3rd Candelabram - Text/Anonymous

[firstofthefallen]

Hell is repetition.

But Hell can make you strong.

[Someones back after an extremely short departure. And isn't very happy about it.]

Comments

[firstofthefallen]

No. I know. It's merely irksome.

Truth be told I'm not used to having so little information on a situation present.

[morituramfides]

You and me both! I come from a world where information is as easy as typing in a password. Hard to find dirty secrets when you hardly know where they exist

[firstofthefallen]

They exist everywhere. You know where they exist, you just can't unlock the door they're hidden behind.

If you believe it's annoying to have the ability to find such information taken away because you don't know the password, I can assure you the annoyance is increased tenfold when the knowledge tended to be nearly inherent to you.

[morituramfides]

Oh, a pseudo-omniscient then?

Guess our captors fancy themselves unto Gods.

[firstofthefallen]

Pseudo-omniscient would be a succinct way of putting it, yes.

There is little worse to fancy yourself being than a God, in my opinion.

[morituramfides]

As far as I'm concerned, thinking you're God would just mean you've got yourself some shitty self-esteem. So I'm with you on that point.

[firstofthefallen]

If poor self esteem were all our captors suffered from.

I haven't been here long, but it seems to me from the experiment I've gone through and the body switching I've heard about while I was gone that changing our identities our forms seems to be a reoccurring theme for them. Part of their goal at least seems to make us question who we are, or even mold who we are.

I wonder if that is the whole of their experiment, or just a step towards something else.

[morituramfides]

[...Well suddenly a lot of the shit Jin's had to go through now makes sense.]

You think they want to mar our identities enough to rather reshape us or debuff resistance?

I could see that making sense, unfortunately. I'm wondering if that's their true goal, or just a "pleasant" consequence.

[firstofthefallen]

It would be a practical step to take. It's too early to say which it might be but I would be surprised if they had not noticed it was something they were capable of. And that they would take advantage of it when they noticed it.

It's just the nature of things; those who have enough power will inevitably try to "reshape" things to a form that suits them.

[morituramfides]

It's a sound idea in theory, but I've seen many people ground into the dust and reshaped into nothing but hatred and discontent for them. It'd only due to fuel hatred for them, with so many people on the opposite side of their own little bubble.

[firstofthefallen]

This is true. However in my experience those who cling to the notion I described, the idea of reshaping things to be pleasing to them, have developed a defense mechanism for when things don't go as planned. For when those they are "experimenting" on don't react the "right" way.

And it's a simple answer: the believe the problem must lie with the person that was subjected to their cruelties and not with their own system. The system is perfect, it was the specimen that was faulty.

It can be surprising just how desperately they grasp to their ideology, even while it crumbles around them.

[morituramfides]

So if we are the ones at fault, they continue their experiments, until we respond in the way that we should be responding, i.e. crippling fear and complacency.

If that's true, then they're more idiotic than I thought. Though maybe it's their determination to see their own method through that'll work out for us in the end.

[firstofthefallen]

I would take saying they're idiotic and replace that with fanatic. It can be quite easy to see fanaticism as but another form of idiocy, but in the end that can be a dangerous fallacy. They're intelligent; they're merely blinded by what they want. That's what makes them dangerous.

Still, you're correct. Their desire will have the chance to work in our favor by the end.