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Revelations, chapter nive, verse sumpteen.Jun. 15th, 2009 @ 04:27 pm
And there shall be onto you a great burden, such as not seen by man before, nor thereafter.
And you shall be as a pride of lions in a great bathtub.
For the Lord hath called upon you and made you whole.
And he exacts his toll.

EternityOct. 24th, 2007 @ 08:16 pm
... is a compound interest, come to think of it.

Technically speaking, whatever happens, stays happened. However, how many of us do live in their minds at a specific time when somethning particular HADN'T happened yet?

Cognitive sciences can not make sense of the perception of time, try as they might. We live in certain slices of time. In our head, there is no coherent future and no coherent past, everything is mish-mashed around, depending on context and subject. And thus, our sense of time is confused when confronted with the ACTUAL outside time. Thus, the feelings of lost time, deja vu, et cetera.

Before the Strange ManJan. 1st, 2006 @ 06:53 pm
My partner smirked, continuing to tap the palm of his hand with the pen. He was wearing a deep-blue shirt with a black tie, hair neatly combed, cologne. While I was in a T-shirt with Snoopy carrying a surfboard, old Levi's that had been washed colorless, and dirty tennis shoes. To anyone else, he clearly was the regular one.
/H.Murakami

18Dec. 29th, 2005 @ 01:02 am
Naturally, if I were in my own mind, I would have never gone through that backyard. It went for a mile - dead as a mine. Deserted. Like a drift. A yellow stone gut. Cut and forgotten. Lined by the mighty backs of the houses. Of unknown centuries. Of any era. The walls were a meter thick. The roofing had sagged. The narrow doors of the kitchen-entrances were nailed shut with planks. The plastering gone, the blooded ancient bricks glared gloomily.

Everything is a sign.Dec. 9th, 2005 @ 05:39 pm
And beginnings are passing under the slow sign of Aquarius. No. Not slow. Adequate. Some of Zen proponents do not tire to repeat that there is no such thing as inconsequential details. To them then, the adequate sign of Aquarius. And the remembrance that each beginning is also an end.
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-- Ecclesiastes 1: 9 (KJV)
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