Snippitts of Illusions

Today I recieved a post card from the wonderful woman who took my photo graph at two weeks ago. It completely brightened my day. Thanks for the post card if your reading this. Over all my day was busy, I worked all day but it was good, helped alot of people find books they were looking for. Now I'm getting ready to do it all over again tomorrow. I'm also looking forward to this weekend. Nothing planned but some reading, maybe some video game playing, or just game playing in general. Writing? You bet, I want to post on this a couple of more times before the weekend's over, plus I have a short story I'm working on that I want to finish. I'll send it to some of you I know for critiquing when I do. Thanks for reading.

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 2:53 AM 0 comments

What is possible and what is not possible are directly effected by the limits of human understanding at any given time. When ever human understanding makes an advance, then the realm of possiblity grows larger. 4000 years ago it was not possible to build an atomic bomb, a super computer or an aeroplane. The limits of human understanding were just too narrow to allow it. They idea that anything is possible just doesn't make sense. Something s are impossible. One could argue that they may not be possible now but they will be someday. That's not the point, whether something is possible at a later date and time is completely irrelevant to this moment in time. If I can't travel backwards in time now, then it isn't possible to travel back in time. Perhaps I'm narrow minded?

If everything we have now has always been possible, and everything that we will have in the future is in reality possible now, why haven't we yet invented it? Another question is why weren't all the advances in technology we have now available invented so many thousands of years ago if they were always possible? One may answer: "If they had the technology and understanding we have then they could have invented the stuff we have." This is a conditional statement. It is true, but it doesn't support the idea that all things have always been possible. It shows that conditions must first be met in order for the possibilities to occur. This goes back to the original idea that the realm of possibility is just beyond our understanding.

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 1:35 AM 0 comments

OK Here we go.

Stinkfist (By Tool)

Something has to change.
Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear.

Constant over stimu-lation numbs me
and I wouldn't have
It any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive.

Finger deep within the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Relax, turn around and take my hand.

I can help you change
Tired moments into pleasure.
Say the word and we'll be
Well upon our way.

Blend and balance
Pain and comfort
Deep within you
Till you will not have me any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?

I'll keep digging till
I feel something.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. Turn around and take my hand.


Some of you are probably wondering what this is. Well for those of you who don't know it's a song by a band called Tool. Yes I do listen to them. They are oft times an offensive band, stepping on peoples ideals and beliefs, this song is about society however. On the surface... if you look at the title and read through the lyrics, this is a song about a depraved sexual act. That's only on the surface. If you look at it with out that idea in your head it's about societies drive for more and more extreme forms of.... entertainments, lifestyles, pursuits. Look at t.v. for the past 50 years, how has it changed? Has it gotten more extreme? What about cars and what the cars can do? Music? Cinema? This is song is about how we as a society can't and won't be satisfied by what we're given. We need more.

Don't think I'm preaching... I'm not... Just recognizing. I'm as guilty as anyone, maybe more so. Do I think I can do something about it? About the overindulgence and extreme forms of entertainment? No... not for society. I'm not even sure if this is the cause of societies degeneration or the effect of it, I'm inclined to think the later. What should we do to? Continue on as we always have? or fight to change? I don't know. I'm not sure what it is we would even hope to change. If it's not the cause then it's the effect and I don't know what the effect is. Perhaps the first step is recognition. Well I've recognized this, now what? If I go against the trends of society, and reject the idea of more and more, then this society that I live in will label me a fruit, a nutjob. If I don't, then I'm being a hypocrite aren't I? This is all me being to simplistic. I can't change societies problems alone, why should I care?

Ahhh, but then... that's apathy.

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 4:27 AM 0 comments