is it just me…

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do you ever stop and wonder if we’re actually here, on this planet, living the lives we perceive?
sometimes i wonder if we’re just not characters in someone’s well-written novel. or computer generated sims, at the mercy of some pimply-faced 14-year-old who is up past his bedtime, staring, unblinking at the screen, watching us run around like we’re actually real. what if we’re someone’s science experiment, being kept in a constructed environment, our every action being monitored, with different tasks/problems orchestrated to test our skills? what if we’re someone’s pets? a “human farm” belonging to an alien child… and earthquakes are him shaking our container; floods, him pouring water in the top; hurricanes, his blowing furiously at us?
it makes me feel so small.

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16 Thoughts on “is it just me…”

  1. chaos on March 23, 2001 at 15:04 said:

    if i’m a character in a novel, it’s not a very well written one.

  2. paige on March 23, 2001 at 18:04 said:

    yeah, my screenwriter sucks.

  3. nicolas on March 24, 2001 at 05:31 said:

    i sometimes have this overwhelming fear that we are, in fact, characters in someone else’s dream, and when he/she wakes up, we will cease to exist.

  4. (the shorter)Heather on March 24, 2001 at 07:44 said:

    I have this overwhelming fear I’m turning into an Anne Tyler character. *shudder*
    Oh, wait, no, I don’t. My overwhelming fears are spiders and washing machine agitators.

  5. heather on March 24, 2001 at 11:18 said:

    the toilet tank still creeps me out.

  6. paige on March 24, 2001 at 13:35 said:

    toilets made from brown or black porcelain, where you can’t see the bottom? THAT freaks me out. I’m sure that something is going to reach through the hole and grab me, or bite me.
    *shudder*

  7. heather on March 24, 2001 at 18:06 said:

    i used to be afraid that, while camping, bugs would crawl up my butt when i used the outhouse.

  8. (the shorter)Heather on March 24, 2001 at 21:59 said:

    Well, you know I’m completely afraid of spiders, and once while on a mini camp out with a small group from a summer camp I was attending, we stayed on a separate ground that only had an outhouse (the camp itself had plumbing, at least!). I heard people talking about the size of the spider family living in there, and somehow managed to not have to go to the bathroom for the three days and two nights we were there.
    Wow… I miss my pre-baby bladder!

  9. dan on March 25, 2001 at 08:01 said:

    the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz creep me out.

  10. Hrunting on March 25, 2001 at 11:57 said:

    Pat Robertson creeps me out.

  11. paige on March 25, 2001 at 19:13 said:

    aren’ t those one and the same, dan & hrunting?

  12. heather on March 25, 2001 at 21:45 said:

    paige wins!

  13. paige on March 25, 2001 at 22:26 said:

    um.
    what’d i win?

  14. Goddess on March 26, 2001 at 05:30 said:

    You people creep me out!!!

  15. paige on March 26, 2001 at 06:17 said:

    excellent….muwahaha! the eeee-vil plan is working.
    i’ll get you, my pretty!

  16. Goddess on March 26, 2001 at 07:45 said:

    *clicking heals*
    There’s no place like home.
    There’s no place like home.

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