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| User: | innocencedenied (1449340)  The Gospel According to St. Bastard
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| Name: | Eskhandar T. Foxfire | |||
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| Bio: | "Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases--which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept 'leaf' is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the 'leaf': the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted--but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model. We call a person 'honest', and then we ask 'why has he behaved so honestly today?' Our usual answer is, 'on account of his honesty.' Honesty! This in turn means that the leaf is the cause of the leaves. We know nothing whatsoever about an essential quality called 'honesty'; but we do know of countless individualized and consequently unequal actions which we equate by omitting the aspects in which they are unequal and which we now designate as 'honest' actions. Finally we formulate from them a qualities occulta which has the name 'honesty.' We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us. For even our contrast between individual and species is something anthropomorphic and does not originate in the essence of things; although we should not presume to claim that this contrast does not correspond to the essence of things: that would of course be a dogmatic assertion and, as such, would be just as indemonstrable as its opposite. What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions- they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "On Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense" (1873, Originally Unpublished, Source) "Order is shattered in a strange guttural tone that resounded along the walls of the houses, which seemed dead and deserted, while behind the closed shutters, eyes watched the conquerers, who, by right of war, were now masters of the city - of the lives and fortunes of its people. In their darkened ruins the inhabitants have given way to the same feeling of panic which is aroused by natural cataclysms. Those devestating upheavals of the Earth, against which wisdom and strength alike are of no avail. For the same feeling is experienced wherever the established order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that was previously protected by the laws of man or nature is suddenly placed at the mercy of brutal, unreasoning force: The earthquake, burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their houses; the river in spate, sweeping away the bodies of drowned peasants, together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from roofs; or the victorious army slaughtering all who resist, making prisoners of the rest, looting by right of the sword, and thanking their god to the sound of cannon. All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief in eternal justice, and all the trust we have been taught to place in divine protection and human reason." - VNV Nation, The Chosen, Praise the Fallen, 1998 "All God's children would have cause to think the Devil now walks this realm. A place, dispossessed of any sanity. Edification of a scene from Hell. Man-made prophecies serve to vindicate all sides who claim themselves worthy servants, obedient to the same God: a God who commands them not to kill. These faithful, in lines that number thousands, bring perdition throughout the land. As though the angel of death himself had been unleashed to exact a punishment upon this world. Across this cursed place rage the fires where the innocent are burned. On a thousand funeral pyres, in anguish parted from this world. Does the need for the belief in a Devil serve to palliate, serve to forgive us our sins? In the abandonment of reason and our delivery unto Hell... Limitless are the ways of mankind, in it's virulent capacities. Ironic it may seem, through this a chance exists to see: in us also lies the capacity to transcend." - VNV Nation, Descent, Judgement, 2007 | |||
| Memories: | 10 entries | |||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||
| Interests: | 150: 300, action figures, alexander the great, ancient architecture, ancient warfare, animal kin, animal planet, animal spirits, animal welfare, animals, animation art, anime, archaeology, aspca, asperger's syndrome, bettas, broadway musicals, c.s. lewis, carnivale, castlevania, cats, comic art, computer animation, computers, cosplay, criminology, criss angel, crocodile hunter, crocodiles, cryptology, cryptozoology, csi, csi vegas, cultural evolution, danger mouse, david wenham, deconstructionism, dinosaurs, disney films, dog the bounty hunter, dogs, dominic deegan, doukutsu monogatari, drawing, eddie izzard, egyptian gods, egyptian mythology, elf only inn, elves, fanart, fanfiction, fantasy, film as art, final fantasy, flight of dragons, forensic anthropology, foxes, furry art, furry fandom, fursuiting, gordon r. dickson, gorillaz, gormenghast, harry potter, his dark materials, historical fiction, history, house m.d., internet sociology, ipod, j.k. rowling, jonathan rhys-meyers, kurt vonnegut, lord of the rings, lost, machall, manga, maps, medieval history, medieval literature, meerkat manor, megatokyo, middle earth history, military history, movies, music, mysticism, mythbusters, mythology, net neutrality, nietzche, nihilism, oldschool cartoons, owls, paleontology, pc gaming, penny arcade, philip pullman, philosophy, photography, pixar, pokemon, postmodernism, psychological warfare, psychology, rats, reading, redwall, religious mythology, rent, roleplaying, sean bean, sergei lukyanenko, shakespeare, shamanism, silent hill, slytherin, snakes, social engineering, social psychology, something*positive, sonic the hedgehog, special effects, steerpike, stephen king, steve irwin, stop motion photography, stuffed animals, the boondocks, the chronicles of narnia, the dark tower, the silmarillion, tolkien, totem animals, tragic canoeing accidents, trans siberian orchestra, urban exploration, v for vendetta, video games, video games as art, vnv nation, weapon collecting, weapon technology, werewolves, wildlife conservation, wildlife warriors, wolfsheim, wolves, world of warcraft, writing | |||
| Schools: | None listed | |||
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| Mutual Friends: | 25: _balrog, amayaris, ass_, backtothelight, carvedinshadows, englishvoodo, haldir_whore, heromyzero, imnotsatan, innocencedenied, kali921, kiliphur, koinonia, maranwe89, mattivrenard, ms_bitch, pingpong_abyss, quartertothree, ragabashtule, raingriffin, revieller, rose_indigo, rwp, samir1stdude, t3hsaucyminx | |||
| Member of: | 9: bad_rpers_suck, brps_adult, childfree, customers_suck, m15m, metaquotes, paidmembers, stupidpetowners, urban_decay | |||
| Account type: | Paid Account | |||
