Intergalactic Summit

I try to take everything seriously. Politics, questions of Faith, news, philosophy - even if I don't understand a lot about it. But I do try to make sure that all my replies are quite serious as well.

I despise these clowns who use IGS for their amusement, who can talk only about pleasures and make jokes about other people. And I mean it, I really despise those, who make jokes on other's extent. A good, healthy joke is when you joke about yourself or about situation, and if you joke about others - you must make sure it isn't harmful.

Sometimes IGS starts to look like a bunch of apes, who punch each other with their half-witted jokes and innuendos and laugh like horses about their own replies.

The God sees everything and everyone. And I ask you - is to look at yourselves and at what are you doing. Quite a lot of people come to IGS to talk about serious business. But greater amount of folk just disrupts everything by their lack of seriousness.

I will ask you for one more thing: if you can't reply seriously please don't post anything. Don't be one of "them".

I seriously despise people with sticks up their butt.

ISK.

I have to admit to a bit of a cold sweat while considering the question posed.

However. The things I take seriously:

Perfecting my disco dancing skills with the members of my personal protection team. Because after years of tearing up the battlefield being able to tear up the dance floor and get down on a Saturday night is a welcome reprieve.

Managing my rare salt collection from across the cluster. Still looking to acquire some pink salt from the mountains on Ardishapur Prime.

Reading. It does not matter too much what it is, whether hardboiled detective stories, poetry, or Amarrian scripture. Mostly detective stories.

Solitude at home and the time to just appreciate the valley outside or to walk alone in the forest to think to myself.

Falconry and rearing my small coterie of pyre falcons and kestrels.

Dinner with old comrades in the Home Guard to talk about the Good Old Days over vodka and cigars.

Trying to learn how to use my empathy not as a tool to get into people's heads all the better so I can determine where to stick the (metaphorical) knife but rather to reserve it for those I do care about.

Curbing my ambitions, but not my enthusiasm.

Understanding my capability for personal cruelty and violence should not come to define me. The knowledge I am able to be cruel and violent will always give me the confidence of being dangerous - for I have inflicted that danger upon countless many - but more dignified that cruelty is a choice and not for its own sake.

Smashed avocado on toast.

Trying to view my time in the pod and the death and violence that often serves as corollary to it less as my profession and more... as a hobby, I suppose?

Mathematics. Even if at times it makes me uncertain what is real or surreal anymore and I have to remark to myself: Well, wasn't that a fun game to play.

Exploring the doubts I have about my own Caldari consequentialist and legalist philosophical outlooks.

Baselining under different names around the State to experience the pleasure of speaking with strangers, mingling among my own people, and just to eat some hot noodles while standing on the street.

There are more than a few things I take seriously, or to read into the subtext of the question posed, find meaningful but increasingly I find myself drawn back to life outside the pod. If only because I feel that the life I had led within hydrostatic fluid was much like trying to erect a monument to self which in the end -- much like forgotten Kings -- would be dust eventually. The capsule taught me beauty and truth in its own way, but I should also seek it elsewhere. For in the nominal heights in which I existed I forgot the small things, and sometimes... well, just existing is the greatest gift of all and everything else is just a bonus. Especially at times those small things. It's just a matter of finding them.

Addendum: However there are two things I should probably take less seriously.

Definitely one is an ingrained tendency towards seeking to seize the initiative, attack, and maintain the momentum in personal exchanges. Not every exchange has to be a zero-sum transactional scenario and not every medium has to be a battlefield of in arguendo just for the sake of in arguendo.

The second... it probably ties well into questions of why communication can feel so trivial not just on the IGS but elsewhere -- and that's playing to persona for the purposes of provocation and misdirection. The reasons for it vanished along with the Shiigeru. While it says a lot about the nature of capsuleer celebrity and the effectiveness of delivering the message so to speak via the visual epistemology of style and image over a substantive publishing of thought a priori it was, quite honestly, becoming a crutch to play to character so I could maintain personal distance and revel in my own introversion.

Thirdly (Yes, I said two things) my own potential ideological blinkering when it comes to topics and matters related to the Caldari people, State, and Kaalakiota.

It's good you don't take yourself too seriously...

You don't seem to take the Matari seriously. "Stupid tribals" and all that. Even though we're your enemy just like the Gallante though some of us could really care less about attacking you and your own.

My partner (more a who than a what), and philosophy that isn't second-rate nonsense.

I also take the defense of whatever place and whichever people I refer to as home, very seriously.

A number of personal and corporate responsibilities.

Yet just as importantly?

My cat.

Attending to its health, well being, and general contentment.

Clone jacking, no. Paying off for support, maybe.

I take seriously the importance of the class for ships....Like, carrier shouldn't be a standard ship, it's a CAPITAL ship which isn't the kind of ship that should be in thousand in one alliance, same goes for supers etc etc :)