the last voyages // 4. video. no filter except for t-x.

[tobecaprican]

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 nerves and loneliness.

But not lonely enough to go outside. Visibly on edge, but his voice is calm, where the video feed doesn't flutter. ]

As in, there are-- were-- colonials in the universe who would swear up and down the pantheon that we really did travel in a boat down the river Styx in the afterlife. [ ffrrzzzztttt ] easy to make fun of, but they'd be the ones laughing now, I suppose. I'm dead, and look where I ended up.

I suppose they [ ffrrzzzztttt ] ing pass.

I haven't talked religion in-- well. Ever since I've been here. Not something I miss, to be clear, but there's a

discrepancy

that I'd like to explore. So talk [ ffrrzzzztttt ] your beliefs, Bargeites. Earthers, witches, the lot of [ ffrrzzzztttt ] first and last time - I'm trying to get it out of the way and over with.



[ OOC: My terribleness -- posting and running! I will tag back solidly in a couple of hours, may sneak in a couple here and there beforehand. ]

Comments

[worstsongever]

Does 'Greece' mean anything to you?

[tobecaprican]

I thought it was called Greek.

[ ...welp. ]

[worstsongever]

Greece is the country, the people from Greece are Greek, they speak Greek, etc. You kept mentioning the Greek Pantheon. Zeus, Apollo, Hera, all that.

[tobecaprican]

Poseidon, Athena, Hephaestus, yes, all of them. They're not the Greece pantheon to me - they're the Lords of Kobol, and they're gods.

None of which I believe in personally, but. Gods all the same.

[worstsongever]

Grek panth--never mind. I've never heard of Kobol. Which is kind of weird, since apparently there are all these similarities.

On Earth, we kind of moved past polytheism, for the most part. Wait, that sounds kind of awful - a lot of monotheistic religions evolved, and when the Roman empire fell, that was kind of it for the pantheons.

fdgfh sorry i forgot all of my tags somehow

[tobecaprican]

Kobol is the birthplace of all humanity.

I'm told your humanity has a markedly different location of origin. Earth, in fact. Of course, it is quite impossible that two races with such cultural-- and indeed, biological-- similarity could evolve independent from one another. I would propose we're simply from different dimensions, but-- we have heard of you all, and we share history, somehow.

But then, I've only heard of monotheism. It never caught on, except with--

[ A beat. No, that's a bit complicated to inflict on a stranger. He dismisses it with a shrug. ]

What can you tell me of your monotheism?

AND YET MORE LOVE <3

[worstsongever]

Uhhh not a whole lot, I mean I'm not really a theologian, but I can try? There's Christianity, and Judaism, and Islam, those are the big three monotheistic faiths. There are slightly different beliefs and rules, but all of them believe in one God, instead of a pantheon. Christians believe in Jesus, too - he's the son of God, the messiah, and he died for our sins thousands of years ago. Jewish and Islamic people don't believe in him, though. I don't know all the details, but that tends to be where the religions differ. The library probably has a ton of books on this, though.

/hoards it :E

[tobecaprican]

I'm sorry, that sounds so boring. Not saying my religion's better than yours - trust me, it's just as tedious. I'll skip the extra credit study, I think.

ccc:

[worstsongever]

Separation of church and state, I say.