h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

just a piece of advice to anyone who is thinking about falling in love: don't. you know that sayng "it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"? they lied. have a nice day.

AMEN SISTA!!!

~me

You're saying that Tennyson lied? You're saying that one of the greatest poets who ever lived LIED?

well, yes. or, at least, i was. i'm not sure any more. i was a bit bitter that day, as i'm sure you noticed, so i really couldn't say what i believe now. but i think that, at least for the moment, i am better off for not dealing much w/emotion. it's just a rather large hassle and causes a lot of swelling around the eyes and nose, sort of like allergies, except it doens't just happen in the spring. and besides, i'm a poet, and i lie all the time. some of my best poems were completely false, but they had nice, pretty words and pictures, and they made people feel good. hope is probably more important than truth in most cases.

To steal a quote from my favourite movie, "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things; and no good thing ever dies."

So I'd have to agree with you about hope...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty
That is all ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know."

So: I have only ever hoped for beauty, not the opposite. Does that mean that I hope for truth?

*scampers in, realizing forum has been taken over. wonders what i would look like scampering....*

I hope that we all hope for truth, it's really all the more we can hope to hope for....

The only reason I disagree with the quote is that, in some circumstances, loving does more harm than good for a person. Since it's not true all the time, it's false. But maybe that's just cause of recent events of my own.

*scampers off*

Oh - I'm sorry... didn't mean to overtake any forums. Usually I lots of trouble just keeping up with them.

Of course, in the "real world", all beauty is not truth; and certainly all truth is not beautiful. But I think a lot of beauty is truth. So I'll just go with that...

Nah, ya didn't take over... just more I realized it was more of a conversation between you and Skie than anything else... I don't like to envade people's discussions, even if I know one of the people and know (hopefully) she won't be offended.

offended? moi? never! of course, i shall remind you (politely and with utmost geniality) that this was my journal entry.

hope. beauty. truth. hmmm... i think that if something is truly beautiful... o, wait, i was going to say it is truth, but then again, can i say something is *truly* beautiful w/out it being truth? or is that a contradictory in terms? now i've just confused myself! well, you know what i mean. if it's not artificial beauty... there's a quote form Ani DiFranco: "truth is beauty, money is beauty, hell, beauty is beauty sometimes" i think she was basically making fun of the whole idea of beauty being anything other than itself. which is why beauty i think can be *honest* but not exactly *Truth* itself, ya know? ok, getting very deep into abstraction now...

... anyway. yes. what were we talkign about originally? love? where did that go? tata.

Love is so difficult to deal with when one wonders about the truth in the universe...

Anyway, love is beautiful (at least, I've been told, I wouldn't know from total personal experience....). Truth is beautiful. Those little buttercups that grow on my lawn, they're beautiful. The little scar on my favorite horse's nostril... that is beautiful (okay, it was more cute, work with me here). Of course, right now, everything's beautiful to me... I'm in a "beautiful" mood, if you don't mind the pun.

Okay. I'll stop there, seeing as my train of thought has crashed and now is being inspected by a clean-up crew.

sigh...

that's all i have for right now.

ok, i lied. love is a beautiful thing. it is. trust me. i was angry at it for a while, me and love were not on speaking terms, but now i have forgiven it and moved on. this doesn't mean it's still around, just that i have forgiven it for leaving. sigh. does this make sense? ok, advice, never try to personify emotion (esp. love).

not personify an emotion? isn't that against the writer's oath? but the whole thing makes sense.

btw, i will get back to your email (about Revelations) asap, but i do sort of have a term paper to write for clouser, as well as that annoying trig stuff to do tonight, so i will have to do it later. g'bye.

I think did a very good job trying to explain an emotion... or emotions... or whatever it was...

Mmmm.... trig... can I help? I like trig...

I think I've said it before... vectors... *shudder......!*

I think I've said it before... vectors... *shudder......!*

Heh heh... yep, I think we've had this conversation somewhere before...

I just had to study matrices. If there's one thing I hate, it's matrices. I used to hate vectors, but that was last week, because I was studying them last week. Next week we will be doing "advanced calculus", whatever that is - I have a feeling that it is going to be VERY nasty...

you guys are too clever for me!

Er... no.

You're the noe with the A in Sassaman's class, my friend.

I never said I could actually DO maths... I'm just *supposed* to be able to do it.

Er... by the way, I had at look at The Echo homepage and read some of the stuff - it's wonderful!