This is the technique of the Zen Koan: saying or asking something that sounds like gibberish, but also like it might be incredibly profound, provided you think about it long enough. Zen masters developed this trick to "open up" the mind of their students without filling it with their own opinions. Myth teaches us that all mentors push us towards new ways of thinking, but only dark mentors attempt to make us think just like them. A mentor who walks the path of light teaches us how to open up to the voice from within, not without. The most famous koan in the West is probably "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
all the while i've been guilty of it, oblivious to what i was doing. now i realise its part of zen teaching. as long as it can be reasoned out and is logical, people would believe me, even if i do not believe in myself.
i've finally finished a Legends of Dune book, the Butlerian Jihad. so far, the only people i know that are interested in Dune at all are jonathan phang and justin seng, who used to play the games. other than that, its eric my primary schoolmate who has probably amassed knowledge of all known science fiction works. it's really worth my time. i don't mind not doing my homework for the sake of it. its politics, religion(not in the way most people know it), love,economics, bla bla bla...its like star wars, just that its seriously indepth, and that star wars IS copied FROM Dune.
before i return the BJ=Butlerian Jihad to the bookdrop, lemme record this treasure trove of wise sayings and musings that i sourced:
Many histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers-if they survive-are often more interesting.
Any man who asks for greater authority does not deserve to have it.
Is the subject or the observer the greater influence?
The mind commands the body and immediately it obeys. The mind orders itself, and meets resistance.
From a certain perspective, defense and offense often encompass nearly identical tactics.
The answer is a mirror of the question.
There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.
Religion, time and again, brings down empires, rotting them from within.
The future? I hate it because i will not be there.
Science: The creation of dilemma by the solution of mysteries.
Psychology: The science of inventing words for things that do not exist.
Often people die because they are too cowardly to live.
The darkness of humanity's past threatens to eclipse the brightness of its future.
Greed, anger, and ignorance poison life.
Most traditional governments divde people, settling them against each other to weaken the society and make it governable.
Life is the sum of the forces that resist death.
okay that's it. the rest are seemingly duh and would look silly. some of these pertain to philosophy, but some to politics, religion, and more specifically to the book, which is about the war against the machines.
i've already started on the second book, the machine crusade. actually the butlerian jihad and the machine crusade, if u were to think about it when u were bored, are about the same terms.
i have decided to converse in a most contrite and painfully redundant manner of speech. it certainly revives stale memories of an age irreversibly gone by. this was an instrument i unconsciously reckoned was quintessential to reaching the standards of a perceived superiority.
"plak!";
x 1:37 pm
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