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[cold_dry_pieces]

Funny, how drastically you all seem to disagree with one another. Are they telling you things you don't know? Or only things you wish you didn't?

Lying to yourself is a bad habit, and one that rarely accomplishes anything.

[ooc: cursed? or just fucking with you? does it really matter? xD]

Comments

[gouge-em-out.livejournal.com]

Seems like everyone has trouble dealing with what they've done.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Evidently. Shouldn't have done it, then. Not like denying it's going to make a difference, though.

[gouge-em-out.livejournal.com]

They shouldn't feel so guilty. The world is a worse place than most people would think, so what they've done is probably not that big of a deal.

[cold_dry_pieces]

That's a cynical way of looking at it, but probably not an inaccurate one.

[againstgod.livejournal.com]

Well spoken.
Embrace your sins.
Accept them and move on.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Hmn, no preaching atonement?

[againstgod.livejournal.com]

A killer will always be a killer.
Another road won't make you less than you have become.

You can be a sinner and something else.
But to deny your faults is to become blind.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Seems reasonable. Practical, even, which is a rare outlook to find, here.

Clearly many people are too fond of their blindness, hmn?

[againstgod.livejournal.com]

Harmless.
Sickening when their denial transforms into self-righteousness.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Self-righteousness often is.

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

That depends on what you think of as an accomplishment, doesn't it?

[cold_dry_pieces]

What can be accomplished through self-deception? Doesn't seem to be doing most of these people any good.

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

Peace of mind, I imagine.

[cold_dry_pieces]

I don't believe that.

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

Oh? And what do you believe?

[cold_dry_pieces]

I just don't see the point of lying to yourself. You'll never believe you, after all. You know better.

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

Who knows? They do say practice makes perfect.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Perhaps some people are fools enough to fall for it, I don't know. What a wasted effort, though; wouldn't it be wiser to avoid doing things you'd regret and accept what you are?

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

In which case it'd move on to lying to you convincingly. It's a curse. I doubt it can be stopped by a few revelations.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Certainly not. People are rarely swayed by logic, anyway.

Nonetheless, it seems they're all suffering due to their own devices. Self-defeating, really. You can hardly blame the City for this one.

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

I suppose not. At least it's given them more interesting excuses to suffer than usual.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Thank heaven for small favors.

[onlyteasing.livejournal.com]

Or the deities' office.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

They're saying things to make me doubt myself.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Either what they're saying is true, in which case you should stop assuming it isn't, or they're lying. In which case, it doesn't matter, does it?

I don't get all this... strife.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

It's- Yeah. I guess it doesn't really matter. Just annoying.