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"The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down."
--Barack Obama
This is being vague? Ooookay.
This is, of course, why I so favor the guy.
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Reasons why ComicCon sucks:
1. It's not in Dallas.
2. It's not in Dallas.
3. It's not in Dallas.
Because Hugh Jackman is delicious no matter what he's in (though he's yummier with mutton chops than without).
One person who posted earlier this month on the Web site Imdb.com had demanded to know [about The Day the Earth Stood Still] why “would aliens care about the earth’s environment unless they intended to use it themselves?”
Obviously this person has never read Karen Traviss' Wess'har War series. Number one rule when dealing with aliens: They probably don't think like us!
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
--Eric Hoffer
"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I would do the Fannish Five, but honestly, there really aren't five plot points or arcs that I hated in Star Wars. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the fall of Jacen. All because (I think, at least) Stover's Vergere was too deep for most SW authors.
Now, granted, she was a heretic. Anyone in the SW universe who says that the dark side of the Force doesn't exist is going against what Uncle George himself has established as Force canon.
And I don't necessarily disagree with making Vergere a Sith, either. The only problem is, only two Sith in the history of the SW universe (so far) have been real Sith. And Palpatine and Vader aren't those two.
Go read some Nietzsche. Then go read the Sith Code. They are basically the same thing.
The Sith as presented by Palpatine and Vader (and pretty much every other cackling, hand-rubbing SW villain) is about galactic domination--not triumph over the meager weaknesses of the self.
Darth Bane was the Sith'ari, the SW version of Nietzsche's super man. Vergere was basically Darth Nietzche--beyond good and evil--with no apologies or explainations, just real moral/ethical freedom and the implications of such. But apparently no one could stomach the idea that light and dark aren't cosmic forces, they're products of the mind. (Although Luceno did come close, when he had Luke go all Alfred North Whitehead in The Unifying Force.)
So while I'm not angry about Jacen's fall into darkness (and madness), I am angry that they distorted the character of Vergere to do it.
--Barack Obama
This is being vague? Ooookay.
This is, of course, why I so favor the guy.
***
Reasons why ComicCon sucks:
1. It's not in Dallas.
2. It's not in Dallas.
3. It's not in Dallas.
Because Hugh Jackman is delicious no matter what he's in (though he's yummier with mutton chops than without).
One person who posted earlier this month on the Web site Imdb.com had demanded to know [about The Day the Earth Stood Still] why “would aliens care about the earth’s environment unless they intended to use it themselves?”
Obviously this person has never read Karen Traviss' Wess'har War series. Number one rule when dealing with aliens: They probably don't think like us!
***
"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
--Eric Hoffer
"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
***
I would do the Fannish Five, but honestly, there really aren't five plot points or arcs that I hated in Star Wars. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the fall of Jacen. All because (I think, at least) Stover's Vergere was too deep for most SW authors.
Now, granted, she was a heretic. Anyone in the SW universe who says that the dark side of the Force doesn't exist is going against what Uncle George himself has established as Force canon.
And I don't necessarily disagree with making Vergere a Sith, either. The only problem is, only two Sith in the history of the SW universe (so far) have been real Sith. And Palpatine and Vader aren't those two.
Go read some Nietzsche. Then go read the Sith Code. They are basically the same thing.
The Sith as presented by Palpatine and Vader (and pretty much every other cackling, hand-rubbing SW villain) is about galactic domination--not triumph over the meager weaknesses of the self.
Darth Bane was the Sith'ari, the SW version of Nietzsche's super man. Vergere was basically Darth Nietzche--beyond good and evil--with no apologies or explainations, just real moral/ethical freedom and the implications of such. But apparently no one could stomach the idea that light and dark aren't cosmic forces, they're products of the mind. (Although Luceno did come close, when he had Luke go all Alfred North Whitehead in The Unifying Force.)
So while I'm not angry about Jacen's fall into darkness (and madness), I am angry that they distorted the character of Vergere to do it.