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    .the.temptation.of.the.machine.
         a halo8 presentation
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bits of reality... bits of fantasy... one person's [de]evolution, or a descent into madness..... utopia lies within yourself... you are you're own best friend/worst enemy... you are a dream being experienced first hand subjectiveness in your face...... objective comparison is a facade for the dreamers, dreams are shattered by the bitter cold of reality, shatter the dreamers.. shatter dreamers shatter.... the depths of reality[a nightmare] are limitless, and human kind was not meant to bear much reality......

                                                     -- silentkid

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   intro.it
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    intro;

    set the mood, death of a machine, the realization of a person, so much noise, so many thoughts


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   Part 1; lilith reborn

   not lilith, adam's first wife.. the hebrew lilith, the vampiric seductress
   and consequently the name of my computer for that very fact

   a file from the "vault" collection of poetry, prose, music and art that
   has never seen the security of an archived pack...

   set the mood

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    Part 2; transformational genesis

    the beginning of it all, visibile signs approaching.. yellow warning, red
    and it all stops... blood is red... my heart is full of blood ...            
    bleeding heart cant bleed enough for myself

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    Part 3; the becoming

    transcending of the flesh, of the material body... astral ...interjection
    of reality, saved by the bell.

    threshold of reality is wavering in the heat of choice

[Note of part 2 & 3 - it's amazing what a little (er, lot) of scotch, sleep
   deprivation and nine inch nails can do the creativity]

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     Part 4; metal under skin

     metal, essential to machine....... pain, essential to humanity........ synthesis 
     of metal and pain, oneness with the machine one step closer to humanity

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      Part 5; purity of thought

       the purity of death, the imperfection of an untidy suicide.. unmoving 
       unwavering in the face of the choice, the temptation

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     Part 6; impurity of reason

     distorted senses, unstable mind unstable reality..... too many choices, 
     too little experience.. quick way out is so tangible... tangible as the blood
     in my veins.... the blood on my arm, the blood on steel... pain is a 
     necessary reality.

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     Part 7; silent saviour of yore

     a saviour from the past.. abandonement... as the world dies the eyes of
     god grow bigger... wouldnt be so hungry if the appetite wasnt bigger than 
     the eyes..... perfection is cold and dead, non-living, never-living, ignorance
     bliss and perfection all in one... pay now bye later...

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    part 8; awaiting redemption

     reality is a prison, my mind is a prison, my body is a prison, my life is a prison
     everything around me holds me back from choice... to overbearing and naive
     to allow room for mistakes..... mistake == death in the game of life... stagnation
     is death...... death is perfection.... choice is the path..... reality is a quagmire of
     deceit..... perfection is the choice of perfection

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    part9.
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     part 9;  cleansing

      just a song  just a quote just an emotion just a feeling just an experience 
      just a reality just a life


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      part10; end [watching it burn away]

     break free and burn it up... a blaze of glory a blaze of hatred....new beginnings... 
     new realities... new prisons... flames are higher than ever as the boughs of 
     innocence crackle and blacken in the heat.... ashes, everything i've known is
     worth a pile of ashes.... cremation, i loved you so now you will burn.....