Repentance

[old_cutter_john]

"When they said, 'Repent!' I wondered what they meant

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[old_cutter_john]

Yes! As Old Cutter John! I remember that you left a long time ago. Then I saw something in your journal that suggested you might have returned, though I'm not sure.

Amazing how little harm I did or suffered during my journey through that snake pit! But, as in the case of rush-hour traffic, it's best not to be there at all.

I haven't forgotten you! I've been deep in. You too, I imagine, though I can't quite say why I imagine that.

[anais_pf]

Because it's a snake pit, or were there other reasons?

[old_cutter_john]

The fact that it's a snake pit is a large part of it, but there are other reasons too. One is my increasing horror at the atrocities perpetrated in meatspace for the purpose of posting them on Facebook. That wouldn't happen without a passive audience, and my presence on Facebook increases the perceived size of the passive audience. Other reasons have nothing to do with ordinary reality, and I won't be able to explain them. I can tell you for sure, though, that no event or cluster of events on Facebook precipitated my departure.

[stormdog]

I admire your stand!

[old_cutter_john]

Thanks for your contribution to the process, back on September eleventh. There's a song called Radio Waves by Roger Waters, and it contains a line of which I'm strangely enamored: "Magic Billy in his wheelchair is picking up all this stuff in the air." When enough of this stuff in the air comes at me, all about the same time, it gets my attention. Sometimes to the degree that I act on it. A lot has been coming at me lately.

[old_cutter_john]

And thank you!