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Oct 11, 2011 13:57

Some corners of my culture happen to take religion literally.

[ Gaius is using video, and sitting in his cabin. The lights are currently playing up, as they're wont to do, reflecting off all the glass and chrome of his replicated expensive apartment. He has a cigarette, a cup of tea, and little better to do but seek some conversation to defeat ( Read more... )

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 02:20:24 UTC
People talk religion too much. They talk religion when they don't know what to think.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 02:46:41 UTC
Chilling, then, to think it's what the mass majority of people in my worlds buy into. I suppose it's not different where you come from?

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 02:51:00 UTC
Not so different at all. Especially towards the end.

But me...I don't buy into it. We are only stardust. That's as philosophical and "religious" as I get.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 03:07:31 UTC
...a bit dour, but it holds water. Comparatively speaking.

I just never thought about it much.

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 03:15:54 UTC
Dour? I don't see how. I find it rather inspiring. I've witnessed the birth of a star and what is in that star is the same as what is in us.

We are connected to the galaxy in a way that we cannot hope to fathom. That speaks more to me than invisible men in the sky.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 03:31:57 UTC
I suppose fathoming has its limits, even for physicists.

Like I told another, there isn't much philosophy in computers, so, you've got me there. Except the acknowledgement that everything can be taken apart and made, and it's not very godly at all.

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 10:23:11 UTC
It could be, if you wanted to play god, I suppose.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 10:54:19 UTC
[ Hesitation. ]

Yes. I stand corrected.

Which really just takes the floor out from beneath this whole god thing, doesn't it, what with the capability of making terrible errors. Not sure they're meant to do that. Or if they are, why anyone would kneel to it.

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 11:03:32 UTC
Gods don't make errors, according to those who worship. And believers would find all sorts of ways to justify everything their god did.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 11:11:33 UTC
Unless creation's the error.

Going along the programmer analogy, of course. Seems like it's not so much that the religious don't think, it's just that they occupy themselves with continual self-deception.

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 11:15:47 UTC
For what purpose? What satisfaction is gained by accepting fantasy?

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 11:19:09 UTC
Well.

Obviously, they don't much like the reality of being stardust. I'll admit that a moment before coming here, I wouldn't have minded some god to come along and stop me from becoming that much.

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 11:33:44 UTC
I suppose my death was a little less conventional. I wouldn't have minded it. Which is what I'm assuming will happen when I leave this place.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 11:40:48 UTC
My death hasn't previously been at the forefront've my thoughts, personally. Hadn't. I had about five minutes to prepare, which I didn't, and a few seconds to repent.

Didn't do that either. Obviously. That's why I'm here, I imagine.

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ourlastbesthope October 11 2011, 12:04:05 UTC
Obviously. I knew I would die two years before I did. NIneteen hours before, I could even predict the hour and manner.

God, it was beautiful inside that star. I didn't repent, either. Maybe I should have. Didn't seem to matter, though.

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to_be_caprican October 11 2011, 12:23:37 UTC
And so--

--I take it you were fine with it. I mean. I'd ask what happened, but I'm not quite used to asking people how they themselves died.

Seems a bit rude.

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