A Supermagnet, A Doctor, and A Twin Walk Into A Bar

[iamnotpolaris]

Milliways. Oh, bless.
Dr. Xavier could have finished her shift, made it home, and buried her head in a pillow if she had to. But this is much easier.
"Hi, Bar, can I have a stimulant that won't interfere with my judgement or dexterity or anything like that?"

Comments

[iamnotpolaris]

"And boringness is spiritual. Got it."

[roc_on]

"Boringness is the most spiritual."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I'm glad my powers don't have anything to do with spirituality, then, I have a religion but it doesn't require gratuitous boringness from me."

[roc_on]

"Yeah? What kind of spirits have you got that are not boring? Nor, I hope, supervolcanoes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Not spirits, exactly. I'm a monotheist."

[roc_on]

"There... are some people who principally worship the sun...? Like that?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sort of. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' is the First Commandment."

[roc_on]

"...This is not the kind of religion with which I am familiar."

[iamnotpolaris]

shrug. "Different universes."

[roc_on]

"Yeah, I'm getting that. So instead of spirits you have one god. Is it nice? Spirits are mostly kind of orthogonal to human morality but some of them are pretty nice."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It's pretty nice! They seem to have roughly human-compatible morality, the rest of the Commandments are things like don't steal, don't kill, respect your parents, stuff like that."

[roc_on]

"Okay. But if there's only one why does it even need to... you know, bother... telling people not to 'have' any others?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"There was this incident where a bunch of people got pissed off that they weren't being rescued from slavery conveniently enough and decided to pretend a statue of a golden calf was God instead, it was weird."

[roc_on]

"...If rescuing people from slavery is even in this god's repertoire why wasn't it doing so conveniently? And how could a golden calf possibly help?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"He rescued them from slavery by doing impressive things at the people who were enslaving them, and then led them across a desert to somewhere they didn't have a history of being enslaved. The people were upset about having to cross a desert. I don't know how a golden calf was supposed to help, aside from being a demonstration that they were upset."

[roc_on]

"Okay, but why did the golden calf annoy the god, is it allergic to people doing unhelpful things in protest...?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"I think it was an ego thing?"

[roc_on]

"You have a god with an ego thing. That sounds, uh, dangerous."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I...think he got over it? It hasn't caused a problem in several millenia, anyway."

[roc_on]

"Okay. Is he a god of anything or does he have to be kind of all purpose?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"He's pretty all purpose. Some people will refer to him as a god of Mercy or Love when extolling his benevolence."

[roc_on]

"Benevolent all-purpose god who has gotten over his ego thing, I can see why that would appeal."

[iamnotpolaris]

"There's actually three different major religions that prefer to worship him in different ways, I'm a member of the oldest."

[roc_on]

"That I'm more familiar with, there's all different systems of being into this or that spirit."

[iamnotpolaris]

"That makes sense. Different people have different opinions and spiritual needs and whatnot."