Hey! Did you think I was Asking?

[wolven7]

Crüxshadows - [After All]--- http://wolven.livejournal.com/957921.html

All of you. Now.

There are 120 of you who read this. One-hundred and godsdamned Twenty. Why is there one original comment there, right now?

Talk. Read. Listen. It's the only the only way you'll learn anything, here.

Comments

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

Don't ask me to tell you things you already know.

Small insignificant things are living too.

And I don't respond well to demands.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Answers change, and questions change context.

Demands, requests, engagement in conversation, none of it seems to be working, anymore, with anyone, so different combinations of the above, until we find the right lever and button to pull and push.

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

Try asking in a more personal context.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Time and tide. Something can be done, though, I think.

With the sister on this

[karishi.livejournal.com]

I think it's some of the general response.

"Read this" is a bit strong. I poke at it on occasion, to see what's up, but I think many of those 120 look at some of the posts and not at others, or start looking and lose interest.
There's a big difference between a person and a mob. It seems like you want to hear from the people, but when you make this kind of request-turned-demand you're addressing the mob. And when addressed as "part of the immense readership," I tend to ask whether I owe you something before I am willing to move. Were you to take time at a party to ask me these same questions, one at a time, I'd answer any and all without a second thought.
I know you mean to address us as individuals, but there's not a way of doing so other than saying the question over and over. Either you want to know what I think, what my story is, or you want some mix of knowing what we as a collective think and our experience, and for us as a group to alter our internal modes of thinking to alter the world the way you want it altered.
Is getting those answers, that change in perspective, worth repeating yourself?

The questions are personal, but the forum sure as hell isn't. You want to know about me? Ask me, not us.

Re: With the sister on this

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's worth repeating myself as many times as is necessary, in as many different ways.