December 2011
20 posts
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A dream, a memory, a definition
Tonight, shadows crawl over silence, memories stir from gray walls, and, in exhaustion, I submit— as you calmly take out my eyes.
My vision reduces to doubt deposits, while you diffuse like steam on glass, a hazy peripheral blur, hollowed out, the shell left behind by a bullet.
Remembering a broken light switch flipped, Textures on walls groped for an exit, a door knob that wouldn’t turn....
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Imagination
The trance-state of pure imagination is like no other visionary experience. It is not a retreat from the raw exposure of the senses (as are many trance-states) but an immersion in a multitude of new movements. Things move. It is an ultimate pragmatism in the midst of Infinity, a demanding consciousness where you come at last into the unbroken awareness that the universe moves of itself. That it...
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No intellect is required to see those figures who wait for us beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them., blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authorities older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the...
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My Human Condition
To a damaged soul like myself, one of the scariest things to admit is that somewhere, someone might feel like you. We cling onto our individuality in a kind of morbid desperation. Somehow, the idea that we are alone in our suffering gives us a kind of twisted moral victory; “Well, you haven’t been what I’ve been through!” I will never forget the moment of chilling realisation during the insomnia...
fitbefore22 asked: I'm glad you also agree with how absolutely ridiculous that man is
The Letter of the Law
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As a Scientist
I am a young man. A student. Someone who struggles through the concepts of their degree; chemistry. I am taught the answers to questions that I hadn’t even thought of. We use maths, logic, reason, all the tools of the educated minority. But I am worried that we, scientists, as a collective seem to be unable to turn those abilities on the social impacts of our work. I do not mean military...
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We don’t know what people are like, we can never tell. There isn’t any truth about human beings; no formula which fits each one of us. And there are some of us, aren’t there, who are… nothing. Who are so labile that we astound ourselves. We are the chameleons. I read a story once about a poet who bathed himself in cold fountains so that he could tell that he actually existed from the pain of it....
Music
For me, music is irrevocably linked to emotion. This is nothing unique. Almost everyone will have their favourite band; album; song. Somewhere in the vast collection of sound there will be something that speaks to you. Music unites us; divides us; sometimes defines us. Music shows us the non-logic that is the core of the human psyche; that which cannot be defined defies logic. Music is music. It...
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Anonymous asked: My boyfriend is often depressed and I don't really understand what it's like or how to help him. Talking about it is tough. He often doesn't want to. You just seem like someone who could give me an insight.