004. With no alarms, and no surprises

[drydrown]

For those of you who were wondering what happens if those insipid little stones we were given break: I still wouldn't necessarily recommend it until we're certain that it's absolutely nothing, but...



...Well, I certainly don't feel any different, either.

Comments

[drydrown]

Oh, believe me, I've noticed. Some people just take that sort of assertion better than others, and it's difficult to tell with you whether you're actually just very flippant, or if the lady doth protest too much, if you follow.

[livingimpaired]

Ah, most fair.

But no, it doesn't bother me.
I've accepted I'm quite odd.

[drydrown]

Good for you, then. ♡

...Legitimately. Confidence in who one is as a person goes a long way, it's pathetic when people have no sense of themselves.

[livingimpaired]

The delusions that people wrap themselves in is just another word called "perspective." There's nothing wrong with it, however. You have your own perspectives about yourself, don't you?

Such as mine that I think I could ever be funny.

[drydrown]

So do you believe all notions of self-perception and perspective to be delusions of one kind of another? Or is that more your way of saying that such things can never be objective fact due to their nature?

[livingimpaired]

Are those two questions really mutually exclusive?
Isn't it a little bit of both?

[drydrown]

They aren't mutually exclusive, but nor are they exclusively mutual, necessarily...?

[livingimpaired]

Now you are getting it.

[drydrown]

Well, yes, but one doesn't have to imply the other, either.

[livingimpaired]

It doesn't have to, but it does.

Such is the contradiction of humans, right?

[drydrown]

If we're taking that as objective fact, I suppose...?

[send help]

[livingimpaired]

Indeed, if we are, then it is.

[drydrown]

And if we choose not to?

[livingimpaired]

Then it isn't, of course.

[drydrown]

Glad we could clear that up.

[livingimpaired]

It only took a little bit of time, Alexander Cumore.

[drydrown]

Do you call everyone by full name like that?

[livingimpaired]

No.

[drydrown]

What are the exceptions?

[livingimpaired]

Hm? You'd like me to stop, then? Very well since it doesn't put me out, Alexander, your request and question are both answered.

[drydrown]

...Please don't. I promise you that that was not a request.

[livingimpaired]

Mere curiosity, then?

Well, that is your answer, either way.
The person need only ask.
It isn't necessarily about closeness with a person to suddenly switch to only calling them by one name. No, if it I put it into words, it would be a certain amount of time must pass between me knowing a person without negative relations building.

[ It's a fake reward for people for putting up with him. It's a social construct he made for himself to show that people have tipped into some special category. Whether they actually are or are not -- only he really knows. There are those that he does give meaning to and feel preferential toward, after all. ]