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“that if I’m all happy and life’s full of roses, and… say… a meteor strikes the Earth, then because I’m all positive and stuff, I won’t experience it? My world will go on without the meteor while Bill the bad boy is there with the rest of those eradicated?” |
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“What you must realize about these layers of reality is, that one can travel so far from another in their frame of existence that the other person completely disappears from their lives. Creation makes this seem to be a matter of ‘falling out of touch’ or ‘forgetting about a person’ but in reality, they have really disappeared – the greater the disparity between the frames they exist in, the less likely they are to ever interact. The two now exist in entirely differing frames of reality. |
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If we bear guilt, we tend to be dense, drifting into the Hellish layers. If our conscience is clean, we float into the higher realms. |
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“Transcendence? Ok, so, yeah, now you have me interested,” Walt exclaimed, “what’s the deal with the ‘afterlife’? What exactly happens after we die?”
“Oooh,” the angel smacked his lips, “that’s a tough one to answer, really.” “But you said spirits travel here after they die, right? So you obviously know something!” “Yes, the problem is not any lack of knowledge. Rather, it is how I must express it to you.” An intensely thoughtful look settled on Michael’s face as Walt began to feel something akin to a ‘tickle’ inside his brain. “I’m sorry to intrude,” Michael said before Walt could comment, “But I need to understand your perspectives and assumptions on the matter before I can answer you in a way you will comprehend.” “Um… makes sense I guess…” Walt grumbled though Michael seemed mentally distant, then snapped back to nearly interrupt Walter’s statement. “You do not fully understand what a soul is.” Michael stated matter-of-factly. |
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“Transcendence? Ok, so, yeah, now you have me interested,” Walt exclaimed. “What’s the deal with the ‘afterlife’? What exactly happens after we die?”
The angel struggled to answer. Walt felt a tickle inside his mind as the angel appeared distant. "I'm sorry to intrude," Michael said, "but I needed to understand your perspectives and assumptions on the matter before I could answer you in a way you would comprehend. You do not fully understand what a soul is." |
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If you look carefully, I have hinted at some cracks in the angel's story. I thought you of all people might've found them (In otherwords, I'm hoping you, as a reader do bring along with you the thinking encapsulated in the Star Trek quote: "What need does God have for a spaceship?") |
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However, all of this information we're getting is eluding to an entirely new story, as though we've just concluded the prologue. As peaceful as the moon has appeared, knowledge that the soul can be destroyed (even if by extraordinary means) and the devil is actively seeking to stake his claim on Earth makes me far more uneasy than being lost in space with no fuel. We're not approaching any kind of resolution, we're hefting a ton of new troubles onto our shoulders. |
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So you're saying we should look for the man behind the curtain? Ok. Let's do that. Question everything, trust no one. The truth is out there. |
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The irony in your comments is stunning, Lebby. I have just begun to go back through, reading my story from the beginning now that I am more distant from the original writing of those chapters. And what I found was much the same as what you pointed out in this chapter. I do tend to use a hell of a lot more words than necessary to say what I'm trying to get across. And I tend to repeat myself a lot. I found that if I were simply a reader, not only would I sometimes get lost in an overwhelming amount of irrelevant detail, but would have often felt that my intelligence were insulted.
I have a problem in thinking that I'm not likely to be very understood so I do try too hard where more careful wording could overcome the problem. I'm not sure how to overcome this except to lay it out there and see those things in retrospect, long after the original writing. Your example was superb. It makes me wonder why I struggle to simplify so much - but its always been a problem for me. Perhaps its just going to be that aspect of authoring where I'll always need others to help me see how I could have worded things more efficiently. But then, this is why I invite criticism. It really does help. |
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The irony in your comments is stunning, Lebby. |
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