Talk:Van Dorean Brush Duplicate/@comment-1674153-20170311224830/@comment-1674153-20170312055024

Touching it will make you enter a state of complete absence and non existence. I think that's a strong enough downside.

The Garden of Prosperine is Swinburne discussing the idea that at the end of life, the only afterlife is the complete absence of one. That nothing happens once you are dead - no pearly gates, no reincarnation, no Valhalla. The poem was written during the Victorian age's Crisis of Faith, and Swinburne's pessimism, aetheism, and aestheticism manifests here as a critique of religion. Prosperpine (Another name for Persephone) is the embodiment of death, and her garden is the state of calm emptiness of eternity.

Van Doren's brush works on the show, but even if we ban someone here, their memory doesn't stop existing. We are cautious around new people because we don't want repetition of previous messes. We have the Quantum Bus and the Van Doren Brush path and the Admin tools because we don't forget the people we ban. This artifact symbolically kills off people from this wiki's reality and doesn't attempt to erase.

We don't have the luxury of