[Text] One man washed on an empty beach

[volksdaemon]

Posted: May 31st 2016
From: Anon

Say you hated a specific god. Maybe you only distrust them instead of hate them.

Then they die, and a reincarnation takes the god's place. Maybe it even looks like the same, but the old memories are gone.

Could you give that reincarnation a second chance in spite of your old feelings?

[Schuldig's become more contemplative thanks to his new, empathetic feelings towards his own followers and what would happen if their prayers stopped being answered. Thanks, Eros.]

[[OOC: All answers are anon text unless stated otherwise.]]

Comments

Re: Anon

[volksdaemon]

You sound like you have experience with people suffering from memory loss before you even got here.

Anon

[oneblackcat]

You could say that.

Re: Anon

[volksdaemon]

Hm. The shinki must love your understanding consideration for their plight.
To me it's still a Tree Falling In The Woods problem.
If the circumstances that produced a person acting a certain way are no longer there, and they don't have the memories to drive them to act that same way either, I don't see how those personality traits will ever surface again. That sounds an awful lot like "not the same person" to me.

Anon

[oneblackcat]

Maybe we're talking about two different things. I'm not arguing that they're still the same person. Almost all of their identity is missing, so how can they be?

Re: Anon

[volksdaemon]

Ah, well at least we agree on something. A shame we'll never be able to agree in person.

Anon

[oneblackcat]

[Omi doesn't like the sound of that.]

Why do you say that?

Re: Anon

[volksdaemon]

Because of this tradition of anonymity.
We both liked it enough to invoke - and so did many others, clearly - but I can't find people later on this way.

[Which is a big deal for a telepath who's used to knowing just about everything about everyone whenever the hell he feels like knowing it.]

Anon

[oneblackcat]

You could make yourself more findable by disabling anonymous posting.

Re: Anon

[volksdaemon]

So could you.

Anon

[oneblackcat]

I'm not the one lamenting the inability to connect with people off the BBS. If that's something you want, it's your responsibility to create the opportunity.

Someone who wants to find but not be found just looks suspicious.

Re: Anon

[volksdaemon]

I guess old habits die hard.

[And he won't respond again.]