Just when you thought it was safe...

[wolven7]

davidsfoley's Meme Picks:

Cain & Abel (they should go together, I feel): Keepers of mysteries and secrets, respectively, in Gaiman's Sandman universe, brothers and the first recorded murder. The idea of a story that becomes people that becomes a story, again, intrigues me.

Ghost Dog: Jim Jarmousch's film about a modern-day samurai, living in the North eastern united states. Brings to light questions of loyalty, honour, the ability to change, and the passing along of tradition. This movie introduced me to the Hagakure, at a time in my life when it was very important for me to have that kind of input.

Continuity: The A.I., rather than the concept of cohesive continuance, over time. In William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive, the artificial intelligence that co-ordinates a great deal of daily life functions, while writing a novel, being a house, and actually being a method of facilitation of someone's social network. I highly recommend the novel.

Doom: In addition to the game, the concept of a nemesis, something that will completely destroy you, wear down everything you are, and the general feeling. Connected with justice, too. But not the movie.

Peace: Tranquility, a sense of calm and acceptance, and also a state without struggle. A somewhat foreign concept.

Justice: Justice is one of the trickiest concepts that humans use. It's interwoven with fairness, and equality, very often, but is not, in fact, either of those things. Justice, to my mind, is someone getting what they in fact, actually deserve. This is determined by a combination and evaluation of all of the factors in their world, our world. Justice, in a true sense, is a completely relative absolute.

Love: Powerful. World changing. The thing that changes your brain chemistry and alters your priorities. It can make you do crazy things and amazing things. Sometimes those things are the same things. Love is extremely interesting to me.

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Two quibbles

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

One - How important is it to have a completely relative absolute if we can't perceive it? Or maybe we can, but that means that some of us are lying about what we see.

Two - Does love, to you, mean something different than "I'm glad you exist"? I know what society says... wait, no I don't... sometimes I do... whatever, that's not the point. What does it mean to you?

Relapsing, but yesterday's horoscope said something about bravery and also giving up illusions. Maybe reunion, or even that particular friendship, is one of those illusions.

Re: Two quibbles

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Many of us are lying about what we see.

Second, Love is more than simply being Glad that someone exists, but, in fact a quality of being upset if someone were to no longer be a part of your life. Not just an appreciation for that existence, but an internalisation of that appreciation, and an investment in it.