Sequoia

All the Houses Look the Same

I'm currently experiencing a large, large influx of good music.

Also movies.

(No Sam, I haven't gone through your whole folder yet.)

Someone, save me

My emotions have reached a dynamic equlibrium

Ingrid and Lucy?

Half of today was spent surrounded by the smell of turpentine and white paint.

(As opposed to the smell of black paint, which smells different)

I think the fumes got to me.

Let me fall for you

Happiness is when your favourite band tweets your other favourite band.

Catharsis

if I post the same thing in two places, it feels like it's lost its magic.

I'm cringing at my 2007 posts.

for control over the skies

but yours is a different kind of surrender

High school Hijinks

Just thought I'd update you people on what's been going down:

28th of October: Marcus put milk in a coke can. I drank it.

29th of October: I put soya bean in Marcus' water tumbler. He drank it.

2nd of November: Marcus stole a couple of my pens and a sharpener and immersed it in a tupperware full of Jell-O. I was very impressed.

2nd of November: Locked Marcus out of his own iPod Touch. Classic.

4th of November: Obtained photocopy of David Samy's identity tag and posted up Wanted posters around the 6th Form area.

4th of November: Stole Marcus' tie and replaced it with a Winnie the Pooh one.

To be continued...

"Michael, come quick! I've found twins!"

"Aren't they magnificent?"

(via Crystalcha)

buy and throw

So if you'd like to,

I dare you

give the slip to

your parents I would like to get to know you

what are you waiting for?

I (won't) surrender to the storm

I finally see the point of Twitter

The clocks were asleep

My life is progressing toward a state of higher thermodynamic stability,

and that's completely fine with me.

Perspective is a lovely hand to hold

I welcome each misfortune in the hopes that they'll teach me to deal with them in the future.

Thomas' plan to rid the world of global warming:

[T-MAS] says: (10:44:46 PM)

we put aircons per 1m

and make ppl die so no CO2 will be given out

NO!!!

itll work

we put ice and A/C everywhere

kill half of populatione excluding me cause its my idea

and go up to the ozone layer

and use millions of vaccuum cleaner

and oh SH*T

and suck the hot stuff there

forget the A/C

and ice sh*t

it is sh*t now

the THOMAS' 2nd law

attatch 100 big vacuum to each jet planes

and fly trillions of jet planes to the ozone layer

start the vacuum and suck all the heat

and when done, go out of the earth and throw the vacuums away

itll work!!!

Un Chien Andalusia says: (10:48:20 PM)

no

no it won't

The spectrum of sound

Anna Nalick has a really nice voice.

IMHO rk's Forget and Not Slow Down is a nice return to form for the band.

Listening to live performances of Coldplay songs is awesome.

IHTFP

Epic Win

Don't Call it a Comeback

Away We Go, like many of my favourite movies, is about human interaction. More specifically, about a couple trying to find somewhere to start a home; to settle down; to belong.

The first thing I liked about the movie were the characters. They were beautifully written, and their imperfections were played to perfection.

The next thing I liked was how it didn't feel like it was trying to be funny, but was funny. In the same way the universe isn't conspiring to make you laugh, but one finds things to laugh at anyway, this movie utilizes a very natural and tender sort of comedy.

One thing that really put this movie up there next to ESotSM and Once is how artfully they managed to destroy the concept of the perfect family, but kept the concept of family throughout the movie.

The other single scene I thought was brilliant was when they were lying on the trampoline and brought the purpose of marriage back into perspective.

It didn't have as much closure as Juno, or even Little Miss Sunshine for that matter, but it seemed like the characters had developed during the movie. This movie is kinda like Sunshine Cleaning, but with an actual ending.

In short, Away We Go is now one of my favourite movies.

Under the orange tree

My mom just got a facebook account.

Under 'Interested in', she ticked the boxes for both 'Men' and 'Women' thinking it meant 'interested in making friends with'.

My Dinosaur Life

Leave Me (3 minute contest winning version) from Daros Films on Vimeo.

Let it Be You

The sun had bruised her skin into darker shades of porcelain pink.

'Okay, you get to bring 3 things with you to a desert island. They have to be real, they have to be small enou-'

'I WISH FOR A MILLION MORE WISHES'

She lied and said it was her birthday

Free will plays an integral part in the Christian faith.

God didn't want for Adam and Eve to partake of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, (thus telling them not to), but because of free will, Adam and Eve deliberately chose to disobey God. God didn't intend for this to happen, but He knew it would. Wait, if He knew it would happen, why did he bother putting the tree there at all? Couldn't He have anticipated and preempted man's actions somehow? Yes, but to do so would negate the need for free will, which had been bestowed upon man because God loved us enough to allow us to choose whether or not to love Him, because ultimately whatever choice we make, it wouldn't make a difference. I wrote a bit on this a while back.

Have you ever wondered what it'd be like if Jesus backed out of being crucified? If he had simply denied everything and gone his own way? Where would that leave us?

What if I had never met my wife? What if I were in that earthquake? Was it meant to be, or was it pure coincidence?

In certain instances, God knew exactly what would happen and used this knowledge for his purposes, for example, with Moses and Pharaoh.

This is not to say that 'if I ended up smoking, then God would've known so this must all be part of His plan.'

The concept of predestination leads people to believe that Christians are meant to be Christians, and non-Christians were just never meant to go to heaven. I think that's wrong.

Let's call Heaven dry. And Hell wet. If one wishes to stay dry, then one shouldn't jump in the pool. If one wishes to be wet, then in the pool one goes. The water in the pool is inherently wet. There's nothing we can do to change that. But whether or not we choose to jump in is the deciding factor in whether we stay dry or get wet.

God could make the stars align forming the initials of your name and appear in a pillar of fire and speak to you saying: 'I am the Lord', but whether you choose to believe is entirely up to you. God has a plan, but ultimately, your determine your fate.

the quiet before

C.S. Lewis wrote: 'You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body'.

Here are my questions:

Do dogs and cats go to heaven when they die? Can there be intelligence without a sense of morality? What sets us apart from the rest of these organisms? Intelligence, sure. We're smarter than the rest of them. Anything else? There's been a lot of debate as to whether a sense of morality is a trait exclusive to human beings.

I believe it can safely be said that most human beings possess this trait, but why do we possess this trait? Which part of our body do we attribute it to? Is it our brain? Is it years of being moulded by our parents' examples and social norms?

Is love just a myth? Do animals have soulmates, or is 'love' exclusive to organisms with a specific intelligence quotient?

If I were just a brain in a vat, kept alive by machines, would I have a soul? Would I be a soul? I wouldn't be able to see, hear, feel or smell, but I could think. Without any outside stimuli, would I be as good as dead? (seems like I've moved on to euthanasia now.)

Would aliens, not necessarily as carbon based life forms, but as intelligent (how we define it) life forms, also practice religion? In any case, would they have/be souls?