February 22, 2005

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  Spidyredneckjedi also asked: What, is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?  Oh yeah!  Oooo!  Another good one!  What makes a good comic book/ movie/ book villain in your opinion?  What makes them the most memorable?

  
  

   

  
  

  The meaning of life. Oy. Some smart-ass ALWAYS asks this question. It blows my mind that the ONE TIME we could have asked someone who KNEW THE ANSWER, we didn’t. If I were with the disciples when Jesus came back, I would have been like,”WAIT! Before you leave, I have a couple questions to ask you.” Wouldn’t that have been enlightening? Oh yes.

  
  

  But, instead, you’ll have to suffer my innane dribble.

  
  

  To me, life’s greatest meaning is growth. Life grows, in one way or another. There are many types of growth and one’s belief can influence how a person grows. Most people equate growth with aging, and yes that is part of life. Experience is growth, a way of learning and adapting to continue growth. If you are religious at all, you pretty much spend your life growing in such a fashion that (hopefully) allows you to blossom at your fullest potential at the very end, after your body stops growing.

  
  

  There was a Jesuit paleontologist (a person who studies fossils) who believed that evolution was a very real thing. He believed that it was entirely possible that mankind evolved physically from an ape-like ancestor, but it was God who created our souls. Evolutionarily speaking, humanity’s ultimate finished state would naturally be a divine being, one completely beyond any thing of substance. Imagine that. Beyond fear, pain, hunger, disease. Beyond time. An infinite capacity for knowledge and understanding. I know such concepts are difficult for some to imagine, but that is the nature of the soul according to those who believe in such things.

  
  

  Also, I remember asking a guy who claimed to know everything and he said something quite wise, actually. He said that the meaning of life is different for everyone, because everyone’s life is different. I like that answer way better than mine.

  
  

  Hope that helps answer the question… I don’t think I could even come close to a real answer. Oh well. Moving on.

  
  

  What makes a good comic book/ movie/ book villain in your opinion?  What makes them the most memorable?

  
  

  I think the greatest villains are not the really powerful or the really evil but the really intelligent. Most villains are very stupid, such as the Joker, the Green Goblin and Hobgoblin, and the Hamburglar. However, it is the really intelligent villains like Ra’s Al Ghul, Lex Luthor, and Magneto that cause the hero the most problems. What makes them memorable, I suppose, are the times when they come ever so close to defeating the hero, only to be beaten by the fact that good always prevails. Has the Hamburglar ever gotten away with anything? Not that I can recall. There have been times when heroes have been close to defeat. I know Batman has come close, so has Spiderman, Superman (he died once didn’t he?), and boy howdy if Magneto didn’t FUBAR Wolverine. So yes, those are all good traits for a good villain to have. I should probably shut up now.

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