So this is by far my favorite book in the series. from here on the rules tend to get a little longer and less like common sense. So yeah favorite book, so i have quite a bit to say here.
"The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists, what is, is and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.
Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reasons light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death."
from Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
So to those who ignore their problems good luck to you because the consequences aren't going to just go away. If you wish something would happen, it isn't just going to come about, you need to do what it takes to make it happen. A rumor passed around is no more true than a simple lie told to someone. even though many people might believe something to be true do to the ignorance of one that does not mean that it actually is true, nor will it just become true. Just because someone wants to believe someone hates them and is out to get them, it doesn't mean that they actually are. to willingly believe a lie will only hurt you, it will gain you nothing.
Mmm, I agree, this is the best. There's something about Richard being forced to live as I would - a commoner - that connects with me.
ReplyDelete:p Many of my friends look at me as an idiot on a daily basis because I take things reasonably with common sense, instead of turning it perverted or something. Odd.