A Riddle if you will – Who Am I?

If only I had a Brain.

These are all good suggestions.

If only jannybobani knew the answer for us to confirm! Oh, the suspense!

What we clearly need is another dozen or so people to sidle up in here expending energy deducing jannys most titillating riddle. Who knows janny, maybe they might guess it and we can all go home to our wives and significant others.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

Clearly, the character who is the subject of the riddle would seem to be God, or at least, your slightly warped conception of God, which seems to be limited to viewing God as some cosmic schoolmaster, always watching, waiting for you to screw things up, waiting to punish you.

Strange how people read things that are not there....

Where did the opening post imply anything about someone (god) 'waiting for you to screw up and waiting to punish you'?

Your eyes.

You cant see them, but you see through them, and they can always see you.

a reply to: Soulworn

haha - I forgot I posted about the staring "eyes" - or whatever "it" uses to perceive.

No progress has been achieved concerning the identity in question- but - another cliffhanger, I think there are others. "It" is not the only one.

originally posted by: jannybobani9
a reply to: Soulworn

haha - I forgot I posted about the staring "eyes" - or whatever "it" uses to perceive.

No progress has been achieved concerning the identity in question- but - another cliffhanger, I think there are others. "It" is not the only one.

Lol I'm sure "It" knows full well it isn't too.
Made me howl with laughter when you posted "isnt that how the aliens get ya'...stuck in your mind that one didn't it? LOL... the eyes are such an important element of human beauty, don't you think? The most, I would say. Some eyes you never forget, try as one might. There isn't enough beer.

If I isn't the only one then that means you're in a staring contest with more than one "it" ? Sounds like hard work. I cant stare down two things at once myself...but if there's anyone that can, it's the modern American girl. You can do it, I believe in you. Who knows, maybe the least self respecting it will make itself known at some point? Step into the limelight, as it were. Or not.

If only they gave out awards for cryptic bollocks eh? Shame.

a reply to: Soulworn

the eyes are such an important element of human beauty, don't you think?

Yes - while generally, bodily organs are stuffed into our skin - present on our "inside" - our eyes seem to be hanging out of the skin bag, with an optional skin lid, backed up with some jazz lashes for batting effects; utilized for asking for favors and such. Like a "peek a boo" effect. I hope one day we can exchange eyes between different bodies, to see how the view of a set of eyes would change if being utilized by a different person.

There isn't enough beer.

I was out to dinner last night. The menu had a drink called "Ex-Girlfriend". It is a drink composed of the ingredients of a long island ice tea and a shot of sake. Reading your comment about there not being enough beer, makes me wonder if the person who designed the Ex-Girlfriend drink was trying to forget a pair of eyes.

If I isn't the only one then that means you're in a staring contest with more than one "it" ?

While yes, I can send my eyes in opposite directions and stare down several pairs of eyes at once, that is not the case with "it". I just perceived there being other eyes (eyes seem to be the theme of this post), peering at me from around "it". But my eyes are fixed on "it" - like we are assigned to each other or something? I don't know. There is a trap I am falling into while trying to figure this whole debacle out. The trap is that my mind starts adding details to my perception that weren't originally there. Then I become confused as to what really the content of the original perception is.

Another example of this trap to further explain what I mean by saying my mind is adding details to a perception: once I was standing on a pretty overlook, beholding a valley with many trees. I saw an empty space between the trees, and I tried to figure out what that empty space was. It looked, so clearly, like a street lamp. I thought "how strange, a street lamp in the woods". I got a hold of a pair of binoculars and zoomed into the street lamp, only to find out there was no street lamp. It was just a random empty space in the trees that my mind attributed "street lamp" to it, in its attempt to give meaning to what I was looking at. It happened to be shaped like a street lamp and there was a ray of light coming through, looking like a light bulb. When I realized how my mind added the street light attribute, I started toggling: binoculars - no binoculars, watching my mind seeing a street lamp - no street lamp.

I think something similar may be happening with "it". My mind starts attributing properties and meaning to what I am seeing, confusing me to a point that I am not sure what I am looking at. So I can only take perception with a grain

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

I somehow missed its post originally.

Is the inclusion of "darkness" an assumption on your part? Why is "not standing in the limelight" automatically inclusive of "darkness"? Not as a question to answer, Just a reminder not to assume.

Yes, that is an attribute I assumed about "it"- just because even though it is something "right there" so to say, it also seems to be hidden. I don't know if that is my impaired perception or if it is really hidden. Either way, there is a mystery about it.

Not neccessarily, it may loose interest in you, or maybe you will be distracted and forget about it.

yeah.... sigh

originally posted by: jannybobani9
a reply to: Soulworn

the eyes are such an important element of human beauty, don't you think?

Yes

- while generally, bodily organs are stuffed into our skin - present on our "inside" - our eyes seem to be hanging out of the skin bag, with an optional skin lid, backed up with some jazz lashes for batting effects; utilized for asking for favors and such. Like a "peek a boo" effect. I hope one day we can exchange eyes between different bodies, to see how the view of a set of eyes would change if being utilized by a different person.

There isn't enough beer.

I was out to dinner last night. The menu had a drink called "Ex-Girlfriend". It is a drink composed of the ingredients of a long island ice tea and a shot of sake. Reading your comment about there not being enough beer, makes me wonder if the person who designed the Ex-Girlfriend drink was trying to forget a pair of eyes.

If I isn't the only one then that means you're in a staring contest with more than one "it" ?

While yes, I can send my eyes in opposite directions and stare down several pairs of eyes at once, that is not the case with "it". I just perceived there being other eyes (eyes seem to be the theme of this post), peering at me from around "it". But my eyes are fixed on "it" - like we are assigned to each other or something? I don't know. There is a trap I am falling into while trying to figure this whole debacle out. The trap is that my mind starts adding details to my perception that weren't originally there. Then I become confused as to what really the content of the original perception is.

Another example of this trap to further explain what I mean by saying my mind is adding details to a perception: once I was standing on a pretty overlook, beholding a valley with many trees. I saw an empty space between the trees, and I tried to figure out what that empty space was. It looked, so clearly, like a street lamp. I thought "how strange, a street lamp in the woods". I got a hold of a pair of binoculars and zoomed into the street lamp, only to find out there was no street lamp. It was just a random empty space in the trees that my mind attributed "street lamp" to it, in its attempt to give meaning to what I was looking at. It happened to be shaped like a street lamp and there was a ray of light coming through, looking like a light bulb. When I realized how my mind added the street light attribute, I started toggling: binoculars - no binoculars, watching my mind seeing a street lamp - no street lamp.

I think something similar may be happening with "it". My mind starts attributing properties and meaning to what I am seeing, confusing me to a point that I am not sure what I am looking at. So I can only take perception with a grain

Lol. My poor, poor mind.

You know, in what feels like jabillions of years hurtling through the cosmos on this craggy blue orb of misery and suffering, the taxing mystery of the human female mind is still as alien to me now as it was the very first day her bedazzling and ridiculously counter intuitive self took shape.

They talk about what they want every day of their confused, overly self involved little lives, bitching and whining within their cackling henhouses of hypocrisy that the universe seems incapable of providing what they truly desire, but when they actually do get it at long last, it's value suddenly becomes as cheap and as undesirable as a piece of tacky jewellery that leaves a horrid green band of shame around the finger. My ex exhibited a prime example of this loathsome mentality. I made for her something I have in this life made for no man or woman, something she expressed a great love for and wished to have as her own. It was an ornate scroll not to dissimilar to the one in Skyrim: Elder Scrolls, her favorite game. This fabulous piece of art was viewed as a priceless treasure for all of 15 minutes before her wandering mind found something else to clamour for. Sadly, It now rests in pieces, having been destroyed by me in rage and disgust. There is no pleasing you people.

Passengers in your own world, you are picked up and carried from pillar to lamppost, never really accepting any personal responsibility to behave as an adult human, just 'bat those eyelids' and the world falls in line to your many transient whims..

This, I fear, is why you may have trouble with perception, my dear. You straddle two worlds for comfort and ease. Risking nothing whilst gaining everything. Take the howling shrieks coming from the baby killing left as a prime example of your Originial Sin; all the power rests within you to determine whether or not you create life, but that decision is too great! The responsibility too difficult to manage alone. It must be provided a backstop of security, a "second option." A failsafe. And of course, there are plenty of foolish non-men all too willing to humour this notion of irresponsibility that to believe otherwise is tantamount to heresy. They like you where you are, feeble and useless.

Sounds like my kind of drink! By all means, do elaborate more on your active social life, I'm sitting on the edge of my seat with anticipation the desire to know is so great! . . .

At the end of the movie 'the fifth element', the supreme being stands front and centre as the world teeters on the brink of everlasting darkness, but unlike in that movie, the supreme being in this tale hears no words of love or compassion from anyone, least of all the one they truly love, only silence. The tell tale sound of transactional tragedy and a meaningless impermanent attraction born out of the most superficial and temporary scene.

"Not neccessarily, it may loose interest in you, or maybe you will be distracted and forget about it."

Hahaha.

I think we're all keenly well aware who lost interest in who first.

This is fun isn't it? I get to be reminded every day that my worth is only as much as I am prepared to sacrifice for it, and that everyone else in existence has nothing but valid excuses for behaving in undoubtedly evil ways because of course, when one has enough company in hell, evil is good and donuts are horrid.

Double post. Oops.

originally posted by: jannybobani9
a reply to: NobodySpecial268

I somehow missed its post originally.

Is the inclusion of "darkness" an assumption on your part? Why is "not standing in the limelight" automatically inclusive of "darkness"? Not as a question to answer, Just a reminder not to assume.

Yes, that is an attribute I assumed about "it"- just because even though it is something "right there" so to say, it also seems to be hidden. I don't know if that is my impaired perception or if it is really hidden. Either way, there is a mystery about it.

Not neccessarily, it may loose interest in you, or maybe you will be distracted and forget about it.

yeah.... sigh

Coward.

a reply to: Soulworn

Hey there - great content.
For your sake, I hope you don't feel as bitter as this post portrays. It is surely not that bad.

A failsafe.

I appreciate the interesting perspective, thanks!

By all means, do elaborate more on your active social life, I'm sitting on the edge of my seat with anticipation the desire to know is so great!

My turn to howl with laughter. What exactly would you like to know?

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a reply to: jannybobani9

You my friend.. are the Universe.

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