Wraywolf
07-13-2004, 03:33 PM
The goal of the human self is to seek out others. The burning need to seek out companionship is the left over instinct from times when it was needed for the primitive tribesman to huddle together against the lurking shadows outside of the hearths protective warmth. Banding together against the hostile elements meant survival, and for some reason survival is what all life strives for. But then, with the human minds realization of its own existence, evolved a new brand of will. To better control the resources that surrounded it, to improve the chances for survival and propagation, there evolved from the simple animal mind of humans the intangible limb of conclusion, allowing humanity to utilize inanimate matter as well as the living flesh in order to better the survive and perpetuate its genes. The ability of thought, ideas, pictures and notions without physical form, that do not exist in the realm of the five senses, yet to the self there is no doubt of their realness. With this new cognitive ability, humanity progressed and were able to better balk the malicious forces of the world surrounding them. Human beings now carry the light of the hearth with them, letting it grow brighter, and shine upon the world in order to pacify it.
But, from this new ability which the world was made hospitable, arose new strife. The by product of the lucid mind, the concept of self, created the thing which could be understood as ‘soul’. Morality, complicated emotion, art, music, theocracy, all born from the soul, served as a new and interesting variable for the human survival. The very thing that pacified the world, the very hearth that kept one warm, was as a wildfire whose goal and purpose was to engulf all flammable things. The soul is a predatory entity, a malignant being that relies on the destruction of its kin in order to propagate. Theocracy most often was used to these means, numbing the souls of others into conformity and idleness, drying the spirits into brittle husks easily devoured by flame. It is the nature of the soul to feast endlessly on the ones that are weaker then itself, to spread the fire which burns but not consumes, forever onward, and one only need to open a history book to know it true.
Now we are in a time where contact with another is becoming optional, the need for other people diminishing as technological advancements become more pronounced. Now, those with weak souls can somewhat protect themselves. Through isolation from others, one is allowed to become certain. Distancing themselves from the hungry fires, a weak soul is allowed to burn on itself and let its own hallucinations and ideas to solidify, emotions becoming hollow and the needs of the flesh the only heeded cries. If one were to transcend to a state of pure isolationism, something that one day soon may indeed be possible, it would allow a blissful yet hungry existence for the self. Denied its desire to devour anything but itself, the soul would eventually smother, and fizzle out, allowing an individual to lead a stable existence free of pain and happiness.
It all comes down to the choice of the one who exists what to do with their soul. To through it among other for it to devour the brittle husks, or in turn become itself an enflamed servant appendage of the stronger, or to keep it inside and let it smolder, burning away all forms of itself until all that is left is the motionless cognitive and lustful meat. Insanity that is the human soul, for what else can it be called when one sees things that do not exist, is the ultimate human predatory, whose diet is exclusive and who feeds unconscious of its infinite hunger.
But, from this new ability which the world was made hospitable, arose new strife. The by product of the lucid mind, the concept of self, created the thing which could be understood as ‘soul’. Morality, complicated emotion, art, music, theocracy, all born from the soul, served as a new and interesting variable for the human survival. The very thing that pacified the world, the very hearth that kept one warm, was as a wildfire whose goal and purpose was to engulf all flammable things. The soul is a predatory entity, a malignant being that relies on the destruction of its kin in order to propagate. Theocracy most often was used to these means, numbing the souls of others into conformity and idleness, drying the spirits into brittle husks easily devoured by flame. It is the nature of the soul to feast endlessly on the ones that are weaker then itself, to spread the fire which burns but not consumes, forever onward, and one only need to open a history book to know it true.
Now we are in a time where contact with another is becoming optional, the need for other people diminishing as technological advancements become more pronounced. Now, those with weak souls can somewhat protect themselves. Through isolation from others, one is allowed to become certain. Distancing themselves from the hungry fires, a weak soul is allowed to burn on itself and let its own hallucinations and ideas to solidify, emotions becoming hollow and the needs of the flesh the only heeded cries. If one were to transcend to a state of pure isolationism, something that one day soon may indeed be possible, it would allow a blissful yet hungry existence for the self. Denied its desire to devour anything but itself, the soul would eventually smother, and fizzle out, allowing an individual to lead a stable existence free of pain and happiness.
It all comes down to the choice of the one who exists what to do with their soul. To through it among other for it to devour the brittle husks, or in turn become itself an enflamed servant appendage of the stronger, or to keep it inside and let it smolder, burning away all forms of itself until all that is left is the motionless cognitive and lustful meat. Insanity that is the human soul, for what else can it be called when one sees things that do not exist, is the ultimate human predatory, whose diet is exclusive and who feeds unconscious of its infinite hunger.