January 2010
10 posts
Hey there Salinger...
…what did you do
Just when the world was looking at you
To write anything that meant anything?
You told us you were through.
Now it’s been [days] since you passed away,
But I see no plaque and I see no grave,
But I can’t help believing
You wanted it that way.
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I just read that J.D. Salinger passed on January 27th, 2010. My two favorite authors die within 3 years of each...
Bomb The Music Industry - Stand There Until...
The Great Avoiders
Free Will
A product of Evolution.
Early life had no free will;
They were destroyed.
People stepped in:
Intelligent Life.
The Great Avoiders
Avoiding pain
Avoiding sorrow
Avoiding sickness
Avoiding inconvenience
Avoiding meteors
Avoiding brick walls
Avoiding all catastrophic molecular collisions
Of any scale.
After being severely damaged and traumatized once,
The Earth created...
“For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
rEVOLUTION
Evolution is a funny thing. Most people believe in the school of thought, other religious or otherwise conservative people do not. I’m a firm believer in evolution, but I completely disagree with most of what Charles Darwin tried to feed to the public. The idea of Social Darwinism is a complete sham and farce. Survival of the fittest makes absolutely no sense at all when people have the...
The world through my own eyes...
I’m twenty. Not quite a boy, not quite a grown man. The beauty of this age is that I am in a sort of humanistic limbo. I’ve been given a childhood and a few more years in a society driven by money, jobs, competition, war, government, voting, etc. But while my physical body has lived in this world of pretend scarcity and meaningless competition, my mind has lived elsewhere.
Twenty...