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 Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:46 pm
Sorry, all my childhood fantasies placed me on a horse charging a horde of evil, usually orks, and dieing in glorious battles. Older, and less Naive, I think I would rather live the life of a simple farmerover anything else. One thing that history has tought me: Sometimes it is the simpliest of lives that gives the most joys.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:47 pm
Why not seek greatness? By this, I don't mean that I want to be known the world around and on the tip of everybody's tongue. I don't care whether or not people remember old Joe in 120 years. My point is that I want to make more of my life than I see most people making of theirs. I don't believe that life is just to be taken casually and 'normally'. I've seen too many people who had thought that go bad. I will not waste my days tapping into the source of human error and the occasional bit of good that comes with it. To me, life is to be approached in a stiff uniform, with a clear purpose in mind. I will skip the 'pleasures' of life that are not necessarily connected with hard work. Life is to be taken very seriously and lived very deliberately.
If you want to know, I'm more bent on eradicating sin and human weakness from myself than turning myself into a robot. Prophets and saints do not think or live like other humans do.
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Sir J Wiedreich the Blind
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:49 pm
I have one thing to say..Caesar had ambition and look what happened to him. Actually there's nothing wrong with wanting more. It's how far you take it. You will live longer and be happier if people follow you because they love you rather than if they fear you. Be a good leader.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:49 pm
You have the 'Protestant Work Ethic', as historians refer to it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:50 pm
This is fun, we should have philosophical debates more often xd xd
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:52 pm
Caesar should not have flaunted his wealth so much.
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Sir J Wiedreich the Blind
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:53 pm
Yes. We should.
But honestly, it would seem very strange to me not to burn all the human crap out of myself. There are times when I have to revel in pain in order to achieve success. I must become even more than Rome ever was, for the old Rome is gone. It is human nature to rise and fall.
I'm more inclined to skip the fall.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:54 pm
Pride does comes before the fall.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:57 pm
Ambition is one of the key footholds for madness. historical examples can include Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler.
the more they got, the more they wanted. the greater they were, the greater they wanted to be, until the only thing left were attempts to conquer the world, and rule it without question.
Power and money, wealth and riches mean nothing. it's friendships, loves, honor. these are the things that a truly ambitious person strives for. that will live on after thier mortal body turns to dust. Sure the rich man gets buried in fancy clothes and a casket made of gold. the poor man gets buried in a ditch. but if the rich man's name is forgotten in five years, while the poor man's name is remembered for five generations of his decendents..who was truly the richer one?
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:57 pm
Yeah, but the fall is (with enough time) the invariable result of even some of the greater things.
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Sir J Wiedreich the Blind
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:59 pm
Sins? who is to say what is a sin and what is not? Why must somethings be wrong simply because they are of the flesh? Yes one must work hard, to prove that life to you was worth giving, go then Joe yourself in your dreamless mind, this one will not stop you. Seek your superior greatness, this one will be wating to watch you fall, because in the end we cannot escape our humanity.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:59 pm
YOu rise and fall. It's a lot like the economy. Humans are not perfect and that's why they fall. They make mistakes but they (sometimes) learn from those mistakes. It's human nature to fall and then get back up. A wise man does not try to avoid the fall but learns from it instead.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:03 pm
Some great things are remembered for the fall, not the rise. The human is the advantage for some and no matter what you are human anyway. It is great to be ambitious, but if you do not know when to stop you could make your self fall trying to rise too fast.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:05 pm
just because it took western society 1300 years to rise up from the ashes of the fallen roman empire doesn't mean...
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:05 pm
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