New personal challenge.
Nov. 11th, 2001 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfgroveHere's a challenge for myself and for all my LJ friends.:
Once a week, at least, take a quote and give your thoughts on it. Everyone can do the same quote or we can all do different ones. I just think it will make for a fun exercise. There's really no real reason to do it.
here's a good place to grab a quote: http://www.angelfire.com/mt/quotez/
Here's my quote this week:
"What fun is destruction if no 'precious' lives are lost?" -- Kefka, Final Fantasy III
As disturbing as most would consider the quote, it really makes a ceratain kind of sense. If something is destroyed, but nothng of any worth is destroyed, was anything really destroyed? That's how people act sometimes.
Think about it. When the WTC fell, a lot of people in other countries did not care. Yes people died, and it was sad. But to them, nothing precious was lost, so it was as though nothing had been destroyed.
Natural diasters destroy homes, and we've watched violence and death on tv for years now. I'm not talking movie or show death, I mean real people dying. Both in our own country and far away. We stop for a second and adknowledge that it's sad, and go on with life. We don't really feel anything for what's been destroyed because nothing precious to us was destroyed. As far as you can tell for us, there might as well have been nothing destoyed at all.
I don't mean we should lament for days over every death or that everyone should be outraged about the WTC thing. That is unreasonable. The fact is the lack of caring, is not unreasonable. It's really proper to not really react when what is lost holds no meaning for us. It makes for an interesting observation is all.
Once a week, at least, take a quote and give your thoughts on it. Everyone can do the same quote or we can all do different ones. I just think it will make for a fun exercise. There's really no real reason to do it.
here's a good place to grab a quote: http://www.angelfire.com/mt/quotez/
Here's my quote this week:
"What fun is destruction if no 'precious' lives are lost?" -- Kefka, Final Fantasy III
As disturbing as most would consider the quote, it really makes a ceratain kind of sense. If something is destroyed, but nothng of any worth is destroyed, was anything really destroyed? That's how people act sometimes.
Think about it. When the WTC fell, a lot of people in other countries did not care. Yes people died, and it was sad. But to them, nothing precious was lost, so it was as though nothing had been destroyed.
Natural diasters destroy homes, and we've watched violence and death on tv for years now. I'm not talking movie or show death, I mean real people dying. Both in our own country and far away. We stop for a second and adknowledge that it's sad, and go on with life. We don't really feel anything for what's been destroyed because nothing precious to us was destroyed. As far as you can tell for us, there might as well have been nothing destoyed at all.
I don't mean we should lament for days over every death or that everyone should be outraged about the WTC thing. That is unreasonable. The fact is the lack of caring, is not unreasonable. It's really proper to not really react when what is lost holds no meaning for us. It makes for an interesting observation is all.
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Since we're on a serious tangent here...
Date: 2001-11-10 11:14 pm (UTC)Is it just me or is that massive cleavage in your userpic? :P
Re: Since we're on a serious tangent here...
Date: 2001-11-11 06:39 am (UTC)No Neph,
Date: 2001-11-11 06:59 am (UTC)Oh gods, I am so dead but it was so worth it.
~dX
Re: No Neph,
Date: 2001-11-11 07:05 am (UTC)Dusty............
You are so dead meat!
But...
Date: 2001-11-11 07:09 am (UTC)~dX
Re: But...
Date: 2001-11-11 07:20 am (UTC)Or wait...
Cliched superheros should be sent to the PM for some "personal time"... ^_~
*grins evily and grabs her cell phone.*
I'll send him to both of you. LOL.
no subject
Date: 2001-11-11 07:24 am (UTC)So Ha!
~dX
lol
Date: 2001-11-11 07:29 am (UTC)Alone, unguarded, and the Purple Marauder's coming fir him.
Re: lol
Date: 2001-11-11 07:35 am (UTC)~dX
Re: lol
Date: 2001-11-11 11:02 am (UTC)*sigh*
*feels all nostalgic*
Re: lol
Date: 2001-11-11 01:27 pm (UTC)Aw, you'd sic monsters on me...
Date: 2001-11-11 06:46 pm (UTC)... just for seeing cleaves where cleaves normally would be? What's the world coming to. o_O
*uses Funkjitsu to raise his defense*
monsters? where?
Date: 2001-11-11 07:19 pm (UTC)^_^ Silly.
Dusty can enlighten you if you don't know what he is.
You don't really want to know though.
And I wouldn't really sic the PM on you.