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trenchcoatedly[Castiel is in the greenhouse. This should not be a surprise.]
I realize I haven't said anything in a while. This is probably not conducive to wardening. I apologize.
That being said, I'd like to point something out.
The first being that up until a certain point, all warden and inmate arrivals happened on certain dates and on a schedule. Some of them posted late, but it's my hunch that that group waited to mention their arrival. This no longer seems to be the case. Rather than a group arriving, people are arriving one by one. I don't know what or what reason this could be; perhaps it indicates the Admiral is in a hurry for something, though I don't know what. Or perhaps there was some kind of line or judging process in which it went through with the upcoming barge residents and while it was previously doing group reviews, that's no longer the case. Perhaps there was a quota it had to meet before granting access to the barge to any particular group that no longer applies. Or, maybe it's changed the process based on recommendation from superiors.
I also wonder about floods and breaches. I don't think these are accidental and if the Admiral wanted to stop the barge from experiencing them, it would be more than capable of doing so. However, I feel that it views floods and breaches - and ports, though these seem less false-accidental than the other two - as a way for us to experience different emotions and different circumstances. It uses floods as a vehicle for wardens and inmates alike to end up in places and situations where they would otherwise never be, being forced to make decisions they wouldn't otherwise have to make. In this way, it forces us to consider our deeper personalities. Whether this is coming to a conclusion about one being more like they thought or less, or realizing a certain font of their personality is stronger or weaker leads us to learn more about ourselves. This is not always an easy process. But it's a good process. Additionally, while the Admiral can drive the barge into floods and breaches, I don't believe he controls the inner workings of them - universes are how they are. And they can be modified to suit one's needs - but controlling a person's mind would probably teach them less than having this person come to a conclusion all on his or her own.
[He pauses for a moment, perhaps realizing he has gone on a lengthy ramble. He looks up a wall of vines and then back to the camera.]
As an unrelated note, I don't know what good this will do, but if anyone has any problems, listening is one of my best talents.
I realize I haven't said anything in a while. This is probably not conducive to wardening. I apologize.
That being said, I'd like to point something out.
The first being that up until a certain point, all warden and inmate arrivals happened on certain dates and on a schedule. Some of them posted late, but it's my hunch that that group waited to mention their arrival. This no longer seems to be the case. Rather than a group arriving, people are arriving one by one. I don't know what or what reason this could be; perhaps it indicates the Admiral is in a hurry for something, though I don't know what. Or perhaps there was some kind of line or judging process in which it went through with the upcoming barge residents and while it was previously doing group reviews, that's no longer the case. Perhaps there was a quota it had to meet before granting access to the barge to any particular group that no longer applies. Or, maybe it's changed the process based on recommendation from superiors.
I also wonder about floods and breaches. I don't think these are accidental and if the Admiral wanted to stop the barge from experiencing them, it would be more than capable of doing so. However, I feel that it views floods and breaches - and ports, though these seem less false-accidental than the other two - as a way for us to experience different emotions and different circumstances. It uses floods as a vehicle for wardens and inmates alike to end up in places and situations where they would otherwise never be, being forced to make decisions they wouldn't otherwise have to make. In this way, it forces us to consider our deeper personalities. Whether this is coming to a conclusion about one being more like they thought or less, or realizing a certain font of their personality is stronger or weaker leads us to learn more about ourselves. This is not always an easy process. But it's a good process. Additionally, while the Admiral can drive the barge into floods and breaches, I don't believe he controls the inner workings of them - universes are how they are. And they can be modified to suit one's needs - but controlling a person's mind would probably teach them less than having this person come to a conclusion all on his or her own.
[He pauses for a moment, perhaps realizing he has gone on a lengthy ramble. He looks up a wall of vines and then back to the camera.]
As an unrelated note, I don't know what good this will do, but if anyone has any problems, listening is one of my best talents.
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Date: 2012-09-30 04:32 pm (UTC)I don't think the Admiral is a benevolent creature, and nowhere did I suggest that it was. It doesn't run the barge - more or less - with a goal of being kind, or nice, or thoughtful. It has one intention, which is to redeem inmates. This is no way implies benevolence or goodness. Oftentimes, trying to redeem one inmate simply alienates other ones - and given that the Admiral has a theoretically unlimited amount of time with the inmates, this is a sensible strategy for it to go by, simply not the most efficient.
Additionally, and I've said this before, it's also possible that the Admiral doesn't understand how to be benevolent to us, because it's a much grander creature. What it does, it does with the intention of 'this will help you in the long run.' And this progress that inmates may or may not make does not have to be viewed as progress by the inmate. The progress may be subconscious. It may be painful, because realizing something is wrong with you is a painful experience. And again, it seems reasonable that not every inmate may progress in the same flood, port or breach, in the same manner, or at the same time. Given the the Admiral has a theoretically unlimited timespan, he can afford inefficiencies.
To have a goal that is good does not mean you accomplish it in a goodly way, nor does it make you a good person. So it's possible the Admiral can have a sick sense of humor and have the goal to redeem inmates, and he can do both while driving high - though I don't know what this means, so I can't say if that's possible or not.
I know this doesn't answer your question fully, nor is it the answer I suppose you'd like to hear. But it's the answer I have. And if you believe me to be a fool for it, so be it.
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Date: 2012-10-02 12:42 am (UTC)You're serving a monster with an insane agenda. Don't try to justify it by talking about the greater good. You're talking to the wrong person about that. I've gotten too much of the bad end of this place to be "better" for it. It will take years to recover once I get out of this hellhole, and believe me, I'm far less concerned with the "greater good" than when that piece of crap got his hands on me.
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Date: 2012-10-02 02:12 pm (UTC)