Rant 209 / What Truly Matters Is What Others Think Of You Because Your Impression Of Yourself Only Lasts As Long As You Live

Fresh bread is always delicious. Those that reached the shop today and landed in your bag before night arrives. Fresh bread needs no help to make itself taste delicious. To eat good bread with even butter is to waste food. Blasphemy, even.

Bread....








Being spoilt by living in a high-rise apartment all my life, I never knew how much difference in the amount of dust 20 storeys can make. I guess we learn new things everyday.








History often has a way of changing itself. A thousand years is all it takes to change an action from being seen as evil to a great deed that saved lives. For example, Wu Zetian was the only true Empress in the history of China. She was seen as a villain for most of the centuries after her death. In fact, this view began to change only after the 1950s, about 1200 years after her death!

Amazing, how people change as time passes. The same goes for how the memories of the same people change. Perhaps 2000 years in the future, Einstein won't be one of the greatest humans who ever lived, but may be known as the man who started the fall of civilization for coming up with E=mc^2. Who knows?








Deeds may be solid, but how it is interpreted is often like air, changing at anytime. The same deed can be done by 50 different people for 100 different reasons. I can do what I want, but often, how it is seen by other people is hard to control.

Can be done, but hard.

Truth is perception, after all. And perception is never solid, because it takes absolute faith to make it unchangeable. And this is how religion is so powerful. Used properly, people will do anything for a goal that has little to do with them.

It is scary how much power the major religions actually wield. Leaders of major religions can start wars just by saying the right words. It is within their powers, but such power, today, cannot be used except in the most dire situations.

It used to be different, back in the days of the Crusades. Reading the stories of that period gives me a sense of disgust at the concepts of absolute faith and unquestioning loyalty. What people can do for their religion back then is simply amazing .

Nowadays, people have learnt. Like the French, who are no longer as religious as they were 500 years back. Religion bit them really hard in the past. The quote," Kill them all, God will sort them out" is derived from their history. Guess what the story was. I think I mentioned this somewhere in one of my 200 past rants. Oh well...










I, in a way, respect trolls. They are the true applied psychology experts. They are the ones who put their expertise in use. Every single negative reaction they receive is a symbol of their success. I've never been a troll before, but I've seen good trolls so successful it took 1 simple post to spark hundreds of comments. All flaming the troll. That, in my eyes, is pro.

You see, trolls can see where your weakness is. They know where the right buttons are and how to push them. In fact, if you trash your computer after reading their words, it's a great achievement that they will never know of. Even I get pissed off sometimes at the comments that just scream "IGNORANCE" and "STUPIDITY".

Those are the common ones.

The more subtle ones involve using several identities.

Trolls are a breed of people who are probably very unhappy in their real lives. Such people, if in games, are known as griefers. Generally, they just like to upset others for fun. Makes me remember that incident where a bunch of players ruined an ingame funeral in WoW which was meant for a player who died in real life. It was meant to be a sad moment, but those griefers arrived and killed every single person who attended in the game.

Reading that incident numbed me to the cruelty that the Internet has to offer. As I have already said in the past, the Internet is a shit hole. There are many good websites, like those that asks people to donate clicks because sponsors will donate money according to the number of clicks they receive. And then there are the true abyss of the virtual world, where social rejects and sociopaths coagulate to form the cancer of humanity.

I specifically linked the latter to 4chan's /b/ because it is the one part of the internet I really see as the deepest shit hole ever created by mankind. The rest of 4chan isn't so bad, like /wg/ where some of the best wallpapers can be found with their watermarks removed.

Then again, 4chan in general isn't even a healthy place for normal people in the first place. The following picture illustrates my point but is not safe for work. Kids, don't forget to cover your eyes!














Oh yea, never forget this next picture. I admit, I did chuckle. But still, it is one of the most "wrong" pictures I have ever laid my eyes on.


For the ignorant, google "terri schiavo".










Okay, let's end this with another set of wallpapers.