God plays games

[Seraph]

Game is an interesting term. I see this world more as the setting of a proxy war between two opposing forces, Light and Darkness, except the outcome is already determined, one side is destined to win and the other is doing everything it can to make that victory as costly as possible.

Humans have the potential to soar up to previously unimaginable heights, but also descend to the level of demons and slaughter each other on the scale of billions. They can inflict unspeakable misery on each other, but also uplift each other with Godlike compassion.

You can characterize this as a sort of metaphysical doctrine but I tend to believe there is a secretive cabal of very powerful, very intelligent, but very evil people who are manipulating a lot of things on this planet. They are shadow players who remain largely anonymous to the public. They manage to communicate their will down an orderly hierarchy or pyramid which is executed precisely. The most powerful world leaders, politicians, business people, celebrities, and even some religious leaders are all part of this network, but even they are not at the higher rungs which are occupied by the anonymous.

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The term game also makes me think of it as a game of chess. In chess you have crucial pieces like the queen, bishops, rooks, and knights, and you have the more expendable pawns.

In this battle or game the actual players moving the pieces remain hidden from us. They are invisible movers. But since we are in the game itself, in the world of the chessboard, we can observe and are affected by the movement of the pieces. We shouldn’t doubt the existence of the players because they are invisible, we should try to use our minds to discern their hand in events that are unfolding all around us.

However, the most powerful pieces on the board, say the queens, are able to directly receive a sort of telepathic communication from the players. In religious terminology, we call it revelation and visions.

The generals in Hell’s army, the human monsters, those anonymous individuals that occupy the highest rungs of the pyramid I earlier described, can even, at times, personally interact with evil spirits and demons that represent the second hidden player in the game moving the black pieces on the chessboard.

But as I understand it, in their side, the non-human demons are ancient and have seen much of history which is preserved in their collective memory. They have the experience. But the human monster has something they lack: higher intelligence and strategy. The demonic element knows the deeper religious truths and reality of this cosmic struggle, but the human element is better equipped to plan a geopolitical strategy to extend Hell’s dominion over the planet. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

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In each of our selves there is a struggle that most of us are destined to lose. It is the struggle to retain our goodness and not descend into monstrosity. Everyone has their personal weakness that is going to be exploited and taken advantage of until it controls us completely, and we are utterly beholden. Let me give the example of drugs. This is a difficult struggle many of you can understand. Overcoming drug addiction takes every ounce of human willpower, solid mental discipline but it can be done.

Sadly, most lose this critical battle and surrender. You can see how they are slowly transformed from once having been cheerful, normal people leading promising lives, to ending up looking like Hell, living in filth, with a one track mind on how to get their next high. They are no longer human but have been completely subsumed into their animality.

That is the parable of most humans who lose their struggle with vice, and lose their souls to the Devil.