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ataraxion2014-04-12 04:38 pm
vivelavenir) wrote in ataraxion2014-04-12 04:38 pm
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A query, for the ship...
I wonder, with what we do know about our predicament; and I admit, my knowledge is little when it comes to the gadgetry and computations that the running of this vessel requires; and what we do know about M. 'Smiley', as he is like to be called...
Well, how to put this?
[A pause and a breath, before tilting his head just softly and staring up at the camera.]
Smiley may not be human, is it so? This has been presented to me as an option. Not human, but digital?
And he has been upon the networks, in order to mock us. But the mocking has had a defined purpose, I have seen. Threats, that we "had better" fix problems-- both technical, and human in the case of the mutineer-- before it costs us our lives. That we "had better" keep the ship running. Yet, if it were not his will that it be fixed too, were it not in his best interest also, would he not use fear as a means of making us do his bidding?
If Smiley would guide us to to save our lives by saving the ship; perhaps it may mean that it is the improper course of action, after all? Perhaps we ensure his-- or it's-- safety by ensuring our own? And in doing so, we too may be responsible in part for leaving this vessel open to stealing more lives from their homes, more people from their families...
In other words, the question I would like to pose is this: If we knew, for fact, that the only way to stop the terrors on this ship and the kidnappings seen each month was in destroying the ship, thus protecting any future targets-- be they like us, or like those pirates, who were seen to summary execution...
Would you be willing to pay that price, to see that the right thing be done?
Dulce et decorum est pro mores mori.
Forgive me, if it is too morbid in thought. The question is surely a difficult one.
I wonder, with what we do know about our predicament; and I admit, my knowledge is little when it comes to the gadgetry and computations that the running of this vessel requires; and what we do know about M. 'Smiley', as he is like to be called...
Well, how to put this?
[A pause and a breath, before tilting his head just softly and staring up at the camera.]
Smiley may not be human, is it so? This has been presented to me as an option. Not human, but digital?
And he has been upon the networks, in order to mock us. But the mocking has had a defined purpose, I have seen. Threats, that we "had better" fix problems-- both technical, and human in the case of the mutineer-- before it costs us our lives. That we "had better" keep the ship running. Yet, if it were not his will that it be fixed too, were it not in his best interest also, would he not use fear as a means of making us do his bidding?
If Smiley would guide us to to save our lives by saving the ship; perhaps it may mean that it is the improper course of action, after all? Perhaps we ensure his-- or it's-- safety by ensuring our own? And in doing so, we too may be responsible in part for leaving this vessel open to stealing more lives from their homes, more people from their families...
In other words, the question I would like to pose is this: If we knew, for fact, that the only way to stop the terrors on this ship and the kidnappings seen each month was in destroying the ship, thus protecting any future targets-- be they like us, or like those pirates, who were seen to summary execution...
Would you be willing to pay that price, to see that the right thing be done?
Dulce et decorum est pro mores mori.
Forgive me, if it is too morbid in thought. The question is surely a difficult one.
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He did not think it could return him to life in Paris, but stanger things certainly had happened.]
That does sound a beautiful thing. And no doubt, were circumstances different, I should have liked that very much. But I chose my fate more than it chose me, and I cannot berate it now.
Still; thank you. Your prayers are welcome.
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But I should not hope to live in a place where my friends have died also. It would hurt my heart too much, and accomplish very little.
...I am sorry, if I speak to bluntly, or upset you.
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When you are returned home, you are to live such that happy life, with a loving partner, and little ones, far into old age. If you do that, you shall have done it for both of us, and I will be much satisfied.
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