What If...?

[rahvin]

what if gladitorial combat still existed?

all the users on um would be retiarii, the gladiators who used to fight equipped with a net.




well, that's called humour, you know?

 

[MagSec4]

What if the key to life is that it ends?

That's not a key, that's a fact (of life)

what if gladitorial combat still existed?

It does still exist (but not in California)
You must simply not have Cable TV

 

[Ethereal Sage]

what if gladitorial combat still existed?

Another form of population control, maybe? Another group of activists formed going against it...another generation of bloody commentators would be born

 

[La Rocque]

What if I asked for forgiveness?

@ Magse4 - I'm not stating facts - I'm asking 'what if'

La Rocque's motto - life has no purpose but itself

 

[MagSec4]

@ Magse4 - I'm not stating facts - I'm asking 'what if'

Oh but you are, in fact, stating a fact; because, as I said, what you had stated was, in fact, a fact

 

[rahvin]

What if I asked for forgiveness?

it depends on what you've done and to whom. but most of the times you'd get it: people are such brainwashed sops they're bound to believe in anyone's good intentions.

 

[hyena]

@rahve:

since when has that been remotely true where we are concerned? except for our parents, that is. and each other.

 

[rahvin]

since when has that been remotely true where we are concerned? except for our parents, that is. and each other.

see, we're not the kind to go around asking for forgiveness. like you just said, we're too conceited. we can apologise politely if we think we've been wrong, but we're hardly the "i beg you to believe i shall mend my fallen ways" kind, which is the style most people out there understand. i have reason to believe that if we had decided to go up to certain people and make an act of contrition, we wouldn't have been sent away empty-handed.

 

[Dark_Jester]

it depends on what you've done and to whom. but most of the times you'd get it: people are such brainwashed sops they're bound to believe in anyone's good intentions.

That's a bit harsh isn't it?

 

[rahvin]

That's a bit harsh isn't it?

you're right ben, that was way over the line. forgive me.

 

[Dark_Jester]

Ha, you want me to be another brainwashed sop who believes in YOUR good intentions?

This insult will be a grudge between us that we shall carry to the grave.
Your grave. :Smokedev:

 

[Ethereal Sage]

What if everyone just put down their weapons (and puns) and just accepted everyone for who they were?

 

[rahvin]

Ha, you want me to be another brainwashed sop who believes in YOUR good intentions?

what makes you think that?

This insult will be a grudge between us that we shall carry to the grave.
Your grave. :Smokedev:

somehow you fail to see that i still remember a time when between us there was something far bigger and nicer than a grudge. it was oblong, as well.

 

[Dark_Jester]

You mean a wall? An oblong wall?

Should we :gasp: forgive and forget? Accept the indoctrination and become mindless forgivement automatons???

Ethereal: The world would be a nicer place, definitely.

 

[rahvin]

What if everyone just put down their weapons (and puns) and just accepted everyone for who they were?

in a humourless world people would fall into deep depression, and then they will have to resort to kill themselves without firearms since they've just put their weapons down.

 

[Child of Time]

But maybe they could pick up their weapons again?

 

[rahvin]

But maybe they could pick up their weapons again? :huh:

it's a conundrum, that's what it is. and what do we do with accepting others as they are then, huh? try accepting me as i am without your grenade launcher before you act all cocky, mister! and while you're at it, put down that conundrum as well, you're scaring me.

 

[Child of Time]

I can try accepting you without my grenade launcher, I do still have my conundrum. So I put my grenade launcher right here at my feet. See, I have put down my weapons, but it's still very easy for me to pick it up. And don't try to attack me while I'm bowing down, I have my conundrum pointed at you.

 

[rahvin]

And don't try to attack me while I'm bowing down, I have my conundrum pointed at you.

ah, so that's what's sticking out of your... *ahem* ok, i'm accepting you if you're accepting me. let's shake our conundrums as a symbol of our non-belligerence.

 

[Child of Time]

Let's try if our conundrums are accepting each other!