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It is easy to forget all of the small things in life....
In a petty society riddled with commercialism, people overlook the elements of this planet that weren't manufactured by some conglomerate for their "enjoyment".
You inspire me. I needed something a little different, perhaps not to believe in, but to help me answer some questions that plagued me for a while.
excellent.
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Well, I certainly wasn't joking... I only typically do that when I am actually within a ten foot radius of the person I am making fun of, as it makes the reaction a whole lot sweeter (or painful, so goes the life of a "comedian")
Really, the only questions I had regarded this strange mindset I live in, where I cannot understand the actions of the outside world, more or less the motives that people have for what they do. It was no great epiphany, mind you, but let me put it this way: I'm so far out the way out is in, so by reading the sign over the exit door, I realised just why people would enter it, not that that is any justified reason for me to enter the exit door, as that would be contradictory; I want to get even farther out from where I currently am. But in the long run it helps me understand he people around me and what drives them to keep on being the way they are. I believe there was something in the declaration of independence regarding the subject matter; utter balderdash if you ask me.
But now I do understand some part of what I live with, the world I live in, the people around me who just can't seem to calm down about certain things. There is a fine line between pettiness and sincere emotion. Somebody like me lives to question the validity of human emotion, but when one who does as I do cannot fathom the basic emotional drive, it is more than contradictory. Overall I am pleased to find something I can understand and relate to the more than drastic actions of a certain person I have come to know as "Queen Anne", although there is much work to be done in that area...
Please hold...
Cynic with low self-esteem? You've given me something to represent... Interesting...
Just remember, in regards to your signature, "sincere begins with sin"
Beluga
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holy crap! Your comment was so well-said and complimentary, the cynic with low self-esteem in me is tempted to ask if you were joking or not. I think I won't ask though, I will go ahead and believe it serious, and thank you very much. : ) I'm the kind of person who gets excited to buy a new toothbrush, so it makes sense that that would filter through in artistic endeavors.
Pray tell, what questions do you have?
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Well, I certainly wasn't joking... I only typically do that when I am actually within a ten foot radius of the person I am making fun of, as it makes the reaction a whole lot sweeter (or painful, so goes the life of a "comedian")
Really, the only questions I had regarded this strange mindset I live in, where I cannot understand the actions of the outside world, more or less the motives that people have for what they do. It was no great epiphany, mind you, but let me put it this way: I'm so far out the way out is in, so by reading the sign over the exit door, I realised just why people would enter it, not that that is any justified reason for me to enter the exit door, as that would be contradictory; I want to get even farther out from where I currently am. But in the long run it helps me understand he people around me and what drives them to keep on being the way they are. I believe there was something in the declaration of independence regarding the subject matter; utter balderdash if you ask me.
But now I do understand some part of what I live with, the world I live in, the people around me who just can't seem to calm down about certain things. There is a fine line between pettiness and sincere emotion. Somebody like me lives to question the validity of human emotion, but when one who does as I do cannot fathom the basic emotional drive, it is more than contradictory. Overall I am pleased to find something I can understand and relate to the more than drastic actions of a certain person I have come to know as "Queen Anne", although there is much work to be done in that area...
Please hold...
Cynic with low self-esteem? You've given me something to represent... Interesting...
Just remember, in regards to your signature, "sincere begins with sin"
Beluga
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okay, I picked the middle comment since there are three.
I feel pretty outside of things sometimes. When I'm talking to someone I don't know very well in person, and I make what sounds to me like a simple statement, they act all confused. It's like I don't know how to talk to people. A lot of the time I don't understand people's reasons/intentions. I don't try very hard to anymore. If they want to have some weird subtext to what they do or say, and I don't happen to catch it, I consider it their problem. They shouldn't dance around a subject and expect me to understand exactly what they mean. (it is very possible, by the way, that I don't understand what YOU meant.) What I'm getting at is, in some ways I am socially inept.
What is this about "Queen Anne"? I have been doing a lot of extra thinking lately, and have come to learn various things about the human way, including what I think is a rift that people create between brains and "heart." Lots of people say to follow your heart, and I happen to think that's not a good idea 99% of the time.
Yes, cynic with low self-esteem, but that, of course, isn't my entire character. I don't know what you mean by having something to represent, so I wonder if you'll try to explain it to me.
As far as my signature goes, live is also evil reversed, and believe contains the word "lie" in the dead center. These things, in my mind, don't nullify or change the meaning of anything.
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It is all in how you think of things, either that or it can be used as an excuse...
Unfortunately a rift cannot exist between nothing and an object that actually exists. Queen Anne is somebody who doesn't trust me because I have not given her any reason to trust me. I brought her up just for the purpose of being incoherent.
I meant something along the lines of, "I am so far wrapped up in what I am thinking about, whatever that is, that in order to stop analysing it, I would have to think about something else in order to come back to what somebody would call a normal thought process."
There is really no way to say it logically, at least not when I am saying it.
Good choice. You refuse to play games with me even though that is not what my intention was, I simply wound up confusing the both of us in doing whatever I was doing.
There really is no point to what I was explaining, it just happened to feel legitimate at the time, so a said it.
And I was not implying that you were a cynic with no self esteem, at least I did not mean to. I was simply saying that it is a human quality that I could represent in a character that I may or may not write about depending on what happens a la venir (ask Nostradamus)
All apologies out of the way I certainly hope I did not manage to insult you. Let me just say that I tend to think of everything in a way that makes almost no sense to anyone, not even myself, and that this way of thinking is not a medical diagnosis but a choice.
Whatever the case I seem to be abusing the first amendment. Please, forgive me, Mr. President...
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I wasn't insulted in the slightest. I have, in the past year, begun to exercise a policy of trying not to read into anything people say. Basically, one would have to slap me with a direct insult (or perhaps a trout) in order for me to be offended. It is making my life much easier. : )
You seem to enjoy not making sense, but that is fine with me. I think no one is ever completely understood anyway. But you'll have to forgive me if I have no idea how to respond to some of the things you say. Why would I choose to play games, and what would I play? I don't mess with people. (When I ask these questions, I'm not offended, just curious.)
Portraits of Nostradamus always freaked me out.
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If you ask me, the man was all about show; reading his predictions reflect that. He's too vague to call a liar... You can't go wrong when you're living in the middle ages and you speak in four line stanzas that are so loosely applied that they could be about anything theoretically. The portraits... Well, he had a damaged reputation with the church, and they don't remember those executed in the Spanish inquisition fondly...
Well, I was just wondering whether or not you had read my page; I like to play psychological games with people (usually the ones I can meet in real life), but that has been known to turn people away from me in the past.
You are more than wise not to read into what people say, especially on this website (the reasons are endless, therefore I will not list them). I will try to explain my philosophy somehow, but I think I need to figure out just what it is first. Not that I don't know, but there are so many holes in it that it is impossible to explain, so... I'll get back to you on that. There is no way I can explain what I intended to explain in the condition that the information is in, so... I'll need to repair some of the damages inflicted in the past week. Please hold... There will be more at a later time...
Moreover I was simply saying that there are too many people who feel too busy thinking about nothing, which they were told to do by some commercialist/pop-culture ploy, to notice the small things in life. I think that is the most relevant part of whatever I was trying to say...
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yeah, my mom had a book of nostradamus prophecies, and I didn't understand a single one. I recall hearing a lot about him around September 11, everyone was trying to find the answer and thought for some reason that the signs must have been there (mystically, not within the government, I mean). Some people seemed to think that Babylon falling in Revelations was supposed to be NYC. I know these things because I as raised a Christian, but I don't believe in god, and religion in general actually makes me quite unhappy...
Yes, I read your page, and was aware of the "games." I wasn't looking for a challenge or anything, I guess I was just curious about you.
Most of the time, my own philosophies are sort of hard for me to explain. Sometimes it doesn't even come out as sentences. I have a couple of friends who will sometimes say exactly what I feel, and probably better than I could have. It's a very good feeling, to believe you understand each other that much, even for a moment. No rush on the explaining. You can't really force those things.
I agree, about the small things. I think maybe a lot of people could stand to be a bit more... short-sighted? I mean, instead of thinking about webs of petty human drama, we could all stand to just enjoy a moment for what it is, the best we can. That's all life is to me, really. Knowing that I'll die someday makes everything special, and insignificant at the same time (here's where I sound a little less than sensical). For example, right now I am eating an avocado sandwich. I have to study and pack and think about moving and make various plans, but right now, I am as much about this sandwich as I could be without dating it. : )
I talk a lot when I get started, so... watch out.
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Well, I was simply worried that the "games" might disperse any interest. That sort of thing does not work for me unless I actually have [physical] contact with the subject I intend to test/disrupt. Even then, it rarely goes the way I plan it. This quality reflects the way nothing in life really ever works out quite the way a human mind envisions it, with the exception of art, literature, and music.
As I have said, listening to Nostradamus will prepare you for the future just as well as ingesting fiberglass insulation. It will make you either paranoid or intensely gullible until you reach an early grave.
The smaller aspects of this world make it somewhat more enjoyable, yet, when we overlook the major ordeals in our lives, then what happens? Sometimes Nostradamus' quatrains should be held in the back of one's mind, just in case they should evoke a feeling of Deja Vu. In not planning for the future by learning from the major events of our pasts, we cannot hope to be successful, or happy*.
Of course, as a true modernist would say, this world is constantly snatching away our happiness, ironically grabbing at it like a trapeze from the acrobat's hands. Existentialism has its applications, though...
But more to the point a big picture can be made of millions of tiny little dots, so if one is inclined to stare at just the little dots, with hope that they construct a smaller, better picture, then that is perfectly acceptable. Who would object to it again? That great watchmaker, the almighty observer? Herman Melville? Edgar Allen Poe?
Wait... Poe... He was simply too busy feeling sorry for himself to realise what he could have done. Still, he made his way into the memories of millions. Immortality in words is something all humans should seek, sooner or later... But I suppose genetic research and new pharmaceuticals will prevent that. They will most likely come up with a pill to help curb self-expression and individuality.
Really, I would like to see you get started. Just how much is there to know when one speaks to an avocado sandwich?
*I do not subscribe to this. This is an emotion, which I am not inclined to partake in unless I am able to portray it sincerely, which I may not be able to do for another 24 years. Instead, I will use this time to question its validity and purpose in light of the human race and what it has to do with anything at all. No Mixed Nuts.
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In one of my junior high english classes, our teacher told us that "I" was the word most commonly used in our language. I still remember that sometimes, and wonder if I am saying "I" too much. How is *your* Sunday?
I think that changing the bigger picture begins with changing the smaller one. We can't single-handedly save the world, but we can each contribute something, even if it just means living the best one can. That's been said many times in different ways, but I agree with it. I'm an idealist, so sue me. : )
As for learning from events in your life... I think there comes a time when one has learned enough from an experience, and it's time to let go, for the most part. That is, we shouldn't completely forget, but we should eventually move on and live.
I don't know that I'd have much to say *to* a sandwich, but I can talk *about* sandwiches. For example, the sandwich was created so that some dude who was the Earl of Sandwich could have a meal he could hold in one hand whilst playing cards with the other. The name avocado is supposedly derived from an Aztec word that meant "testicle." I like etymology a lot. The most amusing word origins, besides avocado, are probably porcelain and vanilla..
Immortality through words. Immortality is a funny thing. Sometimes I feel comforted knowing I will die, just like every other creature, and will likely be forgotten, just like every other creature. Sometimes I wish I (believed I) had the capacity to create something so impressive that it would live on after me. I think that's why people have kids, the desire to live on, somehow, and not be forgotten.
You're right, about the pharmaceuticals. They're scary things, all the mood-altering drugs. Maybe some people actually have a biological need for them, but they're definitely over-prescribed. They've been recommended to me on a number of occasions. I don't want numbness. I don't want chemical-induced complacency. I want to be alive.
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Maybe existence is a disease in itself. It wouldn't surprise me if it were. Existence could be some sort of divine accident...
"I, me, mine" -George Harrison was right again....
My Sunday was fine, lots of procrastination and lost time. Yours?
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Pretty much the same, actually. It wasn't great. I'm want to add you on here, if you don't mind.
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Well, I certainly wasn't joking... I only typically do that when I am actually within a ten foot radius of the person I am making fun of, as it makes the reaction a whole lot sweeter (or painful, so goes the life of a "comedian")
Really, the only questions I had regarded this strange mindset I live in, where I cannot understand the actions of the outside world, more or less the motives that people have for what they do. It was no great epiphany, mind you, but let me put it this way: I'm so far out the way out is in, so by reading the sign over the exit door, I realised just why people would enter it, not that that is any justified reason for me to enter the exit door, as that would be contradictory; I want to get even farther out from where I currently am. But in the long run it helps me understand he people around me and what drives them to keep on being the way they are. I believe there was something in the declaration of independence regarding the subject matter; utter balderdash if you ask me.
But now I do understand some part of what I live with, the world I live in, the people around me who just can't seem to calm down about certain things. There is a fine line between pettiness and sincere emotion. Somebody like me lives to question the validity of human emotion, but when one who does as I do cannot fathom the basic emotional drive, it is more than contradictory. Overall I am pleased to find something I can understand and relate to the more than drastic actions of a certain person I have come to know as "Queen Anne", although there is much work to be done in that area...
Please hold...
Cynic with low self-esteem? You've given me something to represent... Interesting...
Just remember, in regards to your signature, "sincere begins with sin"
Beluga
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they look like little worlds 
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oh yeah. Plus, you totally nailed the whole reason why I take pictures. I just want people to look closer at things they might not normally notice and which I find beautiful or impressive.
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right on. when I was little, I'd stare at ice cubes in drinks and pretend each one was its own planet. : )
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Another wonderful shot 
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