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[nomoresharks]

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.

Comments

un: netzach

[abstractart]

that kind of world sounds like it's too good to be true, honestly...

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.

[nomoresharks]

You'd hardly be the first to say so.

Even if it would benefit them to go as well?

text; un: loveless

[limbical]

sounds like a paradise
How nice, everything just picture perfect.

hardly much of a decision, if you're presenting all facts as is

[nomoresharks]

I suppose it's something of an unfair question, looking at it as it is. But I've no other way to put it.

The fact that my "example" seems to be one-of-a-kind is quite baffling to me, I must admit.

Un: samsa

[anthropophagite]

I think it'd depend if it came at a cost.

[nomoresharks]

I imagine there is--to either world, no matter which is picked.

'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.

un: thefool

[mollymocks]

that world sounds awful boring if im honest

[nomoresharks]

Really? What makes you say that?

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[kampfgeist]

in this hypothetical have i always lived in paradise or am i a transplant from my actual world

[nomoresharks]

Always. Choosing one having known the other would make it a little unfair, I think.

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[matermali]

If peace was all that I knew, how could I crave anything less? Should I have had the opportunity to be born into such an Eden, I would think to always favor it, knowing I could leave whenever I wished. To feel content and never trapped?

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.

[nomoresharks]

So I've seen. Is it really so hard to imagine?

un: junpei

[coolerjunpei]

which one am i in before i get to choose?

[nomoresharks]

Either one. You could look at it from the perspective from both worlds if you'd like.

un: avidya

[wreatharrow]

Even if a place like that should exist, it would be rather short-sighted to want to live there. I, for one, wouldn't even consider it an option.

Re: un: avidya

[nomoresharks]

Why is that?

text; un: archon

[onlythans]

i would live in the one i came from, and reject the paradise
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

[nomoresharks]

And I have seen what the fall of such a paradise has wrought upon your souls with mine own two eyes. And heard with mine own two ears just how rare something like the Etheirys I know truly is.

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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[aceslow]

If I wanted a better life somewhere else, I would have tried to immigrate already. God knows there are easier places to live.

It doesn't sound as though this is just a hypothetical to you.

[nomoresharks]

Nay. And here I am stuck with the fact that I'm painfully obvious.

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.

un: gebura

[bemist]

pass
that's as good as running away, to me

[nomoresharks]

"Running away?" And why is that?

@gautier

[laidtocrest]

the world you're describing sounds pretty nice, won't lie

is that where you're from?

[nomoresharks]

That it is. It's not without *any* fault whatsoever, mind, but no place is.

un: phoenix

[feathering]

Greetings.

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.

[nomoresharks]

You'd not be the first. Though that does lead me to a follow-up question: would your answer be the same if no such duty existed?

text; un: d.larusso

[miyagimagic]

[ To be fair, Daniel actually does find himself considering this for a moment. Something about it speaks to him.

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? ]

[nomoresharks]

"Bothering" is one way to put it.

I'd prefer to say that it's given me much to think about.

un: ihavequestion

[emyoji]

Oh. That sounds nice, but a little lonely.

[nomoresharks]

"Lonely..." Now that's a first. Why do you say that

text, un: thevampirelestat

[perfectdevil]

I do not think such a place would last in peace very long. People do terrible things to each other even when they live in unimaginable contentedness, even when they have everything they want and no reason whatsoever to lash out.

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.

[nomoresharks]

I don't doubt that it's rare, but I *can* tell you that such a place has existed--for eons, even.

But I'm curious: what do you think would be missing?