Well, so much for that...
And here I was, thinking that life was just completely dull and thus not worth mentioning. (After all, if even I think my life less fascinating than a snail ride, why update at all?)
Nope. That mindset has been thoroughly scratched out, trampled, blown away. Or, in the words of the good Commander Susan Ivanova, "Boom, boom boom boom, boom boom. BOOM!" (After looking for the proper way to reference that, have realized that my testosterone poisoning line I was hoping to use was already taken. Perhaps I can say it's an homage? Maybe not.) I am officially considering trying to get the Babylon 5 boxed set DVDs. That and perhaps I'll buy the Halo 2 soundtrack. (Wow, this apparent outburst of...*shudders*...normalcy is really quite terrifying.)
Speaking of quotes, I heard something to this effect on TV: the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives is simple. Conservatives believe there is one objective truth and that to stray from that truth is categorically wrong. Liberals believe that there are a bunch of subjective truths, and so to deny any of them is wrong. Thus, conservatives have trouble accepting any other views than their own, and liberals have trouble sticking to one view and thus bend their viewpoint according to the subjective truth they use.
Granted, while I don't entirely agree with that statement, there are elements that should...make you think. Or at least it makes me think.
Lastly, I think I'll leave with a selection of B5 quotes, ones that seem appropriate. (Translation: ones that are just plain weird.)
Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: "I'll gain weight."
Dr. Stephen Franklin: "At first, yes."
Ivanova: "Fine! All my life, I've fought against imperialism; now I am the expanding Russian frontier!"
Franklin: "Yes, but with very nice borders."
Franklin: "Marcus, this is the kind of conversation that can only end in a gunshot."
Mr. Morden: "What do you want?"
Vir Cotto: "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this." [waves] "Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
G'Kar: "There is a greater darkness that the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
Lorien: "It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"
Nope. That mindset has been thoroughly scratched out, trampled, blown away. Or, in the words of the good Commander Susan Ivanova, "Boom, boom boom boom, boom boom. BOOM!" (After looking for the proper way to reference that, have realized that my testosterone poisoning line I was hoping to use was already taken. Perhaps I can say it's an homage? Maybe not.) I am officially considering trying to get the Babylon 5 boxed set DVDs. That and perhaps I'll buy the Halo 2 soundtrack. (Wow, this apparent outburst of...*shudders*...normalcy is really quite terrifying.)
Speaking of quotes, I heard something to this effect on TV: the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives is simple. Conservatives believe there is one objective truth and that to stray from that truth is categorically wrong. Liberals believe that there are a bunch of subjective truths, and so to deny any of them is wrong. Thus, conservatives have trouble accepting any other views than their own, and liberals have trouble sticking to one view and thus bend their viewpoint according to the subjective truth they use.
Granted, while I don't entirely agree with that statement, there are elements that should...make you think. Or at least it makes me think.
Lastly, I think I'll leave with a selection of B5 quotes, ones that seem appropriate. (Translation: ones that are just plain weird.)
Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: "I'll gain weight."
Dr. Stephen Franklin: "At first, yes."
Ivanova: "Fine! All my life, I've fought against imperialism; now I am the expanding Russian frontier!"
Franklin: "Yes, but with very nice borders."
Franklin: "Marcus, this is the kind of conversation that can only end in a gunshot."
Mr. Morden: "What do you want?"
Vir Cotto: "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this." [waves] "Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
G'Kar: "There is a greater darkness that the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
Lorien: "It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"