There are days I wake up and decide that the sheer improbability that I will be able to imagine anything that no one else is going to completely inhibit any creative output I attempt. These are the days I hate.

Then there are the days I don't care. Apathy is like a prescription drug for my creative juices. When I don't care what anyone thinks, or even that no one sees anything I do, I relax and spew out all the various miscellancy cluttering my cranium. I realize there's nothing new about it but I strive for an interesting synthesis, and the daily dose of insignificance resignation keeps me going.

I'm assuming nobody's going to read this, and I'm mainly writing it out of boredom and the knowledge that quite a few of the real creative geniuses out there suffer from motivation deprivation and might actually get bored enough and falsely led enough to indulge in surveying my ranting. Really, I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time.

1

Due to the fact that most of my characters in my story are 'aliens', I feel the need to indulge in my ranting even more. Due to recent discussions with a few friends, I have been led to the belief that the general populace of this planet doesn't really know where to draw the line between humans and people. If you are a person, and I am a person, and people you've never met are people, then isn't a fictional character a person? They aren't technically a human, but they could be. They are a fictional person. So if that person also happens to be an elf, a klingon, or any other INTELLIGENT humanoid, what makes them not a person? Just because they aren't of the exact same species as the rest of us is no excuse to diminish their cultural status. That's blatant racism. And then, how smart does a being have to be to be a person? If a vegetative or a mentally hanicapped human is a person, why is a dog or a dolphin not? They are smart enough to recognize mood, to solve minor problems, to be companions, why then should they be excluded from the sphere of recognition as an individual character?

2

Knowledge of the world is gained through observation, knowledge of the self through interaction. Withholding opinions is an act of supreme willpower. Irony is punishment for presumption.

3

I really shouldn't talk about this, but I just skimmed through a book by Ann Coulter, and, being a liberal, I thought it was quite funny. I never knew there was a secret anti-America sect consisting of every liberal in this country trying to destroy civilizatin. The things you miss when you don't read books called "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)" Jeez, even the name implies that everyone who isn't a fundamentalist christian should be ignored. Anyways, as a liberal let me say I am NOT against America, I am NOT for terrorism, I am for peace, harmony, and the utopian idea that people can do what they please with their lives that doesn't hurt anyone else. I'm just relaying an opinion, but I think I just disproved half her book with that statement. Whoops. And I'd also like to point out that our revered pilgrims left England for the freedom to practice their own beliefs. That's the liberal side of that dispute there. It's a good thing that American liberals aren't banding up and ceding from the US in massive numbers. Both liberals and conservatives who care aren't expressing views to try and tear down the system, they are trying to improve the quality of life for people, and without these aspirations there is no hope for a better future. If the world can be improved, it's only human to try. Once again, writing this is a bad idea, read one of her books for yourself if you agree or disagree strongly enough to care. I have nothing against anyone, I just want to see a brighter future. (Putting soap-box away and burying it)

4 (is the number all other numbers lead to, but only in english - count the letters)

5

Music is one of the finest expressions of creative, intellectual, and emotional expression ever devised. Music is the sum total of humanity in sound. Music is constantly changing, evolving, growing, like a tree that grows in every direction, millions and millions of branches and roots that make up an entity of extreme diversity, one that few people, if anyone, will ever see more than a scant portion of. Do not be satisfied with your little branch. Every other one is just as exciting, interesting, and fullfilling as your own. To resist change is to welcome stagnation and banality. To promote and welcome change is to control it and expand your body, mind, and soul. Music is enlightenment, music is life.

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