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"...Ultimate knowledge is impossible, because our senses lie to us. But they're the only mediator between the things that surround us and our thoughts, our intellect.' 'That's exactly what Democritus and Protagoras claim, 'I agreed. 'That's why people condemned them as atheists and praised Plato to high heavens, because he fed them fairy tales. The masses have always been like that,' Omar continued. 'They're afraid of uncertainty, which is why they prefer a lie that promises something tangible to even the most exalted truth if it doesn't give them anything to hold on to. There's nothing you can do about it. Whoever wants to be a prophet to the masses has to treat them like children and feed them fairy tales and falsehoods. That's why a wise man always keeps his distance from them.' 'But Christ and Mohammed wanted good for the masses.' 'That's right,' he replied. 'They wanted good for them, but they also recognized all their utter hopelessness. Pity moved them to conjure up fairy tales about an otherwordly paradise that would be theirs as a reward for their suffering in this world.' 'Why do you think Mohammed would have let thousands die for his teachings if he knew they were based on a fairy tale?' 'Probably,' he answered, 'because he knew that otherwise they would have slaughtered each other for even baser reasons. He wanted to create a kingdom of happiness on earth for them. To do that, he invented his dialogues with the archangel Gabriel, otherwise they wouldn't have believed him. He promised them heavenly delights after death, and in doing so made them brave and invincible.' I thought for a while and then told him, 'It seems to me that there's no longer anyone who would joyfully go to his death just for the promise of getting into heaven.' 'Nations age too,' he replied. 'The thought of paradise has atrophied in people and isn't a source of joy anymor like it used to be. PEOPLE ONLY KEEP BELIEVING IN IT BECAUSE THEY'RE TO LAZY TO SEIZE ONTO ANYTHING NEW.' 'So do you think,' I asked him, 'that a prophet preaching paradise to win over the masses today would fail?' Omar laughed. 'No question. Because the same torch doesnt burn twice and a wilted tulip won't bloom again. People are contented with their little comforts. If you don't have the key to open paradise before their eyes, you might as well give up any thought of becoming a prophet."... Vladimir Bartol, ALAMUT
...JOHNNY CASH, A MODERN DAY PROPHET...
...OL'GEORGEY BOY, MODERN DAY IDIOT...
..."HOME IS BEHIND, THE WORLD AHEAD, AND THERE ARE MANY PATHS TO TREAD THROUGH SHADOWS TO THE EDGE OF NIGHT, UNTIL THE STARS ARE ALL ALIGHT. THEN WORLD BEHIND AND HOME AHEAD WE'LL WONDER BACK TO HOME AND BED."- Lord Of The Rings J.R.R TOLKIEN I Love You Cristine -
"My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child. I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same. And I propose to you that if we are to pay our sincere respects to the hundred lost children of San Lorenzo, that we might best spend the day despising what killed them; which is to say, the stupidity and viciousness of all mankind. Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. I do not mean to be ungrateful for the fine, martial show we are about to see - and a thrilling show it really will be... "But if today is really in honor of a hundred children murdered in war, is today a day for a thrilling show? The answer is yes, on one condition: that we, the celebrants, are working consciously and tirelessly to reduce the stupidity and viciousness of ourselves and of all mankind. " -KURT VONNEGUT CAT'S CRADLE
..."We are, each of us, functions of how we imagine ourselves and of how others imagine us, and, looking back, there are these discrete tracks of memory: the times when our lives are most sharply defined in relation to others' ideas of us, and the more primitive times when we are freer to imagine ourselves."
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HOME IS EVERYTHING

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I LOVE YOU CRISTINE

..."DIE, YES, BUT DIE RIDDLED WITH
BULLETS, DESTROYED BY THE BAYONETS, IF NOT NO. DROWNED NO.
A MEMORY MORE LASTING THAN MY NAME
IS TO FIGHT, TO DIE FIGHTING..." - ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVERA

..."A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE ENLIGHTENED STATE IS WORTH MANY YEARS OF SCHOLARLY STUDY..." - BUDDHA

..."JUSTIFICATION OVER YOUR ACTIONS
ALL FOR A BELIEF...
OF FINDING FORGIVNESS
WITHIN A HIGHER HOPE..." - MYSELF

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..."THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS ARE LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE. WE MUST RUN INTO EACH ROOM AND SAVE WHATEVER IS MOST PRECIOUS AND ESSENTIAL, AND LEAVE THE REST BEHIND." - MATTHEW FOX

..."Is there a point to my act? I'd say there is... I have to: The world is like a ride at an amuzement park. And when you choose to go on it You think it's real, cause that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down, and around and around, and it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's loud, and it's fun... for awhile. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, they begin to question, is this real? or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say, "Hey don't worry and don't ever be afraid because this is just a ride." And we... kill those people. "Shut him up, we have alot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family, this just has to be real." But it's just a ride, but we always kill those good guys that try and tell us that (you ever notice that?), and let the demons run amuck. But it doesn't matter becuase it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want it's only a choice, no effort, no work, no job, no savings, or money, A CHOICE, RIGHT NOW BETWEEN FEAR AND LOVE. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see ALL OF US AS ONE. Here's what we can do, to change the world right now to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would, many times over. Not one human being excluded, and we can explore space together, both inner and outer forever in PEACE!!!" - BILL HICKS

Music:



The Next Danny Carey

Movies:

..."ALL WE HAVE TO BELIEVE WITH IS OUR SENSES: THE TOOLS WE USE TO PERCEIVE THE WORLD, OUR SIGHT, OUR TOUCH, OUR MEMORY. IF THEY LIE TO US, THEN NOTHING CAN BE TRUSTED. AND EVEN IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE, THEN STILL WE CANNOT TRAVEL IN ANY OTHER WAY THAN THE ROAD OUR SENSES SHOW US; AND WE MUST WALK THAT ROAD TO THE END." - NEIL GAIMAN: AMERICAN GODS

Television:

..."That night he went looking for a poem he found two colors of love A teenage couple embrace by a bus-stop I read his lips as they whipser a sweet something into her smile and that voice that never goes for a walk comes to visit again: I HOPE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE In one ear it stood as the poet turned the corner He bumped into an ancient argument Two fallen angels with scratched throats pull and push each other Ain't enough for both of them to get high tonight Use to be he would serenade her under a clear moonlight and that voice meets him in front of the liquor store: AIN'T NO ROOM FOR KISSIN' AND HUGGIN' IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN LUCK IS HARD TO FIND The poet came back to his kitchen table with the last voice that sounded like the blues so he turned the electric hum into this poem: SHOW ME A WOMAN WHO IS STRUNG OUT ON LOVE I WANT TO SUPPORT HER HABIT"- WILLIE PERDOMO

Books:


..."Thus hast thou been lured along that Path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. O thou thast stridest upon the middle of The Path, no phantoms mock thee. For the stride's sake thou stridest. Thus art thou lured along That Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. O thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, thy weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest. For there is no Thou upon That Path: thou hast become The Way." - ALEISTER CROWLEY: PILGRIM-TALK

Heroes:

I DONT HAVE HEROES, ONLY INSPIRATIONS!!!
..."There, in the final moments of people whose farthest horizon is always tomorrow, one sees the tragedy that enfolds the lives of the proletariat throughout the whole world; in thosedying eyes there is a submissive apology and also, frequently, a desperate plea for consolation that is lost in the void, just as their body will soon be lost in the magnitude of misery surrounding us. How long this order of things based on an absurd sense of caste will continue is not within my means to answer, but it is time that those who govern dedicate less time to propagandizing the compassion of their regimes and more money, much more money, sponsoring works of social utility." - ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA
BLESS YOUR EYES
Your eyes are blessed openings,
Taking in what light ever brings.
Treat eyes kindly, feed them well
They excitedly glow and lovingly swell.
Show them the worst all over again.
They shrink into hollows of mortal skin
Bathe your eyes in images Divine.
All Heaven unfolds, the opposites combine.
Your eyes become temple domes for the Pleides
Crysatline Mandalas inhabited by Deities.
Blessing every moment you see
As glimpses of Eternity
-ALEX GREY

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"It is easy to laugh at the shoddy expedients, but I wonder if you are also laughing at the deeper meanings which lie behind such manifestions. Are there any among you, O valiant warriors, who have ev...
Posted by Ricky on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

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"If we could understand and clearly define everything about art it would cease to be art. One can know to a degree with the intellect and emotions, but one returns to contemplate great works because i...
Posted by Ricky on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST