Writer's Block 3

[iknowucan]

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IDK. That stuff sounds super unreliable even if it's advanced. And I'm not really meant to be a popsicle. Everyone's heard about Rip Van Winkle, right? I mean, you sleep for a hundred years and you wake up and everything's wrong. I just don't think I could do it, y'know? And I wouldn't know anyone, all my friends would be gone... Besides, when I woke up I'd be so unfashionable and out of date. I can't do that! So, no. That's not happening.


One more week until winter break! I'm so excited, we're having a big party at Lava Springs and the fireworks display for New Years are always amazing. Man, I guess I need to come up with some resolutions...

Comments

[iknowucan]

Well... What about the knowledge of what's coming up next?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in a life after death.

[iknowucan]

But you don't know.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I know well enough.

[iknowucan]

Believing and knowing aren't the same thing, Azula.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Maybe they are for me.

[iknowucan]

Azula, you know how you usually say I'm pretty dumb and I usually try to deny it but we both know I'm actually pretty dumb and you're pretty smart?

I think we're doing a role-reversal exercise.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Because I don't believe there's an afterlife?

[iknowucan]

No, because you're pretending that your beliefs are truth.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

And how do you know they're not?

[iknowucan]

Because if beliefs were truth all the time, you'd be my friend.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just that your beliefs are ridiculously stupid and inaccurate.

[iknowucan]

Who's to say yours aren't?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You said it yourself-- I'm intelligent, and you're not.

[iknowucan]

You're book-smart, sure, but that doesn't mean you can't be dumb about the important stuff.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I'm smart about everything, actually.

[iknowucan]

Not if you think what you believe is the way things really are.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying that the way things are is influenced by what I believe, I'm saying that what I believe is influenced by the way things are.

[iknowucan]

But... you don't know how things are after you die. So saying that because you believe there's no afterlife, there isn't one - that doesn't make sense!

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

That isn't what I said. I don't believe in one because there isn't one, not the other way around.

[iknowucan]

But... you don't know that.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It's what makes sense.

Did you have someone close to you die, or something? Is that why you're so insistent about this?

[iknowucan]

No, I just don't think you should really discount the idea of there being life after death if you don't know for sure.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It's irrational. Wishful thinking.

[iknowucan]

Why?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't want there to be life after death?

[iknowucan]

...Are you seriously denying it just because people want it?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

No, I'm denying it because it doesn't make sense.