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[peaceful_shadows]

 You know, I hate sounding like a broken record but...

[Nikola sighs as he pulls his phone further away to show off an apartment decorated for a holiday he knows nothing about. All around his kitchen table are books that range from children's Christmas books to books discussing Christmas to even the King Jame's bible which he found somewhere.  He's been trying to do a little research and really, he's just gotten himself more confused.]

What I don't understand is why is there a holiday celebrating some baby's birth in the desert that somehow translates to the fact that for one night some jolly fat man in a red suit is allowed to break into people's homes through their fireplace and leave questionable presents for those that live in the home. 

Or why people try to appease this man with milk and cookies and what makes it okay for him to determine what child is nice or naughty.  Isn't something like that supposed to be the parent's job? Or why this holiday requires lights and a dead tree covered in trinkets. 

[...There is a LOT Nikola doesn't understand about this. ]

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but, I really could use a civilized explanation..

[He pauses for a moment.]

And Rose, unless you're being serious, please don't try and tell me one of your ridiculous holiday tales about candy and monsters and one of my coworkers. 

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Re: Video

[peaceful_shadows]

According to a fair few of the books, one Jesus Christ who apparently had no self preservation instinct. I've heard of crucifying people to put on display as a warning to others.

That practice isn't lost in my world though, rarely used to any wide spread degree. However, I still don't understand why one man dying is such a big deal.

[Welcome to a world where History is proven and deities don't exist. At least among Kindred at any rate. Nikola couldn't speak for the other people of his world.]

However, no two people think or act or even judges others the same. For instance, my perception and thoughts on how to judge another are widely different from yours.

[He raised an eyebrow slightly. Was that a crack he saw in your patience Ted? ]

I mean it as I said it, Ted. Even an absolute statement is never absolute. But, then you get into a more philosophical discussion than the one we're having.

[Nikola relaxes a little in his chair and amusingly doesn't bother correcting him on his name. ]

Of course I do. It means morally right or justifiable. However, it is my belief, that the very perceptions of what is morally right or justifiable vary from person to person.

Which also leads into ones perception of what the 'truth' actually is. I suppose if one were to align with the other then perhaps it would be so depending on the perception of the society one resides in.

However, that is never quite the case.

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[youfool]

Ha, yes, he was rather more interested in the preservation of everyone else. Hence why his obedience led to him dying in their place.

So you say, but there aren't as many differences between people as you may suppose. Careful lest individualism have too much sway. For my own history, the moral codes and philosophies expounded by men all have very similar threads running in them.

"An absolute statement is never--" goodness, what a hopeless contradiction. I'm afraid you'll have to choose. It is absolutely impossible to fully communicate a truth if you will not believe in absolutes. I recommend believing in them; you must rely on them even to attack them. It's like sawing off the branch you're sitting on. Can't you see the vanity of it?

I'm afraid we're well into the realm of philosophy; that is, thinking of life. We can't be otherwise.

We part ways when it comes to perception and things perceived. Either the latter exists and make impressions quite on its own, or it doesn't. That the perceiving organ is fallible is granted, but that therefore what's perceived is doubtful I don't. Just as a blind man does not disprove the sun, so errant judgment does not disprove the body and the basis of such.