The Owners of All Infernal Names by John Zande ISBN 9781512263527, 1512263524 instant download

The Owners of All Infernal Names by John Zande ISBN 9781512263527, 1512263524 instant download

It has been said that in a universe which simultaneously contains obscene levels of seemingly meaningless misery, and creatures endowed with the capacity to know it is meaninglessly miserable, that only two explanations face all the Christian position, which suggests this is a good world conferred by a benevolent being who has mans best interests at heart, but which hasfor one reason or anothergone terribly, terribly wrong; and that of dualism, which proposes that there exists two equal and independent powers (one good, the other bad) pushing everything, and that this universe is the battlefield over which these opposing forces wage an endless war. Both theses are conspicuously incomplete, the first moreso than the second. This world was never good, never peaceful, never without suffering, pain and anxiety. There was never an armistice between all living and not-so living things, nor can evidence be found to suggest there ever wasor still isa loosely balanced war tumbling across Creation with the advantage swinging between the forces of light and happiness, and those of darkness and misery. Fire has always burned flesh, water has always drowned babies, and Creation has only ever exhibited but one impulse, one motive, one towards increasing complexity, where complexityacross all systems, animate and inanimatecorresponds precisely to the degree and depth of potential suffering available to those contingent things whose participation in Creation was never solicited. Clearly, both theses are deeply and deliriously deficient, and yet at the same time both are, however, also stained with enough half-truth to at the very least indicate a third, more consistent, more durable, demonstrable, enormously distasteful, but ultimately unavoidable that this world was brought into existence by a perfectly wicked, malevolent Creator; a maximally powerful being whose nutritional, emotional and entertainment needs.