About Big Red

Baphomet. Simply the strangest of them all.

So we've all heard about Big Red, haven't we? He's in every single culture and religion in the world, and perhaps not the same color or shape or even going by the same name, but we have all heard about him (or her, whatever floats your boat). From the Judo-Christian Satan, to the inner and lower nature of human beings in the Baha'i Faith - he's everywhere.

In most depictions, Big Red is exactly that. Big and red. In others, he's horned and has a trident like Poseidon had. In some, he is simply the Grim Reaper. In others, merely ourselves.

While some people may greatly prefer the thriller-like depiction of Satan as our own inner-demons, I do not. Sure, there is horror in everybody, but we are in no way the only force in the universe capable of causing destruction. I tend to believe there is some other force, some malevolent man or beast or both walking the world sowing chaos. While all evidence points towards the dismissal of such a creature, we have to question whether or not science is to be wholly trusted. Was it not science that once claimed the earth was flat, or that the sun revolved around us?

That is actually a very conceited one, that man actually believed the universe revolved around them! But... Moving on...

Dismissing the existence of either a Creator or a Destroyer (or a deity that is perhaps both, most likely), only makes us ignorant. Sure, we wage war with machines and not with magic, we split an atom, we created a virtual world in which most people live nowadays, and we have landed on celestial bodies and orbited them. But does that make us the grand masters of the universe? Is humanity really that proud of themselves? The more I think of it, mankind is more like the biblical depiction of Satan than most people realize. Full of pride, able to destroy anything and everything if given the chance and motive, and of course - our denial of the supernatural.

Big Red exists. My logic is as follows:

1. We exist, therefore we must have been made.
2. If we were made, then there must be a creator.
3. If there is a creator, then there is a possibility there is a destroyer.
4. If there's a possibility, it's most likely possible.
5. Optimism dictates believing.

Not very logical, I admit, but hey! That's me and my beliefs!

If there is a destroyer, like I believe there is, then the world is much more horrific than we think. This belief opens up whole new doors into terror, once you open them and leave them open. A destroyer that is directly the opposite of a creator would theoretically be able to do only bad, or - if God is bad - only good. It all depends on what you believe.

But here's where my theory comes in, something I strongly believe in:

There is no Creator, and no Destroyer. The two are one and the same.


Morality is such a sticky subject. Human beings created it. Every immoral act has its own justification... Murder, has Euthanasia. Theft has Re-possessive Charity (think Robin Hood), Dishonesty has Preservation of Feelings, and so forth.

Human beings, the horrific creatures that we truly are, created morality to justify their actions and feel in control. Does nobody remember that the human race was once as low as a common mouse? That we wondered on all-fours, without intelligence? That it was only by the grace of circumstance that we happened to evolve into the all-mighty (nearly) beings that we are today.

For this reason, how can we really know what is real. To do so, one must detach themselves from everything and look at all they see reasonably and logically.

What if your God didn't give a damn one way or the other? What if every miracle was only coincidence, or the strength to persevere and overcome obstacles was only possible through our own misguided faith and the belief that we are being protected.

What if... This is all true?

If it is, there is no Big Red or Big Blue. Then all there is in this never-ending universe of trillions and trillions of possibilities is a Big Gray.

A being possessing either no morality, or no intelligence. Or Big Gray died?

This, Horrific Ones, is the forbidden fruit of Horror. And this is what you have to seek out. Make people question their beliefs, make them believe like H.P. Lovecraft did that the whole universe is a twisted realm of chaos, that there is NO God. Instill the belief in their minds that hope is useless, that doom is inevitable. Deny the afterlife (or embrace it in some twisted form, it's your choice), commit blasphemy and get their blood pumping while simultaneously chilling them.

Your job is to make your readers feel.

Like King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table sought out to find the Holy Grail, so must you look within yourself to the deepest and darkest depths of your soul to find that which terrifies you. You must unsettle yourself to no end before you can ever unsettle anybody else.

And if that doesn't work, remember that the whole universe is empty. There IS no God, there IS no Satan, chances are there is no being bigger than humanity as a whole, and if there is It is passive in all forms. There is NO afterlife, no heaven nor hell.

But who am I to know for sure? After all, I'm only trying to fuel your depression and get you to join the dark side.

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