[It's strange, to say all of that, all at once, to someone who might possibly get it. To someone who might understand, or at least is trying to. Someone who genuinely seems to care, even if there's no way he can get all of it, because the human mind isn't built for this kind of thing.]
[It's enough to make Alice come over with some tea, and he insists that no, he's not about to cry, so there's a pause while he drinks the tea and ponders his response to those five words that Dave sent back.]
The Shomonkai - the group that worshiped Belberith - was the group that commissioned the program from me. I could tell that the War was going to happen soon because of various groups moving forward with plans I was keeping an eye on.
I won't pretend that I didn't have an interest in my cousin winning outside of not letting the whole planet become a hellscape. I still want to go after God. I still think there's a twisted kind of irony for God's favored child to be the one dealing the deathblow to Him.
But in a way, yes. I don't want humanity to have its free will stripped of it. Trying to force them into a narrow box and say "this is the only way you can behave" takes away everything that makes humans human. And that kind of world... while many of my lives have been largely boring, there's always something new that people come up with that can surprise even me. A world without that would just feel... empty, and stale, and boring, and just not human.
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[It's enough to make Alice come over with some tea, and he insists that no, he's not about to cry, so there's a pause while he drinks the tea and ponders his response to those five words that Dave sent back.]
The Shomonkai - the group that worshiped Belberith - was the group that commissioned the program from me. I could tell that the War was going to happen soon because of various groups moving forward with plans I was keeping an eye on.
I won't pretend that I didn't have an interest in my cousin winning outside of not letting the whole planet become a hellscape. I still want to go after God. I still think there's a twisted kind of irony for God's favored child to be the one dealing the deathblow to Him.
But in a way, yes. I don't want humanity to have its free will stripped of it. Trying to force them into a narrow box and say "this is the only way you can behave" takes away everything that makes humans human. And that kind of world... while many of my lives have been largely boring, there's always something new that people come up with that can surprise even me. A world without that would just feel... empty, and stale, and boring, and just not human.