Project Natas.

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Day One: http://profkayton.blogspot.com/2008/08/long-thoughts-into-tiny-font-xd.html
Day Two: http://profkayton.blogspot.com/2008/08/musical-advice.html

Day 3 of Kates career Journal
PROJECT NATAS.
Project natas is the scary project I started in e-media and chemistry sort of. After long conversations with V about God, and having to draw up an e-media project, I stumbled upon drawing some weird things in Spanish while JC wasn’t accompaning me. These creatures I had drawn, were remniscent of clowns and skeletons. I kept drawing them, differently, until I decided they were project natas. The original picture for e-media (if you’ve seen it, the hand grabbing the flower) was supposed to be panned out more, and if it was fully done as an animation (I didn’t get that far) you would have seen the man picking up the flower turn into this clown skeleton-like creature. I’m not too sure on how to explain it, because I started it, but currently have no hook or middle or ending.

~~~Okay because Word was gay and turned me off after I wrote two paragraphs here, I’ll try to explain. How is a cup a cup? How did we give it that name, and is that the ALL-knowing word for cup? When we look at a small container that can hold liquid, why cannot we call it a made up name like, an emryl? Or something weird that we decide to call it. Because God had given us the free will (but still strict enough) to know what that container will be called. The name-er of the cup had chosen that name on his own, but God knew that what we would choose. If, in fact the namer had said ‘this will be called an emryl’, God would have known. IF in fact God did not know we said that, we would prove god wrong. And that’s impossible. Right?
We Live our lives bound to what’s what. We live in the world we live in, despite if we know it is a reality, a fabrication, or all screwy compared to the perfection; because perfection doesn’t exist. We don’t know if what we’re doing is the right thing, but it seems to keep the earth moving, and that’s what matters to those who take life simplistically. Those however, try to figure out our world might be left in a stump on reality.

Another example would be such like this. You try to say hello to someone who doesn’t know your language, nor do you know his or hers. This would seem to prove problematic as we both have words for a ‘hello’. The universal language however is sign language, body language, etc. If you waved your hand at said person, they would instantly know that that’s a ‘hello’ and wave back. However. if they had a poking motion for a 'hello' driven into their brains, they would have practically no idea what your talking about.
My point is, we don’t exactly know what life we’re living. We don’t know if this is reality, if we live in a fabrication where everything god speaks of is to be fed to us for understanding and survival, or this is LIFE. But those people who spend there lives trying to figure it out, will die and you know the first words out of their mouth when they die? “ah. Should have checked that in my calculations.” And that’s that.

You cannot prove God wrong. Right?

Taking that idea, I formed portions of the natas story. First I must explain a large portion of the plot device, ever heard of a term known as dogma? Good because I didn’t either when I first learned of it. But when you’ve watched the movie Dogma as many times as I, you develop an understanding, even if im not extremely knowledgable on the ways of the catholics. BASICALLY, in most teachings, god is infoulable. Aka, he cannot be proven wrong. Its why hes god. (yes im refering god as a guy get over it.) In the movie dogma, two angels were condemned by god to live in a world between hell and Heaven for eternity for there wrongdoing. Earth.God had told them they were not allowed in hevan. The plot of the story was that these two men were going to pass through an arch at a catholic church that during that day of celebration, the arch would wipe all of your sins. Therefore…after the men passed through the arch and were killed, they had a clean slate and would go to heaven Since god had already condemned them from Heaven, such would defeat god. Thus turning the world into irreversable peril and basically life would go BACKWARDS and come to not exist. After watching this movie enough times, I decided to go get the real meaning (wikipedia ftw). And so wiki tells me that its the “established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from.” ‘You cannot prove god wrong.’ Therefore. Saying that a cup was a emyrl in this world AND PROVING IT, could cause dogma. But no one can prove that a cup is an emryl so that’s that. In my story however, logic isn’t present. Well. It is, but its more of a parallel world.

Instead of Satan being a rebel angel as found out by the movie dogma (yay for movies teaching me the bible), satan in Project natas was a man NAMED natas on earth. God only had a handful of people on earth to begin with, and chose natas to play the ‘role’ of an opposite of God. Natas was asked to choose his own name, his name backwards, satan. When I say role, natas comes to learn from god, that In several failures of trying to create a utopian world, this world would be taught ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Going into detail, god states that a whole world of perfect people who were all the same never. Did. Anything. Therefore the perfect world plummetted. There was one sound. One job. One this one that. Nothing past that perfect part got done. (in perspective, if in our world the best paying job is the perfect job, then everyone would be a doctor. How are you a doctor in a world where all your patients are also doctors? The overload of doctors leads to no money being created. Those who are doctors aren’t getting paid for there service because no one is using it, and in return those who are hurt don’t go to doctors because THEY are the perfect doctors.) Another example is yes, fairly oddparents, where timmy wishes for everyone to be the same, and they all end up looking exactly the same gray little blobs.

So basically, god decided that this world needed the balance he was practicing. ‘good’ would be those who understood the rules written down by god and those who went above and beyond those rules to make things better for OTHERS. ‘bad’ would be those who went against the rules written by god and caused turmoil for other people. Good people were generous, bad people were selfish. We all know the difference between good and bad because we were taught it. And in this fresh starting earth, people began to learn the concept. As the placeholders of the concept, God stood at the top of ‘good’ while Natas stood at the bottom of ‘bad’. Natas was not chosen because he was a bad person, rather, he was chosen to be able to deal above average WITH bad people. So, once in a while, when the bible needed writing, the long written battle between God and Satan would ensue. Because even God created Satan (by both the bible and my story), God would always win. And this went on for YEARS. Two mellinia in fact. Secretly though, a bit of selfishness began to build inside natas. Living eternally in Gods shadow did suck just a bit. So he started working on a project. A project that in 2000 he would unveil in the notable mellinia fight. During the battle, Natas unveiled a mask, one to fit the size of his face, to God. God, believing Natas was trying to ‘spice up the fight’ began to play along to this ‘heated battle’ by taunting Natas. “whats a mask going to do to the great God?”. Natas placed the mask over his face. This transformed him into a comical looking skeletal body, and his still flesh-like fingers pierced into the skeletal body, pulling out his heart and holding it in his hand. God, by now completely confused, and did NOT KNOW what this was. God did not make it. This form allowed Natas to defeat god this time, because the form was invincible. God was infoulable. Beating god was unheard of. And here Natas did it. Therefore, Dogma occurred. Instead of reversing the world however, it merely struck a sudden change in Gods personality. Confiscating the mask from natas, God dissappeared for a year. The next year, Natas and God did battle once agan, but this time, god used the mask. The problem with the mask, Natas feared, was that it was imperfect. Used to power it were the souls of the underworld, those of the ‘bad’. Natas was able to wield it because he had lived in hell for 2 mellinia. He adapted, therefore the hate and the anger that was inside the mask could not reach him.

But god never had ‘bad’.

The power of the mask was too much for him, defeating natas easily and having god go on a bloodthirsty rampage. In september of 2001, god would land 4 planes to there impending doom. This was the START of what would be many crazed ordeals on earth. God would not put down the mask until he was pulled out of the skeletal state. Natas knew of its only true weakness, but was not able to find it when God himself used it. He would have to rely on those created by god during this time of turmoil to have to power to find it. And many masks later….he found the right one. But it was up to him to decide. Save the planet and defeat god himself? Or have god destroy the planet in his crazed wake……

Now im gonna pull an idea from my own portion of my story. In this version of our worlds events, 9/11 is caused by God. Obviously I don’t believe this. But, some people do. And this is what mocks it. The people, the taliban who DID do it believe that suicide bombings are ‘for allah.’ Usually stating that allah told them to do it. And then, this is also a mock on those who blame god for all there problems. Just as we go to god when we need help, anytime we are down on there luck, we blame him.

This is really where I am at. I have no clue how I should make the main character, or his personality. So I’d like some feedback from you. If the worlds creator was destroying the world, how would you take it if you were the ONLY one who could stop him?

Professor Kayton
X/K08