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Fish Stories

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:06:28 -0500

Back up north I would hang out on the port and watch the finishing trollers and boats always come into port. There was this one guy who I saw there often docking his boat, it wasn’t a very big boat just enough for him and the dozen or so fish he caught everyday. His hair was grey and his skin was drenched with sun, but he always had a smile on his face, even the days he came back with no fish. I noticed a couple times that he always had this rubber stopper on him and I asked him one day, “George,” that was his name, “why do you always have that rubber stopper on you?”

He responded “It was a long time a go, we had just won the second great war and I was a lot younger back then. It was the second or third time I ever went finishing by myself. My father used to fish and he taught me many things but one of the most important things he taught me was how to watch the weather and to know when a storm was near. Before I went out I looked at the sky and it was perfectly clear no cloud in the sky and not much of a breeze. I thought I was going to have the best day catching fish. I went out on the water and there it was on the horizon, the fastest and biggest storm I had ever seen. I started heading back into shore and in my hurried self I poked a small hole in the boat. It was a disaster, a bigger disaster the storm would have been I imagine, and I started bailing buckets of water out of the boat as I hurried to shore. I Bailed and bailed and bailed and just when I thought I couldn’t do any more, I made it back. It was the closest I have ever come to dying and for that fact I feel fortunate to be living this life.

I asked “Have you ever needed he stopper after that day?”

He simply said, “No.” and chuckled.

Hope

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:49:29 -0500

An evening with Joel Osteen. It was a spectacular event, complete with cerebral assaults on all of my senses (including common sense). They started by playing the beginning of one of the most popular christian heart song, Amazing Grace. The flood of emotions that have been tied to that song by almost everyone in that sold out arena came pouring out everywhere. They sing loud and hard. So you sing loud and hard. It makes you feel apart of the bigger whole, which according to them only God can create. They want you to feel that emotion of false expectations, hope. An evening of hope. To me an evening of complex hypnotism and intense cognitive therapy.

“You are a good person. You will do good. You are going to feel joy.”, says Joel. “I am happy. I take my own advice. I do good in the world. Meet my sister so she can talk to you about the money.”, he continues.

Welcome to the land of self-fulling prophecies.
If I am happy right now then I will tell my self I am happy and be happy right now.
“Joel says I’m happy, so therefore I must be happy!”, the genius in the front row speaks softly under his breath. 
All-in-all Joel preformed his Christian duty in the same way in which I would if I wanted to feel Jesus' divine power to make me rich. Now to qualify Joel’s existence; he, unfortunately, actually believes in God, his Lord and savor. His wife, which her name is not important because she is the wife of Joel Osteen, believes as well. He son is being constructed to be the preacher and his daughter is being constructed, to be the mind numbing spiritual guide, i.e. the choral director.

Hold on tight. God is going to save your life (just as long as you save it first).

As you we're

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:21:36 -0500

I create things so that people will feel something. I don’t try to make anyone feel a certain way, but that they will recognize that they feel and exist. It is even okay, for me, if anyone decides to not feel. But it is in that recognition that they live. It is the recognition that I am something and that something is purely inside of me (weather or not that something is inherently me does not matter). The thing that is me is exactly who I am right now, and that understanding propels us to challenge how we interact in-the-world. Who I will be tomorrow and who I was yesterday are all irrelevant. This is only true because of what time is inherently doing to each and everyone of us. Time is change.

Time is the only culprit of any crime.

The Good News

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:44:38 -0500

The good news is that by all accounts I do exists. It doesn’t matter how you look at it you always end at the same place, I exist, and so does everything that is and isn’t. It is a sticky situation that causes most notions of the way things are to slip endlessly out of sight. But this isn’t a bad thing because more than anything it brings in a new wave of notions. They sit in a quiet room waiting until you decide that you are willing to exercise the patients to listen.
There is nothing exciting or enchanting about existing, I mean I am! And that is all there is to it. There isn’t anything else. No complications no exciting miracles. It just is. This sounds pessimistic and bloody discouraging. But I can assure you it shouldn’t be... implying that just because being means nothing more than being, does not mean you can’t be happy. In the reality of the situation it makes it easier to be happy. It means the only thing that ever has to be done to be happy is to just decide that you are going to be happy. No psychobabble No nothing more then you deciding that existing is happiness. And if you delve down further it can even be proven threw logic that you and I will exists infinitely. And that is the best news of all. ...forever existent and forever happy.

...drink the happiness that is in all the air.

I'm making something.

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:46:37 -0500

So I’m going to actually try to utilize this space. Even though everyday space is getting larger it doesn’t seem that wasting space, even virtual space, is something that should happen.
I just made an Art page that you should check out. And Please feel free to email me any comments you might have on anything (contact@tycreates.com). I will put responses if there are any on the (Friends) page, if there are none well I’ll just have to create some.
I would also like you, the faithful viewer, to know that everything has been placed and everything has been said with every intent. So, please don’t be afraid, you are correct in what you are thinking.
Moving on it is important for me to say that if for any reason this is disenchanting, impossible or even tiresome don’t be discouraged. I promise it will get better (implying, of course, that me typing this in a way that you understand is in fact, Better).
The important thing is to enjoy yourself so why not start here?