01 video - Cult Recruitment Attempt Number Two

[selfgodded]

[The feed flickers on to reveal a masked individual, their gender completely ambiguous]

Hello, Residents of Hinoto-Ri. I have been told that my earlier invitation to my cult was done rather poorly. I am not very experienced in recruiting in such ways, so please, forgive me for my clumsy blunders. I must have come across as suspicious, as many of you have said, and that was not my intent.

My intent is entirely pure.

But I am to explain it, yes? That was the criticism...

Humanity is something I have always admired. No matter how harsh the world becomes, no matter how dark and destructive your lives becomes, you struggle and fight against all the circumstances, to try and achieve - many things! You have dreams, ambitions, goals and needs, sometimes born of selfishness, sometimes born of altruism, and sometimes because you have nothing else, and the only direction you can go is up, or down, or sideways.

No matter the decisions humans make, be they for ill or good, the sheer depths of those emotions that rule your every movement are something...extremely fascinating. No, perhaps not emotions...your ingenuity, your intelligence and perseverance...

Humans never give up, even when it is clear they will lose.

This is the basis of my cult. To know and understand that success is there for those who will continuously struggle for it. To know that your decisions and consequences are accepted and encouraged - I would think that all humans would follow these rules, but I have learned that only a small portion of my world espouse these views. Many humans, in direct contrast, become meek and complacent, allowing the flows of time to push them to wherever the current goes, utterly apathetic to their own wants and needs.

That is also fine.

Choice is important. Humans can choose to struggle, humans can choose to give up - although it is better if they push and struggle, until they break.

My apologies. I must sound so contradictory in my words. In conclusion, my cult is for the celebration of the human condition. You are a wild, passionate species, that can destroy Gods and create worlds, coming in all ranges of personalities and ambitions. There is no 'evil', there is no 'good'. There is only humanity. And that is something to worship.

Those are my opinions. I have explained myself well now, yes? If there is further criticism on my conduct, please state it. I wish to spread this love for the human condition, even to those who loathe the darkness within, so developing better ways of 'advertising' it would be wonderful!

Please, think on it...

[The feed cuts off]

Comments

[forceofnature]

I'm always right. 90% of the time at least. Whenever it matters.

It's important to get the message out.

[selfgodded]

That is a high percentage of correctness! I am in awe!

[forceofnature]

I know!

I don't get why no one listens to me when I'm always right!

[selfgodded]

Humans are naturally suspicious creatures, so they would of course, be suspicious of such constant, erhm, rightness.

Regardless, some warning will not hurt them. It is their own choice to believe them or not.

I must go and sift through my scrapbooks...

[forceofnature]

I'm not just going to make things up to make the world more palatable! That totally defeats the point of being right all the time. They should just listen to me and do whatever I say.

[Viridi harumphs slightly.]

[selfgodded]

I am not accusing you of being a liar, merely stating that humans would conclude that at the continuous stream of correctiveness that you possess. As I said, they are suspicious, and being imperfect beings themselves, where being right is fifty/fifty, and perhaps sixty/forty if they have enough data to assist them, a ninety/ten chance of correctiveness is subject to dubiousness.

[forceofnature]

Humans are so irritating. It's like every aspect of them was designed to be as inefficient as possible.

[Says the one who partially helped design them.]

[selfgodded]

Ha ha ha.

[Anant laughed stiltedly]

I find it adorable. It is like a cat, always suspicious to come up to you, but if you hold out your hand long enough, and have some food, eventually they will come to you and let themselves be observed more closely.

...although, in retrospect, human children are more susceptible to that method of observation. Adults are still far too suspicious.

[forceofnature]

To get the adults, you hold out giant handfuls of diamonds and gold. There won't be any 'eventually' about it, either.

[selfgodded]

Diamonds and gold? Why would they be interested in useless materials?

...well, diamonds and gold have use in scientific contraptions, but they're only of use to those that build such things, like engineers or scientists, not the common man.

[forceofnature]

Because they're shiny? I wouldn't know. Honestly, they're all just rocks; if you ask me, a good graded limestone is much prettier.

[selfgodded]

This is true... humans enjoy placing value on things that are otherwise worthless to them. It is rather baffling.

However, if that is the case, then perhaps I should coax some adult humans close for observation with those items. Thank you for the suggestion!

[FYI Anant's pockets are full of uncut stones and pretty materials...because they are pretty...]

[forceofnature]

No problem.

If you sprinkle them over a hamburger patty and a chocolate bar, I bet you'll get twice as many takers.

[selfgodded]

But...humans can't digest rocks...

[forceofnature]

Thank goodness for that. I have enough to deal what with loss of vegetation and barren land without having to worry about massive-scale planetary erosion.

[selfgodded]

...

Oh! You were making a joke! Ahaha!

[forceofnature]

...

Yes, on the scale of 1 to Hilarious, that actually ranked up near 'Peed Your Pants', so you should go ahead and fake-laugh a little harder than that.