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I've always kind of liked The Prophecy. Aside from the obvious reasons (Christopher Walken, a war between angels, etc.), what really made this memorable for me was Viggo Mortensen's portrayal of Lucifer, which is arguably the best I can recall ever seeing on screen. The defining moment for me was when he was explaining to Elias Koteas what damnation was really about:

"Do you know what hell is? It's being removed from god's sight."(1)

That's always stuck with me, despite being about as agnostic as you can find; (2) I think it was the sentiment with which I identified, not the specifics.

Today, pondering my relationship with aesthetics, that kept bubbling up from my subconscious. The applicability finally hit me, specifically in regards to that slight-to-sometimes-huge feeling of sadness/unfulfill-ed/-able longing that accompanies an appreciation of the beautiful. So, with appropriate substitutions:

"Do you know what hell is? It's being removed from the beautiful."

That pretty much sums it up, alright.





(1) paraphrasing from memory; forgive potential inaccuracies.
(2) a gnostic (wannabe) with no experience of gnosis

Heh

Stolen from relativeaffect:


<td bgcolor="#000000">Name:</td><td bgcolor="#DDDDAA"></td><td bgcolor="#000000">You will conquer:</td><td bgcolor="#DDDDAA">the Moon. Beat that.</td><td bgcolor="#000000">Your title will be:</td><td bgcolor="#DDDDAA">President</td><td bgcolor="#000000">You will succeed by:</td><td bgcolor="#DDDDAA">Wearing shiny pants.</td><td bgcolor="#000000">Your Enforcers will be:</td><td bgcolor="#DDDDAA">The Antarans (from Masters of Orion II).</td><td bgcolor="#000000">Your first act as ruler:</td><td bgcolor="#DDDDAA">Write a motivational seminar entitled "Why I am Overlord, and you are not."</td>

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