A seamless change-over..?

[lucilu]

Tyler was a night person. While the rest of us slept, he worked. He had one part time job as a projectionist. See, a movie doesn't come all on one reel. It comes on a few. See, there are these little dots on the screen

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[morbid_curious]

A lot of the time, people just go through the motions of stuff. The brain filters out a lot of things, and uses patterns, to try to keep us working on more "important" stuff.

Life does tend to blur at the edges, and can get quite surreal at times. I spent a couple of days recently feeling quite knurd - that is, like drunk but in the opposite direction. It gave me a headache, and I didn't get a lot done because I was busy being bombarded with the sheer everythingness of everything.

Oddly, when I ask someone how they are, I appear to be actually, genuinely interested at least 90% of the time. I don't know what that says about me, but it's interesting. I do try to be tactful with the answers I give when it's asked of me nowadays, though; people weren't always that lucky.

Whether it's real or not, it's pretty much the only one we've got. And certainly the only one we've got in this resolution. I guess we do what we can with it, ne?

[lucilu]

*nods*

You've brought up some very valid points, and a lot of them do make sense, if not all.

I don't know, my thinking was twisting some possibilities around. Many people have brought up that I think about things differently. Put them in a different light for people to see and question. What I enjoy about comments is the fact that everyone is like a mirror, bouncing off ideas and different complexities that others may not have even thought about.

Thank you for making me think, Morbid. :)

[morbid_curious]

Thinking about things differently is one of the things that makes the world as interesting as it is. Some mirrors are a little dull, but you're veritably prismy. With occasional sparkles, even :-)

One of the things I appreciate about our friendship is when I do get another view into things that makes them seem that much richer and clearer. Whatever you create, and however you create it, I think you will always have an artist's eye. I'm just glad that what I reflect can have some positive effects for you as well. *hug*

Of course, if I rabbit on with some complete garbage and have completely the wrong end of the stick, you're quite welcome to tell me to shhh, too. That sometimes helps as much as entertaining my wild notions, if not more ;-)

Matrix

[anonymous]

First thought- take the blue pill....Honestly, I could believe life itself is a manufactured lie- but for what? Are we some cosmic sitcom? What the hell is it all for? I could drive myself nuts with it, but as long as the illusion of chocolate comes with the package, I guess I'll just nap happily in my slime-bed....
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[sasscat]

Somehow though, my experiences recently feel too much like a case of déjàvu. I have a quirky feeling that this all has something to do with my perspective on life at the moment, and maybe a simple thing like this is supposed to try and wake me up and smell the coffee.

Look on the bright side, at least this means the moviegoers found you interesting enough to go again.

[lucilu]

You just made me giggle. A Manic-Giggle.

Heeee.

[ex_crimewave673]

Here's one for you along the lines of the replies to "How are you": People in this country, walkng past a friend, will greet them with what?

Often (around here) it's "How are you?" or "How's things?" which is downright silly if you're not going to stop walking and listen.

Noticed by someone from Germany.

[uzielnz]

Smalltalk. It's the bane of modern society. You know why you lie back when the shop assistant asks you how you're going? It's because you both know he/she doesn't really care. It's a lovely we pretense we all live in, we open and close our mouths, going through the motions of having a conversation, when we may as well be just saying rhubarb rhubarb rhubabb. It stems from an inherent fear of silence. Silence is too close to death and it makes people feel uncomfortable, so they fill it with meaningless noise.

I have been thinking about life and the meaning there in more of late but I haven't really come to any solid conclusions, just refutations of what the religions try to put life under

[minion68]

well i am very guilty of it.

people who actually might have been interested, might have cared maybe even given me something useful in return, have asked "howzit going?" unless my eyes fill with tears at the thought of how i am, i reply "not too shabby".