How many of you?

 
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 Have ever been in absolute darkness? On my way home tonight, I stopped my truck on the roadside, shut everything down, turned off all the lights, and stepped out.  There is nothing. You can't see anything. A blackness so deep that you begin to feel dizzy from not being able to register any depth of any kind.

But out there, in the fields, you can hear the wind. You can hear everything in the absolute silence of it all. And then, you look up. And there's the night sky. Stars, everywhere. You can see the band of our own galaxy etched across the sky as millions of points of light reveal themselves to you.

I don't often stop and look at things in the night, but it makes me appreciate where I am. Although my province may be remote, and the collective IQ of the place could barely compete with a rock, in that darkness I realize there is no trouble here. I sit in a corner of the world not worth fighting over, not worth taking over, and not worth anyone's attention.

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, somebody who tries to go to sleep and wake up tomorrow gets their town shelled by mortar fire. Somewhere out there, are people preparing for a brewing war in their country, or a looming virus, a plague with the promise to kill many.

Many of these things come from the darkness in people's hearts, from conceited actions and wills. But as I stood out there on that lonely old dirt road, on that small patch of nothing in the world I realized the dark I stood in was pure. It does not discriminate, asks of nothing, and is all consuming in it's simple purity.

Anywho, this should hold some value other than my semantic rambling, so here's your challenge. Find one thing in your corner of the world that you wouldn't trade. It seems for most folks, all they want to do is move away from their part of the world. But, surely, there must be one thing you take enjoyment from that you wouldn't throw away.

Let's hear it gentlemen.
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Night time on the shore. There's some darkness for you.
Even the stars themselves are blotted out.


 
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I'm in the suburbs so I don't get that awesome open-world vibe that you mentioned. There is a place that makes giant pizza's though. I might miss that.


 
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Night time on the shore. There's some darkness for you.
Even the stars themselves are blotted out.

Oh but the stars add such an element. They don't infringe upon the dark of things.

Although once, a long time ago, I do remember standing on the shores as the light faded. Set up a chair, lean back, and let that ocean lull you to sleep.


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Very thought provoking sandtrap. Yet another quality thread.

Too bad I live in a city, which natural light and sound is washed over by sirens, horns, trains, and other noises siding with the city lights. It's rather difficult, trying to find something I wouldn't trade.


 
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Very thought provoking sandtrap. Yet another quality thread.

Too bad I live in a city, which natural light and sound is washed over by sirens, horns, trains, and other noises siding with the city lights. It's rather difficult, trying to find something I wouldn't trade.

Even cities have their charm. Some spot that you would find nowhere else. I'm not much for cities, but even I know every one has that one special place.



 
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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
When I was younger complete darkness was actually where I felt safest, as odd it may sound. It was like another world where the only thing that mattered was what was going on in my mind.

There were nights where I kind of just sat around with my dog on my life to ponder life. For whatever reason I was rather philosophical as a child.


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Doesn't get any darker than this.


 
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When I was younger complete darkness was actually where I felt safest, as odd it may sound. It was like another world where the only thing that mattered was what was going on in my mind.

There were nights where I kind of just sat around with my dog on my life to ponder life. For whatever reason I was rather philosophical as a child.

I can admit that sometimes when I'm driving at night out here, I get really fucking spaced out. It's almost like you're under water. It's just a strange feeling to look ahead of you, to your side, or even up, and you're completely immersed in it.

But it isn't weird not to be comfortable. Darkness, for all the night time critters that it hides, is a time of peace that you aren't used to seeing often. The world shuts down in silence yet opens it's doors to you at the same time. I must say, that when there are power outages in my town, and every last light goes out, I'm estatic.

I suddenly see my entire town in a new light as it too is absorbed by the all encompassing blackness. Personally, if there is one thing I'd like to see in my life, it's an entire city in a power outage. All those lights snuffed out to reveal a new shade of something not many people have seen before.


 
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Doesn't get any darker than this.

I did enjoy flying a kite as a kid.


 
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Hmm...
The town about 8 miles from where I live has a lot of gas stations, stores, and restaurants that stay open late at night, but there's hardly ever anyone out and about after 11. I like to drive around town at night listening to some good music, just cruising around without a destination.


 
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The town about 8 miles from where I live has a lot of gas stations, stores, and restaurants that stay open late at night, but there's hardly ever anyone out and about after 11. I like to drive around town at night listening to some good music, just cruising around without a destination.

I hope you aren't like the asshole kids that go roaring down main street with their windows down blasting their farmer equivalent of ghetto music through their open windows.


 
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Hmm...
I hope you aren't like the asshole kids that go roaring down main street with their windows down blasting their farmer equivalent of ghetto music through their open windows.
Not blasting, no; and it's usually Billy Joel or something off of the Oldies station. I do enjoy having the windows down at night, though, so...maybe I'm kind of like those assholes a bit.


 
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Not blasting, no; and it's usually Billy Joel or something off of the Oldies station. I do enjoy having the windows down at night, though, so...maybe I'm kind of like those assholes a bit.

If you rev your engine and then go ripping down the empty street while screaming out the window, I'm going to find you. And I will ram this slow moving tank of a vehicle into yours, while letting my obnoxious engine sit idle and make enough noise to rival a gunshow because of the loose parts in it.



49 miles an hour of pure speed demon. Better watch out you.
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I did enjoy flying a kite as a kid.
Lol


 
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Lol

They looked like fucking kites. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody made a kite out of them in fact.


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They looked like fucking kites. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody made a kite out of them in fact.


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I used to do that, back in my old town. We lived in the middle of nowhere, so the skies were nice and clear at night. It was peaceful, calming, tranquil. Heh, I miss it there, sometimes.

The embrace of the Dark is gentle. Let it absorb your sorrows forever.
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I used to do that, back in my old town. We lived in the middle of nowhere, so the skies were nice and clear at night. It was peaceful, calming, tranquil. Heh, I miss it there, sometimes.

The embrace of the Dark is gentle. Let it absorb your sorrows forever.
Sorry.

I have Light inside.


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Sorry.

I have Light inside.


Korra, pls. Humanity is one with the Dark.


 
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Korra, pls. Humanity is one with the Dark.
Zygluta pls

I have a super spirit of supreme light literally inside my rib cage.


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Zygluta pls

I have a super spirit of supreme light literally inside my rib cage.

Nice to know you've turned from our true nature and have given up your humanity.


 
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Zygluta pls

I have a super spirit of supreme light literally inside my rib cage.
... Umm you may want to see a doctor about that. >.>


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Doesn't get any darker than this.
Do you really think your shit gimmick is amusing? It's not.


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A peace so deep it was like... the Dark


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Albertan detected.


 
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Saskatchewan actually. c:


 
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