in the memory you'll find me

[teethlikedog]

Is it possible to be so incredibly, unbelievably normal that you come out the other side and become weird in a sort of mirror universe way, y'know, with little beards and stuff? If so, then sign me up for the travelling freakshow. It sometimes worries me that I'm so very average and well-adjusted: makes me think I must have some deep-seated

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[redex]

I sometimes have those days. They usually happen on the same days as my "is all of this really real?!" days. Like when I wonder if people actually speak Japanese somewhere in the world - even though I go to class with people who are 'actual' Japanese every day. I think reading so many dystopias has made me full of conspiracy theories. Or I just read too much. Or I'm just crazy.

They do say that it's always the quiet ones~!

Pst! Give me a nudge when you're planning your psychotic rampage, and I'll plan mine to match!

[teethlikedog]

I don't think anyone really does speak Japanese, it's all just an elaborate practical joke they're playing on us gullible westerners, and it's gone on for so long now that it'd be too embarrassing to stop, so they have to keep doing it. Sort of like scientology, except L. Ron died before he could shout "hah, fooled you!" and now it's a self-perpetuating farce. I fully intend to set up a counter-religion someday, dedicated to the worship of the evil Lord Xenu.

Dystopic conspiracy theories help to equip you for the harsh realities of the world, where you get screwed over pretty much every day of your life, or so I hear. I've tried to avoid that real world thing as much as possible, or at least blur it with alcohol. As they say, you can never be too rich, too thin or too paranoid.

I'll let you know as soon as I start to feel my mind splinter, and we can coordinate. It'll be fun!

[redex]

Those stupid gaijin, eh? I still don't know what scientology is, you'll have to enlighten me and I'll add it to my list of things that people really don't believe, but just make you think they do. Like the Catholic Church. Sounds like a lovely idea! I'm sure if you use a lot of glitter and poof you'll catch most of the religious market!

I've heard that one too, although 1984 seems absurdly similar to my school and Brave New World NA culture (and The Handmaiden's Tale what NA would be if the radical musliums took over). I know, somehow, that my school is completely unrealistic and that as soon as I get out of it I'll realize how harsh and mean the Real World Really Is, but clearly their brainwashing is working, becuase sometimes I really find it hard to believe.

With these exams coming up, you never do know when! Fufufu...

[teethlikedog]

Scientology has very crazy stupid entertaining beliefs, based on the evil Lord Xenu killing millions of aliens millions of years ago, and their ghosts getting trapped in the bodies of humans, or something like that. This page isn't exactly sympathetic, but it's got the facts right AFAIK.

I dunno about The Real World being all that different from school. I've been out of college for almost two years now and I'm still braced waiting for reality to hit. I think I'm keeping myself in a state of suspended reality, because I still think of myself as a student and I still intend to go back to college. Plus, I had a worse time in school than I ever did in college or the working world, though that was mostly due to being v. socially awkward until the age of seventeen.