![]() So on one level, it doesn’t seem to fit at all… and on another level, it fits too well. His relationship with Feferi is potentially one of them.) (There are many events surrounding Sollux which are narrative gut-punches only after the fact. ![]() Canon didn’t make helmsmen a thing until after the primary Hivebent sequence. We have no direct evidence of that in canon. Ahem.īut wait! There’s something else in there too, something about why I keep going back to the question of what does he know and how is he dealing with it.įanon has pretty much wholeheartedly embraced the idea that this was a thing which was going to happen to Sollux, if his adolescence on Alternia was uninterrupted (which we don’t have nearly enough canon support for, but it’s a reasonable inference from the way the Alternian empire handles things) and mostly embraced the idea that he knew that to be the case. (Even the sickfic I just finished: I couldn’t figure out how to resolve the medical mystery aspect of the plot until I decided to follow up on what I’d previously thought was a throwaway line.)Īpparently I have obsessions written all over me like metatextual tattoos… Hello, Internet, let me tell you about my helmsman stuff problem. Realization: everything I have written so far with Sollux Captor in it that is actually long enough to be a story deals in some way with his expectations of being made a helmsman. I think people on the pro-spirituality side of the fence sometimes get weirded out by this (and result to false empiricism or etc etc) because they don’t want to take responsibility for the subjectivity of their beliefs, and people on the anti-spirituality side sometimes have this kind of funky denial about the role of ritual and subjectivity in their own lives.įor the record, I’ve never met anyone for whom ritual or subjectivity did *not* play a role in their life. (That misidentification is related, but not identical to, the same bad heuristic people use to pretend mental illness doesn’t exist.) :Pīut there’s also a long and involved riff on the fact that empirical knowledge of, say, the way meaning-generating areas of the brain work does not make the meaning generated there less “real”. i’d just rather folks not be douchey about it. Thinking i’m insane for believing anything that can’t be tested is, of course, a valid opinion. it’s like applying literary analysis to economics. they coexist just fine when you don’t try to apply them to each other. People who use religion as if it’s science are not thinking it through, but neither are people who reject religion because it’s not science. Spirituality is subjective and experiential, and is therefore an entirely different category from testable scientific claims. I think in a nutshell it’s something like: But I have the feeling it would turn into a massive manifesto. I keep wanting to make this post about how empiricism and spirituality are not these opposed principles and that if you do them right they can coexist very neatly indeed.
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