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Post by Shiba Bai on Mar 7, 2018 13:31:47 GMT -5
Bai nods. "Indeed, that is as I understand it. As I understand our souls do not truly change, only how we lived our lives and attempted to follow such truths." He scratches the back of his neck. "Although that is just how I understood the monks in the temples. As Gyushi-San said, it is a complicated affair, such that many have devoted their lives to understanding, yet only scratched the surface. Ultimately "be good" and "stay true to yourself" should be enough."
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Post by Tamori Yoshi on Mar 7, 2018 15:28:17 GMT -5
"Um... yes... I... agree with what Shiba-san just said," Yoshi adds, not being the most abstractly philosophical of Dragons.
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Post by Asako Ryoko on Mar 7, 2018 16:24:09 GMT -5
"Why should we be concerned with any life but this one? One world at a time. And doesn't the Tao speak of not worrying about the outward world at all, but to focus on the internal? To focus on the Tao?"
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Post by Horiuchi Nadeshiko on Mar 7, 2018 20:13:24 GMT -5
"Focusing on this world is all good and plenty but there is a world beyond this one. Tengoku, Jigoku, Yomi... where we end up depends on a lot of things and I personally would not want to spend my afterlife in Jigoku!"
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Post by Rodrigo Azerola on Mar 7, 2018 20:27:11 GMT -5
Aaaaand Rodrigo was lost again. This was unlike anything he'd heard before, but he'd never been a particularly religious person; any sort of conflict with the worship of Kharsis hardly mattered to him.
"So when you die, the world just...spits you back out as something else? I'd say that's a change, yeah."
He then looked at Nadeshiko.
"What do you mean where you end up, though? I thought the world just made you again, according to what I just heard..." he replied, his tone curious.
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Post by Horiuchi Nadeshiko on Mar 7, 2018 20:29:56 GMT -5
"Well I know for a fact my ancestor visited Tengoku and met a person who was VERY real on this plane of existence. So at some point it's possible to go spend your afterlife there... of course most people just get spat back out again in the great circle of rebirth."
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 7, 2018 20:32:23 GMT -5
"The cycle of reincarnation is...complicated. Most souls, apart from those who have been sufficiently influenced by places such as Jigoku or the Realm of Slaughter, enter Meido, the Realm of Waiting. There, Emma-O or the Lords of Death stand in judgement, assessing your soul and your sins. Most souls are sent back to this world if they have not earned a place elsewhere. Others are sent to the Spirit Realms appropriate to their demeanor. The Honorable and just to a reward in Yomi, for instance."
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Post by Rodrigo Azerola on Mar 7, 2018 21:12:49 GMT -5
"Hm...I...guess that makes sense" he said, though his tone was unsure. Still, this wasn't a class on religion, best to move on from it.
"...you just said a soul can be influenced, though. That's a change, right?"
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Mar 7, 2018 21:16:04 GMT -5
"Indeed it is. For good or ill, the Spirit Realms can and do exert influence upon the lives of several people," she answers. "I know of at least three individuals in this school who have lived with such influence, though only one of them was changed per se. The other two were born with their souls altered in this manner, so one might argue their very nature includes such influences."
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Post by Asako Ryoko on Mar 8, 2018 10:01:30 GMT -5
"But some souls can't be influenced outside of the Realm of Evil and maybe the Celestial Heavens, hai? Don't most spirits, when they pass, simply return to the realm they were birthed from unless they were influenced by the Realm of Evil in some way?"
She then looks over to Hisui, "Of all the creatures in the world, only man can change his destiny. Isn't that written somewhere in the Tao?"
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