Abishai100
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This work is based on ideas regarding metaphysics guidance and was inspired by both Paradise Lost and The Transformers: The Movie.
Edmer is a fictional warrior-robot, wolfish and cunning, and represents ruthless confidence.
I've used the iconography of the fictional robot Cyclonus (evil 'first knight' of the Decepticon army) from the A.I. fantasy-adventure franchise Transformers (Hasbro) to represent the character Edmer (a sort of demon!).
In this first chapter, Edmer confronts Shiva (Hindu god of destruction).
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CHAPTER 1: Edmer confronts Shiva
EDMER: You sit on your mountain-top and meditate for hours...why?
SHIVA: I like to brood about loneliness and prayer.
EDMER: What do your prayers concern?
SHIVA: Humility.
EDMER: Humility? No one likes to be humiliated.
SHIVA: True, but everyone is ennobled by humility and even how resilience/suffering creates humility.
EDMER: Do you think the mind is a 'humble' thing?
SHIVA: I think the mind likes to roam but always returns to considerations about self-improvement.
EDMER: Self-improvement does not always inspire humility.
SHIVA: What do you mean?
EDMER: The mind yearns for perfection and is willing to be competitive to attain it!
SHIVA: Competition is a game which requires an adherence to agreed-upon rules-of-play.
EDMER: Do you despise athletes who use performance-enhancing steroids to improve their chances?
SHIVA: Such athletes knowingly take long-term spiritual and medical risks, so it's not evil but certainly risky.
EDMER: What about Sunni-Shia relations/conflicts within the nation of Islam (in regards to modernism)?
SHIVA: Sunnis (e.g., Syria) and Shiites (e.g., Iran) both have to adapt to modern needs (e.g., wind energy).
EDMER: Do you think such 'civilization progress' mandates cooperative economics?
SHIVA: Collective-bargaining is a part of globalization-politics (e.g., UN), but survivalism creates greed.
EDMER: I don't think the mind can feel satisfied with humility when considering the reality of rivalries...
SHIVA: There's nothing evil about rivalries, but cutthroat behaviors must be tempered by bureaucracy!
After their long conversation, Edmer and Shiva parted ways, and Edmer decided to descend upon Earth and investigate serial-killers across history --- e.g., Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac killer, Charles Manson, etc.
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Edmer is a fictional warrior-robot, wolfish and cunning, and represents ruthless confidence.
I've used the iconography of the fictional robot Cyclonus (evil 'first knight' of the Decepticon army) from the A.I. fantasy-adventure franchise Transformers (Hasbro) to represent the character Edmer (a sort of demon!).
In this first chapter, Edmer confronts Shiva (Hindu god of destruction).
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CHAPTER 1: Edmer confronts Shiva
EDMER: You sit on your mountain-top and meditate for hours...why?
SHIVA: I like to brood about loneliness and prayer.
EDMER: What do your prayers concern?
SHIVA: Humility.
EDMER: Humility? No one likes to be humiliated.
SHIVA: True, but everyone is ennobled by humility and even how resilience/suffering creates humility.
EDMER: Do you think the mind is a 'humble' thing?
SHIVA: I think the mind likes to roam but always returns to considerations about self-improvement.
EDMER: Self-improvement does not always inspire humility.
SHIVA: What do you mean?
EDMER: The mind yearns for perfection and is willing to be competitive to attain it!
SHIVA: Competition is a game which requires an adherence to agreed-upon rules-of-play.
EDMER: Do you despise athletes who use performance-enhancing steroids to improve their chances?
SHIVA: Such athletes knowingly take long-term spiritual and medical risks, so it's not evil but certainly risky.
EDMER: What about Sunni-Shia relations/conflicts within the nation of Islam (in regards to modernism)?
SHIVA: Sunnis (e.g., Syria) and Shiites (e.g., Iran) both have to adapt to modern needs (e.g., wind energy).
EDMER: Do you think such 'civilization progress' mandates cooperative economics?
SHIVA: Collective-bargaining is a part of globalization-politics (e.g., UN), but survivalism creates greed.
EDMER: I don't think the mind can feel satisfied with humility when considering the reality of rivalries...
SHIVA: There's nothing evil about rivalries, but cutthroat behaviors must be tempered by bureaucracy!
After their long conversation, Edmer and Shiva parted ways, and Edmer decided to descend upon Earth and investigate serial-killers across history --- e.g., Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac killer, Charles Manson, etc.
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