What is Truth?

Truth is like medicine, timeless it may be. It is the thin line between falsehood and reality. Of course its the same old story, centuries gone past. When truth shows up, lies cannot last. Be true to thine own self no matter what you do, for the living God is always watching you, and he never changes and neither does truth. It is eternal

Samuel Douglas Nash III

Loneliness.

Jamie Goldstein

Writing II

Prompt 14

      “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” –Vince Lombardi

      I do well at the bar game. Sometimes I smoke first, sometimes I down a few beers before I go. I try not to keep score but I probably hook up more than I should. It’s getting boring, honestly. “Oh, where do you go to school?” “What are you studying?” “That’s so interesting!” “What do you want to do with that?” “Has that always been a dream of yours?” “Hey, let’s go up to the bar, I’ll buy you a drink!”

      I’ve had that same fucking conversation a few dozen times. I’m so sick of these superficial dialogues, which hardly even deserve the “di” prefix. I never really know know who you are. But I guess that’s the point, right? That’s why we go to these college bars. We’re lonely souls who are just searching for a warm body to stay the night with. 

      I drift from face to face, never recognizing a one. It’s not their fault, I very rarely remember a person. I don’t like to trivialize these people, after all, I’m here looking for the same thing.

      Maybe I should stop winning this game. It doesn’t make me any happier. Sure I can talk a girl out of her dress, and don’t think for a second that I take advantage of anyone,  but really, what’s the point? 

      I think what I’m trying to say here is that honestly, I’m pretty lonely. I’m sick of everyone trying to meet up, hook up, fuck. I want something real, steady, emotive. I can’t stand this fucking superficiality anymore. But I guess that’s just how things are freshman year. It’s not a game, but I guess everyone keeps score.

Class 4/09

“If winning isn’t everything, then why do they keep score?” – Vince Lombardi

Maybe the question isn’t whether or not winning means everything, whether success is a constant and necessary goal, but is instead, “Even though they keep score, do we ever know who really wins?”After all, can we quantify our lifetime achievement through a series of numbers and statistics, and truly be satisfied by such? Of course winning in a game or sport, a closed-universe if you will, is satisfying, but perhaps it is only so because such satisfaction in unachievable in life. There’s no way to tally up a ‘score’ on your death bed, and, in a world that seems possessed by the exact definitions of ‘win’ and ‘lose,’ such a proposition is honestly frightening. Maybe in reality, that’s why winning is so important to some, to Mr. Lombardi. If so, though, could it not be said that winning is, instead of something for the strong, a concession for the weak, for those unable to face the subjectivity of the ever-changing world. 

-Reid Williams

Nut up or shut up.

Prompt #13

Jamie Goldstein

Writing II

      “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust” –Fidel Castro

      Can’t we all just get along? I mean really! Why the fuck do we hate everyone? Why can’t we accept the underground, the other, the different? It’s time to pluralize. It’s time to say “yeah, I DON’T get you, but I want to.” We see something foreign and we revile it like last week’s leftovers. It’s shit like the Holocaust, Darfur, and the fucking traditional marriage skinheads that turn our world to shit. 

      We need to take our place back. We’re young. We have all the time in the world. We need to change things now. This isn’t a call to change you profile picture to an equals sign, it’s a call to war. It’s time to nut up or shut up. Make the difference. Be the new change. We have to cut out our intolerance. Pluralism is the chemo to the cancer of our society. This isn’t the time to play nice. We’ve been beaten down and repressed for years. It’s time to change that. It’s time for us to level the playing field. No I’m not a communist, but our overly capitalist, xenophobic, and dog-eat-dog world has got to end now. The only other option is the status quo, the norm, the same shit we’ve always dealt with with passive acceptance. Sure, it annoyed us, but who ever spoke up for change? 

      We need to rock normalcy to its core. It’s high time this shit ended. Pluralism is our brave new world. I mean really, can’t we all just get along?

Land of Unicorns

"I'm not afraid of Death. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

     A touchy subject. One that has touched all of us. Death has gripped friends, family, co-workers and strangers. the hand Hades is not so easily dodged. And in these days, it seems the mighty Zeus himself has fallen asleep on his throne. Death is a human occurrence, and one that will take all of us but the question that arises from our mortal lives, is then what?

Some have said, not to worry about death. We are merely passing through this life. And our goal is to observe, change and continue on. There is no guarantee, in heaven or hell; purgatory or the abyss; Mt. Olympus or the Underworld; Complete Darkness or Emptiness. You can believe in the Land of Unicorns and fairy tales. None of us truly knows the next step. So what is the point of taking anguish from a land and dimension separate from our own. Come to terms with death. Know that it is coming and beyond it, is the unknown. Take what time you have now and grasp it like the hilt of a sword. It is your last, it is your only. Live the only life you have to what means you want it. Death, its a touchy subject. It will touch, it has touched all of mankind.

-Rico

Bang

"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work" - Will Rodgers

 

         Gun control is like prohibition of alcohol, it's a bad idea and it won't work. You take away something a few people have, they don't have the power to argue. You take something away that more than half the population uses, you get a civil war. Politics is a puppet with each string pulled by a politician. One wrong pull and the puppet will fall. All the wrong pulls and the puppet doesn't move. I would name this little doll the U.S. of A. I can run down the list of reasons why firearms should be allowed. I would run down it but in a room full of liberals, it would end up a slobbery and gibberish alien language. It enters their ear canals as they prepare to shout back a monotonous idea about guns. What's a gun? Something many liberals can define. What exactly is an action? slide? clip? chamber? safety? automatic? semi-automatic? bolt-action? Simple on the outside, complicated on the inside. Don't it the wrong way, I'm not all Republican and Conservative. I support liberal things too and I'm sure if I was arguing with a conservative about gay marriage, he'll shoot some slur I wouldn't understand. It seems arguing with another human being is tough. They don't want to listen to things they don't like or want. Amen.

-Rico

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re clothed, fed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom” –Dwight Eisenhower

                What comes to mind is government. A government in the form of a total governmental controlled police state. It would be the safest for the people in any nation. The government would have rigid and firm control of every part of one’s life. They would control your nutrition, your communications, your education and your politics. The connection is that the only form of police state in America are prisons where you are taken are of but your rights are removed which is how a police state works. The population is seen as a whole that needs to be maintained and made healthy, but it is without thought. Without freedom, many ideas would have not come to be. Many inventions like personal computers would have not come into existence. Oppositely, in an anarchy state there is not a functioning government, all the social benefits such as healthcare, a military, hospitals and police would not exist which is the entire purpose of a government. Any great nation must find the balance between freedom and control. A powerful social democracy.

Fun fact: because of odd wifi connection I have been accidently signed into this Google account for a week now.