nice words # 4

multifoliate

(a word that seems to represent in sound and appearance the very thing it stands for)

a conventient truce

saw Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. i knew much of it already, and i disliked the parts of the film that were more or less Gore-propaganda, but still... made me think again.

perhaps we're not all God's little creatures, perhaps we are. does not depend on whether there's a god or not, but on what the belief of certain people is. but toss and turn any way you like, be there millions of gods or none, we're all in this mess together.

i remember some of the final images of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and dream of a world in unison.

why are we still busy doing the very things that destroy us (either actively or passively, i.e. by doing nothing at all)? even if our opinions differ so much, then can we not, just for a relatively short period, stop discussing and focus on the tiny blue speck we are living on, and which is dying?

how can you not love planet earth? in this huge universe (or multiverse, believe what you will), there is not one place which is home to everyone we know and see but earth. sure, my house is not yours, but everything is relative. everyone else in my house can call this house "my house" as well. everyone in my street can call this street "my street". we're all on this planet. it's our planet.

i once wrote that it's all so deceptively simple, and i think this is once again the case.

i don't know who i address now (anyone and no one in particular), but please, ignore my often melodramatic or cheesy phrases in this post, and let's just begin right here, right now. you and me. the others will follow.

hello darkness my old friend...

from Simon Mawer's Mendel's Dwarf (1997):

"Words have an awful finality about them. You can't unsay them, can you? Better choose your words with care, if you decide to use them at all. Better to say nothing at all most of the time."

ask

please --
destroy my
Roman Empire
before it
destroys me.

keep me away
from listlessly standing on
those broken beaches
lull me
away
from here

please --
understand me
oppose me
sing me to sleep
sing me
sing me

-- please

and now for something completely semprini

how do you call someone who masturbates so hard he starts crying?




a tearjerker!


(oh my, i've done it again. my appy polly logies)

christian poltergaysts shouting misguided battlecries

okay, i was just reading a New York Times article about concerns regarding a group of Christian youths called BattleCry, who are suspected of representing strong anti-gay policies. i wont go into the details, but one thing struck me, and that was that one of its founders, a man called Ron Luce, said that he had seen surveys from which can be inferred that in general, gay people are much more unhappy. therefore it is probably a sin and out of pure love (shame i cant do my "oh the irony"-voice in these written words) they want to show gay people that there are other ways possible, that they are mislead, that they can be conducted towards happiness. for homosexuality is harming people just like lying or cheating does (Luce's words - no kidding).

well

1) it is unsure what surveys Mr Luce is pointing to, it is even unsure whether these surveys actually exist, but...

2) if they exist, and they prove that, in general, gay people are less happy, then this is just because of groups like Luce's! i mean, OF COURSE you are unhappy if your sexuality is still regarded as a biblical sin and if there are groups out there who wish to change parts of the essence of your being. my word, the stupidity in those claims, the stupidity in human beings.


sorry, just had to ventilate all of this. a sadness post about this could be "people running in circles and walking over other people's feet while doing so".

ps: the article can be found on http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/us/09battlecry.html

happiness # 14

the summery smell of parks at night

spice up your life

oh my, i think i have fallen in love with Princess Irulan (Virginia Madsen) from the opening scenes of David Lynch's Dune...

what to do, what to do?

and now for something completely silly

which large mammal is not to the point?




irrelephant!


(yup, in my free time i actually invent stupid jokes which make no sense)

nice words # 3

halcyon