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Edited by Valigus:
12/6/2018 12:29:46 PM
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My theory on the nature of the light and darkness
Ok so what if let’s say the sword logic is a multiversal constant and the light and the darkness each reside in separate universes where they are the final perfect shape.
Basically the light and dark are fighting for control of all realities but with different strategies.
the darkness basically pushes people to kill then consumes them in the end for power so it basically knocks down all but one being.
The light has a different strategy it finds a species or civilization and try’s to boost them make them better and helps them expand across the universe and build and become great but in doing so they wipe out many others or build so much they cannot thrive anymore, but everything that civilization does goes to the light and empowers it.
The important part of this is the endgame
If the darkness wins nothing will remain but the darkness or its champion but if the light wins it will be a glorious world of light and goodness but this is built upon the death of all other species and civilizations but all that are left are so close to the light that their conquest is the lights.
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Edited by TheArtist: 12/6/2018 9:43:54 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJT5XBT6oRM#action=share This is an iconic scene from the 1990s Sci-fi TV series "Babylon 5". The hero---John Sheridan---has been lured to the homeworld ( Za'ha'dum) of the series' chief enemy race (The Shadows ). Lured there by the unexpected reappearance of his wife whom he'd thought had died earlier. The menacing little weasel in the corner with dark hear is a human that viewers already know is aligned with the Shadows. The more innocent looking older gentleman also is...but he job is to look innocent and harmless....because his needs to make a sales pitch. Sheridan has been able to forge a multi-species alliance against The Shadows....and they want to lure him away from it...and to get him to work with the Shadows and their goals. Or KILL him if he refuses ("If you go to Za'ha'dum you will die.") But he knows that he's walking into a trap and came prepared. The scene is iconic because Sheridan asks Justin the iconic question that defines The Shadow's chief adversary and whom with think are aligned with Good (The Vorlnos): "Who Are You?" (As opposed to The Shadows whose minions always ask "What do you Want?". Its iconic because if you ask a Vorlon "What do you want?" He'll either get angry...or not answer it. But Justin actually gives a very revealing answer....IF you understand WHAT it is the Shadows Want. TLDR: Justin is telling Sheridan that The Shadows (who he works for) are the FORCE OF CHANGE. They believe in evolution through conflict....chaos...and "creative destruction". Sword Logic is basically this same idea. That you force things to fight....the stronger destroys the weaker. The Universe is improved by the elimination of that which is weak....and the strong grows stronger though the conflict. In the Babylon 5 Uinverse, the Vorlons don't respresnet "Good"....but instead ORDER. They believe in the improvement of a species through Order, Discipline and Unity. Since these ideologies are utterly incompatible...the entire history of the galaxy that Humans and other "Younger Races" are aware of has been defined and manipulated by the conflict between The Shadows seeking to promote chaos, conflict and constant wars.....and The Vorlons trying to promote structure and order. In many ways the conflict between the Darkness and The Light in the Destiny Universe is very similar to that of The Vorlons and The Shadows in the Babylon 5 Universe. The Light clearly stands for Order, Creativity, and Evolution through variety. So that whatever is ideal emerges on its own. The Darkness clearly stands for Chaos, Creative Destruction (Sword Logic), and Evolution through conflict and the elimination of the weak. Like the Babylon 5 universe you have other races that are either willingly or unwittingly aligned with these to forces.....or are caught between the two. (We eventually come to realize that while Sheridan and the Babylon 5 crew are aligned with The Vorlons---at first...the official government of Earth is actually secretly aligned with The Shadows) What made the series interesting is that no long after the episode linked above....Sheridan learns about the true nature of the conflict (which both sides are keeping hidden)...and realizes that it isn't in anyone's interests that EITHER side "wins" out. I suspect we're in for a similar realization at some point about this conflct ("Too much of a good thing can make you sick. Balance can come down to a single grain of sand."....Mara Sov.)
