for posterity's sake. if you read this, please be sure to let me know.

[daedaluswings]

Where to get started. Assuming that there is actually anything worth writing down. It seems as though my writer's side has shut down to defcon four emergency levels, only the floodlights are on and business is being conducted in hushed tones, mindful of the Russkies lurking above and blowing the last vestiges of the free mind from my brain.

Comments

[invoked_aniline]

"we've grown into a monster. an arrogant, explosive mother fuck."

[invalid_litter]

yr an amazing writer..

but you still "watch movies"

LAME!

xo

[elevator_beat]

choice obviously exists. but freewill's existence is rather vague. we can't have true freewill until we can go back and re-change what we do, then and only then, do we have full and free reign to "will".

but choice exists right? i also think too many times people get "choice" and "free will" confused. but you can go in circles all day thinking about it. i've decided to look at it this way:

let's assume we like both Sprite and Coke. But I choose the Sprite.

I had freewill/the choice/potential action of choosing Coke, but I chose Sprite. Sprite is what happend, Coke is what did not. Some may say it was fate I got Sprite, but I say I simply just chose it. Fate makes it seem like Sprite is more significant in its role in the universe, and coke isn't so it wasn't chosen. sounds like too much drama for me...i just wanted a sprite and not coke. i end it there.

[rightarmsremain]

i agree that the idea of free will and choice are nothing more than running circles all day.
consider the idea that there is no soda, and that there never was. consider the idea that there WAS nothing and that there never will be, and then there is no argument either way. the idea of questioning anything is a waste of time, and provides nothing more than a false sense of self worth. it is an arrogant attempt to decide "this is what i am, this is what i believe". what do people get out of this honestly? i am hypocritical of this as well, so dont take offense to this. im just trying to state the obvious.

[invoked_aniline]

yeah. i need some SOMA.

[rightarmsremain]

wow..brave new world lookin'

[ex_bitter_bu538]

i'm going to approach this stictly with references to king lear. do you remember in when edgar retreats into the woods and accepts the role of tom o' bedlam? or when lear tears off his clothing and renounces his societal obligations? or when he cries out, "o! reason not the need!" and goes on to tell us that without excess [which includes morals], man is no different than beast? all of them are fleeing into nature from persecution of society, becoming more and more animalistic in their appearances, but more human as they gain compassion and wisdom. i think shakespeare is suggesting that we aren't any different than animals when it comes to conscious thought or ethics, and that the human condition is simply characteristic of excess

[ex_girltheor754]

totally off topic here.

eric, i tried calling you today (wednesday), but you were gone and now its getting late, so i tried to email you, but my email sucks. so this is my last option.

anyway, i cannot come over tomorrow (thursday) for various reasons. call me whenever you get this, no matter what time it is. <3