Pamphlet Draft

[Cramulus]

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Some awesome image or something

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Congratulations!

Most of the people who saw this thing did NOT pick it up. They did NOT open it. And they did NOT receive the praise with which I am now spraying you. You kick ass! Why is that?

You, my friend, are one of the chosen few. You are awake enough to take notice of your surroundings. If you were a wild animal, (and I'm sure you are!) you'd have a better chance to survive than all of them. Look around, man, most of them are asleep. Or at least they act like it.

And they're asleep for good reason - there's no reward for being awake, for being conscious of what's going on around you. Most of them are bored and miserable. Maybe you are too.

Hey, if you're satisfied with your life, good for you. Me, I can't sleep at night sometimes because I have this feeling that my life could be so much cooler if only I could figure out how to make it that way. I want to go to bed every night thinking, "That was great. I did not waste a single minute of that day." Don't you?


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A lot of people feel like they're trapped in their lives. I know that sometimes I wake up and realize that I've been in a rut for what seems like years. It's easy to get lulled to sleep by The Routine. The Rut and Grind. The Machine. I know a lot of people who are miserable but are complacent with it. What a tragedy! They insist that they don't have the time or resources to enjoy life anymore.

These people view themselves as victims of society. They're bored and boring, because they feel their lives are ultimately out of their control.

We let the minutes of our day be determined by train and bus schedules, by the nine-to-five grind. We let our bodies drive us through biological rhythms of hunger, fatigue, and sexual release. But you've gotta trust me when I say you can escape all that if you just learn to be aware of it. Yeah, you still have to go to work, but its not a prison sentence.

Cause I mean, even hamsters who live in little glass boxes manage to have fun.





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I want to be really straight-up about my goal.

I believe in the butterfly effect - the idea that really little things can ultimately cause great changes in the world. I,Äôm afraid for humanity, and this is why: I meet very few people that seem to be awake and conscious. Very few people have learned how to use their own brain. Very few people seem to be thinking about their own thoughts ,Äì they,Äôre just passive participants in the world. They hear opinions on TV and those opinions become their own. Think for yourself, damn it!

Today, tomorrow, forever, remember to be aware. Look around at your surroundings and ask yourself why you,Äôre doing what you,Äôre doing. You might be satisfied, and if you are, that,Äôs fine. But I really do want you to change the parts of yourself that you aren,Äôt satisfied with. Ignite yourself! While there,Äôs still time!

I want you to be aware of what,Äôs wrong with your day, your life, your world. Then I want you to do something about it. 

Cause if you don,Äôt do something about it, it,Äôs gonna be like this forever.

You can,Äôt just keep waiting for things to happen to you. You,Äôve gotta go out and do them yourself.

If this was a movie, would you be a character in it? Or just an extra?

Be an active force in the world, not a passive one.




Little one liners for margins:

As I write this pamphlet, I ask myself why I,Äôm doing this. It,Äôs to become rich and famous, right?

I can,Äôt come up with anything else at the moment.

The above line won,Äôt make it to print. But maybe this one will.

there should be some meme-bombs in here. Preferably a rhyming one that'll get stuck in your head.

[LMNO]

Too evangelical.



I have some ideas, but I have to develop them more, first.

also: if you want funny, it's not here.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I kinda liked this and I had a couple of hours to kill ...

(these are big for a4 laser but would prolly go a5 with a decent printer)

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*Edit* seems photofucket shrunk them

[Cramulus]

Too evangelical.

also: if you want funny, it's not here.

I'm aware. This was my 40-minute attempt to stop thinking so hard about what a perfect version would look like and just fart out a lot of text so I have something to work off of.

Nothing terribly new here, either. But it's mine and I like it.   

[LMNO]

Don't use photobucket for large images.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Don't use photobucket for large images.

Yeah I kinda worked that out on me own. Do you have any advice that begins with "Use" and ends with "instead"?

[Cramulus]

OMG Silly, you kick so much ass I'm crapping about it

Not sure about the font though - I think it's a bit hard to read after a while.


and contrary to my original feeling, this probably does belong in the BIP forum

[LMNO]

www.imageshack.us

[P3nT4gR4m]

 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Not sure about the font though - I think it's a bit hard to read after a while.

[AFK]

Yeah, the white letters on top of that background are not being very kind to these old eyes.  Also, and mabye I'm just a nitpicky old bastard, but I'm not sure about some of the "hip" phrases like "kick ass".  But I guess it depends on your intended demographic.  If you are looking to reach 18 to 25 year olds you are probably all set.  But, if you hope to reach older folks you might want to rethink your phraseology.  Just a thought. 

[Cramulus]

Good call, Rev.

Regarding the notion that it's too preachy / evangelical -- can you guys point out some places where you think it needs some cleanup?

[hunter s.durden]

Old fucks....

[Cramulus]

So I just threw SillyCybin's graphics into an MS Word doc and printed out ten of them to drop on my commute home / the commute here tomorrow. (pssst, you cats know of a good site to host filez like this?)

I gotta say, I'm jazzed. I don't think the pamphlet is what I want it to be yet (you're right LMNO, it's way too straight-faced) - but it's a starting point. I'm most jazzed that I managed to put this thing together so quickly. I started off with a vague idea this morning and by the end of the day I'm holding it in my hands. It's given me a real jolt of creative energy. Oddly enough, it's exactly the kind of energy I'm talking about in the damn pamphlet.

Hey Silly, what program did you use to make those images?

[P3nT4gR4m]

Photoshop CS - Oldskool