This is the “lost entry” from when everything was erased. Hooray for backups!

The Rise of Endymion is the conclusion of the Hyperion series, which we can all know for sure took me a LONG time to read, however it was worth it.

It left me with a few questions unanswered and I’m wondering if I didn’t read a tiny little paragraph that might explain one or two of those questions, but I’m not going to re-read all four books again to find that out.

I can tell you it’s wonderfully written, you get excited about what will happen in the end, you don’t want to put it down, you want to go on and on until you finish but your eyes are closing and, damn you have to work tomorrow.

However it all comes back to Religion, Power and Love in the end. Hasn’t the church been powerful enough in our lifetime? Imagine a future where you HAVE to convert to be helped with the greatest medical advancements, to be able to travel and not be persecuted.

Think of us humans and the inevitable fear of death. So the church takes away that fear. You can die, but you’re resurrected, as easy as 1, 2, 3. You just have to add this thing to your body, which will help you to be, as Captain Jack Harkness, of Doctor Who and Torchwood fame says “the man (or woman) that can’t die”. Oh, but you can’t accept the church and not take the thing it’s all or nothing!

And one girl helps set it straight. She does not consider herself a messiah, even when everyone does. However she helps people realize you don’t need to live forever. You don’t need a thing strapped to you, and if the church was REALLY following what God/Jesus/Buddah/, they would care for EVERYONE not just those that accepted your favorite brand of religion.

Have I enticed you enough to read all four of those books? Good, go right ahead! You won’t be disappointed.

Head over to the different rides and games, where you can ride on Krishna’s hands or the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Noodly Appendage! Get an FSM plush toy by pinning the hand on Krishna or hitting Buddha directly on his belly! Go ahead and visit Jesus’s Tent, with his world renowned magic of coming back from the dead three days after being killed, feeding a crowd of 5,000 people with only five small loaves of bread and two fishes and making the best wine out of nothing but water! Jump on Buddha’s belly! There’s fun for each and every one of Whichever God You Might Prefer creatures!

Please… ignore the masses of obsessive religious people who try to block your way to fun and enlightenment! They hold on to their own personal version of the Truth and don’t accept others. They have been damaged or educated in a way that they need to hold on to their Truth and can’t see how other Truths would help. They don’t understand that maybe, just maybe, all Truths are one. Their choice of Deity could just be a different aspect of a fun, all knowing, all loving God.

What’s the cost of each ride? Not much, or probably the highest cost ever, depends on how you see it. Your beliefs. If you leave your beliefs at the entrance of our Religion park, you’ll get every ride for free. You just have to stop thinking you own the only Truth. It could be that you only have a little bit of the truth, and the Catholics have some other little piece, the Buddhists another and so on. We search so much for one truth, and when we find bits and pieces of it, we hang on to it as if our life depended on it. Can you imagine, the Catholic Old Testament God, always angry and vengeful? Or what about Buddha, who doesn’t believe in evil? and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, sanctifying pirates.

Come on, forget your beliefs… He (or she) in any of the forms that have been taken over history, didn’t come to Earth to scare us. He(She) came to help us out.

We have a fun God to celebrate! As someone once said “Take sex for example. There’s nothing funnier then the faces people make mid-coitus.” If God had wanted sex to be scary, dangerous and taboo, (S)He wouldn’t have made it so pleasurable. And, come on, if you’ve watched porn when you’re not horny, you KNOW it’s true. Sex is funny looking!

Just come in, have fun, enjoy the rides. God wouldn’t want you to NOT have fun!