Ser Brendan the Voyager Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 IT was supposed to be Moosekins! You dont knwo what it means to hear words like that. I really appreciate them. And yes i will be here for years to mock Goodkind. To kill is no easy thing and should never bee done lightly. It is hard on the soul. Torture is unthinkable but i have seen the battle madness come over men and the sad truth you must guard yourself from the beast within. Good people will do good things though. Thank you for the kind words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 I have faith in you and your brothers in arms, I know you will do what's right. Ignore the bullshit you see from the American media, they don't give a shit about you. But there are a lot of us out here who do care about what you're doing, and we think you're doing a great thing. We've seen the pictures of Iraqi's lining up to vote in free elections, we've seen them proudly displaying their "inked" thumb that shows that they have voted. They do that despite the possibility of being targeted by the psychos that plague you and yours every day. You are at the forefront of a brave new world. Hold on to your integrity, and never forget the greatest purpose for which you are there. It is inherent in the human condition to want to live free, you are making that happen for untold millions of people, and this could just be the beginning. You are armed and armored by the Lord and by the faith free people have in you. We know you will not fail. Just to keep things in the mood of the thread, uh, Terry would have you kill everybody, salt all their fields to insure a famine that would last for centuries, and cut off the ears of all the Mullahs, cuz they say bad shit against us. We all have to make our choices....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrostar Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Wouldn't the most effective way to fight the war in Iraq just be to kill anyone who looks like they might be the enemy? That seems to be the Richard Rahl way, as I understand it.... Or the Kahlan way, for that matter. Every person you kill will weaken the enemy, even if it's just a little kid or weak old grandmother... Wow, that felt so wrong just writing it.... :shudder: How the hell does TG actually write his books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
一方通行 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 i saved my first person today :cool: !! there was this hippy guy with a mullet in the book store and he was holding WFR and asked if i thought it was good. i convinced him to get GoT instead. i feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Hetz Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 A gold star to 'ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 there was this hippy guy with a mullet does..not..compute. I thought the two states of being (dirty hippie; mulletude) were somehow mutually exclusive. In any case, good job! Next time he comes in, tell him to get a haircut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
一方通行 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 hope he likes the book. on a totally different subject just how do you pronounce Goodkind. is it Good-Kind or Good-kin-d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageGuy Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Seriously, I do have an issue with the Goodkind hate. I have four reasons for it: 1) I thought Stone of Tears was a good fantasy book. 2) I thought Faith of the Fallen was a good fantasy book. 3) I lug Gratch. 4) Insane prophets who know almost everything and may or may not be insane are awesome. Hence, Nathan is awesome- in concept, at least. Mind, I'm not saying they were the greatest, but those two in particular I've no problem saying I enjoyed- sexual aspects not withstanding (although on ASOIAF, I think I could perhaps ignore adding the disclaimer). 2 and 7 may have been the best writing Goodkind did. OTOH, they were the least original (Stone of Tears blatantly in the title, Faith of the Fallen not even trying to hide it). 3) As someone said, we all lug Gratch. 4) It all goes back to Cassandra. After [edit]Naked Empire[/edit], I quit reading. Implying people protesting the Iraq war should just be killed threw me off. I have a friend who says stuff like that sometimes. Even knowing he's not serious, I call him an ass and make him retract. If you're going to be an extremist, especially when masking it under rationalism, you're going to get a little hate. Therefore, I enjoy the numerous Goodkind threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 On the pronunciation of Goodkind - according to that video interview that was posted a few threads back, the True pronunciation is with a long i, as in whine. However, although I know the Truth, my brain is full of discord and insists on pronouncing it with the short i, as in shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAH Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 If richard doesnt master his magic by half way through the book then i am going to take me M249 SAW and reak havok on the streets of Bagdad (I am in Bagdad right now so no mean threat). Seriously it will be true civil war!!! You know, I'm not a fan of banning books, but...perhaps a Public Health Warning might serve? 'May cause severe brain damage, temporary or permanent madness, yeard growing, paranoia and/or megalomania'? I mean, a class action lawsuit against Goodkind 3-4 decades down the road will do no good - he will probably have sunk all the proceeds from his books down in carving some mountain into a humongous statue of Richard and Kahlan. You know, celebrating the nobility of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosicus Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 People will come from all over the world to fall to their knees and weep. Afterwards they will all become better people. I will be found hanging by my neck in my apartment. The smell will be terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Ah, but just think, Richard will take just one sniff and be able to tell exactly what time you died, the composition of the rope and what you had eaten the night before. He IS a War Wizard, remember! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 Richard Rahl just wishes he had a Mod Bra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Wow. Is that really the title of a song? And is said song really about TG? And as to that MySpace page? The main avatar of TG on the couch with some woman? I think it's a woman. I think we've seen those photos before. It's because of those photos I originally though mystar was a woman. I was wrong of course. And now thanks to MySpace I have a better image. So apologies to mystar for getting his gender wrong once upon a time. I'm still not "friending" that page though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agulla Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I've been thinking about that movie or series they plan to do with Sword of Truth. All we know what happens when there is a movie with a great budget (let's hope that this is not the case): the History Channel documentaries related to the movie. Conquest: Fighting like War Wizards Peter Woodward: “Today our team will learn how to fight and conquer as a War Wizard. One would thing that being a War Wizard is easy but it’s far from it, it takes a very special kind of person to be a War Wizard. Are they ready? We will find the answer in today’s episode of Conquest!†The images show a cave and Peter Woodward appears dressed in a black outfit, he has a sword strapped across his back. Suddenly the other members of his team; a bunch of men and the blond girl surround him. They are dressed as soldiers, protected by plate and mail, the girl is dressed in red leather. Peter’s Voice: "Our War Wizard is surrounded by many enemies and his situation seems hopeless but this soldiers and the evil Mord Sid have made a terrible mistake." Suddenly Peter Woodward unsheathes his sword, whispers something, and starts fighting and “killing†his enemies. Peter’s Voice: "What these imperial Order scum ignore is that they are acting as a collective thing, like a centipede and they are easy picking for a full trained War Wizard." Peter kills the last of the soldiers and then turns to the camera: “It’s been easy; in fact everything is easy if you are a War Wizard, you only need moral clarity.†Peter helps the members of his crew, who were playing death to stand. Peter approaches his crew, they are dressed in modern clothes, around them there are a few training props. Peter Woodward: “Hello, today you are going to train as War Wizards, first of all you need a war wizard outfit.†He hands them black outfits and few seconds later they appear dressed in black. All but the girl who is dressed in a long white dress. Peter Woodward: “Good, now you look the part. Here you have the War Wizard weapon: a common sword that you must carry across your back. This sword is special; it has the word Truth engraved on it. Now pay attention to this.†Peter Woodward unsheathes his sword and says: “Blade be true this day.†The members of the crew start practicing this move. In a few hours they have managed to master it and can move to more complex things. Peter Woodward: “What makes a War Wizard so terrible in battle is not his training, as you already know a War Wizard does not train, his knowledge is absorbed by a complex non magical osmosis from his sword. A War Wizard sword has surely belonged to other War Wizards and it’s their fighting ability what seeps into you. Where the first war wizard got his knowledge from if he did like you is a question that we are not going to answer.†Peter Woodward makes sweeping gesture with his sword and continues. Peter Woodward: “The problem is that you have to find the way to channel these powers, the very energy that will allow you to conquer your enemies. For this you will need moral clarity and being terribly angry.†Peter leads his pupils to an area were several manikins representing small girls have been placed. The manikin’s faces are made of porcelain. Peter Woodward: “Now you must place yourselves in front of these representations of a spoiled little princess and wait for your “thing†to rise up. When you manage to do this you will be able to...†Peter kicks the manikin that he has in front of him in the face and breaks it. Now he looks very pissed proving that he is a great actor. The member of his team follow suit and, after getting angry, smash manikins’ faces. Peter surveys his pupils as they train. When they are done he takes them to another place where they meet a scary looking man. Peter Woodward: Surely you thought that kicking little girl’s faces was hard but this is just the beginning. By now you will have understood that a War Wizard does not use weapons because He is the weapon. I want to introduce you to John (A man is shown but his face is hidden, edited under the trademark granulated imaging of History Channel). John has done some nasty work with the SAS and he will teach you a very special War Wizard move: ripping spinal chords with your bare hands! Time to get dirty. Peter’s crew learns the basics of ripping spinal chords with their bare hands under the wise guidance of a man who calls himself John. They use dummies filled with animal entrails and finally understand why War Wizard outfits are black: to better hide the bloodstains. Now there is a Commercial Pause. After the ads there is an advancement of the following documentary: Battleground, also dedicated to Richard Rahl. It shows, with state of the art computer graphics (the art of 1998), the D’Haran victory over the Imperial Order. There are images of Jagang haranguing his troops (the twelve of them) and Richard doing the same (the three of them but you can see a woman dressed in white and a man dressed in the same clothes that wore the guy who played Gandalf in the shoddy History Channel documentary dedicated to the Lord of the Rings). All reconstructions have the granulated look that History Channel fans have learned to love. They even show that image of the Egyptians riding horses (the horror) in the battle of Kadesh and of course the fat guy who played Ramses II. There is also an ad for the documentary: Richard Rahl in the Bible. The Commercial Pause ends and we are back to Peter training grounds. Peter is teaching his crew the War Wizar stretching technique. Peter Woodward: this technique can be very useful should you find yourselves surrounded by say a hundred heavy armoured Imperial Order soldiers. Making them think that you are stretching you can get hold of a sword and proceed to kill them all. In the following five minutes Peter’s crew learns how to steal a sword with this lame technique. Peter Woodward: “Now you have gone through your war wizard training and it’s time you prove that you are a real Objectivist Avenger. Your final test will be hard; I imagine that you expect the fight of ones against the others in this series’ usual fashion but no. This time you will be facing something far more terrible in a war wizard mind than mere soldiers. This time you will be facing peace protestors.†In front of them a crowd of hippies is formed, they wear flowers in their heads and chant “All we are saying is give peace a chanceâ€. Peter Woodward: “I know that this won’t be easy; your democratic upbringing will tell you that these peaceful hippies are in their right to protest if favour of peace and you are right, but here you are not actors or stunts, you are war wizards and your duty is to conquer and destroy those who lack moral clarity. You have to let your thing grow inside you and then attack.†The camera zooms on Peter as the members of his team beat the crap out of the peace protestors in the background (it all make believe but it’s quite impressive nonetheless). Peter Woodward: “Today our team has learned how to fight and conquer as war wizards. Join us in the next episodes when they will learn to fight like Dothraki Screamers, Water Dancers and Dwarfish Ninjas.†Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
一方通行 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 On the pronunciation of Goodkind - according to that video interview that was posted a few threads back, the True pronunciation is with a long i, as in whine. However, although I know the Truth, my brain is full of discord and insists on pronouncing it with the short i, as in shit. so its like saying "good" and then "kind" together? you would thik he would join a nunnery or something with a name like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 'Effing brilliant on the Conquest parody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Jax: it's a real song, yeah. And here it is for free, legal download: http://www.yolatengo.com/audio.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Hmmmmm...I can't get it to download...I'll have to keep trying. A song about Goodkind though. Is it everything we could hope it would be? And more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khamul Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I've been thinking about that movie or series they plan to do with Sword of Truth. All we know what happens when there is a movie with a great budget (let's hope that this is not the case): the History Channel documentaries related to the movie. Please tell me that this is a joke. It must be a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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