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RandalFlagg
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I think OMR has been working out...he's looking pretty buff.
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5975944 - 08/18/06 01:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg
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Robot: Give us a brief rundown of how your trip was (if you learned anything, if it changed you in anyway, etc..)
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5975976 - 08/18/06 02:04 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is just too fucking hilarious. I can hardly contain myself at work.
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abhi
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Where all in Europe are you visiting? I'd like to plan a trip there myself but I'm not sure where exactly I'd want to go.
English speaking countries will make the top of that list though ...
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: abhi]
#5976303 - 08/18/06 04:05 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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My trip went like this: Barcelona ---> Avignon ----> Arles----> Paris----> Amsterdam ---> Arnhem ---> Rotterdam ----> Amsterdam ---> Utrecht ---> Cologne ---> Berlin
Edit: And as far as English speaking countries topping the list aje...everyone speaks English, it's the international language of commerce. If they don't speak it fluently, you can at least get by on it.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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RandalFlagg said: Robot: Give us a brief rundown of how your trip was (if you learned anything, if it changed you in anyway, etc..)
After two weeks of practice throughout the Netherlands and Germany, I finally rolled my last joint, and hopefully as an omen of things to come it was the finest piece of handiwork I’d yet performed. The twist, the roll, came quite easily on the second try, and everything looked even and smooth from the get-go. To add glory to grace, there wasn’t a smidgen of tobacco in this jibber. Nothing but Grey Area sour cream sits inside yonder paper tube, waiting to be smoked by yours truly.
I suppose what I was looking for here was patience, a virtue I think we all possess but which many of us shun. Coming from New York City, one loses sight of patience in the frenetic frenzy that flushes through the streets day and night. Now I have to prove to myself that I can change, that a vacation can change a person in all the ways they wish to change. I am here right now in this moment and that is what matters. This is my only chance. There is no reason to spend my life doing anything half-assed when this is the only shot I’m going to get in this construct of reality. I have no illusions of reincarnation into this same world, this Earth, this life. No, I feel when I die I’ll rejoin the greater Oneness in a fashion that escapes any description that subjective words might offer. When I die I will become an integrated facet of that Oneness and I will slip away. This is a gift, this I we are all given in this life. You are probably only I once. What will you do with your I?
God is not laughing at us, nor cheering us nor damning us neither. He is watching with arched eyebrows, truly curious at what it is we would do with the power of being bestowed upon us. God is an audience, hoping to be entertained and perhaps even enlightened by the time each mortal’s curtain falls. God is nothing more complicated than Life, being, going, endless. We owe it to life to contribute to life, to entertain life. And as for enlightenment, we cannot try too hard to enlighten others, we can only hope that in our actions we do achieve as much. But it is in our power to seek out our own enlightenment, wherever we think we’ll find it, and show life its own light each in our singular way. I don’t know that enlightenment can be “found” but I do know that the search for it, however vague “it” may be, is most likely more important than anything we might find at the end. The treasure is really in the treasure hunt.
Jason and I talked about epiphanies before I left. We talked about taking trips, and how travel almost makes you expect to have epiphanies. What I learned, though, is not to expect life to turn around 360 degrees in one moment. Epiphanies as we understand them exist, and they present themselves to people and people certainly have them - but anyone who sits on their ass waiting for the skies to open up and deliver them a message to change their lives is most likely setting themselves up for an existence of wry dissatisfaction. Every moment is an epiphany if you can find a way to make it one. Every object, every energy wave, every being, every subtle movement and every subtle moment of stillness is an epiphany unfolding. Have you walked by a flower, and looked directly into its face? That is an epiphany – that is life saying Hello. Have you watched a cemetery, still but for the breeze through the trees whose roots dig against the coffins dug around them? Have you watched how the moss creeps across the headstones, growing and changing at a rate of time we simply can’t perceive in passing? That is an epiphany – that is life smirking above the mysteries that surround death. Life is giving you information, you’ve just got to open up the floodgates and let it in. Broaden your perspective. Turn yourself on to the world at large.
Freak the fuck out.
I suppose if I did have an epiphany, I know what it was, and still it was not one all-encompassing moment in which I attained some level of clarity or in which some vision came to me of what I was meant to do in this world. For me the epiphany came when I realized something could change but still remain intact at its core. My baseball was flattened by a goddamn MACK truck. And yet it still floats in the air like it once did. It still feels right, warped as it is. A new game must be played with it, it’ll never be a baseball again, but it’s still a ball screaming to be played with.
I don’t trust anyone that would say they never dance around their room like a total freak now and then.
I refuse to give up on America and I’m damn disappointed in Americans who already have. America is a window into the human psyche, a place where imagination and possibility collide. It is a country of unbelievable excess compared to the other nations of the world. Europeans are plastic bag neurotics. You really have to ask to get one, and almost no one does. Everyone has special shopping bags, or just puts what they bought into the bag they’re already carrying. Makes a ton of sense. But maybe then some future Ricky Fitts would have shitty odds on catching the sight of a plastic bag tornado. Hm.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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If only my jaded cynicism and nihilism could give way to such optimistic musings. If only I could let go of the pursuit of obvious absolutes. If only I could stop and appreciate the little things that make up reality instead of searching for the "neon sign" of undeniable truth; this obsession will drive me mad and it will taint my time upon this Earth. I will die writhing and cursing God for leaving me clueless and lost.
I look forward to your first book....whatever it is. Maybe it will hit me with the force of a solidly hit little-league baseball and save me from my wry dissatisfaction. You had better write an opus. I would be eternally grateful if you completely destroyed my personal ideological fixations by refuting the unreasonable desire for great truths and coherent structures, Oh brother. I certainly have found none of these things in this world so far, yet I still search for them. It would be beneficial for me to break free from these unreasonable expectations of perfection.
Perfection or oblivion...not a very good choice.
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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Trying to be profound when drunk is difficult and it is always a hit-or-miss operation.
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5977695 - 08/19/06 01:23 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was profound once... (reflects on that moment)
...yeah.
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5979219 - 08/19/06 06:02 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said: If only my jaded cynicism and nihilism could give way to such optimistic musings. If only I could let go of the pursuit of obvious absolutes. If only I could stop and appreciate the little things that make up reality instead of searching for the "neon sign" of undeniable truth; this obsession will drive me mad and it will taint my time upon this Earth. I will die writhing and cursing God for leaving me clueless and lost.
I look forward to your first book....whatever it is. Maybe it will hit me with the force of a solidly hit little-league baseball and save me from my wry dissatisfaction. You had better write an opus. I would be eternally grateful if you completely destroyed my personal ideological fixations by refuting the unreasonable desire for great truths and coherent structures, Oh brother. I certainly have found none of these things in this world so far, yet I still search for them. It would be beneficial for me to break free from these unreasonable expectations of perfection.
Perfection or oblivion...not a very good choice.
not that i really know but i'm sure OMR doesn't stand 100% behind what he wrote... i was thinking that while reading his last post. i have the same line of thoughts occationally and even though i can articulate them and be sure of my own right/wrongs there's always the next second to prove that life is just a little more then you can explain.. so yeah he's right, like so many befor... it's about the chase right!? it's just that the catch is so far away you're not exectly sure where you're running to some times so it might sound to you like he's making perfect sense that you can't except but only understand and agree with while really he's just like you?
we all strive to make sense of everything and keep it up when really i think all it takes it to realize that nothing is ever really clear cut. the trick is to except it and embrace the uncertenty of life... and most certenly, live! with every breath and every thought
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: I don’t trust anyone that would say they never dance around their room like a total freak now and then.
I can't dance worth a shit...but you caught me.
I really enjoyed reading this post. And while I didn't read all of your travel journal as I had planned on, what I read was interesting; I enjoyed experiencing Europe, a place I probably won't ever see with my own two eyes, through your eyes and emotions.
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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: demiu5]
#5980899 - 08/20/06 04:38 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cool posts, OMR.
I'm going to be backpacking around europe in the future, too. I'll post about it in this forum.
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