[He thinks about that, looking out towards the water.]
No one has been able to explain why. So maybe no one knows. But they keep saying that it's because the Realm isn't exactly a person, that it's impossible. And I. . .
[He's troubled by that assumption, in ways that he can't understand.]
I've only just started to learn how to understand other people. I think understanding people is a skill that's easier for some than it is for others, right? Like my master. . . I have never known anyone who understands other people better than he does. He understands so many things I never would have thought of. But I have been trying to learn to do that, too.
When you think about it that way, understanding things that aren't people at all . . . maybe that's also a skill that's easier for some than for others?
[ Alright, he doesn't like the sound of a little kid calling anyone his "master" but we'll get back to that later. ]
I don't think it's a skill.
Understanding people...is different. People all have reasons and feelings that determine what they do. We can figure those out--human to human, on the same baseline. But the world at large? Who knows. If there's a reason behind what happens in the world, then it's so alien that we can't figure it out. Like a foreign language.
Some people like to make them up, to help them make sense of the world. The "God has a plan" type.
Me? I figure it's all random. Good things, cruel things, they all happen at random, at random times, to random people. And we just have to make the best of it. Whatever 'reasoning' we find in that is just our own invention.
[ i can't believe you're making me write entire philosophical discussions with bucky fuckin' barnes ]
Spirits, huh. Well, I can't say I know much about them. But as long as they have thoughts and feelings, as long as you can interact with 'em and understand 'em, they count as people.
Otherwise, they're no different from looking for any way you can to make sense out of nothing. Just a different take on "God has a plan."
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[He isn't sure he agrees with that. He thinks Bucky is pretty smart in a lot of ways, but he's wrong sometimes, too.]
. . . I've always thought there's probably a reason, even if I can't understand.
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[He thinks about that, looking out towards the water.]
No one has been able to explain why. So maybe no one knows. But they keep saying that it's because the Realm isn't exactly a person, that it's impossible. And I. . .
[He's troubled by that assumption, in ways that he can't understand.]
I've only just started to learn how to understand other people. I think understanding people is a skill that's easier for some than it is for others, right? Like my master. . . I have never known anyone who understands other people better than he does. He understands so many things I never would have thought of. But I have been trying to learn to do that, too.
When you think about it that way, understanding things that aren't people at all . . . maybe that's also a skill that's easier for some than for others?
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I don't think it's a skill.
Understanding people...is different. People all have reasons and feelings that determine what they do. We can figure those out--human to human, on the same baseline. But the world at large? Who knows. If there's a reason behind what happens in the world, then it's so alien that we can't figure it out. Like a foreign language.
Some people like to make them up, to help them make sense of the world. The "God has a plan" type.
Me? I figure it's all random. Good things, cruel things, they all happen at random, at random times, to random people. And we just have to make the best of it. Whatever 'reasoning' we find in that is just our own invention.
[ i can't believe you're making me write entire philosophical discussions with bucky fuckin' barnes ]
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That might be true - there might be no reason for things like that.
But I mean. . . there are things that exist, but aren't people. Things like spirits.
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Spirits, huh. Well, I can't say I know much about them. But as long as they have thoughts and feelings, as long as you can interact with 'em and understand 'em, they count as people.
Otherwise, they're no different from looking for any way you can to make sense out of nothing. Just a different take on "God has a plan."
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You need to have thoughts and feelings to be a person?
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...Yeah? It's kind of part of the basic description. If you have thoughts and feelings, you're a person.