madness in her eyes

It's odd how we fail to realize the way small things affect us until much later... about 3 years ago I read lord of the flies... partially because the title intrigued me, partially because my lecturer suggested it, partially because the theme's made it so different from what I usually read 3 years back...

Today I was in the bathroom... a place I oddly get a lot of thinking done... and I realized that I have a view similar to Golding’s. Oddly, I view man as by default a dark force of partial madness which all the laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, norms, moreys and folkways act only to restrain but fail to quell. Stripped down, we are worst than any animal... a little more cunning, a little more devious...Golding viewed humans at essence as creatures of survival, instinct and savagery.. removed from society, we would do anything to survive... my view is that stripped down, man is inherently evil... we do not kill for survival, we kill to feed the little darkness within... all of us have a 'spark' of darkness... all of us admittedly or otherwise are fascinated by it... look into the eyes of those around you, look long, look hard... and witness madness..

In every dark corner there lies a dark deed. Sometimes, there's even two. - Unknown

Reason, honour and empire - Lucifer in Paradise Lost

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven - Lucifer in Paradise Lost

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

it is the small acts of random kindness which bares testimony to the character of a person

Quite an interesting episode of Smallville today... The end of episode 3.20: Talisman...

Lex: This Naman guy is supposed to come from the stars, have the power of ten men, and shoot fire from his eyes, right?

Clark: (Standing up.) It's just an allegory, Lex.

Lex: (Without turning around.) I know. But if one person could do all that, he would be a formidable enemy. He could conquer the world. (He turns and faces Clark.) He could become a tyrant if nobody kept him in check.

(Clark doesn't answer. He is listening intently.)

Lex: So I've been thinking. Anybody who'd be willing to fight him would have to be pretty brave. (Walking toward Clark.) Clark, did it ever occur to you that maybe the hero of the story... is Segeeth?

(Fade to black.)

(http://www.twiztv.com/cgi-bin/smallville.cgi?episode=http://dmca.free.fr/scripts/smallville/season3/smallville-320.htm)

Random thought... Siti Nurhaliza would be hot if she had shoulder length hair

"If I cannot lead by example; I will lead by my mistakes"

"Victory is never attained in a fair fight"

"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know" - Sun Tzu

To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape - Sun Tzu