The Sword of Truth

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Another one from Stone of Tears:

"... the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the first rule…"

"Good intentions, being kind, can encourage the lazy, and motivate sound minds to become indolent. The more help you give them, the more help they need. As long as your kindness is open-ended, they never gain discipline, dignity, or self-reliance. Your kindness impoverishes their humanity."

Yes in my life it is much like the curse of comfort. The sweet poison of satisfaction not earned. Like a honey cake that was stolen from a hungry child or pennies for lies. Such comfort is sweet poison that may also be a means to an end. Beware the comfort zones.

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Now that I have reached the first part of book 4 I have decided that perhaps IMHO the most valuable and tragic human tool of any kingdom in the world spun by Terry so far is the Mord-Sith. I have great respect for these warriors and the value imbued by this master of educational literature. Mr. Goodkind is able to let us hate so completely an idea and or a type of "evil" so that when we then come to respect this aspect of reality we learn how to "see" in a new way our own prejudices, attitudes and flaws.

 

How many of Terry's books will be burned by religious people who's dogma will never let them "see"?

 

Thank you Sharkull for posting this topic and sharing a great resource.

 

You might ask how dare I use Terry's first name as though I were familiar with this esteemed author. I think it's because he has shared some thing important with me. I have never read these books before and yet in some passages it is as if prophesy is spun into my mind. paramnesia has me by the throat and the heart at once as I learn from this mans work. It is because my future is tied to the learning and my past is bound to this learning by precognition. As I said and deleted I am not good at describing temporal realities.

 

Many of you out there have tasted temporal awareness. Some will deny it by rote. Some will wonder about it. Some will fear it. And some like me will embrace it. I have lived nightmares; The same one more than once. I know that this author has walked the walk. So I have the utmost respect for his work and I will buy his books.

 

I stumbled across a library of his audio works when I was looking for some socks of all things in a pile of boxes. I am listening to some of the best information imparted in a way that is highly palatable. Like medicine flavored with dark chocolate it is enticing and palliative to the soul all at once.

 

I have said that I am that that is. I have said that we all are That that is.

Well Terry Goodkind may well be described as That that has been and still is. By this I mean an old soul. One does not shine thus without wisdom gained from doing and being. I do reserve the right to say beware such wisdom. There is no substitute for application when learning and no way to gain wisdom without living.

 

I also reserve the right to type:

Blessed be

[Sharkull]

You're very welcome.

:)

 

Denna, Cara, Raina, Berdine and the rest of the Mord Sith are great characters. First soldiers for the enemy, then seen as the victims... created via inhuman treatment by a tyrant. Recruited by the hero to fight for his cause by inspiring them to believe in it.

 

My favorite "tool" of TG's world is the power of a Confessor. Absolute truth drawn forth by the power of love. What a useful thing the whole truth is... people speak it so rarely these days.

 

this learning by precognition

Not possible. Read the first rule again. Time is linear (at least, the human experience is limited to linear time) and therefore the future is unknowable.

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xxx

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pepper is dieing

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Pepper had a stroke

He is recovering.

I am recovering.

I retract what I said about being like Nathan.

I am not fit to lick Nathans boots.

 

But I am that that is.

Many manipulations are put in place to influence humanity.

DES(Diethylstilbestrol) was one of them. I am a male child of such an experiment.

I am but one of tens of thousands of people who's mothers where given a powerful drug during their pregnancy to "avoid miscarriage".

In the United States, an estimated 5-10 million persons were exposed to DES during 1941-1971, including women who were prescribed DES while pregnant and the female and male children born of these pregnancies.

My brain was formed in an environment that was

influenced by this effeminization.

And so I am abomination.

How poetic a tragedy and manipulation.

I have what they want.

I had no protection or understanding of the power.

I am a tool.

God and Goddess forgive me.

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I do not want him to suffer.

I do not want his death to hold fear.

I do not want his life to mean pain.

 

He is a much better person than me.

He has woke me from hell just in time.

He has prevented me from being a fool and a corpse more times than I know.

He has earned a Golden afterlife and if it is available an incarnation into a sweet world of love.

I have had a conversation with him and I have told him what I believe.

I believe he can be free.

I released him from any obligation to me.

I told him I will not let him suffer.

If you had been here you would know like I know that he understands me.

He deserves to be free and not to stay here if he is going to have to suffer to stay.

He has let me know that he understands me.

If he can not go out and pee or poo within 5 more days we are going to part our ways.

We are going to let go together in love.

He is the sweetest soul I have had the privileged to know.

I Love my sweet puppy so...

 

Peppers Song. ;^(

[Sharkull]

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My brain was formed in an environment that was ...

Focusing on things you cannot change is unproductive and a waste. Think of solutions, not the problem. Here's another Goodkind quote (From The Pillars of Creation): “Life is the future, not the past.”

 

...and sorry to hear about your dog.

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My brain was formed in an environment that was ...

...and sorry to hear about your dog.

Pepper is walking again and I have rescinded the diagnosis of the VET. He has Canine idiopathic vestibular disease. I still think this was not a coincidence considering what I was typing when it struck. He is very old for a big dog. I have a hard decision to make soon. I know what must be, so that my old friend will not suffer any more.

 

Any way: The Character I most identify with, so far as (Soul of the Fire_Page 311) would be Fitch. He was honorable if misled and quick of wit. I was a dish washer for years and I too was humiliated at by a my boss. More importantly, I was misused and manipulated to do things I would never have done otherwise.

 

RE:sot.wikia.com

Sword of Truth Wiki this sight needs help. Much of what is needed can be found here.

http://www.literaturewriters.com/view-19-Goodkind-Terry.php But I warn you if you use this resource to steal from Terry he will know and his Gars will seek out your avatars and eat them.

More good data:http://www.terrygoodkind.com/

 

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[Sharkull]

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Wow, one of those links looks like the full text of the books... :blink: I wonder how they get away with that legally. I don't need that though... I have them all (some of them well worn from reading :biggrin: ) and I wrote out / typed up some of my favorite quotes a long time ago. Hmm... lets see what I have for SotF. Ah, only the Rule, and you've just read it (two pages ago).