1.1.01.01.016: The Ishihara test is final and cannot be reviewed, nor retaken
If the only way you could have total freedom within a society is to be literally invisible to that society, would you consider it worth it? If it took to technically not exist to be able to live by your own rules, would you want that
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As for the lab, I don't see a problem with it. Just keep an eye on him.
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I will. I'm not sure we'll need it, but I thought I best check in case. Thanks.
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But more... different for what everyone makes of him?
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I really don't know exactly how your vision works, so I really can't say why.
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By the way, we can generally only see particular colours, and everything else is a shade of grey. For example, I have 86% perception of Red - I can only see Red, and the Red content of other colours like purple and orange. The... brighter the colour, and the brighter the light, the easier it is to see. I can see someone blush in a normally lit room. That's about my limit.
Jane has 12% Blue and 14% Yellow, which means she can see Green, but only just. Shades would have to be particularly bright for her to see.
National Colour produces Univisual colour and medicinal hue, which everyone can see. The former are used in colour gardens for public enjoyment, and sometimes are bought as dyes and food colouring. The latter are what I have in my swatch and can induce physical reactions within someone - some colours are painkillers, for example.
That's the best explanation of how it works I can give.
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There was something else I wanted to ask you.
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The people who call themselves gods and goddesses here are from different faiths then the one that talks about there being only one God, and I guess either come from another universe where they are goddesses who exist with bodies like ours, or they've just been hidin' really well fah the last couple thousand years. Persephone's a Greek goddess, Loki's Norse and Coyo's Aztec. Most early religions, like the ones they're from, had more then one god, but by the time a lot of us ah from back home, a lot of people follow religions that only talk about one god, and since a lot of us ah from more Western cultures, the standard here seems to be a little skewed towahds monotheistic religions ( ... )
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So if everyone might think something different, what's the right answer? Surely people can't have this much stock in something they're guessing at, can they?
[apologies for the short in response to your tl;dr]
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It's kinda gotten better over the years - it used to be most people were really violently focused on their religion and fuck everyone else, right? But now most people kinda think gettin' into heaven oah whatever depends more on bein' a good person, and not on what religion they follow.
And I think people put a lotta stock into it because they like to think everythin' we're doing on Earth means somethin', you know? And to know you've got somewhere to go when it's all over's kinda comforting, instead of just thinking everything's just... over when you die.
[Nooo problem. c:]
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At home, I guess, our lives ar given meaning by our civil obligation to the Collective. But this... your lives are given meaning by what happens after you die? Is that right?
What do you make of this place, then?
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There is only one God, and he is the Alpha and the Omega. But he comes in three parts. The Father--that's God. The Son--that's Jesus. And the Holy Spirit--that's...I'm not sure what the Holy Spirit is, really. But I think it's the bit of God that people eat during communion and then lives inside them like the tenant of a flat. As the Good Book says, "know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
But there is quite definitely only one God, and those who say they are gods and goddesses are mistaken.
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But anyway: it's a spirit. They can go through anything or anyone they'd like. Spiritually.
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If that's the only way to get freedom, then yes. Loneliness aside, it's better.
But I'm sure you already knew that.
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But I was wondering, Jane, is it? To be so isolated, to not be part of any society at all? To just stand by and watch all those things happen to everyone around you and not even being able to say a word to them? Not being able to really change anything, except for a few answers given where they normally wouldn't?
I can join National Colour. Well, I can try. I can pull things apart from the inside. all the Apocryphal Man can do is watch. He's free, but he doesn't have anything else.
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Not everyone else can. So for most people, that's all we have and that's good enough.
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