Then I forgot all about it and suddenly I was bombarded by friends about this FABULOUS TV show of the same title. And it was everywhere. Huge fandom. The works. AND I'm allergic to hype. *sigh*
Yeh, yeh, I know. I got dragged into the Mother of all Hypes, HP, by Maya. I had honestly never even thought of reading a page of that drivel. But, y'know? Maya, Mirabella, other more than decent authors... I had to read the source because I'm a research junkie and can't help being moe curious than a cat. And.. well you know what I think about it.
Huge derailing of train of thoughts here, Whooo! Where was I? *goes to re-read*
Oh, alright. So the hype kept me off Buffy and by then the good things had ended, according to you - utterly trust you in this - so... nothing lost there.
Firefly has arrived. I've discovered Whedon totally ripped it off Paul Anderson, whom I love, but I'm prepared to find it good. Or at least, not execrable. :-D
'Want', whatever Buddhism may say (I can't abide religions, especially religions masquerading as a philosophy), is not a bad thing. Want is a positive feeling. It's when 'I want this', which implies you can easily survive without, changes to 'I need this' which implies you'd die, or at least suffer horribly without it, that things go pear-shaped and we're suddenly at home for mister cock-up.
Well, if life is a big game, you win by staying alive and you lose by dying. So no great space for manoeuvring in there. I mean, no matter what you do, you win. When you stop breathing etcetera then you've lost.
Alright, enough with the teasing. Point is, IMO, you can want, for example, to be a good violin player. You apply, you practice, you invest time and energy into it. Then you find out you have no talent, so you can play the sodding thing, but you'll never be really good at it. Have you wasted time and energy? The 'want' faction'll say 'No siree. You've learned something and nobody will stop you playing for fun.' But the 'need' faction will tear hair out, wangst like nobody business, ruin own life and those of all around one and, in extreme cases, suicide. Clearer?
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See, my probbo with Buffy is that I saw the film and found it entertaining. I liked the idea of the Blonde cliché Airhead zooming around staking vampires. And yes, I know it was Whedon's idea thankyouverymuch.
Then I forgot all about it and suddenly I was bombarded by friends about this FABULOUS TV show of the same title. And it was everywhere. Huge fandom. The works. AND I'm allergic to hype. *sigh*
Yeh, yeh, I know. I got dragged into the Mother of all Hypes, HP, by Maya. I had honestly never even thought of reading a page of that drivel. But, y'know? Maya, Mirabella, other more than decent authors... I had to read the source because I'm a research junkie and can't help being moe curious than a cat. And.. well you know what I think about it.
Huge derailing of train of thoughts here, Whooo! Where was I? *goes to re-read*
Oh, alright. So the hype kept me off Buffy and by then the good things had ended, according to you - utterly trust you in this - so... nothing lost there.
Firefly has arrived. I've discovered Whedon totally ripped it off Paul Anderson, whom I love, but I'm prepared to find it good. Or at least, not execrable. :-D
'Want', whatever Buddhism may say (I can't abide religions, especially religions masquerading as a philosophy), is not a bad thing. Want is a positive feeling. It's when 'I want this', which implies you can easily survive without, changes to 'I need this' which implies you'd die, or at least suffer horribly without it, that things go pear-shaped and we're suddenly at home for mister cock-up.
Well, if life is a big game, you win by staying alive and you lose by dying. So no great space for manoeuvring in there. I mean, no matter what you do, you win. When you stop breathing etcetera then you've lost.
Alright, enough with the teasing. Point is, IMO, you can want, for example, to be a good violin player. You apply, you practice, you invest time and energy into it. Then you find out you have no talent, so you can play the sodding thing, but you'll never be really good at it. Have you wasted time and energy? The 'want' faction'll say 'No siree. You've learned something and nobody will stop you playing for fun.' But the 'need' faction will tear hair out, wangst like nobody business, ruin own life and those of all around one and, in extreme cases, suicide. Clearer?