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Dive, what's with this profile message and spooky mask?

An ominous prophecy you'd like to share?

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Originally posted by @chaney3
Dive, what's with this profile message and spooky mask?

An ominous prophecy you'd like to share?
The mask may relate to the fact that in ancient Roman and Greek plays the actors often spoke through ("per-" ) masks that disguised them and in many cases projected or directionally amplified the sound ("-son" ) and so Dive's clever play on words says something about how things feel to him lately, as if he is an actor playing a character named Divegeester, mouthing that ominous line given to him, "through the mask" that shields him from scrutiny. The ominous prophesy reminds us of the "All the world's a stage" speech in which we end "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

This is very clearly the angst of an existential crisis.

Then again, maybe this is all hokum. There's the rub.

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"Not long for this world"

Originally posted by @chaney3
An ominous prophecy you'd like to share?
The world in which divegeester and I currently live is one where England are still in the World Cup and have not yet been knocked out by Colombia. That could well happen on 3rd July. That's "not long" from now. In the meantime, we inhabit this world where we can sing "It's coming home" without it being technically untrue to do so.

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Nothing

What does anyone know of an individual who died 10 years ago? Perhaps memories of people who knew them. Perhaps a name in a family genealogy but for all practical purposes the person is forgotten.

Much like the guy in who is that scratching at my grave. I think that is the name of that Wordsworth piece


Just goes to show that if you believe you are actually accomplishing anything in this life you are simply fooling yourself.

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Originally posted by @fmf
The world in which divegeester and I currently live is one where England are still in the World Cup and have not yet been knocked out by Colombia. That could well happen on 3rd July. That's "not long" from now. In the meantime, we inhabit this world where we can sing "It's coming home" without it being technically untrue to do so.
That too.


Originally posted by @js357
That too.
Yes. Then again, maybe it too was all hokum.


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Before we 'shuffle off', should we do some good works? 🙂


Originally posted by @js357
The mask may relate to the fact that in ancient Roman and Greek plays the actors often spoke through ("per-" ) masks that disguised them and in many cases projected or directionally amplified the sound ("-son" ) and so Dive's clever play on words says something about how things feel to him lately, as if he is an actor playing a character named Divegeester, mo ...[text shortened]... rly the angst of an existential crisis.

Then again, maybe this is all hokum. There's the rub.
Do you think Dive thinks so deeply and profoundly?

Nah.


Originally posted by @eladar
Just goes to show that if you believe you are actually accomplishing anything in this life you are simply fooling yourself.
Yours is the nihilistic, impotent, misanthropic brand of Christianity that one so often encounters.




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It might be an enormous struggle, but I could probably find a kind word or two.

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