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| ===== On history, and the Origin ===== | ===== On history, and the Origin ===== | ||
| - | The past is a foreign land, one to which we can never return. We live each moment in the here-and-now, and then it is gone forever into the past. To know what occurred we have only our memories, the memories of others, and what we chose to record and perpetuate to guide us. But recordings can be easily altered, lost, erased, and as Elysians our Will is of such strength that we are capable of changing our very memories. | + | [{{ :image:space:cosmic_microwave_background.png?200|The cosmic microwave background, a relic of Origin}}]The past is a foreign land, one to which we can never return. We live each moment in the here-and-now, and then it is gone forever into the past. To know what occurred we have only our memories, the memories of others, and what we chose to record and perpetuate to guide us. But recordings can be easily altered, lost, erased, and as Elysians our Will is of such strength that we are capable of changing our very memories. |
| What value then has history to us? All the small, inconsequential events of lives are lost, ultimate, to the passage of time. The records survive, our memories and stories survive, but they can be only as myths to us. They can carry truth, but it is the truth of a mutable mind, buried in image and symbol. The passage of time renders them mutable in their outward appearance, but their essential nature survives. | What value then has history to us? All the small, inconsequential events of lives are lost, ultimate, to the passage of time. The records survive, our memories and stories survive, but they can be only as myths to us. They can carry truth, but it is the truth of a mutable mind, buried in image and symbol. The passage of time renders them mutable in their outward appearance, but their essential nature survives. | ||
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