Its another transubstantiation,
Ive deviated from my current mission.
What the hell is going on?
My old inclinations are gone.
Casting off the shadows of yesteryear,
Without knowing what to hold dear,
Everything seems so different,
My mind is blurred and errant.
Im a doppelganger of my former self,
My old thoughts are put on the shelf.
In the future theyll again be deliberated,
But never will they be vindicated.
Looking back it seems clear,
My past values were so mere.
My opinion was immature,
Every spoken word impure.
Know thyself? Oh, Socrates!
Your advice is just a tease,
A goal which cannot be hit
Everything so black and white,
And wrapped up so tight,
With a neat little bow,
And standards so low.
Truth is a meal better served in small portions,
Next to the main course: romantic distortion,
Piled high with blatant falsities,
Not to mention ludicrous inanities.
What you see is only true if it sounds good,
The blatant unreality is easily withstood,
Romantic flair for our infortainment,
Worldviews are just for entertainment.
Despite objections, you are no Copernican,
You know the importance of you and your kin,
It's for you that the sun does rise,
You and your grand ego size.
Dramatic situations,
Egotistic frustrations;
So here we are,
No explanation or instructions,
Just a constant urging on,
Towards various concoctions,
Which we grasp for,
Almost always falling short.
But it's nearly inevitable
Those deductions turn inwards,
Where we are met with insanity,
And the complexity
Halts us from going onwards.
And as the confusion grows,
We realize we are lost.
A glimmer of light,
Shines through the haze,
So we grab a tight hold,
In hopes:
Of escaping the labyrinth,
Of finding clarity,
Of outgrowing this phase.
But others disagree;
Their light shines differently,
And at odds with our own,
And everything we condone.
The dissonance is too mu
Behind my mask, I'm scared of nothing!
I'm scared of nothing!
I'm scared I'm nothing!
Superficial understandings of our own motives,
Superficial interpretations of others' actions,
Paint our masks,
Paint their masks.
Generalized convoluted processes,
Make socialization possible!
Generalizing convoluted processes,
Is how we understand ourselves!
We conceptualize concrete characterizations,
Made of concrete too hard to break.
But why would we want to break it?
Without our concrete masks we might be nothing!
A hundred billion neurons,
Explained in just a few choice words.
A hundred million procedures,
Simplified to one process.
Barely chew,
Then spit it back out.
Change some words,
But add nothing.
Become "open-minded",
By emptying your own mind.
Suspend judgement,
And think that is what "tolerant" means.
Forget that there is a difference,
Between true and false.
Now you're ever so agreeable,
But you have absolutely no substance.
Be strong in character,
Solidify your views.
Attack anything that's different,
Assimilate or destroy.
Don't let in new ideas,
The ones you already have must be right.
Fight everyone,
Until we're all the same.
Differences leave room for error,
So close all the gaps.
Now your character is so well defined,
Too bad you're
Sing another song Peter Singer,
You're building without a foundation.
Sing another song Peter Singer,
Your philosophy is just masturbation.
You tell me what's right,
You tell me what's wrong,
But the beat you ascribe,
Doesn't fit your song.
Pseudo-intellectuals have their arguments,
Ethical debates that have no end,
They have no objective relevance,
Except in your land of pretend.
When you lack a reason,
You appeal to emotion,
But with your rhetoric,
It seems a smooth motion.
But these stage tricks don't fool,
They merely distract.
You hope it's enough,
To make your opinion fact.
Appeal to emotion,
Is a type of fallacy,
So another idiot fucked up,
And now you're all worked up,
But now you better listen up,
Before your time is all up.
You throw your anger at the wall,
It bounces back just like a ball.
Your order is way too tall,
So you shout out "Fuck it all."
Screaming won't change it,
Fighting won't affect it,
I don't see why you lose it,
And don't just deal with it.
You exaggerate the story just a bit,
To keep yourself looking fit,
To show off your perfect wit,
When really you are full of shit.
Not accounting for others' flaws,
Is why you bear your vicious claws,
But you are the one at which it gnaws.
You must realize that you're the cau
I don't care about the issue,
I don't care about your view,
I don't care about the debates,
I don't care what they do.
You argue so vehemently,
Each rebuttal you parry,
All without realizing,
Everything you say is arbitrary.
You know what should be done,
You know how everyone should act,
So you argue with style,
And immaculate tact.
You simplify a convoluted situation,
Dumb it down to a sentence,
Then think you see the whole issue,
Despite your lack of coherence.
You argue as if it's truth,
But armed only with "truth" you would lose,
For the only thing that matters,
Is the rhetoric you use.
You have a vague conception,
Of
The problems of the world, they are so hard to name,
The differing views presented, they fight yet all look the same.
Complicated answers, they are what we disdain,
But in this confusing world, ignorance is our bane.
The children all laugh, they think that life's a game,
But as life gets complicated, upon others they place blame.
The pious and their morals, they think life's easy to explain,
They say they want to help you, yet they're the ones who gain.
Our passions and desires, they are so difficult to tame,
We lack a real solution, so we decide we should show shame.
Comedians and their routines, they find the world inane,
The lea
Questions
Black sunflowers grow upon the valley,
Beasts trudge along the ashen city,
What of life has it become?
Was it us or was it us?
Murky waters flow from crystal ponds,
Drops of sadness fall from the delightful sky,
What of earth has it become?
Was it him or was it him?
History books are written from faded memories,
Knowledge is attained from a mirage of libraries,
What of ideals have they become?
Was it me or was it me?
Feuds ignite from everlasting friendships,
Grandeur battles are fought on the most serene of plains,
What of man has he become?
Was it them or was it them?
Continents are marked by blind cartographe
Henry had a problem. It seemed that no matter what he tried in life, he couldn't achieve anything. The best he could hope for was mediocrity. He had come to terms with this years ago, but now he felt the problem with an acuteness beyond what it ever had been before - beyond even what it had been when he realized, as a young adult, that all his dreams were in vain. The strange thing was that he couldn't think of a single reason why this problem would reemerge now, decades after his dreams had been crushed.
So, it's been almost a year since I've actually added a journal up here, and I haven't done much of anything on dA in quite a while - with the exception of arguing with the occasional person who makes comments on something I wrote years ago.
I don't really know what I am going to write in this journal entry. Much of what I do now is to kill time. This isn't because I am suffering from some sort of depression or angst - it's because I have a job that pays by the hour.
It seems I am constantly getting jobs I am apathetic about. This is in large part my own fault - I can't say that I care too much about my university program (computer science)
I figured I was due for another journal entry. DA is the only thing that sort of tracks my thoughts and actions over the years, so I figure I should try to write a journal at least occasionally so in a couple of years I can look back at how childish I was.
I'm in my third year of university now. I'm becoming more and more jaded towards my major (computer science). It seems every term I have to take at least one computer science course which I have absolutely no interest in. Unfortunately, there is no other practical subject I would want to major in, so I am going to have to stick it out and hope it gets a bit better. On the plus side, all of
The same reason I would say it's unlikely that Santa Clause exists - no evidence, and there would have to be a whole darn lot of magic for it to be true.