Once a year. Once a year everything pile …

Once a year. Once a year everything piles up at once and… I don’t get stressed. Not stressed, but rather entertained. In the face of a whirlwind one doesn’t grasp the danger and run away, but rather stand, smirking, transfixed by the natural wonder… Even a dangerous one. That’s why I call it my Spring Spiral. Guess when it is.

Often I Dream

Often I dream. Less often than normal humans, but when I do, it’s always surreal and entertaining. For instance: I take movies I haven’t seen or things I haven’t done and dream about them. One time I dreamed all four movies in a quadrogy, and during the dream I thought that the plot was real. It was a suspense movie and my dream had lots of stealth and ninja-stuff in it. I woke up and realized that that’s almost certainly not how the actual movies go.The spinny-things in playgrounds should be outlawed. They make people dizzy. Like concussion-dizzy.

Rhythm

Why is most music in binary or ternary beats? Is it the symmetrical duality of the body? Why dosen’t music have five parts, like fingers? The thumb isn’t a finger. Four fingers. Four-Four music. Three-three music because of the heart beat. Thump-thump-     -thump-thump-     thump-thump. Etcetera.  Hate this weather. Raining like a corporate waterfall outside, and dry heat like a sauna inside. 

Perception

One of the most popular kind of illusions are those that you don’t understand at first, but then you slowly adjust to them and understand them. Pictures of people standing straight up on wall, sideways landscapes, etc, are really fun. Even better is when you can do that in writing. When something can be misty and begin to form without really being clear.Jorges Luis Borges’ stories seem to have an underlying mythos cycle that is hinted at but never revealed. Each supernaturally-charged story has a plot and a MacGuffin, but also a sense of – not God, but – magic or mysticism.Many fantasy and sci-fi stories have complex historical sagas which require the reader to memorize them. Hard Sci-Fi has names and concepts and places too. Readers of these stories often feel superior because they are reading such advanced material, but often there won’t be a point to the story. 

Sick

I am sick. Or, rather, my throat is sick. The rest of me is fine. I feel like I could run a mile (I can’t really) if it weren’t for the hacking cough every few minutes. I bought a book recently. It’s a book on Mythology from DK, and encompasses all kinds of heroes and gods and such. Quite a few stories (Gilgamesh, etc…) had stories of a great flood in them. Which got me thinking…Why doesn’t the book have the Torah/Bible stories in there? Without even questioning their validity, aren’t they just as mythological as Odin or Raven the Trickster god? Because nowhere in the book do they even mention whether or not the stories are real, and nowhere to they mention Christianity w/out the phrase “Before Slovakia was taken over by Christianity, they had a rich mythological heritage” or some such flapdoodle.No, it’s a great book. But it does confuse me so. 

Ruckus

I know people don’t like it when other people are loud and talk and laugh constantly, but let’s look at it from the other viewpoint. What if the people who don’t like it are just lonely and envious? OR what if the ruckus-causing people really don’t have the moral right to cause a disturbance? What is a society to do?

Transparency

Here’s the thing. Transparency is very good in companies and all, and it’s nice to know what’s really happening. But on the off chance of being clichéd, what if we can’t handle the truth? What if, for example, the population of the world knew exactly all of the atrocities that happen in the world every day. Would the world be better, or would people collapse under the stress? Is ignorance really bliss? 

Name

Have you ever noticed how whenever you meet someone else with your name, they always turn out to be really odd and completely different from me, in a way that makes it hard for us to get along. Now, I’m pretty sure that it’s not just other people with my name (My real name, not my pseudonym, Turtle), because other people agree. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that either everyone is really odd and everyone has completely separate personalities that clash, (which can’t be true… or can it?), or it’s just one of those things.

The real thing that bugs me about other Me’s is that then we both have to use initials. Or attributes. Initials aren’t so bad unless you both have last names beginning with the same letter, in which case you have to go by Arnold M. and Arnold F. More often, though, people go by their attributes. Fat Arnold and Short Arnold. Arnold hates that.

Cheesy

I think what a person believes can tell a lot about a person. I recently found a List of Psudosciences on Wikipedia. I personally don’t believe in anything illogical, or something written by someone I don’t trust. If the Enquirer said that the earth was round, I wouldn’t believe it. But more often than not, Psuedoscience has a basis in fact. Here’s my take.

• Apollo Moon Landing Hoax: Probably started by astronauts who didn’t make it onto the shuttle and were jealous.
• Astrology: Skies – Moon, specifically – has an effect on water and crops, why not people, too?
• Crop Circles: Teenagers pulling pranks.
• Paranormality: Ghosts were always routed in religion, and nobody’s disproved that yet.
• Perpetual Motion: You wish.
• UFO’s: There’s enough weird people on Earth for me, thank you very much. Why should other planets be made up of weird aliens who just take people and then put them back again?
• Ball Lightning, Bermuda Triangle, Biorhythms: Ball lightning might exist, but not for religious reasons. Bermuda Triangle is probably a magnetic reversal, and Biorhythms have some basis in reality.
• Hypnosis, Meditation, Lie detection: All three work only because you’ve tricked your body into wanting them to.
• FSM: Hysterical.

Life is weird enough without making stuff up, too. Any questions?

Misunderstandings

I think that there is no evil. There is greed, but that is human nature and can be restrained. There is only lack of knowledge and misunderstandings which lead to mistakes. We must compensate for this through compassion.

I am an atheist, and ironically I sound like a priest.

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen Roberts

I do not wish to convert, or to pick fights, or to spread, and I know that people are touchy about three things: religion, politics, and cleanliness. Since, in most respectable situations, people are clean, the third doesn’t occur often, which is fortunate.