10-10-2006, 08:15 PM
The flyers were a bit hard to grasp or believe at first, and perhaps maybe that's why they were saved for the final book. But that is just a speculation.
Then again, when I first read Tales of Power, I found much of it hard to believe, and I, like many people, took it to be mostly metaphors used to help people learn. But then a friend who I had looked up to for a long time said to me, "How do you know it's not true? This world is mysterious and amazing, and to assume that what we already know is all there is to infinity, is just plain dumb." From that point on, I kept reading, and opened myself more and more to the possibility that there is much MUCH more to infinity.
But in the case of flyers, why is it so far-fetched that we have to think of it in terms of a satanic evil metaphor? I mean we battle viruses every time cold season comes around don't we? Everywhere we look there are predators and prey. When we are attacked by a virus, we are aware of it because we obviously become sick. And so we do whatever we can to fight it off. But with flyers, many people are aware that they are ill, because we are constantly hungry for something, depressed about something, or just never satisfied. We are constantly craving food, sex, drugs, whatever. But we never have been confronted with the possibility that there may be more to it than just our own weakness.
The seers made references to flyers keeping us in human "coops" in the same way that we keep chickens in chicken-coops. These chickens don't realize that they are being kept and raised for food. They just enjoy the easy food and shelter that they constantly have. Perhaps now and then a chicken longs for what is beyond the fence, but once the farmer comes out with more seed the same chicken will run over and start gobbling it up.
The fact that flyers may be really here, keeping us in a subdued state doesn't in any way change the fact that we are still responsible for reaching freedom outside of our human coops. Maybe we just need to quit gobbling up the "seed" that is constantly in front of us.
Then again, when I first read Tales of Power, I found much of it hard to believe, and I, like many people, took it to be mostly metaphors used to help people learn. But then a friend who I had looked up to for a long time said to me, "How do you know it's not true? This world is mysterious and amazing, and to assume that what we already know is all there is to infinity, is just plain dumb." From that point on, I kept reading, and opened myself more and more to the possibility that there is much MUCH more to infinity.
But in the case of flyers, why is it so far-fetched that we have to think of it in terms of a satanic evil metaphor? I mean we battle viruses every time cold season comes around don't we? Everywhere we look there are predators and prey. When we are attacked by a virus, we are aware of it because we obviously become sick. And so we do whatever we can to fight it off. But with flyers, many people are aware that they are ill, because we are constantly hungry for something, depressed about something, or just never satisfied. We are constantly craving food, sex, drugs, whatever. But we never have been confronted with the possibility that there may be more to it than just our own weakness.
The seers made references to flyers keeping us in human "coops" in the same way that we keep chickens in chicken-coops. These chickens don't realize that they are being kept and raised for food. They just enjoy the easy food and shelter that they constantly have. Perhaps now and then a chicken longs for what is beyond the fence, but once the farmer comes out with more seed the same chicken will run over and start gobbling it up.
The fact that flyers may be really here, keeping us in a subdued state doesn't in any way change the fact that we are still responsible for reaching freedom outside of our human coops. Maybe we just need to quit gobbling up the "seed" that is constantly in front of us.