The Great Illusion = Cool Website

[Praxis]

I found this website today whilst looking for surreal pictures. Thought you guys might enjoy!


http://www.thegreatillusion.com/

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	Entertaining website. Good addition to "Something for Everyone"
	great link

[grecian]

yeah that is cool, its gone straight onto my bookmarks, thought the 'cause and effect' picture was especially mad and this bit of the poem appeals to me to:

Beyond life is the judgment of all that we fear,
but it doesn't quite happen the way that we hear.

No person or being judges your life,
you do it yourself and decide what is right

[Praxis]

I wish I could find more of thoses kind of photos. Those things a friggin sweet.

[Praxis]

anyone catch the name of that song that was playing?



EDIT: ok nvm its Hold the Light by Bert Sommer

[Jimmeh]

The poems are crap, but the pictures rock!

[grecian]

i don't think its meant to be read a seperate poems i think its meant to be a 1 poem with many different sections. Obviously you are entitled to your opinion, but swig read it on a come down (ecstacy) when he was feeling like shit and it made him remember the positivity he felt the nite before. the site took him nearly an hour to get thru as he was trying to understand the meaning behind the words.

[Praxis]

heh...I used it only for the pictures too. I didnt like the poem for how its written, just what it is written about, which it conveys nicely.

[grandbaby]

^Inseparable. Form is function and the poem was crap. Whenever I hear/read poetry written that way it doesn't matter what they're saying, it's all "Twas the night before Xmas and all thru the house...."

and I run screaming for the backdoor.

[Praxis]

No i think there is a difference. If someone is saying "hey im gonna go take a shit", they could also say "im gonna go feed the shit sharks", "visit the porcelain goddess", "drop the Cosbys off at the pool" etc...they are all convey the same message but some are more poetic than the other.

[grecian]

ive thought about art before and have come to the conclusion that any art (or anything that someone believes to be art) is a truly subjective experience, in that if something appeals to you or takes on some kind of meaning to you then you have are right to appreciate it regardless of what anyone thinks. To me the poem, while obviously not a Shakespearean sonnet, appealed to many of my views about reality, the world we live in and how to be a good person, it also gave me food for thought about things I have neglected to consider in the past.