Imagine living your entire life, countless hours of consciousness within a cool, comfortable, dark place. Nothing to bother you, nothing to abrade your soft skin, and just quiet contemplation. Pure knowledge of everything- everything being nothing, brings you unimaginable comfort, and you rest in your dark, cool, comfortable place, in true harmony. Then suddenly everything is bright, and light, and loud. A million, billion voices screaming in your ears, a million, billion tiny cuts against your skin. You lash out to stop it, but as you feel something break beneath your fingers, the voices only get louder. You can't understand, can't know anything, you're both blind and seeing everything at once. It is agony.
With that, you take the first small step to understanding the Suffering One. We worship not to add to the cacophony, but to cancel it out. Our silent prayers taking place in softly lit churches give the Sufferer respite, and allow ourselves to get a glimpse of the perfect harmony that can exist once existence is no more. We kill and sacrifice not to be cruel or to overpower others, but to quieten the world. Our acolytes, assassins to the less educated, do not speak and ensure that others are silent as well...
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Originally Posted by Genth
Imagine living your entire life, countless hours of consciousness within a cool, comfortable, dark place. Nothing to bother you, nothing to abrade your soft skin, and just quiet contemplation. Pure knowledge of everything- everything being nothing, brings you unimaginable comfort, and you rest in your dark, cool, comfortable place, in true harmony. Then suddenly everything is bright, and light, and loud. A million, billion voices screaming in your ears, a million, billion tiny cuts against your skin. You lash out to stop it, but as you feel something break beneath your fingers, the voices only get louder. You can't understand, can't know anything, you're both blind and seeing everything at once. It is agony.
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