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@hythlodaeus | text
I've an odd question to ask, if you'll indulge me.
Let us say a world exists where all work toward the betterment of their world, where none go without, and no one need be separated from their loved ones before they could bid farewell. Each day is peaceful and productive, and you know your place within it. You need not leave until you are ready, and only when you feel fulfilled.
Would you choose to live in this world or the one you came from? Why?
And to those who know why I ask this question, I pray you answer as well, and do so honestly. I promise 'tis in the spirit of keeping an open mind.
Let us say a world exists where all work toward the betterment of their world, where none go without, and no one need be separated from their loved ones before they could bid farewell. Each day is peaceful and productive, and you know your place within it. You need not leave until you are ready, and only when you feel fulfilled.
Would you choose to live in this world or the one you came from? Why?
And to those who know why I ask this question, I pray you answer as well, and do so honestly. I promise 'tis in the spirit of keeping an open mind.
un: netzach
but i think if it did exist, and i knew i could choose to live there, i'd still have a hard time giving up on the place i'm from.
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Even if it would benefit them to go as well?
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text; un: loveless
How nice, everything just picture perfect.
hardly much of a decision, if you're presenting all facts as is
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The fact that my "example" seems to be one-of-a-kind is quite baffling to me, I must admit.
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Un: samsa
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'Twould be more accurate to ask this: if both were to be coming to an end, which would you save? ...But the question seemed a bit too cruel to ask.
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un: thefool
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un: hidden | text
At best, only a beautiful fantasy to carry the imagination. To happen upon such a realm now would spark suspicion from most, I would think.
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un: junpei
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un: avidya
Re: un: avidya
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text; un: archon
doubtless that comes as no surprise to you
my reason is equally unsurprising: because i know the cost of the paradise
tis too steep a price to pay
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I'm not saying that the actions of the Convocation of your time are correct. [Not that he knows what they all are, beyond what little he's heard of Lahabrea's doings] But if there is a way that doesn't incur such cost... Even then?
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It doesn't sound as though this is just a hypothetical to you.
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Though for what it's worth, I can safely say this world is slowly on its way to being crossed off my list of preferred alternatives.
Not that I mind the people, of course. Truth be told, I quite like the conversations I get to have.
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un: gebura
that's as good as running away, to me
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@gautier
is that where you're from?
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un: phoenix
That does sound like a magnificent world, yet it is still not where I am from, yes? I would choose not to live in this world, especially when I am bound to my own by duty.
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text; un: d.larusso
But then his thoughts wander off, and they manage to hit a different thought entirely. ]
Sorry to say this, but it seems like a rather odd thing to think this deeply about. [ It sounds a little like philosophy, almost..
But that's not Daniel's full thought. No, that's-- ]
Is this world maybe bothering you a little bit too much? [ Is that the reason anyone would start thinking about all this? ]
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I'd prefer to say that it's given me much to think about.
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un: ihavequestion
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text, un: thevampirelestat
It is a very nice concept. I can't help but think it would be missing some of the variety of the human condition, though.
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But I'm curious: what do you think would be missing?
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