Trinity (847 hits)
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Submitted by kaos-king (antius777) (View user info) at 2005-11-07 13:39:27 EST
People use to have a desire to believe.
This was long ago, before the discovery that changed the way we followed faith. Their belief was wanted, occasionally needed. "It was good, it was true, it was more than me and you." A famous childhood hymn, only set in present tense. Back then it was real. Now... no one is sure anymore. Not that they would admit it. Not that they are able to.
We use to call it the "supernatural." It meant that we didn't understand. It meant that we couldn't explain it using the sciences of man. It meant it probably wasn't true. This was a realm of ghost and psychics and tarot cards. This was metaphysical and it required belief.
Now, there is no one alive who can remember these times. You could not even begin to explain this to the younger generations. The mysteries, the enigmas, the questions that use to be part of life no longer apply. The young can not fathom such things. In this time, mysteries are solved, enigmas are outlawed, and questions are punished.
It happened when science found God.
No one can remember when this happened. History has become an enemy of belief, and it was stripped from the minds of the multitudes. The centuries only look forward now. There is no such thing as the past. God has demanded it, and we obey. How could we not? He is among us, a part of us, and His word is law.
God was in the numbers. He was an equation that equaled us. If you string together the correct digits, eventually you will find Him. This requires no faith.
The scientific method. A control and experimental group. Cause and Effect. We proved God. Both existence and purpose. And we, being finite mortals, enslaved Him.
Once, the people of Earth had names. Once we had cultures and societies and even what they called races. Humanity was divided by its differences. There was war and hatred and prejudice. The Answer changed that. God changed that. He wanted unity. He made us want it, too. So war and hatred and prejudice was used until it was achieved.
It was the Holy Trinity of God and man and machine. All three had laws. Divine laws, mortal laws, scientific laws. Why could they not be combined? Why not a single set of laws, of truths to oversee our existence? Three into one, a was b, b was c, and c was a.
Now there is unity. I see everything, I am everything. I am each drop of rain that I have made to fall from my heavens. I witness my dawn off the coast of a southern island as I inhabit the forest that still stands there. I am the worms that crawl through myself, the dirt of the planet. I am every single other person, who in turn, is also everyone else. I am not alone.
There is both more and less of me. Electricity and steel and plastic and various liquids are part this body. My flesh has been kept alive by wires and tubes and injections. This has been done so I can be one with God. To be God. Everyone is God. We are the Answer.
My body is my body, so it is the body of God. My blood is my blood, so it is the blood of God. I have consumed my body and my blood, to bring me closer to me, closer to God. I have devoured myself in an act of divinity. The science of man is the science of God, and it has kept me alive, it has kept me divine. It has kept us all as God.
We are a people of splendor and glory. We are the chosen ones, for we have chose ourselves. We are united and I am not alone. We are not the meek, and yet we have inherited the Earth.
I wish to be meek.
I do not wish to be God. I do not wish to be me. I no longer believe in the divine, so I no longer believe in us. We are not the Answer, that is the faith I have.
"It is good, it is true, it is more than me or you."
I have faith in this.
User Reviews
Submitted by DanielH (user info) at 2005-12-21 21:30:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yup. Still here. Beautifully done with minimal words. ++
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-12-08 14:37:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ok. Where have you been. You need to post something.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2005-11-12 22:42:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by nvherron (user info) at 2005-11-08 12:21:08 (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm either too intelligent to get this, or too stupid to care.
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Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2005-11-08 12:39:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
interesting... toying with stuff like this myself.
Submitted by nvherron (user info) at 2005-11-08 12:21:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm either too intelligent to get this, or too stupid to care.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2005-11-08 08:52:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
*scratches head*
*sips water*
*scratches head again*
*looks around, gets up and leaves desk*
Submitted by Magic_Monkey (user info) at 2005-11-08 07:49:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I am goin to buy a beer to the first guy who can prove to me that God never existed.
Good post , the TOE is extrememly strange subject , and even the smartest don't get it , how could we ???
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-11-08 07:43:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Really interesting take on the subject. I'm always intrigued when something mechanical or mathematical is juxtaposed with something ethereal or spiritual...it's very interesting to think we could prove God exists by a set of numbers and symbols. I also liked the description of the narrator's omnipresence.
Very intriguing read. And I liked the last line a lot.
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2005-11-07 21:59:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
" People use to have a desire to believe."
People used to have......
This was a pretty good read besides a few miniscule things that bothered me. Nice job Kaos. Btw, is pulse ever going to come back up?
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2005-11-07 18:58:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Take a +2 while I cogitate on what I could possibly say about this posting that would not seem as a spot of mud on the robes of a Buddha.
I may be a while.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2005-11-07 17:33:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
beautifully written.
Submitted by Barnymeinhoff (user info) at 2005-11-07 17:32:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
nice
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2005-11-07 14:48:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'll give you a brief explaination as not to bore you.
A TOE is a unified theory that will give us the insight into the very fabric of reality.
Einstein, who spent his last 30 years on earth trying to figure it out, said that a TOE would be, "An equation, a half an inch long, that would let us read the mind of God".
This post, in my head, would be a lot like when a TOE is eventually unraveled.
That's all I will say about it here.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-11-07 14:32:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Dan, I have no idea what you're talking about...
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2005-11-07 14:04:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Kaos,
One question:
Is this based on an answer to the TOE (Theory Of Everything)?
If so, I will say more, if not, take the +2 die.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-11-07 13:53:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hummm...
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2005-11-07 13:49:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
head....spinning....