05-11-2020, 01:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2020, 01:03 PM by Have at ye.)
Those were some good, sexy posts. 
Heheh, on this point - and goals that are less practical/scientific - it's funny to consider which historical figures Fred Nietzsche, the whiny philosopher-troll, used as examples of people who were following their "will-to-power". Let's take Julius Ceasar, for example. His particular goal notwithstanding (and a pretty stupid one at that, all things considered - I'm going to take a cue from a certain historian and define it, in short, as pretty much "I want to be GOD"), the entirely amazing thing about JC is that, technically, given the "most probable outcome" scenario and the odds he was up against in what he did (and the haphazard manner in which he approached them, TBH; he was clever, but he wasn't a "think ahead" type of guy, really, and that's what got him killed in the end), he should have gotten his ass handed to him multiple times over, doing what he was doing (conquest of Gaul, marching on Rome with a standing army and all that). And yet he did not get his ass handed to him.
And he sure as heck did achieve his goal ("I want to be GOD") because he was introduced into the pantheon of Roman ancestral gods. Post-mortem.
Remember the Ides of March. From this, we can take another lesson: the fact that one should "follow their bliss" does not give free leave to act like a total psychopath. 
[EDIT: because "the means define the end" more so than "the end justifies the means"]
(05-11-2020, 10:47 AM)Shannon Wrote: Once you understand that all possible outcomes exist and only depend on your choices for their "probability of happening", anything is possible. ANYTHING. And without the artificial limits of belief that "X isn't realistic or possible", people have achieved amazing and "impossible" things routinely through human history. Some of them include controlled heavier than air flight, radio communication, computers, artificial intelligence, the Internet, supersonic travel, space flight, landing a human on the moon, cellular phones, lasers, satellites, GPS, making a rocket booster land itself on a moving boat in the ocean after it is finished doing it's job, and many others. If you go back far enough in time, every one of those would have been met with "That's impossible!" even by the most erudite "experts" of the day, as long as they did not understand what I have stated above.
Heheh, on this point - and goals that are less practical/scientific - it's funny to consider which historical figures Fred Nietzsche, the whiny philosopher-troll, used as examples of people who were following their "will-to-power". Let's take Julius Ceasar, for example. His particular goal notwithstanding (and a pretty stupid one at that, all things considered - I'm going to take a cue from a certain historian and define it, in short, as pretty much "I want to be GOD"), the entirely amazing thing about JC is that, technically, given the "most probable outcome" scenario and the odds he was up against in what he did (and the haphazard manner in which he approached them, TBH; he was clever, but he wasn't a "think ahead" type of guy, really, and that's what got him killed in the end), he should have gotten his ass handed to him multiple times over, doing what he was doing (conquest of Gaul, marching on Rome with a standing army and all that). And yet he did not get his ass handed to him.
And he sure as heck did achieve his goal ("I want to be GOD") because he was introduced into the pantheon of Roman ancestral gods. Post-mortem.
Remember the Ides of March. From this, we can take another lesson: the fact that one should "follow their bliss" does not give free leave to act like a total psychopath. [EDIT: because "the means define the end" more so than "the end justifies the means"]
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley
