Dark Romantics

urbanhippie

Perceptual wrote:

I was never cruel to animals when I was younger. I may be able to think in... ways that normal people wouldn't think but that doesn't make me evil. Evil is to willingly prey upon the innocent. I could never do that, so long as my heart beats.
The ritual is all simply planning. Deception, observation, reflection, redemption. It's about perfection... staying in control and holding on to that humanity you know you need to survive. It's intoxicating because every step is an experiment, a carefully planned move on your own part, the desire to be unseen runs deep. It's intoxicating because it gives feeling. When nothing gives you feeling in life, sometimes you have to stretch. I know this must sound terrible...
I just long to find someone who can forgive my... inability to feel. Someone who can help me to understand why the world seems so hollow and empty. Someone who loves me for who I am. Is that so much to ask?

So the moral of the story is, darkness and dark romanticism walk hand-in-hand.

Dude, I'd up the meds if I were you.

I consider myself romantic, maybe even a bit dark and twisted, but you're creeping me out.

Thorns2010

Wait, so where's the dead bunny?

prism

Thorns2010 wrote:

Wait, so where's the dead bunny?

no...turns out he's lookin for a chick that's into dead evil-doers

eyedclaar

DOSW wrote:

Stop being a douche. The guy clearly is serious on how he's feeling, no matter how strange it may seem. You don't need to mock that.

Perceptual, I don't think a Pearl Jam board is the best place to express your feelings about this.

You look good on that white steed and all, but not what the OP is lookin' for.

Thorns2010

prism wrote:

no...turns out he's lookin for a chick that's into dead evil-doers

Oh, so I have to go find my own dead bunny. Cool

just tina

Perceptual wrote:

I was never cruel to animals when I was younger. I may be able to think in... ways that normal people wouldn't think but that doesn't make me evil. Evil is to willingly prey upon the innocent. I could never do that, so long as my heart beats.
The ritual is all simply planning. Deception, observation, reflection, redemption. It's about perfection... staying in control and holding on to that humanity you know you need to survive. It's intoxicating because every step is an experiment, a carefully planned move on your own part, the desire to be unseen runs deep. It's intoxicating because it gives feeling. When nothing gives you feeling in life, sometimes you have to stretch. I know this must sound terrible...
I just long to find someone who can forgive my... inability to feel. Someone who can help me to understand why the world seems so hollow and empty. Someone who loves me for who I am. Is that so much to ask?

So the moral of the story is, darkness and dark romanticism walk hand-in-hand.

but you ARE feeling. you are longing for something. you are feeling the emptiness and hollowness of the world, as you said... so you do not have the inability mentioned. what is it that makes you think you are dark?

DOSW

eyedclaar wrote:

You look good on that white steed and all, but not what the OP is lookin' for.

Well he sure as hell isn't looking for your high school bully-style mockery either.

eyedclaar

DOSW wrote:

Well he sure as hell isn't looking for your high school bully-style mockery either.

haha, bringing back painful memories, am I? Anyhoo, since you seem to be in the know, what exactly was the OP referring to? He made about 10 posts, each more oscure than the last, so you'll just have to forgive my attempts at "claarification"...

Or don't, I don't care.

Keiran

The OP's whole thing does sound a bit "Dexterish" to me too. Possibly my compassion meter for those engaging in self indulgence is on the fritz.

prism wrote:

no...turns out he's lookin for a chick that's into dead evil-doers

Buffy the Vampire Slayer!!! Hey, I'm a chick, but even I know that Sarah Michelle Gellar was hot!

justam

Perceptual wrote:

Haha... the bunny remark was funny. Way off topic, but funny.

No, unlike most people with a dark side I don't associate my inhumanity with sex. I don't seek someone to 'get freaky with', as you so elegantly put it. I seek someone who could one day hope to understand why I think the way I do... to see the desires I hold and not be turned away by them. To see the way my mind works as pure art... Art in it's darkest, purest, most unspoken form.

Do you mean someone who gets chronically depressed?

OffHeGoes29

Perceptual wrote:

haha... not the sort I was looking for.

There must be someone out there who isn't scared by this darkness within, this... intense passion. I just want to find her...

I'm not a chick, but when I feel the Darkness within, I usually go and sit on the can.

Lukin66

OffHeGoes29 wrote:

I'm not a chick, but when I feel the Darkness within, I usually go and sit on the can.

ha ha ha... I'm with everyone else, I don't really understand what exactly the OP is getting after

Perceptual

Seems the more I try and explain myself, the further from understanding I stray. It's my curse really, never been able to understand even the simplest aspects of the human condition, not in any real sense anyway.

I seek only to be understood, if only by one person. I'm sure I'll never find that in this life.

And funnily enough, I do watch Dexter. The thing is I've felt this way for many years and the reason I watch and enjoy the show is because I relate to Dexter in very particular ways. I don't feel this way just because I watch Dexter and have some sick delusion to be like him. Besides, he's a fictional character. There is very little grounding in real life. Just had to make that clear.

And anyway, I said tracking evil, not killing evil. I'm no killer. I may think like one sometimes, but I'm not one.

catefrances

Perceptual wrote:

Haha... the bunny remark was funny. Way off topic, but funny.

No, unlike most people with a dark side I don't associate my inhumanity with sex. I don't seek someone to 'get freaky with', as you so elegantly put it. I seek someone who could one day hope to understand why I think the way I do... to see the desires I hold and not be turned away by them. To see the way my mind works as pure art... Art in it's darkest, purest, most unspoken form.

think the way you do? hmm... inhumanity? what do you mean by that? and as for associating that inhumanity with sex, or not as you say, what is it you mean by this? i think i know but id only be guessing and guessing when it comes to such things is not good.

the wolf

Perceptual wrote:

Seems the more I try and explain myself, the further from understanding I stray. It's my curse really, never been able to understand even the simplest aspects of the human condition, not in any real sense anyway.

I seek only to be understood, if only by one person. I'm sure I'll never find that in this life.

And funnily enough, I do watch Dexter. The thing is I've felt this way for many years and the reason I watch and enjoy the show is because I relate to Dexter in very particular ways. I don't feel this way just because I watch Dexter and have some sick delusion to be like him. Besides, he's a fictional character. There is very little grounding in real life. Just had to make that clear.

And anyway, I said tracking evil, not killing evil. I'm no killer. I may think like one sometimes, but I'm not one.

you just keep getting more and more vague. hmm.

catefrances

catch22 wrote:

knives then? the up close and personal kill?

no offense dude, but your cryptic-ness comes off like you're looking for a nice serial killer board, where you can find a girl who's into abducting couples and cutting them into small pieces with you.

thatd be after torturing them just to hear those little piggies scream, right?

Perceptual

the wolf wrote:

you just keep getting more and more vague. hmm.

Yes, I know... didn't I cover that in my first sentence of my previous post?

I wish I could be clearer, but there's so much I don't understand myself.

catefrances

prism wrote:

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you do realize that you'll come off as a total poser if you happen to pitch 'your story' to a chick that's ever seen the show, right?

ive seen the show. and if he is just a poser then ill quite happily drain his blood and hang him out to dry. of course that is after ive amused myself fully with him.

jesus christ you people are weirder than he is. life wasnt meant to always be lived in the light.

catefrances

Thorns2010 wrote:

Wait, so where's the dead bunny?

i killed a bunny when i was very young and im just super fine, thanks for asking.

Rhinocerous Surprise

catefrances wrote:

i killed a bunny when i was very young and im just super fine, thanks for asking.

"What's this bunny-shaped carcass hanging around my neck, you ask? Thats... my new hat!!!?"