Journal Entry 6
Jan. 29th, 2026 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
voxelI belong to a feathered people. We have cloacae and little reproductive difference. Whosoever wishes to lay eggs might do so. Whosoever wishes to produce sperm might do so. That means we don't have any concept quite like human sex/gender. We certainly have individuals whose personal sense of style aligns more with my human cultural ideas of masculinity or of femininity or of androgyny. Don't mistake them for men or women though.
It's funny—I'm Grian, but that has less to do with my life in EVO and Hermitcraft and more to do with what "Grian-ness" represents to Us: avian humanity, casual and flexible masculinity, Minecraft prowess, storytelling, bringing people together, a penchant for harmless trolling, the scary side of therianthropy and plurality, a connection to the divine.
We perceive gods. An athiest does not. Neither& of us are wrong. Gods exist in our perception and in a space outside of perception or lackthereof. The truth value of a god's existence is not comparable to that of anything tangible. A god is a social construct that retroactively creates its own history. Gods, existing in a realm outside our own, are more real than anything tangible. They predate us and will outlast us. Men create gods. Gods create men. All is chicken. All is egg.
Explanatory note: there is a later entry that explains this paragraph's contradictions.
It's funny—I'm Grian, but that has less to do with my life in EVO and Hermitcraft and more to do with what "Grian-ness" represents to Us: avian humanity, casual and flexible masculinity, Minecraft prowess, storytelling, bringing people together, a penchant for harmless trolling, the scary side of therianthropy and plurality, a connection to the divine.
We perceive gods. An athiest does not. Neither& of us are wrong. Gods exist in our perception and in a space outside of perception or lackthereof. The truth value of a god's existence is not comparable to that of anything tangible. A god is a social construct that retroactively creates its own history. Gods, existing in a realm outside our own, are more real than anything tangible. They predate us and will outlast us. Men create gods. Gods create men. All is chicken. All is egg.
Explanatory note: there is a later entry that explains this paragraph's contradictions.
