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Humanity's Nature

Pyro

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Into the horizon of eternity and into the crest of infinity fly the flags of every mortal death, standing watch over a pointless grave.
The dead father salutes his dead son. Standing, staring into the grass. All of life's work gone needlessly into the dirt, because he was never allowed to make the difference he could have.
Called to war, in a time of peace...
The battle for the young man's soul was not the epic Good versus Evil, it was the Lost fighting the Alone. The realization of this came swift and struck like a bullet through his heart.
The catalyst of destruction? His sensitivity to the world around him. Word destoried him because he refused to turn off like all the others had.
He believed that there was still hope for the free and open. He believed that caring and sensitivity is what made humans beautiful, and after seeing the world around him turn off, soul by soul, he tried to join the rest.
He acted tough and careless. Nothing could get through to him so it seemed. From the onlooker he melted into the background of the city becoming people painted cityscape. He even convinced himself of this lie, that he cared little about the ways of the people who spoke to him.
In the end there was nothing but a blind sided shot through the chest. Murderous word caused his soul to tear apart and body to fail. Why would someone spend time to pick him apart, just to have fun and cause him purposful angst? He didn't want to play anymore, and he kept pretending to not care.
Because this other person shot hateful words and words meant to tear and bite, and because of his being a care-full being, the words bit, and tore, and in the end he was murdered.
The other person just laughing it off. He had his fun. Next.
What now? Well the father turns off completely now, and just waits to die to meet his son again. And the -true- lesson of humanity is learned. The lesson that humans are by nature evil beings.
Fuck humanity and their careless games.
Pyro - Tim
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Once one is convinced that their efforts make no difference...it is ONLY THEN that the battle has been lost.
Sure, humanity IS a losing battle....but within the battalion of humans capable of still remaining humans...there remains a sense of victory. It is that little circle of tired weary souls that you find LIFE in a world of walking zombies.
Loads of luvs,
-Amina
 
You write your feelings out and aloud through
your choice and arrangement of words beautifuly. Your words are very powerful and sincere here. I love your style.
Humanity is something we all share, and you have made a tremendous difference in my life.
I respect you immensly and would shake your hand and treat us to a pizza with pepperoni and two cokes.
I AM, feelin' ya...
Keith
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I think this post has more of *me* than any other post in words that was meant to be creative that I've written.
I like it. I think I will try again next time to make it more like a mirrored reflection than a reflection in the murky waters of creativty.
Thanks Noodler.
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I'll buy the drinks.
Tim
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Aesthetically, this piece captures the essence of its subjects, both the individual and the collective. It is very powerful and depressing.
At its core, I disagree wholeheartedly with its conclusions. As long as there is one person strong enough to lift the guidon, the battle is not lost. It only takes one person to find the strength to continue forward, despite the obstacles, despite the fallen, despite the darkness. Just one. And the lost will follow.
Be the deejay.
Peace,
xtremeink
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*sigh* This made me cry ya know. Maybe because of my stress filled days, maybe because of the background music... But I fear it's because I identify with it too much. I want to be good, I want to be sweet and happy and carefree...I want to know everyone. When I sit at a stoplight and look at the people in the cars beside mine, I want to know what they're thinking. I study their faces and try to imagine...like on the REM video *everybody hurts.* I want to share in their joy and happiness, I want to console them when they're stuck in their pain and sorrow. These people that I don't even know...But I want to regardless, because the more people you know, the more you learn and the broader your horizons become, and the better your chance to inspire someone, or to be inspired. But the truth of the matter is, they don't care, about this girl who sits beside them in class or stands behind them in line at the grocery store. They have their circle of friends, and that's enough for them. No need to stimulate anything more, except for the physically beautiful...... And so people make me sad. I cry about it sometimes, like when I read this piece.... I want to change them, but being a homely, ordinary, plain girl...I don't know how.....
love to all those who understand,
Ski
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"Shine on you crazy diamond....."
 
[I want to change them, but being a homely, ordinary, plain girl...I don't know how.....]
Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them. Talk to them.
Don't think. Do it.
Tell them what you just wrote here.
Peace,
xtremeink
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Aesthetically, this piece captures the essence of its subjects, both the individual and the collective. It is very
powerful and depressing.
At its core, I disagree wholeheartedly with its conclusions. As long as there is one person strong enough to lift
the guidon, the battle is not lost. It only takes one person to find the strength to continue forward, despite the
obstacles, despite the fallen, despite the darkness. Just one. And the lost will follow.
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Of course I disagree
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. One person falls so easily. And to me, the lost are already dead. The dying leading the dead is what it sounds like to me. That's no noble. Just shut up and die!
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I honestly have *no* faith in humanity. I have faith in those whom I hold close, and care about those that I care about. Maybe it's a short-sighted nature to my character, but people are lost. They can find themselves again, but it's done by turning off, not opening up.
When that that one fateful person opens up and continues the front lines of the war, and everyone stabs him in the heart... what then? It's so much easier to shut yourself down.
Unfortunatly some of us, no matter what we *say* can't do that. But that exterior has to be up or else the evil humans will take advantage.
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Pyro
 
RaveAngel: *my* advise would be to not talk to them. People will take advantage of you and eat and spit you out like the bones of a chicken dinner
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. Just "talk to" the ones who mean something to you, all others will reveal themselves to you if they are worth your time.
"Seek and ye shall find" - people stabbing you for their own evil purposes.
:P
Pyro
 
That's what makes me so sad... That people can so easily dismiss and disregard the feelings of others. That people can take advantage of someone's love and givingness. It's happened to me on more than one occassion, and each hurts just as much as the last, if not more. Like being stabbed in an already existing wound. It baffles me sometimes, the fact that I have so much empathy for mankind....because I've had some pretty awful things happen to me. Yes my life could be a lot worse, but that doesn't lessen my pain and suffering. *sigh* And the worst part is that even those close to you can, and most likely will, hurt you. To my best friend I was sweet, innocent, gentle, caring, understanding, empathatic, loving...and yet still, he so easily broke my heart and spit on it in front of my face. He did it constantly, until finally I couldn't take it anymore. And so now he's no longer my best friend, or any friend for that matter..... Anyway, I don't really know what my point here is... I guess it just felt good to babble. To those of you who know how to treat people, much love. To those of you who don't, a painful tear.
*sigh*
Ski
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"Shine on you crazy diamond....."
 
The road that leads downhill is always the easiest to take.
The primal nature of humanity is a product of Darwinism, the ultimate survival mechanism. It is what blinds us into believing that the world is predatory and that we must vigilantly stand watch against each other. It is why we are so easily conditioned to cynicism. Our brain eats that shit up because it tastes good! Our Western society puts a fresh diet of bad vibes in front of us every day. And it becomes easy to forget the positive when there is a ready supply of negative available.
But we are capable of so much more than that. You must make it happen! And when it seems like the mountain is insurmountable, take smaller steps. And don't despair when the evil humans carry the day; another will come, as it always has. The sun always rises.
I know it is easier to tune out. But I also know that the road leads up as well as down, and that I am not the only one who can walk uphill. Noble? Fuck noble. Read Immanuel Kant. Learn something besides selfishness and push the boundaries of humanity higher.
Peace,
xtremeink
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"If only you believe like I believe, we'll get by.
If only you believe in miracles, so would I."
- N.S.
 
Very powerful words, and a brave concept to try and live on a choice by choice basis.
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"Satyricon" by Meat Beat Manifesto covers this idea a bit...
Give it a listen "Pyro."
You might have a new idea or something if you choose to at least hear an alternate view.
Some messeges are greater than their messengers.
Love is greater a giver than apathy and contempt.
As long as your perception remains static so will your heart and your mind.
So just let go...
Relax...
Enjoy the ride...
With open arms even...
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pyro should read...1984...a clockwork orange...lord of the flies. all that dark cynical business. though maybe some ayn rand for some bits of hope. or somethin. or maybe the island by aldous huxley. those are your assignments. hehe.
i enjoy cynicism. i dunno how much (or how long) i can subscribe to it. it is hard to figure out how you want to exist when fewer and fewer people seem like viable interacting options (that sounds silly)...and how much my view of others is a reflection of my cynical thoughts rather than peoples' actual actions and motives...dunno dunno. tra la. dunno.
good day sirs.
strawberry
 
Fuck. Thats all l can say, Fuck.
ah well, l think i'll go and write.
thanks pyro.
and just to jump in, its not people it really isnt. People are a product of society.
 
>>people are a product of society<<
This is very very true. But my dear, people are the main ingredient in society. The people are what made society and our culture what it is today. True??
luvins,
Ski
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"Shine on you crazy diamond....."
 
Yes and NO. I think institutions made what we are today, although people created institutions. But there comes a time when they out grow the people that made them and become a self-serving entity.
Check out the 'night of the red sky' post in words. You'll see what i mean.
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IT has always been expain. But how do you explain an emotion? A state of mind? 50yrs ago people tried one way, 5000yrs ago they tried another. It doesnt matter what explination you cling on to as they all lead down the same path.
 
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