"What we perceive as solid matter

is mostly empty space.

Just as we may perceive

that a life is full...

...that is actually a series

of empty encounters..."

(Fringe 1-10)

(?, pics provided by Popo)

"....age is no crime,

but the shame

of a deliberately

wasted

life

among so many

deliberately

wasted

lives

is."

(Charles Bukowski)

Here's to the mindless

Vacant and spineless

Forever hollow, they follow and feign

Cheers to our leaders

Slick elevated zeros

Packaged and plastic, they dance for the herd

Here's to your boxes

Your paradoxes

Grasping at freedom, you buy a shiny cage

Here's to religion

A world built upon exclusion

Scarred by illusion, you'll always obey

And as I walk through the filthy streets

Where all I loved has died

I'll raise my voice here into the sky

Now hear my War Cry"

(art by Andy Park)

“The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.” (Henry Louis Mencken)

(?)

"Guilty until proven innocent

We condemn your soul and fate

Nevermind the possibilities

Too busy for logic or to calculate

Take part in a diminishing breed

Where complex turns to simplicity

When pain is acknowledged

Frivolous calculations will be abolished

Without judgement what would we do?

We would be forced to look

At ourselves emerged in lost time

Assuming what may be

Without judgement

Perception would increase a million times

Distracted by the imagination

That experiments with ease

If you could taste it, it might be addictive

Where life will crush those who defy

(art by Jacques Resch)

Take part in a diminishing breed

Where complex turns to simplicity

When pain is acknowledged

Frivolous calculations will be abolished"

“The soul is born old but grows young.

That is the comedy of life.

And the body is born young and grows old.

That is life's tragedy.”

(Oscar Wilde)

(?)

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no.

That's where toughness comes into play.

Toughness is not being a bully.

It's having backbone."

(Robert Kiyosaki)

(art by Chris Mars)

"Beware of monotony;

it's the mother of all the deadly sins."

(Edith Wharton)

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(The Seven Deadly Sins - ©Madeline Carol Matz. All rights reserved.)

"All listen to them, the children of the night. What sweet music they make..." (Bram Stoker)

(art by Paul Allender)

"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

(art by Laurent BROUSSOULOUX)

"May the wind always

be at your back...
and the sun upon your face.
And may the winds of destiny
carry you aloft...
to dance with the stars."

(art by Brian Despain)