Opposite our nature is our ideal. 

Trying to reach it, we turn the wheel.

-Evan

Current Mood: rat in cage

The defining achievement of humanity is self-contemplation. Looking at ourselves, we cry "Oh, no! We are in pain!" and create suffering, then "Look, we are happy!" and create joy.

-Evan

Current Mood: contemplative

The fear a human clone conjures in most people is of finding that it's the same as the rest of us.  For if this is true: if a person is so easily created, with a future that can be predicted in many ways and that, in a sense, has already been seen, that understanding is a threat to our faith in free will, in the transcendence of our moral decisions and our feelings.

-Evan


Reminder: Come see the band play this Saturday at the One Place

Current Mood: Green Wallpaper

Current Mood: happy and happy and miserable

The other night I slept on my arm awkwardly and woke to find it entirely numb.  Being still partially involved in a dream, I found special significance in the sensation that the limb was entirely separate from me, telling myself, "This is the first time I've ever felt my own hand!"

"Maybe that's what I am." I thought.  I'm someone's arm, cut off from circulation so that it feels like another's, but our nature is the same, and feeling each other we appreciate ourselves.

The experience stuck with me: later in the day, for a brief instant, I could have sworn I saw myself as a child, playing in the street.

 -Evan

Current Mood: 6516325486356545601

Art exists because some things cannot be understood without being felt.

I've been wondering about my motivation, something I do infrequently as most of my time is spent putting down thoughts and feelings that come, like dreams, without conscious intent. And that's the conclusion I came to: that scientists can't explain my feelings with any more depth than I can explain Quantum Mechanics, but that if any other person feels the same things as me because of my artistic expression, then we have explained it to each other in a sense. 

-Evan

Current Mood: hopeful