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[thebestnose]

[Jane's on deck, looking somewhat annoyed. Which is pretty typical for her.] So, are we quite finished with all the selfish, Worship of the Me displays for the moment? It's so hard to focus when you are all panicked over some Previous dramatics.

She couldn't have even managed to be around her own flowers. She had to ruin ours.

[Not really the

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[darknessb4me]

[Soft:] They're not... birds.

[thebestnose]

I know. They're not...literal.

But it's what they look like when I think about them.

[darknessb4me]

It looks like a long ribbon of... mist, but made of light. It's... hard to describe. Something that flies might even be a better way to think about it. Something alive. It's undoubtedly alive.

Do they not have the concept where you're from?

[thebestnose]

So a butterfly or a bird. That's why I said it.

And no. There's no concept of...afterlife. That's right, yes?

[strangehstorian]

The library should have copies of many of the canonical texts from the cultures represented here!

[The original definition of "canonical," folks, nothing to see here.]

[thebestnose]

I know.

I just have to ask what to look for.

[acertifieduser]

There's a difference between a rulebook and a religion. Religion has rulebooks, but there's more to them than that and they're freely chosen. The government has rulebooks, your work--or school--has rulebooks.. you parents, your partner. I admit most of those are more assumed or verbally arranged than written, but a lot of them really are laid down by writing. There's also unspoken societal rules and the people that don't understand them never do as well as the people who do; of course, there's also societal rules that are written where you can get arrested or be executed if you break them. It really depends on the culture and what kind of rules you're talking about.

[.....] Are you from the same place the other Eddie is? The red one?

[thebestnose]

I knew most of that already.

And yes.

[acertifieduser]

Then why did you ask?

[thebestnose]

Because I wanted to hear things I didn't know.

[failedcreator]

There are no invisible birds and butterflies but there are many unspoken rules.

[thebestnose]

Well, yes. I understand that. But it doesn't help me if they're unspoken.

[failedcreator]

Indeed. I would advise you, but I fear many of my rules are not heeded by many on the barge.