. I told her that sharks can be any color because of pollution and radiation and stuff. So then she was scared of EVERYTHING. After that, I told her it was a joke, and she was calm for every color again. Except blue of course. Then she was scared of water because of 2 reasons. One reason is that sharks and jellyfish live in water, and the other reason is that jellyfish are clear like water. Did you guys know I got stung by a jellyfish once? I didn't even see the jellyfish, or knew I got stung, but I was in the water and I suddenly felt a SHARP pain in my leg, like some seaweed that was really SHARP had brushed against my leg, and SHARPened it's SHARP needles to SHARPened m.. I mean stuck it's SHARP needles in my leg. It was a jellyfish though, not a SHARP seaweed piece with SHARP needles. And now I'm going to tell you a story. There was a guy named Bob. He liked to eat pie. One day, he took his Barbie Jammin' Jeep Wrangler to a pie store and tried to buy some blueberry pie. The clerk told Bob that they were out of business and now they sell DVDs. Bob was heartbroken. "Where am I going to get SHARKS.. I mean pie now?" Bob wondered. "I guess I'll have to SHARK them my self." Bob realized. He bought a pie recipe on SHARKS.com and then started to make a SHARK pie. He bought 89 SHARKS from the SHARK store and then got a knife to cut them into little pieces. However, the SHARKS were alive, and they tried to SHARK his head off, but then he tripped on a SHARK that was on the floor and they bit air. They bit air so hard that their teeth broke. Bob punched the SHARKS in the face and then cut them up into 128,512 little pieces in total. He then made some pie crust using only a SHARK chair that tasted like wood. He wanted to make his SHARK pie better, and the recipe said to get some Shmat Shmoison cream. Bob went to get some from the cabinet, but as he was walking he got dust in his eye. He tripped over a SHARK that was SHARKING on the floor and hit his head on the cabinet. He was bleeding really bad, but he wanted some SHARK pie more badly. He reached for the cabinet and tried to find the Shmat Shmoision. His vision was really blurry, and he ended up taking Rat Poison instead of Shmat Shmoision. Bob put the Rat Poision in the pie. Bob read the recipe book as well as he could, and the recipe book said to make room for the filling, he needed to put air in the crust. However, his vision was so bad he read the recipe as to put BEAR in his SHARK pie. Bob shrugged and went to a cave to get some BEAR for his SHARK pie. The BEAR ate him, but then he killed the BEAR and put it into his SHARK pie. He put another SHARK that's been blended as the filling and then ate the SHARK pie. Bob then died. Meanwhile, Bob's evil cousin, Bob Number 2, stole his Barbie Jammin' Jeep Wrangler. The End. Do you like that squeezing the lemon of a story? At the end of the last question, there was.. 3770 words in the profile. WOW. Yup, my record for longest profile ever is secure, and the people with OPRD are probably either dead or wish they could be dead. It feels good doing.. good. AHAHAHAH! I am so funny, like I said before. That's why everyone on Kong luvs me! They also love me because I squeeze the lemon. Wait, no, they hate me for that! Noes! New topic! Okay, hold on, I got one. Super Balls are awesome. They're the balls that are made with that really awesome rubber that's 90% bouncy or whatever. They're really cool, and tons of people play with them at my school. They're called handballs at my school though. Okay, I can't really squeeze the lemon about Super Balls, so I'm just gonna talk about subliminal messages. Subliminal messages are --((DRUGS ARE BAD FOR YOU))-- messages that suddenly appear in a piece of music or +=DO NOT DO DRUGS=+ in a video or something. In a piece of music it's kind of a //DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE HYPE\\ hidden message that you can hear in the backround. It's not noticeable unless you ~YOU ARE TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS~ are listening for the message, but if you're just listening to the music you !!DRUGS WILL MESS UP YOUR LIFE!! won't hear it, but it will go into your mind. Videos are a different <> matter though. They're harder to see if you're not looking||NOBODY LIKES DRUGS|| for the messages, but if you try to look for them they're easier to see. Video subliminal ??ONLY LOSERS TAKE DRUGS?? messages are messages that appear REALLY quickly on screen, only for a ``DRUGS ARE EXPENSIVE AND WORTHLESS`` tenth of a second. If you're not looking for it, they won't appear. &&I'M SQUEEZING THE LEMON AGAIN. WAIT, THIS ISN'T A SUBLIMINAL ANTI-DRUG MESSAGE. NOT THAT THERE WERE ANY IN THE FIRST PLACE. I AM NOW GOING TO LOOK AROUND SUSPICIOUSLY%% Okay, now that the subliminal messages are over, I want to tell you something important. Something VERY VERY important. We need a huge notice here to make it noticable so: ####@@@READ THIS!!!@@@#### Okay, now I am going to tell you.. HOW I GOT MY NAME. Okay, well, I was signing up for a new account on RuneScape. I loved fire at that time (I'm not a pyro, I don't burn stuff, I just like fire) so I tried to make my account fire related. So many people signed up for RuneScape, it was hard to find a name. FireWizard, FlameWizard, ExtremeFire, ExtremeFlame, FireOrb, FlameOrb, you get the idea. They were all taken. I eventually tried to think of a word meaning extreme, and I got Severe. I tried SevereFire and it worked. However, SevereFire didn't sound catchy enough. Seriously, SevereFire? What the hell? I chose SevereFlame (actually, Severe Flame with a space) for the name and it got accepted. Yay! Now for another piece of history, how I found Kongregate. I was playing on AddictingGames when I saw a game called.. (DUN DUN DUUUN! SUSPENCE!) Speck Oppression! I clicked on it and the link led me to Kongregate. At that time, Speck Opression had the Speck Revolution badge AND the current card (which was 1st Edition Herbal Remedy). I looked to my right and saw myself in the chat room called Babel. I ended up getting my first badge and my first card on Speck Opression. I also became friends with somebody who's name I can't remember (skaterboy14 is probably either the name or very close to it) and then went to sleep. The next day, I found myself in the chat room called "The Lair", and that's what started everything.. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN. I don't even care that I squeezed the lemon way too much in that last passage. It was important. Anyway.. did you know that you can help rename God? It's true! Just go to http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1/topics/29158 and submit your entry today! No.. this is not squeezing the lemon.. so, I don't know why everyone says RuneScape sucks, it's awesome! Currently developing another game that's really cool. It's a pixel game called Kongregaliens! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the Kongregate staff? Are YOU a bad enough dude to squeeze the lemon? You know what? It's time for me to be annoying and repeat the entire profile just for some extra space! Visit "www.freewebs.com/severeflame/"! Now updated weekly! Anyway, Greg Is So Evil 3 is out now!! So go play it! Working on a game called Volcanohazard no- just kidding. I'm gonna be annoying in a different way, by pointing out something obvious! Let's see.. who (greg) do (Greg!) I (GrEg!!) hate (GREG!!!!) ? (GREEEEEEEEEEG!!!!) Oh yeah! Greg! He's very evil. So uh.. yah. I need to make a really obvious joke, but I'm not sure which one. Oh! How about a meme? Hm.. oh my god! I'm brilliant! If you ever asked me how many letters I had in this profile, I'd reply that the number of letters in this profile are OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND! Which is true! When the last sentence (which is true!) ended, I had 24,816 characters (not letters, sorry) in this entire profile! Wow! Now THAT'S over nine thousaaa- sorry. It's amazing that I wrote 24,816 characters without spamming HAHAHAHAHAH or LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL in my profile like an idiot. Right? RIGHT? I still hate Greg. You know, when I'm not squeezing the lemon, playing on Kongregate, reading Cracked or SydLexia articles, getting and reading the monthly GameInformer, playing KoL, and being awesome, I write for Kongiophobia. Wait, that's not it. I forgot what I was going to say. Well, I'm going to pretend that I was thinking of making games. Yeah, that's it. Oh, yeah! Now I remember! I was going to say going to school. Wait, no.. okay, I got it now. When I'm not doing all of those things, I'm living. Breathing, eating, drinking, and taking vacations. Let me tell you a story from the vacation I had on New Year's Eve. So, on December 31 I went to this house in Pennsylvania. Again. Like I did during Thanksgiving. Except this house kinda sucked. It was freezing (or seemed to be) and didn't even have a game room! WAH! So, we only had cable in one place even though there was 3 TVs. In the living room, we had cable. In the children's room, we had a broken TV. Or, well, possibly broken. In the second floor, we had a TV that worked, but had no cable. So, we were stuck to watching movies. There were only 3 movies, and 2 of them were strangely the only 90's Nickelodeon movies made. The third one was Dr. Doolittle. So, the two movies were Rugrats: The Movie. And the more important one.. Harriet The Spy. Harriet the Spy is about this girl named Harriet who wants to be a spy. She records everything she sees in her notebook. She has a babysitter, named Gully (I'll call her Mrs. Cookie). She also has two best friends, this crazy psycho scientist chick and this guy named sport who's a hobo. Well, not really. He just doesn't have much money. After a friendship is established with the two friends and Mrs. Cookie (Gully), who is responsible for implanting The Walrus And The Carpenter into my head. You know, the one that goes "The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings!" Yeah, that one. Argh, I'm squeezing the lemon again. Where was I? Oh yeah, so Harriet establishes friendship and trust with the two friends and Mrs. Cookie. Mrs. Cookie's boyfriend, who Harriet hates at first because she thinks he stole fruit, convinces Mrs. Cookie to go out to see a movie. (which spawns a famous quote from Harriet, "They won't be back until a MILLION o'clock!") They do, and when Mrs. Cookie and her boyfriend return, Harriet's parents are going all OMFGWERE'SMAHDAUGHTER. Well, only the mom. Did I mention that Mrs. Cookie has been Harriet's babysitter/nanny since her birth? Well, I didn't. It's important because Harriet's mom FIRES Mrs. Cookie. Mrs. Cookie agrees, and everybody is shocked. Harriet's mom is like "Oh, wait, crap. I changed my mind." Mrs. Cookie insists on leaving, saying Harriet's too old for a babysitter. Harriet is naturally, upset. She tries to kill herself! Just kidding. Not yet. Things seem like they can't get worse, but they do. The typical antagonistic popular girl at school finds her notebook and reads it. Out loud to everyone in the park. And also paraphrases it, sadly. Suddenly, she loses her two best friends, and the "Spy Catchers" club is formed. This is a club where the kids follow Harriet around and bang pots like mental patients on cocaine. The first time it happens, the scientist girl is growling like she's a constipated bear or something, and Sport is trying to look cool even though he's not. He gives Harriet, like, a dissapointed look. Like a strong silent type look. Like, he was about to shake his head or something. Thanks to the MRKOC Club (Mentally Retarded Kids On Cocaine Club), a cop catches her. This results in a conflict between her and her parents, where they take her notebook away. They say it's a bad habit, and she should like, quit or something. So Harriet's ticked off, and she starts yelling about how they (her parents) don't quit going to parties every other night and pouring themselves big martini glasses. Their response is something like "We are your parents young lady, don't talk to us like that!". Wow, great parenting right there. Anyway, they take her notebook away. So, Harriet now has no friends, no Mrs. Cookie, no notebook, and the whole class as an enemy. She starts planning revenge on everyone. The revenge scenes are surprisingly cruel for a 11-year-old. She tells Marion (the antagonistic popular girl) that her father doesn't love her, she posts pictures of Sport dressed like a housemaid (which she took while they were friends) all over the school, and she does other things to other students. The worst part is when she cuts the ponytail off of her former best friend. Harsh. That's something you just don't do. So, to get revenge on Harriet, Marion's wannabe spills blue paint all over Harriet on purpose, but says it was an accident. Then the class attacks her with paper towels. This results in Harriet getting so angry that she slaps Marion in the face, leaving a blue handprint. FINALLY! WOOHOO! VIOLENCE! So, she runs back home and tries to kill herself. Or wash the paint off. Probably the paint. Then things get better. Mrs. Cookie comes back and tells Harriet what she needs to do to get her friends back. So, she apologizes and stuff. Then more stuff happens, and Harriet becomes writer of the newspaper. Oh, and she has her friends and Mrs. Cookie back. Horray! So, that's what I watched when I was on vacation. Man, I totally squeezed the lemon while writing this, right? Speaking of writing, I write for Kongiophobia, a Kongregate blog/fan site that is intended on showing you the dark side of Kongregate. Visit it here: http://kongiophobia.blogspot.com/ So.. what to write now? I'll try to squeeze the lemon again, but what cup should I squeeze.. oh whatever. Just what I should write in this space now. The possibilities are endless. Cue heroic music. Now, time to talk about this profile. It is really really really long. Like, the longest profile on Kongregate. Actually, this IS the longest profile on Kongregate. Points have been made that this is not, and it isn't. So what am I talking about then? I'm talking about how this is the longest LEGITIMATE profile on Kongregate. Read this profile again, and you notice it actually talks about something. Longer profiles then this have been made, but only because they SPAMMED. That's right. The longest profile on Kongregate is obviously spammed with "HIHIHIHIHI" or something. That's not a profile. You cannot spam to get the longest profile award. That is cheating. If you think otherwise, then you do not deserve to live. You know who else doesn't deserve to live? Greg. That's right, the moment has finally come! This profile is running out of space, so it's time to bring the ultimate topic. How. Much. Greg. Sucks. Now, the trouble started long long ago. In fact, when I first joined Kong, the challenge and new badges were for a game called Speck Oppression. If you went and played it right now, nothing would be wrong. However, when I played it during the challenge, the game had a bug. A big bug. An obvious bug. That's right, the game could be right-clicked. I did not know this until level 15 or so, but it was true. Greg changed it later, after the challenge was already over and the Original Herbal Remedy card was already gotten by many people. This seemed like no big deal at first, but then, about a year later, Greg released the Wooden Path challenge. This set off a chain of bad games getting badges, like Monster's Den. This went on for a long time, for a long LONG time, and I had to deal with it all. Well, not really. I left Kong at that time. When I came back, I could already see the damage. Greg was a monster, making bad badges everywhere with no intention to stop, no matter how much we begged him to. I had to put up with THAT until I finally snapped at the "Double Point Weekend". At that time, a horrible horrible game came out called Mechanical Commando. It was.. horrible. I posted a thread that got quickly locked, and I saw that Greg indeed could not be stopped. He released bad badges, rarely good badges, and badges that seemed to be good but proved to suck (like the Energy Apocalypse badges). Greg can't be stopped. I beg and beg every day for him to be fired, but it's no use. Greg will take over Kongregate one day. Heck, he's already got his name in the title, so he doesn't have to bother with a name change. Someday, Greg will doom us all.. and that will be the end of the world. But, at least I won't ever have to squeeze the lemon again, right? Wait, the profile didn't run out of space yet? Interesting. Try to guess what my final words will be! It'll probably be something about squeezing the lemon. Speaking of which, why do I squeeze the lemon so much anyway? It's kind of getting annoying for YOU, the reader, to keep hearing about how I keep squeezing the lemon, right? Someday someone will kill me for squeezing the lemon too much. Argh! I'm squeezing the lemon! Wait, I'm talking about squeezing the lemon! Wait! What? Who? Why? ARGHHHH! Okay, let's just move on. ........................................................... I walk under the moons glow Half in silver light Half in shadow Each half wants to own me The darkness grips me in its power Binds me to its dim paths And sad outcomes The light beckons me to its glow Its joy, and its promises I will have to fight to free myself From the black sad grip And reach for the lights glad joy. The battle between the comforting blanket of the dark And the vulnerability that the light reveals Weighs heavy in the thought wells of the mind But the choices must be decided Between the dark and the light Each with its pitfalls and its rewards For now the struggle wages To and fro In the end there shall be a victor I pray it is me….................................................................................................The captain walked into the room with his students carefully watching him proceed to the general he was suppose to be ranked up. his name was captain McCoy but instead of being ranked for a little higher the general ranked him a general. He stood up and asked if he would have a word with his partner. They stood up and dismissed the crowed. They left for the back room, and so they started to talk, McCoy always a step behind his friend. But later that day they competed against each other to see who the better one to get the promotion, she dived and missed all of his attacks, she was to fast for him yet he knew her every move. So they ended it in a draw. General McCoy shook hands with General Meme. Either way it went Meme and McCoy where the proud owners of there new base, named the village residents from all over wanted to live there but only a few people could help out the first year by the end of the 3 year the village was a huge military base with hotels and small trailer parks and parks, many camping places to visit and that was how the village was created. There once was a Robot named QWERTY everybody knew her even the dreaded metal dragon; he searched for her so he could have a perfect meal. But one day there came an adventurer he had come from a far away place in order to save this famous robot. He got there to late the dragon came and scooped QWERTY off of her wheels and then the dragon left for its lands in the mountains. Everyone was scared for her she was family to everyone. But in that time the brave adventurer named BJB was there he grabbed the wings of the fowl beast and started to stab it in the back. He grabbed the famous Robot by the wheels and jumped so that he would take the impact on entering the surface. He was later reworded as a great warrior and got the Medal of Honor it stood for M. or you would call it a moderator like the others it was destiny for them and they took it like they won it. QWERTY even got one to for that she and BJB where now the third, and fourth moderators in the village later on. Once there was a far lad who meets all of these brave and even famous men and women in combat. He grabbed his sword and slashed and swiped at the foes but they where to strong for him so he left in search of a master that would train him to be a better sword master he found that master in the land of the Pride’s and thus he left after learning the secret moves then he went back and saved the lands from trolls and goblins that tried to invade he stopped them all and was promoted to the knight who watched meme but later he was angry and let the kingdom and so meme was unprotect for those long years he searched for a way to get back in and have her forgive him but instead he was caught by the other 3 and so he left later he returned...................................................................................................................A Kongregate Prayer: Our Father Which Art In ‘Railway to Heaven’, ‘Hallowed Days: T.o.T’ Be Thy Name, Thy ‘Kingdom Of The Wind’ Come, Thy Will Be Done, On ‘Earth Defence’ as it is in ‘Ice Cream heaven’, Give Us This Day Our ‘Daily Life’ Bread, Forgive Us Our ‘Destroy Our Debts Solitaire’ As We Our Debters, Lead Us Not Into Temptation, Deliver Us From ‘Lords Of Evil’, For Thine Is The ‘Kingdom Of Machines’, And The ‘Power Driving’, And The’Wings Of Glory’, ‘Hunted Forever’ And ‘Towering Forever’ Amen… ...............................................................................................olgia 8: Fraudulent advisors are encased in individual flames. Dante includes Ulysses and Diomedes together here for their role in the Trojan War. Ulysses tells the tale of his fatal final voyage (an invention of Dante's), where he left his home and family to sail to the end of the Earth. He equated life as a pursuit of knowledge that humanity can attain through effort, and in his search God sank his ship outside of Mount Purgatory. This symbolizes the inability of the individual to carve out one's own salvation. Instead, one must be totally subservient to the will of God and realize the inability of one to be a God unto oneself. Guido da Montefeltro recounts how his advice to Pope Boniface VIII resulted in his damnation, despite Boniface's promise of absolution. (Cantos XXVI and XXVII) * Bolgia 9: A sword-wielding demon hacks at the sowers of discord. As they make their rounds the wounds heal, only to have the demon tear apart their bodies again. "See how I rend myself! How mutilated, see, is Mahomet; In front of me doth Ali weeping go, Cleft in the face from forelock unto chin; And all the others whom thou here beholdest, Disseminators of scandal and of schism. While living were, and therefore are cleft thus." Muhammad tells Dante to warn the schismatic and heretic Fra Dolcino (Cantos XXVIII and XXIX). Dante writes of Muhammad as a schismatic,[6][7] apparently viewing Islam as an off-shoot from Christianity, and similarly Dante seems to condemn Ali for schism between Sunni and Shiite. * Bolgia 10: Here various sorts of falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators), who are a disease on society, are themselves afflicted with different types of diseases (Cantos XXIX and XXX). Potiphar's wife is briefly mentioned here for her false accusation of Joseph. In the notes on her translation, Dorothy L. Sayers remarks that Malebolge "began with the sale of the sexual relationship, and went on to the sale of Church and State; now, the very money is itself corrupted, every affirmation has become perjury, and every identity a lie; no medium of exchange remains."[8] [edit] Ninth Circle Dante speaks to the traitors in the ice, Inferno, Canto 32. See also: Ugolino and Dante The Ninth Circle is ringed by classical and Biblical giants. The giants are standing either on, or on a ledge above, the ninth circle of Hell, and are visible from the waist up at the ninth circle of the Malebolge. The giant Antaeus lowers Dante and Virgil into the pit that forms the ninth circle of Hell. (Canto XXXI) Traitors, distinguished from the "merely" fraudulent in that their acts involve betraying one in a special relationship to the betrayer, are frozen in a lake of ice known as Cocytus. Each group of traitors is encased in ice to a different depth, ranging from only the waist down to complete immersion. The circle is divided into four concentric zones: * Round 1: Caïna, named for Cain, is home to traitors to their kindred. The souls here are immersed in the ice up to their necks. (Canto XXXII) * Round 2: Antenora is named for Antenor of Troy, who according to medieval tradition betrayed his city to the Greeks. Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country, are located here. Count Ugolino pauses from gnawing on the head of his rival Archbishop Ruggieri to describe how Ruggieri imprisoned and starved him and his children. The souls here are immersed at almost the same level as those in Caïna, except they are unable to bend their necks. (Cantos XXXII and XXXIII) * Round 3: Ptolomaea is probably named for Ptolemy, the captain of Jericho, who invited Simon Maccabaeus and his sons to a banquet and then killed them. Traitors to their guests are punished here. Fra Alberigo explains that sometimes a soul falls here before Atropos cuts the thread of life. Their bodies on Earth are immediately possessed by a demon. The souls here are immersed so that only half of their faces are above the ice. As they cry, their tears freeze and seal their eyes shut–they are denied even the comfort of tears. (Canto XXXIII) * Round 4: Judecca, named for Judas Iscariot, Biblical betrayer of Christ, is for traitors to their lords and benefactors. All of the sinners punished within are completely encapsulated in ice, distorted in all conceivable positions. Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell, Inferno, Canto 34. Dante and Virgil, with no one to talk to, quickly move on to the center of hell. Condemned to the very center of hell for committing the ultimate sin (treachery against God) is Satan, who has three faces, one red, one black, and one a pale yellow, each having a mouth that chews on a prominent traitor. Satan himself is represented as a giant, terrifying beast, weeping tears from his six eyes, which mix with the traitors' blood sickeningly. He is waist deep in ice, and beats his six wings as if trying to escape, but the icy wind that emanates only further ensures his imprisonment (as well as that of the others in the ring). The sinners in the mouths of Satan are Brutus and Cassius in the left and right mouths, respectively. They were involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar—an act which, to Dante, represented the destruction of a unified Italy. In the central, most vicious mouth is Judas Iscariot—the namesake of this zone and the betrayer of Jesus. Judas is being administered the most horrifying torture of the three traitors, his head in the mouth of Lucifer, and his back being forever skinned by the claws of Lucifer. (Canto XXXIV) What is seen here is a perverted trinity. Satan is impotent, ignorant, and evil while God can be attributed as the opposite: all powerful, all knowing, and good. The two poets escape by climbing down the ragged fur of Lucifer, passing through the center of the earth, emerging in the other hemisphere just before dawn on Easter Sunday beneath a sky studded with stars. [edit] Purgatorio Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted circa 1530. Plan of Mount Purgatory. As with Paradise, the structure is of the form 2+7+1=9+1=10, with one of the ten regions different in nature from the other nine. Having survived the depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend out of the undergloom, to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath Jerusalem). The Mountain is on an island, the only land in the Southern Hemisphere, created with earth taken from the excavation of hell. At the shores of Purgatory, Dante and Virgil are attracted by a musical performance by Casella, but are reprimanded by Cato, a pagan who has been placed by God as the general guardian of the approach to the mountain. The text gives no indication whether or not Cato's soul is destined for heaven: his symbolic significance has been much debated. (Cantos I and II). Allegorically, the Purgatorio represents the Christian life. Christian souls arrive escorted by an angel, singing in exitu Israel de Aegypto. In his Letter to Cangrande, Dante explains that this reference to Israel leaving Egypt refers both to the redemption of Christ and to "the conversion of the soul from the sorrow and misery of sin to the state of grace."[9] Appropriately, therefore, it is Easter Sunday when Dante and Virgil arrive. The Purgatorio is notable for demonstrating the medieval knowledge of a spherical Earth. During the poem, Dante discusses the different stars visible in the southern hemisphere, the altered position of the sun, and the various timezones of the Earth. At this stage it is, Dante says, sunset at Jerusalem, midnight on the River Ganges, and sunrise in Purgatory. Dante starts the ascent of Mount Purgatory at sunrise. On the lower slopes (designated as "ante-Purgatory" by commentators) Dante meets first a group of excommunicates, detained for a period thirty times as long as their period of contumacy. Ascending higher, he encounters those too lazy to repent until shortly before death, and those who suffered violent deaths (often due to leading extremely sinful lives). These souls will be admitted to Purgatory thanks to their genuine repentance, but must wait outside for an amount of time equal to their lives on earth (Cantos III through VI). Finally, Dante is shown a beautiful valley where he sees the lately deceased monarchs of the great nations of Europe, and a number of other persons whose devotion to public and private duties hampered their faith (Cantos VII and VIII). Dante's beautiful description of evening in this valley (Canto VIII) was the inspiration for a similar passage in Byron's Don Juan.[10] From this valley Dante is carried (while asleep) up to the gates of Purgatory proper (Canto IX). The gate of Purgatory is guarded by an angel who uses the point of his sword to draw the letter "P" (signifying peccatum, sin) seven times on Dante's forehead, bidding him to "wash you those wounds within." The angel uses two keys, silver (remorse) and gold (reconciliation) to open the gate – both are necessary.[11] The angel at the gate then warns Dante not to look back, lest he should find himself outside the gate again, symbolizing Dante having to overcome and rise above the hell that he has just left and thus leaving his sinning ways behind him. From there, Virgil guides the pilgrim Dante through the seven terraces of Purgatory. These correspond to the seven deadly sins, each terrace purging a particular sin in an appropriate manner. Those in purgatory can leave their circle whenever they like, but essentially there is an honor system where no one leaves until they have corrected the nature within themselves that caused them to commit that sin. Souls can only move upwards and never backwards, since the intent of Purgatory is for souls to ascend towards God in Heaven, and can ascend only during daylight hours, since the light of God is the only true guidance. Associated with each terrace are historical and mythological examples of the relevant deadly sin and of its opposite virtue, together with an appropriate prayer and beatitude. [edit] The Terraces of Purgatory In an example of humility, the Emperor Trajan stops to render justice to a poor widow, Purgatorio, Canto 10 On the first three terraces of Purgatory are purified those whose sins were caused by perverted love directed towards actual harm of others. * First Terrace. The proud are purged by carrying giant stones on their backs, unable to stand up straight (Cantos X through XII). This teaches the sinner that pride puts weight on the soul and it is better to throw it off. Furthermore, there are carvings of historical and mythological examples of pride and humility to learn from. With the weight on one's back, one cannot help but see this carved pavement and learn from it. The prayer for this terrace is the Lord's Prayer, and the beatitude is blessed are the poor in spirit. At the ascent to the next terrace, an angel clears a letter P from Dante's head. This process is repeated on each terrace. Each time a P is removed, Dante's body feels lighter, because he becomes less and less weighed down by sin. * Second Terrace. The envious are purged by having their eyes sewn shut and wearing clothing that makes the soul indistinguishable from the ground (Cantos XIII through XV). This is akin to a falconer's sewing the eyes of a falcon shut in order to train it. In this regard, God is the falconer and is training the souls not to envy others and to direct their love towards Him. Two examples of envy (Cain who was jealous of his brother, and Aglauros who was jealous of her sister) are contrasted with three of generosity. Because the souls here cannot see, the examples are voices on the air, including Jesus' words "love your enemies." As he is leaving the terrace, the dazzling light of the angel causes Dante to observe that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection "as theory and experiment will show."[12] The beatitude for this terrace is blessed are the merciful. * Third Terrace. The wrathful are purged by walking around in acrid smoke (Cantos XV through XVII). Souls correct themselves by learning how wrath has blinded their vision, impeding their judgment (the sin of wrath represents a perversion of the natural love of justice). The prayer for this terrace is the Agnus Dei, and the beatitude is blessed are the peacemakers. On the fourth terrace we find sinners whose sin was that of deficient love—that is, sloth or acedia. * Fourth Terrace. The slothful are purged by continually running (Cantos XVIII and XIX). Those who were slothful in life can only purge this sin by being zealous in their desire for penance. Allegorically, spiritual laziness and lack of caring lead to sadness, and so the beatitude for this terrace is blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.[13] On the fifth through seventh terraces are those who sinned by loving good things, but loving them in a disordered way. * Fifth Terrace. The avaricious and prodigal are purged by lying face-down on the ground, unable to move (Cantos XIX through XXI). Excessive concern for earthly goods—whether in the form of greed or extravagance—is punished and purified. The sinner learns to turn his desire from possessions, power or position to God. It is here that the poets meet the soul of Statius, who has completed his purgation and joins them on their ascent to paradise. * Sixth Terrace. The gluttonous are purged by abstaining from any food or drink (Cantos XXII through XXIV). Here, the soul's desire to eat a forbidden fruit causes its shade to starve. To sharpen the pains of hunger, the former gluttons on this terrace are forced to pass by cascades of cool water without stopping to drink. (Considering Dante's use of Greek myth, this may be inspired by Tantalus.) Dante's meeting with Matelda, lithograph by Cairoli (1889) Dante's meeting with Beatrice, by John William Waterhouse * Seventh Terrace. The lustful are purged by burning in an immense wall of flame (Cantos XXV through XXVII). All of those who committed sexual sins, both heterosexual and homosexual, are purified by the fire. Excessive sexual desire misdirects one's love from God and this terrace is meant to correct that. In addition, perhaps because all sin has its roots in misguided love, every soul who has completed his penance on the lower six cornices must pass through the wall of flame before ascending to the Earthly Paradise. Here Dante, too, must share the penance of the redeemed as the last "P" is removed from his forehead. The ascent of the mountain culminates at the summit, which is in fact the Garden of Eden (Cantos XXVIII through XXXIII). This place is meant to return one to a state of innocence that existed before the sin of Adam and Eve caused the fall from grace. Here Dante meets Matelda, a woman of grace and beauty who prepares souls for their ascent to heaven. With her Dante witnesses a highly symbolic procession that may be read as an allegorical masque of the Church and the Sacrament. The procession forms an allegory within the allegory, somewhat like Shakespeare's play within a play. One participant in the procession is Beatrice, whom Dante loved in childhood, and at whose request Virgil was commissioned to bring Dante on his journey. Virgil, as a pagan, is a permanent denizen of Limbo, the first circle of Hell, and may not enter Paradise; he vanishes. Beatrice then becomes the second guide, and will accompany Dante in his vision of Heaven. Dante drinks from the River Lethe, which causes the soul to forget past sins, and then from the River Eunoë, which effects the renewal of memories of good deeds. Thus purified, souls can direct their love fully towards God to the best of their inherent capability to do so. They are then ready to leave Mount Purgatory for Paradise. Being totally purged of sin, Purgatorio ends with Dante's vision aimed at the stars, anticipating his ascent to heaven. [edit] Paradiso Dante and Beatrice speak to Piccarda and Constance of Sicily, in a fresco by Philipp Veit, Paradiso, Canto 3 After an initial ascension (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical, similar to Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology. Dante admits that the vision of heaven he receives is the one that his human eyes permit him to see. Thus, the vision of heaven found in the Cantos is Dante's own personal vision, ambiguous in its true construction. The addition of a moral dimension means that a soul that has reached Paradise stops at the level applicable to it. Souls are allotted to the point of heaven that fits with their human ability to love God. Thus, there is a heavenly hierarchy. All parts of heaven are accessible to the heavenly soul. That is to say all experience God but there is a hierarchy in the sense that some souls are more spiritually developed than others. This is not determined by time or learning as such but by their proximity to God (how much they allow themselves to experience Him above other things). It must be remembered in Dante's schema that all souls in Heaven are on some level always in contact with God. While the structures of the Inferno and Purgatorio were based around different classifications of sin, the structure of the Paradiso is based on the four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues. [edit] The Spheres of Heaven The nine spheres are: * First Sphere. The sphere of the Moon is that of souls who abandoned their vows, and so were deficient in the virtue of fortitude (Cantos II through V). Dante meets Piccarda, sister of Dante's friend Forese Donati, who died shortly after being forcibly removed from her convent. Beatrice discourses on the freedom of the will, and the inviolability of sacred vows. * Second Sphere. The sphere of Mercury is that of souls who did good out of a desire for fame, but who, being ambitious, were deficient in the virtue of justice (Cantos V through VII). Justinian recounts the history of the Roman Empire. Beatrice explains to Dante the atonement of Christ for the sins of humanity. Folquet de Marseilles bemoans the corruption of the Church, in a miniature by Giovanni di Paolo, Paradiso, Canto 9 Illustration of Dante's Paradiso, showing Thomas Aquinas and 11 other teachers of wisdom in the sphere of the Sun, by Giovanni di Paolo (between 1442 and c.1450) * Third Sphere. The sphere of Venus is that of souls who did good out of love, but were deficient in the virtue of temperance (Cantos VIII and IX). Dante meets Charles Martel of Anjou, who decries those who adopt inappropriate vocations, and Cunizza da Romano. Folquet de Marseilles points out Rahab, the brightest soul among those of this sphere, and condemns the city of Florence for producing that "cursed flower" (the florin) which is responsible for the corruption of the Church. * Fourth Sphere. The sphere of the Sun is that of souls of the wise, who embody prudence (Cantos X through XIV). Dante is addressed by St. Thomas Aquinas, who recounts the life of St. Francis of Assisi and laments the corruption of his own Dominican Order. Dante is then met by St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan, who recounts the life of St. Dominic, and laments the corruption of the Franciscan Order. The two orders were not always friendly on earth, and having members of one order praising the founder of the other shows the love present in Heaven. Dante arranges the wise into two rings of twelve; his choices of who to include give his assessment of the significant philosophers of medieval times. Finally, Aquinas introduces King Solomon, who answers Dante's question about the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. * Fifth Sphere. The sphere of Mars is that of souls who fought for Christianity, and who embody fortitude (Cantos XIV through XVIII). The souls in this sphere form an enormous cross. Dante speaks with the soul of his ancestor Cacciaguida, who praises the former virtues of the residents of Florence, recounts the rise and fall of Florentine families and foretells Dante's exile from Florence, before finally introducing some notable warrior souls (among them Joshua, Roland, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon). * Sixth Sphere. The sphere of Jupiter is that of souls who personified justice, something of great concern to Dante (Cantos XVIII through XX). The souls here spell out the Latin for "Love justice, ye that judge the earth," and then arrange themselves into the shap...Well now that the people from Digg Mark have figured out my secret identity as DF the superhero I might as well explain my owers! Well I can shoot Dragonflames from my wrist and control the intensity of the heat changing to flames to black or just the normal redish orange. I can also send lightning from any part of my body using it as a weapon or sheild. I also usually have a giant pair of black lightning wings on my back as a way of flying and just plain looking sexy. Though they can kill do quite a bit of damage due to the fact they can pierce anything easily. 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