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Post by B. on Oct 17, 2011 10:15:27 GMT -5
In ASoUE many character's have a personal philosophy.
Olivia's is: "Always give people what they want."
Captain Widdershin's is: "He who hesitate's is lost."
If you have a personal Philosophy please post it here, as it would be very interesting to know.
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Post by Dante on Oct 17, 2011 10:28:11 GMT -5
There's another one you should mention: Fight fire with fire.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 17, 2011 10:41:40 GMT -5
In ASOUE it tends to be the case that these personal philosophies don't work - they oversimplify things too much.
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Post by B. on Oct 17, 2011 10:54:56 GMT -5
In ASOUE it tends to be the case that these personal philosophies don't work - they oversimplify things too much. Which is one of the reasons I don't have one!  @dante who says "fight fire with fire" again? And there is memento mori, but I think that's more of a motto. |
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Post by Dante on Oct 17, 2011 12:26:48 GMT -5
"Fight fire with fire" is the pledge of the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (often abbreviated by fans either as acronyms or as "the sinister duo"), and, implicitly, of the fire-starting side of the schism in general.
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Post by B. on Oct 17, 2011 12:41:16 GMT -5
"Fight fire with fire" is the pledge of the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (often abbreviated by fans either as acronyms or as "the sinister duo"), and, implicitly, of the fire-starting side of the schism in general. Thanks for that. I wonder...is there any hints to the names of the "sinister duo?" |
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 17, 2011 14:09:51 GMT -5
"Fight fire with fire" is the pledge of the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (often abbreviated by fans either as acronyms or as "the sinister duo"), and, implicitly, of the fire-starting side of the schism in general. Thanks for that. I wonder...is there any hints to the names of the "sinister duo?" None in the canon; 667 (Dante?) coined it. Its popularity comes from that it's brief and accurate, and there's little ambiguity about who it's referring to. |
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Post by B. on Oct 17, 2011 15:04:20 GMT -5
Maybe some questions about these two shady characters will be answered in the new series.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 18, 2011 8:10:57 GMT -5
Actually that's quite plausible - they clearly were active quite a while before ASOUE, and they aren't such important characters in ASOUE that the connection would be obvious to the casual reader (which he has suggested it won't be).
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Post by B. on Oct 18, 2011 8:24:48 GMT -5
^^ I agree.
Also, Handler says that the series takes place before the Baudelaire orphans. Maybe about the members before the Schism and when VFD was once a noble organization???
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Post by Dante on Oct 18, 2011 9:05:50 GMT -5
A conversation best reserved for one of our threads on the new series, I think.
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Post by B. on Oct 18, 2011 9:25:13 GMT -5
A conversation best reserved for one of our threads on the new series, I think. Sorry. Back to personal philosophies..... well the Volunteers Fighting Disease believe now news is good news.....rather stupid also. And Jerome believes in the "I don't want to argue...." again stupid. As Lemony says, Arguing is not a pleasant thing to do, but sometimes it is necessary. |
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Post by Lady Whatever on Oct 18, 2011 17:00:09 GMT -5
"It is better to suffer an injustice than commit one" is mine, though I am also fond of my school's motto, which is, translated from Latin, "the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world", a fancy way of saying the more educated people we have in the world, the better off we will be.
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Post by B. on Oct 19, 2011 3:21:47 GMT -5
I think your personal philosophy is good. My school, sadly, doesn't have a motto.  |
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Post by csc on Oct 19, 2011 11:06:01 GMT -5
That is a good philosophy, but I just have to admit that suffering an injustice can be positively frustrating.
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