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Roll To Dodge / Re: Prophets of the New God: Turn 64 - A Prophet's Pastime
« on: June 28, 2013, 02:33:48 am »
Ah, so you wish to know about God, do you? Well, best sit yourselves down, for the tale is long in the telling.
While neither I nor any mortal can claim to know the true extent of God, we do know that He - or She - created the world, and all others. This is the basic truth that everyone knows, but there are details that are left out for the sake of translation. These details are what I reveal to you now.
In the very beginning, there was nothing. Absolutely nothing anywhere at all. But the very nature of nothing counteracted itself and before the nothing was conceptualized as anything, God was there. And God was everything there was.
Because time had not been invented yet, God floated - or the equivalent of floating, as floating did not exist - for an eternity in pure nothing. But eventually God's mind became bored with reflecting only God unto God, and desired to know something other than itself. So God willed something else to be, and the nothing was thrown back to create void. And the void was endless, but for God at it's center.
God loved the void. It was something new, it had substance, an analyzable property - three, no, four - more, where there where previously none! He analyzed its length and found it to be endless, and when She looked at its width and height, they too were endless. It wandered the void for ages beyond counting until God had explored every iota of it. And with full knowledge came boredom, for God now knew all, and with nothing new to learn, nothing new to figure out, God was bored once again.
There was naught else but God and void, and thus God willed substance to be, and in the process created all the concepts that come with substance of any sort -weight and all its derivatives, texture, color, reactions, solidity, permeability, and hundreds upon hundreds of other things. All were manifested in this thing that God willed to be - Time, Space, Attraction, Death, Life; all contained within a perfect sphere containing everything that exists today, whether it be rock, wind, water, war, love, birth, or death. And God looked into the Eternal Sphere, and saw everything there is, was, and shall be.
As with the last, God eventually knew every facet of everything He gazed upon. He knew all language, all permutation of the mating dance of the octopus tree of Glarnakitch, everything there was, but one thing.
He never saw anything be created. He had willed these things into existence, and they were existant by that measure, but She had never seen anything interact. Never seen anything created by the combination of two things. So with a force of will, He shattered the Eternal Sphere, and let everything within it pour out.
It was chaos. Everything clashing all at once! The sun scorched all too near it to ash, the wind took those ashes and blew them willy-nilly all across the tumbling things of creation, all out of place! But God did not intervene, for She had never seen anything interacting or combining as these had, so He watched and waited. Men tumbled and died in the void, great swooping hordes of locusts consumed all in their path, and eventually all was made dust. Eventually even the sun itself failed and died, and all the wonderful things that God had created were consumed again by the void. And for the first time, God was left unknowing.
The chaos had taught Him much, but it was all ended too soon, and God wished to see it happen again, but She knew that if He were to create another Infinite Sphere, the same result would occur, and God did not wish for that, for He had divined a most interesting possible future inside the Sphere - there would be Others. Others who would create in turn, and Their creations would in turn arise and spawn more creations, in an endless cycle of genesis, granting God the one thing She had desired since He became self aware - the possibility to always be learning. For that was why God continued to create, even seemingly pointless things - if He did not know what it was when it was created, then He could learn about it and what it was! And that was the sensation that God treasured above anything. And within the mysteries of infinity She had seen a way to make that wonderful future happen.
God took hold of the ashes that remained from the previous catastrophe and shaped them into a perfect ball. She saw how, despite it's geometrical perfectess, it was cold and dead, and He took a tiny, miniscule fragment of His infinite self and imbued the Earth with it to give it life. As God's spirit fused with the ground, it lit up as if in some great joy, and the thoughts that God had channeled into that fragment grew and grew and became the first life. Not even I know how this first being looked or what it did, but it is known that eventually it split into many different creatures after God placed the blanket over the sky to shield it from Her brilliance. Those thoughts that made up the first creature and were split up, one for each subsequent creature, multiplied as the creatures did, and eventually the world evened itself out to be as it is right now.
Gronok grins.
That is the ultimate truth - all that we are, everything that we ever do, say, or think - that which we call our soul - is but one thought of God. Everything in this world, from the smallest pebble to the mightiest wind, is but an expression of a thought of God. And that is why I worship God not under any particular name, be it Kezilam, Mo'kar, Hewantok, or any number of sacred syllables, but the true purpose that He made us for - She wishes us to become a God.
He has repeated the process He performed to create our world many times, and even now waits, hoping beyond hope that one of the myriads of worlds might finally yield its intended result - another like Her, that She may watch while It - or perhaps They, for perhaps multiple worlds will yeild a God - go through the cycle of initial creation, boredom, enlightenment, and world creation to spawn yet another generation of Gods, that He may examine their creations, and learn forever.
Gronok pauses for breath.
So, what do you think?
Explain creation mythos. Hopefully convert listeners.
While neither I nor any mortal can claim to know the true extent of God, we do know that He - or She - created the world, and all others. This is the basic truth that everyone knows, but there are details that are left out for the sake of translation. These details are what I reveal to you now.
In the very beginning, there was nothing. Absolutely nothing anywhere at all. But the very nature of nothing counteracted itself and before the nothing was conceptualized as anything, God was there. And God was everything there was.
Because time had not been invented yet, God floated - or the equivalent of floating, as floating did not exist - for an eternity in pure nothing. But eventually God's mind became bored with reflecting only God unto God, and desired to know something other than itself. So God willed something else to be, and the nothing was thrown back to create void. And the void was endless, but for God at it's center.
God loved the void. It was something new, it had substance, an analyzable property - three, no, four - more, where there where previously none! He analyzed its length and found it to be endless, and when She looked at its width and height, they too were endless. It wandered the void for ages beyond counting until God had explored every iota of it. And with full knowledge came boredom, for God now knew all, and with nothing new to learn, nothing new to figure out, God was bored once again.
There was naught else but God and void, and thus God willed substance to be, and in the process created all the concepts that come with substance of any sort -weight and all its derivatives, texture, color, reactions, solidity, permeability, and hundreds upon hundreds of other things. All were manifested in this thing that God willed to be - Time, Space, Attraction, Death, Life; all contained within a perfect sphere containing everything that exists today, whether it be rock, wind, water, war, love, birth, or death. And God looked into the Eternal Sphere, and saw everything there is, was, and shall be.
As with the last, God eventually knew every facet of everything He gazed upon. He knew all language, all permutation of the mating dance of the octopus tree of Glarnakitch, everything there was, but one thing.
He never saw anything be created. He had willed these things into existence, and they were existant by that measure, but She had never seen anything interact. Never seen anything created by the combination of two things. So with a force of will, He shattered the Eternal Sphere, and let everything within it pour out.
It was chaos. Everything clashing all at once! The sun scorched all too near it to ash, the wind took those ashes and blew them willy-nilly all across the tumbling things of creation, all out of place! But God did not intervene, for She had never seen anything interacting or combining as these had, so He watched and waited. Men tumbled and died in the void, great swooping hordes of locusts consumed all in their path, and eventually all was made dust. Eventually even the sun itself failed and died, and all the wonderful things that God had created were consumed again by the void. And for the first time, God was left unknowing.
The chaos had taught Him much, but it was all ended too soon, and God wished to see it happen again, but She knew that if He were to create another Infinite Sphere, the same result would occur, and God did not wish for that, for He had divined a most interesting possible future inside the Sphere - there would be Others. Others who would create in turn, and Their creations would in turn arise and spawn more creations, in an endless cycle of genesis, granting God the one thing She had desired since He became self aware - the possibility to always be learning. For that was why God continued to create, even seemingly pointless things - if He did not know what it was when it was created, then He could learn about it and what it was! And that was the sensation that God treasured above anything. And within the mysteries of infinity She had seen a way to make that wonderful future happen.
God took hold of the ashes that remained from the previous catastrophe and shaped them into a perfect ball. She saw how, despite it's geometrical perfectess, it was cold and dead, and He took a tiny, miniscule fragment of His infinite self and imbued the Earth with it to give it life. As God's spirit fused with the ground, it lit up as if in some great joy, and the thoughts that God had channeled into that fragment grew and grew and became the first life. Not even I know how this first being looked or what it did, but it is known that eventually it split into many different creatures after God placed the blanket over the sky to shield it from Her brilliance. Those thoughts that made up the first creature and were split up, one for each subsequent creature, multiplied as the creatures did, and eventually the world evened itself out to be as it is right now.
Gronok grins.
That is the ultimate truth - all that we are, everything that we ever do, say, or think - that which we call our soul - is but one thought of God. Everything in this world, from the smallest pebble to the mightiest wind, is but an expression of a thought of God. And that is why I worship God not under any particular name, be it Kezilam, Mo'kar, Hewantok, or any number of sacred syllables, but the true purpose that He made us for - She wishes us to become a God.
He has repeated the process He performed to create our world many times, and even now waits, hoping beyond hope that one of the myriads of worlds might finally yield its intended result - another like Her, that She may watch while It - or perhaps They, for perhaps multiple worlds will yeild a God - go through the cycle of initial creation, boredom, enlightenment, and world creation to spawn yet another generation of Gods, that He may examine their creations, and learn forever.
Gronok pauses for breath.
So, what do you think?
Explain creation mythos. Hopefully convert listeners.