“DO and MJ: Bees”
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Alexocution: Magic
I had a dream where I was jumping down from a high building’s various balconies to go after a goblin that just plain jumped straight down to ground level. In reality, this led to a train of thought, ending up with thoughts about magic.
In my stories, I tend to base things on things I feel are to some extent plausible. In this case, magic is made possible via specific formulas in the language of the deities who helped create and shape the universe. I often liken these formulas to specific lines of computer code which modify the universe in specific small ways, like creating fire at some particular point. Thus practitioners of magic must be familiar with this godly language as well as the syntax of magic in order to use it, in either case requiring serious study.
The original purpose of magic in these stories is to simplify things. It’s like the debug mode in video games, basically. There are the “makers”, minor deities brought over from a previous universe who create spells based on their element (the Fire Makers make the fire magic), as well as the higher deities like the God and Creator who use more variety.
On another note, using magic requires energy of some sort. This is one of those things I still have to think about. Hm.
Alexocution: Religious Symbolism
I realized that, in my inevitable descent into absolute madness, I’m probably going to end up converting to Tumblrism. To simplify the transition, I decided to put my Alexocutions into Tumblr, where maybe one person will read them.
I was thinking about what it’d be like if I decided to become a comedian, and this somehow led to me thinking about religion—in particular, religious symbolism. Here I thought about the well-known three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, the symbol is the Star of David. I don’t know if it actually means something by itself, but it is a nice and simple symbol. In Islam, the symbol is a word, “Allah”, which means “God”. Oftentimes people seem to think it specifically means the god of Islam, but it’s just, you know, the word “God” in Arabic. It’s not like “God” specifically means the god of Christianity, or anything even. But anyway, that symbol makes sense. It’s a constant reminder of what the entire religion is about. Because of some recent radical fundamentalists within the religion, though, people (in the West) seem to believe the religion is inherently violent or something.
When it comes to Christianity, though, it seems that religion has a constant reminder of violence and death, the crucifix, which was an ancient method of torture and execution. I understand what might be the reasoning behind that, which is that because Yehoshua died on it, it is now sacred, or something? Or maybe his blood was on it? But why not the patch of ground the blood inevitably must have fallen on? Does anyone even know where that is? To me it seems akin to a scenario where, in the future perhaps, people decide that Martin Luther King Jr. was sacred (I have nothing against the man, I just don’t believe any human being was ever “sacred”) and use the balcony he died on as a symbol for a new religion. Or maybe the gun or bullet that killed him. I just feel like a more meaningful symbol could be chosen, rather than one which only reminds people that someone died once.
If I was going anywhere else with this, I forgot, so I’ll end it here.
