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2004 21 April :: 5.03pm
:: Mood: confused
:: Music: Rejected, Rancid
I don't know anymore
My lif eis moving in a different direction lately. It's different then even a year ago, or half a year ago ... in fact everything started to change the day of my first post. That's when everything started to get ... better is that the word for it? Actually I guess it all started one day when I was in a good mood about a year ago, but nothing changed for about a year ... now everythings actually moving. I'm no longer stagnent and alone, rotting with my thoughts and slowly killing myself off mentally. I look different, I feel different, I think different. EVerything's hhappened so fast, people taking an interest, no longer alienating me ... everything's just moving really ... blah.
It's all just confusing that my life is changing and maybe I can't keep up with it ... by summer I think life will be a completely different place for me than it was at New Years .... we'll see I guess, we'll see, it's all in the future and the future holds news for me, so onward ho into the great abyss.
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2004 18 April :: 6.39pm
:: Mood: depressed/sick/ughsplatz/tired
:: Music: Low Man's Lyric, Metallica
God I must not look real good right now
I'm sick
I'm twitching like mad
I'm depressed ... very depressed
I'm tired, just worn out
I feel like I'm gonna vomit
My hair's a mess, all in my eyes and I look really green
Not to mention I never look good to start with
I'm gonna guess that right now I look, feel and sound like a depressed and drunk hobo
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2004 18 April :: 9.27am
:: Mood: uncomfortable
:: Music: Welcome To The Jungle/ Guns N' Roses
My head feels like the inside has been turned to jelly which is sloshing around my skull and had a nail driven through it which is chipping away at the front
I really hate myself right now
I really really hate myself right now
I feel like shit
I really want last night to ... have gone bette ... and for me to have done better
I could have helped better .... but I had to go and be a jackass
I really feel like shit
I really really feel like shit
And I hate myself right now
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2004 18 April :: 12.27am
:: Mood: distressed
:: Music: Where It's At, Beck
I need to meditate
I need some tea
I need to burn some incense
I need sleep
I'm tired and hurt and ... goddamn
I ffel like shit and I'm sorry for everything I had to do
But I'm background, a cameo, I did what I had to, right?
I tried my best to do what I though I could
And now I feel hated, I feel like shit and I need a drink, something stronger than tea would be nice ...
I'm so sorry
I'm so very sorry and I cannot stress that enough
But I don't always have answers
I can't always help ... sometime we help ourselves ... and I hate myself for saying that just now
I really need a drink, really badly
I'm not made of stone ... I'm not made of stone
And I'm sorry and I feel like shit ... I'm not made of stone
I'm not made of stone, right now I'm made of crap
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2004 15 April :: 9.32pm
:: Mood: blank
:: Music: none
I found this on Mandy's journal
Sounded kinda interesting
NO! Stupid American Idol. That show is for retards. They took over my Tru Calling..nooo..anywho..
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions. Anything you want. Then go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything
so go ahead, take a shot
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2004 14 April :: 5.07pm
:: Mood: depressed
:: Music: Lake of Fire from Comin' Down, Meat Puppets
Another Day
I always get back from school feeling like crap
I go there and I'm ... just background
I'm isolated, very few people even care what happens to me
I am abshed and insulted and riddiclued and insulted in many forms. Called a fag, steryotyped as a goth, persecuted for religious beliefs, just plain hated, called a moron, or just hated because I'm quiet and alienated
It's all their fault ... they're the ones who turned me away ... they're the people who never really accepted me and now they constantly grow more hatred for me because of my furthering alienation
In short, most poeple have forced me into being alone, in hiding, into being a shut in, and every day they all hate me a little more for being alone, then the just feel the need to hate me, fear me ....
It's a vicious cycle and I don't really see where it started, how it works or how it will end ... but it's there
Thing is that I don't care what they think, it's just that all my life I've been in the firing line of hate and alienation and so I've been taught that I am what they say I am
I have come to believe everything they say about me ... I hate that I hate myself for no better reason than that everyone else seems to have a problem with who I am
All I want is not to feel that, and for them to jsut leave me be ... not to come home all alone with a throbing headache form six and a half hours of hell ... to just be able to sit down and think "wow, that was a decent day"
it's to much for me to ask I know, if I cannot help myself how can anyone help me?
to those who care, Tori, Kalie, Cyler ... thank you ... thank you so very much
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2004 11 April :: 6.20pm
:: Mood: weird
:: Music: nothing but the silent hum of the computer and a cricket chirping in the reverberating halls of the
words
I haven't been able to find the words for what's been going on lately
So ... how'd this happen? Everyine found my comment through two anonymous comments and that's fine ... just I don't know
So here I am ... gettin ready to go back to school and to face all that
So many things have managed to change through this vacation ... and there are so many things I need to say
I want to help them both out, ... I mean, my life is better than it usually is ... but I'm not happy
Because they're not happy ... I'll be happy once they're all happy
All I want to do is help them, they've all helped me so much, all I can do is repay the favor and always be there
I smell like wood smoke ... I need to shave .... and I have some work to do, I should do that before tomarrow
I haven't been able to find the words to explaine what's in my head and I still can't ... now on into the tomarrow
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2004 8 April :: 8.32am
:: Mood: hungry
:: Music: You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory, Guns N' Roses
my break
has consisted of taking care of Eric's house
sitting downstairs and reading, writing and watching the occasional movie
And oh yeah lots of music
I haven't shaved in a week
And I haven't see any of my friends in about a week
And I've barely spoken a word in the past five days
And all there is to eat in this house is .... canned chili, canned clam chowder (two cans of each) and top ramen (about five packs)
I can either make that last for a few more days
Or I can burn myslef by going out into the sun (hisses)
I think I'll make it last
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2004 7 April :: 8.49pm
:: Mood: Really Feeling Something I Can't Place
:: Music: Disarm
You Make Me Feel
You ... I owe it all to you
You bring me the closest to tears I have ever been
You make me want to feel
You make me want to help
You make me want to do everything
You have done so much for me
And I hope I can return the favor
I'm almost crying right now ... I'm not but I'm pretty damn near
God ... you're there
You're strong
You're great
I don't wanna see you fall
I don't wanna see you in pain
I just wanna see you happy
How do you have such an effect on us all?
It's because you're you
Some feel this way and some feel that way but I know that I for one and many others want to help you, we never want to see you hurt and we would gladly die for you
Just remember that we are always here
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2004 7 April :: 5.34pm
:: Mood: sick
:: Music: Disarm, The Smashing Pumpkins
Another Day
It seems like on vacation I;m either sick or working
That's one reason I don't like em
I hate the isolation too but that's not a far stretch from my normal life anyway
Only really good part is the extra sleep
That's the only reason my eyes aren't bloodshot all year round
I need to relax, kinda hard when I'm sick, but I mean I wrote a novella in three days ... and when I finally get to relax ... I get sick
Maybe I'll call someone up and take some more of Eric's music
I got myself an Irish Gaelic to English and visa versa program ... to work on the novella
problem is it's hard to translate since I don't know the grammatical structure of the language (position of words in sentence ect.) I'll need to study that
what I do know is that they have no past tense or halping verbs
maith slán mo aos
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2004 6 April :: 9.02pm
:: Mood: blah
:: Music: Breathe, Nickelback
Long Day
So I'm a gimp right these past few days
I hurt my foot and I've been limping everywhere and I need to do something about that, but that's of no importance, just had it on my mind
Pulled off six hours of work and two hours of appointments today, boring as hell, and yet I manage to write a couple thousand words (one novella in two days, that's good) in Truths
What is it about vacation that makes me want to be productive?
hypocricy I guess
I have no work to do tomarrow, nor any engagements, maybe I'll call someone, they might be lonely
I'm just spewing out every word in my head because I'm bored as hell and I need something to do
On a more serious note
God I wish there was something I could do
I wish I could help but how can I when I can't help myself
He thinks I can, but I'm blind and yet I can help him
oh well, we'll see where life takes me eh?
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2004 6 April :: 10.59am
:: Mood: crappy
:: Music: Another Night, Rancid
who isn't scared
I know no one reads any of this
That this is all just for me to channel and remember
But if you're out there please leave your comment
Only if that is you can help me
You see I am wondering if there's anyone out there who's not afraid ... who doesn't fear change, loss, falling deeper in, the darkness in their mind
Who out there isn't afraid?
I'd like to meet the person who isn't afraid, doesn't fear a lost cause, doesn't fear fear itself and just doesn't bend
A person of stone, I'd like to meet them, but they don't exist
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2004 5 April :: 7.46pm
:: Mood: accomplished
:: Music: shame, The Smashing Pumpkins
Just Looked It Up
here's the info
Novel: Generally any work of prose fiction over 45,000 words, ranging to about 150,000 words.
Novella/Novelette: Short novel averaging 7,000 - 40,000 words. These terms are often used somewhat interchangeably, although novellas tend to be longer, and novelettes shorter.
Short Story: Prose fiction of about 2,000 - 7,500 words.
Short Short: Prose fiction under 2,000 words.
Flash Fiction: (also known as sudden fiction or micro fiction) Prose fiction under 1000, 500, or even 99 words, depending on the market or guidelines.
so I am pleased to say that Wraiths is now a Novella, hurrah
while The Truths of Dagda is stilla short story
I see Dagda as going to maybe 25,000-30,000 words and staying a novella and same with Wraitsh thught the range on that one might be more of 35,000-44,999, just short of a novel
sorry I'm obsessing over this, my writing is just the only thing I'm good at really, in fact the best way I communicate is through written word. Typed page is almost my life, short of my friends who I would die for
... idead, why not write Four Corners of Disfunction to be about 10,000-15,000 and package them together as the Novellas of Hay or some other crappy title ... some kind of representation on Comic Reality, Divine Reality and Sadistic Reality intertwining, that would kinda make a novel, well at least it would be long enough to catch someone's eye and maybe I could get it published, just one copy for fun ....
fuck, I'm ranting again, I'll shut up and just think these things from now on
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2004 5 April :: 7.24pm
:: Mood: accomplished
:: Music: For Martha, The Smashing Pumpkins
Done a Bit Today
I have been productive today
Odd thing is that I've also managed to be lazy about it
Went over to Eric's place and looked after the house twice today
While there I put another day and a half worth of music, or half a gig as it were, on my computer ... very happy ... all free
Started tearing the wallpaper off of the room we're redoing
Got off around .... 3 fourths of it before I couldn't do anymore
Someone's still working on it, might be Balou
Read about fifty pages in a very boring book
And the main thing is that I maaged to pump out a hell of alot of words today
In the past day I started a new story and have pumped out 4,348 words on it
Let's think about that for a second, that's eight pages on word (including a title page)
The average novel or novella has 300 words or less to a page which means that I pumped out about 14 and a half pages
I think it's good
My other brain child, Wraiths, that's at 15,259 words or almost 51 pages and that took me three months which is still good time since it took a month to run it by some people and get them to say it was good
So back to work on Wraiths this month
And hopefully I can keep up my productivity on The Truths of Dagda (the new work)
I've also been toying with some ideas for about a month for a story, I don't have a name for it yet, but it will be something like Four Corners of Disfunction ... or something having to do with Disfunction
and as usual if anyone wants to know about any of these stories, or read them, just leave your e-mail in a comment
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2004 5 April :: 11.00am
:: Mood: content
:: Music: Dust N' Bones, Guns N' Roses
My Spring Break
So I spent the last few days in Chawela doing work and all that
Now here I am at Eric's house, I'm watchin it while he's in Huston
not so bad, one of his cats is satanic, but the others don't bother me so much
Besides, I just he;ped myself to 16 new CD's fresh from my burner
Now if only I could work that thingy ... there we go
This is a good job
I sit around and listen to music and use their internet, kept acess to their wireless (sneaky grin) and feed the animals and water the plants and I get paid quite large sums of money
sweet
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2004 3 April :: 10.39pm
"When in doubt, blame it on Cam."
-Maya
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2004 3 April :: 9.29am
:: Mood: content
:: Music: none
What I Need
I'm on the floor in a sleeping bag
Low to the ground matress with ne sheets or blankets behind me
Little desk with a few sheets of paper, some incense and matches, a glass, some pills, some books and a plant to my left
Broken shair with a cushion covered in laundry off to my side
And a chair in the corner
That's all I really need
Just that, food and a bathroom
In fact I don't remember how the desk got in here
I like it simple in life
I don't ask much
All I want is a happy life
Acceptance
But that I can never have
That is to much to ask for and I know it
All else that I ask is for you all to let me mean something
To let me help at least
Or just watch
But just ... well maybe that's to much to ask too
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2004 1 April :: 10.58pm
:: Mood: sick
:: Music: Survive, Vai
I feel like crap
Yeah, so I'm sick
and it sucks
heh ... got some shit about what I look like when I'm sick
T: "hey ... are you tired"
me "I'm a little sleep deprived"
T "well ... you don't look sober"
me "............ oh"
Brooke "yeah, ya look like ya been doin crack man"
me " (sneeze) oh ..... shit"
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2004 31 March :: 9.45pm
:: Mood: contemplative
:: Music: No Quarter
What I Want
There is one thing I know
One truth that I have always held to myself
I don't care if I'm poor, rich, starving, fat, fit, flab, or anything like that
I don't mind all that
All I really want is to be accepted
I just want to be cared about I guess
But my faith in people was crushed
I am never sure if anyone cares or why they care or how much
I'm all alone, no one ever said I liked it, it's just the way I'm built, and it pisses me off
That I can't be normal, that I can't be happy
But there's one thing I care about more than being loved, being cared for
That's caring for those I love
I want to see you all happy
I'd give my life for all of you a thousand times over if I thought it would help
I want to do what I can to help you all
That's why I want to help and now I know why
That is more important to me than my own happiness, your happiness
I want to help
I've given up on me
And I don't want you all to give up on you
Please let me help, that's all I want in life
To help and see you all happy, at least once before I'm gone I want to see you all truely happy
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2004 29 March :: 7.49am
:: Mood: blank
:: Music: Rain Song
let's take a look back
just for a moment think
what am I?
what have I done that was worth anything?
These questions I must ask myself, as I see that I have been trying to learn about me, and all I do is look at small issues
The Twitchy is
fairly intelligent
normal on a few levels
wonderfully weird to quote a few people
trying to help
anti-social
sometimes a jackass
sad
depressed
tired
ridden with disorders
fairly strong
not a burden
slow
nostalgic
socialistic
anti-american
a mediocre violinist
hard working
clutz
ditz, to name a few
foolish
not quick to learn
not fond of change
confused
the cons outweigh the pros
I am not important but to a few
and it's my fault
-sigh- another day to go and I'm feeling
depressed, sad, hopeful, remenescient, weary, tired, confised, bored, sick of it all, pissed off, all of this and I've only been up for one and a half hours ........ 14 hours and 11 min til sleep
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2004 26 March :: 6.15pm
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: Polly, Nirvana
I don't know what the hell is going on
I find myself laughing
Not because I'm happy, but because life gets more and more futile
and it makes me laugh
There are people out there who go around helping others, these people are rare, talented and ... the best damn people in the world ... and they get shit in return, I let down one of these people and I blame his going on myself
and now I found another, what a chance, and I'm not gonna let that slip by
and also her ... I'm not gonna let her slip by like some others
of course I'll never do any of this ... I'm a coward, I never act ... god I need help
how will I do anything if I can't?
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2004 25 March :: 10.01pm
:: Mood: crushed
:: Music: Stariway to Heaven
I don't remember what day it is
I lose everything good in my life
I lost the only person who understood
I lost a happy life
I lost the only person who could have understood
I have lost countless listeners
I've lost friends, and grown away from family
My life has gotten progressively worse
Things get shitter and ... fuck it all
All I got, Joseph, Cyler, and Tori (as I feel Morgan's given up)
Cyler, he listens
Joseph, he doesn't like this kind of thing, depression and whatnot
Tori, she's got her own stuff to think about
I'm a coward
and a loser
and I didn't realize my oppertunity
and now it's to late
and there's no chance
story of my life
and even worse, there's nothing I can do, no one who understands, few who listen and even no reason to end it all
fuck
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2004 20 March :: 5.48pm
:: Mood: confused
:: Music: The Ocean
utter confusion
mwa hahahahahahahahahaha
I don't even know
(smiles in a sick and maniacle manner)
nothings close to done
and maybe that means I'm weak
or maybe it is almost done
or maybe I've gone insane
but I know one thing, if there are really another five sixths of my life to live, I will not be able to live through them
another topic shall we
why do you all care?
I know I'll wake up regreting all this later, but I'm really down
I know I'm going to wake up on monday and go on all happy looking, I'll take shit from everyone, and I'll be damn cheerful about it
but one day I might snap
let's hope it's not around any of you
and let me just say ... none of you can scare me away, the only thing that scares me is ... the way I feel
the emptiness
the lack of feeling really
I'm not me
I'm not anyone
I've lost myslef
I once heard someone say that you don't have to know both your mission and yourself, but just one
what if I know neither?
people think they know me
no one does
not even me
I don't know who I am
what I want
what I need
or how to cope with it all
and no one really knows me
and it's making me smile, more of a smile I thought I'd use at the end of the world
but this
none of it matters
what was there
that's how I feel
that's who I am not
but that's who I am
let me put it this way, if you took everything I said and thought in my life, stuffed it together and were able to figure out what that was ... that's me
I'm random
and worthless
but I'm not gonna end it all
I should, I've got nothing sure
but I won't, because ... what better is going to come of that
at least now I have one person who at least listens
and ... a flickering light of hope ... facing a tsunami
I need help and no one can give it
so in the end I am the one who tries to help
so I hope I can help
and I don't know what I want to do
and I ... fuck it
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2004 20 March :: 10.27am
:: Mood: calm
:: Music: Enter Sandman
Another Day
Feeling better
horrid memories of the ugliest parts of light flickering in
front of my eyes, dark hands of long ago reaching into my mind and picking
it apart into near insanity, happens sometimes, but I'm feelin better now
or that's how I put it a while ago
insomnia sucks
good song ... makes me think of that one where the pyrotechnics went wrong and everything went to hell, that was fun
also makes me think that tomarrow they'll be going to see Metallica, so yeah I wish I could go
oh well, another day, gotta go to Colville, gotta try an fix the dishwasher
gotta chop wood, more for nervess than anything
visit horses
watch a movie if I feel like it
visit Will Row, see if the job's still open
go downtown, get the burning permit?
build the bin?
lot of things I should do and could do ... like shower
but for now I'm content on the floor for now
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2004 20 March :: 10.07pm
:: Mood: calm
:: Music: Don't Forget Me
Better Now
I still want to talk to him
but I wrote a little
Had some tea
and I feel better now
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2004 19 March :: 9.26pm
:: Mood: pissed off
:: Music: something Mettallica .... lemme check .... Wherever I May Roam
Day 34 I think
Why'd it have to screw up ... I really needed to talk to him .... shit, damn this computer
I am pissed off ... really pissed off, my second stage I guess
H have so few people to talk to about what I need to say
I have already lost so many
I may have lost the only ones who understand
Maybe he does, I don't know yet
I'm alone and it pisses me off, and I know it's my fault
I need to work up the guts to talk to one of them ... one of the other people
And there's one I might be able to
But every time I think of them together I think of how minor I am, how little she cares about me
I think I need one long brake from life
And I hope the break never ends
People are shit to deal with, but deal with them I must
I wish he were on
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2004 18 March :: 9.22pm
:: Mood: depressed
:: Music: Rain Song
Day 33
what do I have?
what do I get?
everything goes to shit
I have cyler, he's the only one who listens
I had someone who knew what I was thinking, but I lost him
someone's always hating me
and it seems, while all are loved or loving, here I am the peacemaker, helping spark a fire, helping with issues, helping with decisions and being the best damn person I can be
and I get no one
no one could ever like me
I'm all alone and always will be
I wonder why I get up every day
why do I even go into the world and deal with it
put on a good face, hide emotion
help people
be "me"
have some of that sustaining fun
but why do I get up
I will get up tomarrow
but why do I get up?
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2004 18 March :: 12.01am
:: Mood: tired
:: Music: none
tea
finally done with it
I got my tea
it's just been one of those nights where you have to make a lot of entries, ya know?
well, sorry for all the annoying shit
"who gives a shit if the glass is half full or half empty, it's full of poison."
night all
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2004 17 March :: 10.49am
:: Mood: tired
:: Music: Rain Song (again)
The end of day 32
it'll be over now
because I'm tired and I gotta get that cup o' tea I been thinkin about
and I'll miss you all tonight, it always makes me sad to think about all of you, but only because I don't really know any of you as much as I would like
But first, a shot at poetry which will bring about a few groans, or a couple shots as it were
and here it goes
So tired
The rustle and creak of young bones with old master
So long
Have I been here looking at it all
So much more
Is there to anything and everything
So much
Have I thought about the everything and the anything
So little
Have I found out
And so I leave
Into the light
Out of night
And into hell
Just for a time
Ending this part of life in rhyme
yeah it sucked, I know
now for some tea and ... maybe talk to someone if they're on?
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2004 17 March :: 10.32am
:: Mood: blah
:: Music: Tommy
random shit and a bit o' my story
he's a good guy
I told Hath things would go downhill, he didn't believe it, but they have been, my high is over as it were
well, he was wrong and I was right
things are going to shit, but I at least have Cyler and ... Hath in a way I guess
good people
and good help
it just might work out
but things ... just aren't going so well, oh well
now for those of you who haven't read any of it, here is a bit of a story I've been writing, haven't actually written it in about a month, but since December I've done 13,000 words (23 word pages in 12 font, that's good right, for 2 months and only over weekends) so here it is
All changes, even the most longed for have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another
Anatole France
He wandered down the street. Down the narrow cobbled isles of the alleys of the town. His feet seeming to contrast with the sounds of all the other life in the area. He didn’t belong. It was wrong. It was not the place for such a man as he. He soon found himself stumbling into even more unfamiliar territory, as the buildings deteriorated and the sky seemed to darken. The Underworld, the poor. This was the very opposite of the world which he belonged in.
Things grew darker. The buildings took on deeper and rustier shades. But was it so wrong? Was what he was doing so wrong? He doubted if it truly was, for what could be wrong about it. His lifestyle must be more a sin than that of these. All the thoughts began to intermingle in his head, confusing him to no ends. The clouds of concentration filed into his brain, the thoughts swarming into his brain. That familiar dark grip of thought creeping into his being and clutching at his very soul. The world around him began to fade.
Just than he was knocked to his senses. His foot had found its way onto the odd cobble upturned and had sent him flying across the ground. Yet he did not feel the pain of a fall nor the sting of faint. He did feel a rather firm, if not slightly shaking, grip on his arm.
As vision of the real world returned to him he reached through the haze of his mind, swiping at the purple cones in his vision, and blindly brushed away a strand of his long brown hair. His vision returned he looked over at the figure gripping him. A tall and dark Caucasian of a rather firm nature. His long bangs of greasy black hair brushed away to either side slowly drooping in front of his pitch-black sunglasses. He was tightly clothed in a quite mandarin outfit and his long hawk like nose hanging over a set mouth, tightly drawn, completed the look of firm decision on his face.
With considerably little effort he hauled the brown haired man up to his feet and propped him up by the shoulder as he took a few shaky steps to steady himself. The dark figure, very pale and considerably odd in the fact that he wore sunglasses in the dark, looked firmly ahead as he paced on and the brown haired man followed obediently. Finally a door was reached, cold and dim, but menacing and heavy steel set in rusting hinges in the side of a very old and crumbling brick building. One sideways look came from the man and with a deep and cutthroat voice firm as rock he said, “You are Adam.”
“Yes … yes I am, … and you are?” came the slightly squeamish though fluid response of the brown haired man, apparently known as Adam.
“It wasn’t a question, I am Severus, but you should have known,” was the still firm reply of the very set and dark man.
And without a word, but maybe a slight crack from within his body, Severus entered the door. Adam gave a brief sigh. He looked down at the ground and wondered. The greasy hands started to gain a grip on his mind and with a shudder he jerked himself back to reality. With one last sideways look he followed into the dark bowls of the building and closed the steel door tightly behind him. And wheels were set into motion.
How this feels is I’m just another task in God’s daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God’s got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God’s daily planner has me finished.
Chuck Palahniuk
“We see throughout the process of our lives the dilemma of fate. It is only a dilemma in the fact that we known not what our fate is. Or if we are predestined at all. Is there a divine reason, or is it all a cosmic joke? Questions of this sort have plagued the minds of men for years and years. To some extent it is because of thought, but I digress, one must not wander onto the tantalizing subjects that exist in branches to the field of fate and to the field of philosophy in general. We must concentrate on the topic we see.
“Problems on this subject affront us. Telepathy, chaos theory, time travel, fortune telling, astrology, religion. These have all played their part in the creation of the ideas of fate and how destiny works. We see many ideas of controversy. And it is true that to some extent we see that some of these objects of foresight hold some validity to the reality of our existence.
“We can all see that there are ways to note another’s feelings. To see in their eyes and hear in their voice what may be floating through their heads. We can use this telepathy, this psychic instance as we see it, to make somewhat rational judgments of someone’s next move. To some extent telepathy is only a form of basic psychology that every being can tap into. It is an ability not limited to one species, in fact it may be the very for of communication for many species. But can one really call this foresight? Can this really help us see our destiny? How do we know the truth of this, or as a fact if it is a part of the predetermined fate for an interference to be made on a third parties part into the lives of others using this instinct. You cannot use this to judge the validity of destiny, not at all.
“This brings one to the idea of fortune telling. This too had seemed to bare some truth. But it must to be an art that has survived so long, no? Fortune telling is maybe the weakest form of foresight. It is a parlor trick, used to entertain the masses, and, to some extent, always has been. Also, the suggestions given by this method may be playing a role in the decisions one makes, altering the future themselves. This too is a useless art in the proof of destiny.
“Astrology too is weak. The position of the planets does relate to the effect on the earth of many things. And through trial and error of many years has told quite accurate tales of the future. But, once again, there is the factor of the power of persuasion. There is also the fact that it cannot exactly measure the pattern of someone’s future, it just tells the natural patterns seen before. It is slightly more effective.
“Religion is a major suggestion of the powers that be. It tells us of ultimate plans and of the future. It also tells us what to do and what to think, leading us to the future it chooses. But, if so much of the foresight is power of persuasion, how can we say that power of persuasion is not part of destiny. How can we say that these forces have not been sent here to guide us towards the preordained [path of our lives? How can we say what is and what isn’t, what is part of our fate and what is just chance?
“All this be put aside, as I digress but again. We see throughout the lives ahead of us signs of destiny in forms all around. What is destiny and what is not is not for us to decide, for I think not even those lesser or larger endowed that we can tell the truth of the matter, but we can still ponder to ourselves. We can ponder the truth of things that affect our destiny. We can ponder changing the past and the present. And that is why we are here today. We are here for you all to hear what I have to say, so to speak. More of to hear the impressions life has given me throughout my tenor on this earth.
“Putting aside the question of fate, if it is true or not, we move onto yet another subject. We move onto changing the destiny of yourself or others. We come mainly to time travel. And more specifically traveling to the past or the present. We deal not with the future because there are to many things to dwell on in that field. The idea that if you see the future it is doomed to happen, or the idea that the future doesn’t exist yet are to deep of subjects for us to delve into today, so we shall stay the facts at hand of the present and the future.
“Time travel is one question. If we travel into the past can we change it? Some people have thought about changing the future by changing the past, but I just can’t believe it. Mixing in a little of the chaos theory we could see that through that idea setting foot back in time would wipe out the world. Therefore the past cannot be changed and it cannot change the present. But in a way it can.
“If we change the present through foresight, or through a different form of such a thing, we may be able to alter what would later be the present. So, therefore, only by making the past the present could it be used to change the future. If you went to the past to change things you would wipe out the future. If you went to the present for a second time and existed in a different way you would alter life. Changing the future because, at what would be the present, it would not exist.
“So therefore, only by fully existing in the past can we change a future which is not. But if we were to change the future, by the chaos effect, so drastically through such a thing as the alteration of a past present, the world, though still existing along the same lines, would be a much different place. You would not be wiped clean as the changer, but you may be able to alter the fate of others and yourself. I know this seems a bit repetitious, but it must be stressed. I know not how such a thing could be achieved and as such theories as such may never be proven, and who cares to prove them, as there is no need to change what is so drastically as what would be the repercussion of such an action.
“The only … reason … the only reason would be to prove one way or another if the past could change the future. … But. But … would you even remember such events. You would …. You would have to … to.” And the professor rubbed his old left arm, nuzzled deep in its tweed stronghold. He started breathing heavily and ran his hands through his straw like hair. He hadn’t been able to shake the icy look of the blond haired girl in the back of the class all this time.
The classroom started to rustle. A few people reached for their cell phones and some started to get up. Running down to help the old man. And a ripple spread through the air. Everything paused and the blond haired girl walked forward, black pole in hand, outstretching into a scythe. With no lust in her deep eyes, none what so ever, she completed a quick backhand slice at the professors head. The usual groan ran through the air and still none of the usual signs played across he face. As she walked across the room, leaving through the door, time began to resume. The professor hit the ground and students crowded around. By this time the girl was long gone, but her muttered words still hung sweet and crisp in the air, “Interesting.”
Only barbarians are not curious about where they came from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin
“It’s just … I don’t know what to think anymore. I have followed the scripture for all my life. And I can’t see the truth in it. What is the point of following blindly like sheep? I must ask, why do we follow such an obvious lie. How could I ever have believed this crap? The deities watching out for us and the … so on. It’s just such a load of shit.” Adam buried his head in his hands. For some reason he seemed less perfect. His hair slightly graying.
Severus stared into the fire. The flame dwindled in the dying log, smoldering to ash and falling to a gray heap in the hearth. You could see it reflected twice in the sunglasses and you could also see his firm set features. Still maintaining the set look, despite the spew of blaspheming coming forth from his friend’s mouth. It was all expected.
The fire fascinated him; it reminded him of … something he could not place. But, it must have been important. But, he had to say something. “I don’t know why you could follow it, I never saw the sense. Even if it is all real, any one of theses systems of belief, what good are they? They are a crutch for the masses, nothing but a form of psychology, which we have taken and molded, the faiths are useless. True, they can help us with altered messages of love and peace, but if man was a truly rational being, he would not need the perks and the beliefs and he could just accept the precepts of the religion.”
Adam interrupted; his head had perked out of his hands. Severus was finally talking. And what he was saying was interesting. Very interesting, and he wanted to know more. “You said precepts … don’t you mean commandments?”
“No, no,” Severus seemed slightly disturbed by the interruption; he did like to rant once he got into it, and he did not enjoy disruption. “I believe … and I think most should, that even if the messages are good and the ups may be tempting in a religion. Well, there is still a problem. The problem is that the set proposal of a commandment is that it must be followed for the perks. A precept is more of a polite nudge. It gently pushes us into line, it is more of psychology, not a do it or else, but a hey this might be good.”
Severus had stopped his banter and now stared into the fire as if nothing had happened. Adam, egger for more of this knowledge, he felt the need to push deeper into the folds of this mans mind. “And you?”
Severus, now thoroughly annoyed with this disruption, decided this would be it. “I have precepts, I believe in the eight-fold path, devoid of the spiritual Nirvana, but retaining the fact that some good can be had. I have long ago given up on an afterlife or on a good moment in life even, but I can see that if man could actually persevere in things like right speech and in right mind the world could be a better place. A place of more right intention. Just a better place in general. I don’t follow the precepts, per say, but I do believe the basic idea. And now I think you must be going and I shall …”
Once again Adam disrupted, “Two questions … please … I need to know. Why don’t you follow the precepts you believe in?”
“I have never actually believed that I myself could achieve the eightfold path. Besides, I lack the tolerance. I don’t believe myself to be beyond it, I just think myself to little a man. That is just the way it is … it would be right to do, but I don’t think … that I could.”
“And … you’ve been avoiding using the words good and bad, why?”
“That is a subject for another night. Go home, I shall see you when the time is right.” Adam withdrew to the door, the steel wretched as it moved on the rusted hinges and he stepped out and vanished into the gray of the morning. Severus, with some effort, let a smile creep onto his face, the unused muscles of his mouth twitching spastically with the effort of the expression. He withdrew a book from the shelf beside him and read by the fire for a moment. “This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. John Steinbeck.” And with these words the last embers of the fire fell to a gray remain, no more logs lay on the hearth, and the light slowly seeped out of the room, leaving Severus in darkness, slowly fading into the dark. And then there was nothing, nothing but the dark.
this is only a bit of it, from the middle, you'd have to read the whole thing, leave a comment if you want to read what I've written so far, it sucks, I know, but it's done in my spare time and made up quite shoddily of my thoughts and feelings, and the thing with the professor isn;t exaxtly what I think, it's just what I put down for the sake of the story .... and I'm saying to much, night
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