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MAG 135 - Dark Matter
The Magnus Archives
The Fear of Darkness
My parents hated anything they saw as unnatural. To them God's creation was perfect and all things in nature were right and proper according to his will. But the natural state of the universe is darkness. We talk about light and dark being opposites but they are no more opposites than a gaudy paint is the opposite of the wall upon which it sits. Without light there is darkness. But without darkness there is nothing. Even the longest lived of the sun's children can barely make it a few thousand years. Compare this to the uncountable eternity of darkness stretching back far beyond when the sickness of an illuminated universe was thrown into existence. If the words of my parents hold any truth
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