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[cyders.livejournal.com]

[River is sitting at a low table and she has... a book open in front of her. she's writing notes in the pages of this book and occasionally ripping pages out of it. at one point, a man - a priest, if you look at his clothing - approaches her as if to take it, and River doesn't even look up.]

Just keep walking, Preacher-man. [she goes back to writing, and lifts up the book to find a page oh wait River is destroying the Bible okay then. she keeps writing for a while and then speaks up suddenly; she is... talking to an empty room.]

They shouldn't print false information in books. It's misleading. Leads us to ruin. This book is all fiction. [there goes another page.] There's no rhyme or reason. The people of the time were highly illogical. Or they had bad hearing and they misinterpreted all the words. A God shouldn't disobey his own laws, it's bad practice. Even if he's very fond of folding space. There are too many undesirable factors in this story. Unlikeable characters. It needs to be rewritten entirely. Too many mistakes. It's rude to eavesdrop on a conversation, so you'll have to contribute.

[she looks up.] What does the community think of this crime?

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[createswithink]

[La la la what is a bible] If it's fiction, you should just enjoy the story! Unless it's a bad story.

...Ah, what crime?

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[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

A fictional book about a god? Where the god is a hypocrite, the followers are hypocrites, and the transcription is spotty?

Burn it. Make ink from the ashes and write it even better.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

It's a terrible story. Fiction should still make sense.

The crime of an inaccurate chronicle.

[createswithink]

You gonna rewrite it now?

[cyders.livejournal.com]

It's too wide-spread to be hidden away. Can't destroy it when it's set in the minds of the 'verse. Lessons taught over centuries and centuries that we brought with us from Earth-That-Was.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

Can't. I don't have all the information either, and the informants are very hard to get a hold of. They're also liars. I'm just correcting this one.

[createswithink]

What if the author wanted it to be confusing and incorrect? [/obviously confused]

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

You'll have to get everyone to read your new version, then. Getting rid of all the old versions will be tricky, but doable. Maybe you need to recruit some...uh, priests? Those guys. Yes.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

The priests have their own stories to tell. This one. You can't get rid of the old versions, because they're not on paper. They're neurons and grey matter all wrapped up together under bone and skin, faith all through the blood. [she gives kefka an admonishing look.] No genocide.

[potatochips]

What would you make a god like instead?

[makewayforroze.livejournal.com]

They lied about the religion?

[cyders.livejournal.com]

[she gives light an odd, searching look for a moment before she goes back to writing in her bible.]

Reliable. Don't scrap the bad canvas and start again. It's wasteful. There's a lot of water damage left behind in the pages, but it's all left to rot. Less folding space, too. There are the marks of clumsy, fumbling fingers all over Earth-That-Was.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

The religion is a lie.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

What's the function for a gospel that can be misinterpreted?

[createswithink]

Ah...to make people question things and to find the real truth behind it?

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

[ oh wow not sure how feel about this because on the one hand the bible gets more wrong than it does right so this is as close to thinking something is hilarious as castiel can come to but on the other hand... she is kind of ripping up the bible...... ]

I believe this is what's known as deja vu. Although you hadn't gone as far as ripping it up last time we had this conversation.

[timey_wimey]

I've seen worse religious books. 'Course, I've also seen better, so there's that.

[makewayforroze.livejournal.com]

How do you know which part is lying? A few lies doesn't make an entire religion false.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to be a record. They don't write books about Earth-That-Was with a false lining.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

These are all impossibilities. Noah's Ark is a terrible offence. An entire planet couldn't flood in forty days, and water won't remain unchanged on a surface with exposure to sunlight, an absorbent ground and atmosphere for one hundred and ten days. We'd have to assume that one of the variables has changed over time, one that was supposed to be a set control. Earth-That-Was may have been made from a crust that didn't require absorption of water and nutrients.

Or the God was changing the rules to fit his playing, which is a bad trait. Sour apples. We'd have to remove it.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

He left it out. I couldn't leave a mistake on the table. [she glances up at him, and while she rips another few pages out, says casually,] Close your eyes. Blasphemy is damaging. [another pause. she rips out another page and goes back to writing.] Your brothers are insufferable.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't infectious. We left the plagues but for this. [she scrunches her nose up in distaste - but then she remembers what Book said before when she badmouthed it to him, and she feels kind of bad.] ... The faith is fine. Records are just inaccurate.

[createswithink]

Not every thing recorded in history is true anyways. If it's fictional I'd just call it a myth.

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

Some of them aren't that bad. They're just... misguided.

[timey_wimey]

Most records of pretty much anything are, to be honest. It's mostly a matter of measuring everything on a sliding scale of just how inaccurate they are.

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[brainisout.livejournal.com]

Humans are always illogical microorganisms, the fact that they even wrote down a history at all surprises me.

And here you are, an amoeba judging other bacteria of the past. Hoh- truly interesting.

[philoxidizes]

The crime of false information, or the crime of tearing books apart?

[cyders.livejournal.com]

A myth is more appropriate. I'd... [she looks down and frowns, furrows her brow.] It's a... faith.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

Michael is a jerk.

[welp.]

[cyders.livejournal.com]

False information. I'll put it back when I'm done. But this is unintelligible; the symbols need a key first. I'm fixing it.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

They see where the flaws are in their makings so they can change the problem for future production. It's a reasonable effort. But the errors are usually in the production lines, not the blueprints. Difficulties arise.

I'm not a fish. I won't take bait.

[cyders.livejournal.com]

This is very inaccurate. But I don't have notches on my scale to measure it proper.

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

As I've never met Michael, I couldn't say. Dean would probably agree with you though.

[ And have some more choice words to say about the archangel as well, most likely. ]

[cyders.livejournal.com]

He has personal experience. [for a moment, she's not sure beyond that, but - Well, first off, Sam said the big yes to the Devil. it's enough to get the gears turning and let her make the connection, along with everything, every gesture and tone, even if she's not entirely clear on all the details.] Because they're pushing, and he won't give.

They didn't try to include the whole family in the chronicles. [she's writing more footnotes, now.] It's incomplete.

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

Yes. From what I understand, Zachariah in particular has been very active in trying to persuade him to say yes. Not that that's surprising.

Many of us have never had any contact with humanity, or at least nothing significant. There wasn't really much reason for most angels to be included.

[timey_wimey]

Well, I could put it in perspective for you and tell you that on my Earth at least, while there was actually a Noah who had to build a boat to survive a flood, it certainly wasn't world-wide. Earth's got enough water anyway, it'd be a pretty drastic business indeed if it had managed to get any more covered in the stuff back in those days before people started melting ice caps and things. Probably seemed that way to him, though, seeing as how most people's perceptions of the world were smaller back then, and there really was an awful lot of water around as far as he could see. You can't blame the man for thinking so.

Also, aliens were involved, and one of them was me. But that little detail is probably wholly and completely unique to my universe, so I couldn't really say for anyone else's.

[brainisout.livejournal.com]

A reasonable, but wasted effort. Humans shouldn't be spending their time writing down history, they're barely able to remember how to breathe. The only thing these insects are good for are producing mysteries.

A fish? No- that's almost too generous. How about a flea?

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[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

[HEY WAIT WHAT]

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Why would I suggest such a useless thing?!

[Besides, he hadn't even gotten to the part about getting rid of the opposition yet!]

Instead, recruit them to your side.

[createswithink]

But alll faith has it's myths. I can understand the problem when people actually believe the myths are true, though.

For example! Lots of people in my world believe that every time a kitsune weds, it's sunny and rainy at the same time. Some even believe that the wedding causes that to happen. But that's not true at all, not even on the 'every time' part. It's actually just that the kitsune couple prefers to get married during sun showers. Still, people will believe what they want to believe, true or not.

[makewayforroze.livejournal.com]

Your world is flooded?

[philoxidizes]

Kind of you. Does information always have to be true?

[h8ers_gonna_h8]

Hey, there is some pretty 8adass stuff in old 8ooks!
The ones with the right stories in them, anyway.
Pro8a8ly most of them you can rip up with a8andon, so carry on!

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

[cyders.livejournal.com]

This one is illogical. It's teaching rights through a wrong. Missing everything. It doesn't make sense. [RRRRRIP.] What books are you thinking of?

[h8ers_gonna_h8]

The right ones!
Ones with swash8uckling and muuuuuuuurder.
How much murder is in that 8ook?
If you ask me, that is a really good indic8or of how good a 8ook is!