quoting_myself Dafremen "An unspoken thought has one chance to live, sitting there on the tip of your tongue. It dies with your silence, taking one of the universe's creative children with it." 030403 ... Dafremen "That doesn't make sense to me, but that's because I don't understand it yet." 030403 ... Dafremen "I would choose to make the best of what I have rather than go after the best of what I want and discover in the process, the worst of what I am." 030403 ... Dafremen "Behind every sinner lies a saint's inconstant virtue, behind every saint, a sinner deprived." 030403 ... Dafremen "Humanity's incomparable joys are paid for with the inescapable sadness of its solitude." 030403 ... Dafremen "Those that label others as egotistical are usually complaining about the lack of elbow room for their own egos." 030403 ... Dafremen "Wisdom?! My wisdom is the wisdom of a man standing next to an elephant who has just noticed it. Mine is the wisdom of the man who, having been poked in the ribs for the 100th time, turns and asks..."did you just poke me?" Mine is the wisdom of a man standing in a white room with a calendar on the wall, and the room is full of people asking if anyone knows the date. The first decision you gotta make is: do I tell them the date? Or show them that there's a calendar on the wall? Mine is the wisdom of a man who has just noticed his shirt is on inside out and backwards but who has not yet noticed that he's put his underwear on over his pants." 030403 ... Dafremen "Fame is a mirror that stares back, smiles, then begins to strangle you." 030403 ... niska i think it's better to tell them the date. people yearn to discover the calendar for themselves. i hope you're not offended that i am responding. i haven't read all of your balthes because i haven't the patience, but your quotes here are insightful, and the first one in this blathe is a truth. 030403 ... Dafremen On the contrary...thanks for your opinion. As for my blathes, like me they are a nice even balance between insightful wisdom and absurd caca. 030404 ... Dafremen "Though the pen may be mightier than the sword, when you turn away from the written word you don't get your head chopped off." 030404 ... Dafremen "I guess you have to be without advice for the majority of your life to realize that making the mistakes yourself is a crock of sh*t and any insight into the forseeable future is to be greatly appreciated... Unfortunately, dumbass being the natural human state...we prefer to repeat the f*ck ups for ourselves.(Quite often because we've been advised not to. Now that IS some stupid sh*t huh?)" 030404 ... stork daddy i stink therefore i am. 030404 ... stork daddy peace is an agreement we make with each other so we'll both be at our strongest for the next war. 030404 ... stork daddy you can never treat a lover too well, for you cease to be the distance they found so charming to traverse. there's always gotta be more bread crumbs for them to follow. 030404 ... stork daddy when it comes to approaching that attractive person, speak now or forever hold your piece. Because if you keep silent, no one else will think to hold it for you. 030404 ... stork daddy i'll blame my mother and father for my shames, but my brilliance is all mine. 030404 ... stork daddy when does the potential outweigh the certain? when does the future become the present? duh. 030404 ... stork daddy in case it was unclear i'd like to add: when it comes to approaching that attractive girl, speak now or forever hold your piece. because if you keep silent, no one else will think to hold it for you, let alone yank it off from time to time. 030404 ... Dafremen It took a second of reflection, but it was clear and it's better as a thought grenade. I smiled anyhow. 030405 ... Dafremen "Whatever measure of success I might achieve in life I attribute to the mediocrity of my peers." 030405 ... cube Gotta luv that one :-) ³ 030405 ... stork daddy a middle-aged man who hasn't formed strong opinions that can be shared awkwardly over dinner feels like he has failed in life. love is what happens to us when we're sleeping, promises we didn't know we made, let alone are keeping. and i attribute my sucess to the inattentiveness of my peers. 030405 ... Dafremen "Sometimes a sip of praise is what it takes to inspire us to continue our labors of love with as much love as we have to give." 030406 ... Dafremen "Nothing is sort of like something..without all of that stuff in the middle." "Whatever you want now, you can have right now, but now is later." 030417 ... god something about the mall... 030417 ... Dafremen "All attempts to piss me off will meet with success." 030421 ... Dafremen "It's the little skinny pedal on the right lady." -Me through the front window of the bus at a stoplight waiting for the car in front of me to move. 030421 ... god suck my balls at the mall. 030422 ... Dafremen "Please! Stop confusing my intentions with your motives." 030512 ... Dafremen "If money's so great, why are we always getting rid of it so quickly?" "Scales measure weight, mirrors measure insecurity." 030512 ... Dafremen "Your concern is as appreciated as it is misguided." "Truly it is not for the man alone to choose his greatness, but for greatness also to choose the man." "It is society that rubs my back and pats my ass while it twists my arm." "Apathy is treason." "If you want something so badly that it starts to make you miserable..let it go." 030512 ... Dafremen "The art of poetry consists of convincing the mind to see things from a heart's point of view." 030626 ... Dafremen "Poems aren't written, they are forged deep in the heart of a wordsmith. They are the battleground upon which the struggle for effective expression meets the desire to express effectively." 030628 ... Dafremen "In the end 'the_answer' really amounts to nothing more than a trophy: An indication to anyone that cares to notice, that we were just foolish enough to ask the question." 030714 ... Dafremen "The optimist is rarely surprised when all goes as planned, and often terribly disappointed when it doesn't. The pessimist on the other hand, is rarely disappointed and often pleasantly surprised." 030726 ... silentbob "if i had a burial plot, i'd dig it deep enough for both of us." 030726 ... Dafremen : ) Do0d that is so deviously, subtly clever it blew my f*cking mind. I might actually start reading yer stuff again.. (Heheh) 030726 ... ^^^^^^^^^^ +e (old scho0l typo correction) 030726 ... no reason her: "what's up with your pants?" me: "what's down with yours"? yeah, that's right. i amused us. 030729 ... taen any guy who is romantic is just a better liar than the rest 030908 ... realistic optimist life's a bitch, then your suicide attempt fails. (i actually told this to my mom, who has failed countless times. she was not amused.) 030908 ... Dafremen "Poor decisions are investments in consequence. Eventually, time comes to collect the dividends." 030908 ... Dafremen "If a living thing must be killed, let it be done with respect, reverence and regret, out of necessity. Not with indifference, out of pride, fear, anger or greed." 030912 ... oldephebe why? it's an excersise of shameless vanity - and even trying to remember something i said..fagedaboudit.. 030912 ... Dafremen If blather's hard drives must be filled, let them be filled with shameless vanity in the form of self-quotes the likes of which blatherspace has never seen. Come one! Come all..if you have just one SLIGHTLY creative, funny or cool thing that you have said in your entire life..share. Please. There's a quote up there that says it all..your voices are the light and dark of the universe come alive. You are it's precious spark, it's cycle's song to hold it until the end of the final curtain that reopens on the dawn of a new beginning. Your simplest offerings are priceless treasure in the cosmos from which you sprang. There are 10 billion years of waiting that have passed to be here with you, listening for whatever sparkling vanities you may have to offer. So go ahead, start quoting yourself if you're so inclined people. Vanity my pahookus. If it's got content, worth, charm or humor it was worth every eye twitch it took to read it, and I'll be glad it was shared. (This is your cue again god..) 030913 ... oldephebe Daf that was almmost like reading my own blathes - nicely done..sympathetic reverberations..I'm reminded of something you said on what the hands of god hath wrough or several of the other blathe pages where upon we wended our way through those ah anticipations of imminent evocations of the apocalypse - or something like that ... 030913 ... oldephebe why am i still up at this hour?! 030913 ... once again "I'm killing time with dreamless sleep and in return time is killing me." 030913 ... nomatter "shut up you big sack of dog vomit!" 030926 ... nomatter so i lied thats from family guy. 030926 ... Syrope accusations form under my tongue and leave me tasting something sweet. it's started. ...you won't understand it let_it_go 041027 ... keep breathing the trick is to keep breathing 041205 ... keep breathing heh heh. i meant that be in "quotes" "the trick is to keep breathing" i did an awesome artwork with those words back in high school. i love collage painting. 041205 ... dafremen How long will the fears from our past continue to curse our future? How long must they tarnish that future's promise? 041206 ... dafremen God does not waste human lives. Only human beings are capable of doing that. 050310 ... god ha ha ha ha ha 050310 ... milo that's something i don't wish for anyone that doesn't wish it for themselves ... wa? 050310 ... dafremen Notwithstanding the laughter of the minor gods... 050311 ... Dafremen "I'm not out to be Jesus, I'm out to be Handy Smurf." 050801 ... pete "the moon hung behind the clouds, peaking between the loose covers with a companion star sitting just to her west. the pair followed me, watched me, until i finally turned from the canal, turned from the farm and headed down the road to my home, where the music is." the moon's been in the east recently, away from the star 050801 ... quotree "it's laugh or cry i this world." 050801 ... epitome_of_incomprehensibility "Today is the last day of your life so far." 050801 ... daf "Let us not cling so tightly to our beliefs that we let go of each other." 050824 ... daf "The ability to rejoice in another's victory, is the greatest of all accomplishments." 070226 ... dafremen "Man creates fantasies; God creates memories." "I'll go to Hell just to take you with me." 080317 ... daf After being carded and having my ID taken to the manager(I'm 40..): "You never can be to careful, sir. Some 17 year olds look like they're 25." "Yea, and God forbid some 17 year old should wake up drunk in a cornfield. Lord knows I only have bad memories of those times." 080419 ... daf "Testifying in the name of liberty is certainly never a waste of time; satisfying to the soul regardless of whatever else it might accomplish." 080419 ... ivan "tragedy or poetic justice? you decide." 080419 ... dafremen If you can't help but remember, sometimes you need to forget. 080426 ... dafremen The best thing to do is shine you light on a roach and never take it off. Eventually someone comes along and stomps on it. 080426 ... a tired e_o_i Of COURSE I can read breakfast while eating the newspaper. 080426 ... unhinged 'if i could erase you from my mind, there would still be a dulling aching in my heart where you used to be' (sic) 080426 ... daf "Misery loves company;joy creates its own." 080502 ... daf "Provide aid and relief to the distressed and weary to turn the world around." "There is little difference between a pessimist and an optimist activist since the latter acts from a belief that the worst shall come to pass otherwise." "There is nothing wrong. There is no one to blame." 080908 ... In_Bloom "A step to the side is not a step backward." 080908 ... dafremen "No rest for the weary and the wicked don't care." 090303 ... Lemon_Soda "The second you told me you knew it for a fact was the second I knew you were lying. Not just to me, but to yourself. Can I bum a cigerrette?" 090303 ... In_Bloom One good hit heals nine misses 090303 ... dafremen "Don't look at me! I'm invisible!" 090323 ... falling_alone johnny depp is not a process 090324 ... dafremen A T-shirt idea for retail workers: "Hi! Welcome to our store. Allow me to show your our fine selection of get the hell out of my face." 090402 ... dafremen "For God so loved the world, that he gave it...you." 100415 ... falling_alone "you can't have my voldemort boobies, voldemort" 100924 ... dafremen "No end can ever justify questionable means. The end is just the stuff. The means define who we are." 101112 ... meta meta 101113 ... Doar still luv ya daf. . 101113 ... daf "Yea some of the songs I write are sad. But it can be an awful sad place we live in, this global social engineering disaster gone horribly wrong." 101207 ... dafremen "Apparently being raped daily by the money changer is a lot easier than finding someone who wants to trade steel fish hooks for crudely formed mud ashtrays." 110328 ... dafremen It's not the idiots I'm afraid of. It's the morons who take it upon themselves to protect us from the idiots that worry me." 110927 ... dafremen I love the Lord and the Lord loves me, but some days I'm pretty sure we get on each other's nerves. 111014 ... dafremen "They play a game here on our planet that never ends. They don't even have a name for it. Some don't even know they are playing..it has been going on so long. And all of the broken people try to glue themselves back together with the pieces of the other broken people. It would be tragic if it wasn't so comical. And it's only comical when it isn't in your face. Which it is. All of the time." 120222 ... dafremen "The surety of knowledge masks the truth of being." 120225 ... dafremen "Judging by the way things are going, God probably should have rested on the 6th day and made us on the 7th." 120328 ... dafremen "The universe did not create you just to have you tucked away in a building and forgotten. You are its spirit longing to travel, its eyes longing to see." 120329 ... daf "You will find that your limits cannot be reached in one lifetime. Never stop trying to disprove that statement." 120414 ... dafremen To the people who like to identify themselves as "gay" or "straight": "You're not a sexual proclivity, you're a person. Think about it..no..a little longer than that." 120606 ... dafremen On our obsession with the blame game, and determining the identity of "the trivial culprits": I really don't want to spend another 5 minutes tracking down the EVIL CRETIN who forgot to empty the waste baskets before they left last night. Let it go. Let karma take care of them. 120606 ... dafremen "I spent 18 years with someone who wanted me to change, before I met someone who wanted me." 120611 ... dafremen " Nietzsche resembles nothing if not a deluded musician playing a bagpipe with a moth-eaten bag. The unobservant notice the boldness of his notes, and the clever quickness of his playing..while the truth of his tune is found only by those open-eyed enough to see the unwanted holes in the bladder of his instrument, attentive enough to hear the hiss of escaping air that the piper is frantically trying to compensate for. " 121212 ... epitome of incomprehensibility “Cité réel, Mont Réel, j'espère d'écrire mes jeux de mots juveniles à l'ombre de ta croix. Je crois – à bientôt, O Cité Cité. Ceci n'est pas d'la symbolisme chrétienne, même s'il-y-a un lion qui parle. Y'a aucun. Alors la surrealisme est acceptée come Evangile. Tu l'aimeras. Elle a des lampes LED pour yeux, et un front blanc comme neige. Elle sait porter la croix. Son histoire est une poupée des plus brillants brillants. Et sa valeur, deux fois trempées, protegera nos foyers et nos doigts.” (which is something like) “Real city, Real Mountain, I hope to write my juvenile word games in the shadow of your cross. I believe – soon, O City City. That is not Christian symbolism, even if there is a talking lion. There is none. So surrealism is accepted as Gospel. You'll like her. She has LED lights for eyes, and a forehead white as snow. She knows how to carry the cross. Her history is a doll of the shiniest sparkles. And her valour, twice dipped, protects our households and our fingers.” (On missing Montreal. Written sometime in November. I'll be back there next week.) 121212 ... epitome of incomprehensibility (Also some advice to myself, from November) “You, K...... ....., are not the only person in the world. You matter, but only insofar as you are not a discrete unit. Your stomach bacteria highly outnumber you. You have a family that loves you. The juxtaposition of those last two sentences has made you smile.” 121212 ... dafremen "You will find that your limits cannot be reached in one lifetime. Never stop trying to disprove that statement." 130531 ... dafremen I guess that bore repeating.. "..the fact that you can drink legally, vote and procreate in the pursuit of casual sex makes you dangerous..not mature." 130601 ... dafremen "The problem with curling up to the Beast is that you're likely to wake up in its belly." 130626 ... e_o_i "But missing the point is so much fun!" 130626 ... dafremen "Money is the hooks around a tapeworm's mouth." 130708 ... dafremen Subtlety is lost on the human race. 131011 ... daf Man, I'm glad I met you. I was so tired of being "weird." 131011 ... dafremen "What are we watching? Will it titillate my senses? Because I'm not sure I want my senses to be titillated right now. Then again, I hear titillated senses are all the rage." 131011 ... dafremen "What children don't realize is that they were born into a world-wide insane asylum and that their healthy, innocent little minds are being molded by generation after generation of accidental lunatics. That's who's writing THE LAWS." 131020 ... daf "It doesn't matter what your truths are or how they differ from mine. What matters is that we understand each other. We cannot begin down the path to unity by entertaining a dialogue based upon our differences. It is an absurd notion to say the least." 131026 ... dafremen "The slave most enslaved is the one who thinks he's free." 140510 ... dafremen "I'm actually a very fearful person. It's just that I've made a habit of running headlong into my fears without hesitation. You'd be surprised at how many times I've been eaten alive that way." 140524 ... dafremen "Evolutionary progress has always been a matter of struggle. Is it any wonder then, that those who do not struggle in our society, do not evolve either?" 140611 ... dafremen "I am a notion floating around in my own head that I exist, which I don't. The good news is, you wrote the words you are reading. The bad news is, you might not understand what that means." 140702 ... dafremen "History is carved out by the poor and claimed by the wealthy." 141008 ... dafremen "We're just angels sitting in Hell waiting for things to cool down a bit...and hoping we'll have feathers enough to fly when it's all over." 141015 ... Sassafrass "I have only two existances. One is always to be. The other is to not always be. Turn off, turn on." 141016 ... dafremen "Society is like this long, bad joke someone is telling you. And you have no idea if the punchline's going to be worth listening through it." 141021 ... tail-devouring snake "I will gladly and happily use any inheritance or 'unearned' money that the universe wants to send my way" 141021 ... dafremen "I think we evolve the same way the first animal to crawl out of the oceans did. By stepping out of our comfort zone and facing the unknown." 141021 ... dafremen Teenager: "I don't appreciate being called an asshole in my own home." I: "There's a simple solution to that. Stop being an asshole in your own home." 141021 ... dafremen Shitbag con money out of people's pockets, shitbag turn money into people. Shitbag have friends now. 150316 ... dafremen "Why don't vegans just call themselves herbivores to avoid confusion?" 150320 ... dafremen "..if the most time we have for patriotism is to hold our hands to our hearts and sing before grabbing a hotdog and telling our C-Span watching neighbor to pipe down so we can watch the game, then is that really patriotism? Or just something we do to make ourselves feel better about standing by jerking our brains off watching sports while our nation is being raped? I say, sing what you like..just don't confuse singing a song with being a patriot." 150530 ... dafremen 'Don't hate the player hate the game.' "I'm still looking for the game with no players so I can hate the game without getting any hate on the players." 150610 ... dafremen Materialism is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. 150630 ... daf If you've got to be a slave to something, you could do a lot worse than your heart. 150630 ... flowerock This is the_first_best_thing to happen to us yet! 150701 ... daf "Our willingness to gleefully inflict suffering on other living things, is a testament to the unconvicted evil which lies within us all." 150823 ... dafremen The human ability to be dissatisfied is incomparable. 151002 ... dafremen "The evolutionary process is a slow one that drags some along kicking and screaming before it finally leaves them behind." 151029 ... dafremen "Let us not take on the markings of the Beast lest we be mistaken for the same." 151029 ... shiv0m "My cigarettes know me the best" 151029 ... dafremen "Journalists are simply propagandists for whatever political side their outlet's owners lean toward any more. You really have to search high and low for news that isn't either complete partisan rhetoric composed of well framed half truths, or unsubstantiated nut bag crap. " 151216 ... dafremen "I've spent too much of my life letting unconcerned third parties dictate my actions through drama. Fuck that shit." 160225 ... dafremen Too much of a good thing is always the same thing: misery. 160328 ... dafremen "The society wide competition is a myth. We start in different places, at different times and head in separate directions to our individual finish lines on courses of varying lengths and difficulties. Where exactly is the race? How is one even possible?" 160421 ... dafremen "Again and again the ineptitude and ignorant selfishness of the privileged and acutely privileged burdens the working class. Especially in politics and business. We're doing everything anyway, no need for useless, stuck up freeloaders. We should drop this cold potato and see what happens." 161023 ... dafremen "The desert feeds itself on the failings of others." 161128 ... lialei "We spend our lives reacting to the thunder, living in fear of its coming, when it's the lightning that takes you out..without a sound, before the thunder has a chance to say a thing." 161129 ... ergo our thunder is silent our sight is darkened only thought survives 161129 ... dafremen "Can we get a little more thought and a little less intellect?" 161202 ... dafremen "Any time a person puts good energy out in this society, embrace it, fight for it... emulate it. Save the fucking planet that way." 161207 ... dafremen "We will not fight you on your own terms and because of this, you will not win." 170107 ... dafremen "Those Romans were some pretty disgusting motherfuckers." "Rob, we ARE the Romans." 170223 ... dafremen "I know it's far worse to wound a person's soul and leave them living than it is to kill them." 170303 ... dafremen "If you want to make big money, you must do what big money wants you to. Fuck big money." 170303 ... dafremen "There will come a time when we will look upon politics in much the way that we currently look upon the practice of inserting whole sheep glands into a man's testicles to improve fertility. As an outdated practice which was self-destructive and eventually proved its worthlessness to mankind." 170306 ... dafremen "Idealism is good to hold in your heart, but not in your hand." 170328 ... dafremen "Better do it now, because doing it tomorrow isn't an option. Nobody gave you tomorrow." 170419 ... dafremen "This sign makes more $$$ than my college degree." 170419 ... dafremen "While hauling ass down the road to oblivion, it's important to see the sights along the way." 170530 ... dafremen "Pain? Shit. Pain's just a distraction from other pain." 180220 ... dafremen "Focus on what you want. You'll get it. Focus on what you DON'T want. You'll get it." 180717 ... misstree Apparently, I once said, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you're doing something wrong." A friend recently said to me, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you're the only one not laughing." Now I know what I'm doing wrong. 180718 ... unhinged make_better_choices 180720 ... dafremen "Blaming 'human nature' on our animal heritage is like shitting our pants, throwing a tantrum, then saying it's OK, because babies do it and we were babies once." P.S. Misstree, I snorted milk out of my nose at that for the first time since 3rd grade. (I just noticed after 15 or more years that your name is a play on the word Mystery. I have no idea why it took so long.) Blather..sigh. Love this place. 180822 ... dafremen "Every day, I feel like a king. Because giving is a crown and life is a kingdom." "I have only grown as a human being, through the acceptance of new ideas. That is as true now as it was on the day I was born." 180910 ... dafremen "The rich like to say that democracy is like two wolves and a sheep arguing over whats for dinner. But that's because plutocracy is a wolf convincing two sheep that they're the wolves." 190121 ... dafremen "We don't have to believe in God any more than our cells have to believe in us. We just have to support the whole and be what we are." 190520 ... barf Who else would I expect to find here but the most self-absorbed blatherskite of all time. 190520 ... unhinged i_give_up echoing_thought 190521 ... dafremen "The avoidance of death is a pursuit of fools..death is inevitable. Avoidance of life is just as foolish for exactly the same reason." "When it comes to finding the selfish among us..I always look to see who's willing to help on their friend's moving day. Being there when people need you is an irrefutable statement" "Do right & try your hardest. That's a spell of protection." 190907 ... dafremen "There is a huge difference between the clutter of the lazy and the clutter of the busy. Unfortunately, this difference is almost universally lost on the lazy.." 190908 ... dafremen "We can kill as many of anything as our twisted little minds would like. That's the problem, our overall mental health as a species..not guns." 200102 ... dafremen "BELIEVE in yourself..even if the brainwashing bus of education didn't turned you into a spoiled, elitist turd with a degree. It's ok..you're still probably brilliant at something. Go find it and watch it liberate you." 201106 ... daf "Time chews its food slowly." 201106 ... dafremen Here's what's toxic: Going back to mom's(or dad's) house for a reset after the world slaps you shitless, then pretending that you're an expert on how people should cope with society. 210901 ... dafremen "Conditioning someone is a slow way of smothering them to death." 230124 ... dafremen "The evolutionary process discards what it doesn't need. And it doesn't need a bunch of divisive children who would would rather follow the Pied Piper of humanity into some dumb cul-de-sac of destruction, pollution and degeneration when it spent 13.7 billion years getting us here. It would rather destroy you itself than let you destroy all of its work. Materialism is a filter..its a trap for those who refuse to evolve." 240524 ... dafremen "The worship of money comes with an adoration of money makers." 240722 ... dafremen "Socialism is simply Communism with the illusion of individual liberty. Conservatism is simply fascism waiting for enough pissed off poor people and a charismatic, patriotic leader." 241130 what's it to you? who go blather from