@poolcleaner
i fucking love you man!

once innocence is lost,
it can never be re-aquired.
disillusion has a sister called cynicism.
a vile woman who seduces her lover "despair" like a desperate dive-bar trollop.

do not engage these corrupt entities,
for they only seek to expose your inadequacies and feed off your fears.
they amplify the conflicting messages we are all subjected to daily.
they rejoice in your anxiety and call it truth.

but thats the lie.

the scattered remnants of a splintered childhood dream,
fed by people who walked in that very dream...
and believed in its seductions...
reveals the truth....of the lie.

grieve if you must,
but allow that lie to sink into the ocean of oblivion and irrelevance,
and embrace the truth.

you are no longer bound.
you are free.

how many can say that with conviction?

*edit*sighs.meant that to be on your page..i am so fail.

"The other day I saw a film called The Edge, which I regarded as the best thing to come out of Hollywood since The Silence of the Lambs. Perhaps not coincidentally, this flick also starred Anthony Hopkins. In one scene, Hopkins and his co-star, Alec Baldwin, seem in an absolutely hopeless situation, lost in the Arctic, stalked by a hungry bear, without weapons, seemingly doomed. Baldwin collapses, and Hopkins has a magnificent monologue, talking Baldwin out of his despair. The speech runs, roughly, like this: "Did you know you can make fire out of ice? You can, you know. Fire out of ice. Think about it. Fire out of ice. Think. Think."

This riddle has both a pragmatic and symbolic (alchemical) answer. The pragmatic answer you can find in the film, explicitly; and it might prove useful if you ever get lost in the north woods; and the alchemical, or Zen Buddhist, answer is also in the film, implicitly, and only perceptible to those who understand the dense character Hopkins plays in the story. It might prove useful whenever despair seems to overwhelm you. So, to those who at the end of this book still can't understand or sympathize with my Nietzschean yea-saying, I quote again: "Fire out of ice. Think. Think."

Who was that Prometheus guy and why did he give us fire in the first place?"

~Robert Anton Wilson

Your video, From despair to resolve: A pianist recovers from a shock, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Yeah but there's plenty of light as well and it's only the spring of hope and the winter of despair when you pay too much attention to what's "real."
Eat, drink, and be all strokin'-that-pussy, for tomorrow we die.

Also, this reminds me very much of "Songs of Innocence and Despair" by The Langley Schools Music Project. A music teacher in the 70's taught a bunch of popular rock songs to a group of Canadian elementary school kids, then made a record. The songs are at once beautiful and heart-rending. Well worth seeking out.

Another complete and utter moron. These guys and their preachy ways tend to pop up at the height of despair. We have to be careful and counter their stupidity with information.

Yeah, Bill, still getting your bit ideas from HuffPo?

My fave of all time. The write-up is pretty clever, too.

I had 4 Demotivators at my desk 12 years ago:

I put this one up for our $280/hr consultant who managed to make the system less useable, less stable, and/or less maintainable every time he visited.

I put this one and this one up for my boss who routinely threatened to fire everyone or kill everyone when he found out that we were implementing his moronic "vision" to the letter and that it would never work.

Lastly, my person favorite, for the entire MIS department, because everyone's most refined skill was finger-pointing.

Haven't seen those in particular, but the general idea is pretty old. I remember this page from 10+ years ago.

Personal favorite:
PESSIMISM
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.

Ugh, children enjoying the majesty of the world. Makes me SICK! Back to my cave of want and despair.

When skeptics - especially those who are critical of religion - adopt the position advocated by Esteleth that (I paraphrase) "the right to free speech ends when someone who might be affected by my words hears me", then I despair for my community.

poverty, malnutrition, and the resulting disease and despair... when we can feed the world, people will have time to be kinder to each other. Food is a hell of a drug!

How did the police emerge from the tunnels clean, shaved, and ready for battle after 3 months without sunlight?
Did neither the mercs or cops understand the concept of "cover"?
Why would the detective ask the kids to run door to door and evacuate the city with about 12 minutes left?
Why did all the guys in the pit of despair help everyone try to climb out of the place except for a young, innocent girl, whom they apparently wished very dead?
With raw materials up the wazoo, why is it no one in prison could figure out how to make a grappling hook?
How did the mercs manage to pour explosive concrete on already-built bridges?
How did Bane floss?
and ain't it just a dick move to let your friends think you're dead?

...chose wisely which pages to roll with-Key chapter and verse missing evokes hopelessness and despair in .07% of all motel patrons keen on flipping through available pages...Always good to leave a pressed-bud when removing any Daniel, Ecclesiastes, or Book-a Revelation when you cop dem Jah-Rizzla for-a-dem nefarious purposes!

What I find really grating is not her vitriolic tone (like most of you, this week I enjoy watching republicans acting like douchebags in a sad attempt at hiding their despair).

What I find grating is that the vitriolic, inarticulate parasite is the one being a CNN contributor, taking the job of an actual pundit. Note the word 'inarticulate' here: if you're paid to argue on TV (and regardless of how useful it is) you're expected to do better than throw nothing but invectives for five minutes. If you can't even do that, then please stay at Fox News.