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[420blazeit]

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13:37 pm

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" 미안하다!
I'm not here right now,
but leave a message and I'll get back to you asap!
♥ D.Va"

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[leaveofabsence]

I see.

May I see this poetry?

[420blazeit]

Here’s to hoping you can make some sense of it.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, for real.

[Handing over a notebook open to this page]

Took us a while to track it down, but we figured out she was saying parts of the lines from this.

[leaveofabsence]

[ He reads over the poem. Once. Twice. Three times.

Unfortunately the symbolism here is lost on him as it matches not the tales and lore of Liyue. ]

Does the snake have some cultural meaning here that I am not aware of?

[420blazeit]

Yeah. Snakes are generally considered evil incarnate, since the Devil took the form of a snake in the Garden of Eden to trick Eve into biting the forbidden apple that basically lead to all things bad.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... the whole thing's this real famous story, from the book that talks about angels and demons and whatever.

...you wanna read it? I got a copy.

[leaveofabsence]

It appears I will need the context if I wish to unravel the rest of this poetry.

[420blazeit]

Might be a good idea to read the Bible for the context, but it’s pretty long.

[crossmyheartandhope]

He can probly get by with just the one part for now. Brb - I got the spot marked.

[Please hold he's going to duck out of the room real quick,]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He's back in just a minute, holding a book that's open to this page]

This's the one.

[leaveofabsence]

. . .

I see.

So knowledge is considered forbidden. Or perhaps it is that fact that knowledge allows humans to have no more need of their gods.

[420blazeit]

I think it's a bit of both. Like, we can know some things, but not all things, because then, yeah. I don't know if God was trying to protect man, but... well it's really just a catch22.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, I don't really get it? The Bible's kinda weird.

Like what kinda god goes "I made this one tree, and there's this fruit that's real tasty, but you better not eat it, even though I put it here in this garden where you totally hang out all day and even though I coulda put it like literally anywhere else on the planet if I really didn't want you touching it our nothing."

[leaveofabsence]

One who believes in a certain level of control over his followers.

[420blazeit]

I think it was kind of a test too, since it was the tree of knowledge or whatever, and eating the fruit would tell you everything. So you could either live in paradise knowing next to nothing or know tons of stuff but, have the freedom to choose how you live.

[crossmyheartandhope]

... still kinda a dick move.