[ OPEN ] Let No Soul Hunger For Justice: An Inquiry.

[fleurdesel]

FORM: Sending Crystals
SENDER: Adelaide LeBlanc
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Vaguely philosophical question time
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Part of Let No Soul Hunger For Justice.

[ Adelaide’s voice is even, if tired- but what else is new? Still this is a requirement for the next ritual and to that end, she must find some sort of acceptable truth from a variety of opinions. Sequestered in ‘her’ desk in the Library, full pot of coffee warmed to one side, sheaves of blank paper and bottles of fresh ink before her. To her right? Anders with a similar set up, papers, quills, ink- a kitten. To her left, Roul to take just as many notes. Prepared as they are ever going to be- she asks. ]

A few questions for the Inquisition:

What is a soul, truly? What fundamental differences are there between a mortal’s soul and the embodiment of a spirit? Is it the culmination of our thoughts and experiences, our emotions? Is it a combination of our self given purpose and our ambition?

A mortal might change their purpose, might grow and become more due to our experiences- most spirits do not. But what more than that? What sets one soul apart and makes it distinct from another? Can the same be said of similar spirits?

Answers need not be religious or academic- merely true. What do you believe to be the difference, what do you believe to be a soul?

[ ooc: threadjacking is welcome and encouraged ]

Comments

[fleurdesel]

Why would you make a machine that behaved like a person?

[obi_wanmanshow]

Oh, I don't know. It certainly wouldn't be my first choice. I don't use them any more than I have to. They're a little offputting.

[Annoying. The word he wants to use is annoying.]

In some cases, I suppose it's helpful. Protocol droids acting as universal translators during diplomatic functions, that sort of thing. It's been common practice for a long time, and seems as if people find it... endearing. Cute, or something, especially the Astromech Droids.

[fleurdesel]

...it is truly a strange world indeed that you come from, Obi-Wan.

[obi_wanmanshow]

Adelaide, I'm afraid to tell you, all worlds are strange.

[fleurdesel]

So I am learning. Thedas is hardly a bastion of sensibility and sanity- but it is, at least, familiar.

[obi_wanmanshow]

I think perhaps you would find some familiarity in my home-world, just as I've found a few things as I might expect them, here. It's not so bad, when you think about it.

Incidentally, if I might ask, why the philosophical discussion of souls? Given what little I've been made to understand about the taboos here, it seems an unusual line of inquiry.