by mark » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:01 am
right i was going to call this thread monolog but i decided that would give too much credibility to the stupid shite i've been writing lately. in an effort to keep the boards free from the useless contents of my head i'll try to keep my "brain flushing" here only. free flowing random association with bad spelling and poor taste is kind of mental masturbation for me as Jasz pointed out indirectly on another thread. it keeps me from getting caught up in my own thoughts and going nuts. i've been thinking a lot recently about the infinite, and how it could be possible to get into a recursive brain loop which would give you the perception of living an infinately long period of time, this could happen the moment before death, the trauma of realising you are about to no longer exist could trigger off a spiraling looping insanity that would appear to last forever to you. i was thinking the other day that if i ever become "enlightened" i bloody hope it doesn't happen when i'm riding on my bike, that would be messy. infinite recursive thought patterns and motorcycling would probably not go well together especially in the already insane road traffic system here in this lovely city. better to achieve "inner peace" perhaps, might actually help you not want murder your fellow road users. by now nobody will be reading anymore so i can pretty much say whatever i want, purple monkey dishwasher. given a choice between inner peace and enlightenment i think it would have to be inner peace for me, enlightenment might make me into a bit of a fanatic maniac, whereas inner peace would probably just make me want to sit on the couch and watch movies. i'm going through candles and incense at a great rate. After watching Spirited Away again at the party i've come to the conclusion that several of the scenes are supposed to simulate inner peace, the water dripping scene and the rainbow window scene especially stand out in my mind as being particularly tranqulising. I'm looking for love in all the wrong places as Jim Cunningham would say. It's always the last place you look anyway, if you didn't check the wrong places then one of them might be the right place without you realising it. Best to not mess around when looking for inner peace, check the wrong places just in case. if i had a penny for every ant in my flat, i'd have a lot of pennys. actually anybody want to buy some ants? only a penny each. only small ones though, i should count my blessings theres no larger animals lurking in the dark corners of my mind. actually that raises an interesting question, do you consider the internal shape of your consciousness to be spherical, or cuboid? are there corners of your mind, or only a radius and circumference? actually having a cylindrical consciousness would be cool, it would facilitate the looping spiraling thought patterns much better than a cube or sphere. i guess a pyrimadal internal model of thought might work too. polygon, never coming back. After a candle burns down fully and goes out, there's still everything there that makes a candle, just in a different state. however the emergent property of that configuration of wax and wick is no longer present. i consider death to be like this, nothing has been gained or lost, but the emergent property of your system, ie consciousness, is no longer present. jesus now i'm talking total shite that last few sentences had absolutely no meaning at all. but thats ok. back to enlightenment vs. inner peace. I consider inner peace to be a gentle invisible giant, who picks you up and gently blows the cobwebs out of your mind almost without you realising it. enlightenment on the other hand is a rough ogre, who grabs you shakes you turns you upsidedown and reveals the infinite to you in the space of time it takes to groom yourself in the bathroom in the morning. hence, i would prefer inner peace, as i believe keeping your ego and mind intact would be easier with Bob (my gentle giant) rather than with Trevor (my rough ogre) Actually now that i've named inner peace and enlightenment Bob and Trevor respectivly it might make it easier to know them if they ever arrive. christ i'm talking shite again. luckily if you've read this far its probably all total gibberish to you anyhow. Was about to squash an ant but didn't thats my act of compassion towards my fellow beasts for the day. haha stupid little thing just drowned in a puddle of beer anyway so looks like my gesture was as meaningless as the drivle i've been typing for the past 10 minutes. I have to say drowning in beer wouldn't be a bad way to go actually. I haven't been a very good boy recently in terms of work actually i'm a lazy shite if i owned the company i'd fire my ass back to ireland in a cannon. life is great but work sucks rear end really. if i could make a living talking absolute shite that would be great, but unfortunately Jeffrey Archer already has that niche filled. i've come to the conclusion that the ants are actually committing mass suicide, three more have just waltzed into the puddle of beer. must clean that up someday actually. for now it shall be my ant trap. sticky sweet intoxicating death. right i didn't sleep a wink last night (wannabe psychonauts - sleep deprivation works better than drugs and has less chance of getting you raped in prison by a large ogre called Trevor)
ok expermentation has confirmed that 6 out of 8 ants prefer to drown in Kingfisher than in Royal Challange. marketing executives take note.
flush!
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole that he's in