ColoRuleSoft(other male)
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4 years ago •
Aug 17, 2020
4 years ago •
Aug 17, 2020
Hello,
I'll start off by saying that I don't think of myself as a good person. I am definitely the protagonist in my own tale, but the good guy? Well, maybe that's just me trying to give the "Good Guys" an edge. Let them claim themselves to be on the sides of justice, the people, and God. Me? I work for me and those I care about.
I'm sadistic. I relish seeing my enemies in pain. I enjoy doling out pain, and justify it as man's condition to suffer and survive it.
I crave power. If I could, I would be the ruler of man, the sire of thousands. Caeser, Shahanshah, The Son of Heaven. Such titles would be beneath me.
Greed. Envy. Sloth. Pride. Lust. Wrath. Gluttony. These are also significant, though lesser feelings in my heart.
I admit, there are holes in my heart about all three things.
Justice? What justice is there in the world about the daily slaughter of people outside of the boundaries of our holiest of holy borders?
People? What do I care for a people who won't care for themselves?
God. That one, I ripped open myself, and haven't been able to sew it back closed no matter what I do.
I'm also patient. I've spent my life enduring my own desires, refusing to touch others, even though I'd spend hours doing so if I would let myself.
I also act humble. In my own head, I'm singing my praises, but I don't ever let others hear them (this post is a special exception).
I keep my promises, or at least try to. I also try to tell the truth, even if it's difficult, though that's sometimes not easy, or nice to do.
Chaste. Well... this one, I don't know. Is imagining a woman naked, bound, and in the throes of pleasure with me, chastity, as I haven't actually done it?
I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, but I do eat too much and don't work out enough.
I'm committed, but moody. I work more than others about things I care about, but I cannot be made to do something when I am conflicted.
Kindness... as one of Stephen Sondheim's musicals has as for a line, "Nice is different than good." Sometimes the thing we least want to hear is the most important thing we listen to. Sometimes a soft word of encouragement means more than the mountain of reasons against us. I'm abjectly bad at knowing which one people really need to hear.
A walking contradiction? Humankind is not married to logic. Logic has it's place. It still can't penetrate the world of raw passions. Ethos and Pathos are more powerful than Logos, at least when dealing with humans.
But Logos made the bombs. May that Sword of Damocles never fall. If it does, pray that the world remains a place for life, and that it is better than where we left it.
What melodrama.
But that's me, maybe.
Glad to be here.
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