My family and I went to the Seattle Symphony Christmas Celebration tonight. The music was wonderful, the singing was very energetic and beautiful. Sitting there for two hours listening to people create something so beautiful out of thin air got me thinking. There is so much beauty in this world. If only we would stop more often to admire it. If only we could stop being selfish and stop worrying about our own stupid problems to take others into consideration. What if we *all* made something beatiful every day?

It doesn't have to be a creation, it doesn't have to be artwork, or even artistic. Beauty can be something as simple as opening the door for someone. Letting someone go in front of you in traffic. Not honking your horn or flipping the bird to someone that just cut you off. Emptying your wallet for a homeless person. Feeding a stray cat. Mowing your elderly neighbor's lawn. Posting a positive comment on someone's level instead of a negative one.

What if we all took it as our personal responsibility to make sure hatred and bigotry and negativity and meanness stopped right here. We won't be a party to it anymore. We won't let simple, petty crap get in the way of what's important any longer.

Why does it take the death of someone close to bring these feelings out?

Yes... I feel like I have wise words that I could say at this point, but I don't know what they are. So 'yes' is pretty much all I can say at this point.

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Brian, you're absolutely right. It seems like lately, humanity has been using its creativity, the very thing that allows us to be greater and more fulfilled than the constraints of day to day life, for destructive and uninspired purposes only.

I mean, it seems that our very purpose is to create - so what has gone wrong?

...think I'll stick to my blink-182 & Eminem combinations...


to each their own tho =o

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I'm like a superhero with no powers or motivation.

I seriously would consider emptying my wallet for homeless people, but i'd be doing more harm than good if the money just goes towards booze or drugs.

But yeah, the world would be a better place if everyone did something selfless everyday.

I think a good starting point is just to be less hostile. Sometimes it's like everyone is about ready to kill eachother. I'd rather people just not spend any energy to destructive means first. Asking them to do something nice is a bit too early still.

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An easy way to start would be to keep these forums friendly. I've found it's been easier lately, due to a certain person in my sig. Still makin' Massassi a better place...

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Symphony music, I like symphony personally. It goes well in games and movies (Star Wars and Lords of the Ring's hummable music) compare to the heavy metal, rap, and pop we always hear on T.V.



Kind of hard considering the amount of stupid people in the world that don't suppose to live.
-Kids that spit on cars.
-Kids that spit out of a bus's window.
-Kids that throw rocks or snowballs at cars.
-Kids that throw pencils out the windows on a bus.
-Kids on the bus think it's cool to be ghetto by saying the f word every minute, smoke cigarettes, etc (yes this all happen directly on the bus).
-People like Saddam Hussan or bin Laden.
-Racist groups like the KKK.

I could name more, but I won't considering Christmas comes in two weeks. Oh wait, Christmas is about the spirit giving. Maybe Santa will give them death....

because it takes people back a step, 'hey, wait, he died, i might be next, crap i should be good for a bit...' then it just wears off, and their back to flipping the bird, stipping on the elderly, or getting drunk with their buddies and getting in a car, people need shock in their lives, and thats what happens when someone dies that is also intergrated into their own lives, it takes something happening into the very being of a group, society, country, world that everyone has been to, and loved having something terrible but peaceful happening, people forget, and then.... nothing changes

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[This message has been edited by Genki (edited December 11, 2003).]

Without busting the Hippie-O-Meter, this kind of thinking could well be what is causing the problem in the first place...I mean, you have done nothing wrong, such as spitting, vandalising etc but you should realise that you're better and not stoop to their level, IMHO. This isn't an attack; merely a suggestion..

Ya, I gave $20 to a homeless guy last week. I feel warm and fuzzy inside especially since he's warm, either because he did buy the hotel room or a big bottle of whatever-he prefers.

*puts on Dont Panic by Coldplay

We live in a beautiful world....~

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<< schming stout >>

I stop to admire the world's beauty everyday. There is a lot of beauty in this world. Even simple, little things, like trees swaying in the wind with a blue sky above, or a star filled night sky. Ever since I started noticing these things, I've been a much happier person. I can't remember the last time I was truely angry.

There are people in this world who do bad or even horrible things. I don't wish death to them. I instead hope that they'll eventually change for the better.

The last good deed I did was for someone at my lunch table. He needed money to get his girlfriend a present. I gave him $5. I know that's not much, but I don't have a job. What I have instead is lunch money. I gave him my lunch money for that day, and felt guilty for not giving more.

I have $30 to buy christmas presents for family and friends this year. I'm thinking of just giving it to some charity instead. Haven't decided yet.

I think I started with a point here but ended up just making statements that may or may not have something to do with each other. :/

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My Daily Ramblings
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

I've often wondered that myself. It seems sometimes that it takes something so... far beyond petty everyday life BS for us to realize what really matters, and whats important in life. I wish that wasn't one of the only ways that people would actually get things into perspective, but I guess it is.

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Oh you've seen nothing. Back in elementary school there was this group of boys who would throw pieces of ice at girls, until one of them eventually lost an eye.


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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

I walk around with a camera and take pictures of beautiful things. I have one really cool picture so if you guys wanna see it:

http://schminglife.org/images/DSC00968.jpg

53kb, and to think I almost didnt take it because i didnt want to look like a dork snapping pictures all the time...

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<< schming stout >>

I went to Montreal for the weekend a couple of weeks ago for a performance. It was story telling, performance and jazz. It was incredible. So well done.
It was done by a well known Canadaian story teller by the name of Stuart McLean.

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To artificial life, all reality is virtual.

This is a picture my girlfriend took of the moon on a cloudy night. I really like it. It's my favorite picture of the sky.

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My Daily Ramblings
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

That's awesome!

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Man, I've never felt this good while reading a forum post; very calm and peaceful.

I forgot when I was supposed to come into work today and ended up coming a few hours earlier than I had to. I spent the time picking up trash next to the highway and the University dorms. I think it was a good use of time.

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Please don't tell me you're actually putting kids who spit out of bus windows on the same page as Saddam and Bin Laden.

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Exsactly Saddam and Bin Laden are much better.

I bet bin ladden and saddam spit out the bus windows when they were kids

Holy crap! What did that girl do to them? What punishment did the kids get? Suspension? I never can understand suspension, don't kids actually enjoy suspension because it gets them out of school? Maybe we should bring back the paddle....


Okay so maybe I kind of overreacted, but you would think that by 15, the kids would know better to behave like that. I still would like to see them punished in a manner that would actually bring fear.

I'm sorry for being so negative, but those kinds of people that I listed just makes me some angry. I look at them as a disease that needs to be eradicated from society. Don't get me wrong there are some good people. You guys definitely show you that since with the lost of that one Massassian.

I'll raise ya ten on that

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Don't let things get to you.

And make every day noteworthy.

I went to Riverdance a while ago... I really liked it but it took some talking to get me to go in the first place.

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from.

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