Meanwhile, as the people in the van had to settle their group dynamics….
Raphael passed by a classroom having a lecture in Ethics. In the projected screen were these words:
[Only finite beings can choose. Therefore, only finite beings can be free. What reason does immortal and infinite beings have to be free? What reason does an immortal have to make choices?]
[Choice is made in order to reach an end, to preserve yourself as long as possible before your inevitable death. That is the meaning of existence. From the Latin word 'exsistere', meaning 'to stand out', to 'rise above it all, despite circumstances'. Therefore, immortal beings do not exist, they simply are.]
He stopped in his tracks when he read those words.
"Immortal beings do not exist, they simply are…" He repeated to himself.
Then what of God?
He remembered the words of the Revenant to him. The words he repeated over and over, until Raphael believed it to be true.
