Post by Mistress K. Darq-Chylde on Apr 28, 2010 22:50:31 GMT -5
April 28, 20-something or other
"Sound the seven sirens of doom." I'd never quite understood what my father meant until my twenty-first birthday. That was the day the world changed, for me at least.
If any of us had known that what we were doing would lead to this, I'd like to think that we would've done things differently. But having blind faith in humanity is something I was never good at.
Look at how we treat our Mother, this planet we call our home. We slaughter her children to feed our own rapidly increasing population. We raze, flay, and burrow into her flesh, we make her ingest our toxic second-hand smoke day and night... Mankind is the singularly most ineffective parasite on the planet, if not in all the known universe. Only a shitty parasite kills its host and, in so doing, inadvertently commits suicide or has to seek a new host.And there's no way the human race can perfect space travel and make another planet habitable quickly enough to save us.
We've done a good job of constructing our own coffin, and every day that passes is another nail pounded into the lid that seals us in and makes escape just this side of impossible. Could we try to redeem ourselves? Recycle, eliminate our dependency on fossil fuels, potentially pass a law limiting the number of children a couple is allowed to give birth to so humanity stops spreading like a cancer? Sure, we could try, but I sincerely think that line of logic falls under the category of "too little, too late."
But this is really all irrelevant. The Earth is fucked, one way or the other.
Science has come a long way in recent years, though. Consider, if you will, that the Universe doesn't necessarily operate in a linear fashion. What if time, space, height, weight, depth... all were capable of overlapped, interweaving, and separating themselves from each other? Mostly at random, mind you. But what if someone, or even something, could control a linkage between the dimension we dwell in and another?
Most people think of our cosmos in three tiers. Below us, from a religious standpoint, is Hell. The middle layer of this sandwich is where we dwell on Earth, and above us is the celestial place most people refer to as Heaven. It seems a good way to look at the setup of the Universe, but what if Heaven and Hell are really just alternate dimensions or planes of existence that have synced up with ours at some point? Someone probably saw it and decided "Hey... Let's make a belief system based around this."
But things aren't so black and white as the concepts of good and evil when it really comes down to it. Lucifer, the Devil, is essentially the quintessential embodiment of evil... but wasn't he an angel once? And what is "evil" anyway? All he really did was disobey orders. Sounds more like mutiny than the Ultimate Evil, to me.
But the real kicker is that Heaven and Hell are actually battling for control of the place we're living. Not so much for our souls as for the actual planet itself. Territory. The denizens of Hell want somewhere a touch less hot to vacation to, and Heaven's just greedy. The war between the Celestials and Infernals has been going on for a long time, and now that we've fucked the planet so badly, it's that much closer to Infernal control. Heaven's losing the battle and their pride can't take it.
That's why "angel" sightings always increase when the state of affairs in the world is bad. It's the Celestials trying to regain their control, not some sign of the Divine watching over us. But the Infernals aren't having it. The Apocalypse is nigh, and more and more people are aware of it and have reached a moderate state of acceptance.
That gives them the upper hand. When the world literally goes to Hell, we got what we deserved, and most of us really weren't expecting anything less.
Each side has special people who can manipulate and create the bridges they use to travel between their realms and ours. The Infernals call their bridge-keepers "Striders". The Celestials have their counterparts in the ranks of the "Builders".
On my twenty-first birthday, I met an Infernal Strider named Pride, and the world changed. Once your eyes are open to the truth, they can never be shut again.
"Sound the seven sirens of doom." I'd never quite understood what my father meant until my twenty-first birthday. That was the day the world changed, for me at least.
If any of us had known that what we were doing would lead to this, I'd like to think that we would've done things differently. But having blind faith in humanity is something I was never good at.
Look at how we treat our Mother, this planet we call our home. We slaughter her children to feed our own rapidly increasing population. We raze, flay, and burrow into her flesh, we make her ingest our toxic second-hand smoke day and night... Mankind is the singularly most ineffective parasite on the planet, if not in all the known universe. Only a shitty parasite kills its host and, in so doing, inadvertently commits suicide or has to seek a new host.And there's no way the human race can perfect space travel and make another planet habitable quickly enough to save us.
We've done a good job of constructing our own coffin, and every day that passes is another nail pounded into the lid that seals us in and makes escape just this side of impossible. Could we try to redeem ourselves? Recycle, eliminate our dependency on fossil fuels, potentially pass a law limiting the number of children a couple is allowed to give birth to so humanity stops spreading like a cancer? Sure, we could try, but I sincerely think that line of logic falls under the category of "too little, too late."
But this is really all irrelevant. The Earth is fucked, one way or the other.
Science has come a long way in recent years, though. Consider, if you will, that the Universe doesn't necessarily operate in a linear fashion. What if time, space, height, weight, depth... all were capable of overlapped, interweaving, and separating themselves from each other? Mostly at random, mind you. But what if someone, or even something, could control a linkage between the dimension we dwell in and another?
Most people think of our cosmos in three tiers. Below us, from a religious standpoint, is Hell. The middle layer of this sandwich is where we dwell on Earth, and above us is the celestial place most people refer to as Heaven. It seems a good way to look at the setup of the Universe, but what if Heaven and Hell are really just alternate dimensions or planes of existence that have synced up with ours at some point? Someone probably saw it and decided "Hey... Let's make a belief system based around this."
But things aren't so black and white as the concepts of good and evil when it really comes down to it. Lucifer, the Devil, is essentially the quintessential embodiment of evil... but wasn't he an angel once? And what is "evil" anyway? All he really did was disobey orders. Sounds more like mutiny than the Ultimate Evil, to me.
But the real kicker is that Heaven and Hell are actually battling for control of the place we're living. Not so much for our souls as for the actual planet itself. Territory. The denizens of Hell want somewhere a touch less hot to vacation to, and Heaven's just greedy. The war between the Celestials and Infernals has been going on for a long time, and now that we've fucked the planet so badly, it's that much closer to Infernal control. Heaven's losing the battle and their pride can't take it.
That's why "angel" sightings always increase when the state of affairs in the world is bad. It's the Celestials trying to regain their control, not some sign of the Divine watching over us. But the Infernals aren't having it. The Apocalypse is nigh, and more and more people are aware of it and have reached a moderate state of acceptance.
That gives them the upper hand. When the world literally goes to Hell, we got what we deserved, and most of us really weren't expecting anything less.
Each side has special people who can manipulate and create the bridges they use to travel between their realms and ours. The Infernals call their bridge-keepers "Striders". The Celestials have their counterparts in the ranks of the "Builders".
On my twenty-first birthday, I met an Infernal Strider named Pride, and the world changed. Once your eyes are open to the truth, they can never be shut again.