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"I totally did, yeah."

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"And you are the...strongest, of this bunch?"

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"A human vessel for the echoes of the original Seed. Considered first by the humans, yet the last of the angels."

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"Your levitation, or anything else you might be doing, is not magical. Not 'arcane energy', that is. There are other types of mystical energies, which i studied! But don't have a good way to actually measure."

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"So you died, and, uh...what now? What will you do?"
Most incarnations of Raz, including this one, have what D&D rules would consider to be "Charisma 7", or 8.
He wants to fully know the worldview and moral/metaethical considerations of this guy, as he does for all people he speaks with. But he doesn't have a good way to just ask that. Even if Raz himself is never embarrassed about seeming to say something wrong, and this gu-the Angel Vessel seems to not care about human norms of politeness or conversation flow. But questions should still be coherent and relevant!

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"I have no goals, no purpose. To be divine is to be passive, for all action and desire is caused by imperfection.
I made my one decision. Chose freedom from plans, and goals. And life itself.
It...didn't work? Is it freedom from death itself, dying and not being beholden to it, or is the inability to die itself a lack of freedom?"

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"You know, I think you were spot on about fate causing things without our own intentions. Because that is exactly my situation, too! Regarding death, I mean.
Did you die only once, or several times?"

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"Adam died, creating me, which might count. Only once after that, as I know."

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"I am, sort of, dying constantly. And yeah, death is weird without the finality.
For me it is a lack of freedom, to some extent. Being forced to live. I do like some things about living, just not everything. It's, you know, work. But it's good too. I don't think I could exist forever if I actually really enjoyed it. That was part of a...compromise, sort of? That I am given an oppurtunity to do my job, which I don't enjoy, but will never abandon.
But...not abandoning it is not a lack of freedom? It's a choice I would mostly make anyway. And life is sometimes less hard, less work. Certainly if I always had divine powers! There isn't that much difference between not being able to die, and always choosing not to? A real choice is not random, it's resulting from your goals and values. Well, unless you get into the differences between Choice and Decision. And whether you consider the Mind-Heart dichotomy to be a useful model of reality.
I think what I am saying is that whether things are freedom or not is not important to me, just whether they are good or bad.
If it is very important to you...I still think freedom is contextual. You are unfree if you are unable to do something you want or need, but not otherwise. Unless you value freedom so terminally that at every point, you need to be able to make every single decision with every result. Which I am not sure is possible. Even if you are some sort of hyper-god, that just has logical contradictions.
But the freedom of doing what you want is almost always attainable, if not very easy."

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"That makes sense..."

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"Do you have any physical needs? Can you imagine any kind of bad thing happening to you, because of external circumstances?"

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"No. I am an angel, protected by the light of my soul."

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"You don't have internal motivations beyond thinking, and currently the only external one is answering my questions, right? Though you do that in more detail than I would expect otherwise.
But you could just sit here, for hundreds of years, doing nothing, if you don't decide that you should?"

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"Yes."

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"Are there any things you enjoy, would prefer to be true, find being better if they existed, or were present, despite not being motivated to try and get them?"

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"Music is good. The beautiful harmony."

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"Music is great! I am not myself any good at singing or playing, unfortunately."

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"And, most importantly, do you think that, despite not having any goals, or wanting anything, do you prefer to have some goal, to believe something is worth doing, if you manage in your deep meditations on the nature of reality, to prove yourself you should? Would you...be happy if you found a reason to?"

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"I think I would."

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"That is great!
I think i can help you. In addition to having some very similar experiences – I am genuinely surprised that my guesses about your internal state were so accurate – I also worked on philosophical principles behind logically convincing an individual capable of complex thought, but without any value-belief, to adopt a maximally-coherent altruistic utility function. And they told me it was a waste of time. Ha!"

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"Except you were altruistically motivated before, right? It's not that you never had goals, you just stopped having them after fulfilling them? Or anti-fulfilling them."

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"I loved Shinji. I didn't want to kill him. And I saw that the life he was defending was better than the great design of the prophets. Which probably was itself a lie."

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