I have deleted the rest of "the notebook" that i put on the web, but i decided to keep the original stuff... or at least it's original as far as i know. it is, after all, the most important stuff. On this page are the "non-poetry" pieces. The next page is all poetry. I've put authors after each work, as best as i could remember. if i got it wrong, let me know!
Society Cages
Society,
�����the cages I'm locked in to die in.The society of hatred, poverty, greed, homophobia ect. This fuct up society drives you insane. You question everything, but yet you do nothing. we need to change this society. I'm not talking Anarchy. But something to make the hurt go away and kindness to show threw a little. This society is so messed up you can't tell a good lie from the truth. If your not a certain way your nothing, your a messed up freak. How cruel is that? I mean seriously society needs to change for the better. right now we're heading for the worst. We need to change society before we all go mad and not just the ones that see what the phuc is really going on.
Meghan
����� Jessie and I lay next to our Angel friend, the flickering light from the wind blown candles caught the grey static of our cigarette smoke as it drifted up towards the dark and profoundly depressing clouds hiding the lonely stars from our view. Finally, He broke the silence, "For the past 3 years I have seen my life and my friend's lives ruined by relationships with women, and yet there is nothing I crave more right now than a girlfriend."
J.J. Almendinger
����� The past is the past, the present is now, and the future is yet to be seen. The past is gone, lost, and irrelevent, the present is now, here, and must be lived, grasped, and taken, and the future is new, fresh, ever changing, and yet to be seen. These are rules of life.
These rules I have just talked of however can be broken. The past can be seen again if you concentrate on a moment in the past, and think hard about living it you will put yourself there and be living it. The future may be seen by, only those with the"Candle of the future". This candle maybe used to pre-ordain events based on information from the past or present to call our a possible event in the future.
Jason
����� If Jesus Christ wanted to comitt suicide, how to you honestly know he died, for you and not for his own sins? (he he to bad it's not proven)
����� Once, when i was nine i went with my friends to the golf course and my mom said be back before 10:00 so we said we would but when we were sitting there talking a bit, the sprinklers came on and we started playing in them and when one set went off we went to another one and we were so busy trying to stay away from the lodge that we lost track of time and when the last set went off we went back to the creek where mymom was waiting to pick us up and she didn't get mad, just said that it was kind of gross cuz it was sewer water but we didn't care cause we were nine and it was fun!
Sarah
Unity
����� Welcome my brother & sisters where we are one. we fight as one we treat each other like one we our one. we our a group of people fighting for togetherness we our brothers & sisters. unlock your door of follow the leader there is no leader we together, strive for a change. The time has come sisters & brothers where unity must show its power. unity is not evil but good. my sister my brother in unity we're all the same one big family. what's yours is mine, mine is yours. when you fall I pick you up when I fall you pick me up. brothers & sister some of us may be related in blood others of us want a change & believe in unity. Unite we our united as one. If one breaks the chain we will fall we will start again my sisters & brothers for unity is power of trust hope togetherness, fighting as a whole. unite today unite tomorrow. unite on your grave. united we our a family. unity is mainly found in churches doesn't have to be. let us your heart & soul unity first starts with you my brother & sister and ends with you as well.
Meghan
����� When it comes to world peace, I don't fucking see it. Yo man I may be ignorant in your eyes. You may be patriot in your eyes. In my eyes all I see is a person sittin waiting for the gov't to chose for them. Why I'm fighting the system trying to make a change so if I'm ignorant to you fine. But to me I'm a person and your a person. You chose your destanion so let me have mine & you don't judge you but you may have aryan eyes I may have rainbow eyes. Who cares? I'm in individual so don't group me ith my fellow ignorant people or punx. For I don't group u with the patriot so r the corporate whores for I try not to judge.
Meghan
Spiked hair,
����� Patched clothing I'm in my own little ignorant world. I won't be patriot for what will that prove? I love to help what is wrong with this society. Mohawk hair puc don't judge me on what I waear and what I do. I don't do that to you. I just want a little respect. Peace to ya I hope I get peace back from ya.
Meghan
����� Humans (humyns) cause the most destruction and yet hate & greed talk about life & society. We need to change not change the environment.
Meghan
����� Time is hear the end of the line, together we can stand. w/out that we will fall. Down to the cage of hell hatred and greedy society. We can fight together instead of fighting each other. we can fight together instead of fighting each other. we can fight this hatred and make society better instead of worse.
Meghan
����� "To deny your impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human"
On the contrary, the ability to deny one's impulses is the very power that defines one as human. Animals succomb to all impulses, men can mold their actions around intellectual/moral purposes. What else could be the difference?
Joe or Carl
����� If love is suicide, but lasts forever, it is clear that it never succeeds. Love, then must be an eternal process of suicide. Perhaps the suicide represents the death of an individual. By growing in love, we become one with the subject of affection. We, increasingly, die and become a larger thing. In that sense, love is the process of suicide from ourselves. It can never truely succeed, for we must always retain a measure of individuality. The process of love refines eternally, it lasts forever.
Love is suicide... love can last forever.
Joe
����� I begin to wonder what our judicial system is coming to when I hear horrid stories like the one I'm going to tell. A mother, 27 years old, has a daughter who is 10. The daugher was raped by an 18 year old. Not only is this act of sickness gross and disturbing, the mother of the child is going to be tried for leaving her child alone, for neglect. Neglect is wrong, but should we be punishing her for it when she is in this state of mind. It seems that the 18-year-old will be left to decide what to do instead of rotting in jail where he belongs. Rape, one of the most disturbing crimes comitted, is being sent home while neglect goes to trial. Our government is retarded. Maybe anarchy won't help, but this so called democracy will be the downfall of the american society. Fuck democracy.
So what if you Love someone but he doesn't Love you back?
What if you once Loved a man and he Loved you but treated you wrong?
What if a guy Loves you and you don't Love him?
How do you Love ice cream the same way you Love a man (or woman)?
What? You don't? Its the same word isn't it?
So to ask the timeless question, what is Love? What does Love mean?
����� you live a lie, saying nothing ever gets to you. but it leaks ou, tainting everything in its path. Bitterness will kill you, eat you alive from the inside out. you may not physically die, but yu will become a shell, hollow and empty, looking for something to fill you up when all you do is run from what you really need.
����� Democracy is stupid because people are stupid-individuals can be brilliant but people are stupid. Rule by the masses produces slow change because peoople are deeply rooted in their beliefs. The problem with this is that PEOPLE (the stupid wretches) limit the opportunities and choices of the of the INDIVIDUAL- Joe, Carlos, Cory, Adam, Meghan, anyone who people want to tame and shackle I am beginning to understand Anarchy an I like it! lets find the nearest opportunity for a RIOT and plunge Bemidji into chaos- AND THEN THE WORLD!! or whatever...
����� Yup, I said "God". does this make me a christian? Depends on your opinion. I can say I believe in Him, but I don't attend church or a youth group regularly. I have fun and I can say I want to go to heaven. But, no one really knows where we will end up when we die. I will just have to wait for that day to come. As will everyone in this world. This town, this god damn school. Stop being sopetty about Joe's views. He chooses to be him, you can do the same so stop accuing him of being a bad person cuz you are showing how closed-minded you truely are. Ignore me, ridicule me, or make me look dumb, but the truth hurts us all.
����� How many PPL's parents can't say "SEX"? Cuz mis padres estan hablan SEX. Esta es muy estupido, pero no caccia, comprende?
����� -My parents can't say SEX. It's very stupid, but no shit, understand?
Melody
����� Knowing what you have and where you are going is vain and rediculous. No one knows anything,a nd that is the only thing one can be certain of. what one has today can be lost tomorrow and interests and opportunities can change in an instant so no one REALLY has an idea where they are going. Realizing th is has made my life so much easier "knowing" that there is little one can do and NOTHING one can KNOW so there is little or nothing worthy of counterproductive concern. I do need to add however, that this does not in any way support or condone destructive or cruel behavior towards one's self or others. The advice of wise machiavelli must also be heeded in that the hands of fate are ultimately unstoppable but provisions can be made against the fickle will of fortune like dikes and ditches aainst a dangerous river. The moral of this string of bullshit is: Don't worry but don't be a dumbass either!
����� Too often people mistake individuality for sloth, disfunction, and stupidty. "Fools" make our lives better by bringing sunbeams of humor and insight to our otherwise dark and dull days. Their goosesteps are indeed out of synche w/ the rest of the sell-out elitiest bastards the system has taught its demeaning tricks to, but I only pray that my children are "fools". I will feel truely fullfilled as a fater if only I could be so lucky!
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