Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27007772-20150803043738

(This is 4 different stories put together into one anthology. I was unaware of how this mix would work, so I created this.)

Coexistence
The mind. The hollow void of your skull and electricity that keeps you alive, based on ever changing but firm instincts. The very mass that is you. Your consciousness, all in one small, fragile pack of tissue. But as we know, electricity can be manipulated. You, can be manipulated. Everything you know, say, think, and do is all electricity. Like an overgrowing photography collection, everything passes through the brain to be confirmed, and then remembered. As an old saying goes, you forget a thousand things every day.

So, if the brain was such a good firewall, why would you still see shapes in the middle of the night? Eerie noises haunting you, only to be confirmed as something else? Well, it is simple. Why are humans afraid of snakes, storms, and war? We learned our lesson. We found that these things kill us, and we should stay far away from any source of these events. So as for these shapes, we learned our lesson. We found that these things can also kill us, just as the previous threats.

What phobia is pulling the threads, telling your brain to be wary of something you are told you are making up? All the studies, all the facts, and yet you still fear your midnight hallucinations. It is less simple than many would like to prove, but can be summed up with one word. Coexistence.

Just because humans forgot these beings exist, does not mean they have not slaughtered us in the past, and they certainly have not gone away. These stealthy beasts have taken kids, who were declared missing. They look like anything they can copy, that is why human shapes and beast like shapes both appear.

You forget a thousand things every day. Don't forget again. Unless, you wish Non-existence upon yourself.

Non-Existence
Non-existence is a haunting idea that all of us have confronted at one point or another. If it is lost loved ones, lost friends, or even our own death, we all have to think on the concept one minute or the other.

Out of body experiences, recollections of dark nothingness, Hell, Heaven, Valhalla, Orch Or theory, I dare you to find one and be comfortable with it. You aren't built like that. You aren't meant to attempt to comprehend these things.

You are a piece of the universe. When you first began, the Big Bang gave birth. When your body first began, your mother gave birth. Through billions and billions of years, the perfect coincidence possible occurred, and primordial ooze formed life on this precious rock.

Let me ask you a question. If you were sawed in half, which half would be you? Given that you survived, you would say the conscious half. This isn't exactly true. Each half is 50% of the whole puzzle. Now, what percentage does that make your body, to the universe you are a part of?

Now, back to the topic of death. When you die, do you now believe you return to your cosmic percentage? It certainly is you, and certainly owns you, just as you own your lower half. Now, with all this talk of spirits and ghosts, how do you not know you are not a product to another creature, one which is a bigger percentage to the universe than yourself?

To those who come back and say it was everlasting nothingness, perhaps they aren't supposed to know?

Some things like to remain pretty little secrets. With sentience comes sapience.

Sentient Existence
Do you believe in a higher reason or purpose? Your existence is a subject you may be very interested in, or perhaps even horrified of. With a single Big Bang, all of existence began. From this point onward, evolution and adaption took the place of nothingness, the void. Eventually, we have a sentient life form. You. The only opposer to existence, is non-existence.

Everyone and everything stems from this single point in time. You can grasp the idea of coexistence, and even non-existence. Terrifying, destructive thoughts, but understandable to an extent. Death is a simple concept with a less simple aftermath. Out of all possible routes, humanity has chosen one that has faith in a higher power destroy us. There will always be people to oppose these ideas, but the truth isn't escapable.

A God is an idea as well. You coexist with your Gods, and both you and your thoughts will one day meet Non-existence. A macabre tale, but one that can't be so easily discarded. With our minds hardwired to think of a reason to stay alive, it is only natural we would think of deities. It's part of sentient life. But, as we have seen, even our "Gods" have opposers and enemies.

Though, egotism is also a major part of sentience. Long days and far travels are welcomed by many simply to prove they are better than others. Our faith in our deities and the egotism we all have can ever so lovingly merge into the true reason behind sentient. Sapience. Intelligence and full awareness. The enemy to our awareness is coexistence, being forced to live with others, and share this space.

However, self awareness always leads to universal awareness. Given enough time, any sentient, and any sapient life, will question their purpose. With that questioning, with the egotism, and with the faith in a higher power, we birth Gods and beings so impossibly smart and powerful, we worship them and entrust our "souls" to them. The "Devils" will always be ready to stop this, or so say the religious texts.

We almost never pay attention to the full image. We have achieved our position through our own power. No help was given to us as we climbed the food chain to become the owners of this planet. We crown thoughts and not beings. We entrust concepts and not reality. The universe is our footnote, and we are the only life we know of to reach this point. I, and so will most people very soon, oppose this idea.

I have heard many theories about our universe. Simulation, string theory, the mind of a larger creature, a hallucination, and even a hologram. Why have we not put together the cold, hard truth? With all the highlighted pieces, we can conclude one thing. We are the Gods. It is our right, and our duty to overcome all limitations in any way we can. Augmentation, nano-augmentation, and even mind uploading. We will surpass all walls laid out for us. We will oppose them, and break them.

Never have we met something powerful enough to stand against US. Though, it isn't scientific to put off any idea that doesn't make sense right away. Our Gods, our concepts, our thoughts. Is this a result of sentient existence, coexistence, or a fear of non-existence?

Soon we will meet our opposers.

16 Psyche
Since the dawn of our consciousness, man and creature alike have wondered of our origin. God and Evolution both attempt to be the answer, but no one seems to fully grasp the question. Where did humans and animals truly begin?

In the creation period of our solar system, Earth was hit by a massive space object believed to be the size of Mars. This impact put Earth through a string of changes that ended with it being hospitable. When lizards came to great size and evolved, another great object struck Earth. This ended the reptile rule of Earth, but left the mammals. The mammals evolved into us.

Earth has a long lost relative. This is the hand of fate. The molten core of Earth is often said to be a hollow, but magma filled space. In comes 16 Psyche. The solid iron core is that of a proto-planet, as Earth was when it was first struck. It awaits right outside Mars, as if watching us. In the void between the red dust planet and the gas orb, this predator sits. The free lurker is able to move with the room, bound by space, not gravitational gravity.

Ancient men wrote of aliens called the Anunnaki, a reptilian humanoid race from a long lost planet of our solar system; who came to grant knowledge, and also to rule over us. More advanced, they helped our ancient brethren grow beyond primal limits. Why would they do this, and introduce a new threat to themselves?

Earth was never struck in the dawn. An object left our core, leaving the hollow for magma to fill. The reptilian blood of the Anunnaki began the age of the lizards, and the tyrant lizards ruled the Earth. Reptilian blood to reptilian blood. The object returned to begin a new age. Reptile blood to end reptile blood. The mammals grew to rule. The great lizards rose us to our own minds. Or so we were thought to believe.

This is your fabled Nibru. This is your cataclysmic event. This is the dawn and the dusk. The object waits between the void of the red dust planet and the gas orb, as if hunting us. Waiting for a move. Your brethren wish to return to you, intentions unknown.

They may oppose us. 