Is it worse to be a person who does nothing to try to stop harm/suffering from happening, or to be the one causing the harm or suffering? Is there a distinction?
Tag: #bekind
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Why do some people feel that recurrent run-on sentences are acceptable? I mean, I get the occasional run-on sentence for stylistic, dramatic, or demonstrational purposes in writing, but all the time? In normal communication?? Come on!
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I discovered something today.
When I was a kid, my mother watched and read romance stuff. Not my thing, but whatever. Gone With the Wind was one of the movies. The Thorn Birds was another.
Interesting story about that, and I just learned this – a character in the Thorn Birds had a very similar name to my mother. I don’t and can’t know if that had anything to do with her obsession, because she is no longer with us, but either way, I can’t help but smile. I don’t even know why — I hated those movies as a kid, and would roll my eyes and go upstairs to get lost in some fantasy book or textbook. I couldn’t understand the draw.
I dunno. just a random thing.
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How many voices to most people have in their mind?
I’m not talking about people with schizophrenia or whatever other mental health issues can cause you to hear voices and such. That’s a different situation than, and I hate to use this word, “normal” people.
At times in my life, and even currently, I’ve definitely had more than one. Different facets of my personality that have input as to what is going on in my life, and how I should handle it. I suppose that could just be me arguing with myself, but it seems that the different voice has its own outlook, priorities, etc. And, it could be that this is just a perception thing. I see it as different voices, because I make a distinction between the parts of me that have different needs or wants for whatever reason, and other people just see it as arguing with themselves.
Either way, I am truly curious about this. Do most people in the world have an inner monologue or an inner dialogue? If the latter, what does this dialogue sound like, who wins whichever argument, and is this a constant state of affairs for them?
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I wish it were possible to just absorb knowledge from books like osmosis. Put a book under my pillow at night, and wake up with all that knowledge!
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I have seriously considered what it would be like to kill something other than a bug. I’m fine with something that’s already dead. But to actually be the thing that extinguishes that life? I wonder what that feels like.
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“Another sleepless night alone, and I can’t do this on my own. I’m reaching out to touch the one just like me. No one seems to hear my voice, it echoes across the void, shattering the noise.
Bring it on, this is a chance for redemption, you don’t have to question whether we’re wrong or if we’re right. (whether we’re wrong or if we’re right)
I’ve come too far to back down now, gotta finish what I started. It’s not over, no, it’s not over.”
-Straight Line Stitch
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I read something a few minutes ago in a book that said that “…truth is contextual, and changeable…”
In thinking about this, I agree, to a point. In some respects, especially when it comes to intent or motivation, yes, truth can be contextual. I had an argument not too long ago based on that idea. But I also think that a different, truth, a higher truth, if you will, exists. I don’t know if this means stripping away the complications of emotion-biased perception, or if it entails a level of awareness that biological beings do not and cannot possess. But I do believe that it exists.
I think I will let this simmer a bit, and come back to it…
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I can’t help but wonder if I can really do this…
Fuck it. What’s the worst that could happen? I fail? Won’t be the first time.
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I want to be able to remember all of my dreams in great detail.
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 