Terry Goodkind's "Wizard Rules"

[Addicted2learn]

To any and all-

Here is a link to wiki for the rules.

Wizard Rules- Wiki

A more detailed on can be found HERE, it includes more story line details and counters if available.

In a nut shell:

1st rule

"People are stupid" They can be made to believe any lie out of fear or desire.

2nd-

"The greatest harm can result from the best intentions"

3rd-

"Passion Rules Reason" (a biggie for me )

4th-

"...there was magic in forgiveness, Magic to heal. In forgiveness you grant, and more so in the forgiveness you receive."

(not neccessarily O'ist but I can appreciate it)

5th-

"Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie."

6th-

"The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason."

7th-

"Life is the future, not the past."

8th-

"Deserve Victory"

9th-

"A contradition cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole."

10th-

"Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self."

11th-

TBA

Edited November 19, 2006 by Addicted2learn

[Kat]

Pretty cool.

[Jehni125]

When is the next book coming out? I think it is called Confessor.

[emb021]

Confessor, the third part of the 'Chainfire' Trilogy, will come out in November. Frankly, I have been working thru these books (I got into reading them earlier this year. I had never heard of them, as I'm not a big fantasy fan. After seeing an article about them in TAS's New Individualist mag, I thought I check them out). As I hate hardbacks, I plan on reading this final trilogy only when I have all 3 in paperback.

The last book I read is "Faith of the Fallen", which has been noted (and I agree) as the most 'Objectivist' of the books so far.

I have the next two books in the series, but haven't yet started to read them. Hopefully soon.

[emb021]

I just finished the final book in the Sword of Truth series.

IMO, Goodkind is probably the best author of Objectivist fiction now writing.

I'll even go out on a limb and say that I think he does a better job of putting forth Objectivist philosophy in his fiction then Rand herself did. Yes, Rand may have gone deeper into in her fiction, but I think that for modern readers, Goodkind does a better job. And I think that he also does a better job of conveying the ideas in certain areas that Rand didn't go into too well.

Because of the contrast between the philosophy of the 'good guys' in the books and the 'bad guys' (Imperial Order, Fellowship of Order), I think modern readers would get a better contrast between modern liberty/Objectivist/liberatarian philosophy vs collectivist/socialist/fascist philosophy. The stuff spouted by the IO sorts is very similiar to current collectivist nonsense from our policians.

Objectivist/liberatarian philosophy is too often putdown as 'selfish' (in a very negative way) as contrasted to collectivist 'help the poor and downtrodden'. In the SoT, Goodkinds shows that the 'good guys' aren't as selfish as Oist/L'ists are portrayed, as well as showing what the collectivist REALLY expect from people to 'help the poor and downtrodden'...

[BaalChatzaf]

To any and all-

Here is a link to wiki for the rules.

Wizard Rules- Wiki

A more detailed on can be found HERE, it includes more story line details and counters if available.

11th-

TBA

11 th rule. Never buy at retail prices.

Ba'al Chatzaf