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(back-dated) puzzle for the ages

Jinjing Sawyl Longwei shared a photo.
03/10 near Viea Village

find whats wrong with this picture
spoiler: MY EYES ARE BLUE
i give up on shit making sense anymore

(OOC: I dropped the ball hard on my event plans this month. if anyone wants something else, or misfires just hit up Yin's inbox here and I'll whip something up!)

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I hope you realize that in your irritation you've proven my point. There's no inherent quality to your eyes that makes them blue, or purple, or what have you.

What if the color of your eyes hasn't changed, but you now perceive them as purple? Would it be so different from people perceiving horses as giant birds?

thats not the same
i pet and fed baby chocobos that day
everywhere horses disappeared

or are you trying to say
they were never real

The chocobos are clearly real by any way we have to measure it. We can interact with them, touch them, see them.

But our memory of horses is less clear. After all, there are no horses here in front of us just now. What if the ones who don't remember horses are correct, and our memories are the false ones?

In other words, what if your eyes were always this color, and your memory that they were blue is a fabrication?

because its on my birth certificate
because everyone always said i had my dads eyes
and his are blue too

the whole thing about horses being fake is whats out of this world
i remember horse head masks vines and memes
now their replaced by rubber chocobo heads
memes dont just vanish overnight
the internet never forgets

But you remember watching those videos. You remember hearing those comments. Everything before now, before this very conversation, is a memory.

And memories, as we've seen, have been vulnerable to change.

so basically the world right now is like that one weird al song
everything you know is wrong

I apologize, I don't recognize that reference.

okay hang on

here you go

[ or there's just lyrics to make the point. ]

This song is

very silly

a lot less silly now than it used to be
anyway
what happens if i buy into your theory
what now

To be honest, I'm not sure. Things are far too strange right now.

Even if we accept it's only a matter of perception and memory, that's still frightening in its scope. Suppose that you never did have blue eyes, but they were able to make you think they did. What other facets of our identity could be fraudulent?

i know theres some shit in my life i wish were fake
pretty sure everyone thinks that
maybe they got us that way

Interesting. You mean like a "monkey's paw" wish?

i was thinking the tailor and his sons
but sure
thats a good one too

I'm not familiar with that fable.

i should make a video about it

but its kinda like the boy who cried wolf
lying over and over again just ends up fucking over the liar in the end
so like now that something is true
like my eyes being purple
something like what your saying should make me question everything
but you know
i dont have time for all that

That's your prerogative I suppose.

I would like to find the truth.

when you get on that let me know
otherwise ive had enough people prying into my life lately
nothing personal

No offense taken.

good
now
about that apology

For?

calling me a liar

I did no such thing.

scroll back up
first things you said

I was offering possibilities of why your eyes could be, as they evidently are, purple.

I'm not apologizing for that. How ridiculous.

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longwei2go - 2017-03-29 03:58 (UTC) - Expand

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Jinjing Sawyl Longwei shared a photo. 03/10 near Viea Village
find whats wrong with this picture spoiler: MY EYES ARE BLUE i give up on shit making sense anymore