@LightningBolt
I disagree with that assumption. I am thankful to all of my ancestors to inadvertently provide me the opportunity to blindly taste all of life’s flavors at the dining table specifically for me. The chef’s blind too, and does not know the food I am being given. I don’t want to stab myself with the fork. Even the bitter flavors are incredibly profound, with subtle hints of growth in the complexity of the dishes. Even blindfolded, I know the last dish is poisoned. I hope the chef doesn’t make it bland. I want flavor with my poison.
@Chicago Ted
Was it? I encourage you to ask yourself the question, instead of standing in awe from mine.
@LightningBolt
I agree that you’re probably an artist, and you’ve posted over 100 images to the site. You do seem to enjoy your tags. You seem to moderate mostly at night. You seem as normal as any other brain. I have no way of confirming how flexible you are.
But none of that tells me who you actually are. It’s all meaningless. We lose ourselves in this idea that our lives actually mean something on a virtual playing field. The truth is, all of us would mean just as much on the internet if we were to commit suicide, or die violently, and be written in books to be remembered for the next 100 years or so, and then forgotten as humanity moves closer to destruction from the star in our solar system, or nuclear devastation. After that, it’s only so much time until the universe dissipates, and all light is purged.
@Chicago Ted
I can’t confirm anything other than you’re a message post upon an image, on an image board, on the internet, which may not actually be within any form of reality. You could be a figment of my imagination and I have no way of knowing more, without seeing you as a person in ‘real life’, and even then it could just be someone claiming to be the person that posted that.
But all of us have to be pragmatic. You’re a person.
@Jaysteeny
I’d probably like badges just as much as him, if not for how much people put into them. “Oh, you have a duck badge? Your comment means nothing and I will not both reading it.” “You have a mysterious badge? You must be interesting to talk to.”
It’s like identity politics. Titles are meaningless because instead of allowing others to define you, people are too quick to use them as your definition. An example is @LightningBolt here. Because it is easier for my brain, I’m more likely to look at those badges and assume they’re a physically flexible, organized artist that spent two years getting a single badge, all while only being awake at night, while mutilating a penis and declaring themselves perfectly normal, and whom posts a lot of art to feel verified within the world. I’m probably very far from the truth of who that person is.