why is it only that the young and old wonder ( Read more... )

i just lit a candle. it was a candle that i'd forgotten that i'd purchased. it has an edge to it, the wax lights up and is a light color that casts it's light down several inches through it's mass in a opache luminescence. the maker must have known what they were doing. there are bits of dark wax encrusted on the outside of the candle. it's ( Read more... )

( i damn well near fell off my chair laughing )

so the last few weeks has seen me out of the city. i need it more than ever. once a week i've been out to slopes and valleys. first, powerstomping [the new word for snowshoeing] at stevens on the 11th, then mailbox, that insanely steep wakeup call by the exit 38 fire station on the 18. there's no reccord of the long stop ridgewalker and i took ( Read more... )

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able, and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able or willing?
Then why call him god.
-Epicurus

i hate to admit it but this cosmic trigger book is actually pretty badass. i'm no longer the sort that will throw his hands up in wonder at existential bullshit, living with a CHID major for a while killed that, but a second opinion on the idea of synchronicity and an actual *term* to put to the construct that i've been working on for years in my ( Read more... )