Most historians have agreed that it was the Egyptians, and those of Mesopotamia, who first invented the watch. 1500 BC. BC. They used flowing water to estimate time mechanically. Accurate "clocks" weren't created until nearly 1530 AD, by Italian monks. To know when to hold sermons and prayers. It played a sound, featuring no hands and merely ( Read more... )

I never knew my father growing up. When I tracked him down, before coming here, he told me that we have to kill. It's who we are. "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly." Morality doesn't play into it, he said. Sometimes, it's just who people are. Predators, prey. Sometimes we have no choice.

[Private to Cissie]I can't see you tonight. [Pretend they ( Read more... )

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You act like people are acting strangely. They all seem practically the same to me.. overreacting, dramatic. Inmates and wardens alike. You're all on a witch hunt and, meanwhile, the Admiral is winning as you play into his game.

[Private to Tim]
Are you acting as ridiculous as the rest of them?

[Private to Cissie]
I want you to leave me.

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There's always a time when lines begin to blur. Reality, fiction. Want, need. Past, future. Friendship, love. What no one bothers to tell you is that it never gets easier. It stays the same ridiculous goal time and time again. To find something that doesn't exist. [A pause.] Everyone isn't striving for perfection, they're striving for average. ( Read more... )

[Private to Tim]
It was the flood. What I said.. The flood made me.

Some of it wasn't entirely a lie. You're still leaving?

[Private to Cissie]
I wasn't myself.

[My hiatus is becoming less of hiatus and more of a slowatus while I reevaluate things. Sorry guys.]

It's too quiet.

[Private to Tim]
I need to see you.

[Private to Cissie]
I'm sorry. I can't do this anymore.

[Private to Dick]
Will you talk to me?

[ooc; Totally affected loving with Tim.]

Before I died, I worked with the government-- for the government. I helped Agent Danko to hunt down people like me. To cage them, kill them. I wanted to be the only one. Special. Then he turned against me. I expected it, really. I'd made plans. If the Admiral hadn't taken me away again, I would have healed. Survived. I would have become president ( Read more... )

Popularity is a joke. How do you people deal with everyone wanting something from you? Wanting your time, your thoughts. Your opinions.

I can barely even think.

[Private to Tim]
I don't know how to do this anymore.

[Private to Cissie]
Are we going to talk

( Spam for Claire )

There's something about a higher calling that most people can't ignore. To find peace, to be special. Once the survival instinct is gone, anything is possible. It also makes it harder to find a reason for most people to live. People who feel loved have a better chance of surviving severe burns, recovering from surgery. So do people who have ( Read more... )