So this is New York, but it's...not. Well, at least not my New York. There are tons of similarities but the differences add up and there are certain things that just aren't here
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[voice] with actually legitimate advicefangsmileJuly 2 2010, 22:28:35 UTC
In the west, people who are religious go to a place of worship and light a candle or write a scroll or something. In Japan, peasants used to carve their loved ones' names into vegetables and make them into food offerings for the dead.
And in the ancient world, we believed the dead could exist, if somewhat miserably, in the underworld for as long as someone was still living who remembered them and gave them offerings and prayers. Once the world forgot about you, you underwent a second death, and you just stopped existing altogether. Way worse than first death. That's what all those huge burial tombs and monuments were all about. People wanted to achieve immortality through fame. You wouldn't stop existing if no one was allowed to forget about you.
That's a little history lesson, Darlin. A gift from me to you.
And in the ancient world, we believed the dead could exist, if somewhat miserably, in the underworld for as long as someone was still living who remembered them and gave them offerings and prayers. Once the world forgot about you, you underwent a second death, and you just stopped existing altogether. Way worse than first death. That's what all those huge burial tombs and monuments were all about. People wanted to achieve immortality through fame. You wouldn't stop existing if no one was allowed to forget about you.
That's a little history lesson, Darlin. A gift from me to you.
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[She has no clue what to say.]
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Oh and more good news: I'm literally here to help.
[Switch to video and you can see the view from the window of a shitty hotel downtown in the City.]
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Oh joy.
I've got enough people to help me, thanks.
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You're not the only one with dead friends and family y'know. Live long enough, and you get real good at knowing people as memories and nothing more.
But what am I saying. You're an X-Man. Of course you won't live long enough.
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