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We live in an age of material excess, but many are starving spiritually. While every ancient culture constructed myths that gave life a higher purpose, the rational thinkers of our age insist we are no more than sentient meat. Some of us are fine with this, but to others it is an intolerable burden.
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~astersvart Mar 28, 2013  New member
I love this work and its message. It is outstanding. Thanks
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~DkarnDezolus Jan 14, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
This is one of your most meaningful works I've seen yet. (story for stalking your profile and probs spamming up your inbox btw, I just REALLY love your work haha)

I personally REFUSE to believe I have one life, that I'm just meat, that I'm just deluded flesh. If that's so then I quit, I don't want anything to do with this pointless game anymore. I KNOW that every single man woman and child is born for a reason, and I know every single man woman and child in the universe has the capacity to be greater than mortal. We are not meat to be consumed, that's just what a totalitarian regime of liars and manipulators wants us to believe. Sheep are easier to control than people and sheep is what society is nowadays.
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:icontheeladylolo:
Wow, I could not agree with you more. Now that we are upon the season of mass and gross material consumption, this materialism really bothers me. I would like the world to see this work of yours and understand your intent.
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:iconfoxescary:
I thought deviantART was a place to share your talents, not to fight with each other over your beliefs...
I mean, don't get me wrong, this is amazing and you're very talented, but whenever someone like ~syence is simply trolling to get a reaction out of you, couldn't everyone just leave it be and ignore that person?
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~louderthanapplause Sep 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
This is so.So. So. Beautiful. The concept is so wonderful. I just. This is so scarily true and beautiful.
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:iconvelodona:
Wow, powerful meaning.
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~Griefy Jul 10, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
AmAZING WORK :D
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:iconelisanth:
Love the concept.
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:iconproductno49:
wow, great concept. And you are right on this, people are taught to be even less than meat, just a number in some database of billions of other numbers. When spirituality is far from one's conscience, the person clenches to what is close to him and what is perceivable, and from that tries to find meaning in tangible things.

For me, I found my place in the universe. I know I am insignificant, I don't believe in hell nor in heaven or in any reward in the afterlife. I just want to do my best on this earth for myself and for my people and then fuck off into the beyond, expecting nothing in return but knowing that I did my best in this existence.
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