With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

[Signaller]

So is the memory recovery automatic, if/when there's a resolution?

What happens to one of the Greek gods if they get killed in avatar form - do they go to Hades or do they just dissolve? Who is keeping track of Persephone?

Am I suppose to forget permanently?"

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[Wivk]

For example: Catholics don't recognize Mormons as Christians

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If the Catholics were in any position to judge there wouldn't have ever been Protestants. Their practice of praying to dead mortals that cannot hear or help is every bit as blasphemous as any of the wacky shit Mormons get up to.

 

[Clell65619]

For example: Catholics don't recognize Mormons as Christians

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For that matter, more than a few Baptist sects (including the one my mother was neck-deep in) don't recognize Catholics as Christians.

 

[Darko]

"Ah. You understand that if you aren't able to make amends, you will be punished once you arrive here." His eyes drift to me for a moment, before returning to her. "Though if your marriage to Pavlos lasts any time, I will take that into account on the credit side of the balance

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Ha!

It's really not, its mostly just flavors of buddhism.

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I don't think Jade would mesh that well with Buddhism.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Interesting that Hades didn't drag similar answers out of someone else already. Presumably most of his underlings would give the same "You ordered me to not tell you who ordered me to keep quiet about your memory loss" answers as Paul. Did he discover it and just assume (correctly as it happens but nonetheless) that Paul had something to do with it?

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At this point the entire Hellenic pantheon would assume that shenanigans are the SI's fault. Hades wouldn't hassle an underling when he can hassle the person actually responsible. If he hadn't been responsible, Hades would have asked him to investigate.

So is the memory recovery automatic, if/when there's a resolution?

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No, they have to dose him with something else.

What happens to one of the Greek gods if they get killed in avatar form - do they go to Hades or do they just dissolve?

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Depends on how killed they get-. Wait, do you mean Erebos? If you mean Erebos, then no.

Who is keeping track of Persephone?

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Her mother and handmaidens.

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Thank you, corrected.

 

[Darko]

What happens to one of the Greek gods if they get killed in avatar form - do they go to Hades or do they just dissolve

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I think the SI once mentioned that if a god is killed in avatar form then their greater self will still be intact, but there are ways that the greater self can be killed if the avatar is killed.

 

[Jankl]

I think the SI once mentioned that if a god is killed in avatar form then their greater self will still be intact, but there are ways that the greater self can be killed if the avatar is killed.

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So if say Eris is killed in Earth by let's say a very big bomb. Her greater self would be okay? What even is their greater self? I thought Greek gods could go to Earth but that they would be weaker there depending on how much worship they get.

 

[Darko]

So if say Eris is killed in Earth by let's say a very big bomb. Her greater self would be okay? What even is their greater self? I thought Greek gods could go to Earth but that they would be weaker there depending on how much worship they get.

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According to the metaphysics that Zoat established, gods that emerge from the Dreaming need prayer to survive, but the Olympians, and some other pantheons, can utilize Titans as a power source.

The Titans are apparently so connected to human psychology and mentalities, that even if they're not worshipped, they still have power, so the Olympians use that to sustain themselves.

Their lack of worshippers has at best only mildly weakened them, but the area in which it has impacted them is in the fact that it's more difficult to actually use their power in the material universe.

Things that were once easy will now require actual effort, but they can still be accomplished.

Think of it like a person only being able to do something by putting their hand through an almost closed door without being able to fully open the door.

The person is physically strong, but they can't open the door.

Gods in this setting can create avatars in order to interact with being in the material universe, but these avatars will be weaker than the greater whole, and the likes of a powerful archmage or metahuman could rival or surpass them in that area.

They can manifest their full power in the material universe, but that would require rituals.

 

[Neruz]

What you're not mentioning here is that most of the folk religions are just alternate flavors of buddhism.

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No, no they are not. They often bring together Buddhist elements, but the worship of the local land gods or "thần" and the shamanism of Đạo Mẫu is very much not just an alternate flavor of Buddhism.

You are probably thinking of Cao Đài, which combines worship of the thần with Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, as well as elements of Catholicism, Spiritism and Theosophy. But calling such a widely syncretic religion "an alternate flavor of Buddhism" is absurd, and is like trying to say that a cake is really just an alternate flavor of flour.