And now that I've rambled and gone all theory-geek and quoted the Bible at you (which is not meant to frighten you off, because I'm not a scary Christian and not even really a Christian at all)
Ahahahhaha. You are cute. I squish you.
A threat, really, is only a promise with negative or harmful connotations--you can promise to do someone harm, but cannot threaten to do someone good in a non-ironic sense. So maybe the most fundamental of all human interactions is the promise? And the earth was without form, and void. Nothing exists without promise? I dunno. I'll have to think about it more.
That's very nicely said. And, of course, underlying all that, the prevailing human emotion would have to be hope.
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Date: 2007-03-16 12:00 pm (UTC)Ahahahhaha. You are cute. I squish you.
A threat, really, is only a promise with negative or harmful connotations--you can promise to do someone harm, but cannot threaten to do someone good in a non-ironic sense. So maybe the most fundamental of all human interactions is the promise? And the earth was without form, and void. Nothing exists without promise? I dunno. I'll have to think about it more.
That's very nicely said. And, of course, underlying all that, the prevailing human emotion would have to be hope.