You find a door...
You've read DT. Then one day on your way to work, you find a door just free standing like the ones on the beach. You open it and find it looks on to some scene from DT - anything which you'd recognize - doesn't matter what exactly. Question is, do you go through? You don't know the door will remain there after you've gone through. Consider it carefully.
Thats a toughy, I love DT, but I love my life, and i'm aware now lucky I am with what I got, also, I don't think I'd like to have to travel ALL the time like they do in DT. I'd have to come back to it.
2:45 am- 11th February 2008- I Finished The Dark Tower
hell yes I go through
And then end up in another world cause the door just opens 2 inches away in the middle of the street where I get smooshed by a bus
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
Who said you would have to travel once you went through?Originally Posted by Mark
Depends on where it goes. I'd peek first.
Does the door follow you like it does Roland?
And then you wake up in 1973! Are you mad? In a coma? Or back in time?hell yes I go through
And then end up in another world cause the door just opens 2 inches away in the middle of the street where I get smooshed by a bus
Whilst you're deciding about which of those options is the correct one, you then get hit by another bus!
I know, i know: my sense of humour is rather twisted and cynical, but that's what happens when you're in a country that rains 8 days out of 10!
Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.
You are a walking talking Doctor Who encyclopedia to me. - Melike
It's that or I stay in my scene, Which is eitherWho said you would have to travel once you went through?Spoiler:
2:45 am- 11th February 2008- I Finished The Dark Tower
Wait...is the door on the beach, or just like the one on the beach?
If I am on the beach , I'm not going anywhere. If I am looking thru
the door to Roland's world I may not go through it, for my life here
is ultimately better than anything he went thru.
Interesting question tho'.I mean his was a great story,
but such a hard life. no, I think not.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
Myself, if i was given that choice...i'd be tempted, that's for sure. I'd be seriously tempted. But what could I do once I got there? How would I survive? Would I emerge in one of the idyllic Calla towns, or the dystopian city Lud, or, as Eddie and Odetta landed on, a beach in the middle of nowhere?
I probably wouldn't do it. My life's not exactly perfect right now, but it's ok, and I don't wanna risk it with a gamble that huge. Then again, to step onto another world, to step onto a land that's as far from our own as possible...fuck, that's tempting. I don't know. I'd probably would take a few steps through that door, at least.
Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.
You are a walking talking Doctor Who encyclopedia to me. - Melike
I wouldn't think twice, i'd just go for it, take a plunge straight on into living from reality to reality like the manni
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
I would go through at once! Any chance to get into Roland's world and live out as they did would be a blessing. After reading this series I aspire to make myself more controlled and regimented. I aspire to be everything a gunslinger is, but to be trained by Roland himself! What an opportunity. I would take it.
If such a door appeared, I am afraid I would have no choice. They don't appear to everyone, and when they do, it means the one is chosen; I also expect he/she/I would have known it some time before the door appeared, so there wouldn't really be any question.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even if I lived in hell I couldn't leave my loved ones behind. (If I wasn't totally sure that I could come back.)
Roland would have understood.
i would jump through so fast i would be a candy blur!!!!
as jean put it so well, if you see a door such as described you are chosen, and mayhap ka would not let you say no?
Fortunately I don't believe in ka.
Roland would have understood.
I can't say I believe in it either, but you can't say it isn't a nice idea. Just like I don't believe in a god, but I enjoy the idea of Gan and the Beams [and their Guardians].
I believe I'd step through. (& quickly, before all the 'logical' reasons for not stepping through should get a grip on me)
It's an interesting idea but definiately not nice (not for me). Once Susan Delgado said that it was easy to blame ka all the time and it was the bread of the weak. But I don't remember it quite well.I can't say I believe in it either, but you can't say it isn't a nice idea. Just like I don't believe in a god, but I enjoy the idea of Gan and the Beams [and their Guardians].
Roland would have understood.
If i wasnt married I would step through in an instant but I dont think I could leave my husband. That said Jean's thoughts are pretty convincing - maybe if it opens you have been chosen.
This discussion reminds me of points raised on this archived thread: where would you rather live?Like Roland, you'd just have to find out the hard way... but then, he was moved partly by desperation. Different stories, different situations, there are things you choose to do and things which simply happen to you. Free will is a part of ka. It's all just guesswork, until the moment comes, and probably would be mostly that, even then. Yet I have faith enough in myself to say that I'd do what seemed most right.
yesterday was 12 degrees ( -17 wind chill).
today is snowing
property taxes are due--as are IRS
the sheriff's getting nearer is now the president
I have to press 1 for english
hell ya, I'd walk right in
make a fire for a man and you warm him for the nite
light him on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life
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Hee, hee. I get the reference, and I loved that series.And then you wake up in 1973! Are you mad? In a coma? Or back in time?hell yes I go through
And then end up in another world cause the door just opens 2 inches away in the middle of the street where I get smooshed by a bus
Here's the situation though. You've read the Dark Tower series. Then you find a freestanding door. In that situation, wouldn't ka exists? Actually thinking about it, I guess not necessarily as it's possible someone with great power who has been spying on your life might have created the door to mess with you. But with the chances of such a thing happening and with the level of power require to perform such an action it would almost amount to the same thing.
As for me, I really don't know if I would step through or not. I've always loved the magical idea of travelling to other worlds way back since reading the Narnia books as a kid, so I think I probably would. I'm also 34, single and unemployed* so there isn't a whole lot going on in my life (not that I'm miserable, but I'm at that age where I'm aware life is passing me by in many respects. Or rather I'm not grabbing it in the way I should.) and seeing such a door would make me think that maybe my life was saved for just such a destiny. On the other hand I'm a bit of a coward too, so I might just chicken out and continue on my way.
*Not to complain, I recently had a bit of temp work over Christmas, so I'm a bit better of than I've been in a while.
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