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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5511612" data-attributes="member: 18280">Explain my religion, man?  What’s that mean, “explain my religion”?All this space, you say, you think she’s empty.  No, no, she’s not empty.  She’s full of voices, for those have the way to listen.  Not out there with your ears, or with sensors, but in here, with your soul.  Those voices in space, they sing to your soul.  Many, many songs, all types.Some of them, they the songs that lure the young out into exploring the spaceways.  You don’t know you hear those songs, not exactly, but you hear them just the same.  And there are other songs out there, older songs, darker songs.  There are songs still echoing through her, been echoing through her long before Mankind looked up to the stars for the first time.  Some of them songs, they so old they come before the Bang that started everything else.  Echoing, echoing out there from the universe that came before this one.All this empty space.Except it’s not the space that’s empty.  It’s us.  Space is singing old, old songs from old, old times, and most people?  They’re just like open doorways, nothing in them, no song of their own.  Who’s to say what old, old thing might come through that door, eh?  Come right on in and fill you up.  And then where are you, eh?  Nowhere, that’s where.  Then your soul, it be lost in the real Void.  Not this singing space, all full of voices, but a place where there be nothing but a few lost souls and a whole lot of black.See, that isn’t religion, that’s fact.  I’ve heard the voices.  I’ve heard the singing.  I’ve felt those old things struggling to get through me, and I’ve let them in just enough to get me by, time and time again.  Old Brother Modo, he got a strong sword arm and a deadeye shot with a blaster.  Sister Aya, she got a sweet way about her, you bet.So you tell me, man.  Should you smoke the lotus, join the Brotherhood?Or you just want to go floating around out there, until something old comes, comes and gobbles you up?</blockquote>

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