Botox is gewd.

The world is my orchard and Lisa Rinna's breasts are my world.

Cheap Cigarette Men. And the Works.

He's dead. He's fuckin' dead. Who will love Jack now?

Domesticity for the average seafaring salesman.

It feels good to be back. To be at my desk, reading up on electric field lines and magnetomotive force, with Ornette blowing on his sax. Feels good to tilt my head back, to cross my arms behind my head and think about how I had solved that last calculus problem in a jiffy. Feels good to look sideways at the nightlamp and reassure myself that it is still there, flickering. Feels good to write on napkins in restaurants, feels good to discuss Proust with my physics professor, to debate whether Nietzsche really meant what he said with the owner of the oft-visited hookah joint, to admire Schopenhauer's beautiful writing style in my underwear. Feels good that my present squeeze is twirling a particularly long strand of her hair between her fingers and doing a Cirque du Soleil with her tanned legs in her bed as she speaks into the mouthpiece. Feels good to have my appetite back and to feel the steel give way under my fingers. Feels good to bring novelty to the kitchen table again. Not that I have a kitchen table in my hostel room.

Causality - 1, God - 0.

Is it possible to adopt a non-linear stance on life? Is it possible to satiate oneself with personal feelings entirely, and go so far as to distance oneself from the socio-cultural aesthetic without being egotistical, conceited or bashful? I do not know whether any branch of popular philosophy or epistemology delineates a set of examples that could bring these principles forth as external manifestations in attitude, ideology and conversational patterns. Most of our cultural, economic and sexual organizations follow a set of rules - policy/protocol, if you will - which, if deviated from, could lead to one being cut out from the overall picture in part or in totality. When I speak about this Overall Picture, I refer to the status society accords an individual on the basis of him establishing, following or digressing from the rules.

The human race, says the Pope, cannot be trusted to do the right thing in times of doubt and/or pain. Then, he says, we should turn our eyes towards the heavens and allow ourselves to be subjugated to God's will. One is tempted to ask - what then, is God's will? I looked it up and came across a slew of the basest metaphors, that didn't quite allow me to empathize with the whole concept. It is suggested that the Lord had plans for the human race even before Creation. So, that would mean any change in the human consciousness - individual/collective - was preplanned and willed. This belief troubled me, ans still continues to do so. In a broader, simpler context, that would mean any man could get away with murder. In a courtroom he could insinuate that God willed the victim to die. That, to me at least, is philosophical sacrilege. It is the equivalent of a criminal reading out his Miranda rights to Justice itself. Perhaps, religion is the opiate of the masses, perhaps it isn't. Who knows? All these taxonomic variations of religion and philosophy just leave me knowing less than I did in the first place.