April 2006
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In The Last Five Years
When did you give up and decide you had enough? In the last five years of your life what have you done?1 This is the question that comes to mind everyday about so many people I meet. Perhaps the feeling of worry about the aimlessness of so many lives is so strong because there was [...]
Proven False
The idea of someone else ever knowing me like you do disgusts me. Of all the beautiful words ever said to me that were later proven false, the most painful are those words — because I would still assume words like those spoken to me now to be sincere. Why? (Fortasse requiris.) Because when one [...]
Sorrow Is Knowledge
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.1 Every year that passes makes me view Lord Byron more positively. I still cannot evade the sense that he was an untrustworthy man, but he was a brilliant writer. Lord Byron↩
Seeing Through
Those who do not frequently see through things have never seen at all.
Do You Really Believe?
Do you really believe or is it just what you have been told?1 The intention behind these words I share, but in practice those who have merely been told what to believe are the very people who believe the most. The problem is not the source of one’s beliefs, but belief itself. Of course, in [...]
Love And Weapons
Love and weapons kill much the same way.1 True, though it depends on what stage of love and which weapon you’re comparing. Falling in love is rather like a shotgun blast to the skull: quick, complete and irreversible. Falling out of love is, in contrast, like being stabbed in the stomach and left to die [...]
Snowfall
By itself, one day spent watching snow fall makes life worth living. The snow supercedes everything: the soul-killing busy work of modern business, the vain, continual searching for new and exotic pleasures; the thousands heartaches that flesh is heir to. All one needs is white flakes swirling, falling and rising against the background of green [...]
A Final Solution
Everything about the words “final solution” is evil.