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wolven7The Dresden Dolls - The Time Has Come--- There are a lot of things going on, around all of us, wouldn't you agree? Things that seem... Mundane, or out of the ordinary, or coincidental, or whatever. But things. They are certainly that. Sometimes we don't even notice these things, and we keep poking about, doop-dee-doo, head in the sky, eyes supposedly open, and missing it all. We have our input thresholds. I like to watch them flux. They'll grow or shrink, and we'll [want to] see more, or less, and ascribe greater or smaller significance to world events, and their conjunctions with our lives, and that's cool.
The Dresden Dolls - Thirty Whacks--- It's frustrating as shit, though, to watch people i know want to stick their heads in the sand. Doesn't make me love or respect them, any less... Except that, over time, it does. When people don't want to know, when they blind themselves, willingly, to the things that, ultimately, they will need to know, to make it through the Brave New World™, it disappoints. I've figured this out, just now, actually...
I never used to have a real answer when people would ask me why they should deal with things, think about things, when it seemed so much easier to simply ignore them, and let them go. Well here's the answer: Remember the test, with the marshmallows, seeing which of the children would understand delayed gratification? (The Dresden Dolls - Missed Me). There is the choice of one marshmallow, now, or a guaranteed three marshmallows, five minutes from now, if you wait. The children who waited got their three, and were more satisfied. Those who didn't wait, were upset, when the others got three, to their one. This is what we call an analogy; wait for the pay off.
When you agree to stop paying attention, now, to the things around you, the settings and set-ups, the coincidences, and events, of life and the universe, you are silently agreeing to not get your three marshmallows, later-- You refuse to notice now, so, when the evidential inevitability comes around, when you're forced to notice (because it'll be like perceptions of gravity, at that point), it'll be a lot harder, on you. (The Dresden Dolls - Truce). You chose the instant gratification, of not having to think about it, over being prepared, and getting ready for the future situations where, yeah, the marshmallows might be burnt, but ther are still three of them.
Maybe that's confusing. Here's something simple. If you hide now, when whatever happens later happens, you'll be Fucked. There are a lot of people working on a lot of things, to change the fucking nature of the reality in which we exist. I'm one of them, if you haven't gathered. I'm trying to change the perceptions and ideas of the physical reality of which we are aware, and i have been doing so, since i was eight, at the very least. This is something that has been my truth, for a while, and it's not like there isn't Evidence for the truth of it. Read some damned Crowley, and then some Quantum Mechanics. Or the other way around, if it so pleases you.
I've stated, before, that when you talk to people about "Magic," they roll their eyes, and dismiss you as mad. But when you talk to them about psychology, sciences of perception, probability, and the manipulation of matter and energy as synonymous entities, they perk up, a bit. They'll still think of it as fringe science, but that's usually because you haven't hit the keystone on which their perceptions rest. Talk about one of their Viewpoint Seats, and they'll begin to listen. They'll hear you, a bit more, when you speak their language. And as you slowly integrate it, together, they begin to hear it all, and, because of that, they try to shut you out, cling to the "rational," but you can't let them. (The Dresden Dolls - Will). You have to reel them back in, with understandings of their ideals. Know how to make it all matter to them (if this matters to you, at all), and you'll be able to pave a way.
You're not meant to agree with me, here. You're not meant to accept it all, either. All i want is for you to understand. Everything. And to do what you will with that understanding. Open as many boxes as you can, and become them, what they contain, and what contains them, while retaining your individuality. That's tonight's assignment.
That's all.
The Dresden Dolls - Thirty Whacks--- It's frustrating as shit, though, to watch people i know want to stick their heads in the sand. Doesn't make me love or respect them, any less... Except that, over time, it does. When people don't want to know, when they blind themselves, willingly, to the things that, ultimately, they will need to know, to make it through the Brave New World™, it disappoints. I've figured this out, just now, actually...
I never used to have a real answer when people would ask me why they should deal with things, think about things, when it seemed so much easier to simply ignore them, and let them go. Well here's the answer: Remember the test, with the marshmallows, seeing which of the children would understand delayed gratification? (The Dresden Dolls - Missed Me). There is the choice of one marshmallow, now, or a guaranteed three marshmallows, five minutes from now, if you wait. The children who waited got their three, and were more satisfied. Those who didn't wait, were upset, when the others got three, to their one. This is what we call an analogy; wait for the pay off.
When you agree to stop paying attention, now, to the things around you, the settings and set-ups, the coincidences, and events, of life and the universe, you are silently agreeing to not get your three marshmallows, later-- You refuse to notice now, so, when the evidential inevitability comes around, when you're forced to notice (because it'll be like perceptions of gravity, at that point), it'll be a lot harder, on you. (The Dresden Dolls - Truce). You chose the instant gratification, of not having to think about it, over being prepared, and getting ready for the future situations where, yeah, the marshmallows might be burnt, but ther are still three of them.
Maybe that's confusing. Here's something simple. If you hide now, when whatever happens later happens, you'll be Fucked. There are a lot of people working on a lot of things, to change the fucking nature of the reality in which we exist. I'm one of them, if you haven't gathered. I'm trying to change the perceptions and ideas of the physical reality of which we are aware, and i have been doing so, since i was eight, at the very least. This is something that has been my truth, for a while, and it's not like there isn't Evidence for the truth of it. Read some damned Crowley, and then some Quantum Mechanics. Or the other way around, if it so pleases you.
I've stated, before, that when you talk to people about "Magic," they roll their eyes, and dismiss you as mad. But when you talk to them about psychology, sciences of perception, probability, and the manipulation of matter and energy as synonymous entities, they perk up, a bit. They'll still think of it as fringe science, but that's usually because you haven't hit the keystone on which their perceptions rest. Talk about one of their Viewpoint Seats, and they'll begin to listen. They'll hear you, a bit more, when you speak their language. And as you slowly integrate it, together, they begin to hear it all, and, because of that, they try to shut you out, cling to the "rational," but you can't let them. (The Dresden Dolls - Will). You have to reel them back in, with understandings of their ideals. Know how to make it all matter to them (if this matters to you, at all), and you'll be able to pave a way.
You're not meant to agree with me, here. You're not meant to accept it all, either. All i want is for you to understand. Everything. And to do what you will with that understanding. Open as many boxes as you can, and become them, what they contain, and what contains them, while retaining your individuality. That's tonight's assignment.
That's all.
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Date: 2004-10-19 09:05 pm (UTC)And cue the obligatory "Any sufficently advanced techology is indistingusiable from magic" quote.
People who ostric are like those self same birds (though ostriches dont actually do that), and are just as vulnerable, with their asses in the air and heads in the ground.
*pitches the 26 digited cat onto their raised butts* That will teach them.
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Kitties teach us so many things. ^_^
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Date: 2004-10-19 09:13 pm (UTC)Hence, lemmings jump.
Whow knows where the ostrich thing came from.
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Date: 2004-10-19 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
I'm around.
Re: wotta band.
Re: wotta band.
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Date: 2004-10-19 10:07 pm (UTC)here's something from Dave Sim that I read recently (like yesterday I think) that says something similar (surprise, surprise):
"The thought processes—whether I was thinking about the book or just thinking—were always the top priority and the unchanging reality of my life. Start with a supposition and see how far it was from a possibility, what might be in the way of it becoming a likelihood, check the math as I go along and if I get somewhere then double back and see if I can explain it all to myself without fudging anything. One of my favourite phrases when it came time for me to explain to people why it was that I was alone all the time was, “My mind is a playground.”
And it really is. That’s not hyperbole. My mind is like Disneyland for me.
I just learned eventually to stop pretending that it wasn’t or pretending that I shared everyone else’s priorities. I realize that for most people their mind isn’t a playground. It’s a torture chamber which I figure is why so many people are afraid to be alone. If they’re alone they’re locked up in the torture chamber. If they’re with someone else they’re not.
So picture my mind being a playground and then for twenty-two years I let my dick make my decisions for me and then I decided to go back to the playground. And I’ve been there ever since. The End."
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In "I Heart Huckabee's," one of the main characters gets to a point where he has to understand a seminal question, that he originally asks in passing: "How am I not Myself?"
Because life makes a Lot more sense, when you just take the integrity and run with it.
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Date: 2004-10-19 10:18 pm (UTC)I'm definitely one of these head-in-the-sand people and have been for a looong time, mostly because I flat out hate making decisions. It all becomes too big, too heavy and i just want to sleeeeep it away.
But, experience has taught me the truth behind your words and it's funny that you should post this today/night because i've been thinking the last couple of weeks that i have to take control of my destiny and actively make myself a person as opposed to a spectator.
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I don't want to make you understand; i want to make you Want to understand, and to find your own understanding. And to help with that, if I can. I see a difference, there... And if i can help, just let me know.
Good luck, becoming the person you really are.
Gary Numan vs. Rico-Crazier
Date: 2004-10-20 07:57 pm (UTC)But that could be applied to many things. You ignore any developing change, it's going to bite you in the ass later. But I can also understand the wait. Things come when and how they're meant to, and no amount of planning or preparation is ever enough; it's all still guesswork.
Fuck. The fabric of things is fucking with me again, and I really just want to burn it all down, anyway. So change doesn't fucking matter, cause it will all burn.
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