there had been 3 deaths over the past 3 weeks. all these 3 servicemen were doing light training when they suddenly collapsed and died. no it doesn't just affect the old, it affects the 20ish too. it could happen to me. what would happen if i had died in my sleep? --- had a movie outing last thursday night. war of the worlds, the movie, was great. I thought the story sucked though. if the aliens have been observing us for countless millenia, they would have at least understood some basics about our biology. even the most amateur of scientist or students understand that, if you want to study something living, you'll have to cut it up and study its biology. some might say that they have only observed from a distance. probably. but won't they have had observed people falling sick, getting injured? that would have stirred them into doing some kind of research won't it. H G Wells might be cool. but he ain't fantastic. actually no writer is. not even this Neil Gaimen guy that i've read about recently. there isn't such a thing as a great writer. because all great writers are bound by limits. rational limits. logical limits. neil gaimen and H G Wells wrote characters that were out of this world(mind the pun), literally, with their "The Sandman" and "Tripods (those alien things in WOTWorlds). all had arms and legs and eyes. no writer can venture beyond the limits of logic, the limits of mathematics. no writer can write about a creature of a thing that is alive in the aural universe, instead of the usual visual one. no writer can imagine a creature that views its world besides the use of arms, legs, skin and eyes. this is because once a writer decides to sit down and write his story, he has already resigned himself to the limits of this world. the limits of human understanding. much like how the words in a book are resigned to being trapped within the confines of the book it describes. i can confidently say that no writer can do the abovementioned. why? because the words they write already belong to this visual universe which we have come to accept as something familiar in our lives. no writer can do something amazing besides writing on paper. that is why i can say no writer is great. no writer can describe his ideas in other ways. not even YOU, who's reading this now, can think of a way to tell a story other then to pen it down. because like everyone, we are all bound by logic and reason. you will ask "how else then can i tell people my ideas if i do not write it down?" we have become trapped in this bubble of logic and reason. where 1+1=2 if i told you to think of 1+1=3 and not 2(but not just substituting FIGURE 2 for 3) can you do it? i'll let you kow the answer, you can't but you would have just felt the skin of the bubble that separates us from "logic" and the ultimate truth. oh man. i rule. Savant at 7/02/2005 11:42:00 am ;
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