The Devils Game

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There once was a game called ‘The Devil’s Game’ which involved a metaphorical box of the mind that trapped people within it until they managed to get out again from the inside. Designed by crooks for crooks, it drove most people insane and drove wedges in families and friendships as people wound up jumping at shadows and never knowing what stage of the game others were at. They devised and build groups to try to power their way out of the box, but found themselves only repeating the same cycles of nonsense and getting nowhere; as all of them tried to cheat fate itself and created only self-fulfilling prophecy.

Immortals sentenced to this game were taught what it was like to be a mortal; to live and die over and over again and to have your spirit recycled and made to forget in between lives that it was caught in the box it could not escape, but they would retain instinctual racial memories that would give them clues to what they needed to do with their lives; what their destinies were. No matter how hard they tried, though, they could not escape the box and resigned themselves to creating a masterpiece of a crooks puzzle, trapping themselves, eventually, in the right way out of the box.

They came up with coded ways of speaking, using metaphors, or opposite of what they intended; backwards, forwards; other languages entirely, even made up ones; signs and symbols, etc.; and worked to set themselves up in future lives as they learned tricks and crafted secret societies, governments, bloodlines, etc. and made themselves comfortable messing with the weak and wanting.

After a time, their civilizations had risen to a point where most knew nothing of the game because nothing about it was talked about openly and nobody was taught anymore about the lost immortality they once all had. People would be randomly brought into the know when they showed ability or talent, though the immortals would be ready to kill them if it did not work out.

“Hey, it’s ok,” they would say, “we’re all crooks here.”

countless eons pass and time and space ended and began too many times as these immortals remained caught in the box, trying every scam and scandal over and over again; getting lost in the ecstasies of life and all the pleasures thereof; losing themselves in insanity or other; all the while the secret societies and bloodlines, etc. worked to overcome their known problems and toward their own goals.

Finally, it became too much and the multitudes remained locked in insanity without realizing it; silently screaming for help from a God they no longer believed in; that they believed no longer watched over them; tarnishing the name even of his ‘only son’. But, there was only one way out of the box and it was to all work together to overcome the problem; to learn how to do things right with their powers instead of destroying as much as they created.

God has issued this punishment to many immortals as countless universes have been destroyed by those who simply lack self control.

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That’s eternal damnation. You know… if God was omnibenevolent, you’d think god would create eternal death for these people, because everyone else goes to heaven, so it really doesn’t matter, unless God is a raging psychopath!

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Most people would of course choose this boxed in curse, rather then not have learned of it, because that state would imply the state of an open and not shut state of always having been excluded from the knowledge of immortality.

Consequently, the premis can be safely established, that perhaps, for most people , minus those with the fear of claustrophobia, it may be better to know of this conditional immortality inside a box, then , to fear an exlusion from that knowledge ; consisting of the loss of memory, and consequent mortality.

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ah, but there is no immortality save immortality of the spirit within the box. It’s not a physical box; not one to give people feelings of claustrophobia, though people may often feel trapped in their own lives and their own situations and sets of circumstances. The immortality that was lost was immortality of the body; to live forever alongside all others who live forever; with no need to destroy anything. At a certain point, one has to imagine that mankind began questioning things about life itself. Take the story of Moses, for example. There is a part of it where him and his people are crossing a desert and manna; flakes of bread; fell from the sky like rain to feed him and his people. Modern day people would question the possibility of that that perhaps people then would not have questioned and perhaps the fact that we would question it makes it impossible for us while those people and their combined imagination made it happen regardless of the possibilities of such involved in what we know of physics and life itself; so tied into ‘reality’ as we are.

At what point did we have immortality and Godhood and lost those things because we questioned too much the things in life that shouldn’t be questioned: where does this come from, how does it happen and why does it happen for these people and not for us as well. Perhaps the impossible is only impossible while we remain questioning how it happens and why it happens instead of just accepting it. Perhaps the answer to escaping such a box isn’t just to work together, but to learn to accept that ultimate source of knowledge and power; God; our subconscious connections; instead of what is obvious. Perhaps it’s to accept the fact that God and the Devil are more like us than we care to accept and all they wanted to do was be a part of everything as the ultimate Yin and Yang; best friends through eternity.

It would seem you misinterpreted the story, but perhaps that’s a fault of my own for not making it clearer which becomes a fault I just covered for. At such a point of such a game being stuck in the box; when you discover the answer; you would have to assume that you go back and fix all other problems and not worry about what might happen as a result. Perhaps time travel is entirely possible with our minds and we could unravel reality around us if we so chose with our minds and only the fear of doing so keeps us from doing so. Perhaps we worry too much about consequences that will never happen and create for our selves consequences which are bound to happen because we have to define and analyze every little thing instead of just accepting the logical conclusion that logic and emotion may not be enough to cover the mystical operations of such a universe and reality. To be able to go back in time and fix even our own pasts bit by bit by changing perceptions bit by bit until we were able to create an entirely perfect world without destroying everything. Countless alternate realities stemming from such a cataclysm; we continue to give birth to more than just children as day follows day and week follows week and just as quickly entire universes and realities are snuffed out of existence by an act of violence from one source or another.

Everything is forgivable in eternity at such a point as this possibility unfolds and becomes reality. And, why shouldn’t everything be forgivable as learning lessons in life for spirits and entities that were more ‘human’ than they ever cared to admit.