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[vicodincrutch]

I demand an explaination for this. No. I'm not talking about Claire.

I know that it doesn't make sense. That's a cop out. Everyone says that this place has no logic, but everything makes sense somehow in its way. There's a method or mode that it's exicuted. Is there a quota to be filled? Some kind of a request order for some preestablished critieria for those that stay or go?

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[adamantined]

If I didn't know better -

How long have you been here?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Four years and twenty three days. I mean, if we want to be exact.

[adamantined]

In four years and twenty-three days, have you ever been able to find any kind of sense in someone leaving? I mean real sense. None of that 'it was their time' crap.

It doesn't make it any easier if you find some kind of logical answer anyway. It still happens. It doesn't stop sucking.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

No. I got lazy and distracted by the sick people.

Don't start with me on what does and does not suck.

[adamantined]

You seriously don't have to be a dick. Really, just this once.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Something has to be consistent.

[adamantined]

No it doesn't. You aren't some constant in some math problem, this isn't some equation. Robert left. Consistency can go out the window if you've got enough of a pulse.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Have you thought that it's what they want you to believe? They want you to believe that everything is random. They want you to believe that nothing is normal.

[adamantined]

Have you looked around at all in four years? Nothing here is normal. The only thing that's normal is us, and half the time we're screwed up enough on our own that it cancels out. People leaving, Robert leaving, just like that, that isn't normal. But missing them is.

I don't care what they want me to think or believe. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about you.

[derse-princess.livejournal.com]

If there is, it's probably centred around keeping us as miserable as possible.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

That's an A and B already leading to another C which would have a point and purpose too. Would.

[derse-princess.livejournal.com]

Of course, the deities shouldn't be forgotten. It's possible they choose us based on how well we'll entertain them during their various whims and discard us should our reactions prove not to be to their tastes.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

They seem more cause than sole reason.

[derse-princess.livejournal.com]

Then if they are the cause, it stands to reason they're the ones who hold said sole reason. Have you tried talking to them?

[thenormalsquint]

The criteria is who we can make the most miserable by yanking a particular person out of here.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

That's a count of roughly three if we round up so far. I don't think that would be a vast majority.

[thenormalsquint]

But those three are most likely the loudest.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

The approximately three are still in a City of thousands.

[thenormalsquint]

Approximately. There's still others unaccounted for.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Not a vast majority.

[is-was-willbe.livejournal.com]

'Logic' implies a fixed set of principles. The comings and goings here nearly never hold fast to the same rules, so to speak, so in that manner of thinking, there is no logic-- or maybe just a very twisted version of logic that fluctuates too often and too dramatically to be mapped cleanly. The method is always in flux, as well. There is no set quota, unless the quota is one of curiosity and observation. The criteria are unique to each person. Of course, this is all speculation. Have I answered all of your questions?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

No. There's always logic just as there are always principles. If an action keeps reoccurring do we say it is because there is no reason it just happens? If it were a flash in the pan reaction it would be a fluke and it would only happen once under special circumstances.

[is-was-willbe.livejournal.com]

An interdependence among the cases, no matter how likely, can't be definitively proven. Objectively it would be just as likely to say everyone comes and goes by accident if we didn't know any better. We do know better, mind, but all the same there isn't necessarily any one linking factor between any two manifestations of the same result, even if they aren't completely random. Correlation is very subjective, and the human brain is wired to see patterns everywhere.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

If I wanted to google something I would have.

[is-was-willbe.livejournal.com]

If you wanted to what?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Google.

Look up on google the search engine.

[is-was-willbe.livejournal.com]

Oh! I don't suppose I will, but thank you for the suggestion. [And she actually sounds 100% sincere about this.]

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

....I mean the search engine is called google. So now it's being replaced as a verb. There. I just saved you from googling google.

[is-was-willbe.livejournal.com]

Well, how very kind of you.

[synanthrope]

Are you trying to find reason in chaos, Doctor House?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Since finding Nemo is out. Sure.

[as_damaged]

Who's to say it's logic comprehensible to the human mind?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I still think that is a cop out too.

[as_damaged]

You're entitled to think whatever you like.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You're too smart to buy that.

[as_damaged]

I'm not buying anything. Frankly, I don't think it matters.

[dr_conscience]

Of everything that's happened here -- everything that shouldn't or wouldn't or couldn't have happened back home, how much of it do you have an explanation for?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

[dr_conscience]

Right now I'm curious. I'm not saying there isn't any logic here, necessarily, I'm just asking whether you've managed to find any yet.