A little something-something I whipped up for Dmatix's Horizon Initiative.
I personally love the idea of the HI, and thought that this would flesh them out a bit more, so here you go.
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(account deleted)As featured in Fire on the Horizon and SCP-1650. It's a GOI consisting of various factions from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, working together to procure relics and combat newer, more dangerous religions (the CotBG and the Fifthists for one, and others), but they have a tendency to squabble amongst themselves something fierce.
Great job on this one. This is what I see as the official manifesto of the HI- old enemies cooperating against new and much more dangerous foes. The truth is, of course, much more complicated, and old grudges die hard. This is what the anonymous writer is trying to prevent- what happened in 1650's case.
I like it but I think there's a sentence fragment in the first paragraph.
Edit: never mind, I think I misread it or you fixed it as I was posting. :)
Edit 2: or not:
Are you afraid In the desert, we were as children, and we spoke as children, and so God spoke to us in words that children knew, in ways that children could understand
I like the idea of a Yandere GOI for the Foundation. They really, really want an alliance but are too crazy/zealous for the Foundation to be interested.
I see the craziness as more a side effect of their disorganization rather than their nature. At the moment they are too disorganized to make a working alliance with anyone, let alone themselves, but I think that if more forward-thinking members like this guy manage to gain enough support, then there could be some working alliances, because then you'd have zeal along with the intelligence not to blow yourself up without due cause for self-explosion.
Completely unrelated, all this talk of religious squabbles has made me consider a scip based on the Defenestration of the Prague.
I rather like this.
Side not: does the HI get a tag now, or is it three SCP articles first?
I'm not sure it's eligible for a tag yet- it has two tales, an SCP directly involving it and an SCP indirectly involving it (SCP-1321). Not sure if that's enough or not.
I'd personally want to wait until we have three SCP articles to give a tag, but if another Mod wants to give the go-ahead, I won't contest it.
if your reading this your gay
This is beautiful.
This would still be wonderfull and moving even outside of a SCP context.
It restates what I have always wondered about the three monotheistic religions:
Why can't they just all get along ?
And the fact that seperate factions of the same religions can't even get along
This is beautiful.
This.
I think my favorite part is
…all relics that may be truly known as divine or related to the divine, even those that are challenging to our beliefs, must be considered.
(italics mine)
As bold statements go, this one kind of sneaks under the radar, but this is a deeply radical position to espouse and it really gives the reader (well…me, at least) a strong sense of where this guy is coming from. I love it.
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Ayup. That's why I like the idea of the Horizon Initiative. Before they joined up, the various groups would have acted like you'd expect religious groups of interest to act: root out heresy, find relics important to them, all that. But now, with some big picture-people like this guy here, you end up with a group whose final goal is figuring out capital "t" Truth, no matter what that means to what was accepted or believed before.
I think that the greatest danger of the Initiative is in the fact that, if the succeed, they would most likely go public with the information. Imagine the shitstorm that would occur if a group could say "God is real, He has contacted humanity, and we got almost everything wrong.", and then back it up with irrefutable proof.
Man, I can't believe I'm only reading this stuff now…
I honestly find the argument of this piece a little weak, which is a bit of a bummer, because the concept is good. But still… the last line gets the upvote anyway.
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