| December 16, 2003 RaNdOm thoughts • I had a couple articles I planned on writing the past couple days, and some I actually started, but the motivation quickly left me, so you’re just getting succinct versions of those thoughts and perceptions. It still feels like Friday to me. • I was gonna write about Saddam Hussein’s capture and all, and I will, but I won’t get into as much as I was before. Basically I was gonna point out how Saddam, just like all the dictator’s before him, end up getting caught in complete humiliation and/or gets killed going down fighting like a wuss who doesn’t want to face the responsibility of their actions (ala Adolph Hitler) in a very ignoble way. Saddam will die eventually, whether by conviction or in a dark cell, and he’ll most likely spend his eternity in Hell like the rest of em before him. People also need to realize that dictators don’t just come in the form of dominate political figures like Hitler or Mussolini. A dictator is anyone that seeks, and somewhat successfully does, to control the minds of the masses, whether by political, emotional, religious, etc. means. They brainwash people and make them think Nazi, Baathist, etc. way is the best. They dupe and coerce the individual, via extravagantly fraudulent stories and/or bullets and troops, into thinking that it’s better to accept what the dictator says than to think on the individual’s own in aspects of human existence like their emotional, spiritual, and intellectual capacities. Dictators thrive on control, control, and control. Not as much power, but in controlling people, how they live, and how they perceive reality. Thankfully, there’s always been a few throughout history that don’t buy these frauds and deceivers’ lies (ala USA, Britian, Elves, Dwarves, and Gondorians, etc.) and they fight back for freedom. Freedom to think, live, and just “be” without anyone threatening them that they shouldn’t think or live on their own. I hate dictators and the only hopeful thought concerning them is that eventually they’ll get what’s coming to them, whether in this life or not, they’ll get it in the next no doubt. Hope eternal Hell was worth it bastards! • The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Is there anything else left to say? I mean I feel the last three years of my life have been leading up to this point. I’m afraid I won’t know to do with myself after this movie (except go see it again a couple times and waiting anxiously for the extended edition DVD). I mean do you think I’ll honestly be able to be entertained again by an epic movie coming after the LOTR Trilogy? I mean other filmmakers should just quit. The “epic” movie genre should be closed from now on. The pinnacle of it has already been reached. No use wasting anyone’s time making something else that will inevitably be worse that LOTR. I just feel the highest standard in filmmaking, using the highest standard in literature, has been reached finally. I guess other people have different tastes and gasp, I think some people actually didn’t enjoy the movies, but come on, does any epic movie seriously hope to contend with the scope and grandeur of LOTR? You must be joking. • Watching NFL game broadcasts can be tricky cause all your concentration is reduce to a loaf of bread when they do close-ups on the cheerleaders. Also, notice how a room of guys watching TV gets instantly quiet once a commercial or show comes up with a hot chick? • I have more thoughts but I’m running out of time so I’ll have to get back to them later. |