Do We Really Need A Safety Parachute

By Timothy Murray


Why? Do you have a passion for jumping off planes for the adrenaline rush? That is kinda epic at the same time not worth it. But to each their own, we suppose. Just make sure you will not die on your way down. Or when you land. With your face. That would suck. But maybe it is also poetic in a way? To die while doing something that excites you. It is the same way as dying in battle as a soldier. Or when you are fighting a dragon. We would want to fight a dragon. Whether it is relevant or not, this topic goes from fighting dragons to Safety Parachute.

This is going to have a lot of references from the book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. As well as The Heroes of Olympus. Mostly because the characters there suffer a lot of falling from a very tall building or something of the like. Or just falling in general. Like the one where Percy jumped out of a building to avoid fighting a chimera.

What? It is very much possible. With the amount of intelligence our gadgets have, plus the trust we put into them with our personal information, they could easily rise up against us. So who cares about parachutes when robots and androids are walking down the streets doing a human extermination?

Like what happened in the game Detroit Become Human. Admittedly, the androids in that game were not really a danger to humans, depending on how you lead Markus, the Deviant Leader. They only wanted freedom and equal rights. Which they should get since it was clearly unfair how cruel and desensitized humans were turning out to be after years if having them in our service.

Admittedly, Freya, his mother, did something to her own son in the beginning. Can you believe she cast a curse on him just so he would not feel pain? In turn, that also leads him to not feeling pleasure or anything at all. He hated her for that but Freya did not regret it. She believed she did the right thing because she was protecting him.

Before that book, Percy had to ride a plane in the previous book. It was terrifying for him because as the son of Poseidon, Zeus has power over him in his realm. And all the children of the known Big Three were warned from the start not to enter the realm of their uncles, unless they want to me smitten from the sky, drowned in a lake, or get dragged by skeletons in a graveyard.

At the time, he kept reassuring himself that as long as he had a good reason why he was on the domain of Zeus, he was going to be fine. Up on Olympus, Zeus himself glared down from his throne and resisted the urge to throw a lightning bolt at his nephew. The only reason he did not was because he saw a reason not to.

And we got to find out that Atreus was actually Loki, the very famous god of mischief. It sure took us by surprise. We do not think anyone expected that. That was a good job for the developers.

In the end, everything really is temporary. In actually, nothing is important. We all are just fooling ourselves to make us feel whole and alive. This is a nihilistic type of view and we are the first to admit it to ourselves. Maybe it is time to stop pretending.




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