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wolven7The Rentals - [Friends of P.]--- Have you ever thought about what it all means? Really? Like, dissected the ideas of religions, and psychology, and philosophy, and social sciences, to understand what they really have to say about anything at all? When it comes down to it, they describe modes and, of course, points of view. But it's the modes that have my attention, right now. God, the Devil, Loki, Thor, Odin... Good, Evil, Chaos, Power, Wisdom. To name a few, the gods and culture heroes are modalities of power, and, whether they be real, or "merely" allegorical, they have important things to say about the universe.
The Dresden Dolls - [Backstabber (Live)]--- Either way it goes, we live in a universe influenced by the thoughts we have, about these things, and so on, ad nauseum, Meaning, they influence, and our thoughts influence, and they influence other thoughts, &c. It's like a circle that gets bigger, every time we go around. Or a spiral. Anyway, that these things exist-- in our minds, or existent, in the world-- means that they have value and worth. The very ideas of them tech us something about the worth of what they portray. Their beings are modes of life, which qualities are important to display, from time to time, in order that we not forget their importance, and the nature of our preferential choices.
Now, nothing says that we have to apprehend these, the same way, or display the qualities, in the same way, only that they are there, and important. They are a part of the universal milieu, and, as such, have worth, however you want to define it. That worth is what will determine the context in which you display the modes, and the understanding you have, of them. (Rush - [Freewill]). Whether you put on a set of parti coloured feathers, and dance around a bonefire, on a cliff-edge, or collect the fallen feathers of ravens, from your 10th birthday, to your 14th, that you may leap, and fly, as your manhood rite, or if you tempt, cajole, kid, trick, whatever... You display it. You do it so you remember, and so you learn.
You may not put the words around it, and you, yourself, may not think you know why you do it. But you, better than anyone, do know why. It's in you, some how. In some form or anther, every mode is in you, and deserves to be, at the very least, acknowledged, if not chosen. Recognise it, for what it is-- what You are-- and fucking live it, with an open mind, if only once. Because, your preferences mean nothing, if they are not balanced against everything else.
You choose, in this life, and you stick with those choices, until you choose something else. Every instant, you re-choose to live, again, to breathe, have fun, enjoy life, hate everyone, dig deeper. (Poe - [I Cain't Say No]). Yes, i'm saying that you have no one to blame but yourself. Because you are everything. Your apprehension, acceptance, preference (yeah, i really am fond of that word), and learning curve determine what you will know, when you will know it, and what it will mean to you, when you do. Everything else is set dressing.
No, everything is not determined. Determination and Choice. All senses of that, and fuck you if you don't think you can do it. You breathe, don't you? You wake up every morning, and breathe to continue living, continue walking, working, finding. No, everything is not "That Simple." It's difficult, arduous, painful, and very complicated to figure out what you are and what you want, and determine what you want to be. (Strictly Ballroom - [Brazil Samba]). Co-incidents and things in life are springboards from which to make choices. And no, i'm not saying you should choose to be happy hippy love and light, all the fucking time, because that's bullshit myopia. But i Am saying that your life can be more balanced, more true, more Yours, if you want it to be.
Feel free to disagree with me. I haven't had an argument about perception shaping reality, in far too long.
This is me giving you a hug, while i'm giving you the finger. Not different acts, or contradictory: Complimentary.
The Dresden Dolls - [Backstabber (Live)]--- Either way it goes, we live in a universe influenced by the thoughts we have, about these things, and so on, ad nauseum, Meaning, they influence, and our thoughts influence, and they influence other thoughts, &c. It's like a circle that gets bigger, every time we go around. Or a spiral. Anyway, that these things exist-- in our minds, or existent, in the world-- means that they have value and worth. The very ideas of them tech us something about the worth of what they portray. Their beings are modes of life, which qualities are important to display, from time to time, in order that we not forget their importance, and the nature of our preferential choices.
Now, nothing says that we have to apprehend these, the same way, or display the qualities, in the same way, only that they are there, and important. They are a part of the universal milieu, and, as such, have worth, however you want to define it. That worth is what will determine the context in which you display the modes, and the understanding you have, of them. (Rush - [Freewill]). Whether you put on a set of parti coloured feathers, and dance around a bonefire, on a cliff-edge, or collect the fallen feathers of ravens, from your 10th birthday, to your 14th, that you may leap, and fly, as your manhood rite, or if you tempt, cajole, kid, trick, whatever... You display it. You do it so you remember, and so you learn.
You may not put the words around it, and you, yourself, may not think you know why you do it. But you, better than anyone, do know why. It's in you, some how. In some form or anther, every mode is in you, and deserves to be, at the very least, acknowledged, if not chosen. Recognise it, for what it is-- what You are-- and fucking live it, with an open mind, if only once. Because, your preferences mean nothing, if they are not balanced against everything else.
You choose, in this life, and you stick with those choices, until you choose something else. Every instant, you re-choose to live, again, to breathe, have fun, enjoy life, hate everyone, dig deeper. (Poe - [I Cain't Say No]). Yes, i'm saying that you have no one to blame but yourself. Because you are everything. Your apprehension, acceptance, preference (yeah, i really am fond of that word), and learning curve determine what you will know, when you will know it, and what it will mean to you, when you do. Everything else is set dressing.
No, everything is not determined. Determination and Choice. All senses of that, and fuck you if you don't think you can do it. You breathe, don't you? You wake up every morning, and breathe to continue living, continue walking, working, finding. No, everything is not "That Simple." It's difficult, arduous, painful, and very complicated to figure out what you are and what you want, and determine what you want to be. (Strictly Ballroom - [Brazil Samba]). Co-incidents and things in life are springboards from which to make choices. And no, i'm not saying you should choose to be happy hippy love and light, all the fucking time, because that's bullshit myopia. But i Am saying that your life can be more balanced, more true, more Yours, if you want it to be.
Feel free to disagree with me. I haven't had an argument about perception shaping reality, in far too long.
This is me giving you a hug, while i'm giving you the finger. Not different acts, or contradictory: Complimentary.
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Date: 2005-02-01 04:59 am (UTC)You choose, but the world also chooses you. It's the fringes and the thresholds and the interaction, just as much if not more, than the preference and the choice. Like a painting isn't just about this colour, or that colour, or both colours, but the boundaries and what is done with them as well.
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Damn you, Coltrane, you mad prophet, you....
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Date: 2005-02-01 06:21 am (UTC)hahahaahahahahaha
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