Friend Posted February 18, 2013 (edited) Edited March 29, 2013 by Friend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted February 18, 2013 Older than the stars... at least some of them. But he's not aging much... and his interest in things is as acute as ever. And I'm told he loves to party, which is why his birthday is usually celebrated in style. Â Today is the 9th day of the Chinese New Year. That's his birthday. A different date every year, but always the 9th day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan Posted February 18, 2013 what can you tell me about both the chinese new year as well as the jade emperor? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan Posted February 19, 2013 i was inspired to write a short story.Its still somewhat fresh in mind so i am winging it. fresh and unaltered.Born at the end of the world, a young man grows up submerged in lies, deceit, corruption, self indulgence, and strife. He learns to thrive and survive by applying the same amount of lying, deceptiveness, corrosion, and egoism. The only way anyone at the end of the world ever could live.He learns to steal to eat, and learns to take pleasure in stealing. as well as eating. He learns to intimidate others, to convince them to do as he demands. He also learns to take pleasure in doing so.He lives out his life, there in the end of the world. a Long and, by standards of the end of the world, prosperous life.But all throughout, he feels empty of something important. something that he feels like he should never have not known, something he feels should be obvious to him, even as yet he senses nothing but this emptiness inside himself.Old and worn down, he is no longer top dog, but top target. He experiences gullibility for the first time since his youngest days and it hurts. in different ways than he has ever been harmed, he feels guilt.Cheated out of his own life by the very methods he used to live it, he is suddenly faced with a mirror. For the first time, he must examine himself. when he finally sits down and enters quiet mindfulness, it is as though the world around him has disappeared and now he knows what has been missing all throughout his life.So he begins a journey across time and space, renewed by his own reflection, to seek the truth in all corners of experience.He begins by traveling backward through the flow of time, becoming younger while everyone else grows older, bringing about good deeds while everyone else steals and spreads lies.While the time the world experiences moves forward, time for one individual moves backward. he is a young man again and in his prime. no longer aging forward or backward, yet still traveling back through the flow of time in pursuit of truth and understanding.Eventually he goes so far back as to witness the world changing. Lies, treachery, deceit, less and less common the further back he goes.BUT! Old habits are hard to break, he has come up with a devious plot to "pull" the corruption from the end of the world as far back as the beginning, that the corruption may flow its course and disappear by the end of the world.He immediately searches for the beginning of the world, continuing his path as before, yet finding himself in a limbo; time seems to have stopped!No longer at the end of the world, nowhere near the beginning, and right here in the middle... what is this place?The world at the center of time is recreated in his image, in his memories, the corruption returns, but he is in control now. He seeks to counter the corruption, bring balance to the experience...And so he continues, to this very day, creating, causing, and moving the world in subtle ways over the course of our perceived eternal eons, and yet suffers every moment, seeking to reclaim the void.Eventually, one day... he will return to his pursuits of truth and flow further back in time until he is content.Content to abandon pursuits, content to let go of his questions.He lives on to become a famous figure of our past.One of whom he, himself, would have heard of even in the end of the world... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerostao Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) is the Jade Emperor Taoist? couldnt help myself  Edited February 19, 2013 by zerostao Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
exorcist_1699 Posted February 20, 2013 is the Jade Emperor Taoist? couldnt help myself  Of course, he is a Taoist god , who governs other gods :-) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
