Monday, July 25, 2011

1337- 9000+ - 5555

All the above numbers have side meanings according to the internet.
The first is "elite" in gamer vocabulary, the highest honor and designation, a Master statistic.
The Second is derived from a Dragon Ball Z episode in which a character's power level is "over 9000," an outrageous measuring system for ki - Japanese mental focus.
5555 is primarily claimed by Daft Punk's animated film, "Interstellar 5555 - 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem." A immortal gains world ending power upon obtaining five-thousand-five-hundred-fifty-five golden records. Absurd idea, but also an incredible one.

Numbers are fundamentally unemotional, but for the stories and significance people attached to them. Words may be strung together to make beautiful prose or cutting commentary to the human condition. Numbers are used to measure, calculate, and qualify our progress throughout life. It is a human mindset to attach significance to objects surrounding their everyday lives - it makes them notable and thus easier to care about.

However, we also have a tendency to extend this to people in the form of stereotypes - Which are handy, even eerily accurate at times, but are not definitive measures of individual people. For once we can categorize, we can trivialize, and stop taking note of new data or trends. By the time the person or object changes through time's processes, we merely glance and update our labels of them.

We cannot conceive the totality of another human being in its complexity - its whims, its habits, its loves. Humans are beautiful, fragile, and vivacious, seizing the moment and carrying the day. Yet we fear what others think of our actions, what they will call us. I will attempt to live in the wonder of free will and the dignity of being made in the image of God. For though we may attach meaning and stories to the objects around us, it is poor form to treat meaningful and living people as if they were objects.

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