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Aug. 16th, 2006 12:10 amSo. Today was fighting off a bit of a headache all day - one of the new housemates is taking it to the ants... and using some of the stuff that might make your head lighten a little if you stay too close to it. Still, someone determined to win the war? We should stay the course on this particular conflict.
The preferred browser of extraterrestrials is Firefox. See? Even aliens like it better than IE. And since I'm an expert on the subject, you can't disagree with me! Fear my expertise! FEAR IIIIIIT!
Actually, don't. Don't give into the fear. Fear will make authorities hold an innocent man for five years after he is cleared. Fear makes it so that, even though there's no evidence Iran's involved at all in Iraq, what's like to happen is that there will be a search for terrorists... even if they have to be made up on the spot so that the agenda will continue, and people will live in fear. Don't give in to the fear. Give it the middle finger, instead. Also, keep an eye out - religion-related fraud is on the rise. Be wise with whom you tithe.
Eventually, diversity finds its way into all places. Either through the "Mostly Harmless" route, or through the changing of a guard, or through the simple act of a secular business/government going, "Yeah, you can buy the place. We could use the revenues" (crassly capitalist of me, I'm sure, but this is how things work.)
Retro comic adverts. Even then, people wanted you to spend money on pointless junk.
Evangelicals in Kenya want a museum to put its evolution exhibit in the back, rather than out front, where it probably belongs, considering the depth and breadth of the collection there.
It took the blogosphere to do it, but the RIAA is relenting on suing a dead man. This is, however, after the blogosphere picked up on it. While the guy was dead, they were still going to raid his estate and his family. Something's very wrong here. So we fully endorse The Pirate Party's ideas and hope the party and its planks make it over to the U.S. Perhaps it could get in virally through hijacking the Democratic party and transforming them into an actual leftist organization. You know, so that there are actually two parties with differing viewpoints, rather than two names for the same ideas?
And now, for original content! Whoo!
I'm beginning to understand why people would take on the sigils of the Heartless and the Nobodies. I know of at least one person who has one tattooed on each arm. It's not just because Kingdom Hearts is a fabulous game to play, but because of the themes it embodies. Light and darkness, both necessary, both usable. But also, the place in between, where there is nothing. In the places that never were, with the bodies that have no hearts and seek them. Those who are open to the darkness can use and control the Heartless, but they risk becoming Heartless themselves. The Heartless are and aren't named properly. A Heartless is born when a heart leaves a body and is transformed into a shape. The Heartless have no heart, but they are made of a heart. What they leave behind is a shell without a heart - a nobody. (Which is also a bit of a misnaming, as all the nobodies have physical forms, and thus, bodies. They are the truly heartless.)
I wonder what happens on the other side, as well. If someone became so filled with light that they drove out their darkness, what would they become? Would there be another monster, born out of the drive to destroy darkness, crafted from the heart fully of light? Would there be Nobodies that came about because their original owners immersed themselves too far the other way? Even Sora, who's probably the farthest along such a purification, has darkness in his heart. It's an interesting speculation to wonder what happens on the other end of the scale. And the end of both Chain of Memories and KH II suggests that the Way to the Dawn is, in fact, the most powerful of the three paths to take, although probably requires the most effort as well. If you'll permit a slight cross-pollination, perhaps this is the Key(blade) of the Twilight/Daybreak?
It's a little strange. Anyway, what I was actually going to get at in this strange in-joke style speculation was that I wonder how many people feel like they're losing to the darkness? How many people strive to be Sora, pure? How many people embrace their darkness and immerse themselves in it, lose their way and become Heartless? How many others lose their way and their heart, and become Nobodies, unable to feel at all? Are there people who can successfully navigate the Way to the Dawn? What does it take?
And where am I in all of this?
The preferred browser of extraterrestrials is Firefox. See? Even aliens like it better than IE. And since I'm an expert on the subject, you can't disagree with me! Fear my expertise! FEAR IIIIIIT!
Actually, don't. Don't give into the fear. Fear will make authorities hold an innocent man for five years after he is cleared. Fear makes it so that, even though there's no evidence Iran's involved at all in Iraq, what's like to happen is that there will be a search for terrorists... even if they have to be made up on the spot so that the agenda will continue, and people will live in fear. Don't give in to the fear. Give it the middle finger, instead. Also, keep an eye out - religion-related fraud is on the rise. Be wise with whom you tithe.
Eventually, diversity finds its way into all places. Either through the "Mostly Harmless" route, or through the changing of a guard, or through the simple act of a secular business/government going, "Yeah, you can buy the place. We could use the revenues" (crassly capitalist of me, I'm sure, but this is how things work.)
Retro comic adverts. Even then, people wanted you to spend money on pointless junk.
Evangelicals in Kenya want a museum to put its evolution exhibit in the back, rather than out front, where it probably belongs, considering the depth and breadth of the collection there.
It took the blogosphere to do it, but the RIAA is relenting on suing a dead man. This is, however, after the blogosphere picked up on it. While the guy was dead, they were still going to raid his estate and his family. Something's very wrong here. So we fully endorse The Pirate Party's ideas and hope the party and its planks make it over to the U.S. Perhaps it could get in virally through hijacking the Democratic party and transforming them into an actual leftist organization. You know, so that there are actually two parties with differing viewpoints, rather than two names for the same ideas?
And now, for original content! Whoo!
I'm beginning to understand why people would take on the sigils of the Heartless and the Nobodies. I know of at least one person who has one tattooed on each arm. It's not just because Kingdom Hearts is a fabulous game to play, but because of the themes it embodies. Light and darkness, both necessary, both usable. But also, the place in between, where there is nothing. In the places that never were, with the bodies that have no hearts and seek them. Those who are open to the darkness can use and control the Heartless, but they risk becoming Heartless themselves. The Heartless are and aren't named properly. A Heartless is born when a heart leaves a body and is transformed into a shape. The Heartless have no heart, but they are made of a heart. What they leave behind is a shell without a heart - a nobody. (Which is also a bit of a misnaming, as all the nobodies have physical forms, and thus, bodies. They are the truly heartless.)
I wonder what happens on the other side, as well. If someone became so filled with light that they drove out their darkness, what would they become? Would there be another monster, born out of the drive to destroy darkness, crafted from the heart fully of light? Would there be Nobodies that came about because their original owners immersed themselves too far the other way? Even Sora, who's probably the farthest along such a purification, has darkness in his heart. It's an interesting speculation to wonder what happens on the other end of the scale. And the end of both Chain of Memories and KH II suggests that the Way to the Dawn is, in fact, the most powerful of the three paths to take, although probably requires the most effort as well. If you'll permit a slight cross-pollination, perhaps this is the Key(blade) of the Twilight/Daybreak?
It's a little strange. Anyway, what I was actually going to get at in this strange in-joke style speculation was that I wonder how many people feel like they're losing to the darkness? How many people strive to be Sora, pure? How many people embrace their darkness and immerse themselves in it, lose their way and become Heartless? How many others lose their way and their heart, and become Nobodies, unable to feel at all? Are there people who can successfully navigate the Way to the Dawn? What does it take?
And where am I in all of this?
