2022-10-06 17:42:24 ¶ ●

the forbidden knowledge is that cherubs are, in fact, human. that every source of information we have on them has blind spots and these add up to “calliope gets her info from homestuck sources,” “aranea can’t exactly prove that cherubs come from an egg; the details to her story are Best Guesses while the *overall vague shape* of the story is the truth,” and “we humans don’t even know what we are. why would we? we haven’t ever gotten an outside perspective. we just have the narrow refined culminations of our specialized traditions.”

I will write an essay fleshing out my points. “essay” feels misleading. I will write a proof, as a thesis. but this is forbidden knowledge I have complete confidence in.