“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness”

Aldous Huxley

Economist fables

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The most important image ever taken

The photons from this galaxies left millions of years ago to now end their journey, as a small blip, on a telescope CCD... Think about that.

Put yourself in my coma

Facts: Banged my head;

    Felt dizzy for a day and a half.

Fiction: Something may be missing but I don't know what.

I know I lost something, I can't remember what it was or is, it's importance or function… I just feel like I lost something and can't remember what.

I had a tick and it dropped, a concern and it went away, a lie and it fell through the cracks. Something I lost and it may be out there if there was a thing to start with.

A void, is filling a space that it wasn't there before, I think, I don't know if it's a void filling an empty space or a space now empty filled with a void…

There's sense of loss without actually losing anything but a better sounding mind.

Is the brain so complex that it doesn't acknowledge emptiness as something of future use or is it that a surprising appearance of new space brought down a whole housing economy.

My thoughts scream now pain.

Maybe I should lay down for a while?

"Love isn't an act. It's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you. It's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures - when all that's on the shelf and done with.
I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over."

Brian Moore

To keep going, keep breathing, when all you lived for all your life is not here anymore, is the tuffest task I can imagine. Isn't life without love but a silent sea shell?

The boondock saints

There are movies you watch because they're funny, others because they make you cry, some because they are thrilling and others because it gives you a boner. These tow movies are sure to satisfy every single one of those requirements. If in singularity they are case to seriously consider together, there's just nothing that can compare.
I declare this to be the best squeal ever made... In my humble opinion of course



But if you're not convinced hear this:

Scorpion and the frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back because the scorpion cannot swim. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion:  "But little frog, I can swim."

Lemons to make lemonade

Having felt sometimes that life doesn't give me the desired and/or deserved lemons, I wonder through the orchard.

And that's me… I live life not fighting for what I deserve or what I don't deserve, but instead wondering because fighting spills too much blood, and while wondering I can only be accused of not carrying or being distracted. Blood isn't spoiled down to my hands, because I don't fight, yet I am not without blame.

Because Although wondering doesn't influence on the extending of the battle, people have convinced society, who with such non-grateful favor convinced me, that standing idly by is just as criminal as shooting a gun… I can see that not seeking an end to a war is bad…

But I must complain of this provocation. Sitting idly by, without picking sides or benefiting any party, shouldn't be compared to an act of such violence as some seem to want it to be… And I feel that this people who feed this ideals to society do not acknowledge the full extent this provocation might grow to.

Imagine, my dear reader, as I did, that we should live in world of only four nations, picture them as being so:



(A, B, C and D) All Having at least one border with each other. Let us have that nations B and C wage war against each other, A finds that the war should end and D claims to be neutral.

As C and B fight off for years, the people of nation A parade their discontent, and argue about which side has the most reason to wage war against the other, and nation D communicates that as long as their nation isn't injured by this war they shall not take sides.

1. Nations C and B keep fighting, nation's A population urge the government to take part in ending the war. Nation D keeps on living…
   
2. Fight continues. Government in nation A takes a side approved by majority as to be the one with most reason, start to assemble the army to support nation B. Nation D keeps living idly by.
   
3. Nations C and B keep fighting, but B has now the support of A. Nation C asks for nation D's support. Nation D refuses to take part.
   
4. Nation C succumbs to A and B, who are declared winners. Nation D keeps neutrality
   
5. C takes a last shoot at redemption and deploys a big attack at nations A and B all re-start fighting again. D declares to be neutral and isn't in anyway harmed
   

The reader can continue to speculate in the matter, in my reasoning nation D will get of fine until the rest feel jealousy over the immaculate state of that nation around so much death and pain. But I'm opened to hear other reasonable perspectives.

But anyway it must be admitted by at least the few of you reading this that fighting even for the right reasons will bring more victims than to wonder…

In the end, wondering through the orchard will lead me to find a fallen lemon, and then I will make lemonade to enjoy after my wondering journey.

The Sidewalk Astronomer

What an amazing men this is. His name is John Dobson, he's an amateur astronomer and inventor of a revolutionary telescope model. He has made a quest to let people see what they never saw before. The jaw-dropping eyesights offered by the simplest of the telescopes, has made many people leap out of their "genetic programming" boundaries and amaze at what's out there.

I remember the first time I saw Saturn through the telescope. Besides all the jumping histerically and calling everybody that followed, there was a quiet moment when I first looked at it and I couldn't control the excitement of seeing something so amazing. And I felt new connections being created in my brain, because there is no preconception, you really never expect to see what you see when you look through that little eyepiece. That was one of the most important moments in my life. Mainly because I did it by myself, alone in the backyard, out in the freezing cold, after 2 hours of scrutining the sky. But I found it! With my 70€ piece of supermarket telescope...
And 3 or 4 years later, after seeing it duzens of times, it still amazes me every single time! About what else can I say that?

Now, when I go to the observatory and I show people Saturn and Jupiter and Mars, and even the ever-so-simple Moon, even if they don't seem as interested as I would expect, I know there's connections being created in their brains. Almost everyone has the same reaction, and that's amazement. I like that.


Here's a little clip form a movie about Dobson:



"Everything we know about this universe, has been figured out by people as stupid as we are. And if they can do it, we can do it. Not only that; but if you figure it out for yourself - it doesn't matter who figured it out before - if you figure it out for yourself, it's your own."

3..2..1 Wristcutters A Love Story

It's a good movie. Makes you wonder.

It's definitely a MUST!

Death is overrated

I do IT For them..

It's weird how you realize you care for someone by noticing how you don't care about other people.

Relationships are hard, specially when you feel powerless.

Not too often, but often enough, I can't help to feel like i'm in a car, aware we're about to crash and knowing i'll never make it to the breaks in time and to make it all worse, when i look at the driver, there is (s)he crying his/hers eyes out.

It breaks my heart. It really does.

So I do what i can do. I comfort them, never lying to them whatsoever, and i go try to help them by doing something..

Funny thing is I know i suck at this..I suck at being positive and i hate, oh I hate when I end up saying "it'll be ok!". I know they'll get trough it, but i don't know how, or when, or how scared will they get. And scaring is something that concerns me..

So, I do it. I do what i can, even if it means getting out of my precious box and it feels great, cause when things turn out fine, i like to believe i had something to do with it, even if they never actually know..That is helping, not being a hypocrite!

Because there is a difference. Doing something you don't believe in for someone I love and know it's right, it's caring, and that fraction of time when i'm doing it, i'm actually believe it!!So, i'm know i'm not a hypocrite. And i don't five a shit if the rest of the world recognize it or not.

I do. And so do my friends. That's good enough for me.

I sleep like a baby...even better, like a perfectly HAPPY baby!!!

"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' "

Ayn Rand

Not a single minute to breath

Huff.

(It has been a non-stopping day and that's all it comes to mind.)

I'll keep it short.

It's great to see that what my friend's wish for me in my birthday is that I die and eat ass cake on the way.

Thanks to all

John

For John...

I'm so clumsy... I put your present on top of your cake and it all got ruined =(
I'll find you a new cake and... well... I'll let you clean up the present, ok?

For John...

Does saying Happy Birthday counts as celebrating??

A Serious Man (2009)

I've seen 3 of the Coen brothers' movies, so I think I can already make some judgement. It may not be fair, or true to their real style, but it's what I can.

Coen brothers' movies = dark humor with no real point...

I guess that's it, their movies aren't comedies but you can still laugh, their humor is intelligent and it's more like nothing's going on. It's like they caught someone's life in the middle, started shooting and made a movie with that.
This one in particular is quite good. Everything is going wrong to a middle aged physicist (some resemblence with someone's future is pure coincidence), no one seems to be able to help and... well that's it. Quite an emotional ending, because... it just ended. Like that.
So my analysis can be somehow reformulated.

Coen brother's movies = 1 to 2 hours of (funny) 'things' with no real point = life.

Language is the universal whore that i must make into a virgin

(by Karl Kraus)

A Warning

To those who can connect the dots,
Please respect my wishes when i say i don't want to celebrate anything until the end of time, because it will just make me annoyed, and i don't like to be the only one annoyed, i usually like that the world feels like i do... and thats pretty easy to atchieve sometimes its just a phone call to super mario
Thanks John in behalf of someone else

As Time tells it

The fire is breading, it takes all the oxygen and burns it into carbon-dioxide, while it tells a story. This is the focus…

"Life, gave birth to beings, who felt that mother's love was greatest thing of all.

Until mother left one child behind to be care for by papa Death…

The beings that were left behind felt a cold scaring freezing wind go through their spine,

And gave it some though, they rationalized it, "emotionized" it, they adored it,

And the triplet suppositions were born.

One was adopted by the rational beings was called "purgatory"

The one who was adopted by the emotional was called "Heaven"

And finally "Hell" who was left to those who devoted themselves to adoration.

Heaven learned to be something that was the contraire to all, it would be light in darkness and a black dot in a with surface,

Purgatory, created unknowns and broke reality into pieces…

Hell took all those believes and mixed it up with the broken pieces of reality to create illusion, fear and the seven sins.

Heaven went to complain about Hell to Purgatory, who communicated the misbehavior to the rationales

The rationales hearing upon the devious behavior of Hell, went to the devoted who refused to break their comfort to give way to doubt.

So the rationales went to punish Hell by themselves, and tried to correct his behavior.

Hell heard about their coming and told illusion and fear to welcome them…

The welcome committee took reason by surprise,

After punching some holes through reason, Hell and his minions gave it a new perspective, and told them it would be better emotions and heaven.

The idea pleased all parameters of reason and it served well enough the laziness of Purgatory.

Heaven was trapped in a golden gate park, to only be opened by those who could trick reason…

And to emotion a body was given to be haunted by fear and illusion for the rest of time…

Mamma life did not like what happened and decided to punish Hell and everyone who should have had taken responsibility.

Papa Death took Hell, Heaven and Purgatory into his care as Mamma requested.

And Reason, Emotion and Devotion were entrapped into the same body until they learned to live along with each other.

And until today, the lesson stays without being learned"

John Scar Kramer of Lioncourt©1^st March 1, 2010