Comments on: Annotated 41-10

By: Lurklen

Lurklen — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:16:12 +0000

“However, in real life no one — except for some people with depression or the variant of OCD known as scrupulosity — actually believes themselves to be evil.”

People make this statement all the time, and I’m not really sure I buy it. Most people think their actions justified, but that doesn’t mean they don’t think them evil. Also, most people don’t view themselves as any one thing all the time. It feels like it’s too broad a statement to be true. No one? That seems unlikely.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:12:46 +0000

I love this interpretation.
Best would have had the horriblest of times had he actually died instead of moving to Cyberia.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:39:59 +0000

Think of it like this: “Treat others as you would want yourself to be treated” but they’re treating *themselves* as they would treat others.
A narcissist is incapable of treating others well.
In an afterlife of their own creation, how can they ever create something they would themselves find bearable?

With no-one else to steal from, with no-one else to put down, how can they escape the hell that is their own self?

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:14:19 +0000

After reading T’s remarks and yours, I find myself cheering for a purgatory that is one very long extended therapy session where you go through everything you did, face all the ugly truths you kinda knew but denied, but also all the good things you did not dare enjoy. Both of these are hard, but of course there’s also everything you did well. Afterwards you’ll know what you have reason to be proud of and what not.

…and then, I’d like to get the chance to check for every single one of my choices whether my assumptions were correct, if I got them right, what that person was thinking in that moment, why X really did Y, what would have happened if I had … . It’d be cool to get to see how close I got to actually getting stuff right and being “good”.

Actually, after going through the therapy bit, I probably wouldn’t want to do that anymore because I can’t change anything in hindsight anyway, so it’d be really frustrating.

Actually, I think I’d prefer to do the reality check at several points in life, to inform the next stage. Too bad nobody offers that sort of thing :(

By: drs

drs — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:06:00 +0000

Oh, hey Alice! Long time since the Lucifer boards. (damien/mindstalk)

Yeah, “some piece of them knows the truth” seems like an optimistic spin, not what I remember from Sandman or what I see in that snippet of Swamp Thing. So if you were self-confidently evil… well, maybe Heaven wouldn’t take you, if it has any standards, but you wouldn’t be trapped in Hell. And if you’re Edwin Paine, future Dead Boy Detective, you can spend 80 years in Hell as a murdered child because there was too much guilt in your upbringing.

(And if you said No to Dream of the Endless, in his rapey-Apollo aspect…)

Sandman did have other options: getting picked up by some little god, reincarnation, special deal from the Endless (not *always* bad…)