lets talk about the world
i dont really want to rhyme on purpose
just think about it with you
its a big world
there are so many people in it
but i think there are things we dont see
connections we arent aware of
not just with ourselfs
with everything
sometimes we feel alone and sad
its an energy i think and one we control
but one that also controls us
a push and pull we balance in life
like the voices in our heads
the ones that guide us
the ones that tempt us
i think its all part of one central energy
one we share
has your mom ever called you when you were sad?
and the first thing she sais is "everything ok?"
i think its like psychic and just some people are more
a connection we take for granted
but its something i wonder about
i think were all psychic but sometimes life gets loud
we cant feel the energy anymore because its loud
we dont feel the animals as much because its too loud
we lose track of ourselfs because its really loud
its so *bunny* loud sometimes
we need silence too
a chance to hear the world outside our little bubble
stress is a big bubble an so is arrogance i think
were arrogant as a species goes
we think were so superior because we have thumbs and lawyers
chimpanzees have thumbs but i dont think manatees do
but i think manatees feel chimpanzees more then we do
stress is a human thing
if animals get stressed i think its because of us
moving them out of their homes hunting them so we feel superior
because were arrogant enough to think earth is ours
because we can print pictures on paper of it
because we saw it from space
big deal
Sperm whales can go places in the sea that would crush us like a can
things can fly without gasoline or swin without plastic
or climb without spikes an reeboks
i heard you can judge a civilization by how they treat their animals
if thats true human civilization is a oxymoron
i love that word
i might do a oxymoron contest i love it so much
i hate the way we treat the creatures on earth
i saw a racoon commit suicide once
he thought it out an waited til the car was close enough
an ran right under the tire
those little air horns that alert animals that cars are coming
you know the ones that sell for a dollar an let them hear the car
before they can really hear it even though most of em hear better then us
i never see them on cars and their a dollar an can save animals
life for paper seems pretty fair $1
i dont have a car yet but i bought them for when i do
actually i bought 5 an put 4 on my dads cars
it makes me want to cry sometimes when i see what people do
we turn our heads and pretend lamb chops are equal to tomatoes
but a baby died so we can have lamb chops
it makes no sense to me
im vegetarian
i wont eat anything that had a face when it was alive
i saved a chipmunk when i was 2 a cat beat it up bad an i took it inside
i said Dad fix it so we brought it to a vet and he fixed it
we let him go after he was better and i was so happy
he came back to me a couple times after that
he remembered me
animals can be so smart and so gentle
i think he tried to hug me but i was too big
Dads called me chipmunk ever since then
i hate spiders they creep me out
just typing that made me shiver thinking about them
ive never stepped on one
just because it creeps me out doesnt give me the right to kill it
it could have kids
people say that insects arent as smart as us
theyve been here for 100s of millions of years
weve been here about 50,000 years using our thumbs to make tools
and weapons
we'll be lucky to be here in 50 more
whos smarter?
sometimes i wonder if cats and dolphins and chimpanzees believe in God?
we think the way we think is the only measure of how things think
maybe insects are geniuses or amebas too
maybe God made amebas the smartest things on this planet
maybe were fooling ourselfs
there goes that arrogance again
birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs had feathers some of them
everytime you eat a chicken your eating a dinosaur
is that revenge from when we were shrews?
revenge is a waste of good energy
ive wanted revenge in the past
thirsted for it for things that happened to me
it just made me cold and angry and scared all the time
im not scared anymore
i still get angry
everything gets angry sometimes
wow this is longer then i thought it was gonna be
im thinking too much
i could have typed this without thumbs
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525 points, ended July 29, 2008, 14 entries
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Comments
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Wow, that was a lot of stuff. I liked following the ramble, wondered where it would lead next. Your final line, "i could have typed this without thumbs" made me
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This is neat, chipmonk.
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Heya Lizz
You told me it was long, but I didn't think it'd be that long!
But, it's still a great write...
Size doesn't matter, so they say... or is it "size matters?" - or am i getting two wayyyy different things confused?
haha..wow..anyway.
It's amazing how the world is so big, that's true. And there's so much ahead of us. You and I are around the same age, so it's not like our lives are gonna end any time soon, unless we're hit by a car or something but i'm sure that won't happen.
I truly love all of this though...
"sometimes i wonder if cats and dolphins and chimpanzees believe in God?
we think the way we think is the only measure of how things think
maybe insects are geniuses or amebas too
maybe God made amebas the smartest things on this planet
maybe were fooling ourselfs
there goes that arrogance again
birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs had feathers some of them
everytime you eat a chicken your eating a dinosaur
is that revenge from when we were shrews?
revenge is a waste of good energy
ive wanted revenge in the past
thirsted for it for things that happened to me
it just made me cold and angry and scared all the time
im not scared anymore
i still get angry
everything gets angry sometimes"
You've definitely been thinking.
Who knows what God has made. Wait, let me take that back. We know what he's made, but do we know the entire purpose? Maybe amebas ARE smarter than us!
Who would've thought it, right?
You covered so much ground with your thinking hun, there's no doubt in that.
Kudos!!
Sincerely,
dovey ~
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when i first looked at the length of this i wanted to run and hide, i hate reading, but when i started to read it its length dissapeared and its content took me to a place were it was pleasant to read, you make some really interesting points, and i mean that in all sincerity, i think this gives an amazing insight into how you see the world, and i have to say, its a pity a lot more adults dont look at things in such a perspective, i enjoyed this very much, it was nice just to read the thoughts of what is essentially a more pure train of thought , i so hope that you take this with you as you grow into adulthood. beautiful write from a beautiful mind.
Michael
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I shall give this an A+ two times over
You have such a oloving way about you and yes in our arogance we have forgotten nmore than we have learned for sure .Yes if som,eone is harmful to animals I will not trust them for they have no heart . Yes I belive whole heartedly that we do have the means to know when something is not right like mothers and sisters and brothers for we do call them an say is everything alright .I know everytime my Dad would have a heart attack my ears would ring painfully . It always happened and I knew . My mother new when my oldest fell on the ship when he was in the navy she woke right up with a pain on the side of her head she got a call the next day . Animals are the same way I know my dogs know what Im thinking for they know when I want to give them a bath even before I get the hose or shampoo they just know.
It is sad how they slaughtr animals for food but o only that is how wastefull this country is with the food they are given. Every living thing on this earth has a right to be here .The animals are being pushed to their brink and are killed when they travel parts where people now live.
I se many things coming to pass in the near future..
I see hunger and fighting worse than ever before unless we learn how to help one another .I see everything taken away unless we get this ountry back in order and the loans stopped so that our social security is saved and put back as it was .Instead of
millions wasted on elections I would like for one president to put that towards our social security instead of Tv commercials that might show us they mean to get things in order .But I wont hold my breath for its up to all of us to help one aother at this time .
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Aw, I love this. It's so sweet. It's like a little kid writing. I totally agree with everything you said. The first part about us being all connected, like having psychic powers, I totally think the same thing. I think we all connect because we are humans and we just have that sixth sense, you know? Can't explain it. We have it when we are real young, like babies but as we get older, we lose it because of all the "noise". RIGHT ON! I love your passion for animals. I love love the chipmunk story. That was just so cute. I wish I could have been there to see that.
"i think he tried to hug me but i was too big"
OMG, you sounded so innocent and sweet in that part. Like a little kid.
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my secrets out thats really how i think in my head
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I might enter this contest to. Not for the sake of winning, just to vent. It seems appealing. And ha, to you stream of consciousness. It reminds me of a child's.
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