002 - TM (TW- Death Mention)

[lingeringwill]

Terra Mason 06/11/17 near Recollé University

blue and green no longer exist outside of a few select cases. somehow, retrospec had the power to do that, along with everything else what don't they have the power to do? i wonder what else they've done that we may have just not noticed... the other day, someone got me thinking about patterns, and i started to realize something... let me conduct a bit of a morbid social experiment, okay? but in the interest of fairness, i'll go first when i was little my mother died. it was fast and sudden--a case of severe pneumonia. she was taken so fast. thief in the night, yeah? the first thing i can remember in my entire life is the look in my dad's eyes as he tried explaining it to me. i was too young to understand at the time...but even as i got older, i still didnt. how can she get that sick, out of nowhere? and just die. i know there's tons of rational reasons for it, but it doesn't sit well, it never has. i realize that this sounds like im refusing to accept the truth but...i can't help wondering. the pneumonia was like a switch. she just died. the universe didn't find her fit to exist anymore or maybe something else i think its obvious what im getting at so, show of hands, everyone. who has one or more dead parents? and if you know i already know the answer to that question...i'm sorry for bringing this back up. really.

Comments

[destiny_key]

sometimes people just die
and theres nothing you can do about it
theres no universe thing
theres no pattern
moms and dads get sick and die and it sucks but thats it

[His dad is dead, and he doesn't want to talk about it. The fact that he died from being sick too doesn't help.]

[complementing]

both parents from a car crash just so you have a record

[matchbreaker]

What is *wrong* with you, boy?

How does this seem even remotely okay to you?

[uncagedbird]

I... don't like what you're implying. I'm afraid I must disagree.
My father had a place in this universe, as did your mother. But... life is also transient. If the earth had been just a little different, none of us would be here at all. Life is fragile and accidental and... difficult to explain. That's what makes life so precious.

Please don't give the people behind this any more power than they already have.

[feistytrader]

It definitely sounds like you're refusing to accept the truth.

[seeker]

a dead parent tally, awesome. great. that's exactly what we need right now

it's a *monumentally bad idea* to publicly continue down this line of thought

[b0mbshell]

[He hates admitting this. Hates it with a passion. But the fact is it's relevant, and something that he's been thinking about himself.]

My father's dead.

My mother
There's something wrong with her. Something happened to her brain, early onset demensia. She doesn't remember me half the time. The other half she only remembers me as a kid.

Imagine all these people getting fake memories, and she can't even have her real ones. [So he hates Retrospec for wasting that ability (as far as he can tell, that's what they're doing).]

But I think the one guy is right. Death just happens. These people can only be considered guilty by inaction.

[long_live_the_queen]

I've never really thought about it

both of them ditched me when I was small

they might be dead, they might not

[...Schrödinger's dead parents??]

[vendettastool]

Mine are in Korea.

What are you trying to figure out by this kind of question?

[longwei2go]

show of hands

if you ask me thats the most insensitive part about this

[truedetective]

Two.

[rebellions]

holy shit and people say i'm inconsiderate
if you still don't get it then idk what to tell you
people just die
it's simple like that
and no i have no clue what the eff you're getting at
is that some kinda conspiracy theory
you think retrospec murdered our parents or some shit

[roseblooms]

Doesn't a survey like this somewhat fall prey to confirmation bias?

I see where your theory is going, but it sounds as though you've already formed a conclusion and are simply going to use the "show of hands" here to confirm what you've already decided. But the statistic you're pursuing is meaningless unless you can also show that there are a disproportionate number of people who've said yes, as compared to a representative sample of the overall population.

[botamochi]

[ ohhhhh man. ]

was this really a good idea?

[judgementkazzy]

I see what you're doing and why you're asking but...
Well, it's not like the people whose parents are alive are going to respond to this much, either.
I think if you'd asked about people's parents in a general sense you might have gotten better answers.
If we start thinking Retrospec had a hand in everything that's gone wrong in our lives then what's the goal there?

[fashionable_yapping]

Nina Écarlate Both of my parent's alive, you idiot.
Nina Écarlate Like, with all this crazy crap happening, I get your urge to make conspiracy theories.
Nina Écarlate Really, I do.
Nina Écarlate But they're already doing plenty in the open. They haven't been making a secret of it.
Nina Écarlate Sorry to hear about your mother, though.

[commandertoolbelt]

dude what the hell
who does this

i mean
it sucks that you lost your mom
but who asks a bunch of total strangers something like that

[gnasher]

are you alright?

[belligerentwarrior]

tip: never start anything with "social experiment." you're setting yourself up.

but you've gotten more than enough hell from everyone else so i'll spare you

chalk up two healthy parents living out in viea village. only asking for the dead ones gets you half the picture, yeah?

[manolia]

I'd normally say you all are giving Retrospec too much personal information, but considering they seem to know everything anyway, it doesn't matter much whether we confirm their knowledge or not.

Honestly, my father could be dead in a ditch, and could have been at any point of my childhood; I'll never know. My mother is alive. [This is one of the only good things he has to say about his mother.] As we all grow older, and I'm pretty old, the thought of losing parents becomes less an abstract horror and more a "when."

It's something you would have had to confront sometime, be it when you were 14 or 40. If Retrospec were killing them off, it'd be a surprise to me.

[manufactured]

Another one that believes that Retrospec is manufacturing everything about us, then. It seems a popular theory, though one that I'm disinterested in entertaining.

But very well - to humor your question, I've no idea about my mother, given that I don't recall anything about her. My father could be dead in some back alley for all I care. If you choose to believe that their circumstances were created by Retrospec, I would like to hear any proof that isn't strictly coincidental.

[wordcarvings]

This seems very morbid, in my opinion. What you might imply, even more so.

But I suppose I can tell you that my mother died when I was 20, from tuberculosis.