016 + THESE ARE BUT THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS [video]

[trenchcoatedly]

Can you imagine what it must be like to be an ant?

Problems that humanity deals with would seem irrelevant - the warming of the planet and all it's related consequences, the population explosion and the subsequent issues, including overcrowding and famine, the expansion of information, and the overwhelming perseverance of human violence. But there would be other problems - like the catastrophe of the appearance of an anteater or another predator animal. There would be tasks like to gather food. And there would be nothing but the colony and the queen.

Now imagine if an ant were to become a human. How difficult it would be to grapple with basic bodily functions, and the variety of emotions and chemical responses each action and reaction brings. Even humans must learn to walk - can you imagine if an ant tried to learn to be bipedal? I imagine it would be a task more monumental than for a human to enter space.

It's difficult to think outside your boundaries, no matter what you start as. Difficult to understand something or someone on a scale dimensions different than yours.

This is how I feel the Admiral sees us.

[PRIVATE to Ivy]

How would you feel about beehives in the greenhouse? I think they would benefit the plants greatly.

[PRIVATE to the ADMIRAL]

Would you permit beehives to be added to the greenhouse?

[PRIVATE to DRACULA]

I'm sorry that I killed you.

Comments

Re: [private]

[trenchcoatedly]

It was quite tightly bound into you.

It seems you are granted the chance to make that decision for yourself.

[private]

[nolongerhollow]

I know. My wickedness did not begin when I became a vampire. There were plenty of cracks for the evil to get into me well before that.

Thanks to you and the Father I can look forward to the same basic freedoms as any thinking being, including the freedoms of moral choice and faith.

I have actually already made a few decisions on that front, though my head is still spinning some.

Re: [private]

[trenchcoatedly]

I am always listening, if you need to speak.

[private]

[nolongerhollow]

I just feel...like everything is suddenly new. I intellectually have the same knowledge I did before, but the emotions I associate with each experience are blurred, like memories lost to the past. Instead I am re experiencing everything, and yet it is new--like the reverse of deja vu.

Re: [private]

[trenchcoatedly]

Fascinating.

[private]

[nolongerhollow]

Indeed. And confusing. But I don't think sorting myself out will be so very troublesome.

Re: [private]

[trenchcoatedly]

I've had more trouble with that than anything else. Good luck.