"Empathy is the Enemy."

[wolven7]

KMFDM - [New American Century]--- There are some of you whom I will not eve{r} know, and there are some who will not ever know me. I'm coming to accept that, as much as I can.

Woke up with Nausea. Took soem Nyquil before bed, and I think my stomach was kind of empty...

Dreams were scatters and Jumbles, family of places and friends.

The internet allows us to be so close, over such distance, but, often, it drags slinking, cracklesliming expectations along fibreoptic cables, into our brains and hearts. I know your hearts, and I know what little of your minds you allow me to see. No, that wasn't an insult. I'm sure there are untold vistas of union and electrical effulgence that you've never showe to anyone.

Electric Hellfire Club - [Hymn to the Fallen: I. Conjuration (Song of Azazel) II.Goat Mass III. Revelry (Feast of the Beast)]--- Hm. I should talk to some people, today.

See you, later.

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Meeting-time?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I do believe so, yes...

Thank you.

[kyrael.livejournal.com]

Thanks for calling me this morning. You were the first person of 6 to wish me a happy birthday today. You even beat my boyfriend by about 2 minutes, and that was mostly because he was waiting for our phone call to end.

As to this electronic commune. I have been feeling the electron fuzzy glow of distance through here for a very long time now and am, as always, inpressed by your ability to keep in touch.

Thank you for that too.

So I'm going to make a post on my journal about my birthday and if any bitterness leaks out just remember, it's not directed at you... or anyone else really.

Much love and the sweetest dreams to you.

Luke.

Re: Thank you.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

And same to you.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

You should never underestimate the power of Nyquil to do weird things to your system. That stuff is scary.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

NyQuil was the cause of the first apocalyptic dreams I ever had. So I know. heheh. *shudder*

[insomniated.livejournal.com]

I am full of empathy. Am I your enemy? Or am I weak?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Everything is the enemy. What does that say of friendship? If everything is your enemy, then anything is your friend.

Empathy is the enemy when it seeks only to destroy you, when you cannot drag yourself out of the mire, let alone anyone else. What good is it, then, but for drowning.

You're as weak as you allow yourself to be, I'd wager.

empathy enemy

[momentai.livejournal.com]

When does being able to relate to someone's story bring you down? How does the understanding of another destroy you? Do you mean in the sense that by feeling their tale so much that you have an understanding of it eclipses your ownself, mayhap even replacing yourself with theirself?

Or am I missing a connotation?

Re: empathy enemy

[wolven.livejournal.com]

If you feel their pain so much that it becomes your pain, then Empathy will destroy you, because it acts like a perpetual motion machine, then.

Re: empathy enemy

[momentai.livejournal.com]

What if you are able to block that cycle that from igniting by only assimilating their pain in an effort to save them further pain? Are you saying humans are not able to recycle pain so cleanly and that is where the weakness comes from?

Re: empathy enemy

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That's the ideal. But "true" empathy, without that block, is detrimental, and potentially fatal.

It's not a definate one or the other. Like everything in life, it's a combination.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

and just for the record, you could never understand me, damien. I am like a vast multitude wrapped in an abysmal pit of despair stuffed into a paradoxical conumdrum garnished with the love dew of a quantum event horizon.

in short, I am a mandalorian and your lowly, though noble, morlock mind cannot fathom me. sorry.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Think about what would happen if the Q assimilated the Borg, and then had babies with whatever species Crusher ended up being (only without the whining and the acne). That's me.

I can understand anything. Except the human heart *tear*

Ok enough of that.