Sometimes a little fantasy is needed to help us understand that the conflict between different religious beliefs in East and West has reached critical proportions.

“Spread across the vast ineptitude of my soul, I see the ever-present temptation of resurrection. I can bear no more new beginnings. Can’t you see how vague our horizon is? Doesn’t the glow of humanity’s failure tear from you?” of your thoughts of a better tomorrow? Glorious, my irascible brother Magical Genie, where are we in the cosmic theme of things? What is left for us to do? Standing here on a transparent cloud of nature’s peculiar design, what can we expect to find? in the future? When will God tell us what to do?

“My old friend Gali, my magical soulmate, my Magical Genius brother, you are as ever the philosopher of the old world. We can try again. We can look for a better time. We have less than nothing else to do. We can put our minds together and figure out a new beginning, if not at the very beginning, at least not at the end of humanity. Let us unite our purpose and share the provisions of our hearts and minds to restore what is possible. God will guide us.”

“I see nothing but Glorious shadows. My thoughts are too dispirited for a meeting of our minds to do any good. Woe to me! Where has all the magic gone?”
“He has left us at the entrance to a new beginning, my dear friend Gali, if we can find our way. We must try again. It is God’s will.”

“But they are all gone Glorious, all our friends, their culture, their very humanity. We cannot hope to resurrect civilization with our own shaky salvation.”

“I guess there’s nothing left for Gali to do but have faith. What else is left for us?”

“Perhaps you are right, Glorious One. What else can we do but have faith. I will try again with you. Come join your thoughts with mine and we will try to start again. Together we will resonate as one voice, one thought in our trying with the God’s help resurrect humanity”.

“That’s the Gali spirit. After all, we’re just free spirits.”

“This mind meld must be working Glorious. You’re starting to sound like me.”

“And you, Gali, are starting to think like me. Isn’t that wonderful? Together we will find the power for humanity’s salvation, and maybe even our own redemption. I can feel it, can’t you? The old magic is coming back.” A new future is brewing. May we find a better way to be the guardians of civilization this time under the good grace of God. May we start anew.”

“Can you feel it glorious? Can you feel the strength returning to our spirit? Can you not see the valley of despair dissipating? Where do we begin, my old friend?”

“We must start before the final Gali bombs drop. We must go back in time. We must change the ending to find a new beginning.”
“I see, if it was ever like this. Can we do this Glorious?”
“Do we have a choice Gali? “What are you waiting for?”

“They are awaiting final instructions Glorious. Here in the frozen Tundra of Siberia they are awaiting the order to drop the final bombs that will end the world.

“Where will Gali’s orders come from? What can we do to stop them? What are they fighting for?”

“They are fighting for different ways of life. They are fighting for religious principles. The orders will come from bunkers buried deep in the earth far from here, where men of fanatical efforts will give the orders. We can only stop them if we can show that there is no a right path. We must show them that there has to be a better way than destroying humanity to prove whose path is right. We must reinvigorate them with the possibility of a better tomorrow. We must give them Glorious hope. And we must do it quickly. Time, my old friend, he’s not on our side this day. We’ll have to part ways. You must go West. I’ll go East. We must make them stand down. Hurry. We’re almost out of time. They’re about to destroy the world. . There will be nothing else: no humanity, no civilization, no hope for the future. I don’t think God wants it that way.”

“How will I know what to say, Gali?”

“Remember we are of one mind Glorious. We will know each other’s thoughts. We will speak as one mind. Hurry, we must find a better way. God will give us the words.”

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