User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171011120908/@comment-4867780-20171020050409

Oh ! So the revelation was actually made by Jesus ? I could never tell apart what he really said himself and what was later added by generations of followers, as it often happens with ancient historical figures. Who wrote the Bible exactly ? And when did they ? It somehow sounds like a collective WIP modified many times over the centuries, so it seems hard to reliably tell who really said what, or if it even happened at all it the first place. The sceptic in me cannot help but notice the wide margin for fabrications, and the tendency for human beings to deceive one another when there are interests at stake (even what we call "history" contains as much lies and distortions as facts, because it is written by those in control in the way that best serves their own interests).

Amidst all these disturbing uncertainties, faith does provide a much welcome relief. Since we will never really know what actually happened, we might as well settle for the version that is the most comfortable to live with.

"Their suffering will be just a very, very distant memory in the eternity of happiness that will follow."

Aww, how I dislike this line of thinking ^ ^; It demonstrates a chilling lack of empathy for the suffering currently endured, that it essentially brushes aside with barely veiled indifference, and is ultimately incorrect as well since happiness is a "here and now" kind of thing, so it doesn’t exist in the present, then it doesn’t exist at all. That’s why it should be cultivated in the present as much as possible, as it is the one thing that clearly separates a precious existence worth holding onto from a painful burden you’d be better off without.

Creating sapient life feels forbidden when done by other sapient life due to them being created as a tool to an end, most usually to server as a slave race to their creators, and because of the latent risk of turning on their masters with devastating consequences. When it comes to gods though (which the First Soul definitely is), creating sapient life is one of the main prerogatives of their status/role, and it is ultimately expected of them to do so. As the Soul of Ether, wouldn’t he be able to seed his own soul into that of his creation, just like the Great Guardian did ? It really doesn’t take full-blown Omnipotence to create souls, and there doesn’t seem to be any particular reason why he couldn’t simply replicate the seeding process and arts system in a smaller and simpler way, exactly like how he created his world based on existing ones the Great Guardian made.

I honestly don’t think they need the Great Guardian or his Great Travel at all, they already have their own creator after all, who is quite capable and willing to offer them all the happiness and fulfillment they could possibly need. The GG’s plan is irrelevant to them anyway, since they are not his creations but the First Soul’s, who has jurisdiction over them and freely decides what their destiny should be.

I get the disturbing feeling of a "One Way" that everyone has to stick to and cannot exist outside of, that is admittedly the necessary foundation of religious systems (that inherently define themselves by rejecting alternatives, or even denying their existence altogether). From what I understand, there is no arrogance in following your own way, it is actually a sign of strength and maturity, this "my way is the only way" mindset on the other hand does come off as both the epitome of arrogance and the root all tyranny. Did the Great Guardian really think the First Soul would just blindly follow and obey him like a child for all eternity ? Or did the First Soul really never considered to leave his skirts ? ^ ^;

"leaving them eternally separated from GG, the only way to be truly loved, happy and satisfied"

That’s not true, is it ? There are plenty of ways to feel truly happy, and the nigh-omnipotent First Soul has all the necessary power to make it happen, making the Great Guardian plainly unnecessary, even more so since he neither created or seeded his soul into them, nor even intervenes at all, so he might as even not even exist as far as they are concerned. Which is fine, unless he’s bit of a control freak XD

So the endgame of the Great Travel is to basically be reabsorbed into the Great Guardian ? Doesn’t that make the whole thing ultimately pointless, the same way the final chapter of a series essentially erases everything that happened, like a ephemeral spark fading back into oblivion without a trace.

Life *is* travel, life is change, the end of travel and change is just the end of life, and I don’t see how that could possibly be considered a good thing, let alone the ultimate reward to look forward to ^ ^;

The First Soul doesn’t have to do everything for them, he could simply outlaw wars, thus forcing people to settle their differences in a civilized way. Allowing slaughters for the sake of freedom is clearly an aberration both morally and logically, a nightmarish waste of human lives and precious resources. Not to mention wars are usually started by those confident in their own victory, so it is little more than bloodthirsty bullying on a large scale, followed by plundering and enslavement.

The First Soul can’t possibly stand by such madness and pretend to care about right and wrong ^ ^;

We don’t endure hardships to get stronger, we get stronger because we endure hardships. And we endure hardships because… we have no choice, plain and simple. The only alternative to suffering is death, and we are neurologically hardcoded to see it as the most undesirable thing ever, until reality proves us wrong and "nothing" appears rather appealing in comparison.

I think the human tendency to romanticize hardships is simply a psychological strategy to better cope with the inevitable, and would be dropped immediately is a happy alternative was only offered to us.

That’s what Selforge City essentially is : complete happiness served on a silver plate from the get go, without having to endure, earn or prove anything to anyone – because when all is said and done, life without any suffering is simply better, so we might as well uproot it completely given the chance ^ ^