Life.

Automation, fullfillment, identity, legacy, truth, destiny.

For thousands of years the human race has sought the wieght of id. We have done it first around campfires. Then in the safety of our villages and the growing complexity of society and the grand freedom of public forums. Over games of chess and superbowl commercials. We have debated the ways and wanders of heroes and kings and devils and god.

We have looked for these cocophanies of foolish delights, but always from an abstract lofty ungraspable cleft. Inches away as Adam and his creator crowning the Sistine Chaple.

I believe Video Games add to this world of known unknowns and none more so than TES in general and Skyrim specifically.

Here we are able to take a life in shackles.

Aren't we all there, locked away from the open world, brought down by the prisons of responsibility and our jobs and bills and all the other things that keep the villages walls up so we can safely debate our place? But when we are no longer the ones who pay the electric bill but are instead the ones who break free and see ahead the infinity of impossible destinies. Where no man lays claim to your time, and freedom is more than just blood currency for borders and capitilaism, but a grander idea of freedom. Like Loius and Clark freedom. Like no holds but the sky freedom. No limits but the gods freedom.

And no problem in beyond us. No mountian that can't be climbed. No dragon that can't be slayed.

Dragons. That's what where here for right? Flying around causing trouble. With power here on this free world you have the means. Morally we can stand and find our own place and temper our own scales and nod at the reflections our own modest means.

“Fairy tales are more than true – not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”
~ G. K. Chesterton

Society IRL has cast us out of our element and around us we have built a safer more comfortable world. We have lost the edge of real fear in the dark forest things. Though we still dream of beasts occasionally. Skyrim and other epics in this still young medium of art is a way into a more concious dreamworld where we can connect with our ancestors around that fire surrounded by woods. And know that we are able to step into the dark and slay the beasts that would pull us our own into the night.

I've got to say, FANTASTIC post. Thank you sir for being awesome and stealing close to the exact words I put on my Facebook 3 days ago, hahaha.

Before I started playing Elder Scrolls I was pretty much entrapped in my own mind for freedom. School and education being the foremost thing that was thrust upon my mind, while indeed it is important to know and to learn, to push beyond the boundaries of conventional physics and the world around us has always been something I've wanted to do. A world which lets me live a life that I'd rather live than being held back by modern day societal terms, conventions and etiquette.

A fraction of my Note on Facebook the other day:

"Life is a grand thing to explore and a wonderful thing to see, to watch it bloom and evolve out of what used to be nothing. Building ever higher, growing ever stronger. But it comes to a point where you reach a leveling point where you no longer want to learn more of the future and what might be built to make it grander. You wish to return far into the past where every objective, thought, and action had an astounding impact on those around you and the world you live in. Instead of just being replaced by a machine of production and economic growth.

It is a strange loophole with which I write this, for it is the product of that machine that allows me to release my growing imagination. It allows me to free my mind and reach out beyond the starry sky and into the wilderness of the unknown. Not knowing what lurks behind the next corner and never knowing when the last moment will be and if I had enough impact to change the world for the better. "

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Nice. :jammasterjay:

Woah, I love you ten times more now. :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

You've got a standing ovation from me, sir. I salute you.

Personally, I don't see skyrim as the meaning of life but to each there own.

The OP, translated: video-games are an increasingly valid medium for entertainment and learning.

Must people have to be high to think like that

Life would be easier if we could all think like this

.......And so was the beginning of the Skyrim cult which would wipe out all who opposed them and conquer the universe in 1337 B.C.

You had me at Hello (or should I say "Life")

For some reason, I seem to only translate that as: "Dragons must die, because our ancestors would have wanted it that way." :thumbsup:

I don't can't even... *goes outside*

OP is change I can believe in.

Haha, thank you as well for reading a fantastic book, lol.

ClusterChuck
Vote 2012

He promises Spears for all but can he keep this promise?

You got my vote

and crossbows.

My vote as well.

You've got my vote as well.

Edit: Lmao, ninja'd, and with nearly the exact same words XD.

Sort of, um... "Jungian". I like! :thumbsup:

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IMM-ERR-SHUN

Excellent read. Thank you for sharing. You have a new fan in me! :icecream: