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buywithmeMaybe it's possible for us to come up with a social contract under which we collectively pretend that floods like the last one just didn't happen? It feels like a lot of us enjoy each others suffering in a way that is inevitably going to come back around and make our lives uncomfortable at a later date.
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Comrades, has anyone else noticed that Howie seems... particularly unlike himself, lately?
[Private to Howie]
Excuse me Comrade, I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about God?
[Filtered to wardens who Prefect is especially fond of. Rayne, Una, Kirk, Sexby, Four, The Marquis and Seven.]
Comrades, has anyone else noticed that Howie seems... particularly unlike himself, lately?
[Private to Howie]
Excuse me Comrade, I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about God?
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Date: 2011-03-13 11:39 pm (UTC)So... it was just to show off, Comrade? So that people would worship him?
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Date: 2011-03-13 11:52 pm (UTC)private
Date: 2011-03-14 12:10 am (UTC)Re: private
Date: 2011-03-14 12:15 am (UTC)So as long as you act morally, then you need not be corrupted.
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Date: 2011-03-14 12:37 am (UTC)So where does the Barge fit in?
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Date: 2011-03-14 12:56 am (UTC)But here's how I see it - I can't explain why this place exists. Or how it fits into the religious canon of what happens in your afterlife. No more than some of the scientists on board can explain it by scientific means.
But redemption, atonement and repenting are fundamental principles of our relationship with God. We all have the choice, every single day, every single moment of our lives, between doing the good thing, and doing the wrong thing. Circumstances can drive us one way or another, but we all have free will, none of us are created evil or good, we are created to make ourselves one or the other. The Barge, I think, gives people who may not have had the opportunity, or ability, to make the choice for good in their lives; and we aim to give them the ability and desire to choose good, and to atone and repent for what they have done. Not just repent in thought, but repent in action, to act differently.
It perhaps gives them one more chance to repent in their lives, one more chance to find their own capacity for good as well as evil, as perhaps all their life ever did was try to crush that capacity under the heavy weights of either expectation, circumstance, or the inability to see what was wrong in their actions.
It, fundamentally, is about redemption. Which is a fundamentally sound religious concept, to me, and something everyone should have a chance at, and something everyone can achieve.
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:22 am (UTC)Re: private
Date: 2011-03-14 01:25 am (UTC)[and he sounds remarkably nonchalant about that.]
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:28 am (UTC)Re: private
Date: 2011-03-14 01:29 am (UTC)I can't quite explain, and don't really... want to go into it.
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:41 am (UTC)To play darts?
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:42 am (UTC)Alright, but why?
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Date: 2011-03-14 01:46 am (UTC)Re: private
Date: 2011-03-14 01:48 am (UTC)private
Date: 2011-03-14 03:10 pm (UTC)[HE WENT TO 1973, HE KNOWS THIS IS HOW POLICEMEN DEAL WITH THEIR PROBLEMS.]
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Date: 2011-03-14 03:13 pm (UTC)private - Prefect: SECRET DARTS SHARK
Date: 2011-03-14 03:34 pm (UTC)Re: private -
Date: 2011-03-14 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: private -
Date: 2011-03-14 03:43 pm (UTC)Re: private -
Date: 2011-03-14 03:44 pm (UTC)