#philosophyprince

Now in these past few pages we find that Jade, having become fed up with not simply Jake's words, but her inability to deal with him as easily as the others, is thrown into a fit of rage and attempts to overthrow him with the power of the green sun itself. This displays an obvious clashing between something that is a physical manifestation that has a definitive value of energy output and "power". A type of power that would be considered unquestionable by virtue of it's more concretely understood power. Whereas hope itself is sometimes considered varying in power and can often be considered as "flimsy" or "weak" and at other times a great source of power and strength. But this again lends itself as a sort of indefinite power that varies between situations where it's limits are not exactly known. So one could easily expect and understand how Jade's green sun powers and mastery over space could potentially overpower such an indefinite and sometimes fickle force. But in this case we're seeing the raw potential of Hope itself in its unadulterated and pure state. Meaning that the conflict is not simply a personal one between Jake and Jade, but one of outlooks where Jade is infact fighting the concept of hope itself. So it can be inferred that grimbark Jade, while a possessed and mind controlled version of Jade, still retains some sens of self as seen in past pesterlogs where she displays some level of free-will. Which means that it is possible that she does experience some of these darker thoughts that she has spoken of, but had held those feelings in while she had free will and is now releasing her inner frustrations both from the world as well as her less then great interactions with others [an example being the break-up with Davesprite where he didn't even bother explaining why he broke up with her, probably leaving her with some feelings of guilt and anger at his bold move without taking into account her own free will and her feelings on the matter]. So long story short, this fight where Jake comes out victorious is not simply a conflict between character's but Jade possibly coming face to face with the power of hope she had probably tossed aside in favor of more reliable and tangible results. Cause keep in mind that originally Jade was a very optimistic and charismatic character overall, but while she does for the most part retains these traits, she has been to an extent harmed by the events that have taken place during her adventures and those darker feelings that she has experienced and are now letting out and unleashing in her grimbark form are now being defeated by the pure power of hope. This shows that Hope, while an indefinite power, is one that is truly immeasurable and infinite. It is only truly limited by one's imagination, love, and will. It is the light in the darkness that illuminates all possibilities, no matter how slim or unlikely they may be. And now, Jade is being shown 1st hand the very power she once believed in. And hopefully once defeated she will return to normal and will over time become more open and honest with her friend's about her feelings to prevent any ill feelings from building up as they have. So I guess the point of this post is a mere reflection on how one should never let go or underestimate something as powerful as hope, as it is the driving force that allows us to make our dreams a reality.

[Also I only got 1 vote for the question I asked earlier this week, so now I'll be RPing as god-tier Dirk since the voting was unanimous.]

C: Be god-tier Dirk so it makes more sense for me to use both western and eastern philosophy.]

Well to be honest there's a LOT of hype about whether December 21st is/is not going to be the end of the world. Well in all honesty it's technically just the end of the Mayan Calendar and it's prediction was something along the lines of the "Universe opening up to us" which can probably be vaguely described as some form of astrological phenomenon that might be really cool and dazzling or some kind of great change. The chances that it's something cataclysmic is kinda low seeing as it already happened once before a long ass time ago. 4.6 billion years of life means that this event has happened repeatedly and consistently during the Earth's lifetime and just means that the Mayan calendar is going to reset back to the start again like any calendar. Does this mean that people aren't going to do stupid things? Of course not. Let's look at the Rapture from last year that never happened, didn't stop people from quitting their day-job and doing stupid shit. If I can make any real forecast about December 21st, I'd say that some terrorist group might try to pull of something big just to get people all scared that they're ushering in the end or something. But that's the conspiracist in me talking. Chances are good that you can expect to enjoy a semi-normal day on December 21st and maybe enjoy seeing something really cool in the sky like some massive sparkly comet wizz by. Ya know, assuming that December 21st is even the correct day since I've been hearing that we fucked up the calculations by adding a 12th month onto our calendar that the mayan's didn't have. Causing the date to either be 50 years in the past or future. Meaning that it either already happened or will happen much later. I wouldn't worry too much about it, so just enjoy your day and maybe celebrate surviving "the end of the world" on December 22nd for fun.

I'll admit that this "theory" (if you can even really call it that) is pretty shaky and loose, but the alternative is that Jane goes dark-side for a while or something. And I'm pretty sure Dirk won't just let the team break apart like that, let alone their "leader" to be left in shambles like that. At the very least he'll just fix things between his friends.]

2: N is a badass, nuff said.

First off the plural of cactus is cacti. Now to answer your question, yes I can. That would require me to do some research into cacti and learn about their function with nature, as well as any spiritual connotations they have accumulated over the years. But honestly, I'm not really sure if I should really give a philosophy on cacti cause your probably just testing to see if philosophy can be applied to anything. So philosophy can actually be applied to anything/everything. But if it turns out that you really are interested in the philosophy on cacti, then feel free to ask "What is the philosophy of cacti?" or something like that since your question was "if I could do it".