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We will never be safe.

Started by Q. G. Pennyworth, May 10, 2017, 09:55:14 PM

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Q. G. Pennyworth

The enemy will always be at the gates. We will always be besieged. This is the life we chose.

If we all wake up tomorrow, that is the most we can hope for.

Morale will always be fragile. We will always be a powderkeg. Everything we do is just to maintain the current state of crisis.

There are no victory conditions.

There will never be enough to go around. We will always be scrambling. We could have been anything we wanted, and we wanted this.

We will never be safe.

We put out fires. We rebuild fortifications. We will never stop paying for our mistakes.

We kiss like it's the end of the world.

The Wizard Joseph

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The Good Reverend Roger

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Q. G. Pennyworth

Huh. I was just blowing up very personal level crisis to overdramatize it, wasn't expecting anyone to go there with it.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 11, 2017, 12:51:10 PM
Huh. I was just blowing up very personal level crisis to overdramatize it, wasn't expecting anyone to go there with it.

All crises are personal, if you think about it.

When the dam breaks, you can't stand there and say "It didn't mean me."
" 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.

Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 12, 2017, 01:58:00 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 11, 2017, 12:51:10 PM
Huh. I was just blowing up very personal level crisis to overdramatize it, wasn't expecting anyone to go there with it.

All crises are personal, if you think about it.

When the dam breaks, you can't stand there and say "It didn't mean me."

Right, but I don't know that I'm cool with being accused of channeling the fear of gays marrying and black people existing. There are lots of non-shitty-human ways to end up in full time panic mode.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 12, 2017, 02:47:05 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 12, 2017, 01:58:00 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 11, 2017, 12:51:10 PM
Huh. I was just blowing up very personal level crisis to overdramatize it, wasn't expecting anyone to go there with it.

All crises are personal, if you think about it.

When the dam breaks, you can't stand there and say "It didn't mean me."

Right, but I don't know that I'm cool with being accused of channeling the fear of gays marrying and black people existing. There are lots of non-shitty-human ways to end up in full time panic mode.

What?  That's not what I meant. 

Fuck, never mind.  Erasing.
" 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.

P3nT4gR4m

To be fair, Rogers riff was pretty much paraphrasing what went through my head when I read the OP

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Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 12, 2017, 03:02:57 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 12, 2017, 02:47:05 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 12, 2017, 01:58:00 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 11, 2017, 12:51:10 PM
Huh. I was just blowing up very personal level crisis to overdramatize it, wasn't expecting anyone to go there with it.

All crises are personal, if you think about it.

When the dam breaks, you can't stand there and say "It didn't mean me."

Right, but I don't know that I'm cool with being accused of channeling the fear of gays marrying and black people existing. There are lots of non-shitty-human ways to end up in full time panic mode.

What?  That's not what I meant. 

Fuck, never mind.  Erasing.

Might as well just nuke the thread, I clearly fucked up writing it if everyone's interpreting the way you did.

P3nT4gR4m

Sounds like whatever personal shit you're going through is a perfect metaphor for something else. Maybe you just never noticed is all?

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Q. G. Pennyworth

If it's a perfect metaphor for the existential dread of the worst kinds of people, I'm really okay with deleting it. I'd rather this didn't turn into an exercise in abyss staring.

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I read it as a very dysfunctional relationship. The kind that always seems to be on fire.
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