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raisedinabox

24 Sulk sulk sulk

Nov 21, 2011 03:34

Did anyone else get much chance to talk to the locals in that port? I couldn't help but find it ironic that their afterlife consisted of a seemingly endless journey towards an ephemeral end point ( Read more... )

needs stability, kinda falling down here, lol humoring you, barge is stupid, task oriented

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der_umgekehrte November 21 2011, 04:18:23 UTC

I did a bit. It didn't seem so bad, actually. Like more of the same. Scraping up what you could before you went on to the next unknown. There's worse alternatives, I feel.

[Stop being philosophical, Stildyne. You're awful at it.]

raisedinabox November 21 2011, 04:25:55 UTC

Well, it's hardly torturous, but how many times do you think we'll have to go through that charade before we get to just... nothing? Before we get to real death?

der_umgekehrte November 21 2011, 04:34:03 UTC

No idea. But it wasn't a complete reset. We were... less alive, there. A halfway point, more than a retread.

raisedinabox November 21 2011, 04:43:42 UTC

That's true. At least it felt as though things there changed. The locals decayed. Although I hope they lost their minds before that process went too far...

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doctor_j_crane November 21 2011, 05:28:25 UTC

I doubt that the Admiral really needed any of those things. He was simply punishing us.

Private raisedinabox November 21 2011, 18:06:22 UTC

I think that's all this place is for some of us. Maybe some people are here because they can be redeemed, but I'm certain that for some of us, the illusion of hope and graduation is just an additional surreal level of punishment to this place.

Private doctor_j_crane November 23 2011, 23:16:49 UTC

I couldn't agree more. I occasionally think that even the inmates that graduate are just another carrot on a stick for the rest of us.

iam_aghost November 21 2011, 11:24:42 UTC

I sincerely doubt it either.

[Private]

And I expected much the same of death, if I'm honest. It doesn't feel like a surreal punishment to me, but I do suppose that's not your point. Even so, some of us not being 'punished' are as dead as you.

...It does all have a distinctly religious tone to it, though, I have to admit. Redemption. Walking through endless journeys until you learn something... I won't deny that.

Private raisedinabox November 21 2011, 18:13:17 UTC

You weren't religious in life?

You seem like the type who would have been.

Re: Private iam_aghost November 21 2011, 18:18:16 UTC

I was a communist and a doctor. Religion... didn't suit either, to be honest.

But I always respected others' religion, and now I'm here, and living on after my own death, I do have to wonder.

Private raisedinabox November 21 2011, 18:41:48 UTC

I only really know about Judaism and Christianity, but I'm pretty sure neither of them had a mechanic quite like this one in the afterlife.

I don't know, it's probably not that important.

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sharpememory November 23 2011, 23:09:47 UTC

Not any more than baby ducks. Unless the Admiral wanted to eat them or something.