.05. [voice] sometimes i give myself the creeps sometimes my mind plays tricks on me

[tangentdarko]

I know that what I'm experiencing would be called a "daylight hallucination," but I can't help but think there might be some truth to it, you know? Like maybe it's stuff the Admiral wants us to see.. That's, if I'm not the only one. Otherwise, maybe it's just me. Maybe the Admiral wants me to do something

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[triggered_it]

Don't give the admiral so much credit, Donnie. He merely drives this vessel; I highly doubt he has any influence over what happens to us during floods. That seems to be more a reflection of our own minds.

[tangentdarko]

I don't know. It seems illogical to think that he couldn't choose to take water on. Even if he can't control the event itself, maybe he plans it and knows what will happen to us. He always sounds familiar but never has a face. He just.. he sounds a little too much like God to not have control of any of the things that go on here. I'm not saying he is God.. fff.. I don't know. I just think he has more control than most people assume but he doesn't want them to know because then he could get blamed for all the things that happen and people might be less willing to accept them as random circumstance.

[triggered_it]

A valid point. He could choose to take on flood waters, perhaps certain floods, even.

However, in order to have a plan, he'd have to have a very detailed knowledge about our psychology in order to predict how we would react, and that is entirely possible. I concede that. However, floods interfere with the redemption process. They hinder, and occasionally, help.

This means he'd be interfering with the job of the wardens. You can make of that what you will.

[tangentdarko]

I think it's perfectly possible that he picks and chooses different people out of different times from a limited universe. That kind of makes him like God too. Even if he's not, it still makes sense that he'd like, be able to know about all of us. To be omniscient and omnipotent. Letting us play out our own problems and just watching. For all we know, we're justifying the existence of humanity.

The floods always help. If there weren't any floods, people would just do the same thing day after day and they wouldn't be able to get over anything. Routine is what hurts growth and progress and all those other things that we're supposed to be working toward. Floods make people think, good or bad. I mean, yeah, they're totally traumatizing half the time, but how else would people seek out comfort and the necessary social ties that help people mature? It just doesn't make sense not to have them.

[no_nanomites]

Does he whistle?

[tangentdarko]

[A laugh.] What?