DJ Wagner

Who I'd like to meet:

I was just going to write william shatner here, but i want to get serious here for a sec. Read This: "Come my dear boy, i thought i had taught you better than that" said Tobias. "By following the logic of Irenaeus, you must surely percieve that heresy has no purely objective meaning. The catagory exists only from the point of view of a position within any society that has previously defined itself as orthodox. Anyone who espouses views or actions that do not conform to that point of view can be percieved as heritics by others within those societies who are convinced that their view is orthodox. In other words, heresy is a value judgment, the expression of a view from within an established belief system. For instance, during the Wars of Unification, the Pan-Europan Adventists held the secular belief of the Emporor as heresy, while the ancestor worshippers of the Yndonesic Bloc considered the rise to power of the despot Kalagann as a great apostasy. "So you see, Julius, for a heresy to exist there must be an authoritative system of dogma or belief designated as orthodox." "So you're saying there can never be heresy now, since the Emporor has shown the lie in the belief in false gods and corpse worshippers?" "Not at all; dogma and belief are not reliant on the predisposed belief in a godhead or the cloak of religion. They might simply be a regime or set of social values, such as we are bringing to the galaxy even now. To resist or rebel against that could easily be considered heresy, I suppose." "Then why should I wish to read this man's books? They sound dangerous." Tobias waved his hand dismissively. "Not at all; as I often told my pupils at the School of Iterators, a truth that is told with bad intent will triumph over all the lies that can be invented, so it behoves us to know all truths and separate the good from the bad. When an iterator speaks the truth it is not only for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but also to defend those that do." ------------------------------------------------------ This is as close to poetry as i have ever heard. this is art in text. anyone who can put a concept to paper as well as this man does is someone i would love to meet. i hate poetry, but i will say again. i truely believe the above paragraphs are art. it was written by Graham McNeill in the book FULGRIM 5th book in the horus heresy. .-