This life can't be real........

[SLCPUNK]

Can it?

[Timothy]

Maybe it's all just something like the Matrix.

[Izzy]

If it was fake and/or 'built' the person(s) responsible would have done a better job....

[SLCPUNK]

If it was fake and/or 'built' the person(s) responsible would have done a better job....

Maybe they got drunk near the end..........

[Timothy]

If it was fake and/or 'built' the person(s) responsible would have done a better job....

Maybe they got drunk near the end..........

That or they are working on the biggest Punked ever.

[SLCPUNK]

If it was fake and/or 'built' the person(s) responsible would have done a better job....

Maybe they got drunk near the end..........

That or they are working on the biggest Punked ever.

Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SLCPUNK]

It just seems surreal lately. Everything seems like I'm out looking in. It's not a bad thing.

But it dawned on me a while back (during a long hike) that it is probably just a short part of something else.

And it dawned on me again the night before last.

[Tj]

But it dawned on me a while back (during a long hike) that it is probably just a short part of something else.

Preparation for eternity? 

[Tied-Up]

Maybe we are all just animated puppets, and there's some sicko in the sky toying with our strings.

[SLCPUNK]

But it dawned on me a while back (during a long hike) that it is probably just a short part of something else.

Preparation for eternity??

Prepping for something............

Hate waiting for answers though.

 

[Timothy]

The answer is 42 .

Now yoiu just need to know what the question is

[Tj]

Search for them then!

Just find something your heart believes in, I guess. I was reading some random Alice Cooper quote the other day, and it made me think. He was talking about his Christianity:

"When people say, 'How do you believe this? Why do you believe this?' I just say nothing else speaks to my heart. This doesn't speak to my intellect, it doesn't speak to my logic - it speaks right to my heart and right to my soul, deeper than anything I've ever thought of."

I struggle so much with my own faith, because I'm constantly questioning everything about The Church, The Bible etc., to the point where I'm verging on heretical status in the eyes of more orthodox Christians, but I know I'm just being pedantic a lot of the time - as are they - and letting my head take over my heart and soul. That quote really helped and encouraged me, 'cause the way I see it nothing is ever going to speak to and fully satisfy my intellect or my logic. I'm always going to pick faults in what I believe and what I'm taught is 'truth', but my heart normally knows what I believe in and have faith in. I reckon following your heart is really under-rated, y'know. I'm probably not making much sense, sorry ?

[SLCPUNK]

The answer is 42 .

Now yoiu just need to know what the question is

THAT'S why I can't figure out this life.

I've always been bad at math! 

[SLCPUNK]

Search for them then!

I ask lots of questions to myself. I have a general idea of what it means to me.

Just find something your heart believes in, I guess.

I do. I subscribe more to a Buddhist outlook.


I struggle so much with my own faith, because I'm constantly questioning everything about The Church, The Bible etc., to the point where I'm verging on heretical status in the eyes of more orthodox Christians, but I know I'm just being pedantic a lot of the time - as are they - and letting my head take over my heart and soul. That quote really helped and encouraged me, 'cause the way I see it nothing is ever going to speak to and fully satisfy my intellect or my logic. I'm always going to pick faults in what I believe and what I'm taught is 'truth', but my heart normally knows what I believe in and have faith in. I reckon following your heart is really under-rated, y'know. I'm probably not making much sense, sorry?

You make sense.

You can follow your heart and still question authority. Church goes hand in hand with control and that is why I shy away from it.

You can be spiritual, meaningful and caring with or without (any) church.

That being said..............I am usually more in awe of life than anything. It often seem surreal.

[Tj]

You can follow your heart and still question authority. Church goes hand in hand with control and that is why I shy away from it.

You can be spiritual, meaningful and caring with or without (any) church.

Yeah, totally. Church is rubbish, most of the time. It's so dead and confused. This is a whole other debate though.

That being said..............I am usually more in awe of life than anything. It often seem surreal.

Mmm, I don't get it either. No explanation of life makes enough sense to satisfy me. I think in general I've resigned myself to the fact that my crappy little human mind will never fully understand or possess all of the answers, but I still can't help wondering. I was talking the other day with some friends about how I find astronomy so frustrating, 'cause everything is so infinite and just... big, for want of a better word. It confuses me, and makes me feel so insignificant. As a result of how confusing I find everything, I think the only two main things I'm really trying to do in my life are follow my heart and love people. I've had my fair share of realisations and epiphany kinda moments etc., like everyone does, but I've never and never will find a fully satisfying conclusion of what life is for, or even what life is!

[SLCPUNK]

 It confuses me, and makes me feel so insignificant.

 I like to say "humbles me". Because I stand in awe and respect of these things (Like looking at the Grand Canyon, or the top of a mountain hike). And even though I realise I can't fully understand it I breath it in and am mesmorized. In many ways being insignificant is a good thing. You can admit that you are in fact powerless and although you have freedom of choice, eventually, your life will turn as the wind blows you.

As a result of how confusing I find everything, I think the only two main things I'm really trying to do in my life are follow my heart and love people. I've had my fair share of realisations and epiphany kinda moments etc., like everyone does, but I've never and never will find a fully satisfying conclusion of what life is for, or even what life is!

That is all I can do. Intention is my saying.......What I intend when I shake another persons hand. If the intentions are true, so am I, and my life follows suit. I feel that I can't go wrong with that line of though.

Everything seems infinite to me........even this planet. Go hiking around the Rim of the Grand Canyon. I could spend the remainder of my life back there and never finish. That is just one small portion of the USA. That backdrop to me seems surreal to me; even more so that I get to participate in it. The pain of the hike is real though: sore legs, out of breath, sweat, dirt, hungry, falling fast asleep at the end of the day.

I watched Def Leppard last night and in the middle of it all began to laugh aloud. It was a joy to see what other humans had created and others loved to experience. In a moment the experience was over, and in another 50 years or so, most everybody in that arena will be long gone, like it never happened. I watched, like I do with many other things, and thought: enjoy every second of this moment, it will never happen again.............

[Tj]

Yeah there's something pretty cool about feeling so insignificant and in awe of everything. No time to give a proper response though, 'cause I gotta gooo.

Talk to you later  I'm off to a rainy barbecue 

[Tied-Up]

Rainy BBQ sounds like you'll be eating cole slaw and fruit salad. 

Art speaks to my heart, so I guess that's why I'm an artist and not a christian. 

[Gunner80]

Can it?

Where's a coo-coo clock when you need one.

[journey]

Can it?

Yes. It's too real for me at the beginning of each month.

I think life is beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. It's so complex, like a puzzle. I have obsessed over life and death. But maybe we're not supposed to figure it out: just learn to love it and each other.

I'm teaching myself not to stress over little things anymore. I know that, just like everyone else, I'm not going to live forever. If someone says something that hurts or pisses me off, I try to let it go, because I know it won't amount to anything in the end.