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roseembolism) wrote2018-10-28 07:43 pm
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(Repost) Twenty-fourth Minor Spirit of October: That Guy
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Twenty-Fourth Minor Spirit of October
That Guy
Instead of Inktober, I'm doing a spirit a day for October.
People react in different ways to encountering spirits for the first time. Terror is common. Bursts of religious fervor are frequent, though rarely last. Some just integrate it into their worldview and go on, and a few become obsessed with knowing more to the point of paranoia.
And then there's That Guy.
It wasn't enough that he had his atheistic worldview upended. After some furious thought, he got ideas. He wanted to do more than tell the world about spirits. We've had people like that before.
He wanted to monetize them.
Now don't get me wrong. Who in the know hasn't done an exorcism, raised or put down spirits for cash on the barrel-head? We live in a material (mostly) world.
But this guy, he was ambitious. More than 1-900 lines with spiritualists standing by, ready to bother dead relatives, he saw them being placed right into computers or smart phones. He wanted mass summonings and bindings for profit. He even thought of binding the souls of technicians into manikins or preserved corpses so they could continue working after death. He saw himself as the Peter Thiel of spiritualism, disrupting the ethereal world.
It wouldn't have worked of course; you know why the spirit world is a liminal experience, unsuitable for mass consumption. I told him so. But he wouldn't listen to warnings from someone like me.
So I did the only thing I could. I helped him.
A few hints, some instructions, ready with warnings if only he asked. But no, he fit some pieces together and ran with them. Ignoring the gaps in his knowledge. So he summoned spirits. Oh how he summoned spirits.
I hear they're making good progress with him. He's been able to sleep for fifteen minutes at a stretch now. He was even able to look briefly into a mirror the other day.
Pity about the time the lights went out all night
That Guy
Instead of Inktober, I'm doing a spirit a day for October.
People react in different ways to encountering spirits for the first time. Terror is common. Bursts of religious fervor are frequent, though rarely last. Some just integrate it into their worldview and go on, and a few become obsessed with knowing more to the point of paranoia.
And then there's That Guy.
It wasn't enough that he had his atheistic worldview upended. After some furious thought, he got ideas. He wanted to do more than tell the world about spirits. We've had people like that before.
He wanted to monetize them.
Now don't get me wrong. Who in the know hasn't done an exorcism, raised or put down spirits for cash on the barrel-head? We live in a material (mostly) world.
But this guy, he was ambitious. More than 1-900 lines with spiritualists standing by, ready to bother dead relatives, he saw them being placed right into computers or smart phones. He wanted mass summonings and bindings for profit. He even thought of binding the souls of technicians into manikins or preserved corpses so they could continue working after death. He saw himself as the Peter Thiel of spiritualism, disrupting the ethereal world.
It wouldn't have worked of course; you know why the spirit world is a liminal experience, unsuitable for mass consumption. I told him so. But he wouldn't listen to warnings from someone like me.
So I did the only thing I could. I helped him.
A few hints, some instructions, ready with warnings if only he asked. But no, he fit some pieces together and ran with them. Ignoring the gaps in his knowledge. So he summoned spirits. Oh how he summoned spirits.
I hear they're making good progress with him. He's been able to sleep for fifteen minutes at a stretch now. He was even able to look briefly into a mirror the other day.
Pity about the time the lights went out all night