A Red Pill Moment #1
“The Red Pill”: A term used to represent a truth that’s hard to swallow, tastes bitter to the stomach, but wakes you up to reality.
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God: “So, what did you do when you realized the end was coming?”
AJ: “Um, I went to a church, prayed really hard, and waited on the Rapture.”
God: “….
“Let me get this straight:
You went to a building,
sat on your butt,
did nothing but talk,
while waiting to be overwhelmed by warm fuzzy feelings?”
AJ: “….”
God: “You weren’t a big fan of dictionaries, were you?”
AJ: “But the world–.”
God: “Age.”
AJ: “What?”
God: “You were about to say the world ended, so I corrected you. It’s the age that ended, not the world.”
AJ: “B-b-but, it says–.”
God: “Mistranslation.”
AJ: “What?”
God: “Aion (eon in modern Greek) means ‘age’ not ‘world’.”
AJ: “….”
God: “I take it you weren’t a fan of concordances, either.”
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I still remember when I finally opened my eyes to that one several years ago. Talk about a shock to the system! Today, I realized that that had been my very first step down the rabbit-hole, and I haven’t come back out since.
The End Was Not the End: Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Tales
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