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fandomhigh2013-05-27 12:30 pm
endsthegame) wrote in fandomhigh2013-05-27 12:30 pm
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Practical Philosophy, Monday
"It's Memorial Day today," Ender said-- after everyone had gathered and he had taken stock of who was there and, more importantly, who wasn't. He'd noted said absence with a raise of his brow and nothing else.
It was a little hard to concentrate on that anyway with all the frogs hopping around, occasionally shedding literal light on the group.
"I suppose it makes sense to talk about loss," he said. "I know Memorial Day honors the men and women who have served us who have fallen in battle, but military service isn't the only service that a human being can commit themselves to. You sit here on a mountain of the dead - of people who worked and suffered and expired so that you can live here comfortably."
Having imparted this cheery wisdom, he sat back.
"So let's start there," he said. "Is there anyone in your life who's since passed whose service led you here today?"
It was a little hard to concentrate on that anyway with all the frogs hopping around, occasionally shedding literal light on the group.
"I suppose it makes sense to talk about loss," he said. "I know Memorial Day honors the men and women who have served us who have fallen in battle, but military service isn't the only service that a human being can commit themselves to. You sit here on a mountain of the dead - of people who worked and suffered and expired so that you can live here comfortably."
Having imparted this cheery wisdom, he sat back.
"So let's start there," he said. "Is there anyone in your life who's since passed whose service led you here today?"