Reverie Friends "Star-Gazing Mountain" Episode 101 | Star-Gazing Mountain
Owl
"This is Star-Gazing Mountain."
Monkey
"Huh?"
"This is Star-Gazing Mountain?"
Ant
"I can't see much because of the fog, but..."
there's no mountain
anywhere here..."
Spider
"From far away,
I could definitely
see a mountain..."
Panda
"The mountain disappeared!?"
Little Bird
"Is such a thing,
even possible?"
---
Cat
"What's wrong?"
"You have such a puzzled look on your face."
Spider
"Is this Star-Gazing Mountain?"
Cat
"Yes, it is."
"Oh?"
"That is..."
"A Soul Stone!"
Ant
"I was thinking of giving it to the Sage as a gift."
---
Cat
"A quantum story, huh?"
"Sounds interesting."
"I think the 'Sage'
would be happy to receive it."
Spider
"You can read it!?"
Cat
"Hmm...?"
"More importantly,
you came here to meet the Sage, right?"
I'll show you the way.
Monkey
Thanks!
---
Ant
There's no mountain here, so
why is it called "Star-Gazing Mountain"?
Cat
Hmm.
What is a mountain?
Monkey
A mountain is a mountain, isn't it?
Spider
Well, it actually
has various meanings, and
it's sometimes used as an
abstract expression, too.
Panda
For example?
Spider
We might call the climax of a story a mountain, or
say we've gotten over a mountain of work.
---
Cat
Besides, I don't think it's right
to decide something doesn't exist
just because you can't see it.
Monkey
Things you can't see don't exist, right?
Cat
What does it mean to see?
Can you see the air?
Even transparent water or glass
might not be considered visible
depending on the definition, but
they both exist as
physical matter.
---
Panda
That's true.
To see is...
What is existence, I wonder?
Cat
Since you accept the existence of the wind
without being able to see it, you can't say
that being visible is a guarantee
of existence.
That's a
double standard, isn't it?
Spider
Logically speaking, I suppose that's true...
---
Cat
Even so, if you heard a voice
behind you, could you still insist
that "no one is there because I can't see them"?
SpiderThat feels
a bit like an extreme argument...
CatYes,
I suppose it is an extreme argument.
"But, extreme arguments are
just general theories taken to their limit."
"There are many cases where a clear boundary
cannot be drawn,
so they aren't meaningless."
Kotori
"I certainly understand how you feel, Saru,
but saying 'it doesn't exist because I can't see it'
"could end up denying
other senses as well."
Saru
"I don't really
mean it like that, though."
—
Cat
"Anyway, it might be wise to stop
that naive realist way of thinking here."
Saru
"What's that?"
"Grandmother...? Nine o'clock...? Painful...?"
Spider
"Naive realism."
"Simply put,
it's the idea that you only believe
what you see."
Saru
"Why is that?"
"Isn't that fine?"
—
Cat
"In everyday life, of course
that's fine."
"But here,
you'll get lost."
Panda
"Lost...?"
Cat
"Though when I say lost,
you just move to another world."
"To the world where 'your truth'
spends its time."
"To a world ruled by
a frozen truth called common sense."
Spider"Do you understand what that means?"
Ant"Who knows."
—
Owl
"Common sense"
"robs truth of its 'life'"
"and only reflects one side."
"While it is convenient,"
"one must be careful not to be bound by it."
