Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
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wolven7VNV Nation - [Epicentre]--- So, this song has ben having a really weird impact, on me, recently. With all the people who think i need help, or support, or to be anything Other than what i Deem myself worthy of being:
{I can say that you're losing me
but I must be that which I am
Though I know where this could take me
No tears
No sympathy
Gracefully
Respectfully
Facing conflict deep inside myself
But here confined
Losing control of what I could not change
Gracefully
Respectfully
I ask you "please don't worry"
not for me
Don't turn your back
Don't turn away}
VNV Nation - [Standing (Motion)]--- And that pretty much sums that up.. I've got people going Cold, all around me, and i can't say that i Disapprove. I contemplate it, often, yes, but there is always that one part of me which still seems to Care, no matter what i do. Because i do, probably. I've been raised-- and my mother seems to forget this, all the time-- to care about others, as i care about myself. So, as long as i care about myself, there is that schism of Learning that has me to care about others. And i haven't bothered to Unlearn it, yet. Why? Well, if you ask that, your informational catalogues are not complete, or you still care. Either way, here's the answer: Because I Like caring.
I like helping others, and those who cannot help themselves, or trying to, with those will not. (VNV Nation - [Honour]). Because i don't want to see the failure... the failure that an unintentional destruction/rebirth would mean. Because, in that, more than, the same as, different from Everything else, intent is Key. What you're Trying to do is so very, very important. And if you-- we-- don't know what the fuck we're trying to do, then we've failed, and it starts over. We gave ourselves a timed test, at the beginning, when we created ourselves, and everything else, and it all created us. We timed it, by setting both Entropy and Nuclear Fusion in place, and they are there for us to Use, damn it. They aren't there to Simply Destroy us. We set the decay of all systems, and the destruction, so t hat, eventually, we'll know what the fuck we're doing, and we'll know how to use them, to our advantage.
But do we know, yet? Do we remember the secrets of our destruction and creation? No. We, as a whole, are, perhaps, exactly where we're supposed to be, when we could be a little further, and that would be exactly right, too. But we aren't on any of the other right paths (i.e., all of them), we're on this one, and in this one, i'm talking to you about the nature of your imminent destruction of yourselves. In the Bad way. (VNV Nation - [Honour (Juno Reactor Mix)]). I don't want to tell you the details of what you have to be, or do, or anything like that. I want you to hold the hates, and fears that you have, and etc, for as long as you want. But i do want you to understand both Why you have them, and What you hate and fear. Understand Everything, actually. Take it all in and learn it, from all possible angles, until you either can't take anymore, or there is nothing more, there, for you to take, except the angle of Self. That's the hardest one to see... But no... I don't want you to be anything, or do anything more than Understand. Understand, know, and grow, fully. Whatever you cause to be done to yourselves, after that, is completely up to you.
VNV Nation - [Beloved (Live)]--- I don't long for days when you were anything but Whole. Your choices and preferences can be transcended and recaptured. But you're all Afraid. Read "Midnight Nation," by J. Michael Straczynski. He's never named, as such. And choices... "Better the devil you know..."? No... Get the fuck over the next rise.
I'm gone.
{I can say that you're losing me
but I must be that which I am
Though I know where this could take me
No tears
No sympathy
Gracefully
Respectfully
Facing conflict deep inside myself
But here confined
Losing control of what I could not change
Gracefully
Respectfully
I ask you "please don't worry"
not for me
Don't turn your back
Don't turn away}
VNV Nation - [Standing (Motion)]--- And that pretty much sums that up.. I've got people going Cold, all around me, and i can't say that i Disapprove. I contemplate it, often, yes, but there is always that one part of me which still seems to Care, no matter what i do. Because i do, probably. I've been raised-- and my mother seems to forget this, all the time-- to care about others, as i care about myself. So, as long as i care about myself, there is that schism of Learning that has me to care about others. And i haven't bothered to Unlearn it, yet. Why? Well, if you ask that, your informational catalogues are not complete, or you still care. Either way, here's the answer: Because I Like caring.
I like helping others, and those who cannot help themselves, or trying to, with those will not. (VNV Nation - [Honour]). Because i don't want to see the failure... the failure that an unintentional destruction/rebirth would mean. Because, in that, more than, the same as, different from Everything else, intent is Key. What you're Trying to do is so very, very important. And if you-- we-- don't know what the fuck we're trying to do, then we've failed, and it starts over. We gave ourselves a timed test, at the beginning, when we created ourselves, and everything else, and it all created us. We timed it, by setting both Entropy and Nuclear Fusion in place, and they are there for us to Use, damn it. They aren't there to Simply Destroy us. We set the decay of all systems, and the destruction, so t hat, eventually, we'll know what the fuck we're doing, and we'll know how to use them, to our advantage.
But do we know, yet? Do we remember the secrets of our destruction and creation? No. We, as a whole, are, perhaps, exactly where we're supposed to be, when we could be a little further, and that would be exactly right, too. But we aren't on any of the other right paths (i.e., all of them), we're on this one, and in this one, i'm talking to you about the nature of your imminent destruction of yourselves. In the Bad way. (VNV Nation - [Honour (Juno Reactor Mix)]). I don't want to tell you the details of what you have to be, or do, or anything like that. I want you to hold the hates, and fears that you have, and etc, for as long as you want. But i do want you to understand both Why you have them, and What you hate and fear. Understand Everything, actually. Take it all in and learn it, from all possible angles, until you either can't take anymore, or there is nothing more, there, for you to take, except the angle of Self. That's the hardest one to see... But no... I don't want you to be anything, or do anything more than Understand. Understand, know, and grow, fully. Whatever you cause to be done to yourselves, after that, is completely up to you.
VNV Nation - [Beloved (Live)]--- I don't long for days when you were anything but Whole. Your choices and preferences can be transcended and recaptured. But you're all Afraid. Read "Midnight Nation," by J. Michael Straczynski. He's never named, as such. And choices... "Better the devil you know..."? No... Get the fuck over the next rise.
I'm gone.
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Date: 2003-01-27 06:43 am (UTC)--JMDC
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Date: 2003-01-27 07:37 am (UTC)As Maynard said: "Learn to Swim."
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
It'll be good for you.
-Patrick
Damn...
Date: 2003-01-27 08:22 am (UTC)But it depresses me greatly when I see people who've unlearned caring, that the world has gotten to them so deeply that they have shut this off in self-defense. They claim it's temorary, but that's bullshit. The walls grow thicker as you get more suspicious and hold people at further and further lengths, until you're in your own little annexed country and have nothing but acquaintances to rely on.
Mrr...Weird little tangent, sorry.
-Mech
Something I forgot to mention today
Date: 2003-01-27 10:05 pm (UTC)My muses want to kill you. ALL of them.
The fic in previous question is up on nightmare.strixus.net, and is finished. I doubt you have stomach to read all the way through it, but you might enjoy the first half. The fic took on an entirely differnt direction than I expected it to, let alone even expected to go into, All with the introduction of the David Bowie element.
Quatre muse: ITS YOUR FAULT IM WEARING A DRESS AND HOSE. YOURS. *SOBS*
Just ignore him, hes distraught. At least it wasnt wool.
Re: Something I forgot to mention today
Date: 2003-01-28 07:49 am (UTC)