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impure_tale ([personal profile] impure_tale) wrote2008-11-01 11:08 pm

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(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?

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
My -- that's not an answer I get from the devout very often, but it makes for a pleasing change.

What's the matter, Monsieur Cifaretto? Did that answer make too much sense to you?

[identity profile] fathersbludgeon.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
If God's all powerful, he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

That makes sense.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Nature sufficeth unto herself without need of a maker.

[identity profile] fathersbludgeon.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
And mother nature magically put us here, right?

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It is perfectly impossible to believe in what one does not understand, and Nature does not require a higher force to explain its doings. Man has been formed by Nature in conformity to her own ends and needs, and she's an equal need for what we consider to be "virtues" and "vices". It is in the workings of nature that we find the unique cause of our fickle human behavior.

[identity profile] fathersbludgeon.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

Explain the Barge then, wise guy.