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The Weird West, or A Tale of Morality in an Immoral World

Started by Doktor Howl, March 17, 2015, 04:48:31 PM

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Wow....




I need to read this over from the beginning.

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Hm.

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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 08, 2015, 05:58:12 PM
Whoa.

It's a never-ending cycle, isn't it?

Well, sure.  As I said, it's a morality tale.  It's America.  You can even label the characters according to American tropes.

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Doktor Howl

The Preacher is the reformer.
The Undertaker is the corporate prison system, banks, etc.
The pastor is the megachurch minister in his finery.
The first bartender is the yahoo hooting over CNN war footage.
The second bartender is the man in the street.
The 4 horsemen are the various agencies that police us (which is which should be obvious).
And so on.
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The Wizard Joseph

Bravo! I had no idea when I'd see the end of this when I found myself distracted from this place. There isn't one.
Hell is death, after death, after death with no real change.
You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

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Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 11, 2015, 06:23:03 AM
Bravo! I had no idea when I'd see the end of this when I found myself distracted from this place. There isn't one.
Hell is death, after death, after death with no real change.

More like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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The Wizard Joseph

Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2015, 06:35:17 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 11, 2015, 06:23:03 AM
Bravo! I had no idea when I'd see the end of this when I found myself distracted from this place. There isn't one.
Hell is death, after death, after death with no real change.

More like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Right. One of the themes about "heaven & hell" as concepts that fascinates me is that they both are about who's your boss, and how your boss supposedly do. In this particular tale it seems to me you have a man struggling to effectively take over "hell" and getting what he worked for. From the impression left on me from before I ditched for a while this was the saddest outcome I'd considered. Not all good, and too few realistic, morality stories are happy ones.


Gonna work on some of my personal story and dump some few other things I've been working on  later.
You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality :lulz:

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing.  It does something else entirely, or nothing at all.  It's like voting."
- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019

"It's not even chaos anymore. It's BANAL."
- Doktor Hamish Howl

Doktor Howl

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Dude, this is composed of win and awesomesauce. Well done.
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Doktor Howl

Gonna put this in smashwords for something to do during the plague.
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The Wizard Joseph

Gonna reread! My memory for specifics is shit long term, but I remember absolutely loving this and now I effectively get to read it again from scratch!
You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality :lulz:

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing.  It does something else entirely, or nothing at all.  It's like voting."
- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019

"It's not even chaos anymore. It's BANAL."
- Doktor Hamish Howl