Very blind.
The shamans burn incense and various herbs to enter their trance and open their eyes to another world. Every religion has things that invoke the mystical, through the use of various herbs.
They do their mathematics, they calculate the alignment of the stars and planets and various other satellites , they meticulously plot out calendars and dates when their trance-inducing strategies would be most effective.
It should be effective now right? If I drink enough unchilled Carlsberg can I have visions too?
He only drank unchilled Carlsberg.
-- 8/16/2015 01:30:00 AM
Puppets and their ringmasters.
Sometimes I get so disgusted with the way things are. They claim the moral high ground but they are so fucking exploitative in nature. It bugs me that people are basically begging to be exploited in this manner, because they don't know any better. It's the only way they have been taught to live, and if you take that away from them, they will feel like they no longer have any morals.
But morals can be completely independent of the company in charge of this exploitation.
They just don't see it this way, and they burn on while being deluded into thinking that their sacrifice would be worth it eventually, perhaps not in this life but the next. They want to be revered as martyrs. They are happy.
If only they can understand that there's a dark figure revelling in their self-sacrifice while rolling in the money and luxury that people who are desperate to claim a similar level of morality give unto them.
But happiness is all that matters in this society now right? We would rather be happy scrolling through Facebook than contemplate on our eventual mortality. We would rather numb ourselves with gifs than gifts of knowledge and books. We would rather be ignorant than suffer the burden of knowledge, the burden of the truth.
Smile. Be happy. Enjoy yourselves, and try not to think about that dark figure pulling your strings, making you dance to his/her tune.
There are dark figures everywhere, but don't point them out. Their puppets, whom you care for deeply, will be made to smite back. Voluntarily.
-- 4/12/2015 01:51:00 AM
Nope, nope, nope.
Sometimes you think that a change in your life would mean a change in your circumstances. This is not necessarily the case. You might think that wearing red underwear will suddenly bring you good luck and then you can get rich or something. So you sit around waiting and waiting but nothing happens.
Nothing changed.
-- 2/14/2015 09:23:00 PM
2015.
Never looked forward to 2015. Everything would sound distant. The happy times of "at the start of this year" can now only be lumped as something that happened "last year", along with all the unhappy times.
People leave and things change but time moves forward, undeterred, unmoved. It is an emotionless constant, unable to experience of hope to understand the limits of mortality.
In happier news....I know I'm happier since a week ago.
I like the experience, but I'm not used to being happy.
I loved the company and I'm happy you came. Thanks for everything, and I'll see you soon (:
-- 1/01/2015 04:33:00 PM
this is crazy. I can do crazy
-- 11/29/2014 11:53:00 AM
为什么这么辛苦
-- 11/26/2014 01:35:00 AM
Animal welfare.
I was on the bus to school last Friday when I saw this dude wearing a shirt that says: “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.-Mahatma Gandhi"
I took offence with the punctuation. If you're quoting someone, it's not too difficult to just copy paste the correct form of the quote to print it on a shirt right? If the manufacturer is too lazy to check for grammatical errors then as a consumer, don't buy it. The fact that this guy bought it means either he 1) didn't know there's a punctuation error, or 2) he doesn't care about it.
He should. I don't know about others, but I felt that he looked like an idiot sporting a glaring punctuation error. That compiled with the quote itself.
The quote itself kinda makes sense right? Animals can't do anything for humans besides being food or company, and some of them are really bad at being either. If a nation can find it in their hearts to love animals and treat them well, it can only reflect greatness of that nation for it is able to influence its citizens to care for animals. After all, if you treat animals well, it can only mean that you will show even greater compassion for fellow humans right? That's only logical right?
Vivisection is the process of cutting open a living organism for experimental purposes. Such a cruel, painful act would probably be outlawed in most countries right? The first country to ban vivisection on animals is, ironically, Nazi Germany. The leaders of Nazi Germany loved their animals, but not so much for their Jews.
But since Nazi Germany was the first country to outlaw vivisection, and one of the few countries that place great emphasis on animal welfare, they must be a great nation with good morals.
I don't usually enjoy judging people by their shirts. But it remains a fact that this quote is stupid. If it were up to me, I'd change "animals" to "elderly/disabled". That population usually cannot contribute much to the nation's wealth, and lesser countries would simply cast them aside. If they are treated with respect, it can only mean that the country remembers their past contributions and honours them. They definitely do not have the cuteness of puppies, nor are they great obedient companions. In a sense, they have little redeeming value, but it is up to that nation to educate the younger generation.
I think that's a much better way of gauging a country's moral progress.
-- 11/24/2014 03:47:00 PM