There are things I think we all have done that makes us walk the moral tightrope. I think sometimes it is all the more difficult because most people have no idea the anguish and sacrifice you make on their behalf.

There's nothing I can say to fix this. All I can say is that if you did the best you could do, what else could be expected from you?

If you want to talk about it, there're those here that won't judge you. You know who they are.

Ron Caliburn wrote:I'd say it's more a cliff we need to climb than a tightrope.


I know I have a long way to go to the top.

That’s what friends are for, Ron. We help each other up. Eventually, we will make it to the top. But not without a bit of sliding, uncertainty, and handholds that crumble beneath fingertips.

Keep on trying, Michael . . . Ron.

I don't know what the top is. I just keep climbing.

Ok then I don't see me reaching the top....ever.

No it is quite the tightrope. It is the balance between being good while fighting evil. Because by nature, when you fight evil most of us end up doing or using methods that are less than pure.

For example, you deceive those around you to further you goals. You also kill those that are working for against you, and at times you sacrifice the lesser for the greater good. All of those things wear on you and pull you in one of two directions. Either you become as cold as that which you hunt or you get yourself killed because you are trying too hard to not be that which you hunt.

It's all a balance.

I know I say this a lot.

For me it's doing the best that I can with what I have. If I focued more on good versus evil, I know that I would have boatloads more dark marks than the few I actually do have.

It's puts some people off.
I'm not the most sociable guy in the world.
But this isn't a popularity contest.

Natasha wrote:

Ron Caliburn wrote:You only find out how far you got when you're dead.

Is that how you would measure your life, too?

Until your life's over, there's no real way to sum it up.

I fully agree with you Michael and Ron. This shadow war is full of difficult choices. Some on a large scale, others on a more discrete level, both have affects that are far reaching. I myself have had to make choices that I regret the decisions I made, but thats life, its the hell that we make it.

I guess your right that we aren't responsible for the hell that we endure.

But whether or not you made the right decision is in your mind, if you say that its the right choice then its the right choice.

The Sleepless Nights, reaching for your blade with every sound creakin among the sleeping relatives, the fear of sunset inching past the peaks. Our sanity is in check by know there one less monster out there planning to attack everything you hold dear to your heart, I wished it to be different but I will have it no other way, I live and monsters die.

Taking the law into our own hands is a very dangerous thing. There's a reason vigilantism is against the law.

Deacon, Unless you have faced what many of us here have faced. I don't feel you have much room to speak on these sorts of matters.

There are creatures and beings out there they don't give a damn about law, society other than to use it to their own means for their own twisted goals.
Those that fight them do so from the Shadows. Because of Society's lack of Belief in the Supernatural.

This lack of belief by society at large forces those that fight the Unnatural must do so from the shadows and keep it secret for the most part.

Mr Ash-Shaytan actually has a very valid point, one that we should all ponder at least on occasion. More than one hero has become a villan, falling from grace by making use of the methods of the enemy. On the other side of the same coin, even a demon can be redeemed and brought back to the light. One must be cautious in passing judgement on others, for all things have a part to play, some lesser, some greater. It was not given to man to know the future in it's entirety, or the roles that one plays in the creation of the future.

Be cautious in your actions that you do not become that which you hunt.

Its a good thing I have never, ever claimed to be a hero then. All that does is make you a target.

Lord Shakar wrote:Deacon, Unless you have faced what many of us here have faced. I don't feel you have much room to speak on these sorts of matters. There are creatures and beings out there they don't give a damn about law, society other than to use it to their own means for their own twisted goals.

I admit I have had my share of unexplained experiences, but the way some of you all chat it up, you'd think every 1 out of 2 Americans are werewolves and they have bright neon signs declaring their intentions to the world over their head. And yes, I know perfectly well that there are creatures out there that don't care about law and society. They're called scumbags. And they're never as bold as the brass that many of you guys churn out. That's the reason I probe and question: because you Lazlo folks are so friggin sure that what you meet is what you say they are. Life has never been that easy.

Lord Shakar wrote:Its a good thing I have never, ever claimed to be a hero then. All that does is make you a target.

It's a good thing I've never called you one. So until you want me to call you one, I'll stick to "Mr. Shakar," if you don't mind.

One thing you need to realize is this: while these creatures aren't commonly sighted. We who fight them know the signs of them and some of us have sharper senses then normal and can find them out easier than others.

Another thing is that the focus of these boards is the Supernatural, unnatural and that which can't be explained.

I realize it right enough, Shakar. And I've learned their "signs" aren't nearly as broad as the barns some of you have been painting. This may be a site of the "unexplained," but I have rarely come across the "unexplained" on it. It's always vampires, it's always werewolves, it's always astral entities, it's always explained, and there's nothing left to speculate. You guys have an answer for everything, and you give no hint to the Ordinary Joeys out there that you've done any investigating. You just leave it at "We have special powers that you don't, so there." And we just have to trust that you're telling the truth?

That doesn't happen in real life. The police struggle and sweat and bleed for their answers, and sometimes they get nothing, for nothing. If it's always as easy as all that, then why are they wrong so often? Why do they retract and revise statements?

You guys don't even leave room for possible discussions on what actually happened and what the consequences of it are.

I hope you'll forgive me my skepticism. But I seriously doubt the "ordinary" world is so blurred while the "supernatural" world is so clear cut.