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In direct contrast.

Paradoxicality.

"Come out of hiding," he says.
I'm not hiding. I'm escaping.
I'm breaking away for a little while; clearing my head and fixing my wires. I'm burnt out, beat up and broken to bits and I need some time to just get away from it all.
I need some time alone.
I need some time with my muse and my monsters and God and that's it.
No online voices. No keyboard conversations. No connections over the airwaves.
I need to disconnect for a while.

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder," they say.
Maybe it's true, but I wouldn't know. For me, no one and nothing I love is ever truly absent.
Heck, the vast majority of those I love I have never seen nor met. Universal altruist right here. I try.
I keep everyone in my thoughts and in my heart and my Links never break.
You guys all have crazy rainbow wires burned into your souls and they all surge back into mine.
Hope you don't mind, kids. Once I make 'em I can't break 'em. And Links are instantaneously made from inspiration.
Which means, in theory, I'm linked to the entire freaking human race thanks to that beautiful thing we call empathy.

Ain't life spectacular?

Ah well. It's 2AM, I have a 7-page report to write tomorrow on religion aimed towards our younger generations through the media, you know, how that all works and stuff... quite a bit of interesting research to go with it. I love research, yes I do.
It's funny-- the shows that regularly ridicule religion are really the shows that give the most publicity to religion on the airwaves. Seriously. It's very disorienting if you think about it.
I think back to my old Saturday morning cartoons... the good ones... how much they influenced me, being a kid and loving cartoons, lovely things. The little morals and messages that would be seamlessly written into the plot and character personalities... "a true friend is truly priceless!" "Lying will only get you into deep trouble!" "Treat everyone with fairness!" You'd have the Golden Rule of Christianity, "Love God and love everyone on earth," that universal truth of all upright religions and really the basis for any good life, thrown at you with a kid-friendly smile every time you turned on the dang television with those shows. And it was a good thing. There was something really influential, something really fantastic and memorable about a show that had meaning and purpose, a show that not only entertained you for a half hour but that made you a better person in some way, even a little way. A kid-friendly way, but a true way, y'know?
We need more of that.
That's what my report is on... and I don't care if you're an atheist or the like and think religion is just superstitious ideas and all, you're still good people if you live the right way and this is one way to get kids to do so. Exposing them to 'morality' and correct behavior through what they love-- cartoons! I know, I was a kid once, and still am in a way. Aha. Gotta keep a bit of that in your life until the day you die, mark my words!
But yes. Atheist or agnostic or Rastafarian or Christian or Islamic or Wiccan or Jewish or Pantheistic or Hindu or Buddhist or Baha'ist or Taoist or Confucianist or if you have no idea what the heck you are, you have to admit that the basic structure for a good religion and a good life is simply to live in righteousness, to treat others with kindness and love and equality, and to love and respect God, however you see Him.
It's all virtue and light. All of it. Just... well, to quote good old Abe Lincoln... "Whatever you are, be a good one." True that, Abe. Amen.
I, personally, am a Roman Catholic, born and raised, at least so far. I bash no one, though. I do a lot of research and being a natural empath I always look and try to understand before I give an opinion, and even then I will not go around saying "this religion or this belief is stupid and all you guys are deluded idiots!" No SIR, that's terribly cruel and inconsiderate and really disrespectful. What you believe is fine, as long as you're not hurting anyone or preaching something truly scandalous or being total hypocrites by being irreverent or hateful. Those are bad things in any religion, mind you! Be a good person!

Eh... but I'm getting carried away and I don't want anyone taking my words out of context or twisting them or anything.
I'm an altruist, I'm an empath, I'm an open-hearted kid and I don't hate or damn anyone and I want you all to remember that.
Heck, of my best friends... some are Jewish, some are Catholic, some are Islamic, some are Mormon, some are atheistic, some are agnostic, some are Wiccan, some are Rastafarian and I kid you not.
But back on topic... It's really awesome to look at all these different beliefs and see the truths in all of them. I just wish we could all get along in the big picture and settle the whole mixed opinion thing, but that's really impossible. But I can dream, hey?
There's no such thing as a total utopia, and that's a good thing.
Paradox is at the heart of life. Reality and life are total paradoxes and I love it.
You can't know this without knowing that, of course. The big argument, the lovely formula for a whole truckload of statements that ring shockingly true when they're written in serious experience and you look at them with the same.
"You can't know joy without sadness..." Love without hate, peace without war, silence without cacophany, connection without separation.
It's painful but it's true. I know. Think about it, you've lived those truths as well.
Funny, hey? I love thinking about that stuff.
My mind just never stops!

Well, time to call it quits at last, before I get off on another lovely tangent. My mind's already starting to break from staying up so late and from having such a stressful and yet incredibly enjoyable day... research ftw! It always brightens up a bad day for me, aha.
That and artwork... as I draw solely what inspires me and moves me in really life-changing ways. There's a lot. It's awesome.
My artwork also goes in conjunction with the whole "kids and religion" half-rant up there... I have ideas, good ideas, and I'm working on them with meticulously painstaking care to make sure they're plausible and aren't going to upset too many apple carts if I can help it.
Sure, with the more mature ideas you've got to tackle controversy. You've got to talk about serious stuff, huge issues that little kids wouldn't really care or know about, sadly. But we do... the older kids, y'know? We have to worry about all that negativity and all and hopefully get rid of it or settle it or something because if we don't then it's going to plague another generation, darn it all, and frankly I don't want to see that happening again! Be considerate and be human. It's tricky at times but that's only because we MAKE it tricky with all the vice and corruption around, hey. Work a little bit harder and the world will be a better place. It can happen, but no one wants to fully cooperate. You know it, admit it. I know I will. I don't do my best most of the time and it really ticks me off. But I'll keep trying! Keep on keeping on and all that. Keep it up.

Oh I could go on ranting about so much but it's 2:22 AM, aha! I think that's a perfect time to close up, don't you?
The timestamp is all wrong as usual... Oh well! We'll let it be and call it a day or a night or a morning.
Time to go dream!

*flies away like Freakazoid*