{"id":592,"date":"2021-07-04T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=592"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:23:52","slug":"deitys-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/deitys-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deity’s Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Featured in 2021 Spring Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deity's Conversation\nCharlie Miller, '22\n\nDo you see him?\n\nWho?<\/em>\n\nHim, the child, walking around the small school.\n\nThe kid who\u2019s getting pushed around?<\/em>\nThe weakling?<\/em>\n\nThe weakling, as you refer to him, is much stronger than you think. Just as though he is pushed around, he deals with much worse than us.\n\nThey deal with more than us? He\u2019s a child.<\/em>\nWe have to look over this weakling while he gets pushed around? It\u2019s ludicrous.<\/em>\n\nYou call this ludicrous yet you aren\u2019t requesting to leave.\nYou chose to guard this child just as I did.\n\nPunishment.<\/em>\n\nWhat?\n\nThis is a punishment.\nThe last one took a gun up the roof of their mouth.\nI didn\u2019t do a good job.<\/em>\n\nWell, then, if this is punishment, I feel offended.\nYou\u2019re working with me, the last person you ended up with you failed to protect. Perhaps this is training then.\n\nTraining? For protecting idiots?\nHumans are failures, they wreck the world.<\/em>\n\nThey do indeed wreck the world, but it isn\u2019t our problem.\nThis is a simple job we\u2019re required to do.\n\nWhy, even? A human is an animal, a dog would be more interesting to protect.<\/em>\n\nI prefer cats, honestly.\n\nAh, one of those angels.\nA simple conundrum we could work out in the meantime.\nFor now, maybe we make this weakling fight back?\nHis books are on the floor and he\u2019s in tears while the dominant walk away with pride.<\/em>\n\nThey\u2019re weaklings too.\n\nThey can\u2019t be. They take no hits, no damage.<\/em>\n\nFor being an angel, you aren\u2019t so wise.\nI don\u2019t see that being the measure of strength.\nThey get it from hurting another.\n\nJust as monkeys and wolves fight for territory and mates.<\/em>\n\nHumans are complex.\nThey aren\u2019t a simple animal as you call them.\n\nThey\u2019re worse, then. Monsters.\nThey kill the world they inhabit like a virus.<\/em>\n\nIndeed. They are a virus.\nBut they also have minds, they don\u2019t always inhibit.\nTake, for example, the kind girl who picked up our child on the floor. She didn\u2019t care that he was knocked down.\n\nNo, she takes pity.\nA pathetic feeling anyway.\nNot helpful, just a feeling reserved for when a less powerful animal falls in combat.<\/em>\n\nWell, pity can be powerful.\nThe pity for animals with wet eyes glancing up on a small TV screen. The pity for those who as you call \u201cless dominant,\u201d those with no homes. They create organizations, they adopt those animals, they donate.\n\nThey have pathetic pity and give it to random idiots. No class whatsoever.<\/em>\n\nSo clearly this is punishment.\nNot because you failed the man with the muzzle on his mouth.\nBut because you put the muzzle there.\n\nHow?<\/em>\n\nThe child hears when you talk to him.\nYou whispered those hopeless opinions to him.\nHe wrenched the gun up his mouth,\nAnd was shot in the head.\n\nYou idiot. I didn\u2019t hurt that man at all.\nHe couldn\u2019t handle those thoughts.\nSure, we\u2019re the voice in their heads, their \u201cGuardian Angels.\u201d But that\u2019s not how life works.\nIt was his choice.<\/em>\n\nWhat if you didn\u2019t agree with him?\nHonestly, a little \u201cYou can do this\u201d goes a long way.\nYou fed him the wrong food, and he choked.\n\nSo what about this kid? He hears our arguments?\nWe\u2019re a massive conflict in his head.<\/em>\n\nIndeed, we are.\nThat\u2019s why we need to not jeopardize this.\nThis kid could change the world.\n\nHe\u2019s just like everyone else. Nothing special.\nHe\u2019s gonna go through school, go to college,\nGet an office job, retire, die.<\/em>\n\nStupid idea, my friend.\nHe could be one of very few.\nHe could make music everyone likes.\nHe could save animals.\nHe could talk someone out of suicide.\nHe could cause the start of a revolution for rights.\nHe could be anyone he wants to.\n\nSounds like Disney.\nChildish. There\u2019s a reason \u201cspecial\u201d is a word that means \u201cexclusive.\u201d He couldn\u2019t do more if he tried.<\/em>\n\nBut he could. <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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