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exsilium2013-10-22 10:43 am
keep_smiling) wrote in exsilium2013-10-22 10:43 am
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Hello everyone!! (*☌ᴗ☌)｡ How are you all? I hope everyone is working hard and keeping their spirits up. Just remember to keep a smile on your face. Things are hard right now, but that's no reason to frown!! Just the opposite. Smiling will make you feel better, and make the people around you smile too! They're contagious, you know (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)
I was wondering if anyone needed any help with missions! I'm willing to join people on almost anything. I could use some fresh air and sunshine. I'd be glad to come along and help you with something! /o/
I know a lot of new people have shown up while we've been on the moon base. I would like to meet you all! My name is Elmer C. Albatross and I am your Chief Morale Officer.
Oh, before I forget!! Just because we got displaced doesn't mean I'm cancelling the talent competition. As soon as we're back on the surface and things get smoothed out, I'll announce a new date. In the meanwhile, you can keep yourself occupied by practicing for your portion!! It should be lots of fun!! ( ° ᴗ°)~♡
I was wondering if anyone needed any help with missions! I'm willing to join people on almost anything. I could use some fresh air and sunshine. I'd be glad to come along and help you with something! /o/
I know a lot of new people have shown up while we've been on the moon base. I would like to meet you all! My name is Elmer C. Albatross and I am your Chief Morale Officer.
Oh, before I forget!! Just because we got displaced doesn't mean I'm cancelling the talent competition. As soon as we're back on the surface and things get smoothed out, I'll announce a new date. In the meanwhile, you can keep yourself occupied by practicing for your portion!! It should be lots of fun!! ( ° ᴗ°)~♡
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[So she switches over to the video feed! It's a soft, absentminded kind of smile and basically completely fake -- not in the sense that it's forced so much as it's an imitation of other people's. A normal person wouldn't notice, but, well.
Elmer's not normal in any sense of the word. So.]
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Oh, I see! You don't know how to smile. It isn't real at all!
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In that case -- you are smiling, aren't you, Sir? Could you please teach me to smile as well?
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[Because, in retrospect, the base for hers probably wasn't. He was always like that, she just didn't notice until it was too late.]
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So she breaks it down and comes to an answer with logic.]
It certainly appears to be real to me, Sir, but if you have taken the time to ask me... then I suppose that it isn't? If it were, then it is likely that you would have simply said as such.
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[Did she really have the right to lead those people in her condition, come to think of it? If he says it doesn't matter, it won't be a big surprise.]
Were you simply born being unable to understand a proper smile?
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Hmm, a missing smile gene, maybe? What a terrible affliction! [Wow yeah he's not dodging this question at all or anything]
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I see... yes, that does make sense! Thank you for explaining, Mr Albatross! Your conjecture holds water as well, I believe -- while the science of my time does not yet posit that such a thing is controlled through one's genes, it could be that this smile gene is simply undiscovered? Perhaps you and I suffer from a rare mutation.
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That is exactly correct, Mr Albatross!
While our quest to smile genuinely may be ultimately without meaning, I have found that there are few things to which this does not apply. Life has no meaning -- assuming that you are from Earth as well, you are one human existing in one city within a country, itself within a continent, that finds itself located on a planet. That planet itself is quite small, of course! Earth is the fifth largest mass that may be considered a planet, of eight -- Jupiter, for instance, in terms of mass, is two and a half times larger than the other seven combined, and is still only one-thousandth of the Sun's size. It would take one thousand Jupiters to match the mass of the Sun, Mr Albatross! It would take approximately three hundred and eighteen thousand Earths to do the same.
Ah, but I digress, although I suppose that there is still relevance to be found. The solar system in which our planet lies composes only a minuscule portion of our galaxy, which itself is only a small part of the group of galaxies in which we live, and so on until the edges of the universe which contains us is reached. However, even that is not the end! There exist multiple other universes outside of the singular one which you call home -- and all are doomed to vanish as if they scarcely existed, come God's awakening from His dream. That is the human existence, Mr Albatross. An infinitesimal, trifling speck, sustenance for the vast darkness merely steps beyond you.
However, humans still choose to live, in the face of such knowledge. We shall, as always, fail to reach the goal that we desired, but there is little reason not to put forth effort regardless.
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Life certainly is pointless, and if you were to die, you would do so alone and hated, and then forgotten as if you were little more than a nightmare or mass hallucination -- however, it is for this reason that you must strive to be the best "you" that you may be!
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