Apocalypse means revelation and it's not a self-fulfilling prophesy.

[jackshoegazer]

A while ago, I developed this philosophy which I call "Zen Cynicism" in which you become enlightened, realize your connection and relation to every person, creature, plant, and mineral in the world, your place in the vastly infinite web of the universe and you hate every minute of it because it does you no good in a practical, day-to-day sense of the world.

It won't keep you from getting a parking ticket, or do your laundry, or make you loud neighbors shut the fuck up.

It doesn't stop wars.

It doesn't make your lost love come back.

But it's there. And you're aware. And it's beautiful.

So you're ecstatic and miserable at the same time.

Just like God.

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[anubis75.livejournal.com]

Just like God.

Yeah like the God of the Deists. Me gusta!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Who ever said interconnectedness was supposed to make us happier? While your Zen Cynicism does amuse me, it's not true Zen, because you're still clinging to a Purpose, to a Reason.

But I'm just playing Devil's Advocate today. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It is pure Zen, until the Cynicism gets in there. Which crushes Zen. And it's a sort of flipflop between the two.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

More like the God of the dualists. Just before Kether, right after the first divine split :)

[gutzilla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm Zen Cynical alright! But when good things happen, you can appreciate them all the better I say.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

And the Zen crushes the cynicism.

Though Zen isn't necessarily about unity.

I still love it, though. I'm just feeling conversational today. Too little human interaction lately.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I'm feeling more covnersational as well. And productive. For instance, I made omlettes this morning and I think I'm almost done with your painitng already.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Yay, a new convert! I should make membership cards and develop some sort of baptismal initation ritual :P

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

We could call ourselves Zencicles.

[gutzilla.livejournal.com]

That's good.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

My painting!?

:D

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Yesm your Valentine's Day painting I never got around to doing because I was taking care of Your Toothlessness :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Yay!

You know, I still haven't had any migraines since then. Yay again!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

We are so going to this (http://hex.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/holidays/rockies2002/carhenge.html) someday!

[enodia.livejournal.com]

You nailed it with this one.

It is a wide gulf to cross between inner and outer perfections. Best.

[anima.livejournal.com]

I'm a convert

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Maybe I will make Membership Cards :P

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I should write a book.

Zencicles: How to Live with Zen Cynicism.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I've heard about that before. We should go on winter solstice :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

That would be great. Or summer, 'cause winter is my birthday and it's cold outside. Nebraska isn't that far from here!

I really want to go traveling with you this year- maybe up to Canada to see my family, go to the ranch (which isn't a ranch anymore, but...). I wish you could come to Montana with me. I really want to take some extra time off to check out Glacier NAtional Park, do some comping/hiking...

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

so added to my memories.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Sweet, I am REMEMBERED!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

dane cook has my favorite comedy routine about being remembered when you're gone....

you can do it every day, just do a little something so that people will remember you after you're gone. like if you see a kid eating an ice cream cone just go up to him and smash it into his face and yell "YOU REMEMBER ME FOREVER!!!".

because YOU KNOW That when that kid is fifty he is going to be telling that story "once i was eating an ice cream cone and a man came up to me. i did not know this man. he smashed my ice cream treat in and around my eyes and yelled at me 'you fuckin' remember me forever'"

but i did NOT say fucking.

he deserves to get ice cream smashed in and around his eyes because he is a lying 50 year old man. i did NOT say fucking.

dane cook is a funny biotch, i highly reccomend him.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's farking hilarious!

I did not say FUCKING!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i can make burnies or something. remind me and i'll have them for you tuesday at dinner party madness.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

HEY REMEMBER TO BURN ME SOME FUCKING DANE COOK!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

remind me after sunday, i can't burn cds here at the shop because i have not my files.

you silly motherfucker! you deserve to have ice cream smashed in and around your eyes because you are a lying 27 year old man!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm a lying 28 year old man who will turn 29 this summer. ACK! Get out the shovel and the diapers and the senior citizen discount!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

my bad, oopies.

[omnedai.livejournal.com]

oh, what a level we share.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me!