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Tweak says, "They're coming to take me away"

connor baird is an (ungeist) wrote in doors,
@ 2012-09-15 23:15:00

Entry tags:

beast, huntress, john blake, nightcrawler, pepper potts, persian, rose red, thor

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[As 'Nightcrawler']

There is a vast community here, I see, of many types of people. I wish to know what you think about forgiveness. When it can be offered, that is, and what it means to give it. Whether it can help the person who forgives as well as the forgiven. I know what God says on this matter, but I would like to hear what man says, as well.

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	withpurpose 2012-09-16 05:22 am UTC (link)
	It's interesting, that he would confess for punishment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-16 05:26 am UTC (link)
	His guilt clearly weighed on him. I think to be punished was a relief. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withpurpose 2012-09-16 05:27 am UTC (link)
	What if one is afraid of punishment? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-16 05:32 am UTC (link)
	Mein freund, there is no cure for cowardice but bravery. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withpurpose 2012-09-16 05:33 am UTC (link)
	You call it cowardice? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-16 05:34 am UTC (link)
	To fear punishment when you know you have done wrong? Yes, cowardice is what makes that fear. But it is also natural. Every sinner fears the fire. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withpurpose 2012-09-16 05:36 am UTC (link)
	I feel like it would be hard to live like that. In cowardice. One would always feel as though something is waiting around every corner. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-16 05:40 am UTC (link)
	It would be. I could not bear it, and so I understand why the man I knew chose to turn himself in. I do not think all crimes need be punished by the state, and punishment does not guarantee forgiveness. But one way or another, such debts are paid in the end. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withpurpose 2012-09-16 05:44 am UTC (link)
	[...] You've given me a lot to think on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-16 05:45 am UTC (link)
	I hope this is a good thing? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Micah/Nightcrawler withpurpose 2012-09-16 05:47 am UTC (link)
	This conversation hit a bit closer to home than I was initially prepared for, that is all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Micah/Nightcrawler ungeist 2012-09-16 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	I am sorry. This was not my intention. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Micah/Nightcrawler withpurpose 2012-09-17 02:49 am UTC (link)
	Nothing to apologise for. You've simply shown me a different way of looking at things, a way that I needed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_published349 2012-09-16 07:21 am UTC (link)
	Me, I think it's kind of funny you figure the guy has it better off. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-16 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	Better off? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_published349 2012-09-16 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	Sure. "Oh, I fucked up, arrest me so it's all better." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-17 04:14 am UTC (link)
	I do not believe it makes the thing all better, as you say, but it is something. No one can bring that man back from the dead. But punishment can at least give the man who killed him his chance to atone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_published349 2012-09-18 01:51 am UTC (link)
	I don't think it's anything. What's he doing to atone? Nothing. Sitting there, eating tax payer money. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-18 02:13 am UTC (link)
	You speak like a man who has never been imprisoned. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_published349 2012-09-18 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Not eager to go, either. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-18 02:28 am UTC (link)
	No one is. But I will protest that there is more to it than 'sitting there'. Very few things are worse than being denied your freedom. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_published349 2012-09-18 02:30 am UTC (link)
	Big difference than here and now. We're not even free in our own heads. What's "Nightcrawler" from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ungeist 2012-09-18 04:02 am UTC (link)
	It is what they called me when I was young, when I was with the circus. After that, it simply stayed with me. I joined a group of people who had all made names of their own, rather than go by their given names, which had little connection to who they were as individuals. Nightcrawler is not the most flattering, but it is fitting enough, I suppose. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)