amitabha

Time: 7:23 PM
Drink: Water
Music: Hooverphonic - Electro Shock Faders

Pop Quiz:

1: If you were a smell, what smell would you be?

2: When you die, does consciousness continue or does everything just stop, like when you turn off a television?

3: Reincarnation: Yes / No ? If yes, since population is always increasing, where do the extra souls come from?

4: Animals have souls: Yes / No? If yes, what differentiates the qualities of their soul from yours, and are they interchangeable? If no, why not?

5: Everyone exists for their own purposes, and we each randomly interact with each other through the course of our own journeys, or all the people that you interact with in your life are sprites placed there for a brief time during your interaction for some reason, and disappear once your interaction stops? Or?

6: Is life pre-scripted?

7: I respect, despite that I don't agree with, Osama Bin Laden, and all his fellow rebels for fighting for what they believe in. They are heroic. I am terribly wrong, or this is a logical perception if you remove the American world view?

8: Life imitates Art, or Art imitates Life?

9: Cats are Aliens: Yes / No?

10: And my favorite: If god is infinitely powerful, and infinitely creative, could god make a mountain that even he/she couldn't move?




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I don't feel like getting rid of this journal entry quite yet, so I'm just going to add on to the bottom of it. So I'm sitting here at school on my laptop... I've got another 15 minutes before class starts. There is a girl sprawled out on the couch across the way from me completely asleep, and I'm sitting here wondering what she's dreaming about.. if anything. I rode my bike to school, as I always do, and on the ride up, as I weaved in and out of cars on the road, I wished that I could duplicate myself 50 times over, and shadow all the people I passed to see what kind of lives they lead. I'm curious to know what life is like for other people, and what goes on inside their heads. I want to know if human experiences are common, or if there truly are unique things happening out there. Most times, even if I can't personally relate with someone and what they're dealing with, or going through, I still feel like I can relate to them and that their experiences aren't far off from something I've felt at one point. Basically, every emotion and experience is just a small permutation of another. I don't know.. I could be totally off, but that's why I want to duplicate myself, so I can find out.

I guess I could also answer some of my own questions.. but that might take some of the fun away from everything.... oh well.. I've got 10 minutes.. I'll give it a shot.

1: I would be the smell of wet cement, while it's still being mixed in the vat.
2: I believe that consciousness continues on, however I think all recollection of past experiences is erased.. sort of like hitting reset.. which ties into.....
3: Yes, I believe in reincarnation. I believe that when you die, everything hits reset, and you start all over again, except you are not you.. where life ends, consciousness begins. Time is irrelevant.. whatever it is that occupies my mind right now, can also occupy the mind of someone living in the 18th century, after my death. It's very complicated.
4: Animals have souls, and they could easily be interchangeable with our own.. in fact.. a soul is a soul is a soul. What changes is the vehicle.
5: The second part of that answer.
6: Life is completely chaotic, and unscripted.. the beauty of it is, we seem to think what happens is "meant to be".
7: Osama Bin Laden is a hero, yes. Not my hero, but he's a hero. But I don't have any heros. I respect him more than I respect our president.
8: Life and Art coexist simultaneously, occasionally echoing each other.
9: Yes, cats are definitely aliens.
10: God is a constuct of our imagination that represents the reliance of our mind on the power of the soul and the unknown. sorta.