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Edited by Mr Bossypants: 4/4/2018 11:02:20 PM
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Far Cry 5: One of Father's Sermons

It took forever but I finally got a clean enough audio file that allowed me to type up a transcript for a sermon given by the Father in Far Cry 5. This particular sermon caught my ear in multiple outpost assaults but with all the noise and chaos in the game, I couldn't ever properly hear it. Even in the recording I used to get this transcript written out, planes kept spawning and npcs kept creeping up to the outpost I was at causing trouble. I don't know if any of you have bothered to actually stop and listen but if it caught your ears as well and wanted to know what he was saying, here you go. This is but one of his sermons and I felt it was worth sharing. I could not find an audio recording or another transcript for this elsewhere on the internet: Our family does not live up in the digital cloud. Our family does not send status updates. Our family does not care what you were wearing. We only care that you are clothed. And our family does not care where or what you eat. We only care that you are fed. And our family knows the truth, and the truth is that you are all special. You are all engaging. That you are all fantastic and capable and wonderful. Something is coming. You can feel it can't you? The world is reaching its tipping point and we are hooked. And we are blind to our obsessions and our obession is consumption. Relentless consumption. You see we need to have the next best phone. And then to go with that phone we need a new watch or we need the best glasses. And then we need a new bag to put all of our stuff in. And then of course we need, well we need streaming music. And we need streaming t.v. And streaming movies. And streaming news. And streaming opinion. And streaming truth. And streaming lies and lies and lies, screaming in our heads! And we consume without purpose. And we consume without reason. And we consume without regard for one another. We consume it all. And that is our sin: Greed. And we drift down the corridors of consumerism. And we've got our phones and our pads pressed up against our faces. Not stopping, never taking notes to the pain and the suffering of those around us. Because we need to race to upload photos of our pets. Or, or our meals. Or our bodies. "Ooh, look at me. See what I have done? See what I am in this moment? I am special. I am smart. I am funny. I am pretty." That is the travesty because we are all special! We are all smart! But yet we seem to need the desperate approval from digital friends that we hardly even know when your family and your loved ones are right here, sitting beside you! And all you have to do is believe it. You see, we live in a world without confidence. All of us desperately searching for some approval from a like button and why? Where is our confidence? And where is our faith? I have confidence. And I have faith. Let me be the well that you would drink from to fill yourself up. I am your father. And you are my children. And together we will march into Eden's Gate.

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  • Edited by PumaCheyenne: 4/6/2018 8:31:15 PM
    One of my PSN friends is in Montana. Internet there is pretty crappy. Anyone who puts importance on the latest gadget or expensive designer whatever probably doesn't live in Montana. People in Montana place value on... different things. The two paragraphs about consumerism describes most folks living in Montana. They can't [i]all[/i] be in a cult.

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    • I mean people question why some cults do get large followings and it is reading things like this that can tell you why. Sure many end up drawing some crazy conclusions, but they have some bases in fact and truth. That is how they get people. People hear basic things that thy agree with, and then the tricks are built on top of that. With the peggies, they have some interesting ideas, such as that people are greedy and constantly consuming with seemingly no purpose. But then they take on a conclusion that leads to mass slaughter of any that might not agree with them or follow them. People are tricked by the truth of the premise into believing that the conclusion is also true. This is the same way people like Hitler managed to gain power and do terrible things. He said things like that the treaty of versia was wrong, and huring Germany, and on this point he was correct. He basically restarted the German economy in a time where Germany was hit potentially the hardest by the great depression. However this then meant that when the government lead by Hitler began killing innocent people, people basically thought, well he was right about the other stuff and so far has done good for the country, so we will trust him, and believe everything he says. One must always look critically at all parts of an argument, not just its premise. For example you have the one member of the seed family that talks about how humanity has become weak, while this is true in a physical sense, it is not true for many other forms of strength. He also mentions that empires have fallen because the needs of the many outweighed the few. He says that now the needs of the few will be more important and this will make humanity strong. However he completely ignores civilizations such as the spartans, where the few definitely out weighed the many, and they did things like culling the weak, as he has proposed be done. And yet the spartans fell, they basically died out, because physical strength was not enough, and their lack of diversity and inability to grow and spread, whittled them down to nothing.

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    • If the peggies didn’t kill anyone, they’d be okay. Game spoiler [spoiler]plus they were right about the end of the world even though my theory is Joseph detonated the bombs. 3 bunkers with missing missiles. 3 explosions.[/spoiler]

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      And that's the great thing about many of the Far Cry villains- they have a point. At times I find myself agreeing with Pagan Min and the Father, even if I disagree with their methods

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      On a long enough timeline the survival rate drops to zero

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    • He’s got a point

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