Chapter 6- The one armed Wizard
I have to apologise for not updating for such a long period, a period of draught, where you people are dying to see me blog, haha, and now, the rain has come. Ok, so these few days were really action-packed, maybe not action, but certainly interesting. Conflict arises among new and old associates and yes, they eventually settle but some hurts go too deep and have taken hold, no one can really forget entirely how these days of pain went by.
PAIN, for me, the one armed wizard. What a foolish blunderer i am. Not only am i a blunderer, but such a foolish one. While doing by spa, i accidentally knocked over everything and while doing it, i screamed, haha. While mrs singh and i were cleaning up, the foolish blunderer touched the tripod stand which was still blazing after 30mins of intense fiery heating from the bunsen burner. So, as usual, i screamed and threw the tripod aside. My bridging fingers were burnt beyond recognition. For the rest of the spa, on top of the boiling temperatures in the room, i had to endure the searing pain in my thumb and my index finger, being one armed, i had my minions do my work, little minions like wf.
So, the next day was pool tournement day, and i was worried that i wouldn't be able to bridge well but after applying some miracle medicament from beijing, everything seemed fine. When i reached Wei Zhou's house, we started the pool tournament. The first match was between me and loic, wei zhou's eurasian neighbour who always hung a '' hexun sucks'' look on his face. So, after judging him by his looks, i decided that i didn't like him. To my extreme disappointment, i disappointed everyone with my seemingly mediocre pool skills. I couldn't face the world. Loic was distinctly much lousier. I have to say, i can never find my form when i truly need it, when i can, i can trash even the seemingly strongest opponent, but i will always remain the inferior one in people's eyes, that's my pride. And pride is, the greatest sin.
Yes, after i lost, and after everyone questioned me in disbelief, i was definitely not satisfied. being a sore loser, i couldn't help begging wei zhou for a rematch. I took my mind off by playing the playstation afterwards. Afterwards, wei zhou hurried over to inform me the most welcomed news, i had another chance to play, against royce, his neighbour. I played the first round badly, but thankfully, royce wasn't that good either. But in the midst of the 2nd round, everyone just got bored and wei zhou told us it would continue in Safra next time.
Everyone in this world right now should engage in merrymaking and all of you should be full of joy, and happiness, and celebrate the peace that exists now, for in the ages of middle-earth, peace was commonly unheard of, usually, only in the shire. So, i'm a lotrer and today, March 25th, in the elven calender, is the fall of Sauron. Sauron, as all lotrers should know, was in origin a spirit called a maia, the same type or race as Gandalf, he was at first one of the most powerful servents of Aule, one of the Valar or ruling powers of the world.
Things i learnt from immanuel kant:
The only thing that is good without qualification or restriction is a good will. That is to say, a good will alone is good in all circumstances and in that sense is an absolute or unconditoned good.
That doesn't mean that a good will is neccessary good! There are plenty of things that are good in many respects. These are not good in all circumstances and respects. They may be thoroughly bad when they are used by a bad will. Like for eg, i can be sauron and i wanna take control of the whole of middle-earth, that's my ambition, thats my want, it's good for me ain't it? ok maybe, thats a bad eg. Like, maybe, something that is good for your customs or for your religion or just for your own good might be of an evil intention, or a good that is bad in my customs.
They are therefore only conditoned goods- that is, good under certain conditions, not absolutely good or in themselves.
Under human conditions, where we have to struggle against unruly impulses and desires, a good will is manifested in acting for the sake of duty. Hence, if we are to understand human goodness, we must examine the CONCEPT OF DUTY. Human goodness is most conspicuous in stuggling against the obstacles placed in its way by unruly impulses, but it must not be thought that goodness as such consists in vercoming obstacles, On the contary, a perfectly good will would have no obstavles to overcome, and the concept of duty would not apply to such a perfect will.
Kant's first proposition about duty: A human action is morally good, not because it is done from immediate inclination, still less because it's done from self-interest, but because it is dont for the sake of duty/
An action, even if it accords with duty and is in that sense right, is not commonly regarded as morrally good if it is done solely out of self-interest. We may, however, be inclined to attribute moral goodness to right actions done solely from some immediate inclination. For example, from a direct impulse of sympathy or generosity. In order to test this we must isolate or motives:
we must consider first an action done solely out of inclinationg and NOT out of duty, and then an action done solely out of duty and not out of inclination. If we do this, then, we shall find, to take the cast most favourable to immediate inclinationg, that an action done solely out of natural sympathy may be right and praiseworthy, but that nevertheless it has no distinctively moral worth. The same kind of action done solely out of duty does have distinctively moral worth.
A man shows moral worth if he does good, not from inclination but from duty.
This is important: REVERANCE FOR THE LAW
a third propositon is this: Duty is the necessity to act out of reverance for the law
Let me skip some parts to the most important:
Because of our human frailty, such a law must appear to us a law of duty, a lawy which commands or compels obediance. such a law, considered as imposed upon us, must excite a feeling analogous(alike) to fear. Considered, on the other hand, as self-imposed( since it is imposed by our own rational nature), it must excite a feeling analogous to inclination or attraction. this complex feeling is reverance, or respect, a unique feeling which is due, not to any stimulus of the sense, but to the thought that my will is subordinated to such a universal law independently of any influence of sens. so fast as the motive of a good action is one which is done oout of reverance for the law, and that is what gives its unique and unconditioned value.
I feel that this reverance for the law really makes sense and although it takes a while to digest, its worth reading and knowing....
PAIN, for me, the one armed wizard. What a foolish blunderer i am. Not only am i a blunderer, but such a foolish one. While doing by spa, i accidentally knocked over everything and while doing it, i screamed, haha. While mrs singh and i were cleaning up, the foolish blunderer touched the tripod stand which was still blazing after 30mins of intense fiery heating from the bunsen burner. So, as usual, i screamed and threw the tripod aside. My bridging fingers were burnt beyond recognition. For the rest of the spa, on top of the boiling temperatures in the room, i had to endure the searing pain in my thumb and my index finger, being one armed, i had my minions do my work, little minions like wf.
So, the next day was pool tournement day, and i was worried that i wouldn't be able to bridge well but after applying some miracle medicament from beijing, everything seemed fine. When i reached Wei Zhou's house, we started the pool tournament. The first match was between me and loic, wei zhou's eurasian neighbour who always hung a '' hexun sucks'' look on his face. So, after judging him by his looks, i decided that i didn't like him. To my extreme disappointment, i disappointed everyone with my seemingly mediocre pool skills. I couldn't face the world. Loic was distinctly much lousier. I have to say, i can never find my form when i truly need it, when i can, i can trash even the seemingly strongest opponent, but i will always remain the inferior one in people's eyes, that's my pride. And pride is, the greatest sin.
Yes, after i lost, and after everyone questioned me in disbelief, i was definitely not satisfied. being a sore loser, i couldn't help begging wei zhou for a rematch. I took my mind off by playing the playstation afterwards. Afterwards, wei zhou hurried over to inform me the most welcomed news, i had another chance to play, against royce, his neighbour. I played the first round badly, but thankfully, royce wasn't that good either. But in the midst of the 2nd round, everyone just got bored and wei zhou told us it would continue in Safra next time.
Everyone in this world right now should engage in merrymaking and all of you should be full of joy, and happiness, and celebrate the peace that exists now, for in the ages of middle-earth, peace was commonly unheard of, usually, only in the shire. So, i'm a lotrer and today, March 25th, in the elven calender, is the fall of Sauron. Sauron, as all lotrers should know, was in origin a spirit called a maia, the same type or race as Gandalf, he was at first one of the most powerful servents of Aule, one of the Valar or ruling powers of the world.
However, Sauron was soon subverted by the Dark Lord Morgoth, an evil sprit of the same order as the Valar. Sauron himself turned to evil. In the War of the Ring, Sauron was the one started the forgings of the rings of power, and he himself forged the one ring who enslaved all others. In the end, the perilous journey undertaken by Frodo and Sam ended when Frodo destroyed the Ring at last, and brought an end to Sauron's evil realm. I have to say, lotr was one of the best books written and one of the best movies made. If anyone wants to watch or read it, just ask me please, it is worth reading and watching... and if you understand, you'll sympathise at moments of dispritedness and laugh during moments of contentment, so i recommend you to read this book.
Things i learnt from immanuel kant:
The only thing that is good without qualification or restriction is a good will. That is to say, a good will alone is good in all circumstances and in that sense is an absolute or unconditoned good.
That doesn't mean that a good will is neccessary good! There are plenty of things that are good in many respects. These are not good in all circumstances and respects. They may be thoroughly bad when they are used by a bad will. Like for eg, i can be sauron and i wanna take control of the whole of middle-earth, that's my ambition, thats my want, it's good for me ain't it? ok maybe, thats a bad eg. Like, maybe, something that is good for your customs or for your religion or just for your own good might be of an evil intention, or a good that is bad in my customs.
They are therefore only conditoned goods- that is, good under certain conditions, not absolutely good or in themselves.
Under human conditions, where we have to struggle against unruly impulses and desires, a good will is manifested in acting for the sake of duty. Hence, if we are to understand human goodness, we must examine the CONCEPT OF DUTY. Human goodness is most conspicuous in stuggling against the obstacles placed in its way by unruly impulses, but it must not be thought that goodness as such consists in vercoming obstacles, On the contary, a perfectly good will would have no obstavles to overcome, and the concept of duty would not apply to such a perfect will.
Kant's first proposition about duty: A human action is morally good, not because it is done from immediate inclination, still less because it's done from self-interest, but because it is dont for the sake of duty/
An action, even if it accords with duty and is in that sense right, is not commonly regarded as morrally good if it is done solely out of self-interest. We may, however, be inclined to attribute moral goodness to right actions done solely from some immediate inclination. For example, from a direct impulse of sympathy or generosity. In order to test this we must isolate or motives:
we must consider first an action done solely out of inclinationg and NOT out of duty, and then an action done solely out of duty and not out of inclination. If we do this, then, we shall find, to take the cast most favourable to immediate inclinationg, that an action done solely out of natural sympathy may be right and praiseworthy, but that nevertheless it has no distinctively moral worth. The same kind of action done solely out of duty does have distinctively moral worth.
A man shows moral worth if he does good, not from inclination but from duty.
This is important: REVERANCE FOR THE LAW
a third propositon is this: Duty is the necessity to act out of reverance for the law
Let me skip some parts to the most important:
Because of our human frailty, such a law must appear to us a law of duty, a lawy which commands or compels obediance. such a law, considered as imposed upon us, must excite a feeling analogous(alike) to fear. Considered, on the other hand, as self-imposed( since it is imposed by our own rational nature), it must excite a feeling analogous to inclination or attraction. this complex feeling is reverance, or respect, a unique feeling which is due, not to any stimulus of the sense, but to the thought that my will is subordinated to such a universal law independently of any influence of sens. so fast as the motive of a good action is one which is done oout of reverance for the law, and that is what gives its unique and unconditioned value.
I feel that this reverance for the law really makes sense and although it takes a while to digest, its worth reading and knowing....
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