| From: | MC23 mc23@**********.com |
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| Subject: | Horrors |
| Date: | Thu, 4 Feb 99 12:46:54 -0500 |
Date: 1/27/97 8:13 PM
Received: 1/27/97 8:32 PM
From: David Buehrer, dbuehrer@****.ORG
Reply-To: Shadowrun Discussion, SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
To: Shadowrun Discussion, SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
A friend of mine sent me something... and after a little editing :)
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Dear Editor-
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there are no Horrors.
Papa says, "If you see it on Alt.Horrors, it's so." Please tell me the
truth, are there Horrors who will come to earth from some distant
dimension to clear the Earth of all living things?
-----Virgina Marsh
Virgina, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the
fever of enlightenment given to them by a so-called "enlightened" age.
They do not believe in anything unless it carries the weight of
scientific authority. They think that nothing can be which is not
comprehensible by their little minds. Reality is that which can be
cataloged and measured, to be spooned out in rational doses to the
common people. All minds, Virgina, whether they be adult's or
children's, are little. In this vast chaos we laughingly call the
universe, man is a mere insect, a bug, whose intellect has as much
chance of grasping the whole truth, as an ant has of understanding
non-Euclidian geometry.
Yes, Virgina, there are Horrors. They exists as certainly as the cold
unfeelingness of the cosmos exist, and you know that this
meaninglessness abounds and gives to your life its highest absurdity.
Alas! how comfortable would be the world if there were no Horrors! It
would be as comforting as if a Santa Claus truly did care and reward
children for doing good. There would be childlike faith then, a world
of sweet believable poetry and romance to make existence idyllic and
appealing. The external light with which childhood fills the world
would never end.
Not believe in Horrors?! You might as well not believe in immortal
elves. You might get your papa's science books and Skeptical Inquirers
to see if the Horrors are mentioned in any historical contexts, but
even if you did not find either mentioned in your 'holy' books, what
would that prove? Nobody sees or knows of Horrors, but that is no sign
that there are no Horrors. The most real things in the world are those
that we can not know through the senses. Can the headache of your
friend be felt by you? No, but his pain affects your life regardless.
Do you feel the angst of living a life you never wanted through any of
your five senses? No, yet the despair remains. Yet if such realities
are known but are never seen, then why should other's ignorance of the
unseen lead us to share in their blindness. By what right have they
earned your obedience? Nobody can conceive of the inconceivable,
including your leaders of thought.
You tear apart the rattle of a baby to see what lies inside to make
such noise, but the tiny balls there can not explain or illustrate the
fear of a hostile world, that makes that baby clutch and shake that
rattle so. Only reaching for insanity can one push aside the curtain
of our hopes and view with stark madness the emptiness that lies
beyond. Is that reality? Is that the truth? To give an answer is to
replace the curtain with but one more. And it is this, that makes the
Horrors as true and as real as any veil we place on the chaos beyond.
If one must create a meaning, why not the Horrors. At least the choice
is free.
The Horrors live and live forever. Two thousand years from now,
Virgina, nay 10 times 2,000 years from now, they will continue to await
the time when the stars are right again. For with those which eternal
lie, with strange eons even death may die.
-----H. (Guest Editor for the Seattle Screamer)
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-David
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