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James Valerius Kushim ([info]epipalaeolithic) wrote in [info]compass_network,
@ 2022-01-24 16:34:00

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Entry tags:!open, astrid, jake sully, loki, peter parker (616), ~james valerius kushim, ~robert langdon

I'm just going to come out and ask this. How is everyone else not awed by the fact that there are gods - literal gods - on the station with us?

I have worshipped at many altars, and the way I came to understand it was that the gods were beyond us and that when I prayed on the eve of battle, the Lady of War did not mind if I called to her as Inanna or as Venus or Freyja or Saint Joan. The same with all the other gods and goddesses in their own domains.

Now I hear that Thor and Loki are here. Does that mean that countless other peoples were wrong, and the Norsemen right?


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[info]_astrid_
2022-01-24 08:16 pm UTC (link)
my lady frigga is here also. and yes, obviously we are correct.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 09:07 pm UTC (link)
None of it seems especially obvious to me. Why would they only show themselves to you, and not the civilisations that came before you?

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[info]_astrid_
2022-01-24 10:29 pm UTC (link)
others have their fake gods that have filled their ears so they do not hear the truth and have covered their eyes so they do not see what is right. we listened, we saw, they are our gods.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 11:35 pm UTC (link)
No, I don't believe that. Every culture says that everyone else's gods are false. I've heard that hundreds of times. There has to be more to it than that.

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(no subject) - [info]_astrid_, 2022-01-25 10:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-26 09:57 am UTC

[info]symbolism_
2022-01-24 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Spiderman is here, too. Does that make him real in your world?

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 09:08 pm UTC (link)
As real as I am in his. I understand the basics of multiverse theory, but the gods exist outside of all that. They created it all.

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[info]symbolism_
2022-01-24 09:14 pm UTC (link)
Why do you think the "gods" that are here on this station exist outside of the multiverse theory? Why them anymore than me or you or Spiderman?

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 09:19 pm UTC (link)
They are the gods. They are not like you and me and Spiderman. They are greater. What makes you think the gods are so small that they would not exist outside it all?

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(no subject) - [info]symbolism_, 2022-01-24 09:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-24 09:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-24 09:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-24 09:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-24 09:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-24 10:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-25 06:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-26 09:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-26 11:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-27 08:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-27 09:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-29 09:55 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-29 10:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-29 11:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]truly_desperate, 2022-01-29 12:03 pm UTC

[info]thwipsnquips
2022-01-24 09:46 pm UTC (link)
To be fair, you might be real in my universe too. Just sayin'.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 09:52 pm UTC (link)
You might be real in mine too, just without the spider powers. There's no way to tell, is there?

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[info]thwipsnquips
2022-01-24 09:45 pm UTC (link)
I was in awe at first, but then Istarted playing Poker with him every Thursday at Ben Grimm's place. You sorta get used to it.

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And, I'm pretty sure Robby is right. They're more like Aliens with very advanced technology that live very long lives. So, they were most likely worshipped as gods when they first showed up.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 09:54 pm UTC (link)
He's talking to me. What am I supposed to do? I'm very out of practice at this. I've been sort-of Christian for a while. Polytheistic Christian. Terrible heresy.

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[info]thwipsnquips
2022-01-24 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Just play it cool, I guess? Don't gush.. It looks like the Loki I know is very different from the one here. He seems... More calm. Less world dominationy.

And, I'm not saying this to freak you out, but I have met The One Above All. He didn't seem too big a fan of organized religion.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 10:10 pm UTC (link)
You mean that there are two of them? That doesn't make sense, not if he is a god.

The king of the gods, you mean? Is he here too?

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Private - [info]thwipsnquips, 2022-01-24 10:19 pm UTC
Private - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-24 11:30 pm UTC
Private - [info]thwipsnquips, 2022-01-27 12:02 am UTC
Private - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-27 08:34 pm UTC

[info]_toruk_makto_
2022-01-24 10:23 pm UTC (link)
They're alright, but they ain't my Goddesses or Gods, and there's no way Eywa's a version of a Goddess from Earth.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-24 11:31 pm UTC (link)
What is Eywa the goddess of?

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[info]_toruk_makto_
2022-01-24 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Pandora.

It's an inhabited moon that orbits the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri system. Eywa controls the balance of life on the moon. She doesn't take sides, but she chose me to be her warrior and to get the tawtute to leave Pandora.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-26 10:02 am UTC (link)
There are many goddesses of the moon. Who is to say that it is only one moon they rule over?

What is a tawtute?

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(no subject) - [info]_toruk_makto_, 2022-01-26 09:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-27 08:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]_toruk_makto_, 2022-01-29 05:56 pm UTC

[info]brynhild_ingouf
2022-01-25 11:25 am UTC (link)
Would it be arrogant for my first words to you to be, 'of course the Norse were right'?

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-26 10:04 am UTC (link)
Maybe a little? But it's fair. I don't mind. I was Norse myself, very long ago.

It's just all very complicated.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2022-01-27 09:11 am UTC (link)
Complicated is in the eye of the beholder. I'm a 1200 year old former vampire that was a Drengr before I got turned.

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Private - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-27 08:47 pm UTC
Private - [info]brynhild_ingouf, 2022-01-28 10:30 am UTC
Private - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-29 09:53 am UTC
Private - [info]brynhild_ingouf, 2022-01-30 08:30 am UTC

[info]aphrodiseum
2022-01-26 02:53 pm UTC (link)
'Right' isn't exclusive, puddin' pop.

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[info]epipalaeolithic
2022-01-27 08:50 pm UTC (link)
That's what I thought initially. This place just...confused things, I suppose. The true gods are beyond the multiverse, though. They had to be, to create it, and all the lesser beings within it. Everything we see of them is just an oversimplification, I think. Something a human mind can comprehend.

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[info]aphrodiseum
2022-01-28 05:30 am UTC (link)
Oh, we're getting into some real quantum theory shit here, hun. We can talk about perception and relation to levels of godhood and how time isn't linear all we want but even as an eternal being I don't have time for that. And honestly, kinda dull. Wild speculation is much more fun.

Also, if you want to keep throwing my name in your prayers, even if you aren't talking to me specifically, I'm totally cool with it by the way.

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(no subject) - [info]epipalaeolithic, 2022-01-29 09:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]aphrodiseum, 2022-01-29 09:24 pm UTC

[info]squidgod
2022-01-29 09:34 am UTC (link)
The Greek one is correct.

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