Reality @ MindSay

As his hand touches my shoulder, I wonder
Lips brush my forehead or cheek, I question
Soft words wake me from slumber, I shrink
Before the visual world becomes clear the emotional one is screaming
I roll myself out from under his touch and watch the smile that haunts me
Maybe it is not there, maybe it is only a twisted fragment of my mind
The possibilities are endless
The fear is constant

(What if it's true? What if it isn't? Does it matter?)

the government is trying to push past the clueless media :

 

"Soaring fuel prices and a sour economy have led Americans to cut back sharply on driving, jeopardizing federal funds for highway construction and repairs."  from an MSNBC story today.

 

Just as Bush raided social security, so has his adminsitration raided the monies set aside by gasoline taxes for the highway infrastructure.  Money you THINK was being funneled to fund highway repairs has gone off to never never land for years.  On top of that, whiney no-tax republicans want to bitch that gas taxes have risen

approximately 400% in the past 25 years, but the fact is that A) gas prices have risen 600%  and B) construction cost have risen 500%.

 

The fact is, Mr. and Mrs. Consumer, you should be paying $7.00 per gallon of gasoline and ALL of that extra cost should be going ONLY into the highway systems. 

I was ecstatic tonite to see gas prices drop below $3.80 here in Tennessee only to realize that the shame is that the government doesn't make the tax corrections now while consumers are used to high prices instead of giving them the false hope that the increase is the fault solely of bad boy oil instead of the economy. 

Tax and spend is  not a curse, it is a reality; Americans need to quit thinking they are entitled to a free ride.

    Is truth relative?

    What I’m going to write here is an unpopular belief stance in the United States today.  

    Jesus came to the earth telling people that He was the Truth.  He didn’t say that He was a truth among many.  No, He said that He came to tell us He was and is the Truth, how the universe is for everyone, the way ultimate reality is.

    Most of us here in the States don’t adhere to this.  Much more popular is this: “Whatever truth is, it’s in the personal realm.  Whatever you believe to be true, is true for you, and is fine as long as your truth isn’t binding on anyone else.”

    So when you show up telling people that Jesus is the Truth for everyone, you are labeled as intolerant, bigoted and the reason that all wars have ever been fought.

    Ok, perhaps that’s a bit of an exaggeration.  

    But not much.

    Instead, I’m told that I should embrace the belief that truth is relative.  However, this belief system has its own huge problems.

    I heard recently about a Christian guy who was protesting something.  A group showed up to protest what he was protesting.  They handed out pamphlets that said this guy had no right to put his belief on other people.  At the bottom of the pamphlet in giant letters was this sentence: “Intolerance will not be tolerated.”

    The belief that truth is relative says there’s no truth that governs everyone.  In saying this, they proclaim a truth that must govern everyone.  

    Oops.

      


 

Why so serious?

It's just after 3 AM.  I've just gotten home from a screening of the Dark Knight, so I'm buzzing a bit and don't really want to sleep.  Heath Ledger's performance lived up to all the hype - the hype before his death and the hype after it.  Haunting.  Not surprising, the character was written brilliantly.  An enigma, playing by his own rules with no care for the schemes of other men.  Anarchist.  No background, no explanation, constantly licking his lips.  Creepy, quiet  and memorably scary.  It was the most impressive comic book movie to date.

Before the movie they showed a trailer for Watchmen.  It looks quite stunning.

I answered a personal ad recently.  No surprise should come to anyone reading this that I'm... unsatisfied with my social life.  I hate to sound like a stereotypcial sex-obsessed male, but I do need to get laid.  For years I thought I wasn't worth anyone's time and now I just think I'm underacheiving.  Not capitalizing on my potential, as they say.  It's funny, because I was only browsing the Craigs List Women Seeking Men section for a laugh, a chuckle at the expense of others' folly.  So then I see this ad, nerd-girl seeks nerd-guy.  Don't like to paint myself as a cliche, but if there's one I fit it's that.  So I dropped her a line trying to by shy and modest and clever, rattling off my nerd credentials.  I haven't heard back and I have no idea whether I ever will.  Ah the love the could have been.  Well I don't know, maybe she's huge or deformed or something, but she seemed very sweet from her suggestions that we could watch random movies, play video games, read comics, go for a drink, do nothing, and relax.  Maybe she's that modest, mysterious type (an attitude as much as a body type) I like so much.  Maybe I'll never know.  What I do know is that I have nothing going on right now, and I'd like to.

I had this dream last night.  After investigating a murder, I met a blind girl at a newsstand.  She was very charming and we hit it off.  I think that sums up even imaginarily how things seem to go.  Not that she'd have to be blind, just that she'd have to not quite be normal.  Boring, I suppose.  Anyway, I got her phone number, but her mentally-handicapped boyfriend didn't seem to like that.  That part was just weird.

Tomorrow is another day during which I will underachieve.  If I set that as a goal, I think I can actually succeed.  It's a funny little puzzle,. but it fits.

Keep on rockin'
-Scott

So I stopped by my parents house today & that obstacle course show was on tv.  I honestly was kind of disappointed for a minute.  I mean, I remember being in my dorm room years ago laughing at the super late night Japanese TV shows, but I never thought it would ever make it to prime time because of the fact that those shows were so ridiculous.  On another note, it's a pretty wierd role reversal to me.  For years there were parts of Japanese culture that has in one way or another imitated the culture of the United States.  I mean, if you're going to imitate, at least make it something worth imitating, like their super cool cell phones, or the Bullet Train to help with my morning commute when I'm running late.