Just A Thought.

The afterlife is a touchy subject, isn't it?
I mean, after thousands of years, no one knows what it's like. Many generations and cultures have their own ideals about it. Yet no one thinks about it as much as one would assume.
Today, when I was particularly bored, I went to see if The Legend of Zelda was online somewhere. It was, and ironically on the same website as the Pac-Man game I'd found earlier.
The irony?

A Christian magazine's website.
Okay, so God likes Zelda too.

But what really caught my eye was an advertisement for a book at the bottom of the webpage:

"What will Heaven be like?" Have you ever wondered? Will we play Zelda online?
Do you want to know what the Bible means when it talks about "the New Earth" and "the Kingdom of Heaven?" If so, Lee Wilson and Joe Beam have teamed up to provide a fast-paced, exciting book on Heaven and the afterlife.

Heh.
Playing Zelda online in the afterlife. It's okay if you snickered, I did too.
But I mean, I really started to think about it. Maybe these guys are onto something.
And this really got me thinking.
Who's to say we all really DO live forever, and we here on Earth are dead? If you want to argue that life is cyclic, sure, you could say each time you die you are born again forever. And each time you're born, you die forever.

But maybe we here on Earth began in heaven, or whatever you want to call it, and we got so sick of living forever that we "killed ourselves" by being born? Of course, our memories were wiped in the process if this theory is correct, but a Christian could argue that it was God's will just as well as an Egyptian could argue that one doesn't remember their past life.
So when we're reborn into heaven, we realize what an utter hell the art of dying is, and we enjoy life forever.

It's odd, isn't it? I mean, I understand COMPLETELY that one reading this is lost or doesn't agree whatsoever with this idea- hell, I wouldn't- but it just sprang to mind.

End transmission.

-CS.

Amateur Radio.

So my dad and I were in the car coming back from the store today, and we started talking about amateur [AKA ham] radio after seeing a license plate of the sort.
Side note: Ham really doesn't stand for anything except amateur radio operator. xD Trust me, I checked. There's a lot of false etymology behind it, but it really has no significance. Nor does it have relation to the meat.

Anyway, from what he told me today, I have taken an interest. It sounds really cool.

I mean, radio is somewhat of a lost art even though they offer classes.. but a means of communication worldwide via voice frequency? That's pretty damn awesome!
Most radio "stations" begin with a K, he said. And all you need is a set and a REALLY big antenna in your yard. The higher, the better. So if you wanted, you could connect with and talk to someone in Saudi Arabia!
With all the Internet dependency these days, I bet the people you run into over radio frequencies would be pretty awesome people. Or at least have awesome stories, who knows.

So that's pretty much all I had to say.
Go ham radio. :D

-CS.

Halloween and other existential stuff.

So you were born in an electrical storm, took a bite out the sun and saw your future in a machine built for two. Now your rays make me kind of go crazy, shock and awe and amaze me, just a ticker tape parade and me, but something was wrong till you tap danced on the air in the night.
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I'm sick.
No, not really, I'm not sick.
Been listening to Nataly Dawn talk about cats in wagons, though. So then I went on iTunes and found this cool "single of the week" thing. Free music!

But while I was going to get said free single, I saw two things-

1. Taylor Swift is apparently the featured artist of the week. What the fuck, Taylor Swift? Why? Does iTunes really pity her that much as to give her Halloween week?!
I personally don't think she deserves it.
2. "Pre-order Michael Jackson's This Is It NOW!"
Yeah, I don't want to see This Is It. Or that new Heath Ledger movie for that matter. I just feel really intrusive about it all.. if they'd want us all to see, you know? As Jasmine so eloquently put it, "I mean, I throw out all my rough drafts. It's like I write my revisions, and woosh, they're gone! Why would anyone want to willingly hand them over to people?"

It hit me today how much people change since primary school. It's just... really weird, mainly because you can't help to wonder if the people you thought you knew have changed or just stayed the same. Weird, right?

Also kinda freaking out about colleges. I got an email from a college guy today.
It's like "Dude, I'm a sophomore.. must I consider future options NOW? Come on, 5 more minutes?" And with all the seniors I know, it just comes across as a really shitty process.

I know it's my excuse for everything, but I really want to see Dylan soon, because with all life's recent twists and turns and random mandering around places it shouldn't.. I want an escape of sorts. And he tends to provide. Things are just so different around him, it's great.
Plus everything's better, you know?

I don't know.
Maybe I need sleep.
I say really too much. And propone. And don't. And I.

_ shall ponder these things tonight if _ ever get some sleep. Usually love Halloween, but for some reason today has been quite out of the ordinary pleasant loop. _ just feel particularly.. not glum as much as pensive, but in the sorta dreary way.

Yeah, sleep sounds good. _ think _ do ______ need it.

Insert emote here.
Good night, nation.

-CS.