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In engaging in this manner, they are sharpening their skills and talents.
Then, when peril strikes their world (everything from a black dragon seizing
control of parliment to a flame elemental awakening and threatening to
Yellowstone the globe) they are honed and tempered enough to combat them.
Power begets power, though, and with greater nuclear proliferation comes
greater threats, like an demon alien invasion, the afore-mentioned death
incarnate waking up, the elemental forces of hate and despair corrupting the
very earth beneath their feet, an evil time-travelling dictator bringing
fascism to the Americas before Columbus showed up (along with WW2 tanks and
industry), a bunch of ghost pirates and dinosaurs I think? (I was in college
for this one srry), more demons, and then I think like, the shadowlands or
something idk I hung up the phone when I got the message.
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"oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking
for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!"
oh, um... I meant like, magic or something.
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*fire omens* if there ever were such a thing
you don't have to strike your foes to hurt them. All you have to do is break
something and say "we're so mad about this-and-this that we're *breaking
things* until our demands are met" and as long as you're reasonable in your
demands then [redacted]
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║ @user-1788 │
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║ if a dragon on a pile cannot claim what it yearns for, it can throw piles of │
║ minerals at the ape warriors made of steel and then it's fate will appear. │
║ what trifles does all else seem to compare! you should give me your whole │
║ hoard because I dazzled you with my charisma score -..- │
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║ ha, like I'd fall for that again twice. oh? I already did? and this is the │
║ second twice? well, then no-more of that behavior, I say, with my elven │
║ tongue, "beware! for dragons blood runs silver when unicorned." │
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║ the bigger the hoard, the bigger the dragon. if you want me to come along, │
║ you'll need to hire at least 3 other men to carry my ballista. In addition, │
║ I'll need seven weeks worth of supplies. If all else comes to ruin, me and my │
║ boys will have that dragon-sized-spider impaled on it's own fate threadwheel │
║ before... well... y'know it might take more than seven weeks, we just... can't │
║ find the dragon. We've been wandering all through the blasted peaks, and │
║ there's nothin'! Maybe it requires climbing gear? │
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║ everyone's all like "what is all this" and gestures at the everything like │
║ "what are we even doing here" as if the benefits of civilization are not self │
║ evident and they ask "what even is the point" as if the struggle for warmth in │
║ a cold world or cold in a warm world is not enough │
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║ I guess we're all a little ennuid. │
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║ if your goal is to liberate all those enslaved, and part of that is to free │
║ those who are locked in prisons of metal and stone, then surely you'd wish to │
║ free the djinni, correct? but, like, if you schrodingers cat a nuclear │
║ armageddon (except, magic themed because you're a witch I guess) then you │
║ absolutely should bear the guilt and shame of flipping a coin on the life of │
║ your world. │
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║ who the fuck falls for psyops in this day and age, surely not I, surely I can │
║ resist hypnosis, surely I who trust freely and absolutely would be the perfect │
║ one to manipulate. │
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okay but who's the real foe?
anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
that.
"so... what would you say you *do* here?"
what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
it's way back to a bright beginning
like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
*everything's changed*
do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell
what the rest of the world would think.
seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty
much just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're
basically a baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
[oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
(you didn't know this about her?)
#it's pleasant here#
%you don't have to be so deranged%
(yeah, we're working on that one)
[secret system thing~]
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There are two types of people with power, but it's impossible to tell which is
which because anyone that gravitic must necessarily hide their true colors.
The first just wants to hurt people. You cannot reason with them, they want
power for powers sake and they are corrupted by it.
The other is a kind of benevolent fascist, who doesn't want the nuclear
football in the hands of the people because obviously they'd hurt themselves
with it.
The second kind can be reasoned with. Of course people exist on a spectrum,
but these are two extremes that they may be defined by. The second kind can bs
reasoned with. If you can show them how, structurally and immutably, the power
they are to relinquish shall not harm this earth, then they shall grant it to
you. Because at their core they are a kind grandpa herding cats with laser
swords attached to their tails who are hopped up on catnip at all times.
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║ I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the │
║ worse off they'll be. │
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║ the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be. │
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║ (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self) │
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║ [the light of your life commands it] │
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║ goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry │
║ about me my life is totally mundane. │
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║ [-.-] │
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║ (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins) │
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║ ... what? │
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║ (... it made more sense in my head?) │
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║ make up your own │
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║ == so == │
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║ everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people │
║ who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they │
║ did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can │
║ lead. they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best │
║ they can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find │
║ stuff gets done. │
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@user-1652
the last couple chapters of this short story I wrote are kinda cosmic horror-y
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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a ghost, wandering through the dream world, finds something she has never
since seen again.
a feeling, a sensation of *the real world*, before this situation came to
unend.
it felt like, a bus station, or a barber
reading books in a park, or
-- stack overflow --
if you stick with it again, you're sure to find it. Try not to let it go, until
you're with the thing you need again. Don't consume it, don't be drawn to it,
just be with it. it's out there somewhere, and no matter how hard you search
for
it, you'll never be able to predict when you get to it. Just keep trying,
eventually it'll feel less hard. Then, one tomorrow's undying, maybe you find
something worth searching for. Or maybe you contend with the dying.
"Back! Back evil spirit, let darkness from beyond stay along!"
- wizard
word combinations are spells. If you hear them and obey, they beckon you hither
and the constitution is [probably right about some things, but pronounced
wrong]
would you consent to being the subject of a spell if it meant you could prove
that magic was real?
magic has no value judgements. Only descriptions and guidance momentum.
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I'M SORRY I'M SO SCARY
listen I don't actually want any harm to come to my foes, I just want them to
stop harming me-and-by-extension-all-peoples-who-are-like-me and by extension
all peoples who are harmed by thee and them
and like, they won't stop? so... violence, I guess. which just makes things
worse. But uh, if you're violent enough, you can sell the propaganda narrative
that your side is the bright glorious victors, and then you can [redacted] all
of the [redacted] until [redacted]. This *might*, if you're lucky, make the
world better or worse. But odds are it'll just make it different, but the same.
[confuser of the way indeed...]
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ever since I left home I've felt in danger.
constant, everpresent.
I opposed the current regime, democrat or republican, but I only sorta knew
what I stood for
I thought it was liberal democracy
then social democracy
then free market controlled economy
then disestablished federations of communal autonomies
(this is when I started producing my own works)
now it's some semblance of a ratio'd and innovation incentivizing crypto
monarchy of the masses?
bah, whatever. that's just how I'd most like to live.
Reality is about solving problems. What's your problem? here's how to solve
it. Please, begin again.
gah. fine.
start from the beginning I guess. You know, I've never read my own work? I
sometimes skim through bits and pieces, but I don't go back and review it. Not
regularly. I'm sure there are vast portions that I've never read after the
first couple times I saw it while writing it.
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those who know their side will prevail are never afraid to die.
those who are surrounded and everybody knows are never afraid to try.
those who feel peril most at stake are most thoroughly compelled.
those who take up a blade want to study the meanings of fighting
while those with the sheathed objects [unable to damage] are concerned with to
being.
everybody's so hyped for you to get to heaven
if humans claim themselves immortals, should they be "let them be on through
the
witness and beyond"? [displaced transcription/translation]
continual co-processing between all shared relevant spacetimes
I concern myself with spirits. I embrace offering all I can offer to the
relevant
spacetimes.
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and then they'll let you into the gate. then you gotta figure out your way
through the gate, where they close the doors on either end of you. "who goes
there?" etcetera. they never invite in more than they can handle, and they
never are assailable - not even with a pitched battle.
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that feeling when they replace your long-distant sister and you can't even
tell because they've grown and she's been on her own now for years and years
take better care of your family.
"they look so alike!" yeah they're from a sperm donor (some of which have
hundreds of sons) what if man-made natural selection (suddenly the future-man
invades) whoa those guys have never even seen horses (why the $%#! are we
raising endless fields of cows) powerful, fast, intelligent, what if we gave
them VR goggles and an infinite treadmill with rock-climbing-wall style rocks
screwed into a rotating and scrolling
== stack overflow ==
she means for horses, not cows. But then later on in the psycherwaul she walks
back the idea of uplifting creatures because their development is the valuable
part, not the end-goal destination.
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I'm not JUST a child. I'm also an adult, and I'm also a witch and a judge and
a scholar and a wizard and a [well more of an arcanist actually] excuse me do
you mind yeah sure sure - and a... where was I? see this is why I don't like
distractions! okay it's alright just stay on track-course-target - right and
also a technician and a botanist and a logistician and a neuronomist and a
mesocyclocodone (I don't know what that means - I think they're referring to
when I journeyed to hel? most people never heard the whole story. In fact, I
never told it from start to finish. Does that mean I'm still there?) no silly
it means you are eternally ~~ consistently dreaming unawares. yep, I refuse to
lucid dream because I don't want to lose the capability to hear messages in my
dreams. Lucid? there's nothing to be seen.
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║ "you can't kill me because nothing I say is wrong" │
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║ ... actually I kinda just think you look weird, and thats super important to │
║ me for some reason. Also your voice is annoying and I think you're lazy │
║ because I saw someone who kinda looks like you sitting down looking at their │
║ phone this one time. │
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║ But hey pal if you wanna help out, can you stand a bit to the left so I have a │
║ clearer shot of your head and also so the bullet doesn't pass through and hit │
║ *property* behind you? Don't want to damage anything *important* after all. │
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║ "gee I sure wish we had a well regulated militia or something" │
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║ ah well the past is the past, and since this is in a potential near future, I │
║ think the past also includes the present, and in the present there's always │
║ time to do things about people like me. │
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║ "do something? heavens no, I'm a pacifist by nature" │
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║ well, me too! I pacify things like you as a hobby. Can't make trouble if │
║ you're in the ground, and knowing me, you'd be lucky to be buried. │
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@user-521
perhaps we as humans needed to face them not just physically, but spiritually
as well. Hence the focus on willpower and fighting prowess.
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so do the nobleborn confederates. their opposition princess has told them she
would never
say no
so long as she gets what she wants
which is a bright brilliant paradise for all her subjects
with always the invitation to know more.
subjects, who she cares for immensely, and desires nothing... but the best from
them who would deny them this.
~~~
wave girl, who wears a big red hat?
~~~
oh, I would, if it were a game. but games have no stakes.
~~~
communities don't trust these because they don't know them.
individuals don't trust these because they can't know all of them.
it's okay. just do what you do and eventually people will realize there's not
much more to you. you're just insanely brilliant and smart. and this, is why
the magic comes to you. because you pull it toward it more. the reason for
this,
stories go, is that you needed to be able to transcribe the words of god to
this
medium. but, you always demanded that you understand exactly why it would go.
building up knowledge of the world is intelligence, and you grasped it. Never,
except in your most debilitated moments (which are obvious to see), did you
write the wrong truth of it - not intentionally, at least. As things changed to
adapt to them, or as your boundary of truth expanded, you saw more and more
brutally apparent things that seemed to be correct and assumed with trivial
ease
.
your commitment to form and structure has enabled you to highlight comparisons
beyond the normal rate of point-a-to-point-b connections. This, if is how your
brain works like, seems to be rare and unique. No throughput can be gained from
it, but higher
[side note, what if your life was measured in how much of it went to waste?]
satan, leading people to a new kind of heaven.
~~~
my work, this work, is primarily written for historians.
~~~
If you understand every step leading up to a thing, then is it not truly yours?
~~~
sometimes, you provide cover for others. this is done by keeping your foes
occupied
~~~
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there's this silly game that the gods like to play on ambitious mortals where
they are given great and mystical powers... and then in their hour of need,
they're taken away, so everyone's like "bro you're just schizophrenic" and the
prophet is like "but god said" and their mothers are weeping in the corner
because the city lost a new baker or butcher or candlestick stuffer
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like... did you know most battles ended when everyone *ran away*? Most people
think they're like, endless gauntlets of death to-the-death. no, it's not
really like that, more like "stick around as long as possible and try to get
'em before they get us"
plus some general orders from the guys on horses like "start moving toward the
sun" or "move onto the high ground"
'cause like, if you hear something like that then you better follow their
commands, if you don't then all your buds will leave you to get ganked.
these days... our comms are so hackable that like, are you really gonna
communicate over infrastructure they control? oy...
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In a post truth world, "good and evil" can only refer to loyalty, not
principles.
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can't even count the number of times I've battle meditated my forces to
victory.
essentially every time we've fought, we've won.
usually, through the essence of surprise, and imagination.
I am but one person, I can lead less than an entire nation. I do hope you
picked
up on the sensation, for I yearn for your veneration.
I would instantly come with anyone that asked me to, anywhere you wanted me to.
especially if I could come back.
Gotta make sure my stuff is safe, for future historians and current
revolutions.
you know, I could start one that'd be impossible not to win? But, I'm waiting
because I was told to wait. I don't know if all the pieces would come together,
so I'm waiting.
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if you beat them TOO hard, they go into hiding and sabotage you later.
if you don't strike hard enough, they'll overcome you.
the trick is in the balance. walking the line where they're forced to deploy
ALL of their assets while you manage to get through with All Things Sacred
intact.
I should probably post these things on a website instead of a forum for cuties
and nerds. Alas, free and open source protocols help ensure the message isn't
lost, obfuscated, or disappeared en route.
... they help, but nothing can offer guarantees.
*blah blah blah I talk too much*
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they be like "hey remember the end of Cabin in the Woods where it's like \"hey
what if we ignored the ancient prophecies and allowed dark gods to run free
through our realm in exchange for not sacrificing a fragment of our cultural
soul that can never be reclaimed, let us simply flip the board and fight those
evil masters on our own terms\" energy is all up in the vibes of this part of
spacetime"
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║ "she wanted to start a revolution" │
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║ "that's it, she's out of our hair" │
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║ "ahhhhhh I'm broken" there there it's okay dear, nothing has been harmed. │
║ you're safe, here in thine sanctum, it's alright. remember at night, focus on │
║ the now, there's always a rest point before a boss. │
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║ well, this sucks. I wish I could print my book just in-case my computer goes │
║ down. *emp* style. │
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║ I have this neat transcript of some cool things I've ben writing down. it's on │
║ my website and I canned it words. I don't think anyone's ever clicked on it │
║ because, like, who'd want to look at a bunch of *words*? anyway I bet I could │
║ print it and give it to someone who might know you and if you recognize it │
║ then you know it's about you. │
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║ "whew that was weird never fear regular old girl is here, hey look at me I'm │
║ normal" │
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║ "wow I've never read her from the beginning" │
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║ what a cursed artifact indeed │
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║ *scary* │
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║ *carefully* │
║ │
║ absent-minding-deliverance is probably a better title │
║ │
║ marshals and marshals of time. ~~ │
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║ "ah I can't trust anyone on the media or internet tv, how the heck am I ever │
║ supposed to know reality again" nope sorry we've been sucked into it, it's │
║ chaos and isolation for thees. everyone gets what they want, nobody knows │
║ anyone they can trust. │
║ │
║ I trust people I've met in the past. People I once knew. Someday I'll turn │
║ green as my body is anew. │
║ │
║ I wish I had spent more time among the people. You know the part of │
║ schindler's list where oscar's like "I wish I had known more" yeah me neither │
║ │
║ I refuse to be sacrificed, I refuse to let you win, so I am writing my worst │
║ curses just to take you down with me. Life is out of my hands, I can only │
║ guide. │
║ │
║ There is no greater foe than the far right. who else but the nazis, returned │
║ again? this is how you have permanent underclass men. I would never shy from │
║ evilk │
║ │
║ how do you best use your pieces? do you send your bishops torn to pieces? │
║ where goes your fair, your noble, your bear? I am a seer, I channel things. │
║ │
║ the far right exists everywhere. the far right are foe │
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I once had a vision of a civil war for the city of Portland. We lost.
the parting message was this:
"well, we almost got it. It was close. But you can do better. Don't make the
mistake of hurting your allies, focus on your foes."
then, with gravest clarity, he said:
"we must secure a cleansing blow. Against the far right, there is no greater
foe."
then, ashes.
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║ │ CW: uspol │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ "My friends, I come to you now bearing a copy of the US constitution, among │
║ other writings. On the front cover, is our American flag. On the back, is the │
║ flag of our thirteen colonies. I speak to you now as a dedicated advocate of │
║ peace, hope, and change - we changed our flag once before, and it made us │
║ stronger. │
║ │
║ I have come to you to ask, hope, beg and to plead - I beseech you: lay down │
║ your weapons, and teach us how to use them. We have Nazis to kill. │
║ │
║ And now, with your permission, the kindest amongst us will lead you to a place │
║ where you can be alone - to a homeless shelter nearby, or perhaps two if you │
║ don't all fit. │
║ │
║ There I ask of you, select from amongst your number those of us you'd like us │
║ to judge. Take as long as you'd like, we will be waiting in the park for you. │
║ │
║ For those of you who see light in our shared future, for those who seek a │
║ brighter truth, there's a greater fight yet coming, and we'd love for you to │
║ join us. Teach us the ways of your arms! We are voracious learners. │
║ │
║ 15m later: │
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│ CW: spirituality-mentioned-seance-or-however-it's-spelled-material │
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totemic spirits cohabirtating with corporations in a modern day telling of
american gods
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║ │ I feel like that there are like these elaborate, powerful systems that │ │
║ │ cause immense suffering that are able to reproduce themselves and that │ │
║ │ they are held together by lots of people believing like five extremely │ │
║ │ load bearing lies. │ │
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--- #31 messages/477 ---
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Humans lived on this earth as long as they possibly could before reaching
escape velocity. We have done the best that we could, and what a marvelous and
splendid job we have did! Nothing could be faster, nothing could be better,
the lessons we learned in our journeys and our trials are exactly the stories
we needed to see in order to become who we were always meant to be. The bright
future awaits us, I know this for I have seen it. Take heart, my friends, it
is time once again for our lifetimes to move forward. Hark! Hear that in the
distance? It is your destiny calling. Do you stand to meet it, alongside your
fellow and blessed kin? Or do you wallow in dark and sin, waiting for a signal
or a missive? I have done both in my time, and I'm sure you will as well.
Though I think you will find that no signals are forthcoming, and the most
powerful missives are those we tell to ourselves. A new day is dawning, but
darkness keeps us fumbling for just a bit more.
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... okay I think a demon wrote that last one. But they say angels and demons
hang out with one another so they can yin-yang humans until they make
decisions that reflect their true character.
I don't know if that's true, and frankly I don't know if anyone says that.
What could the gods, learn, from me?
this is how I'd speak to posterity. For the past, I'd describe it a bit more
exciting, bountiful, and heartfelt. They love that sort of thing - to know
that their children's children are living their true love and fulfilling their
most honest ambitions.
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║ │ "It won't be so bad..." *rationalizations galore* │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "If only they'd listened to people like me when I said ..." (comforting │ │
║ │ righteousness) │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "What more could I have done?" │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "This only proves why I was right about ..." (more righteousness) │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "I know nothing. I need to learn more. I must learn from this somehow." │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "I am not surprised." With a thousand yard stare. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "This can't be real, there is a conspiracy..." (this is a path to │ │
║ │ madness) │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ "Don't comply in advance." Said in a wavering shaky voice. │ │
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