| 006: What the fuck is going on? |
[February, 28th 2012 at 8:42p] |
[Warded Against Children]
Who else saw Luna Lovegood being abducted? What the fuck has she done? She's so sweet and kind... do they arrest all nice people? Or was it because she's a blonde, or easy to kidnap? This isn't fucking right. What in Merlin's name can be done? If I didn't have someone else to worry about I'd have hexed them... fucking cruel, uncivilised monsters!
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| 005: Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. |
[February, 28th 2012 at 2:29p] |
Today I find that the works of Friedrich Nietzsche are on my mind. He is one of my favourite philosophers, and one of the few modern ones that I enjoy. He was often times a contradiction, as were his writings. But, if we learn nothing else from Nietzsche, we learn that man is imperfect. I write these quotes down so that we can contemplate and maybe, just maybe, the bickering and tug of war over rights and wrongs, truths or lies, might be extinguished. There is no true point to it except for wasted energies and over-heated, or wounded, feelings.
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
I will not judge anyone, if I can help it. I will not push my beliefs on anyone, nor will I voice my opinions on another person without listening to theirs. I only ask that you read these quotes, contemplate their meaning, and take what you want from it.
And if you feel like commenting, I'd be intrigued to know your contemplations, and what you got from the quotes I wrote down. Philosophical chats are ALWAYS welcome.
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| 003: The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought. |
[January, 18th 2012 at 8:52p] |
I sit at my desk in this, still, strange room. My mind is a tangle of knots... and I need to untangle them, but how best to sort it? I suppose it is time to take pen to paper. I don't know what I will write, nor am I going to re-read and edit it when I finish. These thoughts, this storm in my brain... it would be cheapened by refinement. The final product, whatever it is, will only mean something if it is left as new, and raw, as it was written. I can feel the words words moving through my veins, through my entire body, ready to be laid bare without fancy similies and metaphors to delicately cover it's most sensitive parts. Oh no. The words are ready to be laid down in the open, no longer secret. No longer unknown. Is it right to lay one's innermost thoughts on paper for all to see? Are my secret ponderings and thoughts reflections of my soul? Or are they my souls way of communicating in a way I can comprehend? I don't know. But I'll never know until I let my conscious mind rest and my subconscious to finally take centre stage. Not Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow as Shakespeare wrote. But today. Now I apologise in advance if what is written below offends, or frightens, or... insert emotion her.
( I have no idea what I'm about to say. )
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| 002: Hard work builds character |
[January, 12th 2012 at 10:53p] |
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I am pleased with my job, considering it has been my life since I was born. I'm a farmer which means I'll likely be providing meat, grain, and veg to the community at large. I just hope they let me have a horse to train, then my life would be complete until I can go home.
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| 001: The unexamined life is not worth living. |
[January, 11th 2012 at 3:30p] |
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates is right in both quotes. A life isn't worth living when you don't examine it and make it the best it can be. And while ignorance is NOT bliss, there will always be more to know.
We are given an opportunity here, even if we are prisoners in a land and time that is not our own. This is a chance to learn new things, to learn about ourselves and to make our life here the best it can be.
And at least, in here, the Dark Lord does not exist, hasn't taken over Britain, and isn't torturing and killing anyone.
At least here a girl lacking her family can find her dead uncle alive.
At least here I don't have to hide being in love to save myself and my boyfriend from torture.
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