Intergalactic Summit

I am unsure what you are trying to imply... Store them into an implant, or intro a library, what is the difference ? You sitll need the processing capacity to read them all.

Which you have certainly not.

You are a living charlatanist insult to science.

I think Oniseki-haani has already explained it in a more diplomatic way than I have.



The only thing you have assimilated are mere flight manuals. Advanced manuals, granted, but not a whole culture.

You would be wrong.

So you embrace ingenious perversion in controlling other people...Somehow this does not surprise me.



You need to be dosed with Vitoc just to calm you down, plus it would be fun to throw you into a deep dark hole, dose you up with Vitoc, and see how you like it.

Oh Verin, I go to grab a few hours of sleep and you go ahead and use reason to turn these scriptures from a towering, unassailable mountain into a funny little pile of not-quite-esoteric data.



Oh, someone's buttons got properly tickled. I'm sure that SuuVe would have taken offense at hearing their educational prowess being slandered, if they weren't too busy wondering what a highschool is or what the relevance your mythology has in such a context.

Because that is indeed what they are. No matter what else is interspersed in the data, from technical manuals to screenplays and all else, they're in every quoted instance on these boards and elsewhere religious in nature. Everything about the myth you call "God" comes from those texts, which is pretty much the definition of mythology.

But perhaps you'd prefer an answer in kind to your own bleating. "Rawr poopiebutt meany waaah waaah."



Probably shouldn't take much more than a few days, at the most. If I can become exceptionally proficient in laser physics in less than a week, mastering it fully in a fortnight (and I have) and retain all that knowledge and understanding it does indeed imply that the education of a lawyer shouldn't be particularly problematic to assimilate. I would actually be surprised if it's not already the norm among many of CONCORD's and the State's departments to use capsuleers in such contexts.

I think I'd welcome a few "The Scriptures, unabridged version" skillbooks, in fact. Since technology now allows many of us to actually assimilate, understand and thus live by the exact words of your most holy texts one'd think your Empire would leap at the chance to spread the good word as it is. Unless of course that would reveal it to New Eden as the sheep's dung it really is.

I suppose the "exegeters" are indeed required to filter out the most obvious tosh.

Funny little pile of not-quite-so-esoteric-after-all data. Once digitized and stored. I'd buy one.

When I survey in the Empyreans in all of their wickedness, all of their vanities, and all of their pride, I see a people who would benefit neither from the most careful of Scriptural interpretations nor from cybernetic Scriptural learning, because they have already hardened their hearts against God or formed a false image of God in their own minds — a God only of love and mercy and compassion.

No, the Empyreans need be convicted of God's power, God's hatred, and God's glory. And that is what I — an unschooled street preacher of the IGS — hope to do with my teaching.

Is the chance that even one slave is spared from eternal destruction by these few words not worth the effort?

Oh, thank you for pointing this out - it is so often missed. I think that Capsuleers are somewhat jaded about their concept of "the self", given our ability to circumvent death and all of the curious cognitive effects that come with it. I would be unsurprised if many Capsuleers didn't care about making those sorts of alterations to themselves, which is really rather frightening given what a cleverly designed implant can do to ones' utility function!

More specifically, in regards to your statement and to the gracious Oniseki-haani's statement, any sort of cognitive remapping has to be done over a span of time commensurate with the number of nodes being remapped. Branching habit violations are of relatively little concern, and are in fact the reason why we call these operations a remap instead of a regrowth. However, care must be taken that the overall map vector is not greatly altered, and that any alterations happen continuously.

What you refer to above as a rewrite is called (at least in our literature here) as a "discontinuity". A discontinuity marks the end of a conscious entity; it's one of the last places we can realistically cite as death. They are sadly frequent in Capsuleer circles; I myself had one a few years ago. We aren't immortals, not at all. Our neutral structures decay very quickly indeed as soon as the pilot becomes lax in her cognitive hygiene regimen.

Let it be a sobering lesson - take care of your brains first! They really are all you've got.

Oh ! That is how you call it ? That is pretty much similar. it can also lead to interesting things like "memory oblivions".

Especially considering that we don't actually believe in this "Hell" that he's talking about ... I'd suggest that the Theology Council have an educational chat with him.