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Silas Vitalia
Doomheim
#41 - 2012-09-17 21:03:31 UTC
Mr. Khross,

No amount of navel-gazing and self-loathing will make your victims any less dead. Your moral 'code' is a vestigial legacy of a set of humanity to which you no longer belong.


Dellacorte,

Not quite. While I feel Mr. Khross would benefit from a re-examination of his motivations, I'm not hinging on his being "horrible" like me. This would imply I feel my actions deserving of some negative connotations.

One of the central tenants of our faith is that weI reject the moral frameworks that many of you currently suffer under.

We feel the only moral code that matters is that of the one holding the lash. Not the one receiving the beating. We intend to hold the lash, now and forever.

Sabik now, Sabik forever
Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#42 - 2012-09-17 21:05:35 UTC
A killer graced my door today,
composed, with poise and style.
She asked if I was feeling well;
she asked it with a smile.

We shared a cup of tea that day,
atop the beggars' tombs.
We drank to health,
we drank to wealth,
talked makeup and perfumes.

The scent could mask the stench, you see.
A blush enlive's the pall.
but he's still dead,
her hands still red,
she doesn't care at all.

A killer graced my door today,
her work's a work of art.
To gaze upon her gallery
just look upon your heart.

You'll see the colours, splashed in black,
you'll see the spirals there.
You'll see them painted over
and you'll say you're unaware.

Or better yet, you see it clear
and deny it's in the place.
It's all the same,
whate'er you claim,
a smile comes to her face.

A killer graced my door today,
her hands were slick with blood.
Or ink, or oil; it's all the same
it's all a rising flood.
Malcolm Khross
Doomheim
#43 - 2012-09-17 22:14:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Malcolm Khross
Silas Vitalia wrote:
Mr. Khross,

No amount of navel-gazing and self-loathing will make your victims any less dead. Your moral 'code' is a vestigial legacy of a set of humanity to which you no longer belong.


You are right, nothing I say or do will return them from the dead, but that is not the point of grieving their loss. Not that I suspect any amount of explanation is going to clarify that for you.

As to your later point:

You may plant a seed in a field, water and nourish it and watch it sprout first into a sapling and then into an apple tree. You may take that tree and transport it from the field it was planted in to another field and replant it. You may then harvest the apples from it and cut the tree down for wood to build a shelter. The shelter may then burn to the ground and its ashes fertilize new life. In the end, those ashes are still the ashes of the seed you planted. Grown, adapted and eventually slain - but the seed nonetheless.

The impression that we no longer belong to some "set of humanity" from whence we came is a delusion of grandeur and a megalomaniac's fantasy of self importance. It allows you to conveniently devalue the lives of anyone around you, a sentiment you have adequately displayed here for all to see. Despite all of your failed attempts to rise above it, to change what you are, to become something else - you are still a human at your core. The difference is that instead of growing up and out, you've sunk down and in. More pitiable even than those you believe inferior.

Your explanation to Dellacorte exemplifies what I've been saying all along. Further discussion is pointless between us.


Scherezad-haani,

I wish to discuss your poetry later.

~Malcolm Khross
Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#44 - 2012-09-18 07:11:11 UTC
That was loathsome.


Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Then you should enjoy what you do, Captain.

If it were made to be enjoyed, we wouldn't call it 'work.'

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#45 - 2012-09-18 13:06:12 UTC
Makkal Hanaya wrote:
That was loathsome.


Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Then you should enjoy what you do, Captain.

If it were made to be enjoyed, we wouldn't call it 'work.'


This is a fallacy. Work does not have to be tedious.

You are a capsuleer, and if nothing else you have remarkable freedom (unfortunately). If you don't enjoy something, then it obviously doesn't align with something inside of yourself. There are two solutions to this problem. Either you start doing something that does align with something inside of yourself, or you change what is inside of yourself to align with what you do. Anything else is, frankly, insanity.
Kalaratiri
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#46 - 2012-09-18 13:09:37 UTC
The luckiest humans have what they want, and want what they have.

She's mad but she's magic, there's no lie in her fire.

This is possibly one of the worst threads in the history of these forums.  - CCP Falcon

I don't remember when last time you said something that wasn't either dumb or absurd. - Diana Kim
Synthetic Cultist
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#47 - 2012-09-18 17:05:15 UTC
Question

Synthia 1, Empress of Kaztropol.

It is Written.
Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#48 - 2012-09-18 22:06:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Makkal Hanaya
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Makkal Hanaya wrote:

Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Then you should enjoy what you do, Captain.

If it were made to be enjoyed, we wouldn't call it 'work.'

This is a fallacy. Work does not have to be tedious.

This is a strawman. I never said that work had to be tedious. I said that it isn't made to be enjoyed.

Quote:
You are a capsuleer, and if nothing else you have remarkable freedom (unfortunately).

I'd say I have more power, but I understand your meaning.

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If you don't enjoy something, then it obviously doesn't align with something inside of yourself. There are two solutions to this problem. Either you start doing something that does align with something inside of yourself, or you change what is inside of yourself to align with what you do. Anything else is, frankly, insanity.

This is a remarkably Galletean point of view. It assumes that lack of pleasure is inherently problematic, but a person is more than a pleasure seeking animal. Even work that is unpleasant or tedious to the mind and body may be gratifying to the soul.

If I have work that I don't like, that's not a problem. What matters is that I perform my duties to the best of my abilities to help my Kingdom and clan. This brings about a level of satisfaction that's more meaningful than an simple amusement or enjoyment.

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Ismah Acami
Doomheim
#49 - 2012-10-07 21:43:14 UTC
The KNN - Kingdom News Network logo flashes on your screen, and dissolves to show Acami at her news desk, with the studio window facing the Royal Palace on Khanid Prime in the distance

A stock image of a typical lowsec colony slum is shown

Good evening to our audience across the Kingdom.

Our top story this evening, the Khanid Kingdom military has admitted to a marked increase in 'sectarian' violence in several low-sec planetary systems in the last several weeks.

On several Kingdom frontier lowsec worlds where military presence is spread thin, what appears to be an "escalating and ongoing sectarian conflict" has been taking place between several of the regions' Sabik criminal elements.

A local military PR official had this to say: "While these heretical organizations tend to know what's better for them and stay far from our jurisdiction and Royal retribution, the recent wave of violence has certainly gotten our attention. We're seeing rival cult-members being ritually executed and then displayed in public in ghastly manors. Skinned bodies hung from bridges, corpses of local gang leaders tossed on sides of roads....Brutal business.

I can't say we are all-that broken up about this, I mean the only good blooder is a dead blooder if you ask me, but this turf war could get out of hand fast. They've been smart enough so far to basically stay away from the civilian population, but we will have to stay on our guard of course...."

We will of course monitor the situation as it develops.

In other news a large commercial shipment of trans-cranial micro-controllers bound for Agil was....
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#50 - 2012-10-08 00:08:56 UTC
The lack of pleasure is inherently problematic. You speak of the soul, but I don't believe in one. I therefore have to work from a utilitarian point of view. Enjoy what you do, whether that means making yourself enjoy it, or changing what you do to match what you enjoy.
Khazarn Areth
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#51 - 2012-10-12 23:27:43 UTC
Silas Vitalia wrote:


With these good tidings however comes a directive; Those of you who follow Omir Sarikusa have been led astray. His failures are monument. His weakness is undeniable. His low-born ***** of a mother mocks our faith, and mocks your dedication. He will be purged and his sect made whole again.

I declare any of Omir's faithful the enemy of my sect. I will kill any Blood Raider I meet, and give no mercy to his followers. Renounce your allegiance and serve me. I will be merciful to those who see reason... for a time.

Capsuleer followers of Omir are especially warned.

Let it be known, let it be written.





If this is the path you wish to tread then i must warn you that deadlier foes have tried to end Omir and the Chosen and all have been bled to nothing more than withered husks.

I fear you lack the conviction to threaten us for long.

Bloody Omir's coming back Monsters from the endless black Wading through a crimson flood Omir's come to drink your blood

Silas Vitalia
Doomheim
#52 - 2012-10-13 17:37:54 UTC
Khazarn Areth wrote:

If this is the path you wish to tread then i must warn you that deadlier foes have tried to end Omir and the Chosen and all have been bled to nothing more than withered husks.

I fear you lack the conviction to threaten us for long.



I suppose we'll see which of us is the stronger, Brother.

It's a shame though as I could see you being a lovely addition to my sect. *smiles*




Sabik now, Sabik forever
Romvex
TURN LEFT
#53 - 2012-10-20 21:10:44 UTC
Ah, religion. What an interesting psychological phenomena.
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