On the feeling that my actions are not my own |
Our reality is a reflection: we do not move but are moved.
-Evan Posted by Evan Brightly on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:08:00 PST |
A bright future |
There was no pain or death; everything was light, and nothing was dark. He pulled the plug, smiled mirthlessly and shrugged: a robotic imitation of a gesture long known t... Posted by Evan Brightly on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:42:00 PST |
On our innate belief in further dimensions of reality |
In the fourth dimension, the past and future exist and have meaning only as a context for the present, which is the sole reality. Posted by Evan Brightly on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:52:00 PST |
To love unconditionally is to love indiscriminately |
Opposite our nature is our ideal.
Trying to reach it, we turn the wheel.
-Evan Posted by Evan Brightly on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:01:00 PST |
self-contemplation |
The defining achievement of humanity is self-contemplation. Looking at ourselves, we cry "Oh, no! We are in pain!" and create suffering, then "Look, we are happy!" and create joy.
-Evan... Posted by Evan Brightly on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:30:00 PST |
"Nobody should have a number for a name" -Aedee |
The fear a human clone conjures in most people is of finding that it's the same as the rest of us. For if this is true: if a person is so easily created, with a future that can be predicted in m... Posted by Evan Brightly on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:23:00 PST |
clocks and umbrellas |
Once foreverGone and neverSeen in quite the same wayOld and youngHappy and miserableHaughty and reasonably ashamedOne time and circumstanceOne floatingOne clutching an umbrella-Evan... Posted by Evan Brightly on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:06:00 PST |
On my arm oversleeping |
The other night I slept on my arm awkwardly and woke to find it entirely numb. Being still partially involved in a dream, I found special significance in the sensation that the limb wa... Posted by Evan Brightly on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:33:00 PST |
Some thoughts from my clock head |
Art exists because some things cannot be understood without being felt.
I've been wondering about my motivation, something I do infrequently as most of my time is spent putting down thoughts a... Posted by Evan Brightly on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:53:00 PST |