to: everyone

[restingstitchface]

Everyone. There has been nothing convenient about entertaining a few of our divine friends these past months. At this point, I believe some of them meddle in our lives on purpose. But you know how these beings are. Loving, violent and above all selfish. But their conduct should never be mistaken as good or bad.

Do you want the opinion of a professional? It’s human.

Of course, when I examine our delusions about being divine, and remember my mortal origins, it motivates me to question where they come from.

Were they once human like us?

In any case, I would like to remind you that your memories will take you by surprise. Not today. Nor tomorrow. But someday you will recall more about who you were, and perhaps find you cannot stand it. And whether that happens today or tomorrow, take a seat and have a drink, and try not to take yourself too seriously.

Comments

open to threadjacking;

[stations]

How are you defining 'human' in this context? If you're considering the Old Gods basically human in behavior and motivation, I'm just curious where you'd start drawing the line. Especially since a lot of them, and a lot of the Summoned, are a completely different species than human to begin with.

[nomnoms]

[magicalarchaeologist]

They were. Theoretically, they were Summoned a few thousand years ago and this happened to them, including the clown god who started the group vision.

[rookvision]

I’d be surprised if that’s not where they started from, considering what happened to us in that dream/vision/whatever that was. Something doesn’t come out of nothing, and the fact that they act like that does make me wonder if perhaps they haven’t left all of their humanity behind when they did

whatever it was that made them what they are now.

[thoughts]

i met the clown. he said we were special and that humans are jealous of us. made them dance just because he could, because he wanted to, said it was our right.

selfish and violent. not good. jury's still out on bad. i don't know about loving but seemingly human, or humanlike. he was just having fun.

[thearchangel]

You know, turn back the clocks a few years and I'd have said there was no way something called a "god" was ... you know. Normal. But then this place and... other things happened.

So who knows? Maybe they were?

Can't agree about the "human" bit, though. A guy could take offense.

[He's not. He's trying to be funny. What a comedian.]

[princessvegas]

Umbvaghr was for sure human and from some version of Earth at some point. That motherfucker definitely had multiple finstas before he was a god. Bet he was a 4chan troll.

[tedandroses]

What makes what we experienced a delusion?
I know a lot of us are happy to call it that. Or a dream, an unreality, an illusion.

But. Given the assumption that this world itself is not a delusion, that you're not going to wake up from Oz and are functionally reminding the Tin Man to sit down and have a drink, and we are all in fact real people -- and also, evidence that other states and worlds and realities exist, like the Horizon, or like those of us who aren't from Earth, and even a good few who are and whose timelines don't quite match up with each other --

We have memories, in that life where we had powers, whatever you want to call it. Ones we can agree on. People we know, friends we made without having met them here, that we remember the faces of without priming or prompting. What makes it a delusion and this Abraxas real, except that it's unreachable?

[shaltnot]

Nothing's more humbling than realizing God isn't all that magnanimous in His divinity.

Guessing that's the same for the gods around here, then? I heard there was a whole mess with them.