Thread by @RationalImpact

FEAR🌀🖤🪨
A swirling black hole a galaxy wide with dark tendrils stretching across space and time, its great shadow casting over all eternity, no escape from its eternal grasp.

2. The heart burrowed by the tendrils, pumped with blacken sludge, turned to stone. Flesh shriveled and corroded away in its shadow, leaving only hollow bones.

3. The mind veiled with doubt, dreams replaced by nightmares. Fear is its name, and we are its willing victims ready to fall to its embrace. Yet, we created this foul fiend through our own devices, continuing only to feed it, growing it stronger by the night.

4. For eons humanity has driven its self by fear and ignorance, ready to destroy what we do not know. Endless tyrants using the deceptions of fear to twist countless narratives, with which they use to gain power from the people.

5. Prophets of Fear supplying the fuel of nightmares, then claiming that only they can wake us from them. These fabricated fears leading us to hatred and bigotry, soon turning to oppression and genocide!

6. Nevertheless, we may turn ourselves into our own oppressor, as we let our own nightmares of futures unknown glue us into place, too afraid to face tomorrow.

7. Many have tried admirably to eradicate this darkness with the power of light, but not even the brightest light of creation could tear the darkness from our souls, the sun still setting when night arises.

8. However, there may be a way, a feeble hope. Fear cannot be eradicated, though it may be pacified and in this pacification it takes a new form…its true form.

9. At its center it is but faith corrupted, twisted in on its self, for Fear has faith that everything will be for not, that loss and darkness is all there is destined to be.

10. Faith on the other hand believes that hope and peace will see through the darkest night, reaching into a glorious dawn.

11. Fear and Faith are one in the same, a mirror of one another. Pacification of fear calls for radical faith, but it need not be blind faith or denial of dangers. Faith unquestioned falls back to fear, for those who use it as a crutch to live in false bliss.

12. These denials will only allow fear to grow stronger in the shadows until it emerges again, stronger than ever. Nor is this a Faith in Gods that we beg to save us from ourselves, for I am sure the Gods have greater matters at hand and pray that we may overcome ourselves.

13. They cannot save us forever from our self-inflicted doom. No! This is a Faith in humanity, a Faith in ourselves and one another. We must look at each other with compassion and kindness, rather than suspicion and malice.

14. We must learn to separate the wicked few from the gentle masses. We must tear the fabric of false fears sewed by the tyrants, and in its place weave a new fabric of vibrant colors, one that brings warmth instead of strangling us like the fabric of fear.

15. But we will achieve none of this less we first have faith in ourselves. Trust in our dreams and seek to fulfill them even through the darkest doubts, and learn to love ourselves selflessly. That we may spread it to others for whom fear has corrupted their hearts.

16. For even in the cruelest nightmares, there will always be those who choose faith over fear, fighting forever for another sunrise. If nothing else have faith in these fearless souls that they may continue to weave the fabric of faith.

17. So we may someday live a reality where humanity is freed from its shackles of fear, set on a new path that guides us to our true potential, unafraid of the future and of one another.

18. All in unity, each of us a single weave sewed together by love and compassion, that no fear may ever tear away.