[Seven-Minute Semblance] GODSFORRENT & FIMBULWINTER

Chapter 13 - Rerum Cognoscere Causas

Joyeuse.

17. August.
Tuesday, 7:00 pm.
372A High Street.

IT IS A LAW OF NATURE that men perform their covenants made (Hobbes, 1651).

CONTRACT: what men call the mutual transferring of right. All involved and bound contractors are obliged to perform their part, in perfect trust, lest the contract be put in vain and but empty words.

And by human nature, empty words consequent to violation of faith, which consequent—if not equate—to injustice.

— rephrased from Leviathan

If contracts are made in the essence of mutualism, then, in perfect trust, one must give in order to gain.

CAUSALITY: efficacy or causation; where responsibility lies in the roots of contributing to an existence made. One may or may not be aware of the contribution. Therefore, id est, as in Incompatibilism, there is no such thing as free will.

NICHOLAS JAMES: a banjaxed nutter. Has made my life miserable since grade school. His knowledge of Edward Dace and the initiative leads to a theory that he is connected to the initiative. What are his connections to the stakeholders of the initiative?

Why is he contacting Lance? Does Lance know him?

Premises:

1. Lance has contacts with Nicholas James.
2. Nicholas James knows the initiative.
3. Lance wanted us to sign the contract.
4. Nicholas James wanted us to sign the contract.

Inference:

Lance could be working with Nicholas James, for us to sign the contract. If we sign the contract, then we are obliged to perform our part and do what the stakeholders want us to do. With causation in mind, the stakeholders could be fooling us, with the façade of free will, into doing what they desire.

THE STAKEHOLDERS: who are they and what do they want?

"Joyeuse?"

THE INITIATIVE: could it be a trap? Are we walking into a trap?

"Drama queen, oi!"

SNAP!

REALITY.

Edward Dace's dormitory, 372A High Street. We were eating a low-cost, student-budget Filipino dish at a picnic blanket on the floor. Edward Dace, Laevateinn, and "Futhark" stared.

"Nasa mga tala ka na naman ba, drama queen?" Edward Dace mocked.

"Natulala ka na sa kape mo," Futhark said, in his tone an ample supply of worry. "Ano na 'yung sinasabi mo?"