Sermon #1 - text

[raptura]

[Just a simple little post from username 'Bluemarine', but it's posted for everyone to see and the option to reply in any format you like is there, should you feel like it. Somebody sure has the burning desire to ask everyone a question (or piss off as many people as they can, depending).]

How many of you believe in an afterlife? Or...What I should ask is; how many of you understand that you're slaves to fate and destiny, no matter how unhappy yours might be?

You're welcome to try and change my mind on that front, if you think you have the intellect.

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mitsukai? tulpa? :o?

[veryhuman]

Someone had a thought that they wished to have answered. It is not within my nature to stifle one's desire to gain more knowledge.

I cannot say either one of us is satisfied. We are able to intimately see the routes taken. We're able to see how many of them ended. But we do not know which one is the "right" path to have taken.

Still, you flatter me. What we are doing is no different than what everyone else is doing, and what everyone else has done. To keep moving forward, to hopefully find the path that is best, is that not why everyone keeps going?

a garbage portmanteau of mitsuhide and tenkai, and pucci's stand is basically an ugly tulpa!

[raptura]

If they did, then I'd really rather they not do it while I'm in the middle of a conversation. It's very rude, though I'm glad it didn't irritate you!

I can only answer that the path you take, and the path he takes, are the ones that are 'best' for you. You two alone can take those, and see the unique circumstances that come from your choices and situations; no other two versions of yourselves would be the people that you are. It's just that most of us are able to ignore the reality of fate's scale, and so we can only keep going and either sink or swim.

i see, i see!!

[veryhuman]

Very little irritates me. Buddha would ask for forgiveness for all things and wish for everyone to live with one another. This is what I attempt to do, myself.

Wise words. That is something I never thought of before... the idea that we are both the best versions of ourselves. It makes me happy to think that neither one of us is 'wrong.'

[raptura]

Ah, I've yet to shed my mortal temper. My one downfall, I'm afraid. But all gods are, at their core, love; forgiveness typically goes hand in hand with this, once our lessons are learned, so I have to espouse these same values.

Which is why I'm glad that you like the idea of neither of you being 'wrong'. You both...Simply are! And a blessing it is, to be as you are.

1/3

[veryhuman]

It is fine. To have anger, it means that you value something of yourself. It means you will not yield something of yourself. This is good as it means you have strong convictions.

[veryhuman]

yesyes we both simply are
to be as we are to be as we are meant to be
to combine the faces into one body
perhaps that would be nice
but also ah forgiveness forgiveness
this one is filled with it
to forgive and find no fault
means to see yourself as the squirming worms upon the ground that we all are
yes yesyes the squirming

[veryhuman]

Anyway... thank you. You've lightened a burden in my heart. Even if that one is doing as he likes as always.

[raptura]

I know how you feel more than I'd like to admit, so I'm happy to lift some of that burden. I hope we can talk again in the future!

...Though I don't think I've ever had to think about worms so often. Bless his socks, now he's made me want to go fishing! :)

[veryhuman]

I hope that we are able to, as well.

Hm. Fishing. Is there any place a person could fish here?