Which, being generally off-topic, is on-topic for this one.
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Let me make this abundantly clear: I donāt give a fetid fedo fart about the theoretical possibilities for all of the particles in a random patch of space to randomly arrange themselves into a specific low-entropy configuration that is amazingly low in probability. You suggested that thereās a threat of this situsation benefitting the nullblocs through the complete and utter collapse of the civilizations of high security space in this cluster allowing an invasion of highsec. There is not. I have entertained the utter nonsense youāve spewed on the theoretical possibility of such a ridiculous occurrence purely out of an abundance of politeness, but that abundance has run dry.
You are vomiting out crap that yes, I can give you 100% assurances, will not happen. And that is the last reply youāre getting.
Oof.
I ā¦ understand why this would be, and why it would be useful. Itās just so much the opposite of what I try to do ā¦
Guess I wouldnāt be much of a diplomat.
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This being started with a hypotesis, no matter whatās his probability. It can also be very low close to null, but itās not completely null. Have you ever studied statistics? life sciences? Lesson number one: nothing can be completely certain or completely impossible. Anything thatās been proven, even the most obvious one, has a 99% minimum that can occur.
Mr. Lafisques? Without taking either side, can you possibly just not? The argumentās got way out in the weeds, and even if Arrendis has a little tendency to carve reality up into little boxes and then insist that the situation is all THIS box and not at all THAT one youāre also arguing for the possibility of something you seem to have already conceded is vanishingly unlikely.
The difference between āextremely improbableā and āwonāt happenā is thin enough to just not be very interesting.
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Go to say it to whoever thinks that something can be only black or only white.
Sure. Will. ā¦ Think I have, even.
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I just read that somewhere and it made me smile. Iām sure youād be a great diplomat, especially at āletting other people have your way.ā
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Your whole faith is based on wrath and power. It is expressly a vehicle for the powerful to maintain that power.
There is a non-zero chance of you accidentally choking on your food, Lafisques. Do you spend every meal time contemplating and worrying over that possibility, unable to eat just in case this will be the dodgy apple slice that suffocates you?
That is the level of illogical, self serving ego stroking, pseudointellectual trite youāre trying to pander to us, and not for the first time. Grow up.
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Unofortunately, thatās what the Holy Rite has devolved in to over eons of deliberate misinterpretation to justify what is essentially chattel slavery of what they see as lesser races.
For me and those I know, faith and piousness is an individual act, not something earned or inherently greater than bloodline. Being a True Amarr to me (and Iām half True Amarr and half Jin-Mei) is that it is a responsibility over a status to encourage others to join our faith and serve as shepards and custodians of the faith with compassion, not serve as hardened herders who coerce people in to faith.
Faith is only genuine when you willingly embrace yourself, not when itās forced upon you.
No, thatās the core of it. Thatās the core of any hierarchical system that appeals to an absolute authority, especially one that canāt be questioned because you canāt pin down an immaterial entity to demand answers. And you canāt say that thatās a corruption, because thatās what the religion was used for from the beginning on Athra: to enforce order in a way that gives āthe chosenā the power to go out and take moral retribution on those they feel oppressed them.
Whenever you get someone saying āI have this book. This book is infallible. And this book says that you need to obey me.ā that should send up red flags. The fact that they cloak it in āand you canāt argue because the invisible man gave me the bookāā¦ just makes it more suspect.
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No. Please, re-read above. Repeating, it was only a proposed hypotesis, nor worrying (since itās almost impossible), nor impossible (since the concept of perfection value doesnāt exist).
Iāve always found it so terribly convenient that the supreme creator of the universe decided that its revelation was to be revealed to one specific continent on one specific planet only, and that it did so in a way that just so happens to be entirely beyond the understanding of anyone who happens to be insufficiently enlightened as judged solely by the genetic descendants of people from that continent, but the revelation is āpeople from that continent own the entire universe.ā
A real ādad said I get the whole inheritance, no you may not see the will, not that it would matter since only I can read his handwritingā situation.
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So, not to get into the core of your point, there, Mr. Ixiris? But I think thatās a Serpent youāre talking to.
I seem to recall she (claims that she) still maintains some ties and loyalty to the State (and fair enough, those feelings are hard to shake), but sheās probably not the ideal person to direct those remarks at.
At the same time and for the same reason itās usually a good idea to check for possible ulterior motives when sheās talking.
With the greatest of respect - and I do mean that genuinely, Aria, itās nice to see you again - whether or not sheās State or Serpentis doesnāt trouble me that much. Also, āoccupational forcesā might be pushing it, but I definitely consider Sarpati to be a fascist strongman, and servants of the extortion racket Serpentis are certainly in no position to lecture about self-governance.
Also itās something other than āMr.ā nowadays. Not sure what, exactly. The students at CAS just call me ācommanderā nowadays and that works fine for me.
Thatās fine. (And likewise; itās been a while!) Just, if youāre not careful about who youāre responding to, how, you might find yourself being manipulated.
Which, seems to be kind of her thing. Sheās pretty good; I have to watch her pretty closely to catch her tongue flicking. Thatās coming from me, so ā¦ maybe be a little wary? Sheās got an agenda and itās not the Stateās, or not only the Stateās.
Remember Naqam and the āSuper Happy Chip?ā (I donāt, but I know they were a thing.) ā¦ Same general sort of creature. But subtler.
Just, heads up.
Iām hardly going to be declaring ill-advised wars from my teaching position in the Center for Advanced Studies, am I?
Haha, no, probably not, Commander. But thatās not even really what I had in mind.
Youāre sharp, youāre vocal. That means you can be influential. (And thatās even leaving out that youāre a teacher.)
If someone turns your wit and words to their own ends, is that really such a trivial thing?
I miss it sometimes, you know? The feeling of movement on the Thanatosā flight decks as if it were pinpricks beneath my own skin. The heartbeat of the Megathronās fusion reactor in my chest. Reaching out with fists made of coherent particles and thermonuclear ordnance. The thrill of watching other ships try to decloak me before I escaped the interdiction bubble. Sometimes I think: my licenses are all still valid. Sure Iām rusty as all hell and the weapons of war have changed, but I could still fly, couldnāt I?
But then I remember: being a capsuleer made me an awful person. I had billions of ISK, capital ships, a space station that could rip city-sized chunks off of moons, and none of it made me happy. The number in my wallet became a curse, because no matter how much it was it was never enough. I was less wiling to buy things that used to be expensive now that they were easy to afford, because the number would go down. I wanted to prove myself the best among my kind, but I was always too afraid to risk the investments Iād made because I hated the graft and the work Iād done to get there.
Iām happier now! I can accept that Iāll never be the one to change New Eden. Iām properly medicated, I get to do the things that matter to me and Iām no longer slave to a number that will never, ever be big enough to satisfy me. Iām actually starting to internalize and understand all the Intaki philosophy I pretended to adopt back when I just thought it would make me look smart, and Iām mature enough to admit that thatās what I was doing.
But there is some part of me that still enjoys watching nonsense happen on the IGS, and that dark little spark of mischief inside me knew that it just couldnāt afford to miss this. I just could not stop myself from watching all of the people whoāve made hating the Federation their whole identity dumpster themselves when the Federation finally took steps to remove Intaki - which joined the Federation of its own will and by its own consent - from a warzone created by the invasion of a hostile foreign power. Watching these people - any of them, regardless of allegiance - whine about the sovereignty and self-determination of my godsdamned homeworld was a joy Iām still not mature enough to deny myself.
So in the true fashion of Classic Andreus Ixiris, Iāve written a wall of text about it nobody will read. Time is a flat circle and we are trapped forever in a hell of our own making.
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