OK... I know many of you have seen some of my web pages go down and up like phases of the moon.
Apart from the server problems I have had, my web pages have been plagued by a lack of updates. This was primarily caused by a lack of a reason to continue.

There is an anim� series called Evangelion that deals with mental conditions as loneliness, depression, and other feelings of that nature.
I have found a quote from an animator named Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. He commented, "If it's true that [Evangelion] has become popular in many countries, then it means that the whole world feels the same disease of the soul. This isn't something we should be happy about."

(Hold on, I'm actually getting somewhere with this...)
If Sadamoto is right and the whole world feels these sort of things (I know I have), then I want to try to help assuage it. I don't like it. One thing that has helped me get through tough things is writing text files to nobody, putting what I want to say down. This didn't help as much as it could have, because there was no *human* element. This is why I have resurrected this page.

I thought it might help others who have felt the same thing if I compiled a list of rants about different things from different people and compiled them on a page where they could receive empathy, feedback, and anything else that they needed. I don't know if this will work, for all I know, it will be a horrible idea and I won't get any submissions. I want to do anything to help, though, and I think I might be able to do that with this page.

It will be hard to trust me, I know. I wouldn't trust anyone right away either with pure feelings and thoughts like this. But I will give my word, whatever it means to you, that I will not judge anyone based on what they think and feel and say. I hope that you will give the same respect to me and any contributors that may post. I will honor any anonymity requests, and I will arrange feedback with such people myself.

Anything you want to write I will accept and place on this page if you request it. It doesn't matter what it is.

Now, if you want to rant, vent, write poems, song lyrics, or say something about anything and you don't know how to do it, I have some suggestions for you:

• Write whenever you feel the most open, the most likely to express feeling. For me, this is late at night when I'm tired.
• Rant about whatever comes into mind. It can be funny, dramatic, anything that *you* want.
• Don't worry about spelling and grammar. Taking time to fix that can lead you off track.
• Don't worry about what other people will think. This is *your* space, and you don't need to change what you want to say for anybody.

Thank you for visiting my page, and I hope to hear from you soon. Please submit all questions, comments, and rants to me at [email protected]. Thanks for coming!

One more thing -- I will post some things as soon as I have time. While you're waiting, you can mess with an old AI program called Eliza. It's kind of fun to play with, and it can be very revealing. (Get your mind out of the gutter!!!) :-)

Thanks again!

--TheVortex (Justin Weiss)