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Proposition
Posted Oct 30, 2000
After thinking a lot about it, I have decided that I would like to do a serious in depth entry on the street performers of Chicago. I would actually like to go in to the city and talk to a few of them, discover the various reasons for which they do what they do, see how life is for them, see how the city treats them. I'd also like to speak with the city and see what the Daily administration stance is on them. Last year there was a possible ban on street performers hovering in the air. I am not sure what happened with it though.
Unfortunately I am not sure when I can go to chicago (it has to be before it gets cold) or how much of this I am really capable of accomplishing.
I want to do this though.
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Requiem For A Cyborg....
Posted Oct 26, 2000
"History is a lie agreed upon." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
-George Orwell
memories....
Electrical impulses along preformed neural pathways which travel between your conscious and subconscious mind. Often along the way they become distorted and we can no longer remember things as we once could.
In the end, they are little more than compromises to ease dissonance within one's self and with others.
When we talk to others about things that happened long ago, we can never seem to agree upon the details, each having taken something different out of the experience. This often brings about contempt, segregation and even wars. In weak or unstable minds such battles may occur as well, tearing away at one's sanity, dipping them deeper into their own madness. To avoid this, we often sacrifice our own beliefs rather than our lives or sound minds to avoid pain, conflict or further loss of sanity.
Little more than an advanced reflex action.
It often seems that we are little more than machines...
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Avalon
Posted Oct 17, 2000
It was particularly foggy this morning.
Not foggy in the more wordly sense where many times in some places you cannot see far past the bridge of your nose type fog. This was about 15 yards clear visibility. But it was foggy none the less.
Especially for a midwestern US town hundreds of miles away from any major bodies of water at nine in the morning. The most we have is a small river which barely qualifies as a creek. Its about ankle deep and 15 feet wide. Hardly a river.
Anyhow, I love fog. It has this mysterious almost romantic quality to it.
I was once canoeing in the wilderness up north and this dense mystic fog set in over the entire lake as dusk set in. The water became a bit rough as we paddled between the cliffs topped with pines and overhanging moss.
After we pulled our canoes to the rocks and and made camp for the night, I went off into the woods in search of dry wood. The fog cover the ground like a thin blanket and extended into the reaches of the forest....
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Awakenings
Posted Oct 17, 2000
So, here I am.
A freshborn member of h2g2.
In some people's eyes, the single greatest site on the web.
Well, it definitely ranks up there.
I've been looking it over for about a week now.
I find no flaw.
I find enlightenment and exceptional joy from reading it.
As it should be.
More later.
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