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[watcheddog]

What is school like where you're from? Is it like here? How long are you expected to go for?

Do you learn about history and religion there or only history or only religion?

What are your world's teachings on different planes or dimensions? Is there a heaven and hell that are taught? Have there been wars about this? What's the worst depiction of hell, or best depiction of heaven?

In my world, religion is just something parents opt their children into, if they want. It's not even allowed in public classrooms in my country. People don't much believe in afterlife, and even less in the idea that supernatural beings take an interest in anyone's daily affairs. It's a little jarring how readily everyone accepts the existence of demons here. It just reminds me of the 80s when there was a lot of "Satanic Panic" and people thought if you played rock albums backwards it had codes to summoning demons to possessing people.

It seems like even if demons are real, humans probably don't understand them any better than the early myths about what made rain and thunder.

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[Anon Text]

[leekspins]

I've been to heaven before! It's definitely not the way I thought it would be. It looked a lot like Japan in the Edo period.

It's probably different depending on what universe you come from.

[Anon Text]

[watcheddog]

Different heavens. I didn't think of that. I guess it would have to.

[non-anon text]

[fadedscarlet]

You come from a very wise world.

Religion is nothing but a farce-all stories to make people believe that they are significant or have a significant role. Just a dumb story, for story's sakes.

My world-and many worlds- were always filled with those religious ideologies. Profound. Stupid. All the same.

[non-anon text] / [anon]

[watcheddog]

Is that all? How do you know?

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[fadedscarlet]

I know because I have a lot of experiences with all kinds of universes, realities, worlds, you name it. These spirits, gods, demons, beings are beyond comprehension for anyone and they often extort those beliefs for their own gain.

Beliefs like that show how backwards a society can be.

[Anon Text]

[youfool]

[In almost respective order:]

School on Earth was, for America, mass produced, i.e. somewhat dull but functional enough. History is taught more vigorously, though neither gets the coverage it ought. The length depended upon one's occupational aspirations, though most are expected to attend about a dozen years or so for a standard.

Dimensions went up, last I checked, to eleven, but it got silly beyond the fourth. Length, height, depth, and time composed those. Our planes were roughly two: material and spiritual, or visible and invisible. The Rosicrucians held there to be five more, but they're a silly bunch of occultists.

Mercifully the demons are not known, for they're extremely unpleasant to meet or deal with in any capacity. The fallen angel variety, mind. The ones in Genessia are tame in comparison, and are quite easy to believe in, being so relatively personable.

The best depictions of heaven and hell are the true ones, though there are certainly artistic flourishes of each. CS Lewis had a striking one of heaven, and Dante Alighieri painted both and Purgatory in vivacious color.

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[watcheddog]

Rosicrucians?

How do you know CS Lewis and Dante were right?

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[youfool]

Pay them no mind, unless you're out of books to read.

Not literally right, but artistically right. CS Lewis, for example, portrayed Heaven as so blisteringly real that when one first arrived, they were as gassy shades. The lawn was so solid and present that walking on it was as painful as treading steel swords. "Blades of grass" indeed!

Dante took the same tac, if more fantastically. One knows that treachery is the worst of all sins, but I'm not so sure that the worst traitors are gnawed by one of Satan's three mouths for all eternity.

[non anon]

[ubiquitously]

You've certainly got a lot on your mind.

Religions vary across the worlds and their countries. I've been to worlds where Religion is based in faith, and worlds where it is a solid fact.

The only 'supernatural beings' that I know, which take interest in all of the universes, are the Aspects and their Embodiments. And, of course, Alyce and myself.

[non anon] / anon

[watcheddog]

You've been to other worlds?

Can you expand on the last part?

[ubiquitously]

Mm. Other universes, to be technical. I exist on the 9th dimensional plane, but I can travel down as far as the 2nd. Not recommended: Super trippy.

The Aspects, also called 'Concepts,' are 10th dimensional beings that provide power, guidance, and order for the omniverse. Due to their 10th dimensional position, however, they cannot interact with the world.

So they sponsor 'Embodiments' to represent their will. The Embodiments interact with 'stories' and influence their direction in a Concept's favor. So yes, there is a force in my omniverse that takes interest in mortal lives.

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[immortalrose]

[What is school like? Goodness, Augustine can barely remember his days with Iscariot. It's been years, nearly several centuries now. Yep, centuries.]

In my world, education and religion was closely tied. I was an acolyte. We had to study the Holy Bible along with the remnants of history. Heaven and Hell are religious concepts that dictates even my world. It was commonly believed that after enduring the harshness of life, that those who suffered would be ascended into Heaven.

I'm not certain how true that is but Heaven is supposedly a paradise within the great beyond. As for Hell, I'm...certain you're familiar with the hell, fire and brimstone. For the most part, that is indeed true but Hell is much colder than what humanity envisioned according to Astaroth.

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[watcheddog]

I see.

[Ish.] How do you know that about Hell?

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[immortalrose]

[Augustine hesitates once he sees that question. Blurting out "I can summon demons" is a stupid idea, especially considering the whole fiasco with Katsuki. He better word this correctly without causing panic.]

You may not believe but I've come in contact with supernatural creatures in the past. Some of which can be conjured by...well, magic.

[Ugh! This still sounds ridiculous. Augustine is mentally sighing.]

[Non-Anon]

[light_of_willpower]

Home-schooled and tutored, by necessity. Fortunately my mother and grandpa and mentor were all geniuses and intelligent. The downside was the necessity--as the world I grew up in was not a safe place.

I learned some about both history and religions, but was more interested in the sciences I admit. From what I recall, there weren't many wars about religion and differences. There are a few hells, and a few different concepts of heaven. Mostly it's looked at as different planes of existence and states of being.

Demons do exist, and live in a specific dimension. Probably the closest equivalent to a benevolent divine being would be the various Kai of my world, who have the role to guide and assist and be caretakers of the universe. They're counterparts is a literal god of Destruction--the Kais are responsible for life and creation, the God of Destruction for destroying and getting rid of. There are also angels, although I've only met one who accompanied the God of Destruction for our universe. There's also a being who rules over all of these who is the king of all universes.

On the smaller scale, there were beings often mistaken for divine figures--like the benevolent alien (a Namekian) who functioned as Kami and watched over Earth.

Non-Anon for Trunks / Anon for Carver

[watcheddog]

That sounds reversed from Earth's interpretations. That demons are destructive, and God created everything.

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[light_of_willpower]

I'm from Earth too, though. Just a different Earth than what you're from. And the demon I dealt with was plenty destructive, but I don't know how much of that was just his normal personality or was him being controlled by the evil wizard Shin, Kibito, and myself were trying to stop.

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[hellorhighwater]

I don't know much about school here, but the world I was born in has school that sounds a lot like yours. Grade school, middle school, high school and college.

In the world I came from, the one I grew up in, small children are educated at home. In larger towns and some rich villages, kids start attending school around nine or ten, twelve or thirteen for poorer or smaller areas. They're educated by the clergy, and never by their own kind. I come from a world where humans live alongside dragon shapeshifters--primarily human settled areas always have dragon educators, and vice versa, so kids can learn about their fellows of the Five Realms.

Far as religion, there's two main ones: most widespread is the faith of the Thousand Ancients. It's ancestral, worship of the most powerful and wisest of the dragons that came before, all the way back to the first of them. There are temples, and no two ever seem to have the same set of primary icons of the Ancients. They don't really teach about demons or a heaven or hell: dragons live in hopes of becoming an Ancient, and humans live in hope they might be born again as a dragon so they can achieve the same.

The second one is lesser known, but favored in the court of the Night Dragon, and it's the one I come closest to practicing. It doesn't have a name, and it's primary deity is the Ember: the son of the Sun Goddess and the Sky Maker. He made the first of the dragon shifters as an act of mercy when a human and a dragon lay dying at his feet. Those who live well, he gives into the care of his mother in the sky, where their souls keep the sun's light burning. Those who live poorly, he gives to the Sky Maker--not like the Devil or anything, but he's known and feared for his temper. In one of the realms, the Sky Maker is seen as benevolent, and their king bears his name. In my kingdom, soldiers pray to the Sky Maker for the strength of his anger to spur them to victory in battle.

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[watcheddog]

That is completely different from my world, especially because of the dragon thing. Do dragons only live as long as humans?

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[hellorhighwater]

They age, but they may as well not. They can live for thousands of years. Some of them have. It's said that my king was among the very first.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

I teach at the school for magic where I'm from. It's a boarding school for young witches and wizards, and lasts seven years, from when they turn eleven and for the seven years past that.

We teach history, but not religion. Our school is similar to the ones in your world, where it's left to the parents to teach their children. But I think our worlds' attitudes towards the supernatural largely differ.

[watcheddog]

[Dumbledore?]

Definitely differently, yes. Can I ask what role religion plays with magic? Summoning demons or completely unrelated? Like science.

[chambermusicandtenpins]

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Mm, summoning demons isn't something our magic is capable of. The closest our magic can do is interact with ghosts, though we cannot summon them -- they simply appear on their own if someone's soul is not ready to pass on. Apart from that, our magic does not interact with anything past the veil.

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[demonofbadluck]

Replace if demons are real with 'Are real'

No if about it. I am here after all.

But back home history was a thing we had to learn in order to get a better understanding of the situation we were in in the present and why it was so important to keep going. Also it helps to understand things in general if you want to be at the top.

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[watcheddog]

I'd assume.

What's it like being a demon? [Nah, he deletes that. He could ask Chrysalis as much in theory.]

How are demons pulled into mortal planes in your universe? Or born, I guess?