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[sophiaserpentia]

I think the reason I have been largely silent here in the last year or so is because I have taken to thinking it would be a great comfort to pass through this world as insubstantially as a ghost; passing through it, observing, listening, and then moving on unmourned, unremarked-upon, unremembered. It occurs to me, belatedly but not too much so, that perhaps this is a conceit.

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[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

lawl

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Being a hermit is portrayed as this thing that saints and holy figures do -- but I wonder if the reality isn't that people who's sayings and doings get twisted into religions are usually just painfully sensitive and spend large parts of their life staying away from people so they can't hurt them or be hurt by them.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Martin Luther did that.

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and look what happened to him. No influence or memory of him to be found anywhere.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I know, it's terrible! The absolute worst thing I can imagine is for things I say and do to be twisted into a worldwide religion. What a nightmare. How awful.

Well, okay, it's not the absolute worst thing I can imagine. But for the sake of hyperbole in this context it is. ;)