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Name: Jordan
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Nashville
Birthday: 10/19/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: In a nutshell: reading and writing, philosophy, theatre, music, film, politics, and current/world events.
Expertise: Human nature, with the exception of the male and/or female; life and the art of living; and being an old-fashioned hopeless romantic.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  thechapterman
Member Since:
6/8/2004
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| I haven't updated in while, not that anything has gone on.
Merry Christmas.
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| "Mais ou sont les neiges d' antan?"
-Francois Villon, "Des Dames du Temps jadis"
I hope I do not ask that question, mourning the passage of time and
loss of friends. Tonight, however, I realized many do and will ask that
question, and miss out on the experiences life has to offer because they
cannot take their focus away from the past.
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| The past eighteen years have been good to me, to say the least.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Hamlet. Act i, Sc. 5
I cannot wait to see what the next eighteen hold.
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| "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare, MacBeth. Act V, Scene 5
How a propos in today's
culture, in today's mindset would it be to believe: that history was
made by fools who thought they were making a difference; we are fools
to follow in their footsteps and go on thinking we can make a
difference; that we are only actors, poor actors at that, wandering
around with no point, no meaning, and no story to tell. This is what
centuries of godlessness, science and intellectualism has done to us.
Science has given society a reason to not believe in God, and
intellectualism and the search for knowledge promulgates deeper
exploration into science, therefore pushing the true God further from
society's mindset and replacing Him with something created by man: science.
So, is it a
reality to think that one can actually make a difference in the world;
one that has meaning and changes the course of one's life, another's
life, or the entire world? I believe so, and God-willing, I'm going to
change it, but it takes more than one person to rock the boat.
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| This is the world we live in:
"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is
chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us
about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget
it."
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
So what am I to do; what are we to do about it?
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