serial experiments lain sentence starters.
โ why you should do that is something you should figure out for yourself.ย โ
โ i donโt need to stay in a place like this.ย โ
โ if you stay in a place like this, you might not be able to connect.ย โ
โ whatโs it like when you die?ย โ
โ ____, i walked home with you just once. do you remember?ย โ
โ do you understand? itโs okay if you canโt right now. you will all understand soon. everyone will.ย โ
โ you know, ____, in this world, whether itโs here in the real world or the wired, people connect to each other and thatโs how societies function.ย โ
โ i donโt come here because i want to.ย โ
โ everyone is connected.ย โ
โ why are you making me do this?! what right do you have?!ย โ
โ you are not alone.ย โ
โ there was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer.ย โ
โ in the real world, it didnโt matter if i was there or not. when i realized that, i was no longer afraid of losing my body.ย โ
โ i love kissing. just kissing is enough to make me happy.ย โ
โ dying feels so good!ย โ
โ i just want to do business. what do you say?ย โ
โ humans are all alone. they donโt connect to anyone at all.ย โ
โ you prefer a machine to your friends, huh?ย โ
โ i canโt go where you are.ย โ
โ donโt worry. iโm still me.ย โ
โ if you can hear it, it is speaking to you.ย โ
โ mankind is a creature that no longer evolves, is it not?ย โ
โ not knowing what it is that drives them, they keep their bodies merely to satisfy the desires of the flesh. theyโre worthless, donโt you think? thatโs all mankind is.ย โ
โ there is nothing that you donโt know. i canโt tell you a story that doesnโt exist. you understand, donโt you? โ
โ for every event, there is first a prophecy. an event first comes into existence when there is a prophecy.ย โ
โ the other side is crowded. the dead will have no place to go.ย โ
โ the prophecy is being fulfilled, ____.ย โ
โ the body exists only to verify oneโs own existence.ย โ
โ i think i may have talked with god.ย โ
โ if people can connect to one another, even the smallest voice will grow loud.ย โ
โ itโs just a little strange. i donโt have many friends.ย โ
โ youโre more noise than signal.ย โ
โ i want to relax here until my body rots.ย โ
โ time passes so beautifully here. and quietly, as if itโll last forever.ย โ
โ i donโt know what you plan to do here or what sort of being youโre trying to become, but youโre powerful. incredibly powerful.ย โ
โ if there really is a god here, youโre a blessed child.ย โ
โ iโll tell you, but itโs just between you and me.ย โ
โ i can exist anywhere. no matter where my body is, i can send my consciousness anywhere i want.ย โ
โ the real world isnโt real at all.ย โ
โ iโฆ i donโt want to be here. you understand that, donโt you?ย โ
โ my nameโฆ itโs meaningless to know my real name.ย โ
โ you are whatโs dangerous.ย โ
โ do you want to be hurt, too? do you want your heart to feel like itโs being scraped with a rasp?ย โ
โ youโre looking for me, arenโt you?ย โ
โ so god makes his grand entrance, huh?ย โ
โ how do you defineย โgodโ? if itโs the creator of the world, thatโs not me. the all-powerful ruler of the world? you give god too much credit. โ
โ you are merely a hologram of that other you. you are just a body.ย โ
โ who are you? youโre not me. iโll never do what you do.ย โ
โ stop it! why are you acting like the part of me that i hate?ย โ
โ wherever anyone is, wherever they go, you have always been there. โ
โ youโve watched what they didnโt want others to see. youโve told everyone about it, thatโs all. it was the right thing to do.
โ everything you say is a lie.ย โ
โ as along as iโm aware of myself, my true self is inside me!ย โ
โ you were born with that kind of power.ย โ
โ iโฆ iโm me, right? thereโs no other me but me, right?ย โ
โ if you want to be free of suffering, you should believe in god.ย โ
โ how could i turn something that did happen into something that didnโt?ย โ
โ i donโt know you. but you know meโฆย โ
โ the flow of information doesnโt always go both ways.ย โ
โ the truth has power because itโs the truth. and because itโs the truth, that makes it just. โ
โ there is only one truth: god.ย โ
โ youโre dead, arenโt you? a dead human.ย โ
โ to die is merely to abandon the flesh.ย โ
โ love certainly is a strange emotion, isnโt it?ย โ
โ itโs because of me that you can stay yourself.ย โ
โ you never had a body to begin with.ย โ
โ donโt talk about me like iโm a machine.ย โ
โ thereโs nothing easy about dying.ย โ
โ i had no idea the world was this simple.ย โ
โ people only have substance within the memories of others.ย โ
โ why did you leave only me? why did you only leave my memories alone?ย โ
โ you were my friend, even without connecting with me, ____. youโre my only friend, ____.ย โ
โ it doesnโt matter which is real, this side or the other.ย โ
โ you and everyone else, ____, youโre just applications.ย โ
โ your bodyโs cold, but youโre alive, ____.ย โ
โ it doesnโt matter. with no body, you canโt understand.ย โ
โ youโre just an acting god, standing in for someone.ย โ
โ i mess up everything i try to do for you, huh, ____?ย โ
โ if you donโt remember something, it never happened. if you arenโt remembered, you never existed.ย โ
โ no one is dying, and no one is being hurt. and no one hates you.ย โ
โ the human world creates and prays to its various gods, and humans convince themselves,ย โthis is how the world is.โย โ
โ itโd be so much easier if you became god. i think itโd be a lot easier than being a human. you wouldnโt have to do anything. just stand there and watch. โ
โ iโm here, so iโll be with you forever.ย โ
