While We Wait: The Next Generation

[Shadowbound]

When superheroes dress up for Halloween, they dress up as me.

 

[Ninja Dude]

Has anyone ever figured out what Kentharu's avatar was supposed to be?

I can only tell that it is a person riding on a giant wolf/dog/warg whatever over a frozen body of water. The origins of the picture or the specifics, I can't really say.

 

[Angst]

I just found Kentharu's avatar elsewhere. And the same avatar. Hmm... [/stalk]

 

[Luckymoose]

When superheroes dress up for Halloween, they dress up as me.

Obama dresses his daughters up like Lightfang and myself.

 

[LightFang]

Obama dresses his daughters up like Lightfang and myself.

I can't tell if this is a compliment or not.

 

[~Darkening~]

.....Y'know, I know believe in karma and such, but it comes to a point where it's just overkill. Honestly. Why do I have such a bad habit of attracting the weird peoples? Can't I ever have anyone normal? Y'know, just one person who likes to twiddle their thumbs instead of ranting around bad modifiers?

*Sigh*.

I apologize to all those I've ever annoyed. I'm really sorry.

 

[alex994]

I assume we're talking about the latest addition to our region in North King's nes?

 

[~Darkening~]

In other conversation, have you ever written something that just makes you depressed?

 

[alex994]

Yeah I have; I wrote my IB Extended Essay on why Song China failed to industrialize and how they essentially doomed China.

 

[~Darkening~]

...Only you would assume I meant an essay . To clarify: have you ever written something (no essays on the failings of china, etc), but a story in which the details make you depressed?

 

[flyingchicken]

Yes, I have, several times. Writing is catharsis, yet it is on the slippery slope to irreversible depression. Truly, life shapes meaning and meaning shapes life, and we are but irrelevant specks in the metacosmic scale of things. What is mustard? Why must it be evil when it is gaseous?

Questions that we may choose to answer or not.

 

[Kraznaya]

Munificent Pretention.

 

[~Darkening~]

Yes, I have, several times. Writing is catharsis, yet it is on the slippery slope to irreversible depression. Truly, life shapes meaning and meaning shapes life, and we are but irrelevant specks in the metacosmic scale of things. What is mustard? Why must it be evil when it is gaseous?

Questions that we may choose to answer or not.

Happen across a stray monastery during your away times? And mustard is evil 'cause is stands in the way of ketchup domination. That's why it's evil.

 

[flyingchicken]

Happen across a stray monastery during your away times?

An epiphany went by my way of late. It was God, but it was not God. Must it always boil down to a discussion of what is God? What is God? God is not what he isn't, yet he is what he is and at the same time he is everything. In lack of logic logic takes refuge, for what if God is removed from what is sensible? That is the way things are, for to be misunderstood completely is not be understood; denial of knowledge, and wisdom.

And mustard is evil 'cause is stands in the way of ketchup domination. That's why it's evil.

What is the morality of a living object that we have deemed non-sentient, non-thinking? Perhaps it is sentient but it does not wish to share with us the secrets of its non-mental and immaterial, immeasurable potency. By immeasurable I mean that which we cannot put to scale, that which we cannot see; all that has been unseen, all that is yet to be seen, and all that cannot be seen.

Cannot we live in perfect harmony, with ketchup on one hand and mustard on the other? Is it so difficult for humanity to accept that these possibly-sentient non-sentient lives have much fuller meanings when not out to get one another? Perhaps, perhaps not, perhaps we will never know.

This all ultimately connects to Never Ending Stories for participating in Never Ending Stories is seeking meaning and understanding of oneself and ones surroundings through non-material, unreal proxies. Reality in unreality, and discussion of unreality ultimately leads to deeper knowing of reality.

 

[Thlayli]

Usually I tell discussion in other threads to go to WWW, but flyingchicken's comment sounds like it belongs in ljnes.

 

[~Darkening~]

...I hate you. Not because you're particular a bad person, but because you're under some kind of delusion that I'm going to read that mess.

 

[Thlayli]

Also, I recommend Anathem, by Neal Stephenson. Excellent meta-discussion of philo-mathematical concepts in a fictional setting.

 

[~Darkening~]

Psht. You want philosophy? Talk to a drunk. He'll give you God's number.

 

[flyingchicken]

...I hate you. Not because you're particular a bad person, but because you're under some kind of delusion that I'm going to read that mess.

A delusion is as real as the person experiencing one wishes; indeed, we could soundly conjecture that all reality is delusion, and we merely append value to different delusions or aspects of this delusion. If you wish further elucidation, I suggest these excellent articles on [wiki]delusions[/wiki] and [wiki]reality[/wiki].

 

[Kraznaya]

Pol Pot didn't execute intellectuals because they were a threat to his power, he killed them because they occasionally turn into raving lunatics as demonstrated above.