Story Snippets #2:

Dust settles on the floor in carpets. Next to the couch stands the worn-out, diminutive, chest of doors like a testament to the owner's pack-rat-ish tendancies. There was a spiderweb hanging like a curtain from the bottom of the table, blocking the passage of the curious hand. The television was an old SONY, a big boxy thing that took up a fair amount of space on the wall-unit.

The family that lived there weren't as old as the place made it seem. They had a kid off to college, one starting high school. They had no time to clean. None of them did.

Epic Turtle Escape Fail

Sup bro?

I grew to detest the 'bro.'

Grace à urbandictionary:
noun
An alpha male idiot. This is the derogatory sense of the word (common usage in the western US): white, 16-25 years old, inarticulate, belligerent, wife beaters, shitty music, talks about nothing but chicks and beer.

I am so sick of guys who think that it's going to get them somewhere to be complete asses around other people. Frankly it takes just as much effort if not less to be a decent human being.

Anyway,
I got so disheartened by the fact that the non bro (or bro equivalent) was so hard to come by that I cringed away from spending time with people that were supposed to be my friends.

So thank you to the people I am with right now. It is wonderful and enlightening to be around so many guys who don't see it as their life mission to be a jerk. It makes it easier to smile.

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P.S.
Here's an alternate definition of bro: (again thanks to urbandictionary)

noun
A version of a bra specifically designed for men
[rofl - gotta love urbandictionary]

P.P.S.
A more complete definition of bro: (is it even worth mentioning at this point)

Bros ruin everything they touch. They are deeply racist, yet vulture-ize black culture with attempts to be "down", while living as far from any ghetto as humanly possible. It's because they seek danger, or the illusion of it.

Bros have also brought the concept of homophobia to a new level. You see, they love play fighting, tackling their mates, and joke incessantly about each other's wieners. But they will claim that there is no connection whatsoever between their overuse of the term "f****", their intense desires for close physical kinship with their pals, and their own closeted Bromosexuality. "No homo" is a phase that is commonly heard when saying saying something that sounded gay to show that you aren't gay after all.

*Bro's also pride themselves in their "im such a dick!" attitude. It's kind of a way of setting themselvs apart from the rest of us who might actually have some respect for traffic laws, women, and the general public. *
[God I hate them]

Socal Trash

A simulation argument against Suicide

This argument changes depending on the person, but the core is the same.

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Let's pretend for a moment that I am a computer simulation. Perhaps even, a projection of your mind, if we take the terminology of Inception.

In fact, as you have no proof otherwise, let's assume that we are all simulations. Everyone outside of yourself does not exist in the way you believe yourself to exist.


If this is the case, why should you care about us?
Why should you care what happens to us?
Why should you care what we think?
What we feel?

In your experience we (everyone other than you, the simulations) bleed when cut. We express pain. We cry. We laugh. We confide in you, and we confide in each other. We express sorrow at the loss of a loved one and joy at those moments of bliss.

We write, we sing, we embrace.

Even if we don't exist in the same way you do, to you, we might as well.

And thus a case against suicide,
Even if this world is not real, consider what the rest of us would feel.

We may not exist in the same way you do, but, if all you can trust is your experience, then from your experience, we do all feel.

Imagine the sorrow we'd all feel at your loss.
Imagine the pain you'd cause.

Inception (film) and a note on Reality

A comment about the review:
The movie was really quite good, I recommend it with the highest praise for anyone interested in things that are interesting

A comment inspired by the movie: (and other random stuff in my head)

This is our reality.
We may have others,
But, as we exist
As we live

We live here

There are escapes
There are ways deeper
But where we live
Where we all live

Is right here

Find your totem
Find your tether
Find your tether to reality

And if you need me,
I will be that for you.

Worry

Can't life go on

Can't life go on without a problem?

A problem to solve
A something to fix
A someone to look after
To worry about

Can't life go on without worry?

Do we need concern to feel,
Alive?

Can we live without lines?
Without every waking moment
Consumed with worry?

Sometimes life is just ok
Nothings wrong

Does that happen?

Auditioning

So I need an audition song... anyone any ideas?