WHO ELECTED ME

PAIN > PASSION > POWER > PAIN

EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE OF ENERGY

 

 

Concepts lack visual detail. Thus, the Empty Chair.

 

 

THE FALL

 

(Abridged. From a collection of short stories titled

The Most Misunderstood Man In the World.)

 

 

Q- "Why did Satan fall?"

 

A- "Because, like the rebellious spawn of child abuse everywhere, he refused to 'love and obey those with Power who you FEAR'... or are supposed to fear."

 

Q- "Obey, yes. But why would anyone expect you to love someone you fear?"

 

A- "Because true love comes from respect. And true respect comes from fear, they say. And they would rather have the power that comes from this respect than the supposed power of love... which they do not believe in. They understand fear and the power of fear. And they believe it is more powerful than love."

 

Q- "So Satan fell because he would neither fear God nor love him?"

 

A- "No. Satan fell because he himself became what he hated: A Tyrant. Unfortunately there was only room for one tyrant in heaven. And the biggest one won. But that's totally beside the point. Satan fell long before that fall. He fell the moment he lost the power to love anything other than himself, anything outside himself. Only God is big enough to get away with that kind of narcissism because God is everything and everyone, even Satan I suspect. Nothing is outside God. There is nothing other than God. Not Satan, however. Satan is not God and he'll never be as big as God no matter how much he wants to be. God is too big to have real enemies. God's enemies are just more illusions within the mysterious Whole of God. But Satan has real enemies. And Satan's enemies finally did him in."

 

Q- "Thank God."

 

A- "So who was Satan?"

 

Q- "An abused child rebelling against his abuser? A slave rebelling against his master? A peasant rebelling against a tyrant?"

 

A- "No. Because there was no real rebellion. Satan loved and admired and desired the very thing he hated: the Power of fear. Real rebellion requires a hate so pure for all that exists that it creates something truly new. Satan merely wanted what already existed. He wanted to be his abuser, his master, his tyrant... He wanted to be his own abuser, his own master, his own tyrant.

 

Q- "To be the abuser, the master, the tyrant, ... and no longer the abused, the slave, the servant, the peasant. To be free."

 

A- "Yes. To be free. But not by setting others free. Not to be free to set others free. Only that extremely limited personal freedom which is achieved by enslaving others. And that's hardly anything new. That's hardly any sort of real change let alone a rebellion or revolution."

 

Q- "Then who was Satan if not a rebel? If not The Rebel? If not anything truly new or original? If not absolute and unlimited freedom. Just another miserable little tyrant; a slave with the cruel heart of a master; the abused who became just another abuser; a vengeful wannabe who couldn't compete; the dream, the ambition, of Olympian cruelty that didn't make the final cut?"

 

A- "Yes. That and much more. For sad Satan was Everyman."

 

Q- "Then does real rebellion—absolute freedom—exist? Does hate so pure and powerful... for all that is... that it has the will to destroy everything... to create something truly new... exist? This freedom to destroy every despised living being. This freedom to set every despised living being free...through death. Does hatred and freedom so pure... so powerful... so absolute... so revolutionary... so infinite... exist?"

 

A- "Yes."

 

Q- "Where?"

 

A- "It exists in God."

 

 

[Look for "The Fall" and its sequels in the Devil's Bible, by Sad Satan. Coming soon. Unabridged.]