Peeves and such
Wilson is driving me crazy. I can't write the man.
House is easy. House is snarksnarksnark, and a cynic view of every- and anything. When I write him, my text flows (most of the time). Wilson on the other hand... argh! How do you write a person like him? How do you think like a person like him? Cynical, yet caring, with moral standards, yet able to dismiss them for the greater good. I can't even describe him without sounding like an idiot (and using the dictionary). I have started about three stories from his POV, and in the beginning, it works fine, but as soon as he meets House, it's a lost cause. I cannot write a conversation between the two without drifting over into House's POV. It's driving me nuts!
I think I'm gonna have to write that fic from House's POV, after all. Or maybe I'll switch back and forth.
Earlier, I had a very profound-philosophical discussion with a friend about the original sin. I would love to hear your opinion (no fear, neither of us is a religious nut - quite the opposite, actually).
Yeah. Original sin. Eating the apple, losing our innocence. My friend and I, we were wondering why the heck everybody thinks losing your innocence is a bad thing.
I'm not talking about losing your virginity. If you look at the biblical story of Adam and Eve, then they're living in Eden, without knowledge of anything, in peace with everything but also in complete ignorance. Then they eat the apple and get kicked out of Eden, which is a metaphor for the human race beginning to rise above its ignorance.
And our question was, why, exactly, is this a bad thing? Why is rising above the level of an animal a bad thing? Because, hey, what did Adam and Eve do in Eden? They ate, slept, ate, slept, and then they ate, and then they slept a little. No self-reflection, no nothing. They were nothing but animals.
Then, the day of the apple and the kicking out came, and from there it went: humanity starting to think for themselves. Of course, humanity isn't exactly perfect; actually, humans are pretty stupid and especially pretty weak, which is why things like war and famine and torture and whatnot started to occur. On the other hand, though, by leaving behind their ignorance, humanity was able to discover things like philosophy, literature, mathematics, physics, self-reflection, psychology etc. Humanity was able to sate their curiosity. And we will never stop being able to sate our curiosity, because there's an infinite number of things to discover in the universe, if you bother to look.
Now, if a person argues that eating the apple was a bad thing, then that person actually suggests we all should go back to that place that doesn't know about stuff like Kant's formulations or Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. I wonder, would anybody actually want to give that up? Even if it stopped all wars and terrible things that happen in the world, would anybody actually choose to give up their intellect just so they can live in peace? Don't get me wrong, living in a world without war or social injustices is a beautiful thought, but if the price is your intellect, then what's the point in living at all? You couldn't even sit back and enjoy it all, because you wouldn't be able to understand it all. All you could do is eat and sleep and sleep and eat.
I for my part don't think that humanity "losing their innocence" was a bad thing. I wouldn't want to go back to being ignorant about it all, for nothing in the whole world and beyond. Theoretically, we have the potential to find out anything there is to know about the universe. Of course, we're going to destroy ourselves before we'll even get close to discovering everything there is only about or solar system, but the potential is there. I'd rather have humanity not live forever, but make the most of our time here, instead of living forever, but being nothing more than peaceful animals.
My friend directed me to the lyrics of a Black Metal Group called Borknagar, which deal with this topic in a quite enlightening way. If you're interested, then click ::here::.
Small note for clarification: I am a Darwinist. I do not believe that the biblical story of Adam and Eve has actually happened. It's a metaphor in the bible, and I used it as a metaphor in this post, as well.
And I can only say it again: Carthago delenda est. I hate chemistry. I hatehatehate it. Yeah. I know you knew that. Just saying.
House is easy. House is snarksnarksnark, and a cynic view of every- and anything. When I write him, my text flows (most of the time). Wilson on the other hand... argh! How do you write a person like him? How do you think like a person like him? Cynical, yet caring, with moral standards, yet able to dismiss them for the greater good. I can't even describe him without sounding like an idiot (and using the dictionary). I have started about three stories from his POV, and in the beginning, it works fine, but as soon as he meets House, it's a lost cause. I cannot write a conversation between the two without drifting over into House's POV. It's driving me nuts!
I think I'm gonna have to write that fic from House's POV, after all. Or maybe I'll switch back and forth.
Earlier, I had a very profound-philosophical discussion with a friend about the original sin. I would love to hear your opinion (no fear, neither of us is a religious nut - quite the opposite, actually).
Yeah. Original sin. Eating the apple, losing our innocence. My friend and I, we were wondering why the heck everybody thinks losing your innocence is a bad thing.
I'm not talking about losing your virginity. If you look at the biblical story of Adam and Eve, then they're living in Eden, without knowledge of anything, in peace with everything but also in complete ignorance. Then they eat the apple and get kicked out of Eden, which is a metaphor for the human race beginning to rise above its ignorance.
And our question was, why, exactly, is this a bad thing? Why is rising above the level of an animal a bad thing? Because, hey, what did Adam and Eve do in Eden? They ate, slept, ate, slept, and then they ate, and then they slept a little. No self-reflection, no nothing. They were nothing but animals.
Then, the day of the apple and the kicking out came, and from there it went: humanity starting to think for themselves. Of course, humanity isn't exactly perfect; actually, humans are pretty stupid and especially pretty weak, which is why things like war and famine and torture and whatnot started to occur. On the other hand, though, by leaving behind their ignorance, humanity was able to discover things like philosophy, literature, mathematics, physics, self-reflection, psychology etc. Humanity was able to sate their curiosity. And we will never stop being able to sate our curiosity, because there's an infinite number of things to discover in the universe, if you bother to look.
Now, if a person argues that eating the apple was a bad thing, then that person actually suggests we all should go back to that place that doesn't know about stuff like Kant's formulations or Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. I wonder, would anybody actually want to give that up? Even if it stopped all wars and terrible things that happen in the world, would anybody actually choose to give up their intellect just so they can live in peace? Don't get me wrong, living in a world without war or social injustices is a beautiful thought, but if the price is your intellect, then what's the point in living at all? You couldn't even sit back and enjoy it all, because you wouldn't be able to understand it all. All you could do is eat and sleep and sleep and eat.
I for my part don't think that humanity "losing their innocence" was a bad thing. I wouldn't want to go back to being ignorant about it all, for nothing in the whole world and beyond. Theoretically, we have the potential to find out anything there is to know about the universe. Of course, we're going to destroy ourselves before we'll even get close to discovering everything there is only about or solar system, but the potential is there. I'd rather have humanity not live forever, but make the most of our time here, instead of living forever, but being nothing more than peaceful animals.
My friend directed me to the lyrics of a Black Metal Group called Borknagar, which deal with this topic in a quite enlightening way. If you're interested, then click ::here::.
Small note for clarification: I am a Darwinist. I do not believe that the biblical story of Adam and Eve has actually happened. It's a metaphor in the bible, and I used it as a metaphor in this post, as well.
And I can only say it again: Carthago delenda est. I hate chemistry. I hatehatehate it. Yeah. I know you knew that. Just saying.