Ye Shall Be As Gods? - Class 2, Period 3

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"Last week," Juli began, once all the students had come in and settled down, "we discussed personal limits and ways to grow beyond them. Now, we move outwards onto bigger topics. Our topic for today is, perhaps, one of the most impressive natural limitations. Of all the boundaries that our various worlds share, one is constant and that one is – Death. Specifically, we will be taking a close look at resurrection."

"From the beginning of time people have been interested in cheating death, escaping that final equalizer that renders us all the same." Juli looked over her class. "What is it, do you think, that drives people to try and deny that limit? To snatch people back who’ve already gone. What arrogance is it that makes us think we’ve a right to say when anyone may live or die?"

"What arrogance could drive each of you to try and cheat death? Take back from death and have someone live again. What consequences to bringing someone back from the dead can you foresee? If no one can die what happens to society as a whole? It’s all very well to say ‘I want to bring back this person’ but then, someone else will wonder ‘well, why can’t I do the same?’ and, as for all things, it will grow from there until letting someone go becomes impossible."

"If no one dies, then nothing ever changes. Each individual death hurts someone – but, in the long run, a cessation of death would hurt everyone. There is no room for growth in a world without death. It is the other side of life, and no less vital. People know this," a faint smile that’s almost sad, "but this knowledge does not stop us from making the attempt time after time. What is it that makes us so determined to go ahead no matter what the cost?"

"All things, in time, will pass," she said quietly, "it is something that we must discover over and over again – and something that will never be fully learned. Please split into groups of two and discuss the consequences of resurrection, both on personal level and on a societal whole."

"I am, as always, available after class if you have need of me."

[Wait for the OCD is up! Have at it!]

Comments

During the Lecture

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

Listen, chat, pass notes, interrupt Juli and ask a question!

Re: During the Lecture

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge? Concentrating so very, very much on his notes. Possibly so that he can avoid glancing over at a certain class-and-teammate if he's there.

Re: During the Lecture

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky was there, of course. It had been something of a chore to show up, but show up he did, and sat in a back corner of the room, apart from Bridge and Z. He wasn't angry with them, naturally. They hadn't been the ones who had... He shook his head vigorously and contented himself with taking notes. He wasn't angry at them, but still, the last thing he wanted to do was be around people right now. However, as much as he hated it, his training and habits were so deeply ingrained that it was inconceivable to him to skip class, no matter how badly he felt.

Re: During the Lecture

[multiplez]

Z was also very much with the concentrating on her notes and avoiding looking at that one guy with the matching uniform if he's there.

Re: During the Lecture

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky would occasionally glance at Bridge and Z while taking notes, but for the most part kept to himself in the back corner of the room. He wasn't angry at them, and he hoped they knew that, he just wasn't in the mood to be around people right now. Not even the two who could understand how he felt.

Re: During the Lecture

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone wasn't concentrating on her notes. Instead, she was drawing in her notebook as she half-listened to the lecture.

Re: During the Lecture

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Jen was taking notes, but very quietly, her eyes straying repeatedly to her Chronomorpher.

Re: During the Lecture

[practicaldevice.livejournal.com]

Anathema was taking notes and wondering what she missed last week.

Re: During the Lecture

[sound-loyalty.livejournal.com]

Kabuto smirked slightly as he took down notes. Possibly with some of his own added comments in the margins.

Re: During the Lecture

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter took notes.

And if he were another version of himself, jotting down "Helping others cheat death by making a deal with the devil is a bad idea" would have been smart.