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The Resurrection Guild uses forums to coordinate our in-game activities and raids, and to build a sense of community that extends beyond grinding for experience and coin together. Communication about SLACK events can be found on the SLACK Forums Page.
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Gnelza 
Guild Member
Total Posts: 152
Location: Granville, NY (where?)
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| 06/22/2005 7:15 PM |
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Tribune columnist Mary Schmich's June 1, 1997, column certainly has had a unique afterlife.
It began as an imagined, whimsical commencement speech in which Schmich offered nuggets of wisdom such as "Wear sunscreen," "Sing" and "Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours."
Months later the column was making national news as a particularly strange Internet phenomenon: Someone had posted it in cyberspace billed as a commencement speech delivered by author Kurt Vonnegut at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and it was enthusiastically circulated among e-mailers so identified until Vonnegut graciously declined credit and the true author was revealed.
One on-line fan of the column was Australian movie director Baz Luhrmann ("William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet," "Strictly Ballroom"), who was preparing a compilation album of reinterpretations of songs featured in his movies and stage productions. He contacted Schmich and the Tribune about licensing her words, and soon Australian voice actor Lee Perry was reading the column with fatherly authority over a relaxed dance track to create the novelty tune "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)." [I added this paragraph so people would know where to find it to HEAR it - it is AMAZING to listen to]
Here it is:
Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are prone to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blind side you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't know.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And then you do you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look like 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more that it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
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Trefalgar
Pie Paragon
Council Member
Total Posts: 4160
Location: Atlanta, GA
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| 06/23/2005 5:13 AM |
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I'm good, don't need sunscreen. I stay indoors mostly and play video games.
I'm heading to 40 soon enough and still can't figure out what I want to be when I grow up... |
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-Special Agent Trefal, CHU (Counter Horde Unit), Rogue Ops
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Dhrydan
Webmaster
Guild Officer
Total Posts: 2995
Location: Seattle, WA
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| 06/23/2005 7:11 AM |
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Would it be wrong of me to reference the Chris Rock interpretation of that song, or does that simply point to me hanging out with the wrong crowd?
Personally, I don't wear sunscreen...but I don't sit out in the sun very long. The most my face sees of light is basking in the CRT rays of my monitor...hmmm...LCD screen...okay, strike that...well...I don't know...
And I also wish I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. I'm still banking on the spaceman thing to come through...or maybe be a spy for the KGB.
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Dhrydan - 71 Restor Druid
Dhrymage - 61 Arcane Mage
Dhrybetankin - 48 Warrior
Dhrybestakin - 33 Shammy
Guild Officer & Webmaster |
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Trefalgar
Pie Paragon
Council Member
Total Posts: 4160
Location: Atlanta, GA
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| 06/23/2005 2:16 PM |
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Dude! The KGB is soooooo last century's I337 spy gang. NSA and off-budget US black ops are teh new uber thing to be.
Spaceman is always a good goal.
I want to be an artist and writer. I have this addiction to eating regular meals and living under a roof, so I sold out for the regular paycheck. |
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-Special Agent Trefal, CHU (Counter Horde Unit), Rogue Ops
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Jureal
Guild Alumni
Total Posts: 2916
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
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| 06/25/2005 6:23 PM |
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| lol... I've always wanted to go into a plain boring job in something like information security. Silly me! I'm gonna have to shoot for something awesome like a spy or a cowboy... I got it!!! NINJA!!! I'm gonna be a ninja when I gow up! |
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Jureal
Guild Alumni
Total Posts: 2916
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
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| 06/26/2005 2:46 AM |
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I went to b&n tongiht and purchased 'The Ways of The Samurai'... I'm on my way you guys! Ninja Power, ACTIVATE! =P
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=rs2MgHiBBW&isbn=074348665X&itm=25 |
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mindboggld
Guild Member
Total Posts: 33
Location: Springdale, AR
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| 06/26/2005 8:40 AM |
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Hey Bran... Shawn can draw you a picture of a great "Ninja School" to go to!!! heheheheheheh (inside joke.. sorry!!!)
Me.. I'd love to get paid to play all of these games! |
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Jureal
Guild Alumni
Total Posts: 2916
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
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| 06/26/2005 3:15 PM |
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| You guys have to scan and email that picture for me, I'm gonna hang it next to my computer too! =P |
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