If God was forgiving and benevolent, I doubt he would create a realm dedicated to torturing souls for all eternity.

And if God is so powerful, why hasn't he destroyed tbese pesky demons? Isn't it contradictory to claim there is one all powerful God while also believing in other entities that can override God's will and lure humans away from his grace?

How much effort was used to write this useless drivel? Try using that energy for more productive ends.

No, the Empyreans need be convicted of God's power, God's hatred, and God's glory. And that is what I GÇö an unschooled street preacher of the IGS GÇö hope to do with my teaching.

It is more than safety reasons, even if those exist too.

It is also about the defining of any living being. Anyone is the sum of his or her memories. Modify that in one stroke without making the whole assimilation process, and you eventually "rewrite" any individual into something else.

Those flight manuals are several terabytes in size each. I have assimilated 305 such packages so far, 130 of them to completion.

The scriptures are not "a whole culture" because cultures are living things produced by humans. What the Scriptures are is the combined writing, philosophy and theology of that culture. They are data, and nowhere close to the many hundreds of terabytes I have already assimilated.

You're quite right that I have not assimilated the Scriptures in that way - I never claimed to. I have devoted that time to things like spaceship operation and gunnery.

My point is that in the age of the advanced cybernetic learning techniques used by all capsuleers, the assertion that the Scriptures are too large to be read and understood by a single person inside their lifetime simply is no longer true.

Oh, thank you for pointing this out - it is so often missed. I think that Capsuleers are somewhat jaded about their concept of "the self", given our ability to circumvent death and all of the curious cognitive effects that come with it. I would be unsurprised if many Capsuleers didn't care about making those sorts of alterations to themselves, which is really rather frightening given what a cleverly designed implant can do to ones' utility function!

More specifically, in regards to your statement and to the gracious Oniseki-haani's statement, any sort of cognitive remapping has to be done over a span of time commensurate with the number of nodes being remapped. Branching habit violations are of relatively little concern, and are in fact the reason why we call these operations a remap instead of a regrowth. However, care must be taken that the overall map vector is not greatly altered, and that any alterations happen continuously.

What you refer to above as a rewrite is called (at least in our literature here) as a "discontinuity". A discontinuity marks the end of a conscious entity; it's one of the last places we can realistically cite as death. They are sadly frequent in Capsuleer circles; I myself had one a few years ago. We aren't immortals, not at all. Our neutral structures decay very quickly indeed as soon as the pilot becomes lax in her cognitive hygiene regimen.

Let it be a sobering lesson - take care of your brains first! They really are all you've got.

Oh ! That is how you call it ? That is pretty much similar. it can also lead to interesting things like "memory oblivions".

It's so nice to occasionally have a public reminder of how absolutely nutbag crazy the Empire, religion, the scriptures and its adherents really are.

Do you mean an internally biased network cycle, or do you mean a disconnected map partition?

Mostly the latter, where synaptic disorders can occur following certain patterns when non compliance to security protocols is observed, either though provoked discontinuity, or through raw erasing. Memory oblivion is the latter, and occasional wetware induced schizophrenia can sometimes be the former.

Even the Scriptures can only be taken metaphorically since they are written by men, and so hold men values and observations on an entity that goes beyond them.

God could destroy the Demons with a mere wave of His divine arm, or a mere thought of the same. The Demons exist because God wills they exist. When the righteous man triumphs over the Demons, it gives glory to God. When the Wicked man is tormented by the Demons in the Pit, it gives glory to God. When someday God has had enough of the Demons and destroys them, their destruction will give glory to God.

And what of those slavers who keep slaves long after they should have been freed?

Of course, all slaveholders in the Amarr Empire must obey the Empress in such matters.

OK, you're not on the lunatic fringe. Next question:

Why do we enslave the children of slaves? Surely it is within the capacity of our mighty empire to raise them as free and pious subjects.

Many misguided individuals do consider me a lunatic because I think respect for God's justice and holiness and glory demands exquisite punishment for the Gallente and other sinners, and I celebrate such punishments (because God is glorified in them) and enjoy writing about them.

Many misguided individuals do consider me a lunatic because I think respect for God's justice and holiness and glory demands exquisite punishment for the Gallente and other sinners, and I celebrate such punishments (because God is glorified in them) and enjoy writing about them.


Because unlike the Gallente scum, we see reward and punishment not (only) as something meted out to individuals, but to families and races and nations and other collectives. For example, the Amarr became the Chosen long ago, and retain such status to this day, and the boundaries between the Chosen and the Non-Chosen move slowly over time. Nine generations of slavery is a flash of time on such a scale.

Because unlike the Gallente scum, we see reward and punishment not (only) as something meted out to individuals, but to families and races and nations and other collectives. For example, the Amarr became the Chosen long ago, and retain such status to this day, and the boundaries between the Chosen and the Non-Chosen move slowly over time. Nine generations of slavery is a flash of time on such a scale.

AND THIS IS WHY THE GALLENTE MUST BE DEST-wait a second, wrong jackass.

Notice that Nappy always has to bring the subject back to the Gallente, whether or not it's actually remotely relevant to the conversation. Methinks the poor man has an unhealthy obsession.

See, Baracca does the Amarr thing right. He doesn't take it too seriously. He's amicable, funny, understanding, and most importantly flexible. This works. Zealotry does not.

To put it in perspective, if i saw Baracca in space, lowsec, and i could easily kill him, i wouldn't hesitate to let him pass through, unharmed, and offer to share a beer and a talk with him.

Oh, yes, both of those are pretty horrible to watch in action. Seeing a bound cycle in action really tightens my chest! It's dramatic to watch. The schizophrenia is really quite terrible especially - i've got some personal experience with that, though not a lot. Quite frightening in some respects.

In other words, there is nothing holy or spiritual about them. By this logic, the scriptures are nothing more than a story and anyone who believes them to be fact is no better than your overzealous science fiction or fantasy geek.