The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[Jin]

I still think the world would be pretty boring without ANY war or bad stuff like that. It can only be appreciated in a time of peace, obviously, but I think the same is true about peace; it can only be truly appreciated in a time of war.

But like I said, I'm a historian, so maybe I'm biased, or just have a sick sense of humour. Maybe.

Maybe it's that we can't have one without the other. No peace without war.

That statement is beaming with truth.

[Furore]

I still think the world would be pretty boring without ANY war or bad stuff like that. It can only be appreciated in a time of peace, obviously, but I think the same is true about peace; it can only be truly appreciated in a time of war.

But like I said, I'm a historian, so maybe I'm biased, or just have a sick sense of humour. Maybe.

Nawwww I feel the same way. Although it might be that we share a sick sense of humour. I'm no historian.

Without a thing's opposite, you can't really hope to gain the full impact of that thing. If everything was cold, would we know cold as we do? If we viewed everything as either good or evil, would the opposite cease to exist in our eyes? What if we saw everything as being neutral? Things like these are all relative. If you don't know conflict you cannot appreciate peace as one who has lived with conflict their whole life possibly could. Or at least that's what the gears in my unorthodox mind tell me. But then that thinking is flawed as my mind recognises nothing else to the same extent. hehe

I don't even know if that'll make sense when read, but it's what's going through my mind as of now. Take it as you will.

[Sinister]

Thanks, Tacitus. But you are right. It's very important that personal balance be maintained. You too, Pablo. Listen. The balance of the wars and the peace is the responsibility of our social structure and(imo) the flux of the Tao.

"But every man's soul's his own." As Henry V once said.

We are responsible for how we balance OUR lives. So the people in the middle of the war are responsible for their end. And we do a pretty decent job. As an example, people who are depressed either take medication, find a way to live, repress memories or kill themselves.

In the end, the greater balance is maintained. Our personal balance more directly effect our lives than they do the outcome of the universe or our little corner of it.




-Sin