Thursday, November 18, 2004
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is. Fron this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced.
Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality-- it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.
-Richard Rahl
ok, so he might not be a real person, but upon reading this book for the 4th or 5th time, i realize he is who i try to emulate. Terry Goodkind has been my favorite author for a while now. at one point i wrote up a little bio on him for a fantasy book website i had. can you believe i had that website up for 7 years, and it has been down for almost 3 now? that means i started working on that website like 10 years ago. my internet persona feels old now. but anyways, i wonder if terry goodkind ever read my bio. i'm sure it is still floating around cyberspace somewhere. a bunch of people used it because at the time he didn't have anything out. we had such a small circle of people at the time, i always hoped he read it, being the naive 16 year old i was when i first posted it. now being the naive 23 year old i am, i still hope he read it and wasn't mad that i was posting personal information about him on this fancy intarweb thingy. i did it because you are my hero mr. goodkind!! i look up to you, so i wanted to make a tribute to you. if you are mad, you have my apologies.
sincerely, homer jay simpson
Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality-- it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.
-Richard Rahl
ok, so he might not be a real person, but upon reading this book for the 4th or 5th time, i realize he is who i try to emulate. Terry Goodkind has been my favorite author for a while now. at one point i wrote up a little bio on him for a fantasy book website i had. can you believe i had that website up for 7 years, and it has been down for almost 3 now? that means i started working on that website like 10 years ago. my internet persona feels old now. but anyways, i wonder if terry goodkind ever read my bio. i'm sure it is still floating around cyberspace somewhere. a bunch of people used it because at the time he didn't have anything out. we had such a small circle of people at the time, i always hoped he read it, being the naive 16 year old i was when i first posted it. now being the naive 23 year old i am, i still hope he read it and wasn't mad that i was posting personal information about him on this fancy intarweb thingy. i did it because you are my hero mr. goodkind!! i look up to you, so i wanted to make a tribute to you. if you are mad, you have my apologies.
sincerely, homer jay simpson
