I thought of a conspectus
To describe your behavior,
Your character, but still,
It's too easy!  You one-dimensional fiend!
You always seek to remind
Me of my mistakes, my altogether
Consistent, pessimistic mistakes;
And you ram the flesh
Down my own throat.
Is it not I who gives creedence
To my own arch-nemesis
Or the Creator, who sheds mercy,
Even on you, with His blood?
Can I not have the Spirit in peace?
Must I always attempt to abate you,
By catering the diabolical feast on my flesh?

You were most beautiful as the damage and the trauma

Pounding hard with battered wings of destiny

You were my last great war

You were my heaven ablaze

Riddled with faults and fractures

And I spent my last of days burning my oldest of bridges

And I spent my last of nights killing the best of friends

In the company of thieves, liars, beggers and whores

I'll lay waiting, just waiting for my time to come

Give it a rest already!
We've heard it all before.

You're such a bromide,
Repeating endless arguments,
And "pat answers".
But now it's time for your rebuke,
So let's hear it again
For the final time.
What has your thinking done
For anyone: that matters most,
Does it not?
You can't use logic
To defeat applied purpose,
Any more than you can catch
A breeze in your hand.
So you say the supernatural
Comes chimerically, but
Have we explained it all to you?
Do you know enough to suppress
The open-minded, or the leaders
With just cause?
So shut-up, and stop trying to
Bowdlerize everyone's ideas
When you know so little,
And you know so much.

When he/she gets in trouble,

The child of the Arminian household says, "The devil made me do it."

The child of the Calvinist household says, "God made me do it."

I'm having a tremendous amount of difficulty proving or disproving the existence of God.  I personally blame carm.org's discussion boards, but then again, curiosity did kill the cat.

Do I have to submit such a challenge?

Yes, You're sovereign, but are You understanding?

And yes, these pieces are my problem,

If only I could understand them, on my knees,

My mind's a moor, a high place of nothing,

And my pride can only serve me so far.

But to a purpose, well, that only You know;

Am I wrong?  Am I aimless?

None of life makes any sense!

Nothing has lined up and waited for me,

Yet others praise Your name for such glory.

These people don't understand my pain!

They all read these words but don't understand!

I could tell them a thousand times a thousand.

"Well, why don't you understand?" They say.

How do you point to air and say God's there?

I lack the faith!  I need more than this!

I need more than just hope and faint inner voice...

Am I shrewd enough to know

These things called happiness and joy,
Sorrow and grief, and to know them
With the proper respect
Of my world around me,
Of my reality?
What is my purpose, God?
Are You there? Do You care?
Or am I just a hopeless byproduct
Of random genetic tampering
And the supercilious laws of science?
I want to know; I want to see Your face.
I'd pray in earnest if I knew what to pray,
For my fears haunt my rationale
Like a cancerous gloom...

Tickle Me Emo

Mankind is fallible relative to itself.  The easiest way to prove this is to ask anyone this question: "Have you ever purposefully told someone something contrary to what you knew to be true?"  (Of course, we all consider this act to be lying.)  Now, most people have lied sometime in their life, if not all; thus it proves that man is fallible on at least one, and logically the most important, standard: himself.

Seriously, Battle of Mice is one of the best bands I've ever heard.  Ya'll gotta check out their album "A Day of Nights".

Call me pessimistic or misanthropic all you want, but I do hate vegans.  By vegans, I don't mean the Hindu family down the way who believes that that cow really could be their uncle, or the person who quietly believes that not eating meat will reduce their body fat.  No, I'm talking about the morons who never fail to remind us that eating animals is torture equivalent to concentration camps.  Prime example: I love Between the Buried and Me; hell, they're one of my favorite bands.  But this ad they have for peta2 about vegans "shredding harder" makes me puke, but not as much as the Napalm Death peta2 ad about "#99", the chimp at the butt of scientific research.

Let me be clearer: I'm all for stances and such and such, but not overtly hypocritical ones.  Vegans value the life of animals over humans as long as it conveniences them.  They support the destruction of other's property (tossing blood on clothes).  They have no interest in aiding truly admirable causes like the hungry in third-world countries.  Plus, very few use absolutely no animal products whatsoever (Bam! As long as it conveniences them!).

Also, in the spirit of Maddox, those who don't eat meat don't take into consideration the enormous amount of damage done on the environment by farming.  Yeah, pretty sure there's a dead spot on the floor of the gulf of Mexico caused by those chemicals used in farming.  That brings me to question: if vegans really believed what they said, wouldn't they all have their own little farms like the Amish, without using chemicals?  You would think, but no...

The problem with making any lofty claims about the damage done to animals by humans if you're human is that you're human and are inherently damaging to them anyway.  We've destroyed environments that created vegans' homes, malls, doctor's offices.  Vegans use all of these at the expense of good ole' Peter Cottontail, Bambi, and Yogi, but are not saddened by it one bit.

Truth is, vegans are in it for some sense of communal guilt.  If everyone became vegan, I'm sure half of them would fall out simply for the fact that it wasn't controversial anymore.  Oh, and about metal, metal is macabre: you can't have metal without talking about death or blood or something like that.  Not eating meat doesn't make you legitimately "metal".

So glad to see you have overcome them.

Completely silent now

With heaven's help

You cast your demons out

And not to pull your halo down

Around your neck and tug you off your cloud

But I'm more than just a little curious

How you're planning to go about

Making your amends to the dead

To the dead


Recall the deeds as if

They're all someone else's

Atrocious stories

Now you stand reborn before us all

So glad to see you well


And not to pull your halo down

Around your neck and tug you to the ground

But I'm more than just a little curious

How you're planning to go about

Making your amends to the dead

To the dead


With your halo slipping down

Your halo slipping

Your halo slipping down

Your halo slipping down

Your halo slipping down [repeated]


Your halo slipping down to choke you now

Who is the maker of empty promises,
And whose love is that of fair condition?
I'm betting your premonition's correct,

For I will fail you in apathetic terms
With regards from hell to your pompous
Piety to think you could help me.
I can barely help myself.

So, using the advice to check out this Skillet album, I downloaded it to preview.  You guys...why?  What about this album is so great?  It's like pro tools extravaganza to cover up banal songwriting....argh...I'm exasperated...

I've decided more people would get saved if we told them they'd never have to go to another church service if they did.

I hate Michael J. Fox.  He couldn't have cared less about Parkinson's until the fateful day he was diagnosed.  Really, I hate celebrities.  They're all about the government stepping in and helping people as long as it's not them, unless, of course, there's a camera crew available, in which case it's an honorable cause.  Everyone of them has an idea as to how the world should be run, how war should be illegal, how no one should be poor, and how the life should always be happy and non-confrontational.  What sacrifice have they made?  Bono is a prime example of this idea.  While he purports giving to charity and all that humanitarianism, I lost all respect for him when I found out he spent millions of dollars to transport a hat.  Yes, folks, a favorite hat on first class.  He's such a hypocrite.  I dare him to give all his money away: all his clothes, all his "accessories", all his guitars, and whatever else should be given away, if he's a real man, but he isn't.  He's a liar, just like every other celebrity.  A bold-faced liar...

Circular motion, a pacing--
A fillip would have to stop it,
And you would have to be.
Sense of touch, most discreet,
Smells of intimacy, rapport;
Your inveterate influence
Most felicitous, most discreet,
Trembles at your feet.
The fallout brings life;
The glory eradicates darkness...

"Dozens of Republicans, both candidates and
supporters, have pounced on Kerry for his remark to Pasadena City
College students Monday. The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate
said if the students make the most of their educations, "you study
hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can
do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."" from this link.

Now, as I've said before, I'm not a fan of the Iraq War on several counts, but to try to cover up the obvious error this moron makes by blaming Bush's bad handling of the war is unbelievable.
If you read the article, he continues to blame the Republican party for the grievous malfeasances he believes they've made against the military.  Yeah, Kerry, that's right: it's Bush's fault you didn't clarify the difference between Bush and the military in your statement.
What's so incredible is his obliviousness to how his statement sounded. 

1.  I am a white male; therefore, I must be racist.
2.  I am from the South; therefore, I am racist.
3.  The ad on this link is so blatantly racist that my thinking that it is not racist is indeed proof of my racism.
4.  I am a white male from the South; therefore, my ancestry dictates that I will be ahead of all minorities in my area.  Nevermind that both sets of my grandparents barely finished high school just to work construction for their entire lives, and both of my parents had to work to pay for college.
5.  I can not refer to blacks in a derogatory way, by such words as nigger; but blacks can refer to me in a derogatory way by my race, for I am white and clearly at an advantage.
6.  All inappropriate behavior I have toward blacks is a result of my racist heritage, of which I should be ashamed (again, I am white and therefore a manipulative former slave-master).  All inappropriate behavior by blacks is a result of their deprived circumstances, ultimately the government's fault.
7.  No matter what I do, I will always be racist.  Blacks cannot be racist, for they are a minority.
8.  My parents are conservative, and on the relative scale of politics, I am conservative, moreso proving I am a racist.

9.  This post just goes to show how racially biased I am for challenging the common misconceptions people have.

Here's an article I found...

Actor and NRA President Charlton Heston is taking film star George
Clooney to task after Clooney's reported wisecrack over Heston's
Alzheimer's disease.

New York Post columnist Liz Smith wrote Sunday that while Clooney was accepting an award from the National Board of Review last week,
he said that "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's."

When Smith asked the actor if he went too far with his remarks, Clooney
-- who's against the gun lobby -- responded, "I don't care. Charlton
Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves
whatever anyone says about him."

According to the Internet Movie Database, Heston responded to Clooney's
remarks by noting the "class" of the actor's late aunt, singer-actress
Rosemary Clooney.

"It just goes to show that sometimes class does skip a generation,"
Heston was reported as saying.

When cable news show host Bill O'Reilly got wind of Clooney's remarks
this week, it re-ignited a war of words that began when O'Reilly
criticized the actor for not following up on the distribution of monies
from Sept. 11-related fundraisers.

"If this had been George Clooney's first mistake I'd just mock him and
forget about it, but he's clearly out of control," "The O'Reilly Factor"
host said Monday. "I believe most Americans will find these remarks
mean-spirited."

In addition, O'Reilly sounded off about the press' apparent lack of
reporting Clooney's comments.

"Just imagine if someone mocked Christopher Reeve's paralysis," O'Reilly
added. "The Hollywood press and the elite media would go nuts, but very
little has been said about Clooney's insensitivity."