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theatrical_muse from 8/11/2006, 44 of 50.
'What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.' Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Depends on what you do with it.
At one point in the not-too-distant past, the Q Continuum saw fit to strip me of my powers, as I may have mentioned ad nauseam. I can't entirely say I didn't have it coming, I suppose, but it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, and as I am millions of years old and have had a lot of things happen to me, you may imagine it was impressively bad. I nearly died. Three times, actually. And when you consider that normally, I am immortal and damn near indestructible, you can imagine the impression this made on me.
For six years, in fact, it broke me.
I was not stronger as the result of having endured this near-death experience. I was cowed enough to obey my orders almost blindly, do things I considered stupid or even morally wrong, because I was on probation, terrified of losing my powers again.
I finally got back the courage to stand up for my beliefs after one of our philosophers sought the right to die, and defied the Continuum to do it. After he was dead, I felt that it was literally a matter of the Continuum's survival -- he would not be the last of us to kill himself out of boredom if we didn't change. And for once, it wasn't about me being bored, or about me rebelling against authority because it was there. I was still afraid they might kill me -- or take my powers away, which if the sentence isn't rescinded is a longer, slower version of the same thing -- but for once, I had a cause to fight for, something more important than my own life and happiness. Mind you, I didn't expect a war to start -- but when it did, I fought in it, despite the fact that they had invented weapons which could actually destroy other Q. I faced death -- and, occasionally, was forced to kill -- to save the Continuum from its long slow slide into stasis. Probably, I wouldn't have managed to muster up the courage for that if I hadn't had experience with facing death.
Does adversity make you stronger? Only if you let it.
Have you ever woken up in the morning and not remembered what you did the night before?
You know, I've only slept once in my existence, and here's the thing that amazes me. I don't remember any of it.
Oh, you mortals who sleep all the time simply take it for granted that you don't remember what happens while you're doing it. But then, you're used to forgetting, period. As witness, this question.
The Q have much better memories than mortals do. I can, if I choose (which I don't, because it was boring enough to live through the first time), remember every single thing that has happened to me in five billion years. Except for those few hours I spent sleeping on the Enterprise.
So technically speaking, I think every single one of you people who do sleep don't remember what you did the night before when you wake up.
theatrical_muse from 8/11/2006, 44 of 50.'What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.' Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Depends on what you do with it.
At one point in the not-too-distant past, the Q Continuum saw fit to strip me of my powers, as I may have mentioned ad nauseam. I can't entirely say I didn't have it coming, I suppose, but it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, and as I am millions of years old and have had a lot of things happen to me, you may imagine it was impressively bad. I nearly died. Three times, actually. And when you consider that normally, I am immortal and damn near indestructible, you can imagine the impression this made on me.
For six years, in fact, it broke me.
I was not stronger as the result of having endured this near-death experience. I was cowed enough to obey my orders almost blindly, do things I considered stupid or even morally wrong, because I was on probation, terrified of losing my powers again.
I finally got back the courage to stand up for my beliefs after one of our philosophers sought the right to die, and defied the Continuum to do it. After he was dead, I felt that it was literally a matter of the Continuum's survival -- he would not be the last of us to kill himself out of boredom if we didn't change. And for once, it wasn't about me being bored, or about me rebelling against authority because it was there. I was still afraid they might kill me -- or take my powers away, which if the sentence isn't rescinded is a longer, slower version of the same thing -- but for once, I had a cause to fight for, something more important than my own life and happiness. Mind you, I didn't expect a war to start -- but when it did, I fought in it, despite the fact that they had invented weapons which could actually destroy other Q. I faced death -- and, occasionally, was forced to kill -- to save the Continuum from its long slow slide into stasis. Probably, I wouldn't have managed to muster up the courage for that if I hadn't had experience with facing death.
Does adversity make you stronger? Only if you let it.
Have you ever woken up in the morning and not remembered what you did the night before?
You know, I've only slept once in my existence, and here's the thing that amazes me. I don't remember any of it.
Oh, you mortals who sleep all the time simply take it for granted that you don't remember what happens while you're doing it. But then, you're used to forgetting, period. As witness, this question.
The Q have much better memories than mortals do. I can, if I choose (which I don't, because it was boring enough to live through the first time), remember every single thing that has happened to me in five billion years. Except for those few hours I spent sleeping on the Enterprise.
So technically speaking, I think every single one of you people who do sleep don't remember what you did the night before when you wake up.