Sermon #1 - text

[raptura]

[Just a simple little post from username 'Bluemarine', but it's posted for everyone to see and the option to reply in any format you like is there, should you feel like it. Somebody sure has the burning desire to ask everyone a question (or piss off as many people as they can, depending).]

How many of you believe in an afterlife? Or...What I should ask is; how many of you understand that you're slaves to fate and destiny, no matter how unhappy yours might be?

You're welcome to try and change my mind on that front, if you think you have the intellect.

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[wearingguess]

Ah no
The person themselves does not change color, only their rukh, which ordinary people cannot see. [ in other words, if you're thinking about my baby, it don't matter if you're black or white. ] (I have not personally seen anyone with rukh dyed in black but a friend of mine has told me about it)

It is not really a "punishment"
It is just a principle of the world, like any other physical law. The great flow, which contains the wills and cumulative actions of everyone who has ever lived, is what binds the world together and keeps it moving forward into the future. In a sense, it is itself destiny. So someone who has utterly rejected their own path within that flow naturally becomes incompatible with it

[raptura]

Oh, boo. There goes my hopes of witnessing such a thing. At least I know of the concept now, and that's still very much an interesting idea to me.

Thinking of it as a punishment...Was perhaps too binary of me, yes. Rejecting destiny and being kept from the flow of it is simply nature, and that seems more like the chaotic force that fate can sometimes be. Thank you for going into detail on the matter! :)

[wearingguess]

It is certainly my pleasure!
Do you know whether you have any magical ability? If so, it is possible for you to learn to perceive the rukh. And then you could potentially witness a fall into depravity!
Assuming such a thing can happen in this place of course.

[raptura]

I have some sort, yes. I'm loathe to describe it over such a public forum, but I'll leave it at the fact that I do have some, since that seems to be the only thing that matters.

I don't suppose you could teach me how to perceive rukh, should I be able to at all, without us being face-to-face? I'm a little shy in public.

[wearingguess]

Well
I can assure you that you are capable of it
and I am certainly willing to try.
But
In fact, I have no idea how to teach such a thing. I actually cannot think of where I would even begin.

[raptura]

That's alright! Don't push yourself to do this; it was a matter of curiosity and nothing more. That you even wanted to means a lot to me, as well as the information you've already given me. My horizons are broadening a lot today, and for that I have to thank you!

[Does that hide his disappointment at not being able to see who he should destroy and who he shouldn't? He sure hopes so!]