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Many years ago I wrote this, and I'm glad I'm still here to post it
Warning: If you dislike the idea of reading potentially depressing thoughts concerning the subject of euthanasia and suicide, please don't click on the cut text link. I wrote this nearly five years ago, while I was in a truly awful, terrible state of mind. It was a thoughtful outlet I engaged in instead of performing the unthinkable activity I ( Read more... ) -
Poetic traduction
Finally, he spoke, "My lady... you are a vision of pulchritude! Your hair, like succulent treacle waves of profusion! Your eyes, sparkling gems of sapphire moonlight! In your effulgent presence I feel... coarse and unworthy. I must go," and with that he turned and slumped away.
Heavily bearing in his heart the tragic, unrequited love of a poet. I ( Read more... ) -
Tea & Coffee and why I'm not drinking either.
Have you ever woken up at 4:30AM, compelled to write down better fridge magnet slogans for tea and coffee than "Do stupid things faster, with more energy!" and found that one pretty hard to top? Must've been a 3AM effort is my guess, the ideas that come from that hour of the morning are usually of better quality than ones which arise closer to the ( Read more... ) -
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One of the things I dislike about socialising is that it's essentially people saying "I like you," over and over again to each other. What's especially dishonest about the process is that as soon as you've left and gone home with people you really like, you'll take the opportunity to say "How I hate them!" as soon as the people you just finished an ( Read more... ) -
Hrm.
I've been a bit odd the last few days. I'm incredibly irritable, it's dangerous to participate in social networks when you feel like this; unless you've decided once and for all you're not actually depressed--just surrounded by jerks.
I'm feeling awkward about the purge of recent entries from here. I realise now it was a knee-jerk reaction to the ( Read more... ) -
*bzt*
There's been a slight memory-purge here lately ( Read more... ) -
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I've just worked out why I think the people in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak loved the water laced with cholera from the eel -- I think they were the people who in some way wanted to die. They could have been contemplating suicide a great deal, or only occasionally and could have been depressed ( Read more... ) -
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I'm trying to improve at creating and sustaining an idea an idea in my mind so complex it must be put into writing to be adequately expressed. The trick is to understand that the longer you contemplate the idea in your mind before putting it into writing the more refined the idea becomes--but there are limits. Beyond a certain point, the idea will ( Read more... ) -
Admit it, everyone wants to know if deja vu has a purpose.
About a year ago I was having a conversation which turned to the subject of competition, a theme I find sort of repeats itself often times. I short changed a teaching aphorism by exclaiming competition such a waste of time; why bother with it at all? This didn't seem to make much impact so I changed tact and said ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy department reporting in
When you're unsure of anything you can always ask a seven-year-old:
"Is this real life?"
"Yes."
"How do you know?"
"There are spiderwebs."
"Oh?"
"Yeah! In the rubbish bin."
"I see..."
My sides. :)