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Gerald

Inscribed On Tombstone:
Born: New Year's Eve, 1983
Location: SkateTown
Occupation: Incorrigible Slacker
Real Occupation: Media Student

Herein lies a...
Die-hard romantic
Tireless advice-giver
Certified gun-nut
Lazy-ass whore
Loyalist to a fault
Parody-lover
Electronic Entertainment Enthusiast
Football Fanatic
Conspiracy-theorist Crackpot
Wordsmith
Unrealistic idealist
Self-righteous moralist
Born individualist
Former atheist
Penchant for the melodramatic
Sentimentalist

Quotable Quotes

"Soon the reason is gone, and all that is left is the feeling itself..."
- Anonymous

"The thrill is in the hunt."
- Myself

"Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue."
- Nietzsche

"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil

"It is but a shadow and a flicker that you love..."
- Aragorn

"Beneath this mask is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
- V

"I have dreamed a dream... but now that dream has gone from me."
- Morpheus

"God does not play dice."
- Einstein

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Academician Prokhor Zhakarov

"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic."
- Stalin

"In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom."
- Foreman Domai

"You see, people believe what the media tells them to believe. And I tell the media what to believe."
- Kane

"Optimists and pessimists die the same way. Optimists just live differently."
- Shimon Peres

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
- David G. Farragut

"You know you are in love, when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world."
- David Levesque

"Music... the language to stir the hearts of men."
- Shakespeare

"A man always finds it hard to accept he has lost a woman's love, no matter how badly he may have treated her."
- Sherlock Holmes

"He who attacks where his enemy does not know how to defend, will be victorious."
- Sun Tzu

"Without purpose, we would not exist."
- Agent Smith

"I know guys like you, you can do any terrifying thing you're ordered to do... but you have to do it running."
- Carl

"History has been one long series of conspiracies... the successful ones, we call governments."
- Stanton Dowd

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
- Winston Churchill

"One thing is true of all governments... the most reliable records are tax records."
- Eric Finch

"When a guy sleeps around, he's a player. When a girl does, she's a slut."
- Sean

"A person is smart. People are dumb, stupid & panicky, and you know it."
- K.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Hey I wanna talk to you

Yes, you, I wanna talk to you

What the hell am I talking about? Exactly - just what exactly is talking all about?

Speech is such an inherent part of human society, few bother to give it more than a moment's consideration. Anthropology tells us that humans evolved speech as a more convenient means of communication, so that their hands were free to manipulate objects instead of having to perform sign language. There's also a significant portion on how that spurred human evolution, but that's kinda out of point at the moment.

It comes naturally to us. Even a baby's first cries can be considered speech, however primitive. Every exclamation that we make, be it surprise, anger or whatever, intuitively comes out via our vocal chords. Except for cops and the mute, body and sign language are by and by large ignored by the greater public at hand. Why is this? Why did all other forms of non-verbal communication atrophy with the development of speech? Is it something inbred in us, to the point where speech is as natural as having two eyes, two ears and a nose? Leaving babies aside, who obviously can't know better, it's amazing how much civilization has come to depend on the interplay of sounds that consitute a language.

And how much language does for us. Speech has long bypassed the point where it was merely a means of communication. Just talking to someone to get something off your chest is a tension-relieving affair. The time, the place, even the way I choose to say something to you - all of that conveys much more than the mere words themselves.

Yet speech is but one aspect in the bigger picture of communication. Body language is just as equally revealing, if not more so, than speech, simply because it is much easier for the mind to present a false front than it is for the body. Just like it's easy to imagine holding your breath indefinitely, but your body isn't so capable of said lie. Sign language may not be as forward, but it has the added advantage of being alot less conspicuous than verbal lingusitics.

It's just amazing how much we've come to rely on a single form of communication. Would the world have turned out much different, had it not been so? Perhaps something we'll never know. Then again, I can just probably imagine a parallel universe where speech is about as base as giving you the finger, and the natives are laughing at our vocals.

Ok, I think I'm gonna shut up now :P




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