@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

Since the vast majority of you aren't used to being worshiped- you know, being erected shrines, answering prayers etc. etc.- I'd like to pose a philosophical quandary.

To those of you consider yourselves human: Are you still human? Or has time here, our arrival here, made us something else?

To those of us that aren't human, I'd like your thoughts as well. I'm in that bucket of course, and my perspective may not entirely align to the mortal crowd.
True or not, it's something to think about in the way that we conduct ourselves.

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[selfimage]

Unfortunately you're not the one deciding that. Now it just a matter of how it's received, regardless of if it's wanted.

[reproached]

we can receive it by telling them that

you know

instead of taking advantage of them

[selfimage]

Just what are we taking advantage of? Curious.

[reproached]

we're using them as a shield

[selfimage]

As nefarious as I am, I usually recall outright doing such things.
Do you have an example?

[reproached]

we're using their religion to explain what we are so we don't have to tell the truth

what else do you call that

[selfimage]

One more: What's the truth we're not telling them?

[reproached]

well for example that i'm an ex-convict who flips burgers for drinking money not their god's chosen avatar or whatever they're trying to say

[selfimage]

Go ahead and tell them. I'd like to hear what they have to say.

[reproached]

i'm not telling them shit

but i'm not going to call myself a god just because we're tricking a bunch of people into believing it

[selfimage]

I didn't say you were a god.
I said there's the possibility that you're no longer human.

[reproached]

if crap like this is enough to make me not human then i stopped being human before i ever got here

and it didn't make a single difference so who cares

[selfimage]

But it does, or we wouldn't be here talking about this right now.
You say they're being tricked, but we don't have anything else to offer them in response. Arguably their history is sprinkled with people of the same ability, and their former leader spoke with surprising confidence of our position in this world.

So, what then?

[reproached]

so something or someone made sure we fit some myth or whatever

the point is they GAVE us something

they didn't MAKE us something

i'm exactly what i was before

[selfimage]

You're reaching.
But I suppose I anticipated this kind of resistance.