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[angel_promise]

So, I'm wondering.. if the community brings people together- in good and bad ways, will they always be taken away? It seems like everyone that has been brought together by this community is taken away. It makes me wonder why.

Maybe you can't change worlds completely, and maybe time knows where everyone is supposed to be... and when.
A lot of things make me think about this. If we're meant to go through things in our own world, I wonder if we can really change them with the help of others. Permanently, I mean.

I'm tired of losing people I meet on here, or seeing here. And in my world, too. I keep hoping there's a way to save everyone with enough time and patience, and a helping hand.

I'm not sure. I guess-- well, what are your thoughts? Or, anything? 

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permavid

[starblaze]

Losing people... do you mean death?

Re: permavid

[angel_promise]

In a way, that too. They die, or they go unheard from. People die or disappear when they come here. Have you noticed?

[starblaze]

... No, I haven't. Are you really sure the community is to blame?

[fated_circle]

Sounds like you'd better stay close. I'm not losing anyone else.

[angel_promise]

Of course, you promised to protect me ♥! And, I'll protect you too, right?

[fated_circle]

I never agreed to the last part...

[aura_wall]

And the seraphim sounds her trumpet...
What ails this world can never be bettered.

[angel_promise]

Are you mocking me?

[aura_wall]

Not at all... O' shepherd of wayward souls.

[swordplay]

I don't think it's possible to save everyone. But if we can use it to save a few people, or even one, I think it's a good thing. And sometimes, maybe it doesn't last...but sometimes it does, or it lasts longer than it would have. A lot longer. I guess that's why I'm grateful about it. Maybe the community's our second chance, or maybe we just haven't figured out how to use it just yet.

[angel_promise]

Tidus...! You have a good point. A beautiful point.

A second chance? I like to think about it like that. Maybe you're right ❀!

[screwloose]

I've been on the community for nearly four years. I've definitely seen people come and go. Some people do stick around, or so it seems. I've also seen things change permanently - at least, so far - because of the community.

There's no way to know if anything will last forever, though. You'll only know if a change is permanent, or a friendship will last a lifetime, until you actually croak.

You're welcome.

[angel_promise]

You're saying you're welcome like you're giving me the ultimate answer. You're awfully sure of yourself, aren't you? Even if you speak good points, you don't need to be so high-and-mighty about it.

Besides once we're dead, what's the point?

[screwloose]

Wow, you read a lot of negative connotation I didn't mean into two words. They were meant lightheartedly. But yes, that was my point.

There is no point, after you're dead. And you can't control anything about the community before that. Even normal friendships - or even marriages - don't necessarily last forever. So enjoy what you can, and don't worry about it.

[masked_god]

There are some here who have lasted beyond their stories, and it is often because someone someone from another world has stepped in to save them at the last minute.

But time is strange. The past is static, and the future an ocean of possibilities, and the present an intersection of those two. Yet there are hundreds of alternate worlds; you see them often appear on the community. Perhaps...every different choice is made, somewhere, and ever possibility realized.

Even then, I doubt there is a way to save all. Some are destined to die, and sometimes the death of one means the freedom of thousands, if not millions. Accepting that...transience is part of life.

[angel_promise]

stories..? that's a poetic way to put it... There's so much insight here, it's hard to really believe we're all from different places in the world. Is there really so much to see in this universe?

[masked_god]

I could prove to you that there are different 'worlds' quite easily. After all, my galaxy contains thousands of them, all unique.

It has been my experience that there is always more to see, not matter how small, or large, ones world is.

[blond_with_envy]

You think we'll all just disappear?

[angel_promise]

Maybe. Sometimes people do. Just like that.
... I guess it's normal I mean, it's just strange to me to be brought together from all over the universe- or maybe MORE than one universe, and be 'forced' to witness these things, then be ripped apart.

Why? If we disappear from here, I sure hope we still exist where we are now.

[blond_with_envy]

Just as I thought. ...No telling how you'll end up next.

[significator]

I've had friends come and go... Most with no memory left of this place. My girlfriend's been the sole exception. Perhaps it is her connection with me that allows her to not forget. It's a very curious phenomenon, regardless.

[angel_promise]

That's so strange, they just- forget? Like nothing ever happened, huh?

Your girlfriend was a member here?

[significator]

Yes. Yukari Takeba. Perhaps you met her? She was a member here before me, but hasn't had any access for almost a year.

[formercheerio]

There's people that were here that I see at school that aren't any more. Who knows.

[angel_promise]

Do they remember what they saw here and everything? Strange..