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ladyoftears

You are right, it IS nothing:

Mar 11, 2002 04:38

My life has been mainly concerned with grieving for the suffering of others, and mourning the beauty of things. Beauty is a concept that is intensely sad. The tragedy is that where it seems lacking, it is present and yet unknown - and where it is seen it fades and crumbles until it is no longer ( Read more... )

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lordelladan March 10 2002, 20:50:53 UTC

Thus many indulge themselves in debauchery and mindless activities - dumbing the mind with narcotics and alcohol, and attempt to forget themselves in sex. It's rather disgusting and I want no part of it anymore.

ladyoftears March 10 2002, 20:55:11 UTC

I understand your choice. You should visit here at some point in time.

Re: lordelladan March 10 2002, 21:19:25 UTC

I shall. Thank you for your offer.

samwisegamgee March 10 2002, 21:08:02 UTC

Buck up, woman. What the fuck are you so fucking pouty for?! Always blah blah blah. You sound like some fourteen-year-old goth.

Have some pipeweed or some shit, alright?

ladyoftears March 10 2002, 21:14:02 UTC

Alright. That was well-deserved.

9th_ringwraith March 10 2002, 21:34:41 UTC

Eh - go pansy around with your hobbit toy and leave the lady to her tears. If you can't be polite at least make an *attempt* to be intelligent.

ladyoftears March 10 2002, 21:37:53 UTC

Thank you.

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9th_ringwraith March 10 2002, 21:21:04 UTC

Beauty is transitory but so is everything. Intellect will fade. The body ceases. You seem to suggest that what is not eternal, has no meaning. Nothing is truely eternal. Everything is meaningless. It's easy to weep for everything but much more difficult to brace yourself, live and laugh at it all.

Where is purity in all this mass of decay? It is no more enduring than beauty.

ladyoftears March 10 2002, 21:29:13 UTC

I meant that everything has no meaning, including that which is eternal. There is so much of it that I can't do anything but weep.

Nothing endures. Except the same process.

9th_ringwraith March 10 2002, 21:47:34 UTC

That point of view seems to deny the inherent joy in change and meaningless things. I could follow your same train of logic come to your same conclusions and be able to do nothing but laugh...but then I have a rather twisted sense of humor.

Maybe one day the process will change...or perhaps it already has...

ladyoftears March 10 2002, 21:55:42 UTC

I am often immune to the kinds of joy you describe, that is a fault of mine.

Let's hope that it does.

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beren_erchamion March 10 2002, 23:24:51 UTC

She weeps because she must, because although life has beauty, beauty itself is immeasurably sad. You could sing and dance forever, and never reach your true happiness. I have striven beyond all of this in death, only to find myself once more back among the living, and yet, I am not bereft of happiness. Sometimes it is in the joy of others that you find YOUR joy, as foolish as that may sound. I see this meaning every day in the eyes of Luthien.

eomer_of_rohan March 11 2002, 00:14:07 UTC

I had toast for breakfast.

nimrodel March 11 2002, 04:38:43 UTC

Hmm...that sounds good...I have some new fangled electric gadget called a toaster in the kitchen, I think I will have to go try it out. There are instructions around here somewhere....oh...and I have some lovely jelly too ( ... )