Comments on: Doktor Holocaust and the Heart-shaped paper. http://doktorholocaust.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/doktor-holocaust-and-the-heart-shaped-paper/ No more tomorrows, TODAY! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Doktor Holocaust http://doktorholocaust.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/doktor-holocaust-and-the-heart-shaped-paper/#comment-6145 Doktor Holocaust Sun, 18 May 2008 17:01:47 +0000 http://doktorholocaust.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/doktor-holocaust-and-the-heart-shaped-paper/#comment-6145 1) the answer's right above the question: "Having lost it for a time makes you appreciate it more when you regain it, and once regained and appreciated it is put to better use." Forgetting and rediscovering it is vital to not taking this power for granted, to the power laying dormant and building a reserve until reawakened by need. 2) I think the power to grant our own wishes is morally neutral. slap whatever moral argument you want on it after the fact, but do it first. Build the nuclear device and THEN argue over the best use for all that power! 3) no, I don't do that. I assert that what makes a characteristic heroic is having it in greater supply than those around you, having it to an exaggerated degree where it becomes a sort of defining characteristic, turning the individual into a sort of archetype. I name a few examples, but really any personality characteristic can work. for me, it's paranoia. my own twitchy, overcaffenated, conspiracy-theorizing overall fear of the world around me is what fuels my achievements, so paranoia is my heroic characteristic. what oo I think? about what? I think very rarely, and usually, when I do think, I think about pizza, because pizza is delicious. 1) the answer’s right above the question: “Having lost it for a time makes you appreciate it more when you regain it, and once regained and appreciated it is put to better use.” Forgetting and rediscovering it is vital to not taking this power for granted, to the power laying dormant and building a reserve until reawakened by need.
2) I think the power to grant our own wishes is morally neutral. slap whatever moral argument you want on it after the fact, but do it first. Build the nuclear device and THEN argue over the best use for all that power!
3) no, I don’t do that. I assert that what makes a characteristic heroic is having it in greater supply than those around you, having it to an exaggerated degree where it becomes a sort of defining characteristic, turning the individual into a sort of archetype. I name a few examples, but really any personality characteristic can work. for me, it’s paranoia. my own twitchy, overcaffenated, conspiracy-theorizing overall fear of the world around me is what fuels my achievements, so paranoia is my heroic characteristic.

what oo I think? about what? I think very rarely, and usually, when I do think, I think about pizza, because pizza is delicious.

]]> By: jeffsdeepthoughts http://doktorholocaust.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/doktor-holocaust-and-the-heart-shaped-paper/#comment-6144 jeffsdeepthoughts Sun, 18 May 2008 10:42:23 +0000 http://doktorholocaust.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/doktor-holocaust-and-the-heart-shaped-paper/#comment-6144 Hmmm. I followed a "possibly related post" link here and find this post interesting. I hear and agree with a lot of what you're saying. Perhaps I'd have a fuller and deeper understanding if I read some more here. But I wonder if I might throw out a few questions: #1) Why is it so important that we forget our ability to achieve our dreams? #2) Do you think that all of our dreams are good for us and the world? Is it possible that we might want things which aren't good for ourselves and others? #3) It appears like you've designated some charcteristic heroic and others as not-heroic. It seems to me that many characteristics are niether good nor bad unto themselves. The question is "how will we use them?" What do you think? Thanks, Jeff Hmmm.
I followed a “possibly related post” link here and find this post interesting.
I hear and agree with a lot of what you’re saying. Perhaps I’d have a fuller and deeper understanding if I read some more here. But I wonder if I might throw out a few questions:
#1) Why is it so important that we forget our ability to achieve our dreams?
#2) Do you think that all of our dreams are good for us and the world? Is it possible that we might want things which aren’t good for ourselves and others?
#3) It appears like you’ve designated some charcteristic heroic and others as not-heroic. It seems to me that many characteristics are niether good nor bad unto themselves. The question is “how will we use them?” What do you think?
Thanks,
Jeff

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