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[ferroustigmata]

[Due to the increasing temperature in our lovely Death City, Nevada, Sasha is dressed in a light-weight, skin-tight tanktop and has been sticking around inside, out of the sun, for as long as he can, but the long baggy pants have yet to make a disappearance.

Unfortunately, his attempts to both stay cool and stay out of the sun are in conflict. Specifically, a light sunburn across his shoulders is visible.]

It's been almost a month since I showed up, so I suppose it's time to make leisure use of this device.

I've noticed that, in this part of the world, people believe in a dichotomy between science and religion. Is there some sort of war that broke out in America that I haven't heard of, or is it just a custom around here to view things in stark black and white?

On a lighter note, I've been considering taking up a hobby to entertain me during my stay here, and I'm open to suggestion. Maybe something involving music or computers, some sort of creative outlet. Something that isn't too hard on one's hands.

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[starfruitfrog]

Well...did you have any kind of hobbies before, de arimasu?

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[ferroustigmata]

Between school and work, I didn't have much time for a hobby.

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[starfruitfrog]

I see. So you're a newbie to this, de arimasu. How about...singing karaoke, de arimasu?

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[ferroustigmata]

I'm not really one for parties, and I don't know popular music very well...

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[amorini]

Hobbies are pretty hard, but- what sort of things do you like to do when you have free time? Those things are as good a place to start as any.

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[ferroustigmata]

Whenever I had free time at home, I spent it with friends. These days I simply study the history of this war, but I've grown bored of that lately.

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[amorini]

Well, maybe you should find a hobby you can participate in with friends you've made here?

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[tauborn]

... If you're looking for some kind of creative outlet, you could... always consider... drama club?

[Though for someone who is the club's leader, he doesn't look very hopeful about the possibility. They are currently very short on members.]

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[ferroustigmata]

...Drama club?

[It's obvious by Sasha's tone that this is something he hadn't even come close to considering.]

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[tauborn]

Yeah, we're putting on a play.

[He sighs, feeling a little awkward.]

...if we have enough people, that is.

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[entreats]

It's since science stopped believing in anything that can't be proven. [ This is right up Ange's alley here. Although it's more science and magic rather than religion for her, but might as well discuss it.. ]

Like the existence of any god.

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[ferroustigmata]

Science can't believe in anything, since it's merely a study of what is.

[...derp.]

[entreats]

Exactly, that's why they can't believe in gods either. You can't necessarily say that any god just 'is', since there's absolutely no proof.

[draculabackwards]

I am from an earlier time but...I have noticed things are very divided in the regard of religion and science.

[ferroustigmata]

How much earlier?

[draculabackwards]

A bit more than 200 years earlier.

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[dollfie]

Hobbies...? Oh! Oh! Take up drawing! Drawing's fun!

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[ferroustigmata]

Why do you think so?

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[dollfie]

Huh? Why...? I haven't thought about that...

[Pino trails off, pondering] Because you make stuff! And it makes other people happy?

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[armorbound]

I don't believe a war has anything to do with it and while I'm of the belief that one is entitled to their faith, I do not believe that religion is capable of providing absolute answers when it comes to scientific principles and laws of the universe.

A lot of people often believe things they can not explain as God's doing or magic, but if you ask me those types of things just haven't been explained by science yet.

[He's definitely a lot easier to talk this sort of subject over compared to his brother.]

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[ferroustigmata]

Science may explain how the laws of the universe work, but not why, especially in the case of how things came to be in the first place. There are things that science will never be able to explain.

[armorbound]

Each new answer always creates at least one more question. Science wouldn't be any fun if we learned everything.

What sort of things do you think science can't explain, Sasha?

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[diedforyoursins]

[ack, he knows that sunburn pain, bro. there's a reason he'd taken to wearing hoodies everywhere despite the heat.]

I cannot say for certain what the history of this version of Earth includes, but in general, man has always desired an explanation for all things. Faith was the old way, with science taking over more and more as time progressed. With new explanations for things once only understandable through faith, many seem to have lost what trust they had for a higher power. Too many expect all answers to come from science and label all religion as mindless behavior, while still too many others cling too closely to their faith to accept any new form of reason, even if it proves more logical.

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[ferroustigmata]

[They should share hoodies. They'll never be able to figure out whose head the stray hairs belong to.

There's a point Sasha has been wanting to bring up, and Kaworu is one of the few that Sasha feels would be appropriate to mention this to.]

There are things that science will never be able to explain. There will be moments where they attempt to, and that's what happens to people like me.

Our war is fought with both science and faith. While the core of the war is our faith in the miracles that we witness, the battle itself is of science. When faith acts without the understanding of science, it leads to death; likewise for science acting without a reverence for faith.

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[diedforyoursins]

[well, that all sounds rather familiar.]

I understand, more than you could know.