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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
From Wikipedia:
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity.
In the tale, Christ comes back to earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. Jesus performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize Him and adore Him, but He is arrested by Inquisition leaders and sentenced to be burned to death the next day. The Grand Inquisitor visits Him in His cell to tell Him that the Church no longer needs Him. The main portion of the text is the Inquisitor explaining to Jesus why His return would interfere with the mission of the church.
The Inquisitor frames his denunciation of Jesus around the three questions Satan asked Jesus during the temptation of Christ in the desert. These three are the temptation to turn stones into bread, the temptation to cast Himself from the Temple and be saved by the angels, and the temptation to rule over all the kingdoms of the world. The Inquisitor states that Jesus rejected these three temptations in favor of freedom. The Inquisitor thinks that Jesus has misjudged human nature, though. He does not believe that the vast majority of humanity can handle the freedom which Jesus has given them. Thus, he implies that Jesus, in giving humans freedom to choose, has excluded the majority of humanity from redemption and doomed humanity to suffer.
Ivan indicates that the Inquisitor is an atheist. After a lifetime of pursuing God, he has given up in frustration. He is nevertheless left with his love of humanity and desire to see humanity not suffer. Despite declaring the Inquisitor to be an atheist, Ivan also implies that the Inquisitor and the Church follow "the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction," i.e. the Devil, Satan, for he, through compulsion, provided the tools to end all human suffering and unite under the banner of the Church. The mulitude then is guided through the Church by the few who are strong enough to take on the burden of freedom. The Inquisitor says that under him, all mankind will live and die happily in ignorance. Though he leads them only to "death and destruction," they will be happy along the way. The Inquisitor will be a self-martyr, spending his life to keep choice from humanity. He states that "Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him."
The segment ends when Christ, who has been silent throughout, kisses the Inquisitor on his "bloodless, aged lips" (22) instead of answering him. On this, the Inquisitor releases Christ but tells him never to return. Christ, still silent, leaves into "the dark alleys of the city." Not only is the kiss ambiguous, but its effect on the Inquisitor is as well. Ivan concludes, "The kiss glows in his heart, but the old man adheres to his ideas."
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Canada3562 Posts
purind - Purin = Jigglypuff. Purin was already taken so I randomly added a letter after it (at the time, every single name I made was Jigglypuff related)
bnet names:
NoKnuckles - Well, I have the ability to bend my fingers backwards, and when I do that, my knuckles lump inside my hands and you can't see them, hence NoKnuckles
Sushi[MBL] - on the gamefaqs boards, I go by the name SushiQuina. Quina is the most badass FF9 character (yeah, I was playing FF9 at the time I made that account), and I was watching this Japanese show (dubbed in Chinese) about this dude that wants to become the best sushi master so he enters this huge sushi tournament and competes with these evil sushi chefs. MBL is a cult (not a clan or team) and it stands for Mana Blew Lovers
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I chose the name gosuface [-_-] because it's powerful. Look into my eyes. Can't you feel the power! THE POWER OF THE PRINCE OF ALL SAIJINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAWWRRRRRRRR
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Korea (South)11598 Posts
On April 02 2007 07:53 ilovezil wrote:Wow...I would NEVER have figured that out. Rekrul just looks too much different than Lurker...
i remember when he was []_urker or sumtin like that on Gamei.
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
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aiurz because i like to play protoss and i didnt like rap, but i still wanted to be like hovz.
changnyo on battlenet because in high school i knew this korean and i asked him how to say whore
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Polish last name (kazmierski). Nickname because people can't pronounce it is kaz. Also friends joke that i'm jewish so they call me a jew, hence my bnet account kazthejew.
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United States37500 Posts
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My name is a fusion between my nickname (Dex), and Nexus without the "Ne" since I'm a Protoss player. I still use it even though I really really want a new name -_-;;;.
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littlechava : little girl
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my sn = my name 김성찬 (kim seong chan)
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As a kid one of my favourite books was Spectre of the black rose. In it there was a character named the bloody cobbler. Basically if you were corrupt, or evil, broke the law etc... he would appear and kill you, and take the soles of your feet. Since he would just appear and kill you, and it was a rather interesting sounding name i adopted it for my bnet tag around the point bw came out as at the time i thought it was a fitting name for dark templars which were my favourite unit.
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On April 02 2007 08:57 choboPEon wrote:
means im a ntt fan
lol
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On April 02 2007 05:17 bbz wrote:
always thought your name had a double meaning.
5-hit-combo
SHITCOMBO
I always thought that too, but mostly the second meaning.
It's a great name^^
mine, well, one day I came up with a new hybrid mix and called it madro hydro. or just madro for short its maadd.
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My friends that introduced me to bw gave it to me. We would play lan team games and they would always kick my ass since I'd never played bw, let alone an rts game. If a couple weeks though I go very good and they saw I had lots of potential, so they said i was the "prodigy". Too bad they stopped playing bw like 2 years ago.
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my weakest to strongest race, in that order.
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EPT
