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[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

U-Um so... Now that Halloween's coming up... I guess people are going to be doing... Halloween things... I-I hope nobody's going to do anything scary this time...

If anyone wants to see me on Halloween, I'm going to be hiding in my dorm room. I-I don't want anyone jumping out at me in the halls...

But even though it's probably going to be a scary month, the trees are still really pretty! You know, since they're all red and orange and... yeah...

Oh! By the way! I was planning on baking some fall-themed treats, so if anybody wants some, feel free to stop by the kitchen! J-Just make sure to leave some for everyone else, please... If that's okay with you...

Comments

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

This manner of celebration over nothing...I as well opt out of such things, although for a far different reason.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

I don't want to avoid it or anything... I just don't want to get s-scared...

Why don't you like Halloween?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

I dislike all holidays. They are worthless excuses to hold parties, which in turn waste resources.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

...O-Oh... Well, when you put it that way...

But aren't the resources worth the fun?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

"Fun" is a concept based on our want to distract ourselves from what is truly important.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

But fun's important, too! If you don't have fun in life, then you're never happy, a-and then you can't get things done because you're too sad to do anything!

Don't you have something you do to make yourself happy?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Interesting. You believe that sadness is our default nature. Why do you believe that?

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

W-Well, if you're not happy, then everything's not as great as it could be, and then... you're... sad...? I guess...?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

As great as it could be. An interesting concept. How do you believe greatness manifests in life?

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

G-Greatness... Um... Wh-When things... Uh...

I don't think I understand...

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

You stated that if one is not happy, it indicates that things are not as great as they could be. Yet "greatness" is undefined.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

I guess it... depends on the person's opinion...? I-I mean, you know, how high their expectations for life are...

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Yet most set theirs shamefully low. Are they not meant for higher things? Perhaps not, the self-defeating mindset already ahold.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

[Whoa man this is getting pretty deep.]

Maybe people, uh... Maybe they... aren't as optimistic?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Yet that is their limitation.

One of them, anyway.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

W-Well, I thought it was... good to have limitations? Otherwise, people wouldn't have anything to learn! And then they wouldn't be able to feel proud of themselves for learning things!

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

There is a difference between limitation and the educational process. To feel proud...how selfish!

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

But then... that's one of those things that make people feel happy... I-I mean, if people work hard enough, can't they be at least be... kind of... maybe... selfish... and proud...?

I don't... really... know if being proud is that selfish, though... I-I guess... everyone has their own opinions...

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

It is self-centered, the very definition of selfishness.

[green-thundah.livejournal.com]

U-Umm... If you say so... I guess...

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

And I do. Consider the nature of the self. It often takes some calamity to get us to view outside ourselves.