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The problem here is you assume everyone is playing your game.  

"ultimately it is for me, about how a person perseveres despite any odds against them."

I know from experience, that type of perseverance also serves as its own weakness.

"Mirage believes emotions make you weak... how can emotions handicap you at all if you are a truly strong person?"

Before I begin this, I'll go ahead and acknowledge that there are varying views of what one considers weak. Emotions seem to amplify situations for no logical reason. They only serve as primitive, survival guidelines that would encourage behavior that promoted staying alive, while punishing for risky behaviors. It's a lot easier to ensure the species survives if they have a penalty for separating, abandoning or hurting each other. Do emotions make you weak? No, I'd just say more susceptible to a plethora of situations that life dishes out repeatedly. But even in this instance if someone was able to overcome those emotions and function on the same level as someone without them it would make them stronger wouldn't it?

Really, its all relative to the person. But for the most part emotions do leave the person more vulnerable.

 "You can't stand on a mountain and declare you're a great warrior for taking the air out of your enemies tires while they sleep"

Maybe, but you have to understand the direct, brute and blunt approach is not always the hardest route to take and in my case where it becomes habitual it becomes a vulnerability.

"Clever as you may feel for finding a safe route to get ahead of him for the moment... you haven't won at anything... and you really won't know how capable you are of winning until you face your enemy while he's wide awake and within reach, and try to kick his ass."

I agree with this mostly and we share the same viewpoints, however you have to realize that not everyone cares to see their potential or test themselves. Getting that obstacle over with is good enough for them and thats honestly how it is with most people. 

Linux is strength

The more Linux you have, the more strength you have.

Avoid the autism, it will weaken you!!

My thoughts are that emotions are neither unneeded or needed for any one definition of strength. They can make some people weak, while they can make other people strong. 

This answers are only my point of view.

Q: how can emotions handicap you at all if you are a truly strong person?
A: In this case should depend on the kind of strength, the context, the point of view, and many other circumstances.
But iy is possible.... How? The possibilities are wide.
for instance:
- you can take a wrong decisions because of your feelings. Deciding to handicap your self.
- You can have a clinical condition, trigger by certain kind of strong feelings.
- You can decide do something that handicap you, for the good of someonle else you care about, like a child, in response of a critical situation.

Q: How are you a strong person so long as you always play the game that
you know you are likely to win, and stay away from the ones you are
potentially capable of failing at?
A: There is always someone better than you, In time you can lose your skills, you chage your point of view, live new experiences carring you to realize stuff you didn't before, just have bad luck, etc..

Q: He says he chooses to believe in nothing. Why?
Because there's a risk in looking like a fool if you believe in something that ends up failing you?
A: He must know why, better than anybody. Some possibilities: Maybe he is exploring, maybe he realize something others don't, maybe is being manipulated, maybe he is wrong, maybe is being affected by something, a disease, feeling, money, etc.. or for someone.

Q: That is a weak way to approach life in my opinion. Does that make Mirage a weak person?

A: Not necessarily, depends on the point of view. It is not something objective, but rather subjective.

I hope these are not rhetorical questions, otherwise forget what I said.

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You make very good points syst. Understand this, my post is not me declaring my way of measuring is based on fact or law of any kind. It's how I size people up and I view those who don't challenge themselves or play it safe all the time as weak. 

But what happens if self control becomes obsessive, controlling yourself becomes a need, is it still considered a strength?

Everyone is playing the same game as me if they are alive. The game I'm referring to is life. Stop assuming you know me and what I'm about Wilful. I've yet to see you get one right after two year already. 

Would you consider someone numbing themselves to everything as strong? I've went through a good amount of numbing and I do not consider it strength. It's easy to not care, easy to let things go. 

Strength for me in its most basic and true form is having the ability to balance all factors in your life. Because in every case an overabundance of strength is also serves as a crippling weakness.