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Only the weak are corrupted by power, and only the weakest desire it.

I will agree that anger can be used to boost power, but it goes much deeper than that. I believe that anger is the most pure form of emotion there is. When people are angry they don't hold back anything. Only then do you get to see how people truly feel about things. Many things can be resolved through anger, though I'm not promoting going out and beating the s**t out of anyone you disagree with. And I don't believe there is a 'wise' way to use anger, though it will only destroy the weak. Next time you're around an angry person, just take the time to notice the sheer amount of energy they release. Especially if they're angry at you, because they're directing all kinds of stuff at you whether they're aware of it or not.

There are a few other little slivers that I disagree with you on, but I don't feel like typing out a paragraph on those.

They may say somethings that they wouldn't usually say but they're still true. If, in the heat of an argument, I tell my father that he acts like a 5-year-old with the power of control over others, I probably wouldn't otherwise say it, but it sure as hell isn't untrue. People rarely say untrue things when angry; it reaveals a whole new side of them. You don't truly know a person until you see them angry.

I agree

Ah, but how do you know? Do you honestly know that they don't actually mean it? I doubt it. And even if they don't usually think it, at that time it seems to be the truest thing to them. If you put a truly angry person on a polygraph and they start saying things that they wouldn't normally, even in the case that they might be false, I can guarantee it would read as the truth. Though you can't really put an angry person on a polygraph, because the random thoughts running through their head would interfere with the signals, but anyway...

Yes, well, to some extent. A person who is pissed off enough probably won't verbally have control over his or herself, but that's not to say they're not in control of their actions. Words and actions are quite different. It takes more consideration to act upon something than to just say things. I'm more apt to tell my father that I hate him than to pick up the nearest pair of scissors and stab him in the shoulder.

And I don't really like using "pure", it's just the closest word I could think of to describe how I mean.

Yeah, I know, I do that sometimes too. But it's not always from a third person perspective. I've found that when I'm like that I usually find out more about myself (well, that may just be cause I suck a** at communicating with myself), but it still is refreshing, I think. If a person never got angry, never lashed out (whether internally or externally), he or she would have a lot of pent up anger and frustration, and would be very unhappy. It's also interesting to see what people get pissed off about. It's pretty easy to tell when most people are angry, even if they don't physically or verbally express it.

And Chels, it wasn't a stupid question. I would say "there are no stupid questions," but there are. "Why aren't the sun and the moon the same thing?" Now that is a stupid question. But yours was not. And I don't understand why people aren't open about stuff, too.

Hmm...maybe I'll go piss off some of my friends for the hell of it.