Everything and nothing
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theatrical_muse from 3/16/2005, 25 of 50.
What can you say is truly yours?
I'm not sure I really want to think about this question.
The truth is... nothing, really.
It's the bargain we all make as part of the Continuum. Without the Continuum, we're powerful and difficult to destroy, certainly, but we would neither be as invulnerable as we are nor as nearly omnipotent.
We exchange a part of our individuality for immortality and power. Most of us aren't bothered nearly so much by this as I am, but then, most of us don't have the, shall we say, interesting relations with the rest of the Continuum I have always had.
I can have almost anything I want, instantly. But I don't actually *have* anything. Including myself. Everything I have, everything I *am*, is on loan from the Continuum, and they can take it back any time they want.
Which is why it's a good thing that I'm currently one of the people running the joint, but I don't expect that to last forever, or even more than a few dozen millennia.
What in your life are you most dissatisfied with?
That is. I'm glad I fought for greater freedom within the Continuum (and rather more glad that I won), but what I really want is to be *free* of them. To be wholly myself, and not of them, and to interact with the others where and when I choose. And that can't happen. A Q who is not part of the Continuum is crippled, and I wouldn't accept being less than I am, even if it means I must be part of something more than I am.
SO I accept it. I am part of the Continuum, and I always will be. I've stopped rebelling against it. But that doesn't mean I'm particularly happy about it.
theatrical_muse from 3/16/2005, 25 of 50.What can you say is truly yours?
I'm not sure I really want to think about this question.
The truth is... nothing, really.
It's the bargain we all make as part of the Continuum. Without the Continuum, we're powerful and difficult to destroy, certainly, but we would neither be as invulnerable as we are nor as nearly omnipotent.
We exchange a part of our individuality for immortality and power. Most of us aren't bothered nearly so much by this as I am, but then, most of us don't have the, shall we say, interesting relations with the rest of the Continuum I have always had.
I can have almost anything I want, instantly. But I don't actually *have* anything. Including myself. Everything I have, everything I *am*, is on loan from the Continuum, and they can take it back any time they want.
Which is why it's a good thing that I'm currently one of the people running the joint, but I don't expect that to last forever, or even more than a few dozen millennia.
What in your life are you most dissatisfied with?
That is. I'm glad I fought for greater freedom within the Continuum (and rather more glad that I won), but what I really want is to be *free* of them. To be wholly myself, and not of them, and to interact with the others where and when I choose. And that can't happen. A Q who is not part of the Continuum is crippled, and I wouldn't accept being less than I am, even if it means I must be part of something more than I am.
SO I accept it. I am part of the Continuum, and I always will be. I've stopped rebelling against it. But that doesn't mean I'm particularly happy about it.
