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Posted by
callei on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 09:02 AM PST
Question questions everywhere. Questioning the universe is a good thing™. Questioning yourself is invaluable for understanding yourself. Questioning others is often perilous and strange. The questioning spirit is the common thread though this multi-post. I have hacked them down to manageable sizes to give the questions more punch. Well not really, I cut them down to make them shorter and more garbled. Or more clear in some cases. Question and answer, answer and question. Its like a Baptist hymn. Or a campfire. See if you can tell which question was with each answer before I decided to mix them around.
Q: What is your castle? Who are the dreamers of our day and what will their dreams create?
My life is as good as it gets, until i grow the balls (real or imaginary) that it takes to walk away from this.
Perhaps this is why lies are so natural to us, for they are what our entire world accounts for.
It’s scary to think how far we have to go. How many will suffer, and be confused and baffled at this odd world we reside in.
Q: Have you ever watched something for so long, that it became a part of your life; or even more, a part of yourself?
My life is as good as it gets, until I grow the balls (real or imaginary) that it takes to walk away from this.
Popular opinion once considered Leonardo da Vinci an ingenious, crazy old man.
Perhaps this is why lies are so natural to us, for they are what our entire world accounts for.
Q: When physical law is merely an illusion, when human nature is not what it seems, when color and experiences are merely falsehoods, how do we deduce, and where do we turn to? Ourselves perhaps? And if so, how?
In fact, I applaud activists for doing such a thing and I definitely approve of those who vote whenever they can, even if they vote for something I do not agree with.
An investment is "a possession acquired and kept for future benefit."
I wish I had the wisdom of cats.
My life is as good as it gets, until I grow the balls (real or imaginary) that it takes to walk away from this.
Q: Why is it, that in the proverbial "corporate America", if you work and slave for an entity that you actually develop a certain amount of loyalty towards, it will in return do nothing but see you as a number?
It’s scary to think how far we have to go. How many will suffer, and be confused and baffled at this odd world we reside in.
A thought must be dreamt before it becomes concrete reality.
How can the crows be the same, how can freedom be the same?
Q: I cannot force anyone who supports PETA to stop - it is a choice of their own to make. For those who do, though, I humbly ask you, "Why?"
It isn’t a far stretch to think that, considering dreams are one of the most promising pieces of evidence that the mind is doing more than we think, and these fantastic and often disturbing episodes are similar in nature to what plagues the “mad” in their wakened states, that perhaps the minds of these individuals is merely doing what ours refuses to do.
How can the crows be the same, how can freedom be the same?
An investment is "a possession acquired and kept for future benefit."
Q: Right now, shouldn't we be working harder to stop criminals from obtaining guns and stop trying to ban them?
Members of the group demonstrated in front of the Toronto hospital in 2003 during the SARS scare, insisting that the epidemic was spread by animal breeding.
In early December, the news has exposed them to millions of Fox news viewers and how they were connected to domestic terrorism.
I wish I had the wisdom of cats.
Do you think any of those answers goes with the question? Do you think any of the answers didn’t go with the questions? Do you think I am so slovenly as to let the asker’s answer sit next to its mate? Of course not. Where would the challenge be in that?
As usual it is an oleo, a hodge-podge of ideas and people, blended together to form something unique and vibrant and as short lived as an infants mood. Or an editor’s mood, come to that.
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Re: Multi Question
by Devin (devin-at-vibechild-dot-com)
on Mar 18, 2004 - 10:16 AM
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25 Submissions in the inbox and that's all the wisdom? Bad.
I like this multipost format though - saves having to wade through the whole post and try and figure out what they're talking about.
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Re: Multi Question
by Shade (Shade@Gothcult.com)
on Mar 18, 2004 - 06:34 PM
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From complete gibberish comes a kind of zen wisdom. I like it! This reads like osmething you have to read either multiple times, or exceedingly high on something before you gain the final note of wisdom. Of course it could all just be gibberish, but that's what makes it so much fun. It fucks with you.
Note: this is not something to attempt to write and submit as a "cool" submission. I have seen Callei eyeballing the new like of hand guns at the gun shows.
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Haiku
by Sticupus (sticupus@hotmale.com)
on Mar 19, 2004 - 06:28 PM
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It was December
The News has exposed millions
Boy becomes a man
Toronto SARS scare
Lies are very natural
Boy becomes a man
Odd world we reside
Scary, confused and baffled
Boy becomes a man
As good as it gets
Leonardo Da Vinci
Boy becomes a man
Freedom be the same
Ingenious, crazy old man
Boy becomes a man
Until I grow balls
I have the wisdom of cats
Boy becomes a man
The best haikus end in "Boy becomes a man"
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Re: Multi Question
by Squire-of-Gothos (Brian0049@hotmail.com)
on Mar 21, 2004 - 04:04 AM
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What everyone seems to fail to realise, is thta this whole 'multi post' thing, is just another of callei's sinister plans to take credit for our work! She gets the points, and we get the snub! I for one say poppycock! Poppycock, bulderdash, and toushe`. Well, maybe not touche`, but you know what I mean.
And on that note, reality, as it pertains to my particular interpretation of it, is flawed, insofar as I seem to be able notice the seems in it's fabric. But perhaps that is becuase it is merely a net scooping me from the safe haven of personal, physical, and emotional realization. Or maybe I just wanted people to recognize which parts I wrote, without being obvious. God, I hate myself today.
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just to clear up some "confusion"
by callei on Mar 21, 2004 - 07:40 AM
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I'd like to thank squire (this time, but its been others in the past) for the prod to talk about the multi post thing and why and how it gets done. It’s not about posting the worst stuff that comes in to makes fools out of people. Random groupings of articles don’t just get slapped together with a flame intro and some bolding. Rather, multiposts are a postmodern act of tribal performance art.
Most stuff gets sent back to the author if I really think it needs work, is totally off-topic (diary entries that whine about being tooo goth with poetry embedded in it), or would be received badly here. The stuff that is one off political commentary (what I think about some policy that someone is enacting and how it will effect others, as compared to they came and took my hard drives because they think I am a terrorist, thanks patriot act) gets considered and is sometimes posted and sometimes sent back. The blatant cries for help are answered. The partial fiction (first chapters and does anyone want to see what happens next?) gets sent back with notes and offers of help and support. The bits that end up in multi-posts are things that fall outside of these easy lines. They are things that say something, tell it in the authors’ own voice, and catch me.
When I make a multi-post I look at the slush pile. I look for these works. I love to try to find a common theme or underlying question or mood. I look for commonality and difference. I look for key words or phrases. I love for things that tell me the person is putting their heart and mind into it, not just one or the other. I look for works that blend with each other. I don’t look at who wrote them. I always end up in multi-posts, because I write the stuff that shows the links, connections, themes, or moods.
So far most everyone that has their stuff in a multi-post as gone on to be a part of Shmeng. They tend to become more active and more participatory. The worst has already happened, they have been hazed or punished or acknowledged, and seem to feel free to interact more and in more involving ways. This is part of my intent with a multipost; to show them, and the readers, how people's voices work together.
Now how is this performance art? Or tribal? Or post-modern? I put a lot of time and care into the formation of a multi-post. Each one is different and reflects the writers and readers, the community, of that moment. They are performance art in that as you read them you participate the in act of tribal acceptance and acknowledgement, hazing, praise, and community. Each writer is a "media" and i blend those media together. You pity them, laugh at them, try to understand them, and eventually know them. That gives them acceptance and attention, the things they wanted. I don’t tell you what to think of each writer, or even separate one author from the next. What I do is take them out of the context of "noobie" and surround their words with the words of a community (myself and the other writers "featured"). You the member/reader continue that act by commenting and accepting and teasing and acknowledging them. We all make the art of a multi-post together. And it takes all of us to make that art.
The tribal part is built-in to the production of the post itself. I stand for them before you. I present them to you with my words. I am one of us, and I am one of them. I am the bridge, the catalyst that allows the larger community to accept more of its people into itself. Tribal rules aren’t "nice"; they are functional. They have rites of passage. They have rights of acceptance. This is one of this tribe's rites of passage. You read my words and their words. You see me stand with them and against them. You get to choose if you are with me in considering their words and being for and against them, or if you prefer to ignore them. Again, it is something we all do together, with them.
The postmodern-ness of it comes into play in that i mix my words with theirs. I de
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