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driftfleet2016-01-25 07:56 pm
hymnals) wrote in driftfleet2016-01-25 07:56 pm
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Who: Adrasteius; perhaps you
Broadcast: Everyone
Action: SS Bishop
When: Now!
[He's in the kitchen, as per usual. Anyone wandering in will find him standing on a fruit crate, though that's (somewhat) obscured by the camera angle on screen. He's got his skinny arms on his hips, and he's significantly more awake and alert than his last broadcast.]
Lots happening, lots happening. I know we're all busy trying not to eat those gumballs or worrying about our always ephemeral and doomed to fail stores of ill-gotten money, but I'd like to talk about something for a while.
[He gestures energetically, his hands sweeping outward from his body, indicating the entirety of space around him.]
The Light teaches us that we are all one with the universe. The first step towards a useful life is acknowledging and accepting this fact. You are part of creation, and creation is part of you. But that's not the end of it. Followers of the Light practice three core virtues: they are both principle and lesson at once.
[More dramatic hand gestures.]
One of these is tenacity. Tenacity doesn't just mean perseverance. No! Tenacity means understanding the fullness of time. It means understanding that the most rewarding path is the long path. That serving the universe, that fulfilling your ideals: these things require the dedication of years, not weeks. Not even months. Despair and hopelessness lie in wait for us at all times. Think of your lives here, and your lives back home.
[Adra points at whomever might be listening to this screed.]
Have you ever felt lost? Have you ever wanted to give up? Have the things you worked for seemed far from your grasp, or--worse--has it seemed like they've slipped away from you entirely? Such pain is the unfortunate reality of life. But you cannot, you must not, be crushed by these obstacles.
Many young students of the Light falter during the early days of their training. Here is the truth of it: we are all but one person. One soul. It seems impossible that we can affect change on any real level. Sometimes it may seem impossible for us even to survive long enough to think about affecting change.
But we can. You can. You are connected to the world around you, and even the small things you do--the meal you cook! the advice you offer! the hand you hold!--they matter. They bring change, even if it's not dramatic, or immediate.
You just have to stay in the fight.
[He steps down off of the fruit crate.]
Light be with you.
Broadcast: Everyone
Action: SS Bishop
When: Now!
[He's in the kitchen, as per usual. Anyone wandering in will find him standing on a fruit crate, though that's (somewhat) obscured by the camera angle on screen. He's got his skinny arms on his hips, and he's significantly more awake and alert than his last broadcast.]
Lots happening, lots happening. I know we're all busy trying not to eat those gumballs or worrying about our always ephemeral and doomed to fail stores of ill-gotten money, but I'd like to talk about something for a while.
[He gestures energetically, his hands sweeping outward from his body, indicating the entirety of space around him.]
The Light teaches us that we are all one with the universe. The first step towards a useful life is acknowledging and accepting this fact. You are part of creation, and creation is part of you. But that's not the end of it. Followers of the Light practice three core virtues: they are both principle and lesson at once.
[More dramatic hand gestures.]
One of these is tenacity. Tenacity doesn't just mean perseverance. No! Tenacity means understanding the fullness of time. It means understanding that the most rewarding path is the long path. That serving the universe, that fulfilling your ideals: these things require the dedication of years, not weeks. Not even months. Despair and hopelessness lie in wait for us at all times. Think of your lives here, and your lives back home.
[Adra points at whomever might be listening to this screed.]
Have you ever felt lost? Have you ever wanted to give up? Have the things you worked for seemed far from your grasp, or--worse--has it seemed like they've slipped away from you entirely? Such pain is the unfortunate reality of life. But you cannot, you must not, be crushed by these obstacles.
Many young students of the Light falter during the early days of their training. Here is the truth of it: we are all but one person. One soul. It seems impossible that we can affect change on any real level. Sometimes it may seem impossible for us even to survive long enough to think about affecting change.
But we can. You can. You are connected to the world around you, and even the small things you do--the meal you cook! the advice you offer! the hand you hold!--they matter. They bring change, even if it's not dramatic, or immediate.
You just have to stay in the fight.
[He steps down off of the fruit crate.]
Light be with you.
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[He shrugs. They aren't in Azeroth, anyway.]
Respect, first. Compassion last.
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Did I stutter?
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Why? If there's compassion at all, why isn't it first?
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This is not about importance, but difficulty. Compassion is more complex than it appears.
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I am very aware of that. I'm just trying to understand how your religion does things.
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And are you? Tell me, then.
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[It's not really a question. So instead she'll try to answer his. She bites her lower lip, thinking.]
When compassion is most needed, it's likely the most difficult to give. It's giving coin to a beggar when you're saving every copper for an emergency. It's protecting someone whom society would harm, for no other crime than being born an undesirable race, even if you're scorned for it. It's forgiving someone who betrayed you in the worst possible way.
Compassion is difficult.
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[He considers her answer.]
That's part of it. But the difficulty doesn't merely lie in the sticky logistics of altruism. It's about what compassion truly is.
Is it compassionate to feed a man, or teach him to fish?
Is it compassionate to let someone do as they will with you, because without you they may crumble?
Is it compassionate to let an empire fall in order to save the life of one person? Or is it compassionate to let that person die so that others may live?
Sometimes compassion can translate to suffocation. Sometimes it can translate to self-annihilation. Wisdom comes from knowing the difference.
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What if you don't know how to fish yourself? What if the empire should fall, if it harms an innocent? What if letting yourself be used, suffocated, annihilated by others is the only way to atone for the sin of your existence? What if. What if. What if...]
Do you have that wisdom, or are you still learning too?
[A quiet, sincere question. It's safer than any other running through her brain just now.]
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