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Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Sigh, the above quote is so self-explanatory that I can't find much to say about it... I actually don't have much to say today... Or maybe I simply don't have time to type out my views and opinions at the present time.
Don't have time? Wait, what? I spent the entire day doing nothing but watching some series... Speaking of which, I plan to go back to doing that soon...

Random side note: Speaking of leaders, I was recently selected to join the Youth Leadership team at church.

So if great leaders inspire greatness, does that mean that Awesome leaders inspire Awesomeness?
More importantly, what if the followers are just incapable of greatness? Surely that would excuse the great leader for failing to bring out greatness in the followers. Ah, who knows... Anyway, back to some TV series...
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Protestas est protestas.

Why People are Stupid

Shortly after reading a blog post, You're Stupid, by Jesamania, I paid a visit to a nearby mall, viz. Gateway. and came across this:

Now, having yet another fast food franchise in Gateway is all well and good, but I am thoroughly disappointed with the state of our society, our species even, when I think about the shop it replaced. It was a place I frequented and loved, a place I wish could forever be there.
Somewhere I purchased some of my most cherished possessions:

Now I don't blame Gateway, no, it was a good decision. Food, particularly fried (or is it flame-grilled) chicken, sells. It makes money. Especially as opposed to books. The bookshop was probably making too little money for it to be worthwhile, or feasible, for them to remain there, and so they closed or moved.

Nor do I blame the chicken franchise, no, they too made a brilliant business decision. 

They gave the people food. People like food.

I blame the people; people are stupid. People like to be stupid. It's probably easier, or, at the very least, remaining stupid/ignorant seems to be the path of least resistance. 

Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus, difficilia sunt. ^a

Sigh.

Truth is, you are probably not stupid. A person is possibly not stupid. A person may even be a genius. But people... people are stupid. 

Why are people stupid, you ask? 

Because people fail to realize the value and allure of books and reading. People don't appreciate the magnificent conferrer^b of knowledge, and often, intelligence, that is literature.^c

People are therefore, intentionally or unintentionally, content to remain blissfully unintelligent and ignorant.

Scientia potestas est. 

Libri sunt scientia.^d

F-F-Fa-Fancy Footnote^q

^a "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult." - Seneca, Letter to Lucilius, letter 104, section 26, line 5

^b I wanted to use the word "bestower" instead, should I have?

^c Note that this is just one of the reasons.

^d I don't think my Latin is correct. I don't know latin, so please forgive me.

^q I like these footnotes. :-) ... speaking of which, I should get Latex.

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Yokatta!

Just found out that Bargain books didn't move too far. It merged with the bargain books at the Crescent.

Harry Potter isn't real?

:-) Lol at the ambiguity of the title.

I meant, in my opinion, of all the characters in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter is perhaps the most shallow and transparent character. Everyone, from Aberforth to Yvonne, Hannah Abbot to Rose Zeller, Kelly Whakkaarangapawarau to Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, show more depth of character than the protagonist himself.

Honestly, I think soulless Sam (Supernatural) has more personality in his little finger than Harry has in his whole body. Truth is, and it may just be me, I just can't see myself taking such a passive role if I just found out that I was a wizard. I would follow more along the lines of Hermione, Dumbledore, Grindelwald,  or even Voldemort. Fact is, each and every one of them make sense psychologically, whereas the title character is, more or less, a robot with an amateurish Emotions program implemented.

If I, an ordinary person, and I use the term "ordinary" loosely, one day found out that I had magic, I'd do everything I can to become as powerful as wizardly possible. While I understand that, even in this world, there exist apathetic people, such a person in the wizarding world doesn't make sense to me.
I am the power-hungry Voldemort (or Dumbledore or Grindelwald) in the Harry Potter series, I am the notorious Sylar in Heroes, I am the megalomaniac, Aizen in Bleach... Oh wait, that might be a spoiler, sorry.
Nevertheless, I can relate to these people, they are real. As for the other characters found in Harry Potter, they too, with the exception of The boy who lived, show emotional substance.

Ah, but don't get me wrong, the series is brilliant. I love it. This is just my rambling opinion.

URGENT MESSAGE from the future!

I have an urgent message to all of you! I just got back from the future, please hear me out.

Please, Do not time travel, change the past, or send D-mails!

This is a message and an urgent plea to all of you that are able to make use of the aforementioned forms of world divergence.

All forms of world divergence (i.e altering the past, be it intentionally or unintentionally), cause the creation of a new universe. In the not too distant future (the year of which I will not mention), the multiverse is at risk of implosion due to an unsustainable number of universes. Nobody knows what the result of that would be, save that it will be catastrophic.

At present, there exists a multiverse with world lines numbering in the nonillions, in the future the number is estimated to be around a googolplex.

Many people attempt time travel thinking that it doesn't ever, and will never, work; but, very often, it does! 
The reason you think otherwise is because you are the version of you that is left behind when you time travel, while a new you is created along with the new universe that came into existence due to the divergence.
That you is the one that remembers time travelling, and even then, only if you possess the ability to maintain memories across world lines.
So please, do not attempt time travel in any way, shape or form, the future depends on it.

Tempus edax rerum.


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Please forgive me, I only now realized my hypocrisy and the insignificance of my actions.
By posting this, I participated in attempting to change the past (or rather, what will be the past... and what is now the past before I even started this sentence), thereby creating another universe.
So even if my post succeeds in reducing time travel and such in this universe and subsequent universes, it would have had no effect on the nonillions of other universes that exist parallel to this one, rendering my attempt pointless. 
There is no point in my trying to undo what I did now, any attempts to change the past are meaningless - One cannot "Change the past", one can only create a new past.