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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[doitrockapella]

No. That's manipulative and petty and...once, maybe I would've said that yes, that's what I wanted, but I don't think it is anymore. When you say it like that, all I see now from those sentences is, "I'm the center of the universe and that's why you should change, because this is really about me and you ought to make me feel better so I don't have to be sad anymore."

Ideally speaking I wouldn't feel sad and helpless, yes. Ideally speaking I'd also know how to do that. But at the moment, I don't — other than to give it time, and hope for the best.

[explosivecombat]

[And something about that isn't...striking him well, which he doesn't quite understand because this is going exactly as it should - she's taking what he taught her into account, she's listening to him and everything is going so well, and yet he can't shake the thought that...

...

It's not something that he can put into words, exactly, but it's the same sort of pervasive sense that wouldn't leave him during the battle in that dream they'd all shared. The knowledge that he could fight competently or stay alive or protect Archer, and he could really only pick two options and he'd been unable to work out why at the time but he'd ended up choosing the latter two.

It's unpleasant. He doesn't like it. He'll hate himself for acting on it.

But he looks at that and he can see what's wrong with it (also, really, thanks to Archer) and while he doesn't think he'll hate himself more if he doesn't act on it, he can't say he'll like the potential consequences either. He doesn't even know what those are; it's possible they won't be unpleasant. But that damn thought pattern won't go away, either.

To put it another way, that radio is risking becoming very, very loud.]

And if I rephrase those words, would you see the same thing?

If someone were to say the following to you: "I don't care what you think or feel right now, because I want to get my way. You feel things that I don't, but I understand how your feelings work so I'm going to use those feelings to render it such that I can always be right and you will always be wrong, because you can't help how you feel and I don't care about the topic of the argument - this is a logical battle for me, not an emotional one, and I am very, very good at winning. I like making people think their feelings are defects, not natural processes, because that way they are always flawed and I am implicitly perfect.

And right now, I'm constructing a scenario where it's never acceptable for you to feel anything negative about me, because to do so would be wrong."

If someone were to directly say that to you, would you be the manipulative person in that scenario, or would they?

I need time away from this discussion; I'll contact you tomorrow, and I'll likely be avoidant about this. Don't allow me to be, should you still want to talk.

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[doitrockapella]

[And that just




hits her



and]

[doitrockapella]

"That is how the world works — if you trust someone with your weaknesses."

Goodbye, Nietzsche.