A Farewell to Arms

I want to start with this quote from one of my favorite books:

"We're all going to die.We know that on an intellectual level.We figure it out sometime when we're fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterward.
Death isn't something anyone likes to think about, but the fact is that you can't get out of it. No matter what you do, how much you exercise, how religiously you diet, or meditate, or pray, or how much money you donate to your church, there is a single hard, cold fact that faces everyone on earth: One day it's going to be over. One day the sun will rise, the world will turn, people will go about their routines-only you won't be in it. You'll be still. And cold
And despite every religious faith, the testimony of near-death eyewitnesses, and the imaginations of storytellers throughout history, death remains the ultimate mystery. No one truly, definitely knows what happens after. And that's assuming there is an after. We all go there blind to whatever is out there in the darkness beyond.
Death.
You can't escape it.
You.
Will.
Die.

It's a bitter, hideously concrete fact to endure."


Felt like sharing that.

Now to the real post, if any of you thought that was it. Lately, I've noticed a lot of lack of attention in our lives. No not ADD, but lack of truly opening the eyes.
If you read my previous previous post(Not the bread liquification transfer, that's a different matter), I have a strong belief that not a lot of people understand that we're on a giant lava-encrusted hunk of rock, inhabited by almost 3 billion humans and over triple that to get the amount of animals.
We inhabit a land in which we are supplied with tools for survival. Water, food, etc. Of course we have so,so much more. We can watch moving pictures, send messages to friends from miles away, and can even communicate to people in Russia. I'm even amazed as i type this.
I'm not trying to say that humans never appreciate life, or the earth, or any of that, but we don't always watch the skies to find shapes in the clouds or run around in the fields with family. We don't always see the beauty in everything. Not to be too much of an optimist, but we should be able to see beauty in a trash can.


Ignorance is bliss.


Don't panic,
Elliot

P.S. "What is love? Is it a feeling or just an emotion to define humanity? Wouldn't anger be the same as?"

Defying the Laws of the Universe...sort of.

Today, in Latin, we questioned if we could turn bread into a liquid. Throughout the day I questioned this, so when I got home, I experimented. Bread can, in fact, turn into a liquid. With some moisture, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG_g1p33B2s

As you can tell, without moisture, bread would remain a solid. I plan on blending more things, such as onions, dog biscuits, and many other products you can find at your local supermarket. Thank you for your time and patience. I bid you farewell.



Don't Panic,
Elliot

P.S. "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." Oscar Wilde

"We think in generalities, but we live in details." Alfred North Whitehead

We are the Dreamers of Dreams

Humans, over time, have evolved at a frightening rate. Once, we spent our days collecting fish and picking flowers, but now we can talk to people from Dubai to Antarctica at the click of a key. We can send pictures of an Eskimo to the burning sands of the Sahara. And we don't realize this.
We're sitting on an enormous, volcanic hunk of rock in the middle of the a galaxy containing hunks of rock similar to ours. We could be hurtling through space, colliding into anything nears us if it weren't for gravity. We have so many laws that help create our planet become a pile of rubble. Our world started out as nothing, and now we have a massive amount of technology.
Sadly, our world is dying. No, not global warming. Our nonrenewable resources are dwindling away. And they are, in fact, nonrenewable. Sure, our renewable ones can come back, time after time, but slowly. We can't stop it. We need the resources to walk through life, we can't change that.
We don't stop and stare at the beauty of the world. We don't see that, through the heavy smog, lies a beautiful land. We don't notice the way the snow blankets on the trees, or the noise the rain makes when it drops to clash with the earth. Our world is truly amazing, and I wouldn't like it any different. Earth is what makes us humans, humans.

Don't Panic
Elliot


P.S. "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. " Thoreau. He was the only one I could quote for a naturalistic post.

Don't Panic(again)

As you may have read in my Doomsday post, I think very low of the so called apocalypse. Or not necessarily the apocalypse, but its cult followers. I don't like the people warning you constantly about it, telling you to build a nuclear protected ark or something like that.
Similar to my disliking of Apocalypse Prophets, I also have a strange anger generated from Jehovah's Witness. They constantly knock on your door, handing you pamphlets, encouraging you to join their brainwashing cult. Among other things, I'm not a fan a televangelists. I don't mind them, but I don't like the really picky ones. The ones that state you have to pay some fee just to join or you can donate $100 to a child in need, but really it's going into the pastor's fund for his new Lamborghini.
Anywho, I don't feel like discussing my other dislikes, so I'll try to talk about something else. School's good, band's good, weather's meh, my music collection needs improvement, and my room is currently being renovated.
Lately, I've been writing a lot. I write many a short stories. I plan to combine them all into book and make them into a collection. They aren't bad, but that's just from my opinion. I really need a trustworthy editor/ opinionater(Not a word, sue me) to help me see if they're any good. If you think you might(if anyone out there, which I doubt very seriously) just ask. Don't be shy
I've decided to shorten my little farewell. Typing 'so long and thanks for all the fish' is really tiring. So, I'm going to stick to the basics.

Don't Panic. Grab a Towel.
Elliot


P.S. "Sometimes, I think trees can talk."

Hello(if there's anyone out there), happy late Christmas and new year. I hope you had a good holiday with family and friends, I know I certainly did.
Now that the holidays have ended and everyone has shut up about their Christmas presents and the New Year's Eve kiss they've received, it's time back for school. Woot(no sarcasm intended). Literally, I'm ready for school to start. I'm semi-tired of staying home, slacking off. School will challenge me, and I'll learn new things hopefully.
So, lately, I've noticed weird obsessions going on in our world.

1. Television
2. Facebook
3. Horrible mainstream music( I don't want to go into detail).
4. Disney stars with bad priorities
5. Reality shows.
6. Fast food.

I could add so much more to this list, but I'm texting it, and my fingers cramp. When I get home, I'll probably add more or go into detail, but as for now, it's like a blogging cliffhanger.

So long and thanks for all the fish,

Elliot

P.S. "Just because it's widely accepted doesn't prove it's validity."