To continue my previous question: "The meaning of life is that it stops.... you have just one chance at this life... and it is therefore the most precious opportunity one gets. Not just to "do well" but, more importantly, to live well, to fill it as much as possible."
What does you think it means to "live well"? How do you judge the quality of how someone lives?
The only person who can judge this is the person themselves. For some this might be a life of service to others, for some a life of hedonistic excess. It is for each person to determine what makes for a "full life" for themselves, but it is this fullness that I'm arguing for. A life consisting of mostly wasted time (and this is a "wasted" relative to the individual, not to an outside perspective) is not "well-lived", in most cases.
To use an extreme example, would you say that Karl Rove is living well? Ignoring the current controversy regarding CIA leaks, he has been an extremely influential force in modern politics. By his own standards, he most likely believes that he is living a "full life". Does that mean that you approve of the way he lives?
Also, for yourself personally, what would constitute a full life? Obviously, being a rich and successful game writer would qualify, but I assume that's not your only measure of success. What do you consider "time well spent?"
Here's the thing: just because someone's living a full life doesn't mean I approve. That's the nature of subjectivity. I, for example, would consider it a much better life if he had devoted his energies towards stabilizing and unifying the fractious politics of this nation rather than sowing hate, discord, and lies. I don't like it, but you can't deny that the fucker isn't a passive figure in life.
For me? I honestly have no clue. To be perfectly honest, I don't enjoy much anymore. Period. I get bored a lot, I don't much like what I've been doing, and moments of actual happiness are rare at best. It's been a long time since I felt like I had accomplished anything. The greatest moments of satisfaction for me are those when I feel like I have achieved something, particularly when this means having created something. A life of creation, in one sense or another, is probably what would most accurately qualify.
The fact that the armor works doesn't mean he knows how to use it. You think you flying with a jetpack is something you just pick up in an afternoon? Hell no. Not to mention compensating for recoil on those wrist-launchers and so forth.
Besides, Batman has dealt with crazies in all kinds of armored suits, flying villains, etc. Hell, if we follow Frank Miller, he almost certainly has powered armor somewhere. Boba Fett's armor is pretty low-tech by Batman standards.
Now you're just being silly. While it's obvious that Henry Rollins is an accomplished master of the bushido blade, the addition of a sword does nothing to counteract the fact that he's fighting fucking Batman. Batman gets shot at on a regular basis, and all kung-fu movies aside, guns are a fuckload better than swords (unless you're fighting on a starship in Fading Suns). Besides which, we also know that Batman himself is highly-trained swordsman.
Merely Jedi training with the saber, or actual full-on Jedi training? Are we talking Padawan or Jedi Master? Old Republic, Clone Wars-era, or New Jedi Order?
It's true. I read it myself. Han & Leia were at some space station, and the bad guys were attacking - when they met a man that Han recognized as familiar, but couldn't exactly place it. Later he made the connection, when he saw the Slave 1. Han, in the Falcon, adn Fett, in the Slave 1, had a pretty good space battle with the bad guys.
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brawdymchwil) wrote,
July 14 2005, 13:36:57 UTC 6 years ago
July 14 2005, 13:43:07 UTC 6 years ago
I couldn't even get my Zuma-addicted girlfriend to play the dance parts for me tho'. How sad is that?
July 14 2005, 19:53:16 UTC 6 years ago
July 14 2005, 16:52:27 UTC 6 years ago
"The meaning of life is that it stops.... you have just one chance at this life... and it is therefore the most precious opportunity one gets. Not just to "do well" but, more importantly, to live well, to fill it as much as possible."
What does you think it means to "live well"? How do you judge the quality of how someone lives?
July 14 2005, 19:59:32 UTC 6 years ago
Obviously, I have some catching up to do.
July 14 2005, 20:25:27 UTC 6 years ago
Also, for yourself personally, what would constitute a full life? Obviously, being a rich and successful game writer would qualify, but I assume that's not your only measure of success. What do you consider "time well spent?"
July 14 2005, 23:36:08 UTC 6 years ago
For me? I honestly have no clue. To be perfectly honest, I don't enjoy much anymore. Period. I get bored a lot, I don't much like what I've been doing, and moments of actual happiness are rare at best. It's been a long time since I felt like I had accomplished anything. The greatest moments of satisfaction for me are those when I feel like I have achieved something, particularly when this means having created something. A life of creation, in one sense or another, is probably what would most accurately qualify.
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Besides, Batman has dealt with crazies in all kinds of armored suits, flying villains, etc. Hell, if we follow Frank Miller, he almost certainly has powered armor somewhere. Boba Fett's armor is pretty low-tech by Batman standards.
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