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YES modern day is full of WONDER, and MYSTERY, and HIGH ADVENTURE!!!@!! for example: 1) wow!! whats on T.V.??!! 2) eat until you are FAT!!!@! 3) how many fashionable NAME BRAND items can you BUY and COLLECT to fill your stucco-gypsum castle??!?!!? these are but three examples of the exciting adventures of modern life!!! act now and we will force you into... ...part of a larger project tenuously entitled "the lunatic fringe" and just as i laughed...she hit me in the back of the head...hard enough to see stars...and i marvled at the stars that were always there that i could never see...it was if the universe had shown itself to me, i thought as i reached for the stars. the universe is THE creation, the most beautiful thing, i thought as i cut her to pieces with the star. ________end____________ a release....they knew nothing of each other....and cared not to...it wasnt one of those tragic soap opera things where the audience knows that theres a secret emotional hold on them....it was PURE---pure i say...pure expression in their own language--one that they spoke quite fluently...there was no preamble...no filler...no crude meaningless gesture...no play acting no bullshit no attempt at half remembered lines of shoddy poetry....it was all expression...a wet raw conversation of all adjectives, and they two were the only subjects. .....after...what could they say to each other anyway???? they had had a thousand conversations this way and ALL was said...why the preamble? why the dashing through hoops to quell societies endless and never-ending and always growing list of demands for the proper propagation of the thing? i mean damnit...they knew a NEED and they knew each other,,,,,,, _______end____________ rationalization corruption torture these are all wholy human terms (whoever heard of a corrupt rabbit?) created by us soly for describing ourselves what a sorry species here are more....for the kiddies: denial rapine "PC" death sentence inquisition executioner de-forestiazation holocaust self-mutuliation cosmetic surgery nerve gas *religion* ____end_________ so i decided to cast myself to the wolves... to see if i could fend them off funny thing is.... i did and it worked _____end_________ please remember that only YOU can prevent de-forestization!!@ remember when you kill yourself to arrange to have your body rendered down to nice, useable fertilizer beforehand, that way,..,.,.,,.FINALLY! you will have accomplished SOMETHING ____end__________ dont try anything you dont even wanna try just stop moving just once you know what now could never seem to be motion like waves moving all around you just stop and currents try to take you flow and you become to BE ____end__________ and then he knew he could never, never go back. their searching eyes, their lascivious stare...it all made him deeply ill ...the picking apart of the nuances of behavior: gesture, comment, and proper attire....and measuring it all in their heads...against the norm of the group or social click or personal agenda...he could always see them do it...and they NEVER deviated....it always made him deeply ill...ill and self conscious...of his inability to blend like a social chameleon...to slough aside his identity for the sake of a group...for a slight and temporary casting aside of self....for quantity!...knowing deeply that humans were pathetically wasteful in groups and destructive, always...so why, then, this play? this repartee of denial? the pointlessness of it all....he fumbled around in his mind for a proper analogy....no, this was too perfect-- nobody would ever care again /NEVER soon, /// _______________ to feel the need to say the exact thing to make all the mouths laugh, to make all the gazes shine...to add a part in the play for today _______end___________ luVpom Franz Kafka CBX crystalball 2.09 MB CBX crystalball small 464 KB sheol the raver eats the arch of time you cant run away you cant leave your own skin... HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?!@!#!? tell me THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THATMETALBOX.COM.... part of a larger project tenuously entitled "the lunatic fringe" lu·na·tic (lu'n?-tik) adj. Suffering from lunacy; insane. Of or for the insane. Wildly or giddily foolish: a lunatic decision. Characterized by lunacy or eccentricity. fringe (frinj) n. A marginal, peripheral, or secondary part: “They like to hang out on the geographical fringes, the seedy outposts” (James Atlas). Those members of a group or political party holding extreme views: the lunatic fringe. Any of the light or dark bands produced by the diffraction or interference of light. de·men·tia (di-men'sh?) n. Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is often accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes. Madness; insanity. ma·ni·a (ma'ne-?, man'y?) n. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze: a mania for neatness. Psychiatry. A manifestation of manic-depressive illness, characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated gaiety, and excessive physical activity. Violent abnormal behavior in·san·i·ty (in-san'i-te) n., pl. in·san·i·ties. Persistent mental disorder or derangement. Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility. In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act committed. Extreme foolishness; folly. Something that is extremely foolish. mad (mad) adj., mad·der, mad·dest. Angry; resentful. Suffering from a disorder of the mind; insane. Temporarily or apparently deranged by violent sensations, emotions, or ideas: mad with jealousy. Lacking restraint or reason; foolish: I was mad to have hired her in the first place. Feeling or showing strong liking or enthusiasm: mad about sports. Marked by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation; frantic: a mad scramble for the bus. Boisterously gay; hilarious: had a mad time. Affected by rabies; rabid. EXPORT COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS Export of any information from the thatmetalbox web site (including Confidential Information obtained through thatmetalbox Access) outside of the United States is subject to all U.S. export control laws. You will abide by such laws and also to the provision of the U.S. Export-Re-export Requirements and Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative set forth here. 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