IC CONTINUATIONS STUFF

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[since my other two continuation posts are like 1000 comments each let's make a new one]

Comments

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

That's important, too ...

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

But it's boring . . .

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

They're not that bad.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Hey, you said you tutored guys worse than me, right?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

For the exams, yes.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. You know, if you think you can make history and math interesting, be my guest!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

--Really?

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying I wanna take classes or do homework or any of that! And no treating me like an idiot! And no projects! Or textbooks! Or notes! Or other people being there! . . . But I wouldn't mind listening to you talk. I guess.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

... You have to actually be interested, Devit. I'm not going to make you listen if you don't really want to learn.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

. . . I brought it up, didn't I? But that doesn't mean I want to go to school.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

And it isn't as if there's much in the way of a proper school, here. But if you're really interested--I can see what I can do.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

We'll see if you can make it interesting! If you say they're not boring, prove it!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

It's as much your own interest, though. If there's nothing in the subject that grabs you, there won't be much I can do.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

I don't know a lot about it, how do I know--maybe you can make it interesting after all! History, though . . . the stuff in books, that's just what humans wanted to put in there . . . I don't get what the point is. How do you know you're reading anything true? What if you're spending all your time learning about lies?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

In theory, the more you learn, the more you question--and maybe you'll be inspired to push yourself, and see if what you've been taught is the truth. A good teacher wouldn't lie to his students.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

C'mon . . . it's not that easy. It sounds good, but that's not how stuff works. Maybe someone's got a good teacher, but what if the teacher's teacher was bad? Or that teacher's teacher? Or that teacher's teacher! That's how stuff ends up like it is now in my world! It only takes one shitty person and all those people after them end up believing in lies. And it's not like there is just one shitty person. It's most of 'em. . . . I thought of it earlier, when we were talking about it . . . I wonder why the Earl sends Rhode to school?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

Nothing worthwhile is easy, I think. And schooling doesn't happen in a bubble, after all--you have your other teachers, your peers, books--nothing says that you can only learn from one source. You could say life itself is a learning process.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

But it's been too long! It's all polluted by now! It's like . . .

[takes out his little notebook and pencil and begins to draw something]

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[leans to watch]

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[drawing it] It's like a sick tree with branches . . . it doesn't matter how many branches the tree has! Maybe some of the branches got sick ten years ago, and others got sick 6000 years ago, they're still all sick. If the branch you're on got sick thousands of years in the past, it doesn't matter how good you are, you're still sick, and you don't even know it any more because it was so long ago! That's what history really looks like. Maybe there used to be truth, but it's been too long for there to be any left. 'Cuz what are the chances that in 7000 years, no one on your branch ever lied about something that happened?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying no one lied ever, or that things have changed over time--but truth might also change, depending. But even if there were things glossed over or unwritten or forgotten--I still think there's something worth learning from history. No one is completely without fault, and history will remember those as well. That's what people can learn from it.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

What's that mean, truth might change? It's the truth!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

It changes depending on who tells it. Both people might be telling the truth--but to a third party, they'll sound like completely different versions of the same event.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

That's just two parts of the truth! It's not the truth that changed, just who was looking at it! That's exactly what it's like, being a Noah . . .

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

It's still a truth that's changed.