Comments | devilsaprentice: the importance of learning.

devilsaprentice

the importance of learning.

Jan 18, 2005 10:25

I realized just recently what the real secret to life is. it's about learning, but it also isn't as simple as all that. it's about finding your lessons. it's important to not take all learnings as they are given, taking the moral you find, not the one proffered to you like a spoonful of a childs food. if everyone learned only what disney meant you ( Read more... )

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mnarra January 18 2005, 21:32:26 UTC

Is this related? I've been thinking along these lines for some time, and your post sparked a relation.

[clears throat]

Anyone can be a hero.

You believe the values you are taught, keep yourself neatly groomed, get a true, inept friend for a sidekick, and -- boom! -- as quickly as some bastard comes along to screw unjustly all and sundry, your canned morality makes you a major target. The villain will try you, test you, offer you opportunities you never dreamt to grow and succeed and overcome, and, perhaps most importantly, will motivate youBefore, you were content to be some schmuck. With the villain's help, you are ubermensch ( ... )

devilsaprentice January 19 2005, 08:01:05 UTC

well really, anything you might have said would have been related, in an obscure sort of way. you could have, right at that moment, began to explain the origins of the name frank, or the methods of parasitic fish invading urethras and it would have fit because these are the lessons you found. they weren't exactly the lessons that were shown to you, but you found them in lessons offered, and took your own knowledge from them. but, in fact, it is related. the entirety of villainhood rests in the fact that they looked at the lessons shown to them, and discarded them to play with the pretty box they came in. Lord Vader was taught about the light side of the force, and saw that there came coupled with it a necessary opposite, deciding that it was the one he more liked, or was more willing to sacrifice for ( ... )

mnarra January 19 2005, 16:46:43 UTC

That is the lesson of the book, isn't it?

devilsaprentice January 19 2005, 18:44:38 UTC

not really. I mean, mostly it wasn't a lesson offering sort of book, more like backstory for a card game(magic)that I just happened to have.

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night_angel_138 January 21 2005, 04:13:26 UTC

That was a beautiful entry, Mike. Just wanted to say.

night_angel_138 January 21 2005, 04:19:56 UTC

P.S. I don't think any of us is soley the "villain" or "prince/princess" in life; we're all alot more complex and mixed than that; inside each of us is both good and evil and they are at constant battle with eachother, fighting to control our conscious mind. I find myself easily portraying sometimes the villain and sometimes the princess...or whatnot. I don't know.

Hehe...oddly shaped package...

devilsaprentice January 25 2005, 06:06:19 UTC

this got way too good a reaction for how it came out. honestly, this isn't the way this whole thing was supposed to sound. it was also supposed to be longer. and with less disney reference.

mnarra January 25 2005, 21:06:33 UTC

Two items:

1. Rewriting is always an option. If you feel that strongly about it, rewrite it.

2. Don't turn down positive reaction; if you could have done better, then imagine the reviews you'll get when you do so.

Sheesh. What, are we all supposed to ignore you if you don't feel you were possessed of the god-like imagery you require of yourself? We're satisfied with demi-god, really.

devilsaprentice January 25 2005, 23:52:16 UTC

but I'm so much more pleased when people recognize me for the god I am, genetically.(the genetics bit was sisiters adding, that makes her a god too)I dunno, I just don't like it, but I also don't remember how it was supposed to sound either, and I'm not sure I could make it work the way my mind did muddling that over.

mnarra January 26 2005, 00:21:32 UTC

I think I'll just step around the entire minefield of your genetic makeup by noting that you are both doing dandy with what you got.

As for how it was supposed to sound, yeah, I get that one. You either waited too long to write it, or started too soon, or had more than one thing in your head when you did it. It happens.