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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, July 09, 2012, 05:50:45 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

July 09, 2012, 05:50:45 PM
I lived and died in the high desert.

The air here was always thin, you see, but in the last 6 years or so, it seems to have all leaked off into space.  You could feel the lack of air, but everyone kept acting like they were breathing.  Chests moving in and out, speaking, etc.

Hypothesis:  We're dead, and this is some unpleasant form of afterlife.

Supporting this hypothesis is the fact that I watch myself all day, as if I was observing myself from a short distance.  This is commonly known as disassociation, but coupled with the fact that I'm not actually breathing real air, yet I'm still walking around, leads me to believe that this is not some form of mental burp.

I am not surprised to find myself in this rather dismal afterlife.  I rather expected worse, to be honest.  However, I am puzzled as to why my kids are here, and why Jenn is here.  They're good people, and don't rate this blasted moonscape, or the horrible flora and fauna that spends all their time trying to sting, bite, or poison us all.

At least our bodies aren't decaying.  Thank God for small favors, right?  Nor do I have any particular urge to eat brains or anything like that.  Speaking of which, we still eat here, but it doesn't give the same satisfaction that I used to get in Chicago, back when I was "quick".  You just shovel it down, and return to your labors.  Same thing with sleeping.  You conk out, and sleep like a log, with no dreams remembered...Not even nightmares.

Everything is the same, day after day.  There is no break in the routine, the daily grind in which one day blurs into the next.  If the afterlife involved fire and brimstone, at least it would keep your interest.  There IS Saturday Night, but even then you're just going through the motions.  Why not?  What else is there to do?

There is no point in telling the other lost souls (not really "lost", of course...We know exactly where we are) what the score is.  Some of them seem to have a clue, but why freak them out?  Things are bad enough already.

This explains, of course, why you can't really ever leave Tucson.  Maybe the people that leave weren't all the way dead.  In a coma or something.  Then they wake up – meaning they leave – but when they actually die at some point later on, they come back.  The question as to what happens to people who "die" here is really too awful to contemplate.

I'd feel better about all of this if I knew how I died.

To be continued
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Anna Mae Bollocks

#1
July 09, 2012, 06:02:10 PM
Maybe that's what's happening here. I've been wondering if the people here are what the old occult guys meant by "etheric revenents", but they seem to eat what passes for food these days. 

Great stuff.
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
July 09, 2012, 09:11:39 PM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on July 09, 2012, 06:02:10 PM
Maybe that's what's happening here. I've been wondering if the people here are what the old occult guys meant by "etheric revenents", but they seem to eat what passes for food these days. 

Great stuff.

What the fuck is an etheric revenant?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

#3
July 09, 2012, 09:19:20 PM
Apparently the soul of a dead person who remains in the body. Like a vampire.

What an afterlife, Rog.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

The Good Reverend Roger

#4
July 09, 2012, 09:23:28 PM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on July 09, 2012, 09:19:20 PM
Apparently the soul of a dead person who remains in the body. Like a vampire.

What an afterlife, Rog.

Ain't no vampires here.  They'd have like 45 minutes to hunt and then POW!  Someone would have to sweep them up.  There's nothing really occulty about all of this...It's just that we're all dead, here.

And it's not so bad, you know?  One less thing to worry about.  Now instead of death & taxes, we just have taxes.  Sure, you feel a little muted or washed out, but the Greeks DID warn us about that.  But could we listen?  NOOOOOOO. 

And yeah, if I was going to arrange things for the afterlife, there'd be more interesting things happening, for good or for ill.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Nephew Twiddleton

#5
July 09, 2012, 09:40:56 PM
Depending on what comes next i might riff on it.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

Nephew Twiddleton

#6
July 09, 2012, 10:03:47 PM
I might riff on it tonight actually i got a couple of things bubbling up in my head.

If thats ok of course
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
July 09, 2012, 10:18:17 PM
Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 09, 2012, 10:03:47 PM
I might riff on it tonight actually i got a couple of things bubbling up in my head.

If thats ok of course

Go ahead.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Anna Mae Bollocks

#8
July 09, 2012, 11:19:15 PM Last Edit: July 10, 2012, 02:41:44 AM by TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 09, 2012, 09:11:39 PM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on July 09, 2012, 06:02:10 PM
Maybe that's what's happening here. I've been wondering if the people here are what the old occult guys meant by "etheric revenents", but they seem to eat what passes for food these days. 

Great stuff.

What the fuck is an etheric revenant?

A bunch of bullshit like Garbo said, but as a metaphor it almost works.  :lol:
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

The Good Reverend Roger

#9
July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Nephew Twiddleton

#10
July 10, 2012, 02:38:54 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.

:?
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

The Good Reverend Roger

#11
July 10, 2012, 02:40:05 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 10, 2012, 02:38:54 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.

:?

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,32776.0.html

I take a bit, based a little on reality, and start working it.  Asshole swipes the bit, turns it into a pun thing.

Fuck this noise.  I'll write it for myself and save the fucking thing to disk.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Freeky

#12
July 10, 2012, 02:43:19 AM

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.

I'm not feeling nearly so generous.

RWHN is a sack of filth who lives to steal neat ideas and turn into drama bullshit, and I for one hopes he dies a lonely, painful death.

Nephew Twiddleton

#13
July 10, 2012, 02:43:53 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:40:05 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 10, 2012, 02:38:54 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.

:?

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,32776.0.html

I take a bit, based a little on reality, and start working it.  Asshole swipes the bit, turns it into a pun thing.

Fuck this noise.  I'll write it for myself and save the fucking thing to disk.

Well, I'll still riff, if it's good with you. It's a good thread, and a I like the idea behind it.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

Anna Mae Bollocks

#14
July 10, 2012, 02:44:22 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:40:05 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 10, 2012, 02:38:54 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.

:?

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,32776.0.html

I take a bit, based a little on reality, and start working it.  Asshole swipes the bit, turns it into a pun thing.

Fuck this noise.  I'll write it for myself and save the fucking thing to disk.

:x :x :x

Quote from: The Freeky of SCIENCE! on July 10, 2012, 02:43:19 AM

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 10, 2012, 02:10:45 AM
I've decided to let RWHN have this bit, since he wants it so much.  I'll just give it to him and keep my thoughts on the matter to myself.

I'm not feeling nearly so generous.

RWHN is a sack of filth who lives to steal neat ideas and turn into drama bullshit, and I for one hopes he dies a lonely, painful death.

In a fucking fire.
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division
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