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Deus Ex Machina
A Tale of the Heart
Prologue
The past is fixed- unchangeable. Every single moment of the human life is filled with limitless amounts of choices and the consequences of said choices. Those results then become recordings of the past. Every single result has a dramatic impact. Some effect the entire future of humanity. Some results, the future of just a select few.
What all humans must remember, is that the very existence of such choices is determined by previous decisions made in other dire circumstances. What would have befallen us, if say, the founders of the United States of America never stepped up to the plate and created the Land of the Free? What if the Army of the Potomac had routed at the battle of Gettysburg? What if the American Navy had been dealt a deathblow at the battle of Midway?
Such questions, however, are vanity and chasing after wind.
All events are interwoven together in such a perfect fashion which cannot possibly be the result of chance. A man once said that the chances of the universe shaping itself out to what it is today would be less than the chance of you and a one millimeter target positioned at opposite ends of the known universe, you firing a pistol at the target and hitting it bulls-eye.
This proceeding tale is one that parallels it's historical ancestors, yet this is a story that has not happened, and mercifully, will never take place. It is a story that shows how in times of crisis, men pull out the most extraordinary qualities and triumph in the face of overwhelming odds, defying the laws of all human thinking. It is a story which studies what happens when morals and ethics intertwine themselves with technology and the corruption of the human heart, and who ultimately determines the absolute moral foundation both here and in eternity.
Above all, however, it is a tale of one man's journey through some of the darkest circumstances a human mind could ever imagine. A tale that tells of how evil is an innate trait in the human heart, just how far it can take a person away from what he was made to do, and just how easy it is to turn back, yet how so many people refuse to. A tale that shows the test of a man struggling to walk by faith and not by sight.
I wish you all an enjoyable and mind-prompting experience.
And remember... History is His story.
Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
for the side of good or evil,
With each choice God speaking to us,
offers each the bloom or blight
Then the man or nation chooses
for the darkness or the light.
-James Russell Lowe