Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:33 pm
Faith
this a small thing i have been writing and i am not finished but i thought that i should see what people think of a possible book.
Faith
By Gareth Todd Thompson
Space. To a Scientist it is a collection of gasses and rock and ice. To a religious person it is god’s realm. But to a writer it is possibility.
Arion Stepped of a shuttle and into the heart of Earth. People ran to greet him and others went about there work. He was in the heart of Earth, over the years people felt were they came from and oddly returned to it. He was standing in the city Hontoim, people came fro the idle east and Africa at the dawn of time and now in the middle of it all stood Hontiom saying this is were we left and this is were we return. The city was amazingly big, Tokyo used to be the largest at 30 million in 2223, but now Hontiom was populated with 47,867,456 people. The heart of earth some would say, but bitter new Yorkers disagreed. Reporters ran up to him with microphones, pushing and shoving to get a better place for today’s fad, space flight.
“Mr. Watts how does it feel to do what you did?” a reporter said.
Arion smiled finding amusement in the question “speaking is a primitive form of passing ideas and yet it still is the best.”
“Mr. Watts, what do you mean by that” another reporter said
“You want to tell me what it feels like to do what no one has ever done and risk of my life and finding the greatest reward.” Arion said, “That is impossible with words”
“What is the great reward you claim to have found? Riches, love?” A reporter asked
“Just by your guesses I can tell you that you would not understand what I found.” Arion said looking very amused.
“Mr. Watts why do you not answer our questions?” A reporter asked
“you cannot understand” Arion said ‘Few can and few will. It is enough to make some go insane and others to never leave.”
Arion walked away to a car waiting for him. He opened the door and sat down. Looking out the window depressed him. He had found a great thing and he felt bad for those who did not have it. He smiled at his own thoughts, he had nothing he has seen much. And these people walked about there life as if nothing amazing was out there. It seemed odd that in the 28th century someone would find what he had found. After all he considered these the dark ages were science was religion. If you questioned the beliefs of science with supernatural beliefs then you are taken away and considered insane and a danger to younger people.
It saddened him that in a era were people should be more advanced then ever they were living in a style that one could all the 1500 hundreds. Arion knew the truth though these people were not taken away for treatment they were killed because they thought that science was wrong. Sadly Arion thought he was one of those people. He knew the truth, and to science he was a fool. No evidence, no proof just what was called ‘faith’? What people call faith is foolish hope and science has no room for blind faith. Arion had read if the 2757 massacre were a separate union of Faithers as they called people with Faith had assembled a colony and a small fighting force. They died for what they believed in, as the Science people came in and killed them all. They took science like a religion, calling in battle “for the advancement of the human race!”
It disgusted arion. That men still killed each other for having different beliefs. And Arion thought he might die because of what he saw.
Faith
By Gareth Todd Thompson
Space. To a Scientist it is a collection of gasses and rock and ice. To a religious person it is god’s realm. But to a writer it is possibility.
Arion Stepped of a shuttle and into the heart of Earth. People ran to greet him and others went about there work. He was in the heart of Earth, over the years people felt were they came from and oddly returned to it. He was standing in the city Hontoim, people came fro the idle east and Africa at the dawn of time and now in the middle of it all stood Hontiom saying this is were we left and this is were we return. The city was amazingly big, Tokyo used to be the largest at 30 million in 2223, but now Hontiom was populated with 47,867,456 people. The heart of earth some would say, but bitter new Yorkers disagreed. Reporters ran up to him with microphones, pushing and shoving to get a better place for today’s fad, space flight.
“Mr. Watts how does it feel to do what you did?” a reporter said.
Arion smiled finding amusement in the question “speaking is a primitive form of passing ideas and yet it still is the best.”
“Mr. Watts, what do you mean by that” another reporter said
“You want to tell me what it feels like to do what no one has ever done and risk of my life and finding the greatest reward.” Arion said, “That is impossible with words”
“What is the great reward you claim to have found? Riches, love?” A reporter asked
“Just by your guesses I can tell you that you would not understand what I found.” Arion said looking very amused.
“Mr. Watts why do you not answer our questions?” A reporter asked
“you cannot understand” Arion said ‘Few can and few will. It is enough to make some go insane and others to never leave.”
Arion walked away to a car waiting for him. He opened the door and sat down. Looking out the window depressed him. He had found a great thing and he felt bad for those who did not have it. He smiled at his own thoughts, he had nothing he has seen much. And these people walked about there life as if nothing amazing was out there. It seemed odd that in the 28th century someone would find what he had found. After all he considered these the dark ages were science was religion. If you questioned the beliefs of science with supernatural beliefs then you are taken away and considered insane and a danger to younger people.
It saddened him that in a era were people should be more advanced then ever they were living in a style that one could all the 1500 hundreds. Arion knew the truth though these people were not taken away for treatment they were killed because they thought that science was wrong. Sadly Arion thought he was one of those people. He knew the truth, and to science he was a fool. No evidence, no proof just what was called ‘faith’? What people call faith is foolish hope and science has no room for blind faith. Arion had read if the 2757 massacre were a separate union of Faithers as they called people with Faith had assembled a colony and a small fighting force. They died for what they believed in, as the Science people came in and killed them all. They took science like a religion, calling in battle “for the advancement of the human race!”
It disgusted arion. That men still killed each other for having different beliefs. And Arion thought he might die because of what he saw.
