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[impure_tale]

(OOC: It's Midnight Where I live!)

I propose a conundrum, dear readers -- a discussion, perhaps, to reflect not upon this most recent of floods, but rather the charnel house many of you freshly returned from in the last port.

Nature is a force that cannot reproduce without committing acts of destruction. Life and death are two inseparable processes.

We, my fellow Inmates, are caught in a place somewhere between what is a natural order, and seemingly for an unnatural reason -- someone wants us to change, to better ourselves, to overcome the circumstances which they believe led to our untimely demises. There are those of you, now, who can profess to have died twice, now. How natural, truly, is that?

Nature is mocked, here, and seemingly at the whims of some invisible officer, who takes away your freedom should you stamp your foot and placates you with a sweetie when you ask too many questions. We, my readers, do not belong here.

Why behave? Why conform? If Nature is involved in a constant process of renewal, which involves destruction, would we not be acting in harmony with her wishes if we were to continue multiplying those acts of destruction? How can Nature possibly be angry when she sees man copying her and doing what she herself does every day?

And what purpose do we serve -- what renewal takes place if we are to die here, repeatedly, and come back to the same bodies we left behind? A natural form of change has been stolen for something more base, more deluded, more man-made. And for what? Is it really for our redemption, or one man's entertainment?

A man's lifetime is spent avoiding the end, building up to it, preparing oneself or lying to the very last breath. The point is that it was horrible enough the first time -- enough that coming out of it there is not one among us that would think they should like to experience it again. What, then, is the point?

Comments

Lots of/Big words= Confused Charlie

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

....what?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Quoi?

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

That even a word?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I take it by your first response that you are having trouble following the dialogue.

[namorofthesea.livejournal.com]

Yes, I understand your sentiment. It is something I have questioned many times since coming here, since little is done to truly work toward our redemption. Unfortunately, even destruction is futile, for if we should attempt this, I suspect that we would return only moments later to find the fruits of our efforts wiped away, and what was dead alive again, what was broken, repaired.

It is most unnatural, and in this natural state, action of any kind seems most futile, and unlife meaningless.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

What are we to do then? Continue to drift, our experiences brought on only by inertia?

[namorofthesea.livejournal.com]

For once I am uncertain. I want to find the Admiral, tear him to bits, free us all from this miserable place, for existence has no meaning if we merely drift, merely exist, allowing someone else control it all so completely.

I must fight.

[notverylordly.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I'm here, I don't know if its possible....

But it gave me a chance to learn some things, gave me back my sister

Maybe redemption is possible...

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me you're buckling, Monsieur Solo.

[notverylordly.livejournal.com]

Hardly.

But still I can't help but wonder...if there isnt a purpose to all of this. My father and my sister are here, that has to mean something right?

Hey, Tobias is trying to justify things for a change

[triplekill.livejournal.com]

...maybe this is purgatory?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

There is no God. Why should purgatory exist?

Oh snap. You did not go there...though it's still Toby, so he'll be like a kid arguing things...

[triplekill.livejournal.com]

No God? Of course there's a God. He made everything in the world and he watches over us from Heaven...

[fractured-will.livejournal.com]

You speak of many interesting concepts, sir, and ask many questions that even I, as a Warden, unfortunately, lack the proper answers to. I suppose if we perhaps signed a petition, and voiced in unison of our wishes, the elusive Admiral might let us speak with him openly.

However, you seem to be suggesting acts of crime and destruction to pass the time. I cannot express enough how foolhardy that would be. You will do nothing except damage yourself. No logical good can come of wrongdoing.

The mystery of our being here should be dealt with in a logical, reasonable course of action.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I think I quite like you, sir. A man of thinking; rare indeed!

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Let's not mix the words 'anarchy' and 'chaos' together as though they mean the same thing. One implies a state of nature, the other emptiness, meaninglessness.

We are presently caught somewhere between the two.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

And yet when I seek to destroy, it's somehow a bad, naughty thing.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

There is a need for opposition, dumpling; you can't expect everyone to roll over.

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[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

Oh, but that's what I want.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

But really, if one can only destroy that which is determined to be "okay" to destroy, that's hardly partaking of the wild whims of nature.

[l-law-liet.livejournal.com]

If I may, the fact that we exist in these circumstances at all suggests that perhaps none of us understood nature as well as we thought we did. Or maybe nature is simply different on this side of things.

Also, while I can hardly speak for anyone else, I think the point of this barge is not to make anyone behave, but to convince them that changing their ways may be in their best interest. I certainly don't intend to put any restrictions on my inmate unless they are absolutely needed. I'll always offer my opinion and advice, but it's up to him to want to change his ways.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You are a most intelligent and reasonable person, then.

[l-law-liet.livejournal.com]

I suppose I am. You yourself seem to be quite intelligent yourself, though to say you merely think outside the box would be an understatement I suppose for the Marquis de Sade.