Oh yes! Augustine tends to view angelic knowledge as innate--they just have (they are it, to an extent; they're beings of intellect), but what do you do with experiential knowledge, the knowledge you gain by doing things? Augustine, IIRC, doesn't address that, even though angels can take human form. But I think it's that same sort of beautiful and terrible thing to think about, Castiel being in time for the first time in thousands of years, having a body and one perspective, and thinking of things the way humans do even as he still can think and perceive things angelically.
I imagine Dean corrupting Castiel to coffee and maybe alchool, and sharing some of his memories and then asking Castiel about his. I imagine Dean's confused face, his deep frowns as Castiel tries to explain with a very matter-of-fact voice (and not at all wasted - which makes Dean crazy!) all of this.
Ha ha, yes again! And I can imagine Castiel trying to explain that this is also what's at stake, what they're fighting for... And how these thoughts he's been having (disobedient thoughts) go against everything that he's known to be true about himself and the world.
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Oh yes! Augustine tends to view angelic knowledge as innate--they just have (they are it, to an extent; they're beings of intellect), but what do you do with experiential knowledge, the knowledge you gain by doing things? Augustine, IIRC, doesn't address that, even though angels can take human form. But I think it's that same sort of beautiful and terrible thing to think about, Castiel being in time for the first time in thousands of years, having a body and one perspective, and thinking of things the way humans do even as he still can think and perceive things angelically.
I imagine Dean corrupting Castiel to coffee and maybe alchool, and sharing some of his memories and then asking Castiel about his. I imagine Dean's confused face, his deep frowns as Castiel tries to explain with a very matter-of-fact voice (and not at all wasted - which makes Dean crazy!) all of this.
Ha ha, yes again! And I can imagine Castiel trying to explain that this is also what's at stake, what they're fighting for... And how these thoughts he's been having (disobedient thoughts) go against everything that he's known to be true about himself and the world.