TERRIBLY SANE
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THE DIARY OF PETRICHOR
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----RECENT ENTRIES----
The Myth of an Age of Civilizartion - Saturday, Jul. 25, 2009
There is no civil in civilization - Monday, Mar. 02, 2009
The Adventure of a Lifetime - Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008
Suffocating - Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
Emerging Unrest - Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
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IF ANYONE STILL READS THESE OBSCURE, QUIET THOUGHTS, MY GUESTBOOK HAS FINALLY BEEN FIXED.
I am coming to terms with my range of traits. I have the potential to be cheerful, but my disposition to frustration is a bit wider, for example. I have the ability to be playful, silly, and humorous, but my disposition to anxiety and fear is a bit more entrenched. I am not depressed, mind you. I see depression as being below zero, like negative one to negative ten. And I see happiness and general well-being being one to positive ten. Zero is borderline between depression and happiness. I would say that generally speaking, on average, I am between positive one to positive three.
I am, admittedly, pessimistic and cynical.
Now, right now, I am on packing my mental and emotional baggage in order to leave into a wild adventure for the Lost Cities of Joy, Happiness, and Well-Being.
Sure, I struggle with optimism, but the future is unwritten.
Already, I have rid myself of the nonsecular lies of religion and many of the religiously secular lies of society. But all this is simply preparation for the more thrilling, more relieving, and the more delicious exposing of lies -- the lies of the nonsecular/secular religion of life-is-rotten, everything-is-rotten, and I-am-rotten.
It is a religion of its own kind -- with unsubstantiated theories, unprovable claims, and an aversion to open-ended critical thinking.
I allude to the transformation of society and culture, revolution, before.
This adventure is a part of revolution.
After all, what good is a revolution if it doesn't bring to pass happiness?
I am volunteering with enthusiasm and the curiosity and excitement of two lovers about to kiss for the first time.
I didn't start with a smile when I began writing this.
But I am now.
I am smiling.
And the overhead music around me resonates back to me.
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