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Monday, January 25, 2010

As I Define Myself This Moment

Taken from phrases by both myself and others; some being phrases by others, edited to fit my definition of myself as well as the world:

Sect. 1: "Violence is the question."

Sect. 2: "Life is meaningless: there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Remember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free."

Sect. 3: "I fall into every mold, yet no mold. As I live this moment, is as I live life. There is but the present. The past is but fact of what has already passed; the future is nothing but an empty page ready to be defined; a hot mold ready to be hammered at the whim of the artist or creator."

Sect. 4: "Love is simply justice being served to those who rightfully deserve it."

Sect. 5: "To say all are the same would be to lie. To say one and all are the same, would depend on the context of use, the context of where it's applied, and the context of whom its applied to. To say all are separate; all are different; would be to state the truth. Whether conformed to an idea, or a set of ideas, differences remain, no matter the scope or size."

Sect. 6: "I have always held that there are no such things as bad words. All they are, are simple words. In most cases, they are used empty of their true meaning, so why take them as such?
Yet, I do agree that there are times when they're applied to their original meanings, and as such, there are times when the meaning can bite. All you need to do is avoid that bite."

Sect. 7: "Hope is but numbed pain. To hope is to constantly wish for the future, and as such, withdraw from the present, at least in part. Hope is unnecessary. It causes every moment to be spent wishing for a future moment, only to have that next moment be spent on the same such endeavor. Never give in to hope."

Sect. 8: "You are your guiding authority; not your parents, not your principal, not your teacher, not your prime minister, not your siblings, not your boss, not your president, not your God, not your universe. You, and only you, are in charge of who you are, and who you become."

Sect. 9: "Circumstance is customizable; changeable. Just as everything else is."

Sect. 10: "Love is not a predetermined set of principles or ideals; it's whatever the hell you want it to be."

1 comment:

  1. I found section 2 as a wallpaper.
    So I had to find out where it came from.
    You've incorporated everything I believe in into one location.
    Very well done, good sir.

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The world is meaningless,

there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.