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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #45 on: August 30, 2008, 11:51:04 AM »
I don't think the numbers were relavent as Visser Three was Esplin 9466. The thing they mentioned about the low 100s in #6 was probably something KA changed her mind about, like the term "under-visser."
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #46 on: August 30, 2008, 04:15:06 PM »
I agree, she probably changed her mind about it later... But at the time, it was relevant.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #47 on: August 30, 2008, 04:21:46 PM »
Controller. I like being alive, and any kind of life is better than death. Who knows, maybe it would be nice to have some company in my head. :) It would suck, yeah, but at least as a Controller there's some hope. Maybe not much. Maybe it's a one in a billion chance. But its still a chance. One that wouldn't exist if I were dead.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #48 on: August 30, 2008, 04:52:54 PM »
Terenia, please don't take this the wrong way, but you strike me as someone who is an optimist to the very end.  You're a "glass half-full" person, right?

I'm probably far too stubborn to be easily Controlled (it's a family trait), so if I were ever infested, I would have to feel a little pity for the Yeerk that gets me.  Of course, it wouldn't be much.  That's why I probably wouldn't have much of a choice . . . but still I would chose death.  I'm obstinate in that way.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #49 on: August 30, 2008, 05:12:57 PM »
I'd have to say, I could not stand being controlled.

I hate being drunk... I hate drugs... I cant stand not to be in a right sort of mind.... except I'm never in a right sort of mind like at night ( ask people in chat :D)

oh well.... So I would choose death.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #50 on: August 30, 2008, 05:32:47 PM »
Quote from: CloakedFigure on August 30, 2008, 04:52:54 PM
Terenia, please don't take this the wrong way, but you strike me as someone who is an optimist to the very end.  You're a "glass half-full" person, right?

How the heck could I take being an optimist the wrong way? Isn't that a compliment?  :P

Yes, I'm very much an optimist. Even in the darkest hours of humanity you have to have hope, because otherwise what's the point? I'm realistic about things, and I understand the severity of certain situations. But when you're faced with a bad situation why not face it head on and hope it works out for the best? And, if it doesn't work out, make yourself comfortable with what you've got. :)
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #51 on: August 30, 2008, 05:52:57 PM »
Quote from: Terenia on August 30, 2008, 05:32:47 PM
How the heck could I take being an optimist the wrong way? Isn't that a compliment?  :P

I knew someone (outside of RAF, of course) who takes anything you say offensively.  She thought it was funny . . . I, however, found it irritating.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #52 on: August 30, 2008, 06:32:39 PM »
Quote from: CloakedFigure on August 30, 2008, 05:52:57 PM
Quote from: Terenia on August 30, 2008, 05:32:47 PM
How the heck could I take being an optimist the wrong way? Isn't that a compliment?  :P

I knew someone (outside of RAF, of course) who takes anything you say offensively.  She thought it was funny . . . I, however, found it irritating.

Oh. Well, nope, not me! That would kind of defeat the optimist theory, if you ask me. :P
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #53 on: August 31, 2008, 09:11:55 AM »
I'd choose death over being controlled. That is just such a horrible thing to have your body no longer under your control.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #54 on: August 31, 2008, 10:51:27 AM »
Life as a controller-if anything else I could drive the Yeerk insane. As a consciousness that doesn't need sleep, food or bathroom breaks, I have all the time in the world to break him psychologically >:D ;D
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #55 on: August 31, 2008, 12:30:19 PM »
I said death, but if a peace type relationship could be worked out and I wasn't forced into war, I'd have to at least consider it.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #56 on: August 31, 2008, 12:35:52 PM »
Quote from: venemousspiderwookiee on August 31, 2008, 10:51:27 AM
Life as a controller-if anything else I could drive the Yeerk insane. As a consciousness that doesn't need sleep, food or bathroom breaks, I have all the time in the world to break him psychologically >:D ;D

Your body still needs food and bathroom breaks, but the Yeerk would take care of those. Sleep however, is a different matter as your mind needs sleep as much as your body. In #6 I believe that Jake's mind still slept at night.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #57 on: August 31, 2008, 02:41:07 PM »
I chose life as a Controller.  Especially as you didn't specify life as a Controller to which Yeerk.  Aftran or death... I'd go with Aftran.  At least I know what being a Controller entails.  Death I can only guess at.

No-one's ever truly and completely free, anyway.  So why choose death to avoid compromising something you never really had in the first place?

But mainly, I just like life too much.  Even when it does get depressing and annoying.
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #58 on: August 31, 2008, 04:01:47 PM »
Quote from: Kharina on August 31, 2008, 02:41:07 PM
No-one's ever truly and completely free, anyway.  So why choose death to avoid compromising something you never really had in the first place?

Care to explain that contention?  Unless you believe that being bound by reason, rationality, and natural laws compromises freedom...  ::)
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Re: Free or Dead
« Reply #59 on: August 31, 2008, 08:19:25 PM »
Quote from: wotw2112 on August 31, 2008, 04:01:47 PM
Quote from: Kharina on August 31, 2008, 02:41:07 PM
No-one's ever truly and completely free, anyway.  So why choose death to avoid compromising something you never really had in the first place?

Care to explain that contention?  Unless you believe that being bound by reason, rationality, and natural laws compromises freedom...  ::)
I'm sure she means that between parents, government, law enforcers, ect. One is never truly free. When you disobey to a certain extent, you will be punished. Either by being grounded, jailed, or restricted in some other way.

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