~Dexter Morgan~™ wrote:Ethereal Tassadar wrote:Why would a god need to rule over the universe? Why would a god care about material possession?We rule the Universe because we created it.
No, you're rather misguided. Ascension is supposed to be enlightenment. For you, it's a weapon.
All knowledge not a weapon? Taking a replicator page, "Does not compute."
Enlightenment is not knowledge, but understanding. Even if it were knowledge, and knowledge be a weapon, why would a God need a weapon, when he is already all powerful?
Alas, few of your words are true: "We stand", and you do stand. And stand some more. And in the end you top it off with standing, after which you stand yet again. You don't seek knowledge, for it's beyond you, and you don't observe either, for if you observed you would have known of all the Tok'ra in at least this galaxy. You stand.
And a God can stand, sit, lie down, we do what we want. Tok'ra lower themselves using our traitorous brethren to work with our cattle and hosts to undermine us. That is not seeking knowledge. It is seeking inferior tauri brains and weapons to do what you can not. Defeat big brother. (Don't know why I am speaking to a Tok'ra, and not torturing them for info but I as a God digress easily.)
Such clouded vision. You mean to tell us that you, although you were not even spawned by your queen at the time, created the universe. I fail to see why you were afraid of the Asgard only decades ago. You may want to bring up the fact that you do not fear us at the moment - fair enough. We were destroyed by our recklessness. Still, not quite annihilated. We persist. Your enemies of old, we persist. You claim to be all powerful. I cannot sense that. None can sense that which is not there to be sensed. You claim you rule the universe. You claim that you can destroy us. What is "ruling" the universe but altering its course willingly, only as you dictate? Yet we persist here, unbothered by you. We continue our natural course of evolution - one that you had nothing to do with.
I have further questions for you, oh mighty ones. Why do you need to place yourself in balance with the universe, when it is you who created it? Why do you need to ascend at all? No, do not answer. I see it coming now - your thoughts, predicted. "You cannot understand, because your mind is not that of a god."
A god can stand, sit, lie down, do what he wants. Indeed. Any being has control over its own actions. Any being can do what is within their power to do. You for example, chose to sleep, content with knowing that people serve you.
So many clouds I see in your mind that I may as well say that your mind is in clouds, instead of the opposite: you call the Tok'ra traitors. And from my knowledge, the Tok'ra are your brethren of old. They betrayed you - yet, they are of the same race. Does that not make them gods, even in your eyes?
Furthermore, I am not Tok'ra, Goa'uld. I am that which cannot be described in words.