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exeggutorhead) wrote2013-08-28 01:04 pm
exeggutorhead) wrote2013-08-28 01:04 pm
47th Transformation [ANONYMOUS text | action for Mahogany]
[There's an anonymous message popping up on the network this afternoon. And I do mean anonymous; Envy has made as sure as he possibly can that nobody would be able to trace this question back to his Gear ID.]
What does it mean for someone to have a soul? In your world or in your religion or whatever you think. What does having one give you, or not having one keep you from doing?
how can you even tell if you have one?
[It'll be a little while before Envy actually responds to any answers, because two seconds after he hits 'send' and realizes what he's done, he chucks the 'Gear clear across his hotel room. Miraculously, it doesn't break the machine entirely, even if the screen gets cracked all to hell. He can't believe he even thought to ask something like that, much less actually went through with it. Since when did he start turning into Lust and asking ridiculous philosophical questions about the nature of existence? That's something he's always just rolled his eyes at and halfway tolerated, why does he feel the need to ask things like this now?]
[But this is a question that's bothered him for more than a year now, ever since he took that brief trip back to Amestris. Does he have a soul after all? And what the hell is he supposed to do with the thing if he does? Mostly he ignores it, leaves it alone as a doubt in the very back of his mind. But then during the last crazy weekend, Heather had been sure he had one, had brought that question back to the forefront. It's been months since then, and he still can't shake it off. And if he has to ask stupid questions to the network in his weakness, then...maybe the answers will let him push this back down into something he can manage.]
What does it mean for someone to have a soul? In your world or in your religion or whatever you think. What does having one give you, or not having one keep you from doing?
how can you even tell if you have one?
[It'll be a little while before Envy actually responds to any answers, because two seconds after he hits 'send' and realizes what he's done, he chucks the 'Gear clear across his hotel room. Miraculously, it doesn't break the machine entirely, even if the screen gets cracked all to hell. He can't believe he even thought to ask something like that, much less actually went through with it. Since when did he start turning into Lust and asking ridiculous philosophical questions about the nature of existence? That's something he's always just rolled his eyes at and halfway tolerated, why does he feel the need to ask things like this now?]
[But this is a question that's bothered him for more than a year now, ever since he took that brief trip back to Amestris. Does he have a soul after all? And what the hell is he supposed to do with the thing if he does? Mostly he ignores it, leaves it alone as a doubt in the very back of his mind. But then during the last crazy weekend, Heather had been sure he had one, had brought that question back to the forefront. It's been months since then, and he still can't shake it off. And if he has to ask stupid questions to the network in his weakness, then...maybe the answers will let him push this back down into something he can manage.]
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[All the anons, texts and filters]
If you are questioning whether or not you possess one, given your capacity to ask if you have one and what I assume is decidedly not a suicidal nature, you do have a soul.
[two secretive guys right here]
It's less if I do have one and more a question of how long I've had one. When I came here I was turned into a human, so getting a soul to go with it made sense. Back home things like me are scientifically considered to lack them, but I'm not so sure of that now.
[all the secrets.]
You have likely had a soul ever since you were born. Or hatched, or created or decanted, or whatever is appropriate to your species before you became human. If you were capable of acting in your own self-interests and self-preservation, then you had a soul even then. If you were a, for lack of a better word, if you were a mindless automaton receiving orders and making no decisions for yourself then perhaps you did not have a soul.
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I've known several souls without bodies, inhabiting normally inanimate objects. They don't have any hearts or anything, but they still have their emotions along with their personalities and drives. I haven't done much research on that kind of thing myself, but there are scientists who study it.
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