TM: Prompt #183
I will tell you a secret.
Nothing you do is your choice.
You have no free will.
Every choice you make, every choice you have made, I know it all. I knew it before there was a measure of time. I knew it long before life was even a thought in the mind of the Ainur. It is the burden I bear.
Because I know all that will come, you have no choice but to walk the path I see for you. There is no changing direction. If your end is to be a traitor, then you cannot turn from it. If your end is to be hero, then you cannot change it. If your end is to be nothing more than a nameless face in the mass of life teeming in Arda, then that is what you will be and there is no diverting the fate.
By knowing your end, I condemn you to it.
Does that not make you feel better?
Removing all blame and placing it on my shoulders, does that not make all the wrong you do somehow less? You are able to walk without the shame of choice, without the burning pressures of free will. You cannot undo what I know. You cannot make a decision I cannot already outline for you.
This is the greatest secret of our world. All was Sung into existence for the benefit and amusement of the Ainur. You are nothing but puppets for us to watch play out the Song we Sang for our Father's enjoyment.
Does it make you feel better?
Muse: Námo
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Word Count: 263
Nothing you do is your choice.
You have no free will.
Every choice you make, every choice you have made, I know it all. I knew it before there was a measure of time. I knew it long before life was even a thought in the mind of the Ainur. It is the burden I bear.
Because I know all that will come, you have no choice but to walk the path I see for you. There is no changing direction. If your end is to be a traitor, then you cannot turn from it. If your end is to be hero, then you cannot change it. If your end is to be nothing more than a nameless face in the mass of life teeming in Arda, then that is what you will be and there is no diverting the fate.
By knowing your end, I condemn you to it.
Does that not make you feel better?
Removing all blame and placing it on my shoulders, does that not make all the wrong you do somehow less? You are able to walk without the shame of choice, without the burning pressures of free will. You cannot undo what I know. You cannot make a decision I cannot already outline for you.
This is the greatest secret of our world. All was Sung into existence for the benefit and amusement of the Ainur. You are nothing but puppets for us to watch play out the Song we Sang for our Father's enjoyment.
Does it make you feel better?
Muse: Námo
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Word Count: 263