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ryo asuka. ([personal profile] recidivate) wrote in [community profile] ellipsanet2023-03-15 09:10 pm

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Hello to whomever this post may reach.

I'm fairly new here, my name is Ryo Asuka and I was a university professor and researcher at home. As such, you can expect that I may have a certain amount of curiosity about the worlds people come from.

[ An easy smile. His tone is calm and polite, even when talking about the things he's about to say. He maintains an even tone, and sounds very matter of fact. ]

No, I'm not asking for full details on your homes. But my world was struck down by the apocalypse. Or an apocalypse. It was what one would expect. Destruction, death - it was Biblical. That was the last thing happening before I was brought here, so you can imagine my surprise to be in such a thriving place.

I have a lot of interest in theologies and religious practices, so I want to know what they are like where you're from. Do you have god or gods? Faith, religion, apocalypse stories. Do you have an interesting superstitions or holidays?

My world had a lot of different religions and practices - but obviously certain ones were prominent.

I appreciate anything you can share. Or are willing to share.
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[personal profile] abnormalizes 2023-03-16 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
There's definitely some pretty weird religions in the City. I've heard of one church that puts gears in people's heads... None of the faiths are big enough to have that much influence outside of their followers, but people believe in all kinds of things to cope. I can't really judge.

There's two thirds of Apocalypse Bird here, but it's probably fine.

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[personal profile] privateeyed 2023-03-16 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[damn this is too much to type for his lazy ass, fiiiine, he'll video it]

There's a religion that got popular real recently, their version of God exists in the 'net. Believers get an implant in their head that'll let God "download" their soul when the time comes and they'll gain eternal life. It started becoming a problem a few years ago 'cuz folks were getting those implants illegally and you can't back alley a fuckin' thing into your brain without there being consequences.

That's just one of like, thousands of religions. Some worship one god, some worship multiple, others believe in something else entirely. Depends on where you go in the world.

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[personal profile] doiteventually 2023-03-16 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Increasingly wondering if I was misfiled as the only person here who hasn't gone through death, apocalypse, or torture.

Some people in my world think that the existence of demons, which is provable, means that the existence of God is also proven. I'm more skeptical. I've never been to heaven, I don't know what's going on up there.

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[personal profile] erschlagen 2023-03-16 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Struck down by the apocalypse, you say? How dreadful.

[Well, that certainly captured Rosen's attention. He gives the professor a little wave as he smiles into the camera. However, that smile of his is more of a smirk than anything else.]

How intriguing! In my world, we're still trying to avoid such a tragic end by fighting against those who would drag us to the apocalypse.
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[personal profile] wingstosee 2023-03-16 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh whoa. Congrats on living through it?
I guess that means either you're a super good person or you're chill enough to hang out with the devil.
I kind of hope it's the second one? Haha.

Anyways. Hi? My name is Venus and I'm the devil.
Uhhh. We have God, he sucks. He might be different than your God though. A lot of other people have told me they don't hear God talk to them through the radio? So. You know.

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[ You know who hates gods a whole lot, this fuckin guy, so he's not really surprised to see that someone's world met a similar fate to his own home. By a god perhaps or something similar? ]

Gods...there's nothing special about them. What I can say is to never trust them, no matter what.

Your world was destroyed, correct? Was this the work of the gods of your own world?
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[personal profile] essenceborn 2023-03-16 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's a professor. A researcher. His world was ended by the apocalypse.

Odds are, this is a coincidence. There's no one left from Nenonen's world, and certainly not any of the tower's researchers or doctors. They had deteriorated so long ago--and yet still, Ryo's description of the world he came from sounds so eerily simialr to their own that for a long, long while, Nenonen just stares at their device.

It feels like being back home. It feels like being back in time, before the loops began and before the world drowned in black.

Nenone inhales sharply. Forces their breathing to even out despite the urge to stutter and gasp, and then...begins to type: ]


How did your world end?
Did the sun go black?


[ Nenonen deletes the last line, and presses 'send.' ]

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[personal profile] glidinglight 2023-03-16 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ A BIBLICAL APOCALYPSE WROUGHT BY THE GODS... and demons.... and Dain is here......








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[personal profile] kaientai 2023-03-16 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I was sceptical all my life, but people used to be pretty convinced that we were all living on sacred land. Convinced enough to almost go to war over it at one point. At the end of my life, I found out for sure that there are higher powers out there, but it didn't make all the rest of it real. Most people in my world don't know about what's really out there.

So, I guess what I'm saying is I don't think any of it matters. You don't need gods to cause the apocalypse. Humanity can manage that on its own just fine.

[ he has... a lot of experience in that area. ]
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I have trouble with religion, honestly. It’s hard to have faith in a god after you’ve heard her drunkenly singing, and I’m not cut out to be a Buddhist.

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[personal profile] cordyceptic 2023-03-17 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Same, dude. The apocalypse part, I mean. Not super biblical, just shitty.

I dunno about the religion part. Some people still believe that stuff I guess, but mostly we just follow old world traditions out of habit, I think. It's hard to believe in some benevolent higher power when everything sucks.

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[personal profile] rustyhonesty 2023-03-17 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No gods as far as I know of. There is a crazy cult called the Wall Cult who worship the walls that protect our cities from monsters outside.

Oh and a family that acts like the biggest of the monster, the original source of it all, is a God itself.

We don't really even have a concept of afterlife, as far as I know. When you die you're lucky you fucking get out the world and get to rest in pieces.

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[personal profile] nihilmancy 2023-03-19 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He looks rather young for a professor, doesn't he? Like he ought to still be in schooling himself. Different worlds can have different societies, though, and he may simply seem young for his age. ]

It is interesting subject, yes? I was a member of the clergy within my society, in fact, though matters of religion was not my primary role within that organization. You define religion rather narrowly here, but the Gaian Church, formally known as the Hegemonic Church of All Gods and Mysteries, is a fundamental institution within the Gaian Hegemony, who concerns itself more with philosophy, academics, and the function of man as a political animal, than the do the administration of any particular brand of worship.

That said, the Church does loosely administer all cults within Hegemonic purview, and I've prayed and offered to a handful of deities from time to time. I'm not particularly pious, myself.
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Hoh~

An interesting line of thought! I never used to bother with such silly things. Gods and Devils, Angels and Demons, they hardly have any effect on the common man, just as the opposite is true. We had other things to worry about. Our lives, relationships, futures, and legacies...

But I've since been to Hell, seen the fall of Heaven, and left my humanity behind.

I find it strange, and fascinating, how I don't really feel any different.

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