Pessimism is a way of sheilding yourself. When you expect the worst, it's not so bad when it finally comes. What's more, when something good happens, once you get past your cynicism and accept it, it's that much better. And then, when it all breaks down, it's not so bad because you expected it not to last.

It takes seven full rotations of that little handle on a manual can opener to get the top off of a can of Spaghettio's

The only thing you get from 'looking on the bright side'
is one of those weird floating dark spots in your field of vision.

How can anyone be sure their religion is the right one? What if they're all way off? What if God is really like, some fat old guy who can't even move because he literally weighs a ton and we only exist because of some cosmic fart that started a chain reaction, thus creating life? I call it Gastianity.

I'm going to hell because I like Harry Potter. Tell me, what are you damned for? ::innocent smile::

Sauron wasn't evil. He just wanted his ring back. They stole it from him. He just wanted what was his damnit! Stop picking on him!

Deep down, Voldemorts a really great guy.

Incoming... Mike? Hello? I have something to tell you. Your name's not Incoming. Nor is it Mike. Your name is now Archie. Don't ask. Just accept it Oh Great-Abortion-Thread-King.... What is it with you anyway? You somehow turn every other thread you post in into an abortion discusion. Do you have a fetish or something?? ::is waiting for reply::

Hmm.... Yeah... what was I going to write? Oh Yeah! In the booklet for the Pearl Jam album Yeild, people say that there's an image of a yeild sign in every picture. I spent an entire Spanish class once looking for them... I found most of them too. ::swells with pride::

"I'll scream it from the mountaintops pride goes before a fall." -Creed, Freedom Fighter. ::deflates previous pridal swell::

Read my Fanfiction here, and here. And my original fiction here.

My screen name, Oloranya, is in Quenya. I bet most people reading this don't know what the hell Quenya is...

"Did you ever notice how in the Bible when God needed to punish someone, make an example, or whenever God needed a killing he sent an angel? Have you ever wondered what a creature like that must be like? Your whole existence praising your God but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?" - Thomas, The Prophecy

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them." - William Clayton

"Never eat more than you can lift." - Miss Piggy

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." -Lillian Hellman

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -George Bernard Shaw

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows." -David T. Wolf

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." -H. L. Mencken

"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists." -Jean Rostand

"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves." -Robert Anton Wilson

"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong." -Mo Udall

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." -August Strindberg

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. -Bertrand Russell

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -Mark Twain

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." -Don Marquis

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." -Sir Richard Francis Burton

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. " -Abraham Lincoln

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."-D. H. Lawrence

"Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. "-Flavius Josephus

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes." -James Feibleman

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself." -Sophy Burnham

"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his." -George S. Patton

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."-Bertrand Russell

" 'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.' " -G. K. Chesterton

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -George Bernard Shaw

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. "-George Bernard Shaw

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself." -John Ciardi.

"Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say." -Scanlon, Once Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Frodo: Oh! There is something else here... along the inside near the jewler's stamp.
Gandalf: What's this?!? Quick! What does it say?
Frodo:"Warning - Violets are blue, Roses are red. If you wear this ring, you'll become undead"
Gandalf: Oh, that... That is just the Surgeon General's warning.
Frodo: Undead?!? That's horrible!
Gandalf: You said it, that's some of the worst tripe to pass for poetry - even for the likes of Sauron!
Frodo: No, no! The becoming undead part is horrible!
Gandalf: Oh... Yes, well, simple enough, just don't put the cursed thing on.
--Monty Pythons 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." -Bobcat Goldthwaite

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them." -George Bernard Shaw

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." -Gore Vidal

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." -Amy Lowell

"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none." -Ben Shahn

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake." -E. M. Forster

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do." -Elizabeth Bowen

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." -Henry Ward Beecher

"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost." -Isak Dineson

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." -John F. Kennedy

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God." -Michele Shea

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." -Orson Welles

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." -Pablo Picasso

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." -Pablo Picasso

"Every artist was first an amateur." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

C"reativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -Scott Adams

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw." -Havelock Ellis

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." -Bertrand Russell

'"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." -Gerry Spence

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe." -Laurence J. Peter

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. "-Barry Switzer

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." -Gracie Allen

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -Albert Einstein

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. -Charles W. Eliot

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. -Dorothy Parker

"Screw you and the horse you rode in on." -Zoltan, The Dark Tower

"Everything in the universe denies nothing; to sugggest an ending is the one absurdity." -The Gunslinger, by Stephen king

George Carlin Quotes
"If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off."

" Stay cool, and don't believe anything the Bush administration tells you. In fact, play it safe: don't believe anything anybody tells you."

"Because even though I disagree with his policies, and think he is a dangerous imbecile, he is, after all, the President of all of us, and he is a fellow human being, deserving of respect. (That was hard to say, but I wanted to keep the record straight.) "

"I hope Mickey dies. I do. I hope he goddamn dies. I hope he gets ahold of some tainted cheese and dies lonely and forgotten behind the baseboard of a soiled bathroom in a poor neighborhood with his hand in Goofy's pants."

"Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain."

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,/ For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain./ America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,/ And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. "

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

"I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend -- I didn't bother with him."

"Weather forecast for tonight: dark."

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."

"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."

"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Song Interpretation: This is, to me, one of the easiest Pearl Jam songs to interpret. Some have suggested that it is about a worker cleaning up at Ground Zero after 9/11. But to me, it's more than that. It's about the state of our country as a whole after 9/11.

The first verse does indeed seem to speak of the cleanup, "Standing in a hole alone, working for something, one can never hold."

The next verse refers to the events in the world after the attacks. Every day there was more 'breaking news' for many the world was in a frenzy. the line 'breaking news and building walls' refers to the news frenzy and the divides that went up within our country. Namely discrimination against Americans of Middle-Eastern descent. The second part of that verse says 'selling me, what I don't need, never knew soap made you taller.' This is talking aout how insignificant other things seemed in light of world events.

The final verse is, by far, one of the best four lines on the entire album, the last line especially. 'Bring it on'cause I'm no victim.' Eddie's saying to the terrorists, 'you've hit us about as bad as you can. So go ahead, try and attack again. Bring it on.' He's saying that instead of weakening us, the attacks have only made us stronger.

Send me your interpretation, I want to know.

More Information on this album/song/band at The Sky I Scrape.

Which HR Board Reg Are You?
~You Are Bonnie! etc. etc.... {Bonnie... Yoda Bonnie? She's cool...}

Where's Your HR Board Niche?
~You're a serious debator. etc. etc.... {I think I'm somewhere between serious debator, and semi-newbie...}

IQ Test
Your general IQ score is 147. {Nyah Nyah! I'm gifted!}

Right-Brained, or Left-Brained?
Your percentage score for the right brain is 32%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 15%. {Wait a minute... that's only 46% !!! WTF!!??}

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist. {Artist.. that's me. ::big grin::}

One of The Best Personality Quizzes I've Found
Life as an INTJ
(Introvert, Intuitive, Thinker, Judger)

People of this type tend to be: autonomous, aloof, and intellectual; imaginative, innovative, and unique; critical, analytical, and logical; intellectually curious, driven to learn and increase their competence and knowledge; socially cautious and reserved; organized and definitive.

The most important thing to INTJs is their independence and being able to live according to their own standards. {Hell yeah!}

Great careers for INTJs
Here are just a few popular and often satisfying careers for people whose Personality Type is INTJ.

Intellectual property attorney
News analyst
Design engineer
Biomedical researcher
Network integration specialist
Software developer
Psychiatrist
Cardiologist
Freelancer writer {I like this one!}
Inventor
Media planner
Chief Financial Officer
Webmaster {This too!}
Architect
Desktop publishing specialist

Parenting INTJs

The Joys and Challenges of Raising INTJs:
They are imaginative and intellectually curious but tend to also be stubborn and unwilling to back down. While they are logical, direct, and skeptical, they are usually intensely private, independent, and appear emotionally aloof and superior.

What works with INTJs:
don't push them into social situations; {My mum does that} respect their hesitancy and follow their lead {She doesn't do that}
provide a constantly expanding source of intellectual stimulation {Or that, hence my internet addiction}
expect an analytical thinking style, and don't take their criticism personally {Ha! She takes everyhitng personally!}

Results From Two Quizzes Telling Me What Kind of writer I Am.
^_^ *glomps* {Glomp? That means hug, right? I mean... right?} You are a cool writer who likes to make up dark and gothic things. You rock! I love you! {She loves me!}

You are the Angsty Romance Writer. Dark as they are, your fics center on one thing-a relationship that is challenged by every external force you can think up. Whether it's the traditional Draco/Hermione, the edgy Ginny/Draco, one that crosses age boundaries, or the ever-present (but often ridiculed) genre of slash, you live for romance that beats the odds...or at least causes some delicious angst. {Harry Potter Fanfic writer quiz, that one.}

What Pearl Jam Song Are you? Three Quizzes....
You are YIELD. You are tuned in to the big picture and are a grade-A tree-hugger. You're upbeat, easy going, and go for the simpler pleasures. (sicko) {Okay, so this was what album are you... so sue me!}

You are Gardens. You have a kick ass solo somewhere. Maybe you think too much though. Chill out... {Think too much!? Think too much!? Okay.. yeah, maybe....}

What Black Sabbath Song Are You?
WAR PIGS- Man...you really hate the government and war. You are so mad at establishments and the society in general. This is your anthem. {Eh? Right.. well I didn't say all these quizzes were good.}

What Creed Song Are You?
My Sacrifice- You are in touch with your inner self and are always striving to find answers to life's most difficult and troubling questions. 'You have seen your share of ups and downs', but you were able to profit from your mistakes. Go, you. We could make excellent friends, ya know.

What Kind of Girlfreind are You? {Taken 'cause lots of people on an HP site I go to took it, and curiosity bit me.}
Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Which means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're the kind of chick that can hang out with your boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't care about presents or about going to fancy places. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy being around your boyfriend. {And look, there's a picture!}

What Kind of Typical High School Character From A Movie Are You?
You are the typical feminist, depressed, artist. You go against the crowd and do everything you can to be different. Too bad no one notices. Try communicating with people, not just looking down on them. {I'll look down on them all I want. My High School is full of ignorant morons!}

How Much Do You Know About Lord of the Rings?
LOTR fanatic-- You have read the Silmarillion almost as many times as you have read the trilogy, {Novel! Novel you moron! It's a novel!} and you are willing to debate with anyone on the legitimacy of Arwen being the predominant female figure in the movie--which, by the way, you think was way off base of the books. That's probably because you read the books at least two or three times before they even had a blueprint of what the movie was going to look like.

Which Lord of the Rings Character Are You?
You are Legolas. A Prince of the Elves, you're a valuable teammate. You're definitely one of the hottest, and DAMN, you can fight! {Hey, I'm apparently a guy... but I'm hot!}