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[thetenken]

What are you, if not a human?

[cruxthesis]

It's not the matter of what. What sort of non-human concerns you?

[thetenken]

Oh, none, I was just going to ask if all of your kind think alike? Fear and revel in all the same things?

[cruxthesis]

They don't think alike. No, I don't think so.

[OOC: HE'S NOT GOING TO ADMIT HE'S HALF-HUMAN, THAT'S WHY. 3:]

[sofaultless]

I've never feared war.

[cruxthesis]

[A short "Hm" as in, he's getting interested] Never fear pain and humiliation?

[sofaultless]

Why should I? I'm almost untouchable, and I've never been humiliated in my life. There's no need to begin now.

[cruxthesis]

Never? If you were humiliated say. . .your power was taken away from you, would you understand?

Begin what? I was bored, so a civil conversation would break the monotony.

[xxbloodflame]

Under the spreading chestnut tree,
I sold you and you sold me;

The people are torn down to the simplest levels of survival; mere numbers and letters with no deeper function, with war being used as a tool to keep them alive by giving them something to believe in, even if it's false.

That's one of my favorite books. It's true George Orwell was a pretty paranoid guy, but his writing still has a great deal of truth to it.

[cruxthesis]

[Short pause] I wonder. Does his vision ever happen in his world?

[xxbloodflame]

It didn't come to pass in 1984, but before I left things were starting to look more and more like it would in some ways.

I couldn't tell the future, though. I'm no prophet.

[cruxthesis]

Ah. [Long pause since he felt awkward in having a conversation with someone] The ideals in the book appeals to me, but I knew it was fiction.

[solarvampire]

Well, everything contradicts itself one way or another...

[cruxthesis]

Not everything. . .but don't forget the ironies.

[solarvampire]

Well, most do. They just don't see it until someone points it out.

[cruxthesis]

Most do and most do not. Someone who points out the truth or a matter of opinion, both do not matter. Irony is the outcome, but it is not the end. If I say nothing matters, what is your choice?

[gardning]

I think that person needs to check out a dictionary sometime.

[cruxthesis]

The author? Those words are just slogans.

[gardning]

Somebody's gotta write 'em.

[cruxthesis]

I wrote them down from this book I read. . .I don't expect a reaction my notes to be honest.