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[mybadhabit]

Posted: 30 Mar 2016
From: Hermes

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I know that adjusting to a new name is a serious undertaking for most people, but the common use of an individual's god name does not seem to be wide spread. Admittedly, my sample size is still relatively small, but most of the other gods I have met thus far have introduced themselves with their mortal names first, and then given their god name second. Is this because many have not yet adjusted to the new name, or are we not supposed to use our god names?

I'm making the adjustment myself, and I think it would be easier if I was a little more informed about what my relationship with my god name is meant to be. I, personally, am perfectly comfortable with dropping my old title in favor of Hermes, but if it's something meant for followers only, I can adjust my expectations accordingly.

Comments

[mybadhabit]

Why don't you believe it? Is mutual respect one of the concepts you have a hard time grasping?

[connivingbird]

You might as well respect a vase or a picture. We have our strengths but we don't necessarily live like humans can.

Humanity is unique like that. They live and the world lives with them.

[mybadhabit]

It is perfectly reasonable to respect a vase or a picture if they are well crafted. You can admire the time and effort put into their creation, and subject matter they portray. Furthermore, you can respect the purpose they have been crafted for, regardless of whether or not it's just decorative.

Without art and beauty, human lives feel empty and meaningless, after all.

Besides, you obviously have thoughts and feelings of your own. You are certainly worth more than any inanimate object, especially if only five of you were created. You are incredibly old and rare, something many people find valuable beyond measure. In the time that you have existed, you have experienced more than I could possibly imagine. Life need not be defined by the manner of your existence, but instead measured by the quality of your experiences.

[connivingbird]

We were created as vessels for war, fueled by the greed of the king that ordered our existence to life. He destroyed those that made us to keep others from being made and then tried to take our powers into himself. It didn't work.

I can't say that my existence could be special or that my experiences something that could be measured as being rewarding. The idea of having more of us is revolting, especially since there had been a few people that showed me how complex humanity could be. As for being valuable, I've been valued as an object before. It's not something I want again.

[mybadhabit]

I am not the best person to discuss the value of human life with, considering I spent my entire life training to kill people. Without greed and war, my life would be incredibly empty. Humanity is as dark as it is light, as cruel as it is kind. Focusing on one aspect over the other doesn't change anything, it only creates a kind of blindness.

If you don't want to be valued as an object, find value as a person.

And don't rely on anyone else to give you value. You have to define it for yourself.

[connivingbird]

Learning how to value them is the hard part, considering. We were created to use humanity's greed, so it's what we see first.

I had found some. It's my nature to want to have more of the same.

That sounds like something stolen from out of a useful book of sayings or an American fortune cookie.

[mybadhabit]

It can be hard to ignore. Both internally and externally.

Humans always want more too. Maybe you're not so different as you want to believe.

It's a lesson I had to learn the hard way. If you rely on others to determine your worth, you will always come up wanting. I spent most of my life being not good enough. Now, I'm the only one who can say what's good enough.

[connivingbird]

Maybe. We were fashioned off of the greed of others, and we can never be whole no matter how much of the world we devour.

I am a Greeed. We were created to always want. Though I suppose that has changed a little now that I'm suppose to be a god now.

[mybadhabit]

That is... not a feeling I am unfamiliar with. Perhaps not as strongly as you might, but I know what it means to be dissatisfied. To hunger for more without seeing an end in sight.

Do you feel like it's changed? Have you found some measure of satisfaction?

[connivingbird]

I have only met two other humans who knew a taste of the hunger a Greeed has.

It had at one time. I am unsure at this moment.