the last voyages // 4. video. no filter except for t-x.

[to_be_caprican]

Some corners of my culture happen to take religion literally.

[ Gaius is using video, and sitting in his cabin. The lights are currently playing up, as they're wont to do, reflecting off all the glass and chrome of his replicated expensive apartment. He has a cigarette, a cup of tea, and little better to do but seek some conversation to defeat

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[with_discipline]

Vulcans follow logic and philosophy over religion. We did once worship gods. Some families still keep busts of them.

[to_be_caprican]

Not dissimilar to Caprica, or at least I'd like to think so.

Polytheistic, then?

[with_discipline]

Thousands of years ago. Surak brought logic to Vulcan. We follow his philosophy of logic over emotion.

[to_be_caprican]

Over-- emotion? That's a bit extreme, don't you think.

I mean, yes, some of them are a bit useless, but emotions're just responses to chemical reactions that occur to external factors. Fear's an excellent facilitator of survival - you'd have a lot of stupidly extinct species without that one. It's a perfectly logical biological system.

[worstsongever]

Does 'Greece' mean anything to you?

[to_be_caprican]

I thought it was called Greek.

[ ...welp. ]

[worstsongever]

Greece is the country, the people from Greece are Greek, they speak Greek, etc. You kept mentioning the Greek Pantheon. Zeus, Apollo, Hera, all that.

[to_be_caprican]

Poseidon, Athena, Hephaestus, yes, all of them. They're not the Greece pantheon to me - they're the Lords of Kobol, and they're gods.

None of which I believe in personally, but. Gods all the same.