[ i'm not going to subject you to the mental image 'human mouths' brings to mind after metaphor but i am frowning ]
Yeah, sharp beaks. You ever look in a goose's mouth??
[ there's fuckin' teeth in there!! ]
And isn't that a concern in itself, if a monster like that can just wander into our little cordoned-off section of heaven here and then up and vanish?!
[ honestly i'm not sure if metaphor even has geese so maybe he hadn't either but he sure got up close and personal with this one ]
All right, well, giant, three-headed bird is a monster, sorry to say. Already crossed that threshold a head ago.
But anyway, I didn't say nothin' about monitoring it, just— isn't there a barrier of some sort between us and the rest of this place? Or is nobody controllin' who comes and goes outside of our own group?
We monitor it, yes, but we don't monitor--weird birds. [ decides to clarify it. ] Actual "souls" have a trace. I'm not gonna go into whether animals have one or not or what constitutes a soul, I mean souls in the sense of personhood that has to go through judgment to get let into heaven or whatever.
The hell do they even need an afterlife for if they haven't got real souls?
[ ugh ]
So, what, there's no actual barrier, just some sort of soul checkpoint? Like if you're not an animal, you've got to have a key card with the right security clearance to get through?
[ why does his world have this concept but not trains, i don't know ]
I didn't say they don't have souls, I just said I'm not going into the philosophy of what makes up a soul or not.
[ they shake their head ]
You're thinking too much in physical terms. There's no physical barrier or checkpoint or anything. The security clearance thing is close enough if you've got to think of it like that.
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[ hhhhh
also i don't think he knows what a gerbil is (aside from An Animal thanks to context clues) so who knows what he's picturing there ]
Anyway, morals or no, this goose ought to lose whatever heaven rights it may have had after this.
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[ it was mostly being worried about geese with human mouths here. ]
We can try to capture it if it shows up again, but it sounds like it vanished already...?
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Yeah, sharp beaks. You ever look in a goose's mouth??
[ there's fuckin' teeth in there!! ]
And isn't that a concern in itself, if a monster like that can just wander into our little cordoned-off section of heaven here and then up and vanish?!
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Honestly? No. I've never been that close to a goose.
[ there's a long pause ]
Okay, I know it was kind of aggressive, but it's a bird. We don't monitor animals.
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All right, well, giant, three-headed bird is a monster, sorry to say. Already crossed that threshold a head ago.
But anyway, I didn't say nothin' about monitoring it, just— isn't there a barrier of some sort between us and the rest of this place? Or is nobody controllin' who comes and goes outside of our own group?
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We monitor it, yes, but we don't monitor--weird birds. [ decides to clarify it. ] Actual "souls" have a trace. I'm not gonna go into whether animals have one or not or what constitutes a soul, I mean souls in the sense of personhood that has to go through judgment to get let into heaven or whatever.
So. We don't have a check for birds.
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[ ugh ]
So, what, there's no actual barrier, just some sort of soul checkpoint? Like if you're not an animal, you've got to have a key card with the right security clearance to get through?
[ why does his world have this concept but not trains, i don't know ]
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[ they shake their head ]
You're thinking too much in physical terms. There's no physical barrier or checkpoint or anything. The security clearance thing is close enough if you've got to think of it like that.