Woke up this morning radio moaning
thoughts run in circles and set the day
I’m all burnt up
no resurrection
lying here slinging ashes at the sun

Can’t find what I once knew
take me
can’t find what I once knew
take me

I’m worried my wires are crossed again
so worried I’ve lost my connection
a desperate need
for more distraction
won’t you take me back to oblivion?

This Hollow World
is holding onto me
my Soul my Mind
is held magnetically
electric friction
washes over me
it feels so creepy
it feels so creepy

I’m worried i can’t find what’s real
can’t find any other way to feel
blackbirds sing sad harmonies
lost to the humming wires that feed

Useless agendas make a useless breed
all you can eat in a world of need
a discount price for all your good deeds
tell me isn’t that all you need?

Can’t find what i once knew
take me
can’t find what i once knew
take me

This Hollow World
is holding onto me
my Soul my Mind
is held magnetically
electric friction
washes over me
feels so creepy
feels so creepy

Woke up this evening
television screaming
static burns in my world of dreaming
soothed by the light
I drop my fist
turn my cheek for a cathode ray kiss

Can’t find what i once knew
take me
can’t find what i once knew
take me

This Hollow World
is holding onto me
my Soul my Mind
is held magnetically
electric friction
washes over me
it feels so creepy
it feels so creepy

This Hollow World
This Hollow World
This Hollow World
This Hollow World
This Hollow World

For my love of my life, My Husband Barry

Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me they will never see, the fear within our eyes
(my eyes are closed)
We will give strength to those who still remain

So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate

(I've waited all day in the pouring rain, but nobody came, no, nobody came)

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith is come
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winter born

Hold your head up high-for there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend
(you defend)
And promise me, they will never see the tears within our eyes
(my eyes are closed)
Although we are men, with mortal sins, angels never cry

So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in God
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winter born

And in the fury of this darkest hour
I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am Winter born
And in this moment..I will not run
It is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands
(bloodied hands)
And in our Dying, we're more alive-than we have ever been
I've lived for these few seconds
For I am Winter born

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in man
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winter born

Within this moment now
I am for you, though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am Winter born
And in my dying
I'm more alive, than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice
For I am Winter born

Trying to find simpler version of life with less hatred more love, more feelings with no grudge, more people with positive touch, nothing to lose, every gain become the best, I wish to live by my limitation, to live without division, to dream without any season, to smile without any reason, to think without any decision, to believe without any condition, to help without any expectation.

Ok. This is an open call to all atheist on Xanga. I was listening to something that was talking about closet atheists. It was talking about how atheism is like homosexuality was in the 80s.

I am asking all atheists to come out of their closets. Leave a comment (or message) on here stating that you are one. Also tell me why. Now I know some have not studied stuff or anything so your answer might be just because you are and that is an ok answer. There is no wrong response.

Also feel free to leave links to any articles or youtube videos or anything like that which you think explains your thoughts on issues.

So…. How many Atheists are there on Xanga?

Have you heard Gaga’s new song?

Intro
It doesn’t matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
’cause you were Born This Way, Baby

Verse
My Mama told me when I was young
We are all born stars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
“There’s nothing wrong with lovin’ who you are”
She said, “Cause he made you perfect, babe.”
“So hold your head up girl and you’ll go far,
Listen to me when I say”

Chorus
I’m beautiful in my way
Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track baby
I was born this way
Don’t hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself and you’re set
I’m on the right track baby
I was born this way

Post-Chorus
Ooo there ain’t no other way
Baby I was born this way
Baby I was born this way
Ooo there ain’t no other way
Baby I was born this way
Baby I was born this way
Ooo there ain’t no other way
Baby I was born this way
I’m on the right track baby
I was born this way

Don’t be a drag, just be a queen
Don’t be a drag, just be a queen
Don’t be!

Verse
Give yourself prudence
And love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice your truth

In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youth
A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M (hey hey hey)
I love my life I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yah (love needs faith)
Repeat Chorus and Post-chorus

Bridge
Don’t be a drag, be a queen
Whether you’re broke or evergreen
You’re black, white, beige chola descent
You’re Lebanese, You’re Orient
Whether life’s disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
Cause baby you we’re born this way
No matter gay, straight, or bi
Lesbian, transgendered life
I’m on the right track baby
I was born to survive
No matter black, white or beige
Chola or Orient made
I’m on the right track baby
I was born to be brave

Repeat Chorus

Outro/Refrain
I was born this way hey!
I was born this way hey!
I’m on the right track baby
I was born this way hey!

I was born this way hey!
I was born this way hey!
I’m on the right track baby
I was born this way hey!

Thoughts?

Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces.

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.

Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was “waiving” his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the armed forces.

Earlier, massive crowds have gathered across Egypt, including hundreds of thousands of protesters in and around Cairo’s Tahrir [Liberation] Square, calling for Mubarak to stand down.

Pro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital also marched on the presidential palace and state television buildings on Friday, the 18th consecutive day of protests.

Anger at state television

At the state television building, thousands have blocked people from entering or leaving, accusing the broadcaster of supporting the current government and of not truthfully reporting on the protests.

“The military has stood aside and people are flooding through [a gap where barbed wire has been moved aside],” Al Jazeera’s correspondent at the state television building reported.

He said it was not clear if they planned to storm the building, but said that “a lot of anger [was] generated” after Mubarak’s speech last night, where he repeated his vow to complete his term as president.

“The activity isn’t calm, but there are a lot of people here who are tired of not having their demands met,” he said.

Egyptian state television announced on Friday evening that an “urgent” televised message from the presidential palace was due “shortly”.

‘Gaining momentum’

Outside the palace in Heliopolis, where at least ten thousand protesters had gathered in Cairo, another Al Jazeera correspondent reported that there was a strong military presence, but that there was “no indication that the military wants to crack down on protesters”.

She said that army officers had engaged in dialogue with protesters, and that remarks had been largely “friendly”.

Tanks and military personnel had been deployed to bolster barricades around the palace.

Our correspondent said the crowd in Heliopolis was “gaining momentum by the moment”, and that the crowd had gone into a frenzy when two helicopters were seen in the air around the palace grounds.

“By all accounts this is a highly civilised gathering. people are separated from the palace by merely a barbed wire … but nobody has even attempted to cross that wire,” she said.

As crowds grew outside the palace, Mubarak left Cairo on Friday for the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Shaikh, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.

In Tahrir Square, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered, chanting slogans against Mubarak and calling for the military to join them in their demands.

Our correspondent at the square said the “masses” of pro-democracy campaigners there appeared to have “clear resolution” and “bigger resolve” to achieve their goals than ever before.

However, he also said that protesters were “confused by mixed messages” coming from the army, which has at times told them that their demands will be met, yet in communiques and other statements supported Mubarak’s staying in power until at least September.

Army statement

In a statement read out on state television at midday, the military announced that it would lift a 30-year-old emergency law but only “as soon as the current circumstances end”.

The military said it would also guarantee changes to the constitution as well as a free and fair election, and it called for normal business activity to resume.

Many protesters, hoping for Mubarak’s resignation, had anticipated a much stronger statement.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Tahrir Square said people there were hugely disappointed and vowed to take the protests to “a last and final stage”.

“They’re frustrated, they’re angry, and they say protests need to go beyond Liberation [Tahrir] Square, to the doorstep of political institutions,” she said.

Protest organisers have called for 20 million people to come out on “Farewell Friday” in a final attempt to force Mubarak to step down.  

Alexandria protests

Hossam El Hamalawy, a pro-democracy organiser and member of the Socialist Studies Centre, said protesters were heading towards the presidential palace from multiple directions, calling on the army to side with them and remove Mubarak.

“People are extremely angry after yesterday’s speech,” he told Al Jazeera. ”Anything can happen at the moment. There is self-restraint all over but at the same time I honestly can’t tell you what the next step will be … At this time, we don’t trust them [the army commanders] at all.”

An Al Jazeera reporter overlooking Tahrir said the side streets leading into the square were filling up with crowds.

“It’s an incredible scene. From what I can judge, there are more people here today than yesterday night,” she said

“The military has not gone into the square except some top commanders, one asking people to go home … I don’t see any kind of tensions between the people and the army but all of this might change very soon if the army is seen as not being on the side of the people.”

Hundreds of thousands were participating in Friday prayers outside a mosque in downtown Alexandria, Egypt’s second biggest city.

Thousands of pro-democracy campaigners also gathered outside a presidential palace in Alexandria.

Egyptian television reported that large angry crowds were heading from Giza, adjacent to Cairo, towards Tahrir Square and some would march on the presidential palace.

Protests are also being held in the cities of Mansoura, Mahala, Tanta, Ismailia, and Suez, with thousands in attendance.

Violence was reported in the north Sinai town of el-Arish, where protesters attempted to storm a police station. At least one person was killed, and 20 wounded in that attack, our correspondent said.

Anger at Mubarak statement

In a televised address to the nation on Thursday, Mubarak said he was handing “the functions of the president” to Vice-President Omar Suleiman. But the move means he retains his title of president.

Halfway through his much-awaited speech late at night, anticipation turned into anger among protesters camped in Tahrir Square who began taking off their shoes and waving them in the air.

Immediately after Mubarak’s speech, Suleiman called on the protesters to “go home” and asked Egyptians to “unite and look to the future.”

Union workers have joined the protests over the past few days, effectively crippling transportation and several industries, and dealing a sharper blow to Mubarak’s embattled regime.

Hosni Mubarak resigns as president – Middle East – Al Jazeera English

I do not know the mind of God and I cannot guess his thoughts
But I have searched for you across the void when my sense of self was lost
The answers danced to brush my grasp in the darkness and the pain
And I saw myself for all I am through decisions I have made

With hearts immortal
We stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion forever asking “why…?”
This upside-down symphony in a paradox called life
Are hearts immortal?
What you give to love
Will never die

And when my ashes scatter me with my memories to the wind
What endures beyond the silent edge is the essence found within
Have we forgotten truly who we are and what our living means?
Our purpose lies, in others eyes, and the realities that we bring

With hearts immortal
We stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion forever asking “why…?”
This upside-down symphony in a paradox called life
Are hearts immortal?
What you give to love
Will never die

All that I am
And all that I dream
Lives somewhere beyond
Your image of me
And who I become
And what I will be
Is not your’s to decide
It comes only from me

(1, 2, ready, go)

With hearts immortal
We stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion forever asking “why…?”
This upside-down symphony in a paradox called life
Are hearts immortal?
What you give to love
Will never die

When there’s nothing to prove
And there’s only the truth
When all that remains are the actions you choose
Who will you be?
At the end of this dream
Will you give up yourself?
Or simply take what you need?

Our hearts immortal
We stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion forever asking “why…?”
This upside-down symphony in a paradox called life
Our hearts immortal
What you give to love
Will never die

‘I Can’t Find My Son, He’s Disappeared’: Egypt’s Army Secretly Jailing and Torturing Protesters? | | AlterNet

I just learned about a new trend……

Have you ever heard of Vajazzling?

Do you know what it is???

I could not believe it.

Look below at your own risk
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Vajazzling: The act of applying glitter and jewels to a woman’s nether regions for aesthetic purposes. They’re glued to the pubic area; more specifically the vulva. This is typically done after getting a full, Brazilian, wax.

It can range from $50 to $115 depending on how intricate the design and/or type of beading/crystals used.

Who does this type of thing? Am I the only one who thinks it is crazy? Would you do it?