WowHonestly. So I got a little older and I'm a little more misanthropic. Welcome to probably half the intelligent population of the western hemisphere. I think I was probably just disappointed, you know? Suddenly I'm not a teenager anymore and... oh wait, that's all, it's just a technicality. I guess having been influenced so heavily by a culture that places such undue stress on technicalities like that (I'm looking at you America) will do that to you once you've been given a dose of perspective.
Seriously, though, what do I have to whine about? My life's pretty damn good right now. Sure I lack the love of a good woman (ahem) but that's pretty much all I can honestly think to complain about. I guess I'm a little like Arthur Dent in Mostly Harmless- he's got a whole galaxy out there and he's sad that he's missing the world he was born on and the woman he loves. Understandable, sure, but not strictly necessary if you keep a positive outlook.
Hah, and a paragraph ago I was calling myself a misanthropist. I guess I'm more like George Carlin- a personal optimist, and deeply sceptical about everything else. It's a damn shame he's gone.
SO YEAH. Had the bright idea to turn Silver & Sunlight into a graphic novel. Dunno how I had to watch V for Vendetta and Watchmen before it hit me. It's perfect for that medium, though, because like it or not there's an assload of action and there are some things that, no matter how good a writer I am, are not done justice to without actual imagery. Had ideas about who I want to do the drawing, too, but we'll see how that develops. Oh and the story that Silver & Sunlight had become before I had this great idea? It's still in the works. The graphic novel would make a nice companion volume to it when it gets published.
Bought myself an acoustic guitar for my 20th, and good LORD is it a sexy piece of near-machinery. It's already helping me improve my technique, too. A colleague and fellow guitarist tipped me off about JustinGuitar, and it's been a major help to me (dur hur pun intended) in starting carefully to learn music theory, which I consider necessary to eventually write my own stuff. Definitely gonna donate to that guy sometime in the foreseeable future.
Still workin', still rockin'. (Coheed & Cambria, fuck yeah. I'm learning Welcome Home and that shit is hard. Still can't do Travis' very last solo- it's a duelling-guitar type thing- and the rest of it is as slow as a dead snail stapled to a paraplegic turtle in quick-dry cement. But I'm working on it. I won't need to do it at all if I ever cover it with a band, 'cos that's sorta the whole point of dueling guitars, but it's still fun to play.) Gotta get some kind of fire goin' underneath my ass to get my college financing in order, too, 'cos I still intend to become a teacher, starting this August.
To be continued!
Srsly, happy birthday to me, even if a bit late. Being 20 is more awesome than I was prepared to appreciate at first glance. Dur hur perspective lol.
CK
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I fought the decisions that called and lost,
My mark has the revelant piece in this;
I will come reformed~
In short, for the murders of those I court.
I bless the hour that holds your fall;
I will kill you all~!
Also, way to pick a sig, those're some of my favorite lines right there
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Thank you, one of my favorites as well. =3 It's right next to impossible to pick an overall favorite though. x)
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I fought the decisions that called and lost,
My mark has the revelant piece in this;
I will come reformed~
In short, for the murders of those I court.
I bless the hour that holds your fall;
I will kill you all~!
I would like to have one too, but my parents would freak out!
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Use your breath, your precious life, and change the world's ways for all of us. Know we were loved by at least one silent heart. Be strong, and love each other, and the world will surely change.
Here's a link for further information. [link]
Stefan Klein goes definitive into detail within his book about subject 'coincidence'.
A must-read!
Lee
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We are the dreamers of dreams
I see that you also philosophize certain aspects of life before assuming them.
How do you look upon the term 'chaos'? What do you think about it? I'm kinda curious to hear your thoughts.
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We are the dreamers of dreams
I see "chaos" as a creation of the human mind, and a bit of a superficial one, to be honest. It seems to exist to confirm that there is simply no pattern behind some things, no underlying reason, and I believe that to be profoundly untrue. You could interpret that as a bit fatalist, a bit nihilist, a bit determinist, but rather I'd like to think that for everything, no matter what, there is a reason, and if something seems "random" or "chaotic" you're just not looking hard or deep enough for the cause. I also believe that the cause is always a choice of human free will; but that's not strictly relevant.
CK
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If we assume that the speed of light in vacuum is universal, we can say that the first 3 dimensions are plausible for us. In 1960 the metre was defined as the length which is equal to 1.650.763,73 wave-lengths in vacuum of the radiation of the atom krypton under certain circumstances. Now that one dimension, length, is determined, we can conclude that two other dimensions are also determined, namely width and heighth. Then the fourth dimension, ofcourse, is time. Very tricky one if you ask me, but it's quite reasonable if we assume Einstein's Relativity Theory. The fifth isn't really understandible for many of us, but we do know that it exists. But this mad scientist, from whom I forgot his name, points out through calculations that there are twelve dimensions, including chaos. He also tells us that coincidence is a dimension. Well, I believe that through time, chaos is possible. Without time there would be no movement, in other words, order. Time and chaos are linked to each other. Coincidence, in my opinion, is nothing more than just a term for the thing we can't understand. When things get a bit complicated we tend to call it a coincidence, or even worse, god. Don't get me wrong, within this context I'm not aming at a religious god, or shortly, God. No, with god I meant the term for the unexplicable. In this context I could use your properly expressed quote: "you're just not looking hard or deep enough for the cause". This actually brings us to another discussionpoint, 'causality'. Chaos is a by-product of time; We could say that chaos is 'caused' by time. But it's impossible for us to prove causality. We can never ever prove that A, starting the engine, causes B, a sound. We see that we start the engine by turning the key and we hear a sound, but these are two seperate things. A -/-> B. And if this is impossible - it's really frustrating to talk about this subject - basically everything is impossible to prove. Damn, this goes beyond the limit of our subject, however, I wanted to let you know that I also like to get into discussion.
Lee
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We are the dreamers of dreams
That's a pretty big assumption. Seriously, can you prove it? Can anyone? The most you can say, in true scientific method, is that the speed of light in a vacuum for you is what it was when you measured it. For you.
Also, while I'm prepared to accept any number of dimensions, I find it a bit of a pointless exercise to attempt to consider more than three or four at once. This is because we're not readily aware of them, so trying to describe them is useless. Think of what happens when a three-dimensional object (say, a golf ball) passes through two-dimensional space (say, a plane equal in physical size to a sheet of paper). To someone whose universe is two-dimensional, all they perceive is a circle that expands from nothing, reaches a certain size and contracts back into nothing. How do you explain to them that what they saw has more dimensions than they are able to perceive? How do you explain the color blue to someone who has been blind from birth?
Time, also, is a fiction. It is an illusion created by our minds to explain the difference between our thoughts, our "I", and the world we currently find ourselves in. According to the interpretation of quantum physics I like best, the "many worlds" theory, we're actually just moving- moment by moment by moment- into new universes that are exactly like the ones we just left except for the fact that everything seems to have gotten one moment older every time we do. But that doesn't mean we can't choose to stop doing so.
The Matrix Reloaded had a thing or two to say about causality, didn't it? That was where Neo and the Merovingian disagreed. The Merovingian said, quite fatalistically, that we were slaves to an endless pattern of cause and effect, while Neo said it began with a choice. Neo, of course, was right, any quantum physicist will tell you that. Causality, like so much else, is an illusion. You choose the effect just as surely as you choose the cause, even if you're not aware of the choice.
"basically everything is impossible to prove"
You said it, bro.
Also, since we are rapidly running out of space, what d'you say we copy and paste this entire thing to the forums? There's got to be a place for stuff like this. And it'd be interesting to let the rest of the community in on the discussion.
CK
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