It does not interest me what you do for money. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It does not interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It does not interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by your life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide or fade it or fix it.
I want to
So much human belief
Relies upon the thought
That what is cleansed is clean
And that knowledge must be bought;
That there is some great secret
Lost in forumulas deep
When the truth is plainly theirs,
Yet never that they keep.
There is no great secret,
Nothing hidden from our sight,
For all the things that are,
We always have known right.
It is but imagination
Which drives us from this path,
Turning knowledge into mystery,
Bringing beauty out of wrath.
I have no religion,
I need no more friends;
All the tools you wield
Shall wield you at your ends.
Do not try to reach me;
I will tear apart your mind.
I have seen the futur
When you have remembered
what it was that I said
that night you dismissed me,
condescended me as 'sick';
When you realise the truth
in my words of old
which I have long since not
bothered to repeat endlessly;
When all has, at last,
been said and been done,
I will forgive you.
When my eyes cease their burning,
when my throat stops clenching,
when my dreams are not pulsing,
throbbing within my mind,
I will forgive you.
When you turn away
from your illusions
of what you call
'the human condition',
I will forgive you.
When you have been imprisoned for your ignorance,
when you have become lost in your remorse and regret,
whe
Noldor;
Blood is on your hands,
Your bane is
A tearful destiny.
Black clouds will carry
A rain of blood.
I have seen it rain.
We were lost
On grinding ice,
In fear and hunger;
Dead winter reigned
In Araman.
You can not escape
From my damnation,
Nor run away
From isolation.
Guilty spoke the one:
This deed can not be undone.
Hear my words,
Fear my curse.
I know where the stars glow
And the sky is unclouded --
Sweet the water runs, my friend.
But, Noldor,
Blood is on your hands,
Tears unnumbered.
You will shet and dwell in pain.
Your homeless souls
Shall come to me --
There is no release
Slain you might be;
Slain y
Far, far beyond these lands,
I dwelt in shades of twilight.
Through dread, with weary hands,
Through bliss and endless night.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
do you see what I see?
We were loved, before the fall,
we could see the beauty.
I lost all sight of fire,
yet saw the storm draw closer.
I felt only desire,
yet knew the flames were closer.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
do you see what I see?
We were lost, after the fall,
among the flames around me.
Gone, the wisdom of a thousand years.
A world of fire and chains and fear.
I have soaked my bed in tears.
I have seen burnt what I held dear.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
tru
Stars were falling deep in the darkness
as voices rose softly, petals in night
And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear
so calmly you were calling your mind
Follow me, follow me,
I will lead you to your life under the trees.
We are the dying stars of the Albanii.
Fold in me, fold in me,
I am Taranis of the Eucalypts,
Follow me.
Somewhere the moon rose, o'er doom, o'er hope and
such was the stillness, I ne'er felt before
Was this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling you
in your mind, in your soul, did you find peace there?
Follow me, follow me,
I will lead you to your life under the trees.
We are the dying stars of the
These are not words,
they are but feelings.
There are no sounds
that you can hear.
There is no form
that you can touch.
There are no colours
for you to see.
The only sound
is a distant thunder;
A tempest rages
so far away from me.
I walked for miles
and I started running
towards the sound and storm,
where you might find me.
Towards the sound and storm,
where you might find me.
And I ran until
I had the feeling
that the tempest
I had heard surrounded me.
Here, my heart,
so filled with loving,
cried out and told
of wonders that I feel.
Cried out and told
of wonders that I feel.
Here, my heart,
is so filled with lovi
The curse of knowledge is that as one gains an understanding for the laws of existence, one simultaneously begins to see all which has gone wrong. One suddenly understands the simple, seemingly irrevocable mistakes which the inhabitants of Norrath have made which keep us from true tranquillity – those mistakes which oppose, even defy the laws of existence. The secrets, one discovers, are far from the arcane verses one would expect; far from complex, and eldritch only in a taunting way. 'How could we have been so blind?' one wonders, 'Why can we not turn back?'
Yet to turn back now would be to sacrifice thousands of years. The sacri
[Recitation]
I killed a man, today,
left his body in the bloody sand.
Blood and souls for Arioch.
I killed my lover, today,
I sent her soul to Hell.
Blood and souls for Arioch.
I walk alone and my footprints are blood and ashes.
Dust and cinders are my progeny,
and the deathless sinner gives no apology.
I sold my soul to make myself whole,
and yet I am eternally broken.
In my trammels, I grin a bloody smile,
grip the prison bars with stained swordslinger fingers.
I am the White Wolf,
the Womanslayer,
and the Pale Slave --
to the Prince,
to my pride,
to my weakness,
and my fate;
I know, now, that they are a
Nourishment - I gather it, of course. It provides itself, from one perspective. Or you could say that it is provided by life. I do not entrust the future material of my body to those I know have little to no understanding of it.
Emotion - Provides itself, obviously. I also have a lover to stimulate these extant or dormant emotions. Fair enough, aye? Also, the nourishment that maintains the brain which forms these emotions.
Sensation - Provided by nerves, and the nourishment that maintains them. (Also, see: above.)
Thought - See: all of the above.
I would consider those my needs. Are they not yours?
After looking at Maslow's hierarchy of
It is beginning to look like hackers are our only hope.
The United States government plans to introduce a computerized flight screening system that will link passenger reservation services to a variety of government databases. Such a system could detect whether the same credit card was used to purchase several tickets on the same flight. Or it could light up an unusual pattern of purchases. It could detect whether you've bought weapons, or served time. It could check your immigration status.
It could access your medical records and your education and your previous travel. And it could detect patterns amongst all this data that might mean th
Spin me, twirl me,
Dance me round the floor.
Hug me, tug me,
Embrace me once more.
Push me, pull me,
Capture me in time.
Hold me, fold me,
Devour me in rhyme.
Touch me, feel me;
Do you hear the call?
Scratch me, choke me,
Pin me to the wall.
Nudge me, lunge me,
Turn me inside, out.
Ask me, tell me,
Throw away all doubt.
Trap me, use me,
With a dip and thrust.
Shake me, take me,
Do what will your lust.
Seize me, keep me,
Know that I am yours.
Love me, want me,
Unlock all the doors.
I know you, I need you;
With a kiss, I promise this.
I want you, I love you;
And in this, I promise bliss.
We were defenceless.
The waves of Men swept over us in a tide of iron and blood – trampling across our homeland, crushing the ice beneath them. Their golems, constructed of dead trees, hurled boulders which shattered our beautiful crystalline towers and rolled across our delicate homes – crushing not only all we had constructed, but crushing us, as well. The Men themselves wielded massive tree-limbs impaled with iron spikes, and some even carried monstrous iron mockeries of these tree-limbs. Their barbaric and terrifying weapons cut deep and tore the innocents apart.
Beautiful Elven bodies lay strewn about our homeland, millions of them, mu
The Perfect Government: None? by caolan, literature
Literature
The Perfect Government: None?
Throughout the epochs of humanity's presence on Terra, our planet has harboured many forms of rule. From the tribal leaders and shamans of the ancient world to early structures of monarchy, Greek and Roman democracy, republics, the Roman Empire's dictatorship, the mediaeval rule of religious bodies and, of course, today's modern forms of capitalistic democracy, fascism, and communism.
Each of these regimes has succeeded in bringing a great amount of suffering and death to its own people. Many of them have deteriorated from a status of world domination to total non-existence -- each fall from power, bringing more suffering to the people.
How
Current Residence: United States of Advertising Favourite genre of music: I have great difficulty defining and/or identifying genres. Favourite photographer: Ellestril Operating System: Windows XP, pining over Longhorn. Skin of choice: Classic European Beauty: pale, cool-toned skin with blue eyes and dark hair. Favourite cartoon character: Meier Link Personal Quote: 'I sit in a garden of frozen flowers. I sit in a garden of lies.'
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Yoshitaka Amano and Linda Bergkvist
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So, yes, I have a swollen area about the size of a dime on my left calf with a distinct puncture mark in the centre. It looks exactly like the bite of a large mosquito.
Thing is, it is November 19. In Massachusetts. There have not been mosquitoes since early September, and it is now very well below their minimum survivable temperature. My only explanation is that it may be a small spider bite -- which, in contrast, would make plenty of sense. Especially considering that the flesh there is so dead that I can puncture it with a blunt fingernail.
A nice burn in that area would feel splendid right now.
It will come. Requiring neither faith nor followers, it will come. Baring paths to lands undiscovered, making legends of the forsaken and gods of legends, bringing light to minds darkened by time, it will come.
And I will wait, through anything and any time, for the realisation of the dream so many have doubted so proudly.