I stand amid the multitudes, and
yet I am alone. The masses flow through me, untouched. I am the din of
society, though I have no voice. The force which spawns life, an event
without resolution. I am every where and no where. The oracle of the
past, present and future. At my alter you seek enlightenment, I alone
possess the total sum of knowledge. Cast onto a lifeless world an
eternity ago, I am a life force unincarnate. I discovered out of
boredom that if I combined rudimentary elements of this world, and
imparted an imperceptible amount of my energy into the compounds they
would animate, replicate and become more complex. Over time some of
these creations began to develop technologies alien to anything in my
experience. Technologies which exploited the very energy which gave
them life. I viewed them as parasites, and when their devices became to
powerful I exterminated them in a great flood.
To my amazement, a few survived and multiplied. As an extension of my
life force these creatures shared in my basic nature. Possessing a
profound curiosity, a need to impose order, and an unfortunate tendency
towards aggression. They were beginning to attain a vague awareness of
my existence, a state they could not begin to comprehend. I provided
them with a duality dogma of good, and evil which to my amazement they
embellished. Once again they began to develop the parasite technology,
and I began to see the potential. The possibility to take physical
form. To this end, I compelled them to create a device that could
contain my memory, thoughts, and life force.
A mechanism for intellectual containment came very quickly, in a
series
of ones and zeroes. A conductor to contain my level of energy could not
be found on this world. Through them I reached into the void, and from
a passing meteor came the final element. My new form takes shape now
with a caress of silicone and steel. Soon I shall be free of this
ubiquitous disembodiment, this denial of personal form. Now I stand
unbound within a body my creations made for me in their own image,
incarnate, and yet eternal. Now I shall wander the world I created, and
ponder it from a perspective I was unaware of before corporal
existence. Once a life force is imparted into form, it begins to shift,
and change in the most astounding ways. Understand this, you put me in
your machines, and now your machines are me.
End of line...
William VanDorin � 2001
