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[leschath.livejournal.com]

[Here, have a Milo. He's back in his cloth, all shiny and proud but he actually looks more irritated than when he was stuck in another reality. Anyone who's sensitive to aura's and such can have a blast of nasty Cosmos as he enters. If you get too close Milo's Cosmo might even paralyze you a bit. It's sharp, cutting, kind of like being cut by the wind. Milo's not going to hurt anyone though unless you piss him off. Appearing with him is a chunk of a pillar at the perfect size to use as a stool.]

Fate so hates being tempted. I need to learn to remember that. My temple fell quite literally, besides that it still stinks of roses.

And Leo has volunteered to "observe" me. Goddess give me patience so that I don't end up murdering him in his sleep.

...this is perhaps a sign that I need a vacation. Someplace miserable maybe, Delos better yet Erimomilos. If only it wouldn't be taken as a sign of running away. As it is this place is my refuge for the moment and it doesn't even pass time.

No one tell me to meditate.

[Milo sits down on his pillar and glares into space.]

Comments

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Various reasons, flirting is a passtime and an attitude. And sometimes simply saying it would be considered "too forward." It has to do with human interaction Mu.

Well better Gemini than Cancer.

[lamb_of_gold]

Too Forward? Is this patience? From you? I must be addled.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

No, for me it's a passtime. Sometimes though the payoff is greater when you give it some time. It's an Epicurean principle.

[lamb_of_gold]

I'd hardly think you to be the type to follow those teachings.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

I pick and choose to my liking. And Epicureanism is one of the few things that teaches people to enjoy life.

[lamb_of_gold]

So does common sense.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Common sense doesn't often work with sainthood.

[lamb_of_gold]

Oh I think it does, just not as it should.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

We do things that common sense would usually not allow to happen. So explain your reasoning to me.

[lamb_of_gold]

We have common sense enough to survive this long. We know what is right and wrong, and when something needs doing. We know better than to needlessly endanger ourselves for trivial causes so we can be as strong as we can be when it comes time to fight. Just because our lives are inherently dangerous does not mean we're not sensible people.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Is right and wrong common sense?

[lamb_of_gold]

Right and wrong within one's moral structure. If I saw someone getting beaten it would be sensible for me to go and stop the beating.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

That's your common sense. It's hardly universal.

There are many who would walk away, because they don't care, for their own safety, to them that would be common sense.

It doesn't take into account subjectivity either. Why is it that they are being beat? A thief? A murderer? Can you say at a glance that something is indefinitely right or wrong?

[lamb_of_gold]

I meant it as an example, Milo.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

You give bad examples Mu.

[lamb_of_gold]

I know I do.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd be better being a teacher.

[lamb_of_gold]

Kiki learns by thinking of his own examples of concepts. Master taught me the same way.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

That's...very nurturing. To be expected of his Holiness.

[lamb_of_gold]

It seemed to be effective. Roshi did it as well, so I came to the conclusion that it would be a good way to teach Kiki.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Philosophy was not a large part of my training.

[lamb_of_gold]

It doesn't seem a popular topic, no.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

It doesn't factor into my duties.

[lamb_of_gold]

Few things do, but there's nothing keeping you from learning for enjoyment.

[leschath.livejournal.com]

Says the one that probably doesn't understand the term "pleasure."