Bootwhistle
(originally created October 9th 2005... and just finished)
Concepts, ideas, philosophy, drunk-talk... sweet beautiful drunk talk [pop culture reference #48293, see Simpsons] all are expressions of thought, and much of it is unoriginal. People have been thinking for well over... hmm, correction, some people have been thinking for most of human history, about life, existence, science and shiny objects.
Thought in and of itself is unfortunately as useful as a roast turkey at a vegetarian thanksgiving (shudder). At this point I could give a few quotes that seem to illustrate this point but I think the turkey thing does a damn good job of it... anyway hmm, perhaps paralleling to Hamlet would better illustrate whatever point I think I'm making (lest one think too highly of me, Hamlet is probably the only Shakespeare play I've read - it can be paralleled to almost anything including toast!).
Anyway in Hamlet there were various characters and each composed of varying degrees of reason vs passion, logic vs impulse, yin vs yang, crips vs bloods etc. etc. Our hero Hamlet (or Hammy as called by his friends - who die most horribly) had an overabundance of reason which hindered any action he should have taken to seek vengeance for the murder of his father. The villain ... I actually forget his name, Hamlet's uncle now king -guy (unking-guy) is ruled by passion as apparently evidenced by his murderous tendencies. As the play progresses various characters die most horribly including our hero and the unking-guy, till only the more balanced people are left. This includes the noble Horatio who as it turns out has a balance between the desires of passion and the processes of reason.
So let's see... I guess the moral of the story is be balance between your desires and constraint, if one thinks too much about everything nothing will be accomplished and if you act without thinking then the consequences could be most ... unpleasant.
Of course finding the balance might be a bit tricky as one must cross either side of the line to know where things stand... and usually quite a few times. Whether or not that actually makes any sense for others to decide. Right now I think I'll go to sleep - not sure if that's the passion or the reason talking, but who gives a [expletive deleted] anyway?