07-26-2016, 07:56 PM
Hey, good news! The likelihood of him shooting them seems to be past. It's now likely replaced with the very real possibility of them being laughed at in an academic context, which somehow does more damage than a shotgun to the ego.
"Depends on whose mythology you're looking at with regards to the lands of the dead, doesn't factor in the very real possibility of reincarnation or how the concept of ancestor-worship or reverence comes into play. I can rail about it all I want, but my layout right now is incredibly Eurocentric. And if we want to get right down to it, very Abrahamic.
"Well... maybe not completely Abrahamic, but it definitely seems to have the whole Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso feel, but I'm not actually sure if Dante had any religious basis for his novels or if he just wanted to stick a bunch of people he didn't like in varying levels of Hell because he was grumpy. This all seems to hinge on the idea that the lines between are delineated and it's all like a layer cake."
He looks at the Abyss, though, is regarded carefully and he adjusts his book in hand. Peers at where it would fall in the little parfait-style cross section.
"Frankly, I don't know why I even have that there aside from the need for symmetry. Fear is a concept, it would belong more up here-" above the fold, somewhere between the first layer and the second. Closer to near abstractions. "So what purpose does it serve?"
Aside from being the absence of all. Aside from being a place which consumes all, a place where-
He seems to pass off the look as one of contemplation. The subtle holding of his breath masked and put away and passed off carefully like a young man who has met his first real challenge to his theories. "Conversely, what if it's a two way street? Or like a bad relationship or an infection that perpetuates itself. We cause damages to our world which reflect into the other parts of this multi-planar model, which hangs and breeds and spreads and then infects more vulnerable areas.... that thought implies that there's more of a permeable trade between the worlds, though... which really kind of would imply that this whole afterlife thing would be more of a parallel plane."
Quirks his mouth to the side.
"Do you think I should move it? Should it stay? I'm thoroughly convinced that the whole lands-of-non-reincarnated-beings should fit into this model, but now I'm not that sure where it would go."
"Depends on whose mythology you're looking at with regards to the lands of the dead, doesn't factor in the very real possibility of reincarnation or how the concept of ancestor-worship or reverence comes into play. I can rail about it all I want, but my layout right now is incredibly Eurocentric. And if we want to get right down to it, very Abrahamic.
"Well... maybe not completely Abrahamic, but it definitely seems to have the whole Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso feel, but I'm not actually sure if Dante had any religious basis for his novels or if he just wanted to stick a bunch of people he didn't like in varying levels of Hell because he was grumpy. This all seems to hinge on the idea that the lines between are delineated and it's all like a layer cake."
He looks at the Abyss, though, is regarded carefully and he adjusts his book in hand. Peers at where it would fall in the little parfait-style cross section.
"Frankly, I don't know why I even have that there aside from the need for symmetry. Fear is a concept, it would belong more up here-" above the fold, somewhere between the first layer and the second. Closer to near abstractions. "So what purpose does it serve?"
Aside from being the absence of all. Aside from being a place which consumes all, a place where-
He seems to pass off the look as one of contemplation. The subtle holding of his breath masked and put away and passed off carefully like a young man who has met his first real challenge to his theories. "Conversely, what if it's a two way street? Or like a bad relationship or an infection that perpetuates itself. We cause damages to our world which reflect into the other parts of this multi-planar model, which hangs and breeds and spreads and then infects more vulnerable areas.... that thought implies that there's more of a permeable trade between the worlds, though... which really kind of would imply that this whole afterlife thing would be more of a parallel plane."
Quirks his mouth to the side.
"Do you think I should move it? Should it stay? I'm thoroughly convinced that the whole lands-of-non-reincarnated-beings should fit into this model, but now I'm not that sure where it would go."