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Time and space turned into cream cheese....with a maze so its interactive as well.
to follow the making of this beast, check this out:
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took eight evenings of my life-not a bad turn out
drawn using glitter gel pens, white paint pen, gold and bronze paint pens, gel pens,2 packs of felt tips, pencil crayons, HB pencil, eraser... and anything else i could get my hands on while working.
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sure, i used to write full thousand+ page novels, adventure/horror format mainly... i love to write. its just whether or not it will get me results. art doesnt seem to be these days.... maybe i should start writing again.
i have attempted to write some of my wilder adventures down before...
but it feels weird trying to fictionalise something so important and spiritual for me. i guess if i did now i would try doing it with a lot more dignity than i tried at before, so perhaps i would be ready to try my hand at writing some of these things down. you have given me plenty of food for thought there my dear, thank you!
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That's awesome, and thousand+ pages too!
And then to think that I was quite happy I managed to reach 16 pages in Word the other day with my writing (I tend to let it slip before I really get somewhere in the story, it's annoying really).
And also, I can completely image that it might feel weird to you, or anyone, on the other hand I think that bringing philosophical thoughts in a fictionalized form makes them far more accessible to more people and I guess that's a gain. Wether or not that's a prize you're willing to pay, is entirelly up to you of course.
Now, finally, what's your definition of 'results' here? For I wanted to comment on that particular part, but then realized I wasn't sure you and I were meaning the same thing by it, and then if we wouldn't it would come off as really silly.
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once i get going with anything, i tend to go at it until its done... so stories always wound up stealing me away from the world for up to six months at a go... but i may yet get back into writing...
im very tempted to try writing another story... maybe not a novel this time, they take too long. but im feeling more and more like maybe i should write something.
and by what do you mean by my definition of results?
do you mean the reason why i go round telling people my story? or results of something else?
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Well you said "its just whether or not it will get me results" and I wondered what you meant with results. Money, recognition, a chance to spread your believes, satisfaction? Results is such a non-definitive word.
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generally i mean... well, generally! it always pays to be paid, and there is no point running a race if you cannot win!
im not saying the winning is all thatr counts, but definately making your mark on the world is an important thing to me... when the world is so dark, i results for me would be to brighten it a little perhaps.
i wish people could see the world my way, but i do not hold my breath. most people are too wired up in life to realise its just a ride without consequences.
does that make sense?
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Yes, it makes sense.
Only I wouldn't be able to repeat it in my own words, for it is kind of confusing too. (Or my brain is just fried from trying to understand mathematical stuff that is way out of my league, for some silly schoolproject.)
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school is designed to burn our brains like that. just remind yourself its all a test, and that YOU CAN DO IT!!
no one is more powerful than you.
this is the most important lesson in life. to learn it is to become empowered... 
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Hah, I think schools have a lot of flaws in their design, but I do not think they are designed to kill one's brain. One just needs to keep in mind that not everything they tell is absolute truth or of absolute importance, and that they don't tell all things that might be important to know or learn.
And the last bit almost sounds like a romanticized version of Nietzsche's philosophy.
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not "kill their brains" as such, thats a bit steep.
its designed to make people think in lateral lines, as in only of language, math and science.
unfotunately our simple 5 senses arent privy to everything that happens around us, but rather a slim spectrum of what is actually there, and if we only pay attention to the physical then we open ourselves up for all sorts of grief. its hard to explain in simple terms really.
your way of looking at it is very wise, to say not everything they teach is exactly how it is... but unfotunately most kids think they are learning exactly what the world is and how it works. they think that in their own perfect little dimension soccer is number 1 and coca cola is ok as long as they brush their teeth (though that shit that rots the teeth-is still in their belly , still acting like an acid) and romanticized would be a bit strong a word also. im not dissillusioned, just a realist. i know only i see what i see, and that other people see things differently, therefor it is common sense to try and figure out why we all see things differently. why is one something bad or good, for example? and who's envisionment should we follow? if i think something is bad but most people think it is good, does that make me wrong and them right? i wonder...
cos a lot of what "common" people think is great is in fact slowly killing them, and no matter how hard i try to tell them they laugh and tell me
"but its ok, because im free to make that choice... isnt life great?"
...while they drop their brains into a mincer.
so yeah, sometimes i will seem a little like a mad philosopher arguing the toss over whether or not sin exists or something.
sorry lol
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Then I must be equally mad, for I mostl agree.
And well, speaking about coca cola... I must be a walking bubble of acid by now then! It's my main drink, and it is also my mother's main drink so it already poured into me before I was born.
*hides* No, I don't eat/drink very healthy at all. 
(Sorry, I kind of wanted to make this short, for I was realizing that long messages suddenly stopped working for me? 
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lol thats cool, i understand. i can seem a little hardcore for some peeps
i knew someone who was hooked on lucazade a while ago and she was sixty-she was turning orange...!!! O.O
the adaj: " you are what you eat " just haunts me, i was such a junk food addict for years and years! im only just building myself back up now.
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I find the sentence 'you are what you eat' a bit hard to serious ever since I heard a Combichrist song that featured the line:
'If you are what you eat, I could be you tomorrow'
It's just, whenever the first part is mentioned anywhere, my head automatically adds 'I could be you tomorrow'.
And well you know, eating healthy is good. Yet my parents never really thought me to eat vegatables/fruit and now it's become a horrible task. Besides I'm not trying to become a 100 anyway. I decided I rather live shorter and enjoy everything I want to, than live long and continuously deny myself the things I feel like.
I know this is just making excuses, but... but... but nothing actually. It's just making excuses.
By the way, I accidentally deleted the other comment while I replied the previous one from this conversation. Do you wish for me to look it up and continue that conversation anyway, or are you okay with it that I just leave it?
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yeah.. songs can do that to us lol
your right... i come off kinda preachy sometimes ..
im sorry
i care a little too much perhaps.
and you dont have to make excuses!
my philosophy is that everyone is their own incarnation of god, i would never tell someone they are wrong intentionally
its fine
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Oh, I never felt it as if you were trying to push your believes on me.
It's a trap one easily falls into though. Just think of the people that say pushing your own believes on someone else is wrong, and then try to push that believe on others. x'D
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yeah.... preachers on every corner, mormons at every door. its a dog-eat-dog world out there... thanks for not thinking too steeply of me then
to be honest i think christianity pretty much is built on enforcing someone elses beliefs on people too though. every holy book tells us to believe its pages rather than common sense. sigh. like i say, a dog eat dog world.
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Incredible! There's so much going on, I dunno where to start
I really like the main character, the kinda Christian, piercings-wearing, three-eyed lizardman, and his Buddha reflection (gosh, that sounds even weirder than it looks ;D). The labirynths were a great idea, too. They go well with the yinyang symbol, eye of Ra, lotus flower and all the symbols, as if showing how lost we are in the multifaceted world of spirituality. Even our modern god - Cyberspace - makes an appearance. The only thing I don't like is the church and graveyard - the mundane nature of this picture brings me back to reality, which is a bad thing here.
Other than that - amazing work!
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the overflow of the entire piece is meant to leave one feeling filled with questions
im glad you enjoy my work so, thank you so much for commenting
i can tell you get a lot of what i am getting at..
we aint alone, brother.
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woah! lol alot of symbologu here lol
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as the title suggest...nothing is as it would seem to be...
symbology is everything
especially in this day and age...
are you well? how is life?
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that dont sound right... love and peace, sister. love and peace! all else is b******s and doesnt matter! i know its hard to attain for, but the more you find peace within yourself the more the world will reflect this
namaste sister, hope the world smiles for you today
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thank you dear simon, may the world shines and smiles upon your day
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Is there a "Satan"/"Lucifer" in Buddhism? I've never heard about it... but this piece makes me wonder.
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lol no im trying to say its all the same, when looked at from a great height... all of mankind is so hung up on the where and why they forgot about the most important thing:
What do they think!?
religions are all designed to segregate society in my opinion, otherwise they wouldnt all say the other ones are wrong
so no satan in buddhism... but probably one here on earth anyway.
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When I have done my religious studies and reading, I have found that 99.9% of what I have read is uplifting and not divisive. However, there seems to always be one line included that says something to the effect that this is the only way. I've thought for many years, when I die, and if I get to ask God one question, I would ask why these lines were included. He'd probably just laugh at me.
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all religions follow the same base rules and guidelines. the lines that go against the other faiths are designed to do JUST THAT.
this is why muslims and christians cannot get along with each others principles. it is my fervent belief that mankind rewrote all holy books specifically to cause seperation anxiety.
keep in mind the bible was made popular by EMPEROR CONSTANTINE of the roman lineage, and all religions must comply to guideline rules set there and then!
by a roman emperor!!!
then there is the king james bible, rewritten by the KING OF ENGLAND!!!!
are these the words of god anymore?
i seriously doubt it.
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"it is my fervent belief that mankind rewrote all holy books specifically to cause seperation anxiety". It wouldn't surprise me if God's answer to me was very similar to this.
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it was a surprise for me when i died on the operating table...thats why im getting a bad reputation around here with christians...
they love their god until they realise he has actually spoken to some of us in person.... and that it worries more about our happiness than whether or not we care about sin.
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Wow... is your experience with death experienced written down somewhere? I have read a number of books on the topic and have always found it extremely interesting. I am more interested in finding the parallels an uplifting ideals in religions. This past year I have read a number of the Dali Lama's books and make note of the similarities.. which to me is the beginning of real Truth. In the book I am writing, I have one Artificial Intelligence character I call the "Philosopher/Comedian". This character is the result of religious/philosophical/comedy database work whereby the initial purpose was to be able to quantify the "truths" as they appear over and over from various points of history, culture, and religion. Then as the AI's become semi sentient, they become a resource for mankind.
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only every time someone asks me about it
When I was 17, i had my tonsils removed... synchronicity left me with a brand new flat when i came out of hospital, and being me i couldnt just sit in this empty new flat full of boxes without doing anything... while stretching up high to paint i felt a tearing sensation in my throat and began bleeding at a massive rate. I called a friend ina bit of hysteria, asked them to call me an ambulance (i was confused at the time obviously)...in the ambulance i lost conciousness.
Then from there i felt and saw many things... no tunnels to speak of, but i met people and spirits i had never heard of. I met my sister, who died in childbirth, she looked the same age as me. It was only later that i asked my nan on her deathbed about the sister and found out she had been real. this sister made me feel very warm and happy. i knew i was dead at this point, and i didnt care. it was lovely.
then eveything went light. before it had been dark, but i could be anywhere i wanted....but then boom! light!!!
and an embrace like the biggest grandad you could ever imagine from behind. i let myself be held by this massive warm soul. It spoke to me lovingly and as though we knew each other. it called me son and i knew it was "god"...but at the same time i knew that i wasnt going to come back following a common religion!! the being that held me was not of religion, but amazingly beyond religion. it was buddha,allah,god and yahweh. it told me it was me and we are one, and you are too! we all are extensions of the same great being. it told me that it was not my time, and that the world was suffering. it told me i had a destiny to fulfill, to which i was brattish about because i have already been told by three different people about THAT one and i still dont know what they were on about.
it explained a few things about my life, about why i had suffered certain things, and how i was destined to suffer more yet. (and no, i dont know either what to say to that) but that also i would be stronger than i ever could have been through the hardship. I guess that kinda sums up the human experience... but then I woke in a hospital bed and knew i had died, though none of my family or friends ever wanted to talk about it. I came back with a real attitude toward life, kinda "god spared me, why should i care aboutother people?im special" lol what a fool i was!
i now know how to love myself as i love everyone-equally and without regret.
but i very nearly took meeting god the wrong way lol
I guess the reason i havent really written it down publically is because i do not want fame for it. god does not agree with organised religion, and organised religion kills anything that gets in its way. so i keep out of the limelight over that and try to only tell people i think it will help, or also those who ask. people have a right to know but at the same time i dont want to push it on people. i figure they need to learn it for themselves or by questioning the world around them.
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What an uplifting moment for me to read this tonight. Thank you for taking the time to write it down and share. I'm guessing you have already read "Life After Life" by Moody. Another book that I have read multiple times is called "Final Gifts" (deals with the experiences of hospice nurses with the dying...important book).
My Father had died on the operating table and revived when I was 7, he had no experiences though as you describe.
I have had two experiences in my life where I felt I received a message from the infinite. They both happened while sleeping, but they were more then a dream. Still vivid to this day and they happened 30 and 20 something years ago. The second one told me that the "Meaning to life" was "Unconditional Love". As you can well imagine, I have thought about that concept many times over the years, and I know how hard it is to actually give unconditional love from yourself... the kicker being "and never expect anything in return".
I hope I can put a seed of doubt into your feelings about organized religion. Indeed organized religion is human, thus subject to abuse by humans for power and control of others. However, when I think of some of the most "Holy" people I have met and admire in my life, these were people who lived their religion, humble, happy, full of love and caring. Three come to mind, one was a Protestant Bishop who lived a few doors down from me when I grew up, second a Catholic priest who had a way of speaking that enthralled me every time I listened to him. Lastly a Muslim man from Jordan who worked for me when I was a manager in Saudi Arabia. I can only hope that some people who I have touched in my life might think of me in some small way as I think of them.
A couple of reading suggestions for you. I just finished reading an Alexandro Jodorowsky graphic novel last night. I've collected and read most of his writing. His collaborations with the Artist Mobieus are great. Second, a book that I have found solace in multiple times over the years is "Peace of Soul" by Bishop Fulton J Sheen. Finally I'd recommend some of Mother Teresa's small books of her writings and The current Dali Lama's books.
I just went back and re-read your words for the third time. I truly feel good. The experience you have had is one for you to do a quick meditation on before leaving your flat for the day. Similar to my "personal philosophy" of trying to make at least one person smile every time I go outside.
Thanks
Jim
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thanks for taking the time to think beyond just what we are taught to believe enough to give it some serious thought. most people really have a bone of contention about me dying, like i dont deserve to have come back if i didnt meet a god that agreed with what they believe.
i have never read life after life... who is moody? you have peaked my interest.
i think what we experience during near death or during death experiences relates directly to our lives and how we are dealing with earth.
i had attempted a few suicide attempts and failed somehow while i was a teen- i say somehow because random things would happen to stop the sequence of events, like overdosing and then throwing up so much i emptied myself of stomach acid. it melted a great rut in the bottom of my toilet bowl.
when i died i felt god and it let me know i had not sinned by trying to get out. it still loved me, and understood why i had tried to kill myself. it cared about me deeply regardless of what i had done, no matter how sinful i had been (and i have, believe me. im a changed man now but i was a real sinner once) it was waiting with open arms and without judgement whatsoever.
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i think you may have misunderstood me over the religion thing. My problem is not with religious people, in fact far from it,. it is with the actual writings and teachings we are expected to swallow like fish in barrels being thrown mealworms. the earth was obviously not made in seven days, but this fits nicely with the gregorian calendar.
also, here are some of the horrifying similarities between jesus and other "sons of god"
jesus was born purportedly on the 25th of december. he died on easter.
Nebuchadnezzer of babylon - born on 25th december. died on easter.
jesus was ressurected three days afterward.
Nebuchadnezzer was ressurected three days later.
Nebuchadnezzer also fed the masses with bread and fish -a miracle two thousand years before jesus was born.
There are other striking similarities between other biblical characters and their babylonian couterparts, as well as egyptian verisons and indian versions.
and so i am not saying it is wrong, or that i do not agree with christians themselves. what i personally feel is obvious is that we have passed down the gods tales, changing it from time to time to fit the current date and trends of the people. the bible reads almost exactly the same as the tora and the quran if you omit certain key points. names, dates and places change, but the facts remain the same.
great flood happened, great exoduses followed. the gods used to speak with us but have left us now to our own devices.
its all the same base principles, to feel love equally for all...
and so i practice trying to be wholly good, but i dont tend to think sin should be such a problem...because sin is the only thing we are told in the books that doesnt make sense.
are our world leaders not sinners for commiting wars? famines? plagues? creating false idols (superstars, money, fast cars) and yet the world of religious people (christian,muslim,jewish peoples) still looks up to these "leaders" - why?
because all these faiths teach us we must be meek, we must follow orders from our betters, that we should keep our head down and hope for the best, while paying our taxes and dues, while all the while we are told by our governments we must fight for our country whether we believe in god and sancitity of the world or not, we must fight to keep those in charge in charge...
so it is the relationship between politics, religions, and society that i am speaking of. i have met many wonderful christians, but i have also met some overzealous psychos that claimed (in one articular case) that jesus was telling him to join the army because he had to go kill muslims, who were following the wrong religion. of course we are led to believe osama bin laden started the jehad of 2001 over csomething allah told him. is this not another case of a politician just making the best of a situation though?
all the same, all of our conjecture is useless without basis in fact...which is what i had a problem with the bible with in the first place XD
do you meditate regularly? i try to at least every other day, my partner does every day. i find the noise of the modern world difficult to run with for actual meditative sessions, but i have spoken with both angels and demons while out of body.
Thanks for taking me seriously jim, it truly means a lot to me.
i dont want to break peoples faith in god, only make them realise that the one god has many different names in many different languages
namaste brother
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thanks! i hope my work helps others spiritually as it helps me
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Welcome. I'm sure it will for someone. :0
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Thumbs up if you read "...with a maze so its interactive as well," then proceeded to follow the maze from the break at the top to the center of the lower circle.
Oh, what? This isn't YouTube?
Joking aside, everything about this wins, including the various chakras there. But peace-sign wearing inverted hippie Buddha for the epic win!
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oh...i like you.
how did you find the maze? was it fun? challenging? i love feedback
you're into youtube too then?
my youtube time resides around old duffers sitting round a table, sitting hours-long talks on free energy techniques, music videos of the most unbelievably random variance...
oh yeah, and those videos where the top comment always says "im on the weird part of youtube again"
...
how bout you?
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Well, the minotaur was a pushover, but to its credit, I am exceptionally adept at the use of torches as improvised bludgeonning weapons. As for my escape, some chick with a weird name like Ariadne or something-another was kind enough to lend me a spool of twine. At first I thought the twine to be a rather useless defense against minotaurs and a poor choice of material for making torches, but she had a different idea.
Yeah, it was fun.
I love the "wtf" part of YouTube.
Round tables... sounds like CNN to me, which is something I'd dodge like a bullet.
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yeah the poor bugger had been having a poor time of it recently with strepped hoof syndrome... guess i'll have to buy in one of those cthulu critters next time...
glad you enjoyed the experience
i couldnt watch CNN at all these days without laughing or crying, so i leave it well enough alone. the videos i tend toward are esoteric talkings, philosophical debating, things to get the thinking jiuces flowing
my partner and i are both heavily philosophical and on top of this we dont own a tv by choice. we choose what goes on, when it goes on..and none of those horrible programmes like soaps, news, popidol or any of the other things that make people go
"oooohhhhh....theres nothin on...." flick...flick...flick....
watching hypnotic trash they dont even like because they dont know what else to watch. HA! idiots.
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The very act of simply watching and not creating, generating, or acting/reacting goes against everything I've been taught as a classically-trained video gamer.
No, seriously, I can't watch anything for too long, unless it's a really good movie, or a really interesting show.
I own a TV for only two reasons:
(1) I still really like Mythbusters, and sometimes Adventure Time, these are the only shows I have deemed worth watching in all of the cable.
(2) Console video game monitor.
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thats the way to be, living life instead of playing someone elses
as for games, we all have our drug to one extent or other.
each and every experience in your life is made by you, believe it or not! your choices in reality are what DEEFINE your reality, so always be sure your positive about it and then be happy about it.
you make your choices and live your life, and screws to anyone or anything that tries to stand in the way!!
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*barbarians-at-the-gate bass guitar riffs!*
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thank you so much! i love what i do and it makes me feel great too
detail is like a drug if you know what your looking for
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i love how all the wisest ones among men, the ones that philosophise and theorise, are always deemed as ungodly...when in fact we are obviously designed to think outside of the box-otherwise we wouldn't, eh?
thanks for takin the time out to chat with me
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Traditionally, scientists, artists, certain philosophers, and inventors have always been placed in The Devil's company by unimaginative dullards, so that proves your point right there.
It's a pleasure conversing with you, you're very intelligent.
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its always the way though; a trend setter will always be hailed as an anti-hero because he goes against the grain. From what i can tell most organised religion is just cabals based on heirarchies and church finances anyway. im no christian but i know for a fact that there is an ultimate force of good and evil respectively in the universe. i am on a side but im not taking a side, as it were. so how is the world looking these days from your end?
and..
thanks
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How's the world looking on my side? Hmm, the answer could be approached from many angles, I guess. The world itself seems to be doing as fine as it can. As far as the people, well that's another story. That'll ALWAYS be the other story.
With all this hoopla about the end of the world, I CAN say from my particular vantage point that the "zombie apocalypse" happened a long time ago, but no one told the zombies. This is my impression of Southern California, where I live.
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