Recently I’ve been having trouble sleeping with everything that’s on my plate in my personal life. My current situation often has me waking up in the middle of the night and being unable to fall asleep again. A remedy I have found for this which 60% of the time works every time is listening to people talk about things on YouTube which I find boring…
Warhammer 40,000, often abbreviated as Warhammer 40k or simply 40k, is a tabletop miniature wargame created by Games Workshop. Set in a grimdark far future universe, it is one of the most popular and enduring tabletop wargames in the world. There have been books, video games, conventions, etc. The universe of Warhammer 40k is a dark and dystopian future, where humanity is locked in a perpetual state of war and turmoil. It is set in the 41st millennium, a time of vast interstellar empires, ancient gods, and unspeakable horrors. Humanity is ruled by the Imperium of Man, a vast and oppressive regime led by the god-like Emperor of Mankind, who is kept alive on life support.
and yes… I find it all quite boring
I think as a child I would have enjoyed this more. I don’t slight anyone who does enjoy it. I see the appeal. I have just reached a point in my life where I try not to succumb to the allure of escaping nor do I want to immerse myself in a world which isn’t the amazing world in which I already live. I am attempting to be “present in reality,” because I have people relying on me to be a good provider and contributor.
i will say one thing though… i find the parallels in this world to be fascinatingly similar to that of our own…
Be it the forces of manifestation in which I believe, or be it a mirror of what our artistic psyche as a people in this realm are putting to page, I see so much of this story which I reflects the reality in which I live.
It was early this morning around 04:00 when I started to make these connections. They are the same kinds of connections you can make with the Lord Of The Rings universe which reflect our current reality. In 40k the emperor, who has psychic abilities from tampering with evil gods, tells everyone that the universe is this secular existence without psychic abilities and they must obey it, only to have demonic evil entities begin manifesting within this universe, possessing people; making them rebel against their “god’s supposed authority”… the parallels are undeniable.
People in our world have forgotten God. They have forgotten that which is spiritual. They fail to see the very stark undeniable truth that demonic presences have manifested around them. What in our society has been corrupted in such a manner? The ways we are expected to live our lives, to accept evil, to force evil upon children in the name of sneaky “gods” in this realm are all examples of the allegories we can draw from this universe.
While I am bored to great length by this universe it, at times, helps me to sleep when I have exhausted the other, more interesting topics, which I prefer to listen to. I know that this particular universe of Warhammer 40k, just as the universe of Lord of the Rings, is popular among people in our communities. I again want to point out: I don’t care what you like. I’m glad you’ve found something you like. But, I do wish to pose the question:
If our current world is so similar to these false reflections from these mirror-realities: do you not feel as though it is perhaps time to throw away the fables of children and bring that which we exalt from inside these stories such as glory, honor, courage, doing-the-right-thing-in-the-face-of-adversity-or-certain-doom… shouldn’t you, if you are immersed in this world, check back in?
Demons are real. Stop hiding from reality.