| thank you freedom from religion foundation: |
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| 12:56pm 07/12/2008 |
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"At this season of
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
may reason prevail
There are no gods,
no devils, no angels,
no heaven or hell.
There is only
our natural world.
Religion is but
myth and superstition
that hardens hearts
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| 02:33pm 16/11/2008 |
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a co-worker told me today that I inspired him to grow a mustache. |
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| 02:27am 16/11/2008 |
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fuck. really?
dating.
do not want.
can i has schools?
k thx. |
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| 11:30pm 14/11/2008 |
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i just got phased out? whats the deal?
surrender, maaaybe?
single ftw. |
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| 08:23am 09/11/2008 |
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I'm an oak alright |
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| 09:48pm 07/11/2008 |
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this is the first time in five weeks that i have wanted a cigarette.
i do not appreciate being put on the back-burner.
nothing more to see.
moving on. |
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| a post thats not from my phone |
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| 06:54pm 04/10/2008 |
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a few updates:
first i just want to put in in writing on the internet, i have the pleasure of keeping company with amazing people. tuli has been a goddam pillar for the house; without her i would certainly be singing a different tune. sean has been an awesome motivator; i am not surprised we've been friends since third grade. nic & pablo have kept me well fed with nearly weekly bbq's, which include stimulating conversation. matt helped put out the word that i needed a bike, preferably something laying around in someones garage, and courtney delivered just such an item. brandon was piercing at nothing shocking two years ago, which eventually led to a fortuitous meeting with Rachel, who i am entirely head over heels for. Katie gave me a fantastic haircut her salon, salon9, at a discounted price (go to her for haircuts, honestly, this is the first haircut ive ever got that i really dig, she has an amazing intuition for what will look good for each individual). Rachel pointed me in the direction of a catering company that put me on their work list (hopefully i'll see some work from that soon) and an old acquaintance is going to interview me for a graphic design assistant job on tuesday. I am hoping between the two i can start to make ends meet. this isn't to say look at all the amazing things that are happening to me, but rather, look at all the amazing things my family and friends are capable of.
and because pictures are fun.
my new haircut
Rachel and I, a warm summer night at the continental after watching back to the future on the back of the fox theater.
things are a big financially tight, and i'm skating on some pretty thin ice. but i've also been quite lucky as of late. i enjoy life a lot more when i'm optimistic.
also, my birthday is next saturday, aiming for a bbq at hillcrest park in fullerton from 2-6 and/or a party at the house later in the evening. a flyer will be going around shortly.
weeooo. |
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| 07:48pm 27/09/2008 |
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i have put down nearly four books this month. I've been able to put in some serious reading time. I dig it. This week has been a bit odd with rachel on her cruise. Though she gets back tomorrow morning. I've been hitting the streets hard looking for work, and i am confident something will turn up real soon. Bye bye beard, hello conan o'brian hair. I have been enjoying writing latelyl. Nothing very organized, just adding flavor to the way things go. Helps with retention and recall of memories. Teaching myself yoga and tai chi. Ha. My uncle jim is going to catch me up on math for next semester. I'm entertaining the idea of being a science or philosophy prof. Everyone says i'd be good at teaching, i'm sure i would enjoy it. Good things good things. California here i stay. |
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| 08:08am 16/09/2008 |
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'the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.' - Milan Kundera |
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| 01:34am 13/09/2008 |
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The last week has been fantastic. I'm going to give california another shot. 'After all, it is the best time of one's life, the first period of falling in love, when with every meeting, each glance, one brings home something new to rejoice over.'-Soren Kierkegaard |
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| 09:17pm 05/09/2008 |
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most of the time i like to be alone, but some times it is a crippling feeling. To feel the weight of everything you know coming down on you. And all you can hope for is sleep, but sleep waits for the early hours, and there is nothing left to occupy your thoughts except for the thoughts of being alone. 'the greenest trees get their leaves from underground, where the leaves are found.' |
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| 08:09pm 03/09/2008 |
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This is the hardest thing i have ever had to do. I am going to miss everyone a lot more than i let on. Everyone has been so good to me. I can't say where i would be if i didn't have some of your help. I will leave with a very heavy heart. |
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| goodbye internets |
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| 06:58pm 11/08/2008 |
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In an hour I will be without a computer again. I'll probably only be in California for a few more weeks also. So, if you would like to hang out before I leave the mainland, calling me will be your best chance of getting a hold of me. I'll miss you all dearly. the last four years were really great. Its pretty hard to deal with it all coming to some sort of end. I'll be back someday. |
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| 03:09pm 27/07/2008 |
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I stood in an unfamiliar bathroom with a running sink, the sound of which made my ears ring. Next to me was a girl, I fear, I knew very little about. Though this did not seem to stop her from knowing much of myself and standing in a familiar manner. She playfully held up a mirror so that I could see what I was doing as I brushed my teeth. (Not really something that requires a reflection to perform. Would have made more sense had I been shaving.) My eyes never saw myself in the mirror, as they stayed fixed on this girl. I stopped brushing my teeth because I had realized something important. One of those moments in which one feels something significant, and also understands its significance. I loved and adored this girl, and felt it strongly in myself. As if this adoration were physical and could be felt passing from me to her. In addition to the possession and transferring of this feeling, I could also sense it's return; as if a natural bond had been established. I felt additionally whole. Not as two halves make a whole, but as two wholes make something larger than themselves. The other shoe dropped and I lay alone in my bed, having dreamed the most wonderful dream. I felt slightly cheated, and entirely foolish for enjoying a reality that does not exist over the one that does. It was like in those movies where the antagonist takes the hero aside, often in the form a loved one, and shows him everything he could have. While the hero's friends stand on the sideline yelling that it isn't real. well it was a nice dream while it lasted.
Seems that I am off to Maui for a spell. Stroke of bad luck you see. I am not sure how long I will be gone. Hopefully no longer than a year, but you know how these things go. I might very well be the only person I know capable of complaining about having to go live on Maui. It will ultimately be good for me, seeing as I only love what I no longer have. |
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| 03:14am 15/07/2008 |
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"even the losers, get lucky some times." |
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| 08:43pm 08/07/2008 |
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Sometimes I feel like giving up, well, a lot of times I feel that way. But it feels so much better when I take note, and realize I do not have to feel that way.
"Sometimes I have had fortune with me, sometimes not, and any returns along this road always depend on good fortune...Whenever I have been on the point of ruing my perseverance, my efforts have been crowned by an unexpected stroke of luck."--Søren Kierkegaard |
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| 08:51pm 07/07/2008 |
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did i do something wrong? where did everyone go? |
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| 06:53am 04/07/2008 |
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happy fourth everybody!
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776 " |
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| 10:11pm 23/06/2008 |
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just to set the records straight, i do not believe there is a God. the idea of god plays on mankind's fear of dying. he is a bed time story made up to make us eat our vegetables. pretty much everything our country is founded on is made up. i mean, yeah, the federal reserve exists, but its less federal and more a private business the government borrows money from. you think you don't have owners? you think you have rights? |
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