Apology of a Repleti

He floated in an ocean deep and colorless. His senses were stripped so that pure nothingness was all he experienced until Experience itself drifted away into a serene void. The beauty of the empty, the purity of nonexistence filled him and then, in a moment, scorned him. Forcing him back into the cruel world of existence. Realization washed through him. Life was an abomination. Existence was a grotesque mutation, an accident, a freak growth that sprung out of the otherwise perfect. The world is itself a sickness. Life itself is the symptom. Unceasing suffering is the outcome. Death is the only panacea.
It is not hatred or disgust that motivates the Repleti, but compassion. They call us, Void Breathers, but in reality, we are filled with love. We do not recklessly destroy nor carelessly kill in a way that would only add to the suffering of the world. Instead, like a surgeon, we remove pain before we strategically amputate. So that all may float in a deep, colorless ocean.
We hold no value in material possessions. We hold no value in words other than those that have touched the empty. When we come, rejoice! Change is always frightening, and when one has lived with pain so long, one mistakes the pain as their own, a part of them. But this existence does not belong to you. The Self is merely a shackle keeping you in the throes of torment. Let us strip you of everything so that you may become pure. It is not murder, for the You will cease to be, and therefore, nothing will exist to murder. Allow us to bring purity and comfort.
We weep for those who resist, raging in the madness of their ailment. Fret not, for you too shall be set free, liberated, cured. Everything will die, but when there is only death, there is no dead.
We are the most benevolent, us Repleti. Though we have acknowledged the illness of living, we stave off the cure so that we may cure others first. Is there anything more compassionate? Is there anything more loving? And if we should fall defeated in the pursuit of delivering tender embrace. Those that unshackle us will be greeted with a smile and tears.

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