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Now, imagine this situation for a moment:
You are a good father, a wonderful husband.
You go 'pray' every Sunday, doing a wonderful lip-service.
You've taken your kids to soccer practice
And you are ready to enjoy your Sunday.
Tui bu qi, ni ke yi pang wo ma?
You turn around and see an old Chinese lady.
She can't speak English and needs assistance.
You pretend you cannot hear her and drive away.
Smooth-stuff dad, you should return that #1 mug...
To me however, there would be no question.
I was late to a part-time job, it would actually cost me money;
And did I mention I can't speak Chinese either?
Instead I communicated with gestures and signs.
She wanted to go to the train station, as I later learned.
With your car it would have taken five minutes.
But we walked and that is also okay.
To be honest, you might think you've done more good than evil.
You might think there is a welcoming committee for you at the pearly gates.
I regret to inform you however, that the selection doesn't quite work that way.
True, I may speak of demons and blood, of nights spent in the embrace of death.
It is also true, that I could murder a man without feeling anything at all.
But if I was made to choose, between good and evil.
Even after being told I was going to hell for an eternity.
The words that leave my lips each time would be: "I volunteer!"
I volunteer, because I know that good or evil is a decision.
The action itself, can be justified and reasoned with in any number of ways,
But the heart of a man may never change.
If you want to learn what sort of person you are,
Ask yourself this:
Assuming that you are going to suffer irrespective of what you do.
Will you still dare to do the right thing?
Or will you sink into despair and depravity?
Take your time to think before you speak this answer,
For a lie is already evident, upon your tiny little lips.
Literature
To be a writer
You taste like decaying leaves
and October's bad habits-
when it’s halfway through February
that still haunts these bones.
I have allowed you to
claw your love
into my arms
and chant into my
uninterested ears
for much too long.
I wish I was one of those girls
who could say wild flowers
grow up through my nooks
and my crannies just to tear
through my skin, screaming.
I’m just that dead eyed deer
on the side of the road dreaming
of shoving a pen down my throat
and writing these verses inside out.
I am no scribe, prophet, or spell caster.
I know it.
My skin knows it.
My pen knows it too.
Years and years
from now
my mind will d
Literature
Awareness.
She writes such lovely poems
But nobody really cares
She hides them all the time
To avoid the judging stares
She wrote one yesterday
About a boy who said he loved her
But to her own dismay
She caught him with another
She wrote one about school
And the words painted on her locker
“No one likes you, stupid bitch.
You’re lucky I’m at soccer.”
She wrote about her parents
And how she wished they were together
But she knows that won’t ever happen
And forgetting’s probably better
Yes, she writes such lovely poems
But there’s so much more to this
See, her pencil is a razor
And the paper is her wrist.
Literature
Bones mend, but tell no lies.
You have cataloged your scars
like your body is a library-
to be read through &
learned from.
You think of
all the little boys
whose greedy fingers
graced
your pages.
You are angry-
none
cared for you
properly:
folding
creasing
& breaking
your spine.
They left you
on a shelf
to gather dust.
& why
should you ever
forget that?
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I feel that many people often think that they are good people and denounce others as bad simply because of their actions or reactions to a particular matter.
Personally, I dislike that. After all, I am a very logical individual. When I see something I don't agree with, I will act upon it and take the consequences as they come. This is what it means to accept.
Furthermore, I live in the manner of a Death Company. That is to say, I assume I am going burn in hell already and no matter what I do now, nothing is going to change that. I will suffer no matter what I choose to do. That said, even knowing this. I can comfortably say that irrespective of thoughts born from a moment of irritation or the things I spout as a joke in the company of friends. I am ready to say that I will volunteer where necessary.
Being good or being evil is a choice and only a little bit of that choice is shaped by circumstance. One should take responsibility for their own actions, regardless of what they do.
And so I extend the same question to all of you. Can you truly say that you would volunteer? Think hard on that one ;3
-Captain Chenbeard of the Black Fedora Pirates
Personally, I dislike that. After all, I am a very logical individual. When I see something I don't agree with, I will act upon it and take the consequences as they come. This is what it means to accept.
Furthermore, I live in the manner of a Death Company. That is to say, I assume I am going burn in hell already and no matter what I do now, nothing is going to change that. I will suffer no matter what I choose to do. That said, even knowing this. I can comfortably say that irrespective of thoughts born from a moment of irritation or the things I spout as a joke in the company of friends. I am ready to say that I will volunteer where necessary.
Being good or being evil is a choice and only a little bit of that choice is shaped by circumstance. One should take responsibility for their own actions, regardless of what they do.
And so I extend the same question to all of you. Can you truly say that you would volunteer? Think hard on that one ;3
-Captain Chenbeard of the Black Fedora Pirates
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Nice one, although I would supplant that stance with a refusal of such simplistic and vague attributes as "good" and "bad/evil" as they can mean anything and nothing in different situational contexts to different people. And while I disagree that circumstance is only a side factor (see Milgram, Stanford Prison, Bystander Apathy, Good Samaritan and Asch Conformity experiments for further reference). I do, however, agree that we should not underestimate our room of choice and what it can affect on an individual basis - especially when overexcited scientists overextend the boundaries of their theories and pronounce free will to be an utter illusion.