catch-all: minato.

[televised]

Comments

[compendiem]

Sentience... "A sentient quality or state." Or, "a feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought." ...Sentient is defined as "being responsive to or conscious of sense impressions." Awareness...

[ hmm, that's going in circles, so Minato flips over to sapience instead. ]

Sapience is defined as "wisdom and sagacity." Sagacity is "the quality of being sagacious." Sagacious means to have "keen and farsighted penetration and judgment," or "discernment."

So what this means is, I am sentient, but not sapient. [ Because Minato is aware, and he's aware that he's dumb. ]

[televised]

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minato.]

Yeah.

That sounds about right.

[compendiem]

[ He's correct and he's saying it. ]

In that case, the universe to me feels like the opposite. It's doing something, but... I don't know yet if it can be reasoned with.

[televised]

It's ruining our lives, that's what.

[he's so brave.]

It would be too optimistic to hope that something like that can be reasoned with.

[compendiem]

Lots of people ruin other people's lives, but they can still be reasoned with. ...Sometimes. With enough effort.

[ and threat of violence ]

[televised]

[she snorts.]

With words? I don't think so. There's only one language that's universal among people like that.

[it's threats of violence.]

[compendiem]

...Threats of violence.

[televised]

[Smiles.]

That would be the one.

[compendiem]

[ At least it's threats and not just... violence. Can't argue back if you're dead, etc. ]

I guess that is the most straightforward way of doing things.

[televised]

There's no other way to get through to some people.

[Well. Sometimes you gotta get stabby, too, but it's fine.]