Xiu Erdai's daily essays

06752 - Right of option

Me: "As long as both parties are willing, it's fine. As long as there is no coercion, as long as it's all voluntary, it's fine."

Yang Ye: "The reason we insist on disobeying the God of Harvest is because we cannot accept being forced. When we were simply looking forward to a good harvest and ample food and clothing, we once believed in the God of Harvest sincerely; but when God really appeared, We doubt when it is strongly commanded that we will suffer bad luck if we believe only him without piety."

Me: "I also hate being forced. Even if it is something I like, if it is forced, my emotions will turn into hate. If forced for a long time, it will develop into disgust or even hostility."

Yang Ye: "That's why I said that as long as we can walk through the magic stone, we are the same. No matter how much the faithful believers of the gods want to sneak into this small space and assimilate us, their belief in the gods will cut off their way in."

Yang Ye: "They despise magic stones, but at the same time they have nothing to do with them. In fact, magic stones can really be regarded as beliefs. We all believe in these magic stones that protect our last living place. This belief also Convergence becomes strength, against the strength of the God of Harvest."

Me: "There are many kinds of beliefs. Belief in gods, immortals, ancestors, money, fame, luck, friends, masters, masters, beauties, swords, knives, noodles, Believe in cats, believe in your own hands... Believe in anything, as long as you make yourself happy, as long as you make yourself better."

Me: "You can believe what you believe, and I can believe what I believe; I don't interfere with what you believe, and you don't interfere with what I believe. If there is no conflict between our beliefs, we can be friends; if there is a conflict, we will be friends." Live in different ways, live in the same world without disturbing each other, and find friends who don't conflict."

Me: "Every creature has the right to choose. We are born with the ability and power to think, so we can have our own ideas. Agree or reject, as long as it does not harm others, or as long as we can bear the consequences, we can 'think'" .”

Yang Ye: "But we, the god-defying people, can't bear the consequences of our choices. It's just that we really can't convince ourselves to choose the easier option. This matter can't be faked, and God can easily see through us." Believe it from the heart or not, if you say it with your mouth but don’t believe it in your heart, the consequences will only be worse.”

After a pause for a few seconds, Yang Ye smiled again: "If the power is strong, it might not be too bad. The person I mentioned earlier who was dressed like you, came to our world first before the God of Harvest. He He pretended to believe in God, but was exposed, suffered God’s punishment, and finally managed to escape and came to us.”

06753-Priest

Oh, it does sound like something a monk in the main world can do.When encountering a strong enemy, be subdued by strategy first, cheat if you can, and run with your life if you can't.

——All nods, promises, signatures, and pledges under forced circumstances are not counted.Not to mention self-centered monks denying it, the laws of the mortal world also expressly stipulate that they don't recognize it, and all creatures in the main world treat it as waste paper and nonsense.

Yang Ye: "Here, that is the library I manage."

I followed his pointing hand and looked towards the two-story building.If this building is used as a residence, it may be quite spacious for five or six people from three generations of grandparents, but if it is used as a library, it can only be regarded as the size of an ordinary elementary school, right?Middle school can't be just this big.

Yang Ye smiled helplessly: "It also includes one of my bedrooms. Because it is too small, and there are not many people who read books, so I have some part-time jobs besides my main job."

Maybe you reversed the main job and part-time job?

Yang Ye: "When the god-defying people fled here, the books they brought together were not enough for a box. In fact, people carried very few things at that time. They were too hasty and powerless. Almost Nothing but a life."

Yang Ye: "After escaping here by chance, everyone tried their best to live, and at the same time, they also recorded the methods that can be thought of and the technologies that are temporarily unusable but may guide us to live a little better in the future, and try to save them for the future. Descendants—if there are any descendants."

Yang Ye: "But the reality is, I am the first generation of children born after the god-defying people escaped here. I directly learned from those first-generation god-defying people who have seen the outside world, but what I have learned... is not enough at all The 'society' is maintained. The patchwork of knowledge is too incomplete, and the materials here are too scarce. Many things from the outside world cannot be reproduced here, and there is no condition to re-research a full-featured substitute suitable for this place. "

Yang Ye: "When the God of Harvest unified the world, the first thing he did was to control high-end talents in various fields. They had to obey or die. They had no chance to escape. Those who could escape were ordinary people with little ability. People. They are ants who escaped and pose no threat to theocracy."

Me: "Your master or teacher is the one or those people who taught you the most knowledge. What did they do?"

Yang Ye: "...Why do you ask this?"

Me: "Because apart from your main job, I think you are more like a priest. The nature of the job of managing the gate leading to another world is similar."

06754-Survival must be ensured first

Yang Ye: "I only have one teacher, and he is indeed a priest, the priest of the God of Harvest. He should have been one of the most devout priests, so that when he decided to betray the God of Harvest and choose to run away with the god-defying However, the God of Harvest and its messengers and believers did not guard against him, and they still regarded him as one of their own, and when it was realized that something was wrong with him, my teacher had already rescued many rebels."

Yang Ye: "My father failed to escape into the magic stone cage, and my mother managed to stay here while pregnant, but passed away after giving birth to me. I was brought up by a teacher who taught him everything he knew. me."

Yang Ye: "It might be a bit strange to say it, but although the teacher stood firmly on the position of protecting the god-defying people at that time, he found a way to open the magic stone gate, and was the first to step into the magic stone gate and enter the magic stone gate." Stone cage, but he still considered himself a devout believer of the God of Harvest until his death."

Yang Ye: "The teacher said that he has never deviated from his belief for a moment, and he said that everything he does follows his belief."

Yang Ye: "But he also said, 'The God of Harvest is wrong. Those believers who force creatures to kneel down to the God of Harvest in the name of God, and die if they don't kneel are wrong'."

Me: "Faith does not mean not questioning. Mistakes are mistakes, and mistakes should be corrected. Only by constantly correcting your mistakes can you continue to make yourself better. Faith also needs to be developed, and teachings also need to change over time. Corruption. Questioning is not to overthrow, but to develop better."

Yang Ye: "Teacher, he didn't explain it in such detail. Although he insisted that he never deviated from his belief, after coming to the magic stone cage, he rarely mentioned the God of Harvest, and he was not very willing to share with other people. Discussing the issue of faith only speaks a little more to my student."

Yang Ye: "In other words, he didn't have time to talk about this in detail. At that time, what everyone needed to focus on was survival. They needed to live in a place where there was no soil, no plants, and water was scarce and poisonous. In places abandoned by the gods, the God of Harvest will not bless those who rebel against the God to have a good harvest, so the teacher exchanged himself and brought the basic conditions for living creatures here with his flesh and blood."

Yang Ye pointed to a fenced area: "There is our only plantation, and the plants we grow can be eaten by us, but they must not be taken to the outside world alive, otherwise they will be assimilated by believer plants and attack us. "

Yang Ye: "Weapons made of plantation plants can cause damage to believer plants, but you must be careful when using them. Don't let these weapons come into contact with believer plants for too long, otherwise the dead wood will be resurrected and turn into believer plants. Attack our weapons."

06755-blessing indeed

Yang Ye: "The soil of the plantation was irrigated by the teacher for 20 years led by his flesh and blood, plus the blood donated by all the residents here."

Me: "It's not good to introduce me in such detail? This should be your secret?"

Yang Ye: "Is it a secret that everyone knows and participates in?"

Me: "The difference between the inside and the outside? The inside knows, but the outside knows nothing?"

Yang Ye: "God knows everything. We can still breathe because the benevolent God has left us with room to breathe. God is waiting for us to repent. As long as we sincerely repent, God will forgive our mistakes and accept us again."

Yang Ye: "That's what believers propagate."

Yang Ye: "The teacher said that he believed it; but the teacher also said that he had no regrets. He did not regret the belief in the God of Harvest, and he did not regret leading everyone to survive in the magic stone cage. When the teacher died, he melted himself into the magic stone. In the middle, continue to guard this space, but he said that he doesn’t know how this space can last like this, he only knows that he is unwilling to return to the ground, and he also wants to help those who are also unwilling or unable to return to stay here more Relying on him, but he has no hope of what will happen in the future.”

Yang Ye: "I will take over his job and continue to live here with the creatures who are willing to stay, and try to make everyone live happily. Nearly a hundred years have passed, and we are still alive, but we still can't see the future. Where to."

Me: "Nearly a hundred years?" I looked at Yang Ye's 30-[-]-year-old face, wondering if I should express my doubts as a monk whose appearance age does not reflect his actual age.

Yang Ye: "The devout believers of the God of Harvest can not only get a material harvest, but also a longer lifespan. If my teacher hadn't spent a lot of effort on improving the basic conditions after coming here, he wouldn't be dissatisfied with two hundred He passed away at the age of [-], and the knowledge he taught me contained the power of faith. Although I am against the God of Harvest, I do not hate God, and I believe that God does have the power to bring his believers to harvest. Probably because of this I have a relatively peaceful mind, so my lifespan is approaching that of a priest of God, right?"

Yang Ye: "After seeing my example, other people here are also willing to let go of their hatred of God and try to live with a relaxed heart."

Yang Ye: "Although everyone was forced to come here by the God of Harvest and its believers, it may be because of the process of coming here and the beginning of taking root here. My teacher, the priest of the God of Harvest, has irrefutable credit , so everyone does not have completely negative feelings towards the God of Harvest. In particular, before that expulsion, our ancestors did enjoy the blessing of the God of Harvest for generations."