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buckingauthority ([personal profile] buckingauthority) wrote in [community profile] outer_divide2012-04-14 11:31 pm

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[Kara's had plenty to drink. Which is probably not the best time to do a broadcast. But that's just how she rolls.]

Beware of spilling secrets to cats who can write. It will bite you in the ass. We have a god in our midst, people. We should bow down to our betters and to their whims.

[She raises her mug, but then falters.]

I can't think of a toast. Give me a sec.


[Reaching forward, she switches to a private channel.]

Chell. I'm settled in and I want you to come and check out the new digs. You and me, girl. It can be our bachelor pad. We can take one more. Or two. Got any ideas who else you'd like to room with?
timesbureaucrat: (narrow eyed)

[personal profile] timesbureaucrat 2012-04-15 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is a difficult argument to have without admitting that he's an alien from an advanced race whose members have occasionally passed themselves off as gods. He can't use all his favorite human insults.]

Science isn't just a body of knowledge, it's the method by which new knowledge is created. When you encounter the mysterious and the unknown is when you need science most.

To claim that something is a god is to dismiss it as inexplicable and beyond the laws of the universe. You prove otherwise the same way you prove anything. Subject it to scientific experimentation.