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[thebestnose]

[Jane's on deck, looking somewhat annoyed. Which is pretty typical for her.] So, are we quite finished with all the selfish, Worship of the Me displays for the moment? It's so hard to focus when you are all panicked over some Previous dramatics.

She couldn't have even managed to be around her own flowers. She had to ruin ours.

[Not really the best introduction but...hey, there's more!]

Have any of you ever read this Rulebook? [She holds up George's Bible.]

If you do, you don't follow it very well, do you? Granted...I'm not too far into it because it doesn't seem like any language I've ever seen. Well, and most of it doesn't read like a Rulebook, but I did find some.

[She puts it back into her lap.] But I know it's not the only Rulebook out there. So what are the others?

And why don't you follow them?

[Pause.] This isn't a lecture, anyway. I don't care what Rules you do or don't follow. But I've broken plenty in my life. I've just never seen them broken collectively and with such...obvious disregard.

It's almost admirable.

Oh, and where does it talk about the invisible birds? Or butterflies. [Pause as she tries to find the word.] Souls.

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[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a Bible called a "rulebook" before, though I guess it's not exactly wrong to see it that way.

There's several other "rulebooks" where I'm from. The Torah, the Koran...probably others I don't know about.

And, really, nobody's perfect. You can have any set of rules and no one will follow all of them 100% of the time. You do the best you can in every situation and hope the decisions you make is the right one.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

No, there are always loopholes around any Rule.

The decisions that you make should be Ruleful, though, yes? Because what's the point of having Rules if they aren't "right?"

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

They should, but sometimes there's a Rule which isn't right. Sometimes, a rule or law is made with the wrong intentions.

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[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Which rule in there are you talking about?

[Pause]

And it's not really a Rulebook. One of the people who taught me once said that it wasn't so much a rulebook or a history book as a guideline to how to treat other people in a moral and decent manner.

Re: private

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I found a list. Of what not to do.

It's the closest that you have to a Rulebook. That I've seen, at least.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about number six, by any chance?


There's the law.

I guess a Bible is one you were brought up with, or you chose. The law is one which everyone must abide by.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Rulebooks?

There are probably dozens of them back home, but all those laws come down to one thing in the end: those with power can do anything they like to those without.

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[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

That's not a rule. That's just a fact.

Re: voice

[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Rules can be broken. Facts can't.

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[darknessb4me]

You really only play one note, don't you?

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

You're one to talk.

[i_like_your]

They are not recognised directives.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Then what are your...recognised directives?

[i_like_your]

Largely classified.

More recent updated, however, pertain to ship-wide security and protocol.

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

She didn't ruin them. I cleaned it up.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Good. At least there's that.

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[needshumility.livejournal.com]

If I guessed what you were thinking about this, I wouldn't like it, would I?

[darknessb4me]

[Soft:] They're not... birds.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I know. They're not...literal.

But it's what they look like when I think about them.

[strangehistorian]

The library should have copies of many of the canonical texts from the cultures represented here!

[The original definition of "canonical," folks, nothing to see here.]

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I know.

I just have to ask what to look for.

[acertifieduser.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between a rulebook and a religion. Religion has rulebooks, but there's more to them than that and they're freely chosen. The government has rulebooks, your work--or school--has rulebooks.. you parents, your partner. I admit most of those are more assumed or verbally arranged than written, but a lot of them really are laid down by writing. There's also unspoken societal rules and the people that don't understand them never do as well as the people who do; of course, there's also societal rules that are written where you can get arrested or be executed if you break them. It really depends on the culture and what kind of rules you're talking about.

[.....] Are you from the same place the other Eddie is? The red one?

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I knew most of that already.

And yes.

[failedcreator.livejournal.com]

There are no invisible birds and butterflies but there are many unspoken rules.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. I understand that. But it doesn't help me if they're unspoken.