Random musing

[Sil]

Whoever said that there are plenty more fish is the sea was right. The trouble is anything that hasn't already been caught has hooks, spines, swims in a shoal and would as soon poison you as look at you. This is all before I get started on the dog fish.....

Sigh.

[Lotus666]

Plenty more fish in the sea, though sometimes you prefer the cod to the haddock.

...and beware the Fugu, mate...

[Sil]

Hmm, I prefer haddock actually, makes much better fish and chips, mmmmm :yum: Why am I not fat?!

Sometime the dangerous fish are the most fun, gamble your life for a bit of sushi, I'm a bit too hooked on risk and adrenaline..

[Lotus666]

Try Alton Towers - it's cheaper and healthier... :p

(Why are you not fat - are we in "Witty Replies" thread? :wicked: )

[Lord Finisher]

It's often said that one in the hand is worth two in the bush, but haven't there been instances of some people getting both in the bush, making two in the bush valued at two in the hand? You can't forget about those who get none from the bush, but isn't failure its own reward, as you learn, giving you a rather intangible benefit?

Life is weird.

[Lotus666]

LOL :laugh: LF, either you're a genius, or you've been into the quotes book - either way - nice one! :yes:

[Lord Finisher]

I'll give you a hint - I don't possess or read quote books. =D

[Lord Finisher]

In attempting the search for the Socratic Theory of Absolute Good, I constantly find myself at odds with myself. Within the search for it, I continue to find a constant battle between order and chaos, as the ability to create good is always hampered by bullshit one way or another:

In order, you have a bunch of know-nothing troglodytes who do their meticulous dead end jobs, fill out paperwork (because your word isn't ever enough) and no matter what you do, there's always the taint of corruption, those who utilize the system against itself to do what they wish for their own (or others') gains. It's blocky, unwieldy and generally ineffective.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have chaos, who are filled with people who write up history and reality as they wish, making everything from a small-time crime to soul damning sin into a giant gray blob, and while in the midst of this, if you attempt to CREATE good, you're facing anywhere from apathy to a violent backlash on all fronts. Then the order hounds show up acting like you're taking a slice out of their monopoly, them either coercing you to join them (and results will almost always fail) or they'll try to stop you via force and turn whatever good you were doing into a miserable failure.

And nobody is ever truly neutral. Nobody is ever capable of looking at both sides and go "These choices are garbage. Why are you guys trying?"

I feel almost as if it's the quote unquote "city on a hill." I can't help but feel like I'm doing nothing more than chasing a meaningless utopian ideal than actually trying to do the right thing.

Utopia. HAH. No such place will ever exist. No matter where humanity goes, no matter what the species as a whole does, as long as two people exist, one will want the other dead. Inevitably, we are at the mercy of our own shadows, the black and crimson whispers that grant us the ability to spawn one evil after another and immediately utilize it for whatever ends.

The only way for such scenarios to ever bear fruit would be to tear humanity's free will away from it. Nobody is capable enough to handle that. That and I value my own free will more than I value my life.

[Lotus666]

You'll be gaining Guru Status soon with all these truths, LF. :mu:

[Lord Finisher]

Too bad I can't get a job doing this.