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I wonder what I was thinking...
15 years ago
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So I'm digging through old documents on my computer, trying to clean things up a bit, when I stumble upon a text file about 5 months old and titled "Notes." With such an ambiguous title, I opened it to see what it was. I don't particularly remember typing it. I probably typed it in the middle of the night while half asleep. I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote it. Or, perhaps more appropriately, I wonder why I was thinking what I was. There were some interesting phrases in there, so I thought I might post it here, just because I'm bored, and I can. Also, because I ought to be off doing other things and this will let me procrastinate for a few more minutes before I head off.
Here it is:
"The duality of my own existence continues to perplex me.
Reality increasingly demonstrates the schism between practicality and morality.
Another idiot child, the son of man. Mankind, the idiot children.
Last of many, first of none.
Time's up. Time's up.
Just another animal, dead and gone away.
The cognitive dissonance resulting from incongruent ideals is tolerable compared to the dissonance resulting from emotional slights.
There are no heroes. There are only people doing what they should.
'Why' is the single most powerful word in the English language.
Make 'why' your favorite word, and ask yourself often.
You might be surprised by where it leads.
There is no such thing as perfection in the physical universe.
Without randomness the universe as we know it would not exist.
Randomness and chance are basic truths of the Universe.
And yet our world of cause and effect cannot be built on a world with no rules.
Always out of place or out of time.
I don't know if it's me, or the world, but one of us wrong."
It's all sort of Non Sequitur isn't it? I wonder what I was taking notes for. Eh *shrugs* Now that you're all bored to death by my weird babblings, I am out of time to procrastinate. So...
Overlord, away!!!
Here it is:
"The duality of my own existence continues to perplex me.
Reality increasingly demonstrates the schism between practicality and morality.
Another idiot child, the son of man. Mankind, the idiot children.
Last of many, first of none.
Time's up. Time's up.
Just another animal, dead and gone away.
The cognitive dissonance resulting from incongruent ideals is tolerable compared to the dissonance resulting from emotional slights.
There are no heroes. There are only people doing what they should.
'Why' is the single most powerful word in the English language.
Make 'why' your favorite word, and ask yourself often.
You might be surprised by where it leads.
There is no such thing as perfection in the physical universe.
Without randomness the universe as we know it would not exist.
Randomness and chance are basic truths of the Universe.
And yet our world of cause and effect cannot be built on a world with no rules.
Always out of place or out of time.
I don't know if it's me, or the world, but one of us wrong."
It's all sort of Non Sequitur isn't it? I wonder what I was taking notes for. Eh *shrugs* Now that you're all bored to death by my weird babblings, I am out of time to procrastinate. So...
Overlord, away!!!
Villainy is a matter of perspective, as morality is relative. I expect that even Hitler, widely regarded as the most evil man to ever live, honestly believed he was making the world a better place. If that's what he believed he was doing, was he really evil, or was he just wrong? The truth is that there is no universal moral standard. Morality is a development of human kind that stems, or at least should stem, from a blend of intellectuality and empathy. There is, in reality, no ultimate authority, no ultimate definition of good or evil. Hence, a villain is merely someone whose system of morality is antithetical to the morality held by either society at large or by the "protagonist". This is perfectly demonstrated in any war, where both sides are utterly convinced that they are righteous and fighting a complete monster. As for my personal definition of a villain? Someone who inflicts harm purely for their own pleasure or gain.