[024] strange fascination, fascinating me

[notafuckingnut]

[PUBLIC -- video]

Driver's Ed, that's all I'm saying. Or...the spaceship equivalent. If that's a thing. I'm tired of getting woken up because the Admiral hit something again; either drive better or don't drive at all.

Sincerely, everybody on board.


[Richie is affected! And is currently named Rochelle. And is firmly convinced she has always had boobs. Much like her male counterpart, she is given to creeptastic behavior, although she's mostly a lurker who tries to be friendly, not so much dangerous.

...Although she'll still stab you if she feels like she needs to, and has a tendency to get worryingly attached to people.]

Comments

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

It's different.

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[notafuckingnut]

HOW?

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

You don't understand the difference between war and people's problems? War is violence and death and wrath. People's problems are their sick children.

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[notafuckingnut]

Which I'm pretty sure are supposed to be cured by religion. You pray, and God's supposed to fix it. That's how it works.

What about the Bible? There's tons of situations where angels just went down to tell people shit God wanted them to know, and there wasn't any war going on at all. And anyway, aren't you supposed to always be fighting evil? So there's always a war. So you could be on Earth right now helping out. It counts.

[Religion According to Rochelle.

She's never actually gone to church a day in her life, can you tell?]

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

That isn't how it works. There are millions - billions - of prayers said every day, many of which contradict each other. Many, if not all, are not answered. The Lord hears all, but does not always, if ever, answer. Because that is His choice.

God orders us to deliver His messages, and so we do.

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[notafuckingnut]

What about the ones that don't get answered?

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

They are heard.

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[notafuckingnut]

How does he pick which one gets to be answered? I mean...how can you make a decision like that, decide one is okay, but the other one isn't worthy. That just sounds like a really shitty deal, you ask for him to help you out and he just goes "nope, fuck you, I gotta answer this guy over here's instead."

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

I don't know.

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[notafuckingnut]

Why not?

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

I'm not God.

Re: video;

[notafuckingnut]

That doesn't mean you can't know the answer.

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

I wouldn't begin to suggest I understand His reasoning about what He does and why He does it. He makes me look like single-celled organism in every possible scale; I couldn't understand even if He wanted to explain.

I'm a soldier. We obey.

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[notafuckingnut]

...Without knowing why? Without even asking?

Because clearly there's nothing off about that.

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

Such is the essence of faith.

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[notafuckingnut]

Well that's stupid. Why trust somebody without proof that you can?

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

How will you ever get proof if you never trust anyone?

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[notafuckingnut]

See it with your own eyes?

You don't trust anybody, that's what Steph always says. Don't take anybody at their word and they can't fuck you over. Their word's worth nothing until they earn it, not the other way around.

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

I have faith in my Father, and I have faith in the people I know. Perhaps if humans trusted each other more, they'd be a happier, more united people.

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[notafuckingnut]

Maybe if people were more trustworthy they would. But people are lying sacks of shit.

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

Not in my experience.

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[notafuckingnut]

Clearly you've never met people.

Re: video;

[trenchcoatedly]

No, I've met some.

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[notafuckingnut]

Not enough?

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[trenchcoatedly]

Enough to show me that there's plenty of reasons He liked you more than us.