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                                              December 29, 2005


It's a hard thing for a self-proclaimed
goth to confess, but I'm not particularly       Though really I don't go
morbid.                                         around proclaiming to be
                                                a goth.  It's more like
What is there to understand?                    something I'd admit to
                                                if challenged, because
A leaf falls in the autumn, it rots             there's not much point
on the ground and then it's just                in denying these things.
gone.  There will be other leaves
much like it, but none exactly so.                   (It's much harder
                                                     to admit how little
If you identify with the leaf,                       I know about goth music.)
the loss of the leaf is a
horribly incomprehensible                                ("Eldritch?
tragedy.                                                 What band
                                                         was he in
If you identify with the                                 again?")
tree, life is much easier
to live, and things seem
much less grim.                "Everyone needs
                                something larger
                                than themselves
                                to believe in."



   There's still another division
   out there though, another choice
   to be made:

   Is your self the body, that blob
   of closed cell foam filled with
   water and hydrocarbon scum?

   Or is your self the spirit:
   the things you think, say and
   write, the ideas you recieve,
   create and transmit?


      If it's the body, the transmission
      of life is a fairly simple matter:
      it's all about raising kids.

      If you care about the realm of the spirit,
      then you're concerned about the survival
      and progress of civilization and
      intelligence.


          And things start to
          seem grim again.

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