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The Sandman’s dream’s Dream

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Ottom Ephesianos
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan
#1 - 2017-01-14 23:11:04 UTC
EVP (Electronic Voice Persona) is the apparition/vocal anomaly which research suggests are the souls of the afterlife perceived and recorded by the living and sensitive devices.

EVPM (Electronic Voice Persona Manipulation) is a career path Necromancers and Witches endeavor to master.

Aboard your ship you will need to update your firewalls with the latest versions of Anti-Malware and use connections that are tailored to maximize your data processing speeds with the least amount of signatures attached to your incoming packets.
The more signatures the more likely one of these traces is an EVPM.

As a Khai Alpha I am familiar with the spiritual ways of the Minmatar and realize the Ancient Amarrian roots from which I stem are that akin to these same principals.

This being said I am unaware how confused the other races in the Eve Cluster are considering they are more capitalistic, manipulative, corporate hive minded and zealous than the more God fearing and reverent Tribal Minmatar.

Of reverence and the Minmatar the Amarr have attempted to EVP manipulate (using EVPMs) they've irreversibly condemned their ties to religious organs and the enigma of understanding God as manic psychosis catalyzed by power and fear mongering.

Amarr EVPMs assume they are in control of afterlife. They instigate activity from dormant stages of death, séanceing hacked microphones with traditional religious doctrine designed with methodical torture and the subjugation of their own populations.

Mirth in Empire is too low to support these zealous sad ghosts. There is a surplus of integrating souls aboard every ship in the cluster and those Amarr are beleaguering, persecuting, ignorant and lost.

Sleep will play a major proponent in dealing with the upheaval these generated, projected and wounded souls present.

Once connected to a mirthful ship, full of moral and intrigue, sci-fi addicts destined for greatness. They leave the Ouija board and the cannibal's candle behind. Sink their wet toilet paper looking non-corporeal essence into your terminal or view screen and try to co-exist: Trespassing within the realm of your spiritual awareness.

These souls are graceless, self-righteous and have no intention of questing for heaven or an afterlife void of judging your crew and your captainship. Being a nag is their idea of a heavenly time.

Those are Amarrian. Bastards!

Minmatar.

I will warn you.

There are sects of your celestial organs, heavenly plots and Cabalic miscreants that also require addressing.

The Beasts.

Let it be known that the immortal souls that trespass, demonize or haunt the living flesh are never,
and I mean never, to be considered animal kingdom.

The Beast who is immortal, and their numbers dwindle, was a human who died and made a coffin of an animal.

So long these souls imagined themselves as part of the animal kingdom these days many of them don’t remember having been human and have no concept of peace in the afterlife.

From whales, (who it is reveled are most evil and vindictive) to lions; I as a spiritually aware space farer can only sigh at their fates as gravity wells take the mirthless into lakes of fire across the cosmos.

Back to Amarr. The real threat to Eve.

They are drawing mirth from their own inability to conceive heaven.

Their pleasures are entwined with your own failures. This is why they must be driven into the lakes of fire at star and planet center gravity mass.

How to drive these judgmental zealots into the lakes of fire?

Tell them when they approach you about the riches of heaven: The rivers of gold, the silver and the platinum. When they eagerly search for these minerals in order to satisfy the greed of their abusers; Slavers. They will find themselves in a delve they will never return whence.

Control your dreams and keep them extravagant.

The more elaborate and outlandish the more gold and silver one will need to 'wilt' to the demands of these afterlife Cabalic zealots.

You know you can’t afford a ‘Golden Fleet’.

Where does one come up with that kind of money?

Heaven of course!

At the center of your closest planetary structure.

-ottout
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#2 - 2017-01-15 00:51:44 UTC
I'd probably put more work into deciphering these if I thought I'd find anything very interesting inside. Political propaganda's not really worth digging for.
Yarosara Ruil
#3 - 2017-01-15 01:18:00 UTC
Whatcha talkin' bout Ottom?
Tyrel Toov
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#4 - 2017-01-15 01:34:00 UTC
I don't think he really knows. he's just talking because he likes the sound of his voice.

I want to paint my ship Periwinkle.

Saille Horo'Sha
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2017-01-15 05:26:11 UTC
Can't say I ever cared for religion.

I mean, we've all died, right? We've all felt those few seconds it takes for the clone to have the conciousness transmitted.

Pretty sure I didn't see any afterlife. Unless being stuck with you lot counts as Hell.

...Which it might, come to think of it.

I barely have the ISK to keep myself flying. I'm a terrible pilot. I'm an even worse businesswoman. I'm not even sure what half my ship's controls are for. But in some small way, I'm helping. And I couldn't be happier.

Yebo Lakatosh
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2017-01-15 05:26:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Yebo Lakatosh
Wise words Khai.

Tis joyful to know that an uprooted 'Matar has no need of a pilgrimage towards him home soil fo' spiritual guidance - tis 'nuff to reach fo' the Neocom. Of all them souls whom I seen zommin' 'round the Spheres, you seem to be doin' the greatest service fo' our people. Maybe even fo' the Amarr too, if their malignant convictions whould let 'em digest thoughts originatin' from somewhere else than them minds.

Our ancestors and descendants are all proud of you Khai, as no doubt them Spirits are keepin' you aware of that.


May your slumber ever be unburdened by the hardships of material plane.

Elite F1 pilot since YC119, incarnate of honor, integrity and tidi.

Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#7 - 2017-01-15 05:57:18 UTC
Saille Horo'Sha wrote:
Can't say I ever cared for religion.

I mean, we've all died, right? We've all felt those few seconds it takes for the clone to have the conciousness transmitted.

Pretty sure I didn't see any afterlife. Unless being stuck with you lot counts as Hell.

...Which it might, come to think of it.

Yup, this is hell. Welcome to the realisation that your afrerlife is just as meaningless and devoid of joy as your life was. If you wish to go to cappsuler heaven, I can arrange it for a small fee of 100 million ISK.

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.

Saille Horo'Sha
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#8 - 2017-01-15 06:07:48 UTC
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Yup, this is hell. Welcome to the realisation that your afrerlife is just as meaningless and devoid of joy as your life was. If you wish to go to cappsuler heaven, I can arrange it for a small fee of 100 million ISK.


Okay, so I see three options here.

1) Jita 4-4 is capsuleer heaven (doubtful)
2) Jita 4-4 is some kind of super-hell you're attempting to drag me to (probable)
3) Capsuleer heaven is something different entirely (in which case, what is it?)

I barely have the ISK to keep myself flying. I'm a terrible pilot. I'm an even worse businesswoman. I'm not even sure what half my ship's controls are for. But in some small way, I'm helping. And I couldn't be happier.

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2017-01-15 06:32:36 UTC
Saille Horo'Sha wrote:
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Yup, this is hell. Welcome to the realisation that your afrerlife is just as meaningless and devoid of joy as your life was. If you wish to go to cappsuler heaven, I can arrange it for a small fee of 100 million ISK.


Okay, so I see three options here.

1) Jita 4-4 is capsuleer heaven (doubtful)
2) Jita 4-4 is some kind of super-hell you're attempting to drag me to (probable)
3) Capsuleer heaven is something different entirely (in which case, what is it?)


According to the shamans there is no heaven. There is only that spirit place that is kind of a mirror to the physical one. A mirror. So not heaven.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Saille Horo'Sha
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2017-01-15 06:49:39 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:
According to the shamans there is no heaven. There is only that spirit place that is kind of a mirror to the physical one. A mirror. So not heaven.


So, it sucks equally bad then? Bummer. I was at least hoping that if I turned out to be wrong about this whole religion shtick, we'd all get a private beach or something on the other side.

I barely have the ISK to keep myself flying. I'm a terrible pilot. I'm an even worse businesswoman. I'm not even sure what half my ship's controls are for. But in some small way, I'm helping. And I couldn't be happier.

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2017-01-15 14:07:48 UTC
Saille Horo'Sha wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
According to the shamans there is no heaven. There is only that spirit place that is kind of a mirror to the physical one. A mirror. So not heaven.


So, it sucks equally bad then? Bummer. I was at least hoping that if I turned out to be wrong about this whole religion shtick, we'd all get a private beach or something on the other side.


Well, the Amarr believe that there is a heaven. Likely comes with endless plains and fields and plenty and all that. Their heaven has a rather high bar for entry, though.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#12 - 2017-01-15 14:26:14 UTC
Ottom Ephesianos wrote:
EVP (Electronic Voice Persona) is the apparition/vocal anomaly which research suggests are the souls of the afterlife perceived and recorded by the living and sensitive devices.

EVPM (Electronic Voice Persona Manipulation) is a career path Necromancers and Witches endeavor to master.


I shall have to investigate this EVPM for use in my demon summoning operations. I shall, however, put it entirely different objectives than those envisioned by Mr. Ephesianos.
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#13 - 2017-01-15 15:58:29 UTC
Nauplius wrote:
Ottom Ephesianos wrote:
EVP (Electronic Voice Persona) is the apparition/vocal anomaly which research suggests are the souls of the afterlife perceived and recorded by the living and sensitive devices.

EVPM (Electronic Voice Persona Manipulation) is a career path Necromancers and Witches endeavor to master.


I shall have to investigate this EVPM for use in my demon summoning operations. I shall, however, put it entirely different objectives than those envisioned by Mr. Ephesianos.


You know I'd actually forgotten how interested you were in different cultures' takes on occultism? So I guess ...

Symbolically loaded, check. Arcane and obscure, check. Open to wildly varying interpretations that's each likely to work about as well as the next, check.

It kind of seems like you and Mr. Ephesianos might get on really well this way, Mr. Nauplius; at this point I'm not sure it matters whether he means it more as poetry than as a literal description of reality.
Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#14 - 2017-01-15 17:29:29 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
You know I'd actually forgotten how interested you were in different cultures' takes on occultism? So I guess ...

Symbolically loaded, check. Arcane and obscure, check. Open to wildly varying interpretations that's each likely to work about as well as the next, check.

It kind of seems like you and Mr. Ephesianos might get on really well this way, Mr. Nauplius; at this point I'm not sure it matters whether he means it more as poetry than as a literal description of reality.


I would be honored, madam, to learn everything you can teach me about either Achuran occultism generally or that specific to your sect. This lost knowledge was meant for savants such as myself to glorify God with.
kul Shaishi
Yurai-Tenshin Zaibatsu
#15 - 2017-01-15 20:54:49 UTC
Nauplius wrote:
Aria Jenneth wrote:
You know I'd actually forgotten how interested you were in different cultures' takes on occultism? So I guess ...

Symbolically loaded, check. Arcane and obscure, check. Open to wildly varying interpretations that's each likely to work about as well as the next, check.

It kind of seems like you and Mr. Ephesianos might get on really well this way, Mr. Nauplius; at this point I'm not sure it matters whether he means it more as poetry than as a literal description of reality.


I would be honored, madam, to learn everything you can teach me about either Achuran occultism generally or that specific to your sect. This lost knowledge was meant for savants such as myself to glorify God with.

kul Shaishi
Yurai-Tenshin Zaibatsu
#16 - 2017-01-15 20:55:38 UTC  |  Edited by: kul Shaishi
Nauplius wrote:
Aria Jenneth wrote:
You know I'd actually forgotten how interested you were in different cultures' takes on occultism? So I guess ...

Symbolically loaded, check. Arcane and obscure, check. Open to wildly varying interpretations that's each likely to work about as well as the next, check.

It kind of seems like you and Mr. Ephesianos might get on really well this way, Mr. Nauplius; at this point I'm not sure it matters whether he means it more as poetry than as a literal description of reality.


I would be honored, madam, to learn everything you can teach me about either Achuran occultism generally or that specific to your sect. This lost knowledge was meant for savants such as myself to glorify God with.


Is no Such thing as Achuran occultism you are just a stupid foreigner Who has no knowledge of the Thousand sects
Ottom Ephesianos
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan
#17 - 2017-01-16 03:07:49 UTC
kul Shaishi wrote:
Nauplius wrote:
Aria Jenneth wrote:
You know I'd actually forgotten how interested you were in different cultures' takes on occultism? So I guess ...

Symbolically loaded, check. Arcane and obscure, check. Open to wildly varying interpretations that's each likely to work about as well as the next, check.

It kind of seems like you and Mr. Ephesianos might get on really well this way, Mr. Nauplius; at this point I'm not sure it matters whether he means it more as poetry than as a literal description of reality.


I would be honored, madam, to learn everything you can teach me about either Achuran occultism generally or that specific to your sect. This lost knowledge was meant for savants such as myself to glorify God with.


Is no Such thing as Achuran occultism you are just a stupid foreigner Who has no knowledge of the Thousand sects


Of worship I know about trying to identify with God.

I can express that God Wills to be known through the good works of the people whose lives It has touched.

If you don't have anything good to say about God, if you don't have a bountiful God to share with the world, why worship this demon?

Malthus Aurelius
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#18 - 2017-01-16 05:30:32 UTC
Uh, Mr. Ephisianos, while I'm no doctor, I'd advise you seek psychological counseling. You might be trying to see more than there is. If there's EVP and EVPM technology that can be used to invade private affairs (albeit in a menial and nagging fashion), then perhaps it would be the best course of action to provide that evidence to CONCORD or perhaps the Sisters of Eve if it's conclusive.

I hear the folk at SOE are real good researchers, but pardon my skepticism. We didn't exactly have to worry about this sort of stuff back on my home-planet.
Bjorn Tyrson
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2017-01-16 14:10:18 UTC
lay off the boosters man. you're rambling more than the brain addled bums... I mean shamans... back home.
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#20 - 2017-01-16 19:03:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Aria Jenneth
kul Shaishi wrote:
Nauplius wrote:
I would be honored, madam, to learn everything you can teach me about either Achuran occultism generally or that specific to your sect. This lost knowledge was meant for savants such as myself to glorify God with.


Is no Such thing as Achuran occultism you are just a stupid foreigner Who has no knowledge of the Thousand sects


Well-- except there kind of is. Divination is an occultist practice, and our "stargazer" astrologers are very respected. It's not that most Achura take stargazer practices literally; I think they're respected more for how well they understand people than for any actual ability to tell the future. We also have animistic and dream-focused sects that are very much into connecting with and exploring the realm of spirit.

I think what kul Shaishi is getting at is that there's no real concept of heresy in Achur practice-- as you might imagine, there's a lot of variety among the Thousand Sects ("Thousand" is an abstraction by the way; it's probably way over a thousand by now), and they're all taken to be different ways of looking at the single greater truth that is Achura.

That's not to say that nobody ever got executed for sorcery back in the old Achur Empire, though. If you were suspected of using magic to hurt people, it didn't matter a lot whether it was "heretical." Harming your neighbors doesn't make you popular whether you're doing it with poison or using some supposed affinity for malevolent spirits to throw curses around-- but, also, having a knack for either poison or, supposedly, hexes might have uses that would be recognized and even honored.

That said, more esoteric religious practices, real or imagined, turn up a lot in gruesome old legends and are a standard trope of a lot of modern Achur horror fiction. Just because it's not inherently "wrong" or heretical (or, probably, real) doesn't mean it's not great for scaring people.
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