[ SECRET POST #047 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #047 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #007.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday February 22, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Would you really want to live in a world that's constantly on the verge of the apocalypse?

YES. Fuck fairies and elves and dwarves. Give me a world at constant war, threatened by monsters, where you wake up every day to fight and each one might be your last. I personally would love it.

It has nothing to do with understanding at all.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Have you ever actually been in combat? I'm not saying I have but I have enough sense to know that it's not something that needs to be glorified, if the mentally traumatized veterans of Vietname and WWII are any indication.

I bet that, if you were really in said situation, you'd be begging to go back home to your nice, comfortable, relatively safe life. And if you have ever been in combat or served in an army, disregard everything I said and accept my sincere apologies.

[(Anonymous)]

Fighting against humans should not compare at all to fighting against "monsters." The mentally traumatized veterans of Vietnam and WWII who were drafted into fighting a war they didn't want to fight on a massive scale is completely different from (as a more comparable example) wanting to live in a remote tribe and hunt animals with spears for food.

There's no question of glory. I don't dislike my life. It's quite nice. That doesn't mean there aren't other lives I'd prefer.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just a softie, but I don't particularly get why anyone would enjoy fighting all the time.

Oh well. As much as I, personally, think your opinion is naive, rash, and comepletely mind-boggling, I will respect your right to have it. Just don't try going off to live with the gorillas or something equally dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

It isn't respect if you insult it first.

My attempt to explain was pointless I see.

No use in arguing further.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

I can respect the person without respecting their opinion. For all I know you're a pretty swell person; I just think that wanting to live in a world of constant combat against things that can kill you is foolish. It's the same as if you told me you hated my favorite pairing, or even outright insulted it - sure, it'd sting a little, but honestly, we all have a right to state our stance on the issue. Get over it.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure you have a right to state your stance, but you're acting as though the other person's stance is completely ridiculous when it isn't necessarily. And there was probably a more respectful way of saying it than what you said.

Sure, you may think there's better ways to live, but we didn't always have the convenience of not needing to fight for life the way we do today. And perhaps some people would prefer they didn't. I think it's like someone thinking they were born too late, and would have rather been born at the turn of the century, or in the Victorian era, or the Elizabethan era, or even Ancient Egypt or whatever. Sure, most people would be like OMGNOELECTRICITY or whatever but for that person, they know that there wouldn't be electricity and they still want to live back then.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

I'm not changing my opinion, but after thinking about it, I probably did come off a little rude. For that, I apoligize.

It's still a little tough for me to grasp the concept of "I should have been born in the past" that a bunch of people seem to get. Then again, I don't grasp a lot of concepts because sometimes I fail at life.

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, it's probably not a case of failing at life so much as being happy with what you have. If you're content as you are, then sure you're not going to be able to see why people would want a change like that.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Actually, I just got over a year-long case of depression. I know what it's like to be unhappy with your life, but through hard work on my part and on my family and friends' part, I was able to enjoy life again. Maybe it just riled me up because I'd been there, and looking back I'm kind of like "...WTF was I thinking?"

[(Anonymous)]

oh, and this isn't the same person. Sorry!

[(Anonymous)]

I am over it, or rather was.

You're the one being deliberately standoffish here. Read over the thread again. You asked a question (and insinuated that all people who think this way are aaaangsty and eeeeemo and hate their lives while doing so) and I answered it more nicely than I probably should have.

I'm going back to being over it, now.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

I don't know, the monster comment is accurate, and as someone that HAS been training in combat since childhood and so ultimately bored with life as it is right now (so much so that I am joining the NYPD to help alleviate it), the fantasy world does not seem like a particularly bad thing.