Intergalactic Summit

It is fashionable on the IGS to rescue slaves and free slaves. But do Empyreans ever consider the slaves' immortal souls?

O how terrible will be the Judgment for the Prematurely Freed Slave! Having been told that there is no God, or that God loves him and wants him to be free, he now trembles before a Righteous and Holy God, flat on his face, begging for mercy. But he shall find no mercy, for God has saved the Amarr and damned those unredeemed by service to the Amarr, for as the Scriptures say —

And so God in His infinite Wisdom shall sentence the Prematurely Freed Slave to Eternal Slavery in Hell, and the Serifim shall sing how perfect are the judgments of God! And God shall laugh as Prematurely Freed Slave pleads and moans as the Serifim drag him into the Pit.

And in the Pit — in Abaddon — shall God be glorified in the Prematurely Freed Slave's torments. The Demons shall whip him to and fro, and unlike the Amarrian Holder, who must rest his whipping hand at night, the Demons shall never sleep and never cease from whipping. And the whips shall not be electric whips that inflict pain without the worst of wounds, but demonic whips that gouge out flesh, flesh that is continually regenerated only to be whipped again. The Prematurely Freed Slave shall wear a slave collar, too; but these slave collars shall not compel obedience — for in the Pit there is no hope for redemption and so no need for obedience — but this slave collar shall only inflict pains and sufferings beyond the wildest ingenuity and perversions of New Eden's slave collar programmers. Because God is just.

And so the Prematurely Freed Slave shall cry for Vitoc, shall beg for Vitoc, shall plead for Vitoc — but Vitoc shall be denied him, even as the demons torment him by placing Vitoc just and forever out of his reach. And so he shall have not a moment of respite from his pains, not in one generation of time, not in nine generations of time — for there is no redemption in the slavery of the Pit — not in a million generations of time. Yeah, even a million generations of time is but a trifle of time compared to the infinity of time that the Prematurely Freed Slave shall be tormented in Hell.

And the Prematurely Freed Slave shall look up from the Pit and see Paradise gleaming like the towers of Dam-Torsad and shall weep knowing that was denied him because some foolish Empyrean thought he should be free. Don't let this fate happen to any slaves you own or you recover. If you do not want your slaves, sell them back into slavery at the nearest Amarrian station that will accept them. Amen. Amarr Victor.

There is no "Hell", you colossal buffoon.

Ah, I'm sorry for what I said before. I was clearly misinformed. I didn't realise you were a very convincing satirist.

It is really quite comfy to pick out the fringers and extremists, declare them to be mainstream, declare the mainstream to be fringe and then declare how one's views are justified, no?

Mainstream imperials don't quote the Scriptures mindlessly and sermonize about them likewise. We have Exegetes to explain the sophisticated levels of meaning they have to us and do our best to live by that.

Following the Scriptures by the letter would be an impossible task anyway, because a lifetime isn't enough to read through them. I hope that's nothing new to you?

So mainstream Imperials follow the scriptures as interpreted by other people... like that guy up there. Not as relieving.

Back to crazytown we go.

Edit: I've always wondered about that. They keep talking about entire warehouses of data storage. What kind of medium would that be? Stone carvings?

"Certified exegete". Certifiable person interpreting mythology because it's just crazy ramblings otherwise.
"Lawyer" or any other expert on law for that matter. Educated person interpreting the complexities of rules governing society.

Yeah, you're really into trying to give your insanities legitimacy by comparing them to actually reasonable things from civilizations that aren't barbaric and primitive, huh?

Cpt. Otsitso, do you really are so primitive or do you think that I wouldn't see that you are committing an act of vicious circular reasoning here? You're not even entertaining in commiting your petitio principia here or creative in evading the question. Why should I defend Amarr culture against accusations that find their only factual substratum in what you dreamed up in your autistic mind?

I'd suggest to you to turn yourself in for re-education, but that would imply that you got any education in the first place. Go to highschool and play your little games there. Maybe you learn there that the Scriptures aren't by any stretch merely made up of what might qualify as 'mythology' by the widest of (remotely valid) definitions.

I'm bored by your mediocrity.

As to you Cpt. Hakatain: I see you have no need of lawyers either, because you can read the entirety of Caldari State law while having breakfast. Good for you.

Have a good night.

Quite so. But I'm prepared to bet that the total amount of data I've absorbed via implant learning over the last eight years, being sufficient to allow me to fly in excess of two hundred different ship hulls, all of them to a high standard, and equip them with their dizzying variety of equipment, weaponry, maximize their performance, maximize my ability to co-ordinate whole fleets of them, not forgetting the ability to build most of them, reverse-engineer advanced technology, hack security systems, mine, refine, scan, buy, sell, administrate ground facilities from orbit and generate tame wormholes that will fling several thousand meters of starship across the light years...

I'm prepared to estimate that the total data I've uploaded into my brain in learning how to do all that probably exceeds the total file size of the the Amarrian Scriptures.

If God was forgiving and benevolent, I doubt he would create a realm dedicated to torturing souls for all eternity.

And if God is so powerful, why hasn't he destroyed tbese pesky demons? Isn't it contradictory to claim there is one all powerful God while also believing in other entities that can override God's will and lure humans away from his grace?

Part of why the Amarr faith never applead to me is because there are more plotholes than your average B Holomovie.