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@rey.nolo, @loki.odinson
@loki.odinson
Well, well- Hello everyone. We'd like to consider this an open forum of information exchange of this world's divine culture. Hold on to your butts. [ he's gotta be a little annoying about this. ]
Since it’s been popping up here, there, and everywhere, I thought I'd use my Loki-like credentials to give a little lesson. For those newbies who need to be brought up to speed, there are shrines bearing vague likenesses of us Displaced popping up in all forms of street art for the last few months. They depict our greater moments in aiding this world: monster fighting, healing, saving people from "snow storms," along with......... Well! All the rest. If you take a little stroll around New Amsterdam's architecture, you're sure to find one.
One curious thing about these little shrines is the imagery that they contain. If you look closely, there's an array of shapes in intricate patterns. Those newly arrived will notice that they resemble those from some body ink displayed at the market- others may know them from the Insomniac's Ball- but they do have meaning: proof of divinity.
@rey.nolo
I spoke with some of the volunteers at the Harvest Festival, and they said the same thing. They were the ones who made the shrines. And what Loki said about divinity, that's the reason they put them on our shrines: they think we're the same. Proof of God in this world. Or gods, since their religion -- which is what those symbols represent to them -- worships seven.
@loki.odinson
Interlocking circles, usually in sevens, multiplying outward in an overlap. They define creation, entangled in such a way that would delight the mathematically inclined. Geometrically, there are angles hidden in all of them, ways that they can connect to create more layers, and more meaning, including intent and experience, movement and proportion, blah blah and blah. Most important of all they are symbols, and symbols have power.
[ Loki goes on, and no one can see him gesture, but he gestures. ]
@rey.nolo
The volunteers I spoke to said that these symbols, and others like them, had naturally occurred throughout history. They were the same types of symbols I saw in my dream--some of you had the same one, of a blue bridge? The triangles signify a 'linked consciousness,' either with one other, the world, or the gods themselves. The tree was also linked to positivity and unity and how everyone is connected. Just like we are, through the blue light.
Just like they believe we are, through nature. It's all there in their religion: a belief in their gods, and in nature and the natural order. You can see why they'd make themselves scarce in a place like this.
@loki.odinson
It seems that we've struck a chord with the concept. Curious, isn't it? The sites associated I found were a few hundred years old or some such, but they said that they were linked to modern holistic thinking, but you have it here first, it may mean something different.
Well, well- Hello everyone. We'd like to consider this an open forum of information exchange of this world's divine culture. Hold on to your butts. [ he's gotta be a little annoying about this. ]
Since it’s been popping up here, there, and everywhere, I thought I'd use my Loki-like credentials to give a little lesson. For those newbies who need to be brought up to speed, there are shrines bearing vague likenesses of us Displaced popping up in all forms of street art for the last few months. They depict our greater moments in aiding this world: monster fighting, healing, saving people from "snow storms," along with......... Well! All the rest. If you take a little stroll around New Amsterdam's architecture, you're sure to find one.
One curious thing about these little shrines is the imagery that they contain. If you look closely, there's an array of shapes in intricate patterns. Those newly arrived will notice that they resemble those from some body ink displayed at the market- others may know them from the Insomniac's Ball- but they do have meaning: proof of divinity.
@rey.nolo
I spoke with some of the volunteers at the Harvest Festival, and they said the same thing. They were the ones who made the shrines. And what Loki said about divinity, that's the reason they put them on our shrines: they think we're the same. Proof of God in this world. Or gods, since their religion -- which is what those symbols represent to them -- worships seven.
@loki.odinson
Interlocking circles, usually in sevens, multiplying outward in an overlap. They define creation, entangled in such a way that would delight the mathematically inclined. Geometrically, there are angles hidden in all of them, ways that they can connect to create more layers, and more meaning, including intent and experience, movement and proportion, blah blah and blah. Most important of all they are symbols, and symbols have power.
[ Loki goes on, and no one can see him gesture, but he gestures. ]
@rey.nolo
The volunteers I spoke to said that these symbols, and others like them, had naturally occurred throughout history. They were the same types of symbols I saw in my dream--some of you had the same one, of a blue bridge? The triangles signify a 'linked consciousness,' either with one other, the world, or the gods themselves. The tree was also linked to positivity and unity and how everyone is connected. Just like we are, through the blue light.
Just like they believe we are, through nature. It's all there in their religion: a belief in their gods, and in nature and the natural order. You can see why they'd make themselves scarce in a place like this.
@loki.odinson
It seems that we've struck a chord with the concept. Curious, isn't it? The sites associated I found were a few hundred years old or some such, but they said that they were linked to modern holistic thinking, but you have it here first, it may mean something different.
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I only know that planets are meant to have grass, and trees, and animals.
Climate should have some pattern to it.
I've not been here long enough to comment on the latter but given the fact that the populace has taken to eating crickets in place of red meat because there is no place for farm animals...
That is enough to give me pause.
As I've lived, when somewhere runs out of resources, you move on to somewhere that still has them.
Here, they are all gone.
Does that not speak of something unnatural to you?
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Not in the basics of the concept of what unnatural may mean in your opinion, or in the opnion of most. There are several other additions that could be labeled as "unnatural" that are of this world.
Thus, I'd tend to agree, but my point is that we're hardly in the place to solicit the opinion of those that brought us here. It may differ. Yet- Yet!- The circumstances still strip us of autonomy, leaves "fate" to their discretion, and the displaced without direction.
It's the hair difference between the power to define our purpose here, and the purpose itself.
It may be too soon to assume.
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Sometimes others fret less when they believe the die has already been cast for them.
Something to ponder, if naught else.
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I suppose that would depend upon who you ask.
And what you might be asking about.
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Literally and figuratively. Not within the realm of being simply being told, but I've seen it manufactured and wrought in a cyclical cycle. I've seen fate broken.
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Fate, thusfar, has been a friend of mine.
Though I do my part not to keep its company overlong.
I prefer to trust myself and my deeds.
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And I have died for it. Many times over.
Fate is only a friend until it becomes control, and then, generally, it's too late, anyway.
The universe likes patterns, narratives and stories- in ourselves in our deeds, we have to keep in mind that those are of our own choice, and not a greater plan.
I do hate being used.
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We have that in common.
[Perhaps they might speak of it, one day — when she can face it again.]
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Literally or figuratively?
[ there's some amusement from the message. either will work, honestly. ]
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I am afraid that I hold no such sway over death.
[She doubts that he does either tbh]
I mislike being used.
But then again, I know few people who are fond of that.
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And yet it happens more than people could imagine.
Used by others, used by fate, used by-
Whatever this is.