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[lifetothefullest]

[Okay so he sucks at staying away from the network, but this is important, hopefully not even slightly controversial, and short.]

With all the talk of training powers in dreams, how the Aerie is (or was) connected to this reality, and so on, I was wondering something. Has anyone who had powers in the Aerie tried using them here?

[There is definitely no reason he's asking this question other than curiosity. Absolutely none.]

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[malta]

[ joe's hair is infinitely more important to him than this new weird ass power ]

I suppose it makes sense that something of our experiences would travel with us, something more tangible than memories.

[lifetothefullest]

I suppose so, I just wonder how it works. I mean it's pretty clear it was more than a dream, and people were physically gone from this world, but where were we? Why do some people have more or less physical reminders of their time in the Aerie than others? Why have some seemed to have retained their powers?

[So many questions!!!]

[malta]

Why is a question I have never found sufficiently answered in all my many years

[lifetothefullest]

Even if we don't reach 'sufficiently', hopefully we can still find out more than we know now.

[malta]

You all seem to be asking the right questions, at least. With some less than helpful questions.

[lifetothefullest]

Which do you think are which?

[malta]

Who, when, where. Those are the questions that have answers.

Chasing how and why will only lead to madness. I've been walking Earth for a millennia and none of us know how or why. We have theories, of course, I think we're meant to choose what to do with our time when it is given to us. Nicky says we are here to do good and that is enough for me.

That isn't to say searching for the whys is unimportant, but in our collective search for answers the why might be the last question.

[lifetothefullest]

Why might be the last question we get answers to, but aren't those usually the most important answers?

I don't even mean on a grand scale of why we're here or anything like that, but just motives. Why people--or gods, or whatever--make their decisions is important, because that's what causes the who, when, and where.

[For anyone that a being was involved with, anyway; obviously accidents and just the laws of nature aren't included in this.]

[malta]

I did not say it wasn't important. People have been asking why of god (or gods) since man invented religion. Why has this plague come to my village, why has god taken my family, why has god sent these soldiers to my land, why me, why us, why this.

[lifetothefullest]

Do gods in your world interact with people to the kind of extent they seem to here?

[malta]

Only if you believe in the stories of Muhammad or Moses or the like. My sister was worshipped as a god.

She's just an asshole so I can see why people assumed she was divine.

[lifetothefullest]

That does sort of seem to be a theme.

But here we're having direct interaction, and more than that we seem to each be holding a part of a god. That makes the search for 'why' seem a little more tangible than it might otherwise normally be.

[malta]

Fair enough.

Again, I never said why was unimportant. But asking why, the way you're framing it, necessitates having someone to ask. There is little use in the interim.

[lifetothefullest]

[He's tempted to argue that isn't always the case, and that sometimes why can be inferred just from analyzing what they do already know and making an educated guess about the choices behind it. But he's also incredibly tired of arguing, even over something so benign, so instead--]

Maybe. I'm just trying to figure out what we can.

[malta]

We are lucky there are so many people with different lived experiences here. Two heads may be better than one, but forty heads brainstorming constructively and we may just get somewhere.

[lifetothefullest]

I hope so. Whenever we manage to focus we do seem to figure things out pretty quickly.

[It's just the focusing constructively thing that's usually the problem, at least in his experience so far.]