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     CommentAuthorDanieru
   • CommentTimeJul 9th 2006 edited

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   "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

   Reflections on the nature of boredom please... Be interesting ;)
2. • CommentAuthorwhat?
   • CommentTimeJul 9th 2006

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   Right, you bugger, Catch 22, what was the name of the character in the hospital who sought to increase the subjective lenghth of his life by cultivating boredom?
   Why is it that my most persistent nocturnal fantasy is of sittting alone in a near invisible habitat nestled in the Oort cloud?
   There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
   Bout the raisin of the wrist...
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     CommentAuthorDanieru
   • CommentTimeJul 9th 2006 edited

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   Oh yes! Dunbar, a fictional angel in the heavenly kingdom of tedium. God's favourite messenger:

   "Do you now how long a year takes when it's going away?" Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. "This long." He snapped his fingers. "A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man."
   
   "Old? I'm not old"
   
   "You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow time down?" Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.
   
   "Well, maybe it is true," Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. "Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?"
   
   "I do," Dunbar told him.
   
   "Why?" Clevinger asked.
   
   "What else is there?"

   I tend to find my life splits off into segments when I glance sidelong at it in such a way. A nano-second since I emerged from Junior School, fresh faced freedom flaring ahead of me; a million years pass between the start of my daily job and its end. Boredom vs meditation vs retrospective mind fucks... Where do you want to go today?
4. • CommentAuthorEdwardTBabinski
   • CommentTimeJul 16th 2006

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   The Bible says that on the fourth day God created the stars. However what's more remarkable is that he is creating them still, though that latter fact wasn't deemed worthy of mention by any of the inspired authors of the Bible.
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     CommentAuthorDanieru
   • CommentTimeJul 19th 2006

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   God made the stars?
   
   Existence is no fun without mysteries.
   
   Thanks for nothing
6. • CommentAuthorwhat?
   • CommentTimeAug 16th 2006 edited

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   MY GOD MADE YOUR GOD yes, drunk....i wrote a novel and three short stories, talking to myself this afternoon...narrative eh?
   
   13 hours later...all bulldust
7. • CommentAuthorwhat?
   • CommentTimeAug 18th 2006 edited

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   Well, days have past, and I'am still angry, insanely angry...that doesn't look right...gorge on zombie blood you shitbgs and choke...The mystery is that you're stiil here...
   
   What was that? Damn this wine glut...I must remind myself to do a post on the phenomenon of neuronal death and the story of brain development and language aquisition. Linking it metaphorically with the idea of human=planetary neurone...the internet as axons babble babble babble...more wine
8. • CommentAuthorslappymc
   • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2006

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   I notice with myself that I seem to have some say in how boredom affects me. If I focus on the boredom, then yes, time seems to drag on. But if I shift my focus to what I'm doing in the present moment and just not think of it as being bored (which can be hard) the time tends to flow normally.