This too shall pass



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Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.
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Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a nameless monster. The monster was dying to have a name. So he decided to set out on a journey to find his name.
But the world was a large place, so the monster split into two on his journey. One monster went to the East. And the other went to the West. The monster who went East came to a village. "Mr. Blacksmith, please give me your name."
"You can't give someone a name."
"If you give me your name, I'll jump into your stomach and make you strong in return."
"Really? You'll make me stronger? Okay, you can have my name."
And the monster went inside the blacksmith's stomach.
The monster became Otto the blacksmith. Otto was the strongest man in town. But one day, "Look at me, look at me. The monster inside me has grown this large."
Munch-munch, chomp-chomp, gobble-gobble, gulp. The hungry monster ate Otto from the inside. He went back to being a monster without a name.
He jumped into the stomach of Hans the shoemaker, but Munch-munch, chomp-chomp, gobble-gobble, gulp. He went back to being a monster without a name.
He jumped into the stomach of Thomas the hunter, but Munch-munch, chomp-chomp, gobble-gobble, gulp. And once again he was a monster without a name.

The monster went to a castle to look for a wonderful name.
"If you give me your name, I'll make you strong."
"If you'll heal my sickness, I'll give you my name." The monster jumped into the boy's stomach. The king was delighted.
"The prince is well. The prince is well."
The monster liked the boy's name. He liked living in the castle. So even when he was hungry, he stayed put. Every day he was so hungry, but he stayed put.
But one day he was just too hungry. "Look at me. Look at me. The monster inside me has grown this large," said the boy. The boy ate the king and and all the servants. Munch-munch, chomp-chomp, gobble-gobble, gulp.

One day, the boy came upon the monster who had gone west.
"I have a name. It's a wonderful name," said the boy.
The monster who went west replied, "You don't need a name. You can be happy without a name. Because we are nameless monsters."
The boy ate the monster who went west. Even though he had finally found a name, there was no one left to call him by it.

Such a shame, because Johan was such a wonderful name.

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Everyone is alone, everyone's empty. We don't really need each other anymore. With so much at our fingertips we can find a spare for any talent, any item, any piece of knowledge, any relationship can be replaced with a simple search and a click. I've become bored of a world like that.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJyKpsJbVdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnJbjBuxnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0kFiLuW0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvcWXTIjcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRFcLHo58eQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wAw7gBQxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCmA1uC0r9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHeqIi7Mv44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7NeOt7ej0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFBbOHohwR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vv8JzptXgw

"The tentacles spoke to me, asked what I wanted to be. To be weak I said, to be flawed, vulnerable."