Intergalactic Summit

Life is the expression of God. For those that believe in a god or many: The belief in higher power does not come naturally. It is that God is incomprehensible so it makes sense to believe in a creator.

When being dwarfed by another's shoes, such as a priest is drowned by his clothes or a child that puts on his fathers boots; Emulating your conceived ignorance is the fallacy to avoid.

In faith as an Amarr I was raised to worship in a supplicative manner. This instilled a sense of awe in the power of God at a young age.

I entertain the notion that structured religion is not for the youth to be too concerned about. While emulating my god I wanted slaves then to see how I would fare as the ruler and dictator over another. Just as I supplicate myself unto God, I wanted someone to supplicate themselves to me.

It wasn't until I was unable to free my childhood slaves in youth before they were executed that I realized I was not a god and had to think about that.

Emulating God will only lead to more depressing failures. I hope the Empire knows.

You are correct, sir, we should not strive to emulate God's power, but only bow before His Divinity. Slave owners are not keeping their slaves purely for mastership, it is a sacred responsibility to care both physically and spiritually for slaves, and to teach them to devote their lives to His Will. Their slavery is as much as our slavery in that they are mastered by God and God alone over all. The slave owners are merely His Shepards, guiding these people to His Light through honest work and learning the scriptures.

When this Amarr god manifests itself to me personally in my quarters and tells me that I've been doing things wrong for the past 38 years then maybe I'll listen. Until then, I'll keep my own counsel and do things as I see fit.

It doesn't matter to me that some of you want to believe in the Amarr god. It's none of my business to tell you what to believe. Just keep your nonsense away from me and stop using it as an excuse for genocide, racial supremacy, slavery, cultural imperialism and all the rest. We Matari, Gallente and Caldari have no desire to be ruled by your god nor become vassals of your empire.

I am ruled by no being and only truly respect someone who can make the perfect chocolate martini...

I may still be more Gallente than I realized...

I don't think Ms. Rella makes it a habit to surrender so easily, Mr. Mokk, nor do I.

Nor I, but that's exactly the point. It's not supposed to be easy. We equate that level of surrender with slavery, because it is supposed to be just that difficult and that total. As the saying goes, "You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender."

I've got some great mindflood for that...

If you knew the truth about something you would share it. Don't pretend otherwise.

On the topic of the thread name I'd like to dispute it. We Amarrians are called to a slavery of our own device. Those who lead are bound to serve the smallest.

I like to think we don't look down but up toward enlightenment.

There are many things we are forced to do in life we do not like. Many people regard those who shrug off such things as weak or cowardly. The value is purification and character building.

But realistically releasing some thousand slaves doesn't do anyone good except generate a bunch of homeless which helps no one.

People have this misused vision of a fat holder whipping slaves in a field. While I do own vineyards sick abused slaves don't work well. Good treatment, day of rest and education and good food makes for a much more profitable, happy holding.

But that is bad for propaganda so what's a Matari rebel rousers supposed to do?