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[escardos]

so imagine you're making ratatouille and you don't like tomatoes. you don't like the taste, the texture, the putting them in water and the peeling them-- ugh! so you say to yourself "lookit, this whole dish is nothing but vegetables, so what does it matter if i leave the tomatoes out?" a seemingly innocuous decision on the surface, but 2 hours or whatever later when you're done cooking, you open the oven to find a complete mess! just a pot full of baked vegetables, none of them congealed or somehow unified. what happened to your beloved ratatouille?! so you take to google and find that the tomatoes are an essential ingredient of ratatouille, as they forma a "sauce" of a certain kind that makes the whole thing work. and so a seemingly innocent decision has destroyed the very foundation of the established order with disturbing ramifications towards the whole. in this essay i will examine how martin luther's 95 theses lead to protestants being more boring than catholics.

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[imitationsoul]

Then take care to live long enough. I don't think I am the kind of person who would grow terribly old, so if you bring a little patience, you just might get your experiment.

I don't think anyone understands the real me, even you, but you're the one who I think can get the closest. It'll not be a worthless study then!

[escardos]

oh dont get me wrong! i dont want to understand you. if you could stay a mystery to me forever, i think thatd be really fun. like an endless treasure hunt.

[imitationsoul]

I don't think you will ever understand me, don't worry about that. Or if you did, I would be quite surprised.

People like you and me, we have experiences so unique to us, that the idea of ever fully being grasped by another seems presumptuous.

[escardos]

indeed. like throwing rocks at the moon's reflection, right?

the only one that can understand you is yourself, and the only one that can understand me is myself. it's not something i rly mind, tbh. it's just how it all works.

[imitationsoul]

It would be awfully boring to be together if we understood one another perfectly. Even though you and I are so very similar, even though I am sure I understand better than most... there's always a component of reaching, grasping at the unknown.

That's the best part about people, who otherwise tend to be fairly awful.