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
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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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I just never thought about it much.
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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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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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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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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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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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Didn't do that either. Obviously. That's why I'm here, I imagine.
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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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--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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