The Light and Darkness

If you had fully read what I had stated you would have seen that I said it is not an option for everyone. Read things fully before saying someone is the same as you.

Signed, With Truth,
Jack Dimms.

So quick to call names are we? Is that what Dark Clergy do when faced with justifying their faith? Call whoever challenged them, a dirty name, such as a child in the schoolyard would? If that is thine only answer, then, as I would a naughty child, I pay thee no heed.

However, I enjoy discussion and comparison of religion, and on that level I would rather stay, if thee don't mind. But we hath cluttered the board here enough with this. Perhaps we can continue this in person?

As this seems the place to do so, I have a question for the Dark Clergy.
Throughout this thread, a world of only light has been argued against. What do you want? Do you seek a world of endless darkness or, like Atrus, want one of balance? Or something else? And perhaps more importantly, what do your gods want of this world?

The way you've talked so far, many of you seem to be in favor of the way things were a few months ago, when worship of your gods was allowed and those of your "flock" were allowed to publicly exist.
If this would be better said through missives, or even in person, please send me one as I don't want to clutter the board of the Dragon's Claw more than it already is.

Of Light and Darkness

So swells one against the other
Tied by Dusk and Dawn
The Moon light reflecting the Sun
In the Dark velvet shroud filled with diamond stars
The moon sliver glow
Is daylight reflection to some

For this artist sees the colors then
Which are shrouded to others in darkness of eyes
Eyes not sensitive enough to see
The prettiest colors of the tree and the land
Colorful gray slimmed in fire
A powerful light in desire

But good and evil are not these things
In the hearts of beings dwells the soul
The light or dark within we know
For every soul and evil and good
And the being travels both neighborhoods
Making choices along their way

Whether they travel in night or day
On roads chosen in flight or not
Their ways and means are not forgotten
In memories and histories there they lay
Like the greats seas sands along the quay
Some sparkle with light and others shine in specks of black

But in the sands there is never a lack
Of colorful grays of colors and tone
Like memories adrift in a sea on tiny stone.
But words and deeds are to just sand
To be sent too and fro in the waves of time
For each is real and true

To those who live with memory of you
So chose how to be remembered with care
For many lives you effect there
And whether you bring forth good or evil
The sun rises and sets in these ancient lands
And The brilliant sunlight that shows with the sun

Can blind those looking be they shaded or not
Just as Gods are chosen marked good and evil
The light of the world ever shines equal
And shows those who look to see
Even if it us you or me or another to see
Moonlight is Sunlight reflected

Be it in daylight or moonlight selected
The color pallet is what you envision
The way you see
The physical reason
The thought that linger
On good and evil

The light cares not by shines on equal

Lorien Blackstone

Since a poem has been entered.....

The Light and Dark spark words of ingenuity and excitement.
Thoughts of where our hearts lie and exactly what leads to true enlightenment.
Fights like most southerns would often have you believe.
Is the true meaning of peace, but war is what comes before all of this.

See it doesn't matter whether or not you follow the Gods of Light and Dark
What truly matters is your friends and what you keep protected in your heart.
What matters is your conviction and with every word that's written.
You stand up for what you believe in unless it's genocide or wrongful imprisonment.
As a person I know that both Light and Dark resides in me.
That we are all monsters when you peel back the politics.

When you're all pushed to the brink, ready to sink so heavily into a mind state.
We all have blood on our hands and to this fact I'm irate.
So focused on whose right and whose wrong, when we all have done things we wouldn't be able to admit to our moms.
Things we wouldn't be able to tell our loves with a steady look in our eyes.
So balance is the key, but nobody is perfect enough to get it right.
So just accept it.

Signed, With Truth,
Jack Dimms

I do not wish for endless light, nor do I wish for endless dark. I wish a world of freedom. A world in which the mortals are left to their own devices, free of the influence of the divine. A world of endless choices, and without rules or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.

-Orophin