Ugh. Just dawned on me that next month will be three years since my friend Ben passed away. It's funny how quick the time flies when you aren't paying attention. It's not that I don't think about Ben, he comes to my mind daily. How many stories do I tell about growing up that start with, "One time Ben and I..." or "I'll never forget this one time when Ben and I...". All in all, it sucks. My Uncle made a comment on time about my tattoo saying that Ben must have really meant something for me to want to mark myself forever, I guess you can say that all I was doing was showing on the outside what was on the inside. Three years have passed and I still get teary eyed when I think about him and growing up. I dunno. Shrug.

"I guess I just miss my friend..."

Ah, I love nothing more than having conversations with people about what I consider philosophical topics. I'm a big fan of discussions pertaining to perception. If you go a bit further back in this blog, you'll find some earlier discussions and thoughts that I've had on that very particular topic. Anyway, last night Mr. Rowe came over for dinner and a movie (well, two episodes of Heroes). Shortly after the shows, we ended up on the topic of perception and reality. It was like taking a cold drink on a hot day. Gave my brain a good kick start.

Here's a relatively quick synopsis of the discussion:
It started out with Laura and I debating over Fiction vs. Non-Fiction. How does one classify books on philosophy? My claim was that they stand on their own, as depending on your belief, they could either be fiction or not. Laura clumped them under non-fiction (hence the debate). So we cornered Dan, who twisted the whole issue around into a perception debate. Someone writes a book about a tragedy, it's classified as non-fiction. Another author writes a book on the same tragedy, but it's different (assuming his perception of the events varied) and it get's classified as non-fiction. How can two books on the same subject contain different facts both be true? Well, the same can be applied to books on philosophy, religious books, and cartoons.

Essentially, as we develop through life, we don goggles with different filters on them. Everyone has a different pair of goggles with a different set of filters. Through these filters, we see out reality...but the catch is that my reality isn't your reality or her reality or his. It's my very own. In my reality, the Bible is fiction but in your reality it maybe non-fiction. Shrug.

I really could go on about this topic, but I would just rather plant the seed of this topic. If you know me personally, feel free to spark up a conversation next time we see each other. If not, post a comment...let me know what you think.

Here's another post on a similar topic And the beat goes on...

I dunno about you, but I got really excited to see the new Punisher film. I knew they weren't going to use Thomas Jane in this one, so I was a little apprehensive about exactly how good this film was going to be. I finally had the chance to watch it, and all I can say is "WTF!?". I mean, come on. I've found that 50% of the time, when they "re-imagine" a movie or branch a story it's going to suck. You want to see a good story branch, go watch the Dark Knight and skip Punisher War Zone. I wouldn't say the movie sucked, but I wouldn't say that I would ever want to watch it again. I'd recommend only watching this if you feel you REALLY must. If you did happen to see it and feel I'm being particularly harsh, post a comment and let me know.

I'm going to watch Thomas Jane torture someone with a popsicle now and hope I can pretend I never saw War Zone...

This is a post for all the techies out there, but I finally got Clean URL's working for the gallery. No longer do you see some scrambled urls, now they are all nice looking. Only took me a little while to finally get it working! Yah baby!