Entry 28

[bittermayfly]

[This is the most Nagi's ever said on the phone at once. Be glad he doesn't say much often.]I'm sure all of the new people are hearing the same thing over and over from those who have been here a long time, including the news that death isn't permanent and there's always a chance of ending up brainwashed like the long-term residents. They may have

Comments

[ergaleomancer]

What's this? I didn't think there were many people here that were willing to speak this sort of sense. And here I thought my friends and I were alone~.

[bittermayfly]

[Give him a moment to place the voice to other things he's heard and taken notes about on his computer.

...

...

...and now he finds the notes.]

I'm not saying the same sort of things as you. Death doesn't solve everything even if it's useful once in a while.

[ergaleomancer]

It doesn't cure all things. All I ever was saying is that being afraid of it is pointless.

[bittermayfly]

You mentioned it being a cure at one point.

Being afraid of it, though, is silly here since it never lasts.

[weiss_tank]

Why am I not surprised you can put actual good information in the most jerktastic terms possible.

[bittermayfly]

How else was I supposed to say it?

[weiss_tank]

You had it up until that last few lines.

[bittermayfly]

You only say that because you're one of the people trying to play hero.

[godisachild]

Even dying once in awhile is pretty friggin' bad.

[bittermayfly]

But it's over with soon and then we come back. There are worse things that could happen.

[godisachild]

That's a lame statement. Saying "there's worse things that could happen" doesn't magically make something that was bad not bad. It doesn't even make it not so bad.

But yeah. I'll agree that we have to start looking other places and to ourselves to beat these people.

[bittermayfly]

I'd rather die than be stuck as a drone forever.

Looking to ourselves is far better than trusting in a hero.

[expiatrice]

[The tone is completely neutral.] What are you trying to say?

[bittermayfly]

Don't rely on others if you want to get home. Rely on yourself.

[expiatrice]

I see. Were the comments about death all that necessary, though?

[bittermayfly]

New arrivals need to know what I said.

[cramschoolgod]

Hmm... if death is really temporary in this realm, I would think that not only would be not 'too bad,' but it would be truly fascinating to undergo. After all, one of the most longstanding assumptions of life is that one can't know what death is like until one experiences it, and afterwards, of course, no one will be able to convey any information about it. The idea of life as a preparation for death, for example, obviously rests on death's permanency to claim that there are unique and revelatory sensations associated with death--this occurs in, for example, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Or consider Shakespeare. 'For who would bear the whips and scorns of time

[bittermayfly]

There's nothing in death here to wonder about. It's nothingness between dying and waking up the next morning.

[cramschoolgod]

[A brief pause, then she sounds amused.] I thought you said there were memories of one's death. Where do they terminate? Is it like any other loss of consciousness, then? Perhaps it shouldn't be called death at all, if there's nothing unique about it.

And on the other comment you made, who are the 'heroes' you spoke of?

[bittermayfly]

I remember the pain of all the times I was killed as myself, and the things that caused them, but nothing after that. No afterlife.

[She seems pretty new, so that makes her possibly useful if she's at all inclined to evil or chaos like Schwarz.]

If you haven't met or heard about them yet, you will soon enough. They're the ones who think that an organized group of resistance will work better than individuals.