KR: Friend Riggs, You have been the Clerk of this meeting for how long now?
Riggs: Oh, probably 4 years now. I'll be termed out in a couple years, but like a lot of Meetings, it was sort of my turn, if you follow.
KR: Are you a Birthright member?
Riggs: Sure. I don't think there are many who would call themselves convinced anymore. I suppose if some young people leave it behind then come back, you know, they would be called "Convinced," but, no, I've been a member all my life.
KR: Given your proclivity for math, how do you square the logical world of that discipline with the sometimes chaotic or incoherent aspects of the mystical part of the Brethren Faith?
Riggs: I would say, there is no contradiction. There are a lot of things that Math and science can't really explain. We could say that the Inner Light is the product of our social upbringing, and all the lessons we were and are daily taught, and if you think of it like this, you're merely remembering what you are supposed to do in a situation, much like remembering how to solve a math problem. It doesn't make sense and then it does. Just like that. I don't find any difference really, in remembering how to solve some logical problem and remembering how to solve a moral one. At the end of the day it is the same.
KR: Has the Faith changed in your lifetime?
Riggs: Oh, perhaps, in some ways some people got lazy. They observe the word but not the spirit. It is hard to live a simple life, for instance, when you are surrounded by such abundance as we see in Kalistan. I think the separation of the state and the Faith before I was born kind of made adherence lax, and it also made us lazy in paying attention to what our government was doing. I hope the restoration of the Socialists will reinvigorate the civic spirit of the Brethren. Though, I would like to make it clear, not all of us are socialists anymore. I myself, for example, voted for the Dems, though I could have voted for the SP. They need to show what they are going to do before some of us change our affiliation.
KR: Thank you for your time.
Riggs: Absolutely.
Dianne Carrangus wrote:"Well, I imagine so, at least for a short period of time. The acts that we are reauthorizing in the next year were developed over centuries, not months, and the economy evolved with them. Just like they were neglected out of disuse: over a couple centuries. Reauthorizing them all, renationalizing that which private capitalists have been leeching off of for decades, that will certainly hurt. But the pain is necessary to restore Kalistan to its proper place in the world, one which doesn't just have to look on as their neighbors run capital ships through our national waters, one which can trade our national products all around the world, one where Kalistan doesn't take a backseat to any other country in the world. We are back, Kalistan is coming back too, and we would advise those who have been sucking our country dry to take notice. We are not a non-entity any longer."
Dianne Carrangus wrote:"We will be sending a letter of protest to the Government of Lourenne in the near term, over the purchase of these six corvettes that aim to float just off our coasts. Perhaps Lourenne is interested in sitting down and talking with us, one socialist Government to another, who share many similarities. But perhaps they mean to become the Guarantor of the Anantanese Ocean, and this is a role which Kalistan has historically reserved for ourselves." We have no idea. But we don't want to wake up one day, and find that Lourenne has placed Ananto on the business end of their Corvettes. So along with these fundamental economic reforms, we will also be looking at military reform. And budget reform, if necessary... There is so much to do to get this country running in top form once more..."
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