16/10/1987. Day Six Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy Four.
Dir, dir, is the sound of greasy sirens marking the end of the school day.
The math teacher got caught trying to rush through a problem, when the class class erupted as soon as the bell rang.
"You are all free to go home", he says so as to not make a fool of himself.
"Yes!", exclaim the many, "That's what we were going to do anyway", remarked a few, while they quickly piled and scattered out of class.
Teenage Gregor and friend, Chase, walked out of class all laughing through a recited joke.
"The best part of math class is walking out", Chase had remarked.
"We don't just walk out, we subtract ourselves from boredom", Gregor added, "so, ideally, he should be proud. We are applying math in real life", both chuckled.
"We left him with an equation", said Chase.
"Uh, huh", said Gregor, "if Class X is boring calculate how fast learner Y will run away"
"Hey! Chase. We may have just discovered a new equation"
"Which is?"
"The greater the boredom, the faster the acceleration"
"Gregor", Chase said seriously, while holding his shoulder, "I'm starting to think we might be the reincarnations of Isaac Newton"
"Genius is within us"
"Hahaha!"
"Hahaha!", they laughed their lungs out, as if this was their first rodeo.
As the laughing continued, they walked past a girl subtly looking at them. Gregor was too distracted by the joke to have noticed, but Chase had.
"Hey, Greg", he said, cutting his laughter short.
"I just caught Vary's looking our way"
"Yeah?", said Gregor.
"Yeah, to be more specific, she was looking at you. In fact she's been looking your way for most of the day…I'm starting to think she has a crush on you"
"Eew", Gregor had replied without looking back at her, "I can't be that ugly"
02/06/1986. Day Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Three.
"God created everyone in His own Image", Gregor had said.
09/10/1987. Day Six Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Seven.
Gregor was too busy doodling on a school bench when Chase walked up to him.
"Greg", said Chase, "there's someone wanting to speak to you", Gregor looked up with a curious glance, as Chase stepped aside, revealing their classmate Vary's.
"Hi Gregor", she greeted.
"Hey", he said and placed his doodles aside, "what's up?"
"I still haven't being placed in a group for Chem, so…I was wondering if you guys had room for one more"
"We do", he replied, "there's three of us so far, with you that will be four"
"Oh, I didn't realise you guys were so few", Vary's had said.
"Yeah I guess we are a bunch of deadbeats", Chase remarked.
"In which case", said Vary's, "my friend Wendy, also needs a…"
"Wait", teenage Gregor interrupted, "you know what, we can't decide immediately"
"Not all members of the group are here, so it wouldn't be right to make decisions on his behalf"
"Oh", she let out, sounding confused.
"Yeah…sorry, even for you we will have to decide later and we will let you know"
"Oh…okay", Vary's said with her head down, "please let us know as soon as possible, the deadline is near and we can't pass without a group"
"Don't worry", Gregor reassured, "we will let you know", enough for her to walk away, once out of sight, he leaned back again.
"Awf that was close", he sighed.
"We don't need Umber's input on who get to join the group", Chase pointed out, "but the teacher said we do need five members"
"Yes, but Chase"
"Think about it, we're already struggling with this topic, Chemistry has never being either of our cup of tea"
"Vary's isn't so bad at it, she holds her own. We need her, but Wendy?"
"Man", he said shaking his head in doubt, "her only contribution will be keeping the room quiet"
"Something the both of us can already do"
"Yeah…I guess you're right", Chase agreed.
"We can't help others when we don't even know how to help ourselves", Gregor said.
"If only Fellipe was still around, dude was crazy smart"
02/06/1986. Day Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Three.
"God created everyone in His own Image", Gregor had said.
Cretone, Eye of Deeds, was finally brought to a stop.
After reliving moments of his life he had long forgotten about, the Homeless mortal was left wondering…why was his alleged lawyer, Ansi, the one playing such clips before the court?
How was that show going to help his defence? None of it had sat right with him, and Ansi's current demeanour does too little to appease him.
"Members of the court", Ansi said, with its back turned to handler as it stared down Homeless Gregor.
"What can we conclude from everything we've just seen?", it asked.
"In one clip, we see my client brushing someone aside based off their looks"
"In another clip we see him brushing someone else away for their academic performance"
"And in a clip, that I played twice, we have the accused acknowledging God as the creator of all beings", Ansi said, finally turning away from the ever so nervous mortal, until it could face Panteku against the wall.
"By Panteku's logic", Ansi began, "since my client had acknowledged God as the creator of all beings, for him to brush someone aside based on perceived physical attraction or mental capabilities is to insult God Himself"
"To call a creation of His stupid, is to call its creator stupid too"
"And those were a mere two incidents, if we go through his entire life how many more such cases shall we find?"
"If one acknowledges a creator, an insult to a creation is an insult to the creator"
"Than why not charge my client of blasphemy too, Panteku?", the advocate said.
"All of this would have been okay, if Panteku's argument made any sense"
"All of this would have been okay, if the provided analogies didn't have so many leaps in logic", Ansi claimed while holding Carrot.
"Earlier, I asked why Carrot was left out of your bedtime children story, when you went through the hassle of bringing her here?"
"The answer is simple, she did not fit the motive of your argument"
"For one Carrot, like the mountain wolf, is an animal"
"But a characteristic of hers is she can be easily domesticated, unlike other animals, or the mountain wolf to be specific"
"Also the fact that you have to state the conditions of the actors of your scenario, like one not just being a wolf, but a mountain wolf at that, gives the implication that the actors of your scenarios are grounded to the habits of their environments, and thus will act according to the upbringings of their environment"
"No? Or am I lying"
"And for that I thank you", Ansi said returning a grin.
Shifting focus from Panteku to the unseen audience, with Carrot still in hand, "to counter Panteku, I shall remain within the bounds of the analogy"
"And debate simply with the implications of the argument"
"With a little thinking method I call, The Butcher of Reason"
"Which is the best way to tear apart any analogical argument no matter how sound it appears", the lawyer claimed.
"As stated, the scenarios provided by Panteku makes use of actors with certain characteristics"
"By setting characteristics in an analogy, the given characteristics will play a vital role in how the argument is concluded"
"That is our first dissection"
"Second dissection"
"If we are unable to sue a mountain wolf because it is her nature to bite you even in the comfort of your own home"
"Implies that any animal that acts within the jurisdictions of their natural habits will be exempted from any form of punishment", Ansi deduced.
"Second actor. Mortal"
"Because he is accustomed to the environment. He should know that it is never okay to slap another person in the comfort of their own home"
"Thus, by implication where there is reason there is choice of intent"
"And choice of intent is what makes an act punishable"
"That is our third and final dissection from Panteku's provided analogy"
"Those three dissections, are our three pieces of meat that we've butchered, and shall reason solely by implication as a counter argument"
"But a body needs a head"
"A head is the umbrella under which all deductions of an argument were taken from"
"The analogy takes place in the world of the accused, that is, the human world"
"And within that world. There is such a thing as breeds"
"Wolf breeds, dog breeds, fish breeds, the list goes on"
"Is there an existing breed, by which the process of domesticating an animal becomes easier?"
"And are there other dog breeds that are much harder to domesticate than Carrot over here?", Ansi asked the court.
"Remember our second and third dissections"
"Because domestication of an animal is dependent on the type of breed you're dealing with, some animals will more easily follow rules than others"
"In Panteku's own words; 'Reason. Reason is the reason why things play out the way they do"
"Which begs the question, by failing to not attack a man in his own home, is a mountain wolf completely and utterly devoid of reason?", Ansi asked.
"Panteku. Care to answer", the handler had prompted.
"I decline, your honour", the Prosecutor said, "let Ansi keep running"
They momentarily stared at each other for a moment, with Ansi breaking it off to continue.
"A wolf is able to hunt food and knows how to protect it too. It does enough to survive the harsh conditions of its environment"
"Not to mention, your second actor, mortals, learnt to copy and harness their own hunting skills from predator animals such as mountain wolves"
"Thus, what was a being of reason learning from a mere mountain wolf?"
"Foolishness?"
"No, we can establish that mountain wolves are not completely devoid of reason"
"So if a mountain wolf does have reason"
"Why was it exempt from any form of accountability in the provided analogy"
"Is it maybe because reason can be conditioned?"
"Reason can be limited to a point where actions can be excused?"
"That is it!", it exclaimed and placed Carrot down.
"Members of this court"
"Every argument regardless of its simplicity or complexity has a set of implications"
"And if you can correctly decipher the implications of an argument, you can turn it against its original point and purpose of attack, completely shattering what it may have concluded"
"Hence why I call thinking by implications the butcher of reason"
"Panteku claims Gregor must be charged for hypocrisy, because his words and actions never aligned"
"Given the fact that he was presented with the abilities of God, Him being omnipotent and omniscient, the Homeless man should have known that inconsistent actions would make him a hypocrite before such a being"
"But the prosecutor left room for doubt of this charge by implying that animals can only act in a fixated manner. By so implying, we must beg the question, if it is true for a mountain wolf, how is it not true for a mortal?"
"When after all a mortal is a type of animal"
"He may have more reason than a wolf, sure"
"But that does not imply that he has enough reason to not act in any other manner but dissociation"
"As I have shown in the clips"
"Was he not acting out of natural habit as the mountain wolf would have"
"Or did he really mean to insult God in those clips?"
"See. Where I'm going with this"
"Dissociation is a character trait, not just of Homeless Gregor but any other mortal that will kneel in this court"
"An analogy is also very good at distracting an audience from the topic at hand"
"A demonstration of better etiquette and mannerism between mortal and wolf does not make up the difference of understanding between mortal and God"
"So no"
"In my eyes the argument achieved nothing only raised a necessary question about free-will, that I shall leave for later"
"It has not demonstrated why Homeless Gregor should be found guilty on said charge"
"And since we have carefully analysed the analogy let's run back to the third piece of meat"
"How much reason or rationality rather, does a mortal need to not slap you in the comfort of your own home?"
"Perhaps not much", it answered itself.
"But then we must ask ourselves, how much reason does one need to make the connection between prayer and an omniscient being like Panteku just did?"
"And than follow it up with this question"
"Are all humans capable of deducing the implication of hypocrisy as you have?"
"Since you compared wolf and man, and concluded that the wolf was lacking of enough reason to be punished for its deed"
"And let's rerun your conclusion through our first dissection; characteristics of a species"
"If dissonance is a characteristics of a mortal than he does not act out of an intent to be a hypocritical being but he is merely acting out of dissonance itself"
"Whereby he has not even made the connection between the things he has said and how he behaves"
"Seen in this way, my client, Homeless Gregor, is too a mountain wolf to God, as a mountain wolf is a mountain wolf to him"
"At His table of divinity, will God not be laughed at and made fun of for suing, punishing, a mortal when it acted out of their own nature?"
"Huh? Panteku?"
"I conclude my defence with this"
"If you can page through Cretone and show us the day, the accused made the same deductions you have, only then will he be worthy of these charges"
"Because our third dissection, choice of intent, would be valid of him being deliberate and intent on being hypocritical before God"
"But if Cretone, nor Tretone for that matter"
"Can find it, than you do not have a cause to tribulate him"
"Realise that under the umbrella of your own analogy, you are the only being with sufficient reason to be held accountable of hypocrisy"
"Not my client"
"A spoon is non-living and thus has no reason to be judged", Ansi repeated, "a mountain wolf has conditioned reason so it cannot be judged"
"But breeds of animals exist, by breeds, behaviourism changes, and we go up in reason"
"But my personal question to you is", it said directly to Panteku, "how much reason does a mortal need to possess before cosmic judgement holds merit?"
"Your Honour", Ansi said, "Apart from my defence, I have but one question that will nurse the rest of this trial", it claimed.
"Feel free", the handler permitted.
"If all creatures are given the ability to speak freely, but no wisdom to nurture their tongues, in the light of cosmic punishment is speech a blessing or a curse?"