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[ricardstrade]

“When I was sixteen I won a great victory. I felt in that moment that I should live to be one hundred, now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end really, or what hand will guide us there. A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.”

- King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (in the film “Kingdom of Heaven” of Ridley Scott.

[ricardstrade]

Rust chole is the best example of the basic human hero archetype adapted to our modern views. A man poisoned by nihilism and pessimism, who by self discovery through the constant reflection of human nature, ultimately finds that darkness is not all there is, and even though it might appear from our temporal perspective for evil and chaos to have the upper hand... from an eternal point of view, the light has always been the eternal core of all that exists, and it is the fundamental meaning of existence, specially of human self conscious existence, to battle against the dark, knowing that it exists and will always exists, but also knowing that at the end, no matter the odds and no matter the tragedies, we will always find the true core essence of existence to be the struggle of the human heart, to stay in the light while courageously facing the darkness in every single second, moment and period of history. In this world of time and space we live in, we must never forget the true essence of this universe: chaos and cosmos in a constant balanced tension, felt within the human spirit as that battle between absurdity and meaning, ignorance and wisdom, vice and virtue. It is only at the very end, that man can see the full picture, the warm and peaceful core of the world soul, going beyond to the infinite in an eternal state of bliss and serenity, contemplating the totality of our lives as one single act of love that drove off the darkness and finally understood, that it was all worth it, meaningful, and good. You can call it with any name you desire, I prefer, as many others before and after me, to call it God, and to act accordingly: to be the hero of our own stories, loving God and neighbour, and to see that life in eternity, for what it truly was, God and only God, absolute, eternal and infinite peace, beyond any form of suffering or pain.