2021-10-22 21:38:52 ¶ ●

Me: *sees two podcasts I subscribe to have new seasons*

also me: *relistens to MAG 135: “Dark Matter” instead*

That statement is one of my favorites, though. Jonny’s voice acting is just…so good in that one. (I mean. It always is. But this is a whole new level.) And there are so many good quotes:

“You see, I do not disagree with my parents’ thesis, that the true virtue of the world is in its natural state. But the natural state of the universe is darkness. Those rank, pompous balls of fire and light vomiting their radiation out into the nothing, they cannot stand against the overwhelming reality of it.

"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 is sits. Without light, there is darkness. But without darkness, there is nothing. We sit, upon our tiny spinning ball of dirt, desperately building our own tiny suns, our own illuminating shelters from the truth of existence, clustering around them like insects, never realizing that they rob us of the revelations that come… in the dark. That our wretched eyes bind us to this grotesque world in which we live.”

“If the words of my parents hold any truth, then God is the true monster, and “let there be light” the most evil words ever spoken.” the hottest take (haha get it because we’re talking about the dark…never mind)

“Dark energy. Dark matter. Dark radiation. The true holy trinity.” the second-hottest take

“He spoke words I thought existed only in my heart, and I loved him as the soil loves the rain.”

““And rightly so,” he said, “For are we not creatures born of the light, contemptible and corrupt? Surely then, this fear of confronting the pure nature of the universe is right and good. Surely this fear of the dark is the truest communion that humanity could ever hope for.”” This quote scares me because for a moment I was like “you know he kind of has a point”.

I think that’s what this episode does a great job of. Because you can’t put it off as something that doesn’t make sense, like “oh that’s silly”. Jonny does such a great job with all those quotes that this belief system seems very real. It even seems to make sense.