Saturday, June 3, 2017

Spiritual Truth is Fantastic

Fantasies are not reality. They are feelings shaped by thoughts into imagination.

Stark reality is hopelessly uninspiring. Things bump and grind and are either annihilated or simply exhausted.

I imagine worlds where heroes explore exotic locales, meet interesting people, survive strange horrors and slaughter droves of baddies.

The exotic locales of the real world are swarming with annoying bugs, the water is unsafe to drink and vaccinations before visiting are a must. The people ramble in what is gibberish unless you learn how to talk over and over again. The horrors are horrible without the strangeness. The baddies may slaughter you.

I imagine empires and barbarians interacting in a dramatic flow and balance of survival-of-the-fittest. Intrigue, diplomacy, espionage and war make everything all the more interesting.

The politics of reality are nasty games of petty grievances and slanderous accusations. Its espionage and wars are inglorious murder and mayhem.

Heroes may survive their harrowing adventures unscathed. They will become slow, weak and frail and die anyway. Beautiful women become old and ugly.

A hero as a figment of imagination is forever in his prime. Beautiful women are forever young and beautiful.

There are spiritual truths in fantasy not to be found in reality. There is good and evil. There are heroes and villains. The struggle of good against evil is adventurous. Heroes do thrive in the face of horrors. The intrigue, diplomacy, espionage and war do make everything more interesting. There are damsels in distress to rescue. Nameless baddies are easy to slaughter in droves. Imagination reveals what cannot to be found in the gears that grind us.

4 comments:

  1. WEIRD! I wrote a similar blog before I read this! Yes, yes! Reality is extremely disappointing, but the cool stuff we like about fiction is still there. It is HEAVILY suppressed. Here is the endgame that I am working towards: A completely and utter reversal. Yes, it sounds crazy, but that is what I am supporting. To hell with anyone who opposes that.

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    1. Totally. We've had enough of LIFE AS IT IS. It's been time for LIFE AS IT SHOULD BE all along. As for us being on the same note: RELUCTANT hero or gangster?

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  2. Indeed reality is boring, the world is ruled by entities that would rather we grind to dust. The only way out of the grind is to live for the spirit and build anew.

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    1. Yes, LIFE AS IT IS is not LIFE AS IT SHOULD BE. Our job is to do something about that.

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