Writing about things I don't know-Ranting for the Helluvit

[Zurtok Khan]

Work, my friends, is not something to be scared of.  It is something to be appreciated.  It simply is the quality of general usefulness (whatever that means).  You will not get jack-shit if you don't get off your ass and take it.  It will be difficult, and you may want to rip the hair out of your head a million times, or even quit, before you make it to your goal.  That is, if it's a worthy goal.  If it's not a worthy goal, then you won't put that much effort in to it.  What's a worthy goal, you ask?  I can't answer that one for you.  You have to answer that one for YOU.

I say this because I see more and more ignorance around me all the time.  Not slack, ladies and gentlemen, for I shall come to slack shortly, but ignorance.  Ignorance is the state of mind and action wherein one assumes that one can attain a reaction without the predicate action.  It is a basic law of physics, and a basic law of life that if someone (or thing) does not push/pull the ball, it will not move.  It will stay exactly where it is.  Inertia is a state of mind and spirit, along with it's typical physical associations.  Ignorance says that these rules can be bent or broken because someone happens to be "special" or some shit like that.  YOU still have to bend the rules.  YOU still have to take what you want.

I am not a subgenius (although Roger has accused me of such).  But, I see less and less slack in the people around me.  Perhaps it is because I understand more what slack is, and what it isn't.  Slack is a state of mind, of course.  That is simple, you probably all realized that before I did (I can be so slow on the uptake with some things).  But, what is this state of mind?  I propose that Slack is the state in which we realize what is worth working for and what is not and we stop worrying about ends and means and all of the piddly little details that get in the way of life.  Or maybe it isn't, maybe it has something more to do with some mystical Taoist philosophy saying something about water eroding rocks.  I don't know.  I'm not that smart tonight.

The point is: If you want it, you've got to work for it.  Somebody always has to pay.  But, if you do it right, you can always get someone else to flit the bill (but only if you put out).

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for Slack.  I am thankful that I don't have to let myself get drug down into absurdity of the over commercialization that is rampant in this society.  I am thankful that when someone tries to yell at me bright and early on Black Friday, that I can laugh at them.

-Zurtok Khan

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Happy Thanksgiving, Kid  

[hooplala]

Are you talking about 9-5 type work, or work in the sense of 'working on a novel' or 'working on a thesis'?

Obviously 9-5 type work is necessary, but brother, I ain't EVER going to appreciate it.

[LHX]

its all about pressure

the pressure you are feeling and where it pushes you






as a side note

every time i draw a circle within a circle i think of breasts

[Fizzwitz Glorypoop]

( o )( o )

[LHX]

( o )( o )

breasts

or
cookie monsters eyes

[hooplala]

What's the difference?

[LHX]

these philosophical questions


they dont end

[hooplala]

troof

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

( o )( o )

breasts

or
cookie monsters eyes

My first thought was breasts, even though I watch a lot of Sesame Street