12-26-2004, 08:03 AM
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Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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Being on Fire
I have been thinking about fire a lot recently. I read "Good Omens", and fire always comes to mind when Revelations is contemplated. I am getting ready to start a new D&D game, and I am playing a mage who is arson waiting to happen. And, of course, there is my new avatar, title, and quote. So I was going through the things that I've saved from newsgroup posts over the years, and I ran across this, and I thought to myself, "Myself, we need to share this with the rest of the class."
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<b>Being on Fire</b>
<i>An Excremeditation</i>
We spend almost all our time not being on fire, yet fire is one of the four traditional elements and without it we would be cold and there would be no toast. We owe it to ourselves to contemplate fire. Not just fire, but related concepts as well: flamability, burning, burnt, inflamability. Fire has been used by man and yetikind for a very long time. Fire is used to burn toast, puppies and virgins. What other element is so universal that it can bring those three things together?
Fire is a powerful tool as well. A big enough lever can move a building, but a tiny little match can fix what's wrong with Southern California. Fire does more than just physical work, it can effect you psychologically as well. Gaze into a fire and the genes of some tiny rodent-like ancestor will scream up through the aeons "THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF!" Being such an important tool the CON don't want you use it how you see fit. They want you to burn DURAFLAME logs. They outlaw cooking over fire that is not CON controlled and authorized, like LA's air pollution comes from charcoal grills rather than CON factories. Interest in fire is labeled a sexual perversion. Big fires are particularly prohibited, you need a CON issued licence for a Bonfire ("beautiful fire"), you need a CON issued licence for fireworks. The CON wants to surround us with inflammable objects until we have no choice but to pay for the fire maintained in generating stations by the CON utility company or only burn the CON delivered poison gas that gets pumped into our homes. Think about that, you let a quasi-governmental corporation install a poison gas line into your home and then YOU pay THEM for it. Used to be if you wanted toast you could just set you kids PJs on fire, but now everything in your home is UL listed (that means inflammable).
In a way, fire is like slack. Everyone has the capability to make their own for free. Once you have a little you have everything you need to make more. But if you make too much the CON notices you and beats you down cause your only supposed to get it from them. If you enjoy it in large quantities in non-CON authorized contexts you are labeled a sexual deviant. But they are both your birthright and you must take them back. Now personally I'd rather be full of slack than on fire, but fire is better in one important way. Getting others to open up to true slack can be a difficult task, many people are so brainwashed that they don't even believe it exists. But everyone, no matter how thoughroughly programmed by the CON, can be set on fire and once someone is on fire they can comprehend slack. So despair not fellow ministers! If you find your words falling on deaf ears you now have a powerful teaching tool. Search out those most in need of slack, who are sadly often the most resistant to having their eyes opened, and set them on fire. They will thank you for it later.
Myrkury
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Stay warm, everybody.
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Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns.
Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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