Originally Posted By: DonVitoCorleone
I really hate how people force conversation on each other; they talk for the sake of talking. It's painful to listen to. I wish more people were able to simply enjoy silence with one another. You don't always need to be saying something.


This is a thought, among many, I had the other night. We speak because we're socially conditioned to need to speak. What makes a silence awkward? It doesn't have to be awkward, but people insist that if two people are sitting in complete silence, it must be awkward. It's only as awkward as the individuals make it. If there is some sort of unresolved matter between two people, and the silence is being forced by one or both people, then OK, fine. Awkward. Sure. But just because their is nothing else to talk about? Blah.

In the same string of consciousness, individualism does not exist; not in this society at least. There is just eccentricity.

"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."