Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 21:13:36 GMT -5
BROKEN, BUT STRONG
june 4th, 1970
Okay, journal, you're my new scientific logbook! You're gonna love this one, you really will! I'm trying to scientifically sort out a theory of existence! I ask other people about it, but the things they tell me are stupid. Like, France tried to make some analogy about a boat, and my brother That Jerk told me not to ask questions that there aren't answers to. But I bet there are! There've got to be answers to questions like this!
So, I went and asked Latvia too. He at least tried to explain it to me, but it didn't work very well, especially since he admitted to me that he hadn't thought too much about it before, and also because I refuse to let "fate" be a reasonable answer! There's no such thing as that, so that can't be right!
So I've decided to apply the scientific method to this problem for the ages. It has to work, right? Like, all I want to know is why Nations exist when they do, and also other personifications? It can't be that hard to figure out, right? Well, actually, it probably is... Like, every time I try to come with something, I'm already the exception. I sort of want to stand up and wave a flag around and be like "I'M THE EXCEPTION" really loud every time I try to make any of my theories work, actually...
So, I've tried some basic stuff, but then I realized that I needed to write things down to make this work! So that's why this is being reappropriated into a scientific logbook. Except I'll probably still write about things. Raivis says it's good for me to write things down! So I might write about exciting things before writing about my theories.
Wow. I've already written a lot, haven't I? I'm not even typing or anything! Okay, so, I suppose I should write down core assumptions? Like, things we already know, and are facts. So that I can work things out from there. Like physics- have I written down before that I like physics? I really do.
So, first, we certainly know that places get personified. And that some places get bigger, stronger personifications for being bigger and stronger? I mean, in figurative terms. It's hard for landmasses or groups of people to be literally stronger, that would be silly. From what I can tell, major political bodies always end up with a personification at some point.
But this is where it gets weird? See, some countries have states or provinces or stuff like that that gets personified. But from what I can tell, not everyone does. Like, some of them end up personified, maybe even most, but some places just don't have any? And then there's like myself, which somehow was a personified sea fort before becoming a proper Nation of my own, which, by all rights, is not something that should be possible.
So, if those are our knowns, I suppose our unknowns would be why some places get personified and make it as Nations, and some places don't. I don't even know where to start making a hypothesis for something like this, and also Mister Bates is shouting for me, so I guess I'll leave this off here. I'll write more later, but clearly, my goal is set out in front of me: why do I exist?
...that sounds really stupidly metaphysical, doesn't it? Whatever... Anything works, I suppose, and I do like writing my thought process down.
- PeterKirkla Bates
So, I went and asked Latvia too. He at least tried to explain it to me, but it didn't work very well, especially since he admitted to me that he hadn't thought too much about it before, and also because I refuse to let "fate" be a reasonable answer! There's no such thing as that, so that can't be right!
So I've decided to apply the scientific method to this problem for the ages. It has to work, right? Like, all I want to know is why Nations exist when they do, and also other personifications? It can't be that hard to figure out, right? Well, actually, it probably is... Like, every time I try to come with something, I'm already the exception. I sort of want to stand up and wave a flag around and be like "I'M THE EXCEPTION" really loud every time I try to make any of my theories work, actually...
So, I've tried some basic stuff, but then I realized that I needed to write things down to make this work! So that's why this is being reappropriated into a scientific logbook. Except I'll probably still write about things. Raivis says it's good for me to write things down! So I might write about exciting things before writing about my theories.
Wow. I've already written a lot, haven't I? I'm not even typing or anything! Okay, so, I suppose I should write down core assumptions? Like, things we already know, and are facts. So that I can work things out from there. Like physics- have I written down before that I like physics? I really do.
So, first, we certainly know that places get personified. And that some places get bigger, stronger personifications for being bigger and stronger? I mean, in figurative terms. It's hard for landmasses or groups of people to be literally stronger, that would be silly. From what I can tell, major political bodies always end up with a personification at some point.
But this is where it gets weird? See, some countries have states or provinces or stuff like that that gets personified. But from what I can tell, not everyone does. Like, some of them end up personified, maybe even most, but some places just don't have any? And then there's like myself, which somehow was a personified sea fort before becoming a proper Nation of my own, which, by all rights, is not something that should be possible.
So, if those are our knowns, I suppose our unknowns would be why some places get personified and make it as Nations, and some places don't. I don't even know where to start making a hypothesis for something like this, and also Mister Bates is shouting for me, so I guess I'll leave this off here. I'll write more later, but clearly, my goal is set out in front of me: why do I exist?
...that sounds really stupidly metaphysical, doesn't it? Whatever... Anything works, I suppose, and I do like writing my thought process down.
- Peter
we are a half-painted canvas, an unfinished song, and this is where we belong.
ulla
As a note, any views expressed by Peter do not necessarily reflect my own headcanon (though they're probably related to it). A lot of this will be him trying to work through his own theories of existence (yes, Peter, it's a bit metaphysical), but who knows what will end up here?