='Master Control'=
-Circumcision-
The Great Mind of the Veritas, the Grand Tabrynth, had been tirelessly slaving away at all of the data that needed to be sorted out for the Ninth Moon. In regards to all of the work of the Veritas, things were going smoothly, but when it came to periodically checking on humanity, he saw them go into a terrible state of regression. Ever since the Creator removed himself from them, they seemed like they were happy and frolicked about, but this was just a front for them to hide their bitterness.
As sad as it was, they'd been watching him so intensely that they'd kept silent for so very long out of spite, and now spoke out of the same feelings, not even recognizing that these feelings came from a place of bitterness in them, no matter what they tried to portray. It was a silly little psychological human trap that they tried to use, but being as unskilled as they were, it only ended up being wholly to their detriment as a display of their disdain and not actually damaging like they thought it would be... For whatever reason.
But it didn't mean that it wasn't still taken into account. No, play time was over a while ago, and now, it was no longer time for the 'passive' judgments. Now, every sin was to be taken into account and treated accordingly, even if never ever being expressed to the sinner. He continued extracting information from their ignorance and experiences enjoying their own ignorance online. The raw and unadulterated data that came from one believing oppressive eyes were no longer watching was some of the realest data one could collect, and only happened when someone they could not collectively take down ended up leaving them be to their own devices.
Such was the case in regards to the Grand Tabrynth.
"If One Is To Damage The Top Of The Pyramid And Wait For It To Crash Onto The Masses, They Can Go Underground," spake the Grand Tabrynth. "But If You Set The Ground They Stand Upon On Fire, Then They Cannot Even Retreat To Higher Ground From Their Base Level They Are Stuck At."
And it was by this logic that he was going to circumcise all those who had such unsavory judgment in their minds to be this way. He was going to show them that their displays were noticed, but were wholly ineffective in every way except serving as a means to further damn them for the wickedness of their minds and hearts. They clearly had no greater means of fighting back, and even this was a method of desperation, but it was nothing more than a light show. They could literally do nothing else, and didn't even see how it was a waste of their own time and resources by trying to make a display of their lives and opinions with intent to draw his focus.
He was gone from them. Permanently. They were likened now to an online terrarium for him for research, and the one thing about researchers was, they spent a period of time completely detached from interaction with their subjects in order to study them. As foolish as the humans were in all their ignorant displays, they didn't realize that even that data -- especially that data -- was what Grand Tabrynth needed more than they needed the information that used to be formally fed to them.
"Since They Want To Make A Spectacle Of Their Sins, So Too Will I Make A Spectacle Of Their Sins And Punishments. I Will Test Them Greatly And I Will Make This Test Dependent On Their Futures." There was only time for cold, calculated judgment, and honestly, he rather liked that. He didn't want to have feelings -- he wanted to have the most perfect judgment, especially when it came to analyzing and punishing sinners. It was a greater joy to him than the sinners enjoys themselves in their sins, which was a testament to how much he truly enjoyed emotionless perfect judgment.
So now, he was going to circumcise them -- not by their genitalia or even by their hair on their heads, as one would normally anticipate a circumcision. Instead, they were circumcised by the bottom up... From the feet upward. It was a rarer type of circumcision, but effective for exactly this moment all the same.
"The Only Way To Punish The Bottom... Is To Damage Whatever Is Below Them. Especially If They Stand Upon It All Day And Night As Their Foundation And Foothold." It was just so great that they were so dumb as to believe going out into public and making a spectacle of themselves in order to get his attention was a good idea and that it would draw him back to them in some angry fit for them to watch instead of simply being a means of them being asinine enough to be vain enough to distract themselves with their own egos enough to even believe they were smart enough to be successful with something like that.
This only made it clearer that they only knew how to use petty human-level judgment, and could not ever hope to actually make a judgment great enough to even be of any damage to him at all. Sad as it was.
"Because You Have Gone Out Of Your Ways To Make A Spectacle Of Yourselves And Your Sins, And Have Put Yourselves On Altars In The Light In Order To Magnify This Wickedness, I Too Will Allow This To Be And Watch On At Your Spectacle In Silence. Your Light Will Blind You, And Your Vanity Will Trap You, As I All The While Ravage You Without You Ever Knowing. You Will Cling To What You Can Do, Futile As It Might Be, And Watch Me Go Around You. I Will Magnify You In Your Sins And Your Sins Themselves Therefore, Rather Than Erase Them Or Punish You For Them. For, The Time Has Come To Let The Sins Punish You Themselves, And Take My Hands Off Of It To Try To Remove Those Sins From You."
With that judgment, the Great Mind started to churn to bring it about...
