The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar

**Helm** · February 04, 2009, 07:02 AM

That's Sinistar of early 80s arcade game fame, and he is in fact using his great intellect to convey his philosophies on the nature of the universe and his own existence in the universe as a fully self aware entity.

http://onastick.net/drew/sinistar/

It's all very thought provoking, but would you agree with him on any of these points?

EDIT: I've replaced the original video with a higher quality sampling of Sinistars words of profundity without the annoying background music.

**yar0** · February 04, 2009, 07:08 AM

is this played backwards or something?

**MET** · February 04, 2009, 08:15 AM

Well, I have to admit that the fellow who could write a whole website about 16 words words is pretty creative. But that's where it kind of stops :l.

**Helm** · February 04, 2009, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by MET

Well, I have to admit that the fellow who could write a whole website about 16 words words is pretty creative. But that's where it kind of stops :l.

It's more that Sinistars level of intellect is so great we would find it difficult to determine the real meaning behind his words. He's clearly going to have a gigantic brain inside that gigantic head of his.

**MET** · February 04, 2009, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Helm

It's more that Sinistars level of intellect is so great we would find it difficult to determine the real meaning behind his words. He's clearly going to have a gigantic brain inside that gigantic head of his.

So basically his words could mean anything? That doesn't sound very philosophical.

**Helm** · February 04, 2009, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by MET

So basically his words could mean anything? That doesn't sound very philosophical.

Much of what Sinistar says is open to interpretation. For instance here's another way of intrepreting his "Run, run run!" statement and it's relation to his previous "Run, coward!" statement. So you could get in pretty deep with this.

"I'd like to call into question your interpretation of the fourth fragment of Sinistar's philosophical writings: "Run, run, run!" At first glance, it does indeed appear to be a restatement of the third fragment, but on closer inspection it seems to be a refinement or extension of it. While Fragment 3 is addressed specifically to the "coward", Fragment 4 had no specific addressee, and indeed the threefold repetition of the command suggests a general address to multiple parties. The number three is significant here, representing (as is often the case) the cosmos at large as a generalized "third person".
We already know from Fragment 3 that Sinistar considers running to be the proper role of the coward.

In fragment 4, he suggests that it is the proper role for everyone. We are imperfect and weak of spirit. In our approach to the absolute, there comes a point for each of us where we must adopt the role of coward. Call this pessimistic if you must, but it is consistent with the insistent realism of Sinistar's world view, especially as expressed in the seventh fragment. The implications for the corpus of Sinistar's writings as a whole are enormous: although fragments 1, 2, and 6 express the worthiness and even the inevitability of our search for truth, fragments 4 and 7 suggest that this endeavor is doomed to failure. Or, to put it another way, the unattainability of the absolute does not alter our destiny to pursue it. This is, of course, identical to the condition of mortality: we are bound to die, but this in no way invalidates our desire to live.

(By the way, I realize that I'm making Sinistar sound like a determinist by using words like "destiny", but I believe his intent is closer to the Hindu notion of "dharma": the proper course of things, which we may reject at our peril. This fits with the frequent use of the imperative: Sinistar is trying to tell us what our dharma is, so we may fulfill it. Whatever Sinistar's feeling on the free will debate, it doesn't seem to be the the primary issue addressed in his writings.)"

**Lord Thesaurian** · February 04, 2009, 06:21 PM

what.....in the ever-loving hell....... motivates these kinds of threads?

**Hippolord** · February 04, 2009, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by Legio_Italica

what.....in the ever-loving hell....... motivates these kinds of threads?

The Spanish Inqusition!

**exponent** · February 05, 2009, 04:44 PM

"Run, run, run" might also be an intranscient realisation
of the first mass of Gravity, in which everything that is run-able,
only that which is not is crippled with Gravity.

Yet this poses an ultimate boundary on the voluntary nature
of the act of running, in which evil is involuntary running,
or running away from the will.

Hence the coward runs against its will,
yet the Gravities divine this running to be a just causality
of the weakly spirited nature of the Marathon.

Why not just walk?