Ha ha...must show my wife. However, I believe that's two pancakes. Bored huh? Maybe you could analyze Clay Aiken's "Invisible." The depth in that song escapes me. I...believe...he's talking about...a girl...he wants to...drill. Not sure though. Anyway, here's his website: http://www.clayaiken.com/ (As if you don't already know it by heart...)
Thanks for sharing John, your most recent blogs are powerful sermons - enjoyed them. Humanity's greatest strength but eventually our downfall is our whole concept of a soul. We're all prisoners to our wants, not to our needs.
I'll try to whip up something amusing for you in good time.
And I don't know what made me think of that comment John from thinking of your blog, I suppose I was thinking of your 'window' idea. Just like that Replacements song from days of yore: "I'll be you for a while, if you be me"
I like the distinction you make between wants and needs. Very interesting, where "prison" comes from trying to attain that which exceeds our actual needs. Like another cool rock tune: "You can't always get what you want; but if you try sometimes...you find...you get what you need." Mick got some.
Also reminds me of the line if "My Way" something about wanting to "live," not content with mere survival. These expressions seem relative to the universal suffering of ennui.
I do declare it as the genesis of all warfare. Though Pink Floyd would say: "With (with with with with with with) Wihtout (out out out out out out) and who'll deny, it's what the fightings all about?" Which names resources and lack thereof as the culprit behind human violence.
If you take a close look at chimpanzees (are closest relative) we see that they actually murder each other. Now whether the murder impulse stems from the survival with/without impulse or whether it is just an unfortunate side effect of the cerebral cortex development (ennui), I don't know.
We are "evil" though. Don't you think? One side of me feels sorry for man and want s to help, enlighten; the other side says: "Die, motherfuckers!" I torn.
Exactly, we all have to raise a little hell, to get to heaven. Just as we all want to see buildings blown up, as long as we don't have to see what was in it ("Fahrenhteit 9/11" vs. Fox News).
But that's how I feel 'ologies' are pointless - we can't be all good without being all bad. What makes 'us' human, is our ability to be two things at once. Compassion is selfishness, murder is sympathy, rape is love, laziness is success.
So I guess it would come down to the timing of our acts; and the perception of their impacts. This idea seems to strip away all relevance, yet it makes sense (your examples of inseperable duality.) I yearn for that kind of honesty on a societal scale. But I struggle to be able to utilize such a position. I think it goes against the grain of our current social order, which is good! I see the future as being very hip to living without moral constraints because in the future we could conduct ourselves in permanent "safe mode." No one dies; space for all; endless options and games; voluntary existence. Right now we're choking each other out of sheer desparation.
haha , ur all fools.........greetings earthlings , i come from pluto i come in peace.............do u guys by anychance have beer and cricket way back on earth, how bout singlets :)
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Ha ha...must show my wife. However, I believe that's two pancakes. Bored huh? Maybe you could analyze Clay Aiken's "Invisible." The depth in that song escapes me. I...believe...he's talking about...a girl...he wants to...drill. Not sure though. Anyway, here's his website: http://www.clayaiken.com/
(As if you don't already know it by heart...)
By John Shannon, at 9/7/04 5:55 AM
Thanks for sharing John, your most recent blogs are powerful sermons - enjoyed them. Humanity's greatest strength but eventually our downfall is our whole concept of a soul. We're all prisoners to our wants, not to our needs.
I'll try to whip up something amusing for you in good time.
By Brad, at 9/7/04 7:59 AM
And I don't know what made me think of that comment John from thinking of your blog, I suppose I was thinking of your 'window' idea. Just like that Replacements song from days of yore: "I'll be you for a while, if you be me"
By Brad, at 9/7/04 8:13 AM
I like the distinction you make between wants and needs. Very interesting, where "prison" comes from trying to attain that which exceeds our actual needs. Like another cool rock tune: "You can't always get what you want; but if you try sometimes...you find...you get what you need." Mick got some.
Also reminds me of the line if "My Way" something about wanting to "live," not content with mere survival. These expressions seem relative to the universal suffering of ennui.
I do declare it as the genesis of all warfare. Though Pink Floyd would say: "With (with with with with with with) Wihtout (out out out out out out) and who'll deny, it's what the fightings all about?" Which names resources and lack thereof as the culprit behind human violence.
If you take a close look at chimpanzees (are closest relative) we see that they actually murder each other. Now whether the murder impulse stems from the survival with/without impulse or whether it is just an unfortunate side effect of the cerebral cortex development (ennui), I don't know.
We are "evil" though. Don't you think? One side of me feels sorry for man and want s to help, enlighten; the other side says: "Die, motherfuckers!" I torn.
By John Shannon, at 9/7/04 8:44 AM
Exactly, we all have to raise a little hell, to get to heaven. Just as we all want to see buildings blown up, as long as we don't have to see what was in it ("Fahrenhteit 9/11" vs. Fox News).
But that's how I feel 'ologies' are pointless - we can't be all good without being all bad. What makes 'us' human, is our ability to be two things at once. Compassion is selfishness, murder is sympathy, rape is love, laziness is success.
By Brad, at 9/7/04 1:16 PM
So I guess it would come down to the timing of our acts; and the perception of their impacts. This idea seems to strip away all relevance, yet it makes sense (your examples of inseperable duality.) I yearn for that kind of honesty on a societal scale. But I struggle to be able to utilize such a position. I think it goes against the grain of our current social order, which is good! I see the future as being very hip to living without moral constraints because in the future we could conduct ourselves in permanent "safe mode." No one dies; space for all; endless options and games; voluntary existence. Right now we're choking each other out of sheer desparation.
By John Shannon, at 11/7/04 6:29 AM
Wow, who knew what kind of conversational power a bunny with pancakes on his head would wield.
By Ollie, at 13/7/04 1:04 PM
haha , ur all fools.........greetings earthlings , i come from pluto i come in peace.............do u guys by anychance have beer and cricket way back on earth, how bout singlets :)
By Anonymous, at 17/8/05 6:09 PM
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