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idle_traveller in campfuckudie

[in your mess hall. . . or voice posted]

May 09, 2009 22:29

At a time like this. . . I can't help but think of a place I visited once. It doesn't have much to do with what's going on, but it might be a good distraction or something to think on ( Read more... )

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no_pun_in10ded May 10 2009, 02:36:13 UTC

...That's a depressing story.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:37:13 UTC

Maybe, but try to see the glass as half full.

no_pun_in10ded May 10 2009, 02:40:21 UTC

But still! It's basically about how a bunch of people died! Why didn't they just leave? Go somewhere else?

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:42:23 UTC

It was the home they had managed to find after all their trouble and they were tied to the land by that bond. . . They accepted whatever the land-their home-would do.

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stickynoteninja May 10 2009, 02:40:08 UTC

Huh.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:42:58 UTC

Sorry, I'm told it's a "disease" I have-Thinking about things too much.

stickynoteninja May 10 2009, 02:51:15 UTC

Pffft. That's no disease.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:52:41 UTC

Because you suffer from it too.

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gettin_fired_up May 10 2009, 02:44:40 UTC

They shouldn't have been mean to any travelers in the first place. It doesn't solve anything to take out their bitterness on other people. Then they're no better than the people that cast the founders out.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:47:13 UTC

You might be right. That's likely the reason they decided to change their reputation and treatment of travelers in the end.

gettin_fired_up May 10 2009, 02:48:24 UTC

How could they not realize it earlier though? Or did they just not care?

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:49:57 UTC

It takes time for word to travel and they might have been ignorant of what they had done.

. . . But I don't think it's that they didn't care.

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whenurgood2nana May 10 2009, 02:45:47 UTC

Why did they care what people thought about their country in the end?

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:48:22 UTC

I couldn't say. It might have been that they learned from their mistakes, remembering how others had treated them. . . Or that they wished to impress upon others their heritage, so that it would survive them, and were kind for that reason.

whenurgood2nana May 10 2009, 02:50:42 UTC

I guess its true for when anyone dies. They realize its their last chance to make up for all their mistakes.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:52:17 UTC

Perhaps. . . If they choose to.

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buggereye May 10 2009, 02:53:27 UTC

They say disaster brings out the truth in people.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:55:28 UTC

[nods] For a good reason.

buggereye May 10 2009, 02:57:05 UTC

Mmm. I haven't visited a village like that specifically, but I've seen similar situations.

idle_traveller May 10 2009, 02:59:35 UTC

Likewise. Though, not as. . . Impacting.

I take it you're a traveler too?

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