Many perished, few survived. The statistics a terrible realisation of the truth that in the last days the desensitisation of our society had been the most successful campaign the dark lord had ever set into motion.
Rather than spending his time thinking up and implementing devious ways to make people take their own life, fade into drug oblivion, be killed through wars disasters and incurable man made viruses or any of the millions of ways we had been wiping ourselves out since the dawn of time. He sought a way of obliterating us with one last calculative move. On a warm cloudless day in spring while strolling amongst beautiful oak trees in Centennial Park it struck him.
Standing a short distance away he spied a family! A father and mother and one child, while the parents lay on the short cropped grass their child, a young girl aged three or four years old, played by herself amongst the flowers beneath the ancient trees. A short while passed, as he looked on with fascination as the parents payed no attention to the excited girl who explored just within sight of her father and mother. Repeatedly the little girl had brought various things back to her parents as they lay there reading their magazines and over and over they had disregarded her adventuring and the things she was collecting, saying things like; (put that down its dirty or go and play, your father and I are busy.)
A conniving smile broke out on his face, lips stretched taut across his sharp teeth, “that’s it” he hissed.
A moment later he appeared in his laboratory, to begin the task of convincing the whole of humanity to abandon beauty and become enamoured with the mundane.
He began by creating “the dream” that statement preceded with country of origin. People soon started to turn from dreams of grandeur and immense magnitude to dreams of owning things such as shiny new cars and larger domiciles, things that are easily broken, stolen or burnt.
Then he turned his attention to their entertainment. Swapping out things such as beautifully created stories and lovingly, painstakingly poured over pieces of art and film for what came to be known in the early days as reality television. A concoction so cunning that had all but the most devoted aficionado fighting for a warm spot in front of the families’ massive L.C.D TV to watch someone else’s family scrap for position in front of their own brand name plasma screen. And in the process numbing the minds of generations thus subduing a whole society.
The dark lord looked at what he had done and thought to himself “this is good”. He rested waiting for the inevitable outcome
All too quickly people started lining up out front of stores to buy bigger T.V sets and box set DVDs of shows with names like “That other family” and “Watch the Joneses” and in the process sales of these items went through the roof along with the average national credit card debt, which in turn drove people to work longer hours and spend more tired hours in front of their favorite shows. A circle of perpetual destruction that sent the world on a slippery ride, straight down! Into the spirit crushing jaws of indifference. Which in turn led, as many of us who survived believe, was the final scene in the fatal drama the dark lord saw played out.
The last and ultimate conclusion in this saga, “the nail in the coffin”, was the concept that the dark lord called “relative truth”. He began this lie by planting the idea in people’s heads that we should respect all nations (not in itself a wrong idea), but then twisting it to take in all religions, desires, perversions and opinions no matter how misguided. This ultimately gave people the sense that they were god like and that they could create their own truth and reality of spirituality that suited their needs and could be modified to fit their chosen way of life. This, as is very plain to most of us who survived was a very well conceived and executed trick to get people to abandon the reality of true spirituality, so plainly evident at the time in hindsight, but almost secret in the final days of this rouse. And some of us have ourselves to blame for that secrecy, as we also were deceived into believing these lies and to our shame we became silent and afraid non-confrontational squanderers of “The Gift”.
Thankfully though, the Great Spirit who is benevolently gracious, sought to rescue us in our ignorance and stupidity through His own sacrifice and at great cost to His family. For this we are most grateful! “The Gift” is His ultimate expression to us and as we live in the comfort of His halls we give thanks to Him for what He has done and for who He is.
Do we all agree?
And they all raised their voices as one and shouted, “we agree, thanks and praise be to You The Great Spirit”.
corex
