Original Sin // The Ugly Truth

No, it's not about this movie:

Original Sin - 2001 movie

...and it's not about this one either:

The Ugly Truth - 2009 movie

But it's about this one:

Aramis - Scene from "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1998)

....because we wanted to be god; to be exact, masters of our own life (if not of others' as well).


....ever since the beginning, biblically speaking:

Courtauld Gallery Exhibitions

And we are certainly not the first one to want that. This guy went for it first:

William Blake's illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost; 
a powerful, strong image standing with pride; honestly can you stop looking at him?
Imagine yourself standing like that, when everything is seems to be under your control?

But can we really do that?

Question: What are these (human invention) for?

Obviously we can't do/control this:

From: http://baghdadbythebaysf.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/karachitsunmai.jpg

Call that a fluke, blame it to somebody/something else. But we can't do this too:

Does this look like a fluke?

Now I wouldn't call that a fluke. I'd call that an intellectual masterpiece.


So there's this behind the universe:

From: http://www.masteryourlife.com/images/layout/mainphoto.jpg 
Don't expect to see it. Many things we can't see but exists, like this.

and we're here:

Where are we?  Point me.

It turns out this kind of ritual  thing activ(e)ity is not so hard to understand makes sense:

From http://messiahmom.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/prayer.jpg

Yeah, maybe we're more likely to admire ourselves when we see ourselves doing this pose:

than this one:

Now if we go back to this guy:

Aramis - Scene from "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1998)

...................................................................

Yeah, I know.

So many times I feel the same too:

\kən-ˈtrōl\ \ˈfrēk\: a person whose behavior indicates a powerful need 
to control people or circumstances in everyday matters  ~m-w.com