un: cpt andor [posted at 0324 december 19]

[ouzel]

What waits for you, back where you came from?

You can be as specific or nonspecific as you like, really. A person, a place, a thing, a concept, a task. A belief. A dream.

Nothing.

I'm just curious, I guess.

Also, for those who don't wish to give out even vaguely personal information to unknown strangers in an unknown place: how many of you are from pre-spaceflight planets?

Comments

un: phillip

[canadese]

i dont understand. we have all left our entire lives behind

[ouzel]

Leaving them behind implies that we were given a choice about moving forward and we were not.

[canadese]

then what is it you are asking

[ouzel]

What concerns you about being forcibly removed from where you were, and if you were to return, what would be there waiting for you?

[canadese]

as i said i have been displaced from my entire life and career . you are the one implying you have not left behind much. perhaps you should answer your own question
?

[ouzel]

I know the answer to my own question; I'm curious about the others who find themselves in this same situation.

Are you asking what I have left behind? Or what remains ahead, should I find myself home again?

[canadese]

i am asking the purpose of this post

[ouzel]

Entertainment, curiosity and information gathering.

[canadese]

i see
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perhaps you should first offer information about yourself in exchange.

[ouzel]

What would you like to know, un: phillip?

[canadese]

what are you cpt of?

[ouzel]

Nothing I would admit to on an open channel in writing.

[canadese]

then it seems we are already done with this conversation

[ouzel]

There are other options. I just don't know enough about a. who is here and b. who YOU are to answer that question safely.

( un: apollo )

[aploun]

The unknown, I guess. We'd just landed on Earth, so, I'm not sure what will be there when I get back. What about you?

[canadese]

then you can understand my own reluctance

un: red tulip

[finethanks]

What a poetic question that is. I'd very much like to hear your own answer to that.

For me, many things await. Many battles, a challenge, fame, success... and death. I suppose that's the sort of list I would give you now.

un: just.marco

[brightline]

nine million dollars, two houses, a tv show in which I starred, among other things

[ouzel]

We could discuss these things in person, considering that we are both awake.

[ouzel]

That's an awful lot of resources for someone your age.

[ouzel]

Never heard of earth, but the galaxy is a large place.

I was on a beach. Unsure what happens next, in the bigger picture.

[ouzel]

A beach, and an unexpected sunset. Beyond that, who knows?

Death awaits us all, I'm afraid. Something about the inevitability of living leads to it.

[brightline]

I could be 200 for all you know

[ouzel]

Then you look good, for 200.

[brightline]

wait how do you know what I look like? I mean, I know I'm famous, but I didn't think it was extragalactic.