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Friday, November 23   "Until then Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his family had conceived of death as a misfortune that befell others, other people's fathers and mothers, other people's brothers and sisters and husbands and wives, but not theirs. They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion." -Love in a Time of Cholera- posted by jon Wednesday, November 7   That's my second realization i guess. People are bad but with enough community effort and education we can do good things. Perhaps "God" is right in proclaiming that we are all sinners. That's a conversatin for another day though. For now i'm content with "people are bad but life is good." posted by jon   That makes the human race more amazinging doesn't it? That we can still be beautiful and majestic even while our inner selves yearn to break and destroy. posted by Tin   The majority of people are socially conditioned to be good and we survive by trying to fight against our baser instincts. It is much easier to tear something down than to build something, good is a very delicate thing. As i see it now, a few specks of dirt in a pristine glass of water still makes the water dirty. My eyes are opened, i can no longer go on the assumption that the world is a good and benign place. People are selfish and evil and bad. posted by jon   Ah, now you're finally thinking. Good is only a social tradition. Helping others actually probably goes against human nature. As animals we are supposed to be survivors. We are supposed to kill to support ourselves...us against them. The law of the jungle. posted by Tin   See, at first, being an optimistically inclined person i would have to say that the majority of people are good. Sure there are a couple of bad apples but those are the exceptions to the rule. I mean, aren't we as the caretakers of Earth an intelligent and majestic race? If we weren't how have we come so far? In times of tragedy we pull together and lend each other a helping hand. But it recently dawned on me (partly due to watching the Matrix and listening to the "humans are viruses" speech) that if we truly are inherently good, we wouldn't need to be pounded with "be good" speeches. All of our social institutions and traditions are built to ensure that each generation understands and respects other people and the world around us. If we are already inclined to be good why do we need to be reminded "to do good" and to have that beaten into our conscience? posted by jon   How naive you are, i've known all along that people are bad. That's why rampant cynicism is my code and creed. Tell me more about why you've suddenly come over to the dark side. posted by Tin   I would like to think that people are inherently good. You know, people are inclined to do good things, create goodness, be good, eat good, dress good, dance good.....good. All personal experience supports this hypothesis but when you spread the net a little wider the "people are good" theory no longer really works. posted by jon   powered by blogger   << x BlogxPhiles x >>

the wizard our naive protagonist. think harry potter. but older. and not as cool. the wizard has feelings and emotions and all of that human bs. the wizard is lost, lonely, and curious. aren't you? tin man the batman to the wizard's robin, the jordan to wiz's pippen, the britney to the wizard's justin, the skipper to the wizard's gilligan, the jon to the george...yeah, you get it. the tin man is stronger, faster, and more powerful than any locomotive. but he's not real. just a heartless, soulless, practical machine. who happens to talk.