The next time a man holds the door open for you, know it is because he is trying to make up for something horrible he has done.
Everything we do is to compensate for something else. Every good trait we fake; we pretend to have, is to black out the truth of what we've done. Mask upon mask. Business men that surround themselves with sports cars, Italian suits, and a luxurious apartment are constantly trying to convince themselves that they are not alone. Not alone from taking advantage of so many people, not alone from cheating their way to the top, not alone from ignoring everything real and focusing on work all the time. Neglecting the family that doesn't exist. And never will.
We are all this business man. To what degree is the only difference. Every small favor, every minute act of humility, every single shred of compassion is to counteract what we've done in the past. Balance through compensation. Metaphysics 101. Know that the next time someone picks up the pencil you've dropped, it's a balancing act.
We must constantly buy these things, and perform these actions to try to convince ourselves that we've changed. Pat yourself on the back for every good deed you do, thinking it will be the last. Hoping to live the rest of your life balanced. This is what we tell ourselves.
Constantly lying to ourselves.
Constantly in balance.
Constantly imbalanced.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Truth
Nothing is more honest than a man who is at the bottom of himself. A man who sees what could have been. A man that has lost everything. A man that has destroyed himself, with what he has become. A man on his knees with nowhere to look. You will never know yourself as well as this man.
We define ourselves by what we do and what we have. We hide behind things that mean nothing. When these things are taken away, we are left with nothing but ourselves. Nobody wants to know the truth.
We define ourselves by what we do and what we have. We hide behind things that mean nothing. When these things are taken away, we are left with nothing but ourselves. Nobody wants to know the truth.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Historians
There is an evil tyrant that we have ignored for so long. I say ignore as if we had a chance to choose. The tyrant is a victor and the victor writes the history books.
Right?
We can only believe what we are told. You learn the side that the victor wants you to know. Forget the other side. The history books that spoke of the other side were burned at the stake long ago along with the people who didn't believe. So you better believe the history books.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Now take that to the next level.
People worshiping the Devil.
Dying for the Devil.
Killing for the Devil.
Murdering anyone who doesn't believe in the Devil. Anyone who hasn't accepted the Devil as their personal lord and savior. The killing is justified because it's in the name of the Devil.
This tyrant has a cult of blood thirsty followers. Yet we don't recognize this as a threat. Because the tyrant writes the history books. I hope reading this fills you with disgust. I hope this drives you to fight against this tyrant. We sit complacently as more non-believers die. Everyone else that has an unorthodox belief is slain. The goal is a world in which everyone can unite in a common belief and finally live together peacefully. I'm not speaking of the Holocaust. This is much worse than that. The Holocaust only lasted for a few years. This tyrant has been in command for thousands of years.
When you hear that these people are doing this all for the Devil, you cringe with distaste. You wish these sick individuals would die off so that their forceful views would no longer oppress innocent people. You may also be wondering why you've never heard of these sadistic murderers who have supposedly ruled the world for years.
The tyrant writes the history books.
Killing isn't justified because it's in the name of the Devil.
Right?
It's terrible, it's a disgrace to this world that people take things to such extremes and so many lives have to be lost. Why hasn't anyone done something about this?
All we can do is read the history books that have been written for us.
As you're sitting there, judging these horrible, horrible people, shaking your head, sighing at the fact that these people exist, I want you to do something for me.
Close your eyes.
Take a step back and realize how hypocritical you really are.
Whether its in the name of the Devil or God, extremism is our biggest mistake. At the end of the day, thousands are still dead that were never given the chance to choose, the chance to live. Hold beliefs close to your heart but don't dare be hypocritical. Hypocrisy has plagued our history. For every instance in which I previously spoke of the Devil, replace his name with that of God and reread it.
Take a step back, a deep breath, and realize how hypocritical you really are.
Now open your eyes.
Right?
We can only believe what we are told. You learn the side that the victor wants you to know. Forget the other side. The history books that spoke of the other side were burned at the stake long ago along with the people who didn't believe. So you better believe the history books.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Now take that to the next level.
People worshiping the Devil.
Dying for the Devil.
Killing for the Devil.
Murdering anyone who doesn't believe in the Devil. Anyone who hasn't accepted the Devil as their personal lord and savior. The killing is justified because it's in the name of the Devil.
This tyrant has a cult of blood thirsty followers. Yet we don't recognize this as a threat. Because the tyrant writes the history books. I hope reading this fills you with disgust. I hope this drives you to fight against this tyrant. We sit complacently as more non-believers die. Everyone else that has an unorthodox belief is slain. The goal is a world in which everyone can unite in a common belief and finally live together peacefully. I'm not speaking of the Holocaust. This is much worse than that. The Holocaust only lasted for a few years. This tyrant has been in command for thousands of years.
When you hear that these people are doing this all for the Devil, you cringe with distaste. You wish these sick individuals would die off so that their forceful views would no longer oppress innocent people. You may also be wondering why you've never heard of these sadistic murderers who have supposedly ruled the world for years.
The tyrant writes the history books.
Killing isn't justified because it's in the name of the Devil.
Right?
It's terrible, it's a disgrace to this world that people take things to such extremes and so many lives have to be lost. Why hasn't anyone done something about this?
All we can do is read the history books that have been written for us.
As you're sitting there, judging these horrible, horrible people, shaking your head, sighing at the fact that these people exist, I want you to do something for me.
Close your eyes.
Take a step back and realize how hypocritical you really are.
Whether its in the name of the Devil or God, extremism is our biggest mistake. At the end of the day, thousands are still dead that were never given the chance to choose, the chance to live. Hold beliefs close to your heart but don't dare be hypocritical. Hypocrisy has plagued our history. For every instance in which I previously spoke of the Devil, replace his name with that of God and reread it.
Take a step back, a deep breath, and realize how hypocritical you really are.
Now open your eyes.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Gypsy
I guess you could say that I'm lucky.
I have access to something that not many people do.
People pay to know what I know.
And I'm doing everything to erase what I know....
I can see the future. My future at least. I've seen it my whole life. It resides in the back room of my home. Safe behind barricades. Safe in it's own mind. Safe in a way that is dangerous to one's close to it.
My future stares me in the face. It wakes me up in the morning. My future used to say that I'd amount to nothing. It used to call me a zero. Sometimes people claim to be blindsided by their future; I saw the hit coming from a mile away.
Our birth is a mistake we'll spend our entire lives trying to fix.
People always try to run from their future. Try living with it. Every vice that your future has, you know is destined to become yours someday. And you can't fuck with destiny. With all the good your future holds, comes the bad. Pandora's Box in reverse. I've studied my future, and I've studied myself, and I am sure they are one in the same.
Fuck destiny.
I wish I could be blindsided by my future so I wouldn't have to watch it creep up on me, every second of every day. I wish this could all be a big shock to me.
If you become what you fear, and you fear what you become, what does that make you?
I have access to something that not many people do.
People pay to know what I know.
And I'm doing everything to erase what I know....
I can see the future. My future at least. I've seen it my whole life. It resides in the back room of my home. Safe behind barricades. Safe in it's own mind. Safe in a way that is dangerous to one's close to it.
My future stares me in the face. It wakes me up in the morning. My future used to say that I'd amount to nothing. It used to call me a zero. Sometimes people claim to be blindsided by their future; I saw the hit coming from a mile away.
Our birth is a mistake we'll spend our entire lives trying to fix.
People always try to run from their future. Try living with it. Every vice that your future has, you know is destined to become yours someday. And you can't fuck with destiny. With all the good your future holds, comes the bad. Pandora's Box in reverse. I've studied my future, and I've studied myself, and I am sure they are one in the same.
Fuck destiny.
I wish I could be blindsided by my future so I wouldn't have to watch it creep up on me, every second of every day. I wish this could all be a big shock to me.
If you become what you fear, and you fear what you become, what does that make you?
Good Haiku
Is an oxymoron....
No other form of "self expression" is so limited. How do we truly present our thoughts in 3 lines of limited syllables? Haiku's are crutches for people who can't write. Even worse they think they are being so artsy writing about leaves and humming birds, when in reality all they are doing is counting out syllables on their fingers. In my opinion, nobody can write to the best of their ability if they are held back by borders and rules.
Our greatest works of art and discoveries come from chaos.
Not by following the rules.
Mediocrity is following the rules. I'm not speaking in anarchic terms involving the government, rather "laws" of literature.
Go out and write. Don't let anyone tell you how to. You can find out more about yourself by writing with absolutely no structure than a lifetime of writing inside the box. The truest moments of a persons life are the ones in which they challenge themselves to write with no boundaries and spill their heart and mind onto paper.
Who you are, and who you think you are, are never the same person.
No other form of "self expression" is so limited. How do we truly present our thoughts in 3 lines of limited syllables? Haiku's are crutches for people who can't write. Even worse they think they are being so artsy writing about leaves and humming birds, when in reality all they are doing is counting out syllables on their fingers. In my opinion, nobody can write to the best of their ability if they are held back by borders and rules.
Our greatest works of art and discoveries come from chaos.
Not by following the rules.
Mediocrity is following the rules. I'm not speaking in anarchic terms involving the government, rather "laws" of literature.
Go out and write. Don't let anyone tell you how to. You can find out more about yourself by writing with absolutely no structure than a lifetime of writing inside the box. The truest moments of a persons life are the ones in which they challenge themselves to write with no boundaries and spill their heart and mind onto paper.
Who you are, and who you think you are, are never the same person.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss....
I'm not a pessimistic person, but I've had some thoughts I'd been meaning to put on paper for a while now. It has to do with a gradual distaste I've been building regarding society, partly because I'm as much a part of it as the people I criticise. Here goes nothing:
MATERIALISM....
It's amazing how impressionable we are as man. We're told what to want.
"Oh, this is cool NOW!"
"That is soo LAST YEAR!"
Materialism is the epicenter of both our society and what I believe to be the continuous destruction of it. Focusing on a person's qualities is soo LAST YEAR. Character, integrity, beliefs, all out the window. We discount so much when we focus on image. Image is only one dimension of a human being, yet we aknowledge it as most important in many situations.
Clicks of soceity are formed solely on image. Next time you're in the school cafeteria, look around. SECTIONS, GHETTOS, predetermined by judgemental behavior.
Nerds.
Jocks.
Punks.
Elitists.
We section ourselves solely on image so we can fit in?
All of us following this unwritten law of conduct that we must fit into the mold. All of these molds predetermined in one way or another.
Very few people really know who they are.
That is soo LAST YEAR.
What does it say about our connection to something, that one year we can think it is the best thing in the world, and the next, deny ever being connected to this faction, this trend. We change because we're told to. We're all tanning on the beach, rotating our bodies with the sun. Nobody wants to be left out. Everyone wants to be ahead of the curve.
I want to be BEHIND the curve.
I want to live in "LAST YEARS" world.......
MATERIALISM....
It's amazing how impressionable we are as man. We're told what to want.
"Oh, this is cool NOW!"
"That is soo LAST YEAR!"
Materialism is the epicenter of both our society and what I believe to be the continuous destruction of it. Focusing on a person's qualities is soo LAST YEAR. Character, integrity, beliefs, all out the window. We discount so much when we focus on image. Image is only one dimension of a human being, yet we aknowledge it as most important in many situations.
Clicks of soceity are formed solely on image. Next time you're in the school cafeteria, look around. SECTIONS, GHETTOS, predetermined by judgemental behavior.
Nerds.
Jocks.
Punks.
Elitists.
We section ourselves solely on image so we can fit in?
All of us following this unwritten law of conduct that we must fit into the mold. All of these molds predetermined in one way or another.
Very few people really know who they are.
That is soo LAST YEAR.
What does it say about our connection to something, that one year we can think it is the best thing in the world, and the next, deny ever being connected to this faction, this trend. We change because we're told to. We're all tanning on the beach, rotating our bodies with the sun. Nobody wants to be left out. Everyone wants to be ahead of the curve.
I want to be BEHIND the curve.
I want to live in "LAST YEARS" world.......
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