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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?

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[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Kid, if you don't care about the consequences, there's not a whole hell of a lot I can do to change you mind, know what I'm saying?

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[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You said you don't care what I do. So that means there ain't nothin' wrong with handlin' this sort of thing the right way.

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[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...So far as I remember, Inigo Montoya, whoever the fuck that is, didn't care what you do.

I care, but I'm not your fucking babysitter. You want to try and kill the man, and you don't care about the consequences, then what can I do?

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[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
You can start by givin' me my Schofields back.

Private--it may look like stonewalling, but Charlie is calm again! :D Good job, Rube!

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't be helpful at all, can you?

[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if I give you guns, and you go shooting people, I'm not exactly being helpful to them, am I?

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ain't their warden. You're supposed to be lookin' after my best interests, not theirs.

[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not in your best interest to have a gun.

Whiskey, sure. Poker chips, playing cards, okay. Guns? No.

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want a gun. I want my guns, plural.

There's a difference.

[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
A gun, your guns, whatever. It's a weapon.

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't seem fair I ain't got 'em. A man's gotta be able to defend himself, ain't he?

[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
How can I put this, Charlie?

No.

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Stupid son of a bitch

Why not? What if I promise not to fire 'em?

[If Rube looks REALLY carefully he can read it]

[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
...Does that say what I think it says?

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...depends what that is.

[identity profile] onderhaus.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, since we've degenerated to name-calling...guess the conversation's over.