there is only one devil

Elza 2022-10-08 00:17:22

At one point, the victor shouted Hallelujah and charged forward, overthrowing the values ​​that do not want to admit that there is only one name in the world, and the flesh that bears these values. The sad thing is that these noble souls who are dying are the ones who take the lead in taking the stick.
If your body is immortal, and the ants around you are rushing away from you, you must have experienced countless forced position choices. Whether to stand in front of the term to defend the true God, or to fall behind that term and commit to the ministers. But tens of thousands of battles are just to prove that the noun they hold high is the incarnation of eternal truth. The crowded, well-trained, merciless, and the unsympathetic will always triumph and temporarily rise to the pinnacle of truth. And you, to join the party, bet your life and soul out of belief, reason, morality, utilitarian future or any purpose.
Jesus taught you to love, the true bishop taught you to love, Buddha taught you to love, Zhongni taught you to love, and the birds and animals in the world taught you to love. But the people on the ground pick up sticks, temper swords and cast guns, and wrap their prejudice with the banner of "love".
There can be thousands of gods, but the devil is always the one in common.

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  • Elenora 2022-05-23 23:06:08

    The light of truth and reason represented by the neo-Platonist female philosopher Hypatia is like the last white candle with weak firepower in the dark night, swaying in the bloody rain of religious cleansing and killing, gradually disappearing. Her death heralded the decline of Greek science and culture ever since. Human civilization may take three steps back and two steps, and hobble forward. But humanity has been stumbling from beginning to end in a selfish, ignorant, stupid and cruel place. Christ on the shelf not only shed blood but also shed tears. The cry of "to love each other", is it that human beings will never understand?

  • Kailyn 2022-05-23 23:54:16

    Perhaps history is like the elliptical trajectory of Hypatia. You thought it was drifting away, but after a round, you returned to the closest point.

Agora quotes

  • Heladius Dignitary: The majority of us here... have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It's only a matter of time and you know it.

    Hypatia: Really? It is just a matter of time?... As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors. Is it really just a matter of time before I accept your faith?

    Heladius Dignitary: Why should this assembly accept the council of someone who admittedly believes in absolutely nothing?

    Hypatia: I believe in philosophy.

  • Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?

    Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.

    Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?