I want to leave my mark on the world.

[iwannarock]

Do you?

 

[Sphinx777]

I want to leave my mark on the world.

​

 

[The Nihilist]

Young man, have you considered supervillainy?

 

[iwannarock]

Young man, have you considered supervillainy?

More times than you'd of thought. I was actually inspired by the Scarecrow in Batman Begins. Cillian Murphy made it llok so easy and stylish. I'm not sure that would be legal to make a fear toxin though.

Although if i was like a take over the world super villain, i would be te guy who reveals his plans to the hero just to show how ingenius he is for coming up with that. its why in the end, i always get caught lyiing, cheating, or stealing, because if its going over smoothly in a perfect manner, i have to point out at how smooth i am. But of course that hardest part would be picking out a good costume and a cool name.

Yeah that whole idea wouldnt work out too well. any other suggestions?

 

[SithDoughnut]

I'm with the Nihilist. If you really want people to remember you, you're going to have to make them hate you. Really hate you. We're talking Judaism's view of Hitler level of hate. If Hitler had never proceeded with the Holocaust, I doubt he'd be as well known today. Try detonating nuclear bombs in major cities as part of a mass terrorist attack which you've engineered. I can guarantee you that you'd leave a mark then.

People remember the negative far more than the positive. If you do something good, you'll be remembered by those who choose to be educated about you. If you do something evil, everyone will remember you.

 

[Chesterton]

Get your name in the phone book. Millions of people look at it every day.

YouTube - The new phonebook's here!

 

[Gracchus]

Get married and raise sane children.

Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

The Palace

By Rudyard Kipling

When I was a King and a Mason-a master proven and skilled-
I cleared me ground for a Palace such as a King should build.
I decreed and cut down to my levels, and presently, under the silt,
I came on the wreck of a Palace such as a King had built.

There was no worth in the fashion-there was no wit in the plan-
Hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran-
Masonry, brute, mishandled; but carven on every stone:
"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him I, too, have known."

Swift to my use in my trenches, where my well-planned ground-works grew,
I tumbled his quoins and ashlars, and cut and reset them anew.
Lime I milled of his marbles ; burned it, slacked it and spread;
Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead.

Yet I despised not nor gloried; yet as we wrenched them apart,
I read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder’s heart.
As though he had risen and pleaded, so did I understand
The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned.

When I was King and a Mason-in the open noon of my pride,
They sent me a Word from the Darkness-They whispered and called me aside.
They said-"The end is forbidden." They said-"Thy use is fulfilled,
"And thy Palace shall stand as that other’s-the spoil of a King who shall build. "

I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves and my sheers.
All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.
Only I cut on the timber-only I carved on the stone:
"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him I, too, have known."





　

 

[Eudaimonist]

FTL Drive.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[GrowingSmaller]

If you have any nartural talent and liking in a certain area, go for that. Then even if you fail make that impact, at least you probably still enjoyed your life. Plus you're less likely to burn out if you have a love for your chosen vocaiton.

 

[dawiyd]

Since I have been reading a quite a bit of Camus lately.

You are somewhat more than what you do! You're more than the opportunities provided to you. The variety of choices presented in the world present no real choice, and there is no opportunity to be.

 

[Eudaimonist]

My advice is to ignore Camus if you wish to make something of yourself.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[UnReAL13]

As my favorite musician Trent Reznor puts it in one of his song titles: "The Mark Has Been Made"

Our very existence leaves an impact. Especially in our modern digitized world, where nearly everyone is accounted for and registered into the "system". If you have a credit or debit card, you're making an impact every time you swipe it. Everything that gets posted and stored online on some site or service, leaves an impact on history. Whether it be through computer or cell phone or even gaming console.

We are truly living in the "definitive" version of society as we know it. Everything is so clearly defined in our reality, and every detail and aspect of our lives is being tracked and logged. I can only wonder what the purpose might be though... (simulation hypothesis?)....

 

[iwannarock]

Since I have been reading a quite a bit of Camus lately.

You are somewhat more than what you do! You're more than the opportunities provided to you. The variety of choices presented in the world present no real choice, and there is no opportunity to be.

Thats what parent tell their failure kids to make them feel better about themselves.

I have the potential to do some good and make a difference. so many people waste their potential.

 

[Gracchus]

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or certainty of corruption by full authority." --- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902)

It is better to do good in a small way than to seek after the power to do good in a large way.

 

[iwannarock]

Thats what parent tell their failure kids to make them feel better about themselves.

I have the potential to do some good and make a difference. so many people waste their potential.

i want power. I can control it. more importantly, i can use it effectively.

if i ruled the world it would be a much better place.

 

[Sphinx777]

 

[Chesterton]

i want power. I can control it. more importantly, i can use it effectively.

if i ruled the world it would be a much better place.

You just disqualified yourself in my eyes. The man who is worthy of power is the man who is reluctant to have it. ...the man should rule who does not think he can rule.

 

[SithDoughnut]

i want power. I can control it. more importantly, i can use it effectively.

if i ruled the world it would be a much better place.

Somehow I doubt that...

 

[iwannarock]

Somehow I doubt that...

most people would, and i don't blame them.

But i honestly think i could do a much better job than most people. It's one of those things that if you tried to talk about it, people would think you're full of yourself or totally insane.

Im a bit of both, but my point still stands.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

^^^^
Pray. Maybe God hears you.