Editing Philosophical Research:MDem/5.2/1650B cosmic-egg (section)

== The divine truth ==

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<div class="bop-text">A young philosopher wakes up in their bedroom, rising to retrieve arms from chest. In the far chest, of course, are Pokémon — the thousand, million, <em>billion</em> arms of Arceus that they will never again take for granted. Today is a very important occasion. It's not every day that one gets to present a life-changing observation at the Pokémon world equivalent of TED Talks. <ref name="hs" />

You arrive at the stage at the end of a long train ride, to rows and rows of filled seats. Your slides are at the ready. Your partner Pokémon is on your shoulder, in the most charismatic place it could be. You feel like you could win a Pokémon Contest. You are ready to rock everyone's world.


arceus does not exist to be worshiped
the world learned the perils of religion back during the fiasco of the Diamond and Pearl clans
what the world actually needs is philosophy



despite there being a great crowd in attendance, people are not receptive to the message.
"don't Pokémon eat each other?" one girl in the audience asks.
"I thought that Legendary Pokémon had vendettas," says a boy that should have been a bit too young to know the word <i>vendetta</i>.

"all of you have good questions," you respond, "but actually, as much as things may look bleak sometimes, Pokémon can be in mortal struggle and still have come from the same thing."




"Everyone in the world being part of one thing? Sounds like Communism."

A few people laugh, while somebody deep in the crowd murmurs something about an "Ember".



"if Zangoose and Seviper are constantly at each other's necks, how do you figure that they actually look back up at their greater connection to Arceus and stand beside each other in their daily attempts to wipe each other off the face of the earth?"


you've heard the zangoose argument exasperation thousand times by now. you wish people would get some new arguments.



A small child speaks up. "Who's Ember?"

"A bright mind who had a bad idea. Now shut up. South Vechheim was a disaster and we are not talking about Ember or the World Workers' Association."




"you haven't explained Ember and the World Workers' Association"
"In the Vechheim region. her name was Ember. she led a bunch of people to supposedly unite the world, but whenever you get one of these things it always boils down to someone thinking they know what's best for everyone when they don't."

you know there will be more and more burning questions from everyone, because there always are. but you are confident you know what you're talking about. at no time in the history of the Pokémon world has attempting to unite people into any particular ideology been a force for good, or a force for any kind of change. when the two brothers of Unova fought each other with dragons, there was no way that either of them was going to unite the people for what was right. when Archie and Maxie commanded the forces of the earth, or the Diamond and Pearl clans fought each other over the true form of the original Pokémon, none of that was ever going to leave its mark on the world as the way of the future.

nothing more than a footnote on history


"I want to hear about Ember."
"Why didn't our teacher tell us about Ember?"
"Nobody actually explains what happened with Ember."
"Tell us about Ember!"

"All right!" you begrudgingly comply. "All right. You want to know about Ember? This is a talk about Ember now. I'll tell you everything about Ember!"

You struggle to remember the details of the story that at every possible opportunity you had usually refused to tell.
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