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Tweak says, "Carpe diem."

Derrial Book (1st_chapter) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2008-11-17 16:58:00

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book, rei hino

I have fresh fruit. Fresh fruit that I didn't have to pay a small fortune for.

How the human race goes from readily available produce to outgrowing a whole planet in just a few hundred years is beyond me. I've been trying to wrap my brain around it and I simply can't.

Enjoying the grapes though.

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	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	We destroy the Earth? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	Not so much destroy as outgrow. When I'm from we call this place 'Earth-that-was', it's no longer able to support life, don't know if it even still exists, actually. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	That's - I'm so ashamed of us. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	You shouldn't be. Are you ashamed of children for outgrowing old clothes? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	The Earth was meant to provide for as many as it was capable of, and yet we continued to grow and grow like greedy children eating sweets until they got sick. At least that's what it sounds like to me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	But no planet can sustain forever. Especially a species that has no natural predators. ... although, we do here. Hm. This bears some thinking. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	You don't think that earthquakes or tidal waves were meant to cull the herds? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	I've never thought as much, no. Those were happening long before we were here. They happen on other planets yet to be terraformed, ones that have been. It's why they're called natural disasters even in my time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	Everything has to have balance - animals, algae, the climate. Nature fixes itself on any planet, I'd imagine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	An act of nature and an act of God are often the same thing, aren't they? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	I believe in God and Nature acting in harmony more often than not. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly so. They can be the same thing, or two separate entities, it all depends on what book you use. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	I'm a Shintoist but my mother was a devout Catholic. I try to read them all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	Always good to have a well-rounded basis of philosophy. Never know who may need counsel. My name's Book, Shepherd Book, if you're one who cares for titles. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	Rei Hino. It's nice to meet you, Book. I'm a miko at my temple, but it's not really a title so much as a job. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Shepherding is my mission. Once I'm finished I'll probably return to the abbey. Or I'll just keep at it, hard to say. I've still got ten years to decide. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	You're so sure you'll go home? Or are you going to join another abbey? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	... Oh. Do people really stay here for that long? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	I think so. Most of the people I know have been here some time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I see. Well, it's not such a terrible situation, I've a job at least, and there's fresh fruit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Do you not eat meat? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	On occasion. That at least is easy enough to get back home. Synthesized, anyway. Fresh costs somewhat more of a fortune than produce does, and I suppose I just hadn't looked that far at the market. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Do you like fish? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	I do, as a matter of fact, even learned how to catch them myself, even though there aren't any oceans or even deep lakes near the abbey. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	You should have sushi. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	I hadn't thought of that! Apparently I've been to distracted by the produce to bother looking for prepared foods I know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	I know a few places, if you'd like to have some. You can tell me about new planets. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	I think I would like that quite a bit. And the only real difference is that this one's cleaner. Well, and there aren't any spaceships. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	Spaceships? Really? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	Can't very well get to other planets to terraform them without spaceships, can you? I'm at [address] would you like to meet somewhere? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	That makes sense, I suppose. My boyfriend and his sister could go, but they're special. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Go? Into space? ... with or without a ship? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Without. I could too, if my friends were here, but they're not. Yet. I'll come to you and then bring you to the restaurant, if that's okay? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	... That sounds like quite an ability to have. And that sounds like a fine plan. Should I expect you soon? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	flame_sniper 2008-11-17 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	Give me a minute to change out of my uniform. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1st_chapter 2008-11-17 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	Alright, I'll be waiting. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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