#THE DECAYED

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glacial apex
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Alright

brave coral
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he’s mad at me

glacial apex
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Why?

brave coral
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because cats can’t follow rules

glacial apex
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Lol

cinder lodge
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then evolve yourself

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Get better

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And smarter if you desire

glacial apex
cinder lodge
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Not everyone can help cat.

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glacial apex
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Goodness me she did a philosophy

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That is so based

brave coral
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wut

cinder lodge
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applause

glacial apex
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Ok now why do human beings have value

cinder lodge
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they never had one if i remeber in my thoughts but well cat is not a human being

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If we think correct

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But who does that

glacial apex
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When I get harrassed, I just remember that The men who live with hatred in their hearts will die one day. And I shall live for I have not insulted those who have insulted I.

brave coral
glacial apex
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I didn't get it

glacial apex
brave coral
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i hate humans.

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many of them are the reason behind why this world is so messed up

cinder lodge
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Cat ain't human being so she does have some kind of value well for those who want to

glacial apex
brave coral
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i do, only some of them

glacial apex
cinder lodge
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love? humans aren't those the purest devils.

glacial apex
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There are worse I think

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I mean

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We have value

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And We're beloved

brave coral
glacial apex
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So why not love humans

glacial apex
cinder lodge
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we can't be called humans we are fallen angels

glacial apex
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Fallen hoomans

cinder lodge
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Or that

glacial apex
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Ig

brave coral
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me joining was a mistake, to be honest

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i shouldnt have joined

cinder lodge
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your choice is what you felt right

glacial apex
glacial apex
brave coral
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-# all that i caused is more and more drama, it feels like the server is decaying agaim, just like it did before

glacial apex
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I don't think you've made any drama

cinder lodge
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you made nothing wrong

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In our sight

glacial apex
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Like what

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Are you perhaps a uttp member

brave coral
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no

cinder lodge
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Think cat what are you really

glacial apex
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Think

brave coral
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i don’t know, honestly

cinder lodge
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think

glacial apex
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You

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Are what

cinder lodge
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get inside your thoughts

brave coral
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i don’t know who i am, okay..??

glacial apex
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You

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Are a beloved and valued human being

cinder lodge
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You can't tell that if you thought about it for a short second

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Think longer

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And more like us

brave coral
cinder lodge
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Then you see the real of you

glacial apex
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Lol

brave coral
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i did the math wrong, sorry

glacial apex
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What gives hoomans value

cinder lodge
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their thoughts

brave coral
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who they are..??

glacial apex
cinder lodge
brave coral
glacial apex
glacial apex
cinder lodge
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If some want to be seen like that

glacial apex
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It's subjective

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Yes

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Objectively,
Do we have value?

cinder lodge
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Yes we do

brave coral
glacial apex
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How so

brave coral
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we do..??

glacial apex
cinder lodge
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For our own reasons.

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we think the way we want to do things that qualifies us as valued

glacial apex
brave coral
glacial apex
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Where does objective value come from

cinder lodge
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But if we want to feel valued we just have to see our own as valued enough

brave coral
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ShimmeringStars, i really want to ping you, but this time, i’m following the rules, please, check out what’s going on..

glacial apex
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We need to follow what is true

brave coral
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we aren’t empty

cinder lodge
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we have to see trueness to be what we want to be

brave coral
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the person above me, remember what he said, you are a valuable and beloved person

glacial apex
# brave coral we aren’t empty

My beloved human being,

Please for your sake, find the meaning of life. For the lost have no pastures to lay in. No rivers to lay by. No water to drink. They are wandering. Thinking they are free. The desert is vast, but the oasis is beautiful.

brave coral
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i will

glacial apex
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Cool

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Now derive from where you get your philosophical statements and tell me

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What no

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Wdym

brave coral
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idk

brave coral
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??

glacial apex
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*do

brave coral
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i get them from my mind, and from everything that happened in life..??

glacial apex
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Obviously.

Where is the thing that supports your claim.
That we have value

glacial apex
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I did

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Like a year ago

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Hence why Im here asking philosophical questions

brave coral
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uhh.. our s-souls, and us deeply inside, or something like that

cinder lodge
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I did to it took me years to do so. But i got it 2 years ago

glacial apex
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How do you know we have souls?

Just think on it for a while don't rush it

glacial apex
cinder lodge
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everyone has their own perspective

glacial apex
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Yes

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What supports yours?

brave coral
glacial apex
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Idk maybe

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Ghost just ghosted me fr lol

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Oh there he is

brave coral
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it seems like all of this philosophy is pushing us to do things that we’re too tired to do, i don’t know

glacial apex
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Then don't do it

cinder lodge
# glacial apex What supports yours?

Just like water, life is just part of a cycle for the world. This applies to you as well as to me. Therefore, we can do what we want and decide for ourselves how we want to live. Water supports it.

glacial apex
glacial apex
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We tried.

Then we thought our evil would not be seen.

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And now we're here

cinder lodge
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Everyone has their own choices aswell as reasons to be what they are or want to be

glacial apex
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In Babylon all over again

glacial apex
cinder lodge
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It just seems to be a Loop no one ever has a correct answer for those

brave coral
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yeah..

glacial apex
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I simply asked why you think we're simply matter and energy.

No loop there

brave coral
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life has felt like a loop, at some point

glacial apex
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Is that a decayed reference

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No way

brave coral
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ᵗʰinᵍˢ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ʷroⁿᵍ, agaᶦⁿ..

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no

glacial apex
brave coral
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no

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it’s not

glacial apex
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Not what

cinder lodge
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karamel what is your meaning of life

glacial apex
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Good question

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So basically

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A year ago

brave coral
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but yeah, sometimes we don’t have to be all serious

glacial apex
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I found this awesome series called murder drones

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Started watching it

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Then.

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That exact date

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19th July 2023

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It hit me

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depression

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Idk why

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I never felt that sad before

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Never

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It was the release of episode 3

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It was so good

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So good

brave coral
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-# i feel the same way too

glacial apex
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But it was gone

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Never to be in my reach again

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I couldn't have it again

cinder lodge
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we all have one same thing.

glacial apex
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I was

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Empty

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Months passed

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More episodes came

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More holes in my heart

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I didn't know why

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Then it hit me again

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I'm stupid

brave coral
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no.

glacial apex
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I tried to fill the infinite hole in my heart with something finite

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It never worked

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To this day

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I didn't know my meaning

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Of life

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Then

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I started questioning things

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Why is life

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Why are we

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Why am I

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What am I

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Why must I

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Was there a god

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What is a god

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Then it hit me

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I was my own god

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I tried to throw myself into the bottomless pit

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And thought I could survive

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I was dying

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Dying

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Dying

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Then it hit me (again)

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What could there be so infinite that could fill me

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What was there?

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What was there

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...

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It's impossible

That we as these beings with souls had nothing to fill it with

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I stopped lying to myself

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I opened my self up

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My heart became beating. Alive. Wonderful

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Soft. Warm. Truthful

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There was a god that could fill me to the brim

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The interaction

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Of two souls

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Was so beautiful

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And still is to me to this day

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The two souls

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Loving each other

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Knowing each other

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Learning each other

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Eternally.

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True fulfillment

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Not a cope

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That I had before

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Not a dream

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That I chased before

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Not an illusion or lie I told myself

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It was

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Realer than it all

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Truer

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Fulfillment

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Thank you for listening to my ted talk
Cya

brave coral
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-# what if..

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-# there’s still hope that things will get better

glacial apex
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-# yes

brave coral
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there is..??

cinder lodge
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yes there is

glacial apex
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-# yes

brave coral
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maybe you’re right..??

glacial apex
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-# yes

brave coral
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im sorry

glacial apex
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for what

brave coral
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i don’t know.. i better get going..

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admins, make sure to kick me, please, i joined without permission

brave coral
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this server, now can i please abandon reality, for some time 🙏🙏

glacial apex
brave coral
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ima leave this server, and close dm for some people, so i won’t bother them, i don’t belong here, really sorry

analog topaz
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What

glacial apex
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Wat

cinder lodge
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so for what i understood cat left the server and said they don't belong here that they joined without permission then i lost track

analog topaz
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Iirc they got kicked. Can't confirm though

rigid bay
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this arg is so confusing

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i dont get it

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who is even behind this anyways

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if u look up exec_05 on namemc theres a discord acc linked

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i tried to add it then nothing

analog topaz
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They're not canonically apart of it. They're a fan

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All characters in the series did not exist as registered accounts until after the Kunai and RGN video made it blow up in popularity

rigid bay
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so they prob used a disguise plugin in the series

analog topaz
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yeah

pseudo hill
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th happened here?

cinder lodge
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If i would know i would tell you

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Something with cat saying something ain't right to karamel and me

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We just got philosophic or however that word is spelled

pseudo hill
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ahhhhhh i see

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depression philosophy is real

cinder lodge
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yep

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And the meaning of life

glacial apex
pseudo hill
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You don’t need permission and stuff?

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Just agree to the rules

cinder lodge
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She got kicked the first time so maybe that is the reason

pseudo hill
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Ahhhh maybe

noble cedar
void crater
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hi guys, this is not really directly to decayed but id still appreciate it if you could watch at least the first segment, related to decayed https://youtu.be/bzhXClDkEz8

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this is whats been going on behind the scenes

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if you have the time to watch the rest id really recommend tho

sour locust
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...does this count as self-promotion? lol

void crater
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it honestly doesnt really matter if its self promo or not

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😭

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at least not in this scenario

compact plume
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i watched it, jesus christ

sour locust
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I am currently at work :(

wicked needle
foggy beacon
analog topaz
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Yeah I'm watching it right now

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Oh yeah strats left all servers

void crater
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she commented on the vid, shes apparently moving on from the internet to work on herself

foggy beacon
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@void crater How old is strats

void crater
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16 afaik

dapper topaz
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Oi let's not continue this conversation.

novel matrix
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Unfortunately, we can't have discussion of illegal activities like this here, even though it does have relevance to the topic

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I know this is a serious issue, but this server isn't the place for these discussions

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If you do believe a crime has been committed, alert your local authorities

foggy beacon
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Yep

analog topaz
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Ok so the Decayed was your brain child. What did you originally plan for the series?

analog topaz
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Yeah I have watched more of the video and I frankly cannot talk about the rest of the video. This is something that can't be talked about here (and it's not relevant to the DECAYED). However I want to talk more about the creative side of DECAYED

compact plume
analog topaz
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Yeah can you elaborate on that?

compact plume
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I don't got anything beyond that

analog topaz
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Yeah that goes to Astra

compact plume
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I do know that strats didn't even try to continue the series before discontinuing it, since if they did they wouldve needed to ask me for help with some modded stuff which they said they would lmao

floral ingot
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Modded stuff?

compact plume
# floral ingot Modded stuff?

The 21st video (pretty early on in the video too I believe) wouldve needed a custom gui for architects terminal (those little things execs have with the hypixel-like guis, but with custom buttons and whatnot) which both astra and strats didn't know how to make, and both of them told me around a similar timeframe that they would need help with making said GUI

compact plume
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Every video of the ending expect 23 conceptualised

analog topaz
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wdym every video of the ending

compact plume
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is what I meant

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the 4 last ones I just called "the ending" because I don't think there wouldve been that much plot progression aside from lore dumping, I haven't seen the script, i just know they exist

void crater
# analog topaz Yeah can you elaborate on that?

thats mostly the idea i had i was still gonna develop it, but all i remember is when i presented it to strats like "what if we make this about a cracked launcher" before like reunion even released, i remember strats just went "no"

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like straight up "no"

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the biggest problem in the series is that i set it up in terms of characters and story so i could continue it myself and at the end everything would make sense and connect in one big thing

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but strats shifting it from what i wanted made it basically like

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create some unnecessary plot holes that we had to patch between episodes so we could write the next

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and these would not have existed if we just kept going with my idea

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and then we got to the end and the ending she settled with has like 4 major plot holes that like you physically cant deny

weak magnet
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@void crater Were you able to get the channel back

void crater
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no

weak magnet
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Thats very very sad

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She doesn't deserve the money out of my moral view

void crater
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she says she didnt claim the money from the account but she still owns the account and i dont have access to it so that still counts as taking my money

snow creek
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im sorry to hear about all of this honestly

compact plume
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oh yeah btw if you wanna know what the unexplained lore of strats' version of the decayed was, then uh

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here it is

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apparently I completely guessed this correctly

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literally 2 minutes after I said that

analog topaz
analog topaz
analog topaz
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Unfortunate scum behavior

void crater
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it was eventually gonna have more cinematic videos like we got but it was gonna be way different

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the whole jacinthe part wasnt even supposed to exist

analog topaz
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Would you ever be interested in still developing a storyboard as like an alternative story to the decayed

void crater
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honestly nah

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id rather just move on

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im working on a fully different project atm

analog topaz
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Fair enough

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It's unfortunate that the story diverged that greatly, but the early videos before the diverge didn't really show much about the cracked mc launcher

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And honestly, the original premise does sound like a AlongCameJosh type of creepypasta video, even though that really isn't a bad thing what so ever.

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But whatever, that's in the past, so it's time to move on.

compact plume
void crater
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i mention them in the video

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what happens to serenemist

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or the fact that you literally cant figure out what would happen after episode 20

floral ingot
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Oh

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Those plot holes

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Yeah serenemist just disappears into the void

weak magnet
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if its executed well then why care

sour locust
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We should only really care if it is either:

  1. Executed so badly it's laughable
  2. An exact copy of someone else's execution with some terms swapped as if that disguises it
unreal topaz
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so is the Decayed gonna continue or is it… over?

sour locust
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It's over until further notice, from what I can see.

analog topaz
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I'm assuming it's just done for the foreseeable future

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Strats is off the Internet and astra moved on to something else

compact plume
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strats says theyre off the internet, but theyre also a repeat offender so theres about a 87% chance theyre lying and have since created another alias to repeat it again

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astra literally doesnt have access to the decayed channel anymore even if he wanted to continue it, he cant

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and i doubt strats will be making any videos due to this

sour locust
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So basically... possibility of return isn't 0, but rather so close to 0 that God descending to Earth to show everyone a Loss meme is more likely.

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Better chance of being eaten by sharks in your own home than seeing another video, but seeing another video isn't entirely impossible.

analog topaz
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Decayed is over

unreal topaz
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hmmm got it

sour locust
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I mean, it's been left off at a good point at least.

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I wasn't even expecting more after les fleurs.

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I wasn't left thinking "where is the rest?". I couldn't even tell it wasn't finished until y'all started saying something in here.

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Sure there are unanswered questions but I don't feel I need them answered. A little bit of mystery at the end of the day is okay.

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In fact I feel like this fits in well with the Decayed. The Construct was not just the thing they were all trapped in - it was the story. And by destroying one, you destroy the other as well.

compact plume
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imagine the first universal sighting of God is just him giving the pope a scribe of paper with

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sour locust
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(As in the roman numerals I, II, II, and L)

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No but seriously I do feel the story was complete at the end of les fleurs.

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You can't get more poetic than "destroying the confines of the story ended the story because there was nowhere for the story to be", and the series was fond of poetic writing.

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You can't convince me otherwise - having more would just be a sequel series, rather than a continuation.

floral ingot
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Or a prequel

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But yes

compact plume
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there was still room for more

floral ingot
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In theory, yes

compact plume
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not in theory

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it literally was decaying, not instantly destroyed

novel matrix
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I also agree that les fleurs is a good ending

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it leaves things vague enough to be interesting

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the only issue is that serenemist disappears

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beyond that, though, I don't really feel like the series needed additional content

sour locust
compact plume
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i dont know where the name comes from

sour locust
weak magnet
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i think its weird when the name is just made to sound cryptic?

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but i guess with astras explanation of the actual original idea i can imagine somehow it being connected

void crater
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u guys are overthinking, its called the decayed simply because they are decayed

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during the series they dont have a physical body, they just use a minecraft character as their body

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so in real life theres nothing in their body which would mean they decayed

floral ingot
glacial apex
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Maybe the real decayed were the friends we made along the way

floral ingot
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That don't sound good

void crater
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yeah no thats just sad

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💔

analog topaz
glacial apex
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Ig the real decayed was us

cursive zodiac
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Ooooohh I'll take a loot at this

compact plume
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This is not the right place

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Why did you put it here

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jesus

glacial apex
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Christ

unreal topaz
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ngl i don’t want the Decayed to end but like it has lol

pseudo hill
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It’s a good ending ngl
I like it

novel matrix
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Yes

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I've said it before but I think this ending really does work

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I'm looking forward to seeing future projects from the creators

pseudo hill
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Yeahhhh

brave coral
brave coral
void crater
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tell me you didnt watch the video without telling me you didnt watch the video

brave coral
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i didnt watch the video, its fifty minutes long

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what did strats do, man

void crater
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im actually the person that made decayed i invited strats later on and the whole series was planned to be something else but she kept moving it away from what i had set up until then

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the ending i had planned initially had nothing to dowith what actually happened

brave coral
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oh..

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im really sorry..

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i know this is off topic, but

void crater
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also you only really need to watch the first part which is like 12 mins

brave coral
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are you ok

void crater
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yeah

brave coral
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so, you didnt have something like depression, or anixiety, while making the series?

void crater
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nah, i just like the concept of series that talk about that kinda stuff

brave coral
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oh.. thats.. so..

void crater
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like how short life is or inevitability that kinda stuff

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its so pessimistic i know but its something i find really interesting

brave coral
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unusual, most people who enjoy philosophical topics usually have depression, or just feel upset, a lot

void crater
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nah neither of those

brave coral
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yeah, life does seem short, i sometimes question it, a lot

brave coral
brave coral
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life was just really difficult, and the philosophy wasnt something, that a young kitty could handle

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ima adios, again, bye licks the screen

-# if only they knew, how difficult it is, to “be” someone who is always joyful, and excited, if only they didnt blame me for everything, if only they didnt deepen the hole in others hearts, without even knowing

-# everything hurts
-# and its all my fault, not even the smartest, most intelligent person would understand what its like, to always be blamed on, to always be trauma dumped on..

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i dont belong anywhere

glacial apex
pseudo hill
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(just saw the drama and vid and stuff)

compact plume
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Not related, don't post it here

glacial apex
compact plume
glacial apex
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Alr

compact plume
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that's like posting images of hyacinths in here because it's a decayed reference

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the guy probably just wanted to sneak in a lil reference

glacial apex
last gust
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The decayed is officially over

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sad

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Thoughts have been thought, and behind the scenes I have come to the decision that THE DECAYED will be ending.
The plan was always to have an ambiguous 'ending' to the series, I wanted to do a few more episodes to explain more thoroughly, but as it seems, leaving it open to discussion and imagination would be the best option.

I apologize for bringing up any hopes for future episodes, but seeing all the theories and speculations is very enjoyable and I hope to see more.

Thanks for watching!

novel matrix
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Huh I was under the impression they’d already said this was the end

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Oh wait that’s an old post

last gust
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and new people might be curious about it

slate sky
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:(

floral ingot
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Banger series

dapper parrot
hollow trout
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Sent this in the wrong forum. Repost here.

The repeated appearance of purple flowers in the timeloop video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlVxkMWuNXY, is most likely a reference to "her", or Jacinthe, who bears purple colors.

noble cedar
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The username sounds concerning

hollow trout
noble cedar
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yours

hollow trout
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Yes, i like firey stuff

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Your house is not in danger, it is not within my reach

silk mountain
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@granite oar here it is

granite oar
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ty

granite oar
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I found my theory very hard to explain, and I wanted to seperate into the parts. No worries this isnt about religions and its about mysticsm. I dont follow Gnosticsm and I am not try to make others believe or know about it. PS: Sorry for my bad englih.

Ⅰ - Introduction to Main Core; Gnosticism.

Ⅰ.Ⅰ Creation and Order of The Universe

There is a being, a female godly being named "Sophia." She descends from the greatest godly source, monad and she is an eon. Eons are beings which live in (syzygies) duo's and they dont do something without their partners and their consent. But, Sophia makes a critical mistake and she crates a being without his partner and her partners consent. That being is an Demiurge, an head one. Its name is "Yaldoboath" and because he doesnt trully understand the mystical system above him, beings like Sophia for example, he thinks he is the god. Thefore, he creates the material universe and thinks he is the god. There is 6 lower beings, his servants which known as arcons. Iao being the embodiment of fear and heavenly authority, Astaphanos is about deceiving and ilusions. Horaios is about loops and time. Sabaoth is about ruling, war, and rivalness. Adonaios is about the urge to control, emotion of superiority. Elaois is about the keeping the system is but in a strict way leaving no room for awarness.

Ⅰ.Ⅱ Levels Of Awarness

There is key differences between the textes but the levels of awarness of many textes are like what I am listing.
Ignorance/Sleep: -> This level shows that you have no idea whats going on about the world around you. You dont have the mind to understand that you are being deceived by arcons.
Awakening/Initial Gnosis -> This level shows that you have information that you are trapped, you are questioning. You are in a prison, you know it and you know that you are in that prison.
Deep Knowledge/ Preparation -> This level shows that you know about the cosmic origin. You grow a detachment from material desires. You PREPARE for spiritual ascend.
Gnosis -> You past every single aspect of material world. Arcons have no power on you, you are ascended. You are now a being, which is so powerfull you cant be deceived by Arcons.

Ⅱ - "THE DECAYED" Theory.

Symbolism

The "Jacinthe" straight up a metaphor for Sophia. As we learned from les fleurs, she doesnt has absoulute authority over it and she cant control it totally. And the general ruling of the "Concept" is up to "Keepers", she generally dont intervene with the system that much. My theory about the creation is Jacinthe created the Concept but its not a system, its not a "dimension" or "multiverse" as most of the people think and its an entity. This being has touch with our world, our reality and cant effect it. It can upload videos to the youtube, it can cypher codes for us to discover. It can think, it could take action. Paintings changing, grenzen being customized to the player, and fake Kargo all connect to this entity. When Thomas broke the grenzen of Mathew we see many grenzens like this. How come the people of this ranknigs know which room should look like what? Since they deleted their memories, and "Keepers" dont appear to know everything about the players since they can be overruled by them. And also we didnt see them having the commands or level of adminastration to change the inventory of the player. In that case, Concept is a godly entity which covers everything we seen in minecraft.

In this story our arcons are keepers, which the numbers fit (6 to 6) and their duty fits. They really are all about deceving the souls came into the concept and torture them as in the gnostic belief.

granite oar
# granite oar I found my theory very hard to explain, and I wanted to seperate into the parts....

Ⅱ.Ⅱ Story's Finale and "Sentinent" Stuff

So, in the finale we see a vessel erasing a keeper by rejecting it and announcing them powerless, right before they ascend/transcend. This fits the idea of gnosticsm, because sandy became all that aware of himself he could outpower these entities. And the way they show us is like Sandy destroyed it. But the symbolism behind this is artitech doesnt has the power over sandy. And because the authority he claims over sandy is not possible because of his awanress, it stops being a concern. It shows us he overcome one of the keepers. And the way sandy fuses with the tree is showing us the true gnosis part.

Here is what I mean, we could think the "Concept" as an entity which acts like material worlds and holds the souls to itself, tortures them. But with the episode le fleurs, every soul overcomes the concept. In gnosticsm this means ascending to anohter level of awarness.. And with it destroyed everyone reaches deep realisation

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this is probably my favorite arg that rgn has covered, not only is the story really interesting, but it’s lowk relatable?

like as a young adult male dealing with a chronic illness, I can relate to life just feeling like “doing and doing and doing” besides bed rotting and playing mc lol