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Are any of you familiar with Carl Jung? If not, then I suggest you do.

But that is not my reason to come to you today. Rather it is to, perhaps, open your eyes should you chose to do so.

What makes good, good and evil, evil? Should both be simply placed as one or the other? If the 'evil' become the ruling force, would the rules be reversed? If someone steps up to remove a tyrant, are they doing good, or, in the eyes of others, are they being the ones who are evil?

...Or are we what makes these forces exist in the first place? Can good be really called good if there is no evil to defeat, no goal for them to attain?

You were all called here for a reason, but should you believe one side...or the other about what is the truth? As we become more enlightened, we tend to forget what came before. And as history has a tendency to repeat itself...

A man looks above to the nearby mountain. He knows not how it was made, and therefore decides that a god put it there. Is this man false? Scientifically, perhaps, we know that mountains are produced by the movement of lithospheric plates. Yet when we knew nothing of this, we saw the truth in a god. And so, this idea is born and now exists. Man gave it power, and the ability to create the mountain is now that god's.

Personas are reflections of a character's inner self, yet they are the gods, demons and powerful creatures of our worlds.

So then...can a man become a god...or was he always one?

Comments

[greyerrant]

Reality exists because it is true, not because we believe in it. All that belief does is empower and inspire us to fight for mankind's destiny, in a secular future.

And of course. Any such idea would have foes who would prefer to remain lost in the darkness of ignorance, or pact with the dark things at the edges of reality. Corpse-whisperers and worshipers of fanes. Traitors to the truth, who valued their own ambitions over the good of Humanity.

[therooms]

And yet these Foes you speak of would consider you the villain. That which must be defeated.

[greyerrant]

Certainly. But do you let a child drown, because they resist you while trying to save them?

[therooms]

Someone else might have said that all life should be saved.

My own opinion is that would depend on the child.

[greyerrant]

I would save the child. And as such, I must fight those that wallow in ignorance, to bring them illumination. Not out of cruelty or spite, but because I want to help.

[therooms]

Just never forget that one man's truth might be its own ignorance. Regardless, I wish you luck.

[greyerrant]

The nature of empirical observation denies this. Astartes do not need luck. Strength and honor, though, that is what we desire, and remind ourselves of before war.