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Jun 20, 2008 08:40

Fear ( Read more... )

but i changed nothing, cynical auron is cynical, play your roles, when i was your age, those with power use that power, a lesson to learn, fear, cursed only so far as you call it cursed

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browning_baby June 20 2008, 14:46:14 UTC

Someone just told me fear is part of what makes us who we are.

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 17:33:28 UTC

I'd like to believe that we're whatever we say we are.

browning_baby June 20 2008, 17:35:44 UTC

What do you say you are, Auron?

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 21:23:18 UTC

Unafraid.

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BECAUSE I CAN SOMEHOW SEE THEM GETTING ALONG flash_minato June 20 2008, 17:35:11 UTC

Very insightful. But I believe you forgot something.

Having the courage to confront your fears is what separates the heroes from the warriors.

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 21:24:15 UTC

Unfortunately, having courage is not necessary to confront your fears. I thought I could be a hero, once. I was a foolish boy.

flash_minato June 20 2008, 21:42:27 UTC

True.

Dreaming isn't foolish. Anyone can be a hero.

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 22:27:22 UTC

I'm not a man who believes in heroes any more. Just people with a particular brand of stubbornness.

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canon pseudo-philosophy ping |D tadano June 20 2008, 19:37:18 UTC

The question begs...the nature of the fear, does it not?

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 21:25:53 UTC

I can't guess it. I can only say that it compels us, for better or worse.

tadano June 21 2008, 06:59:53 UTC

Ah, but one typically knows what it is he fears. No? What it is that those fears instill.

knightbalanced June 20 2008, 22:06:22 UTC

Fear is an illusion. Nothing changes when we're afraid, except that it makes us clumsy and irrational. If you're in danger, you'll be in that same danger whether you're afraid or not. If something's trying to kill you, it'll still try to kill you whether you're afraid or not. So why be afraid? Knowledge and caution are one thing, but fear is a pointless trap of the mind.

Not quite yet.

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 22:32:09 UTC

What is its purpose, then?

You're forthright, boy. You're thoughtful without being pedantic.

knightbalanced June 20 2008, 22:37:38 UTC

Self preservation. It's an instinct.

You remind me of someone I almost knew.

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 22:45:34 UTC

Then our instincts don't serve us. This doesn't come as a shock.

Almost is an interesting word in that sentence.

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small_comfort June 20 2008, 22:18:38 UTC

... I think it changes something.

delightfulirony June 20 2008, 22:33:53 UTC

What does it change?

small_comfort June 21 2008, 00:35:34 UTC

Kind of... the way the world looks, and... the kinds of answers we're able to come up with, and the amount of faith we're able to have in ourselves and in other people, and... how easy it is to be happy, and... how we feel about... everything.

delightfulirony June 21 2008, 02:06:29 UTC

Faith.

That's not something I have. You're lucky that you can keep it for yourself.

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