The Luxurious Prison

        There was once a myriad of people who were all imprisoned in a cramped cage made of solid iron bars. The conditions were dark, dank, and foul. Illness and starvation were rampant, and the smell of death always lingered in the already stifled air. The prisoners were brutally forced into hard labor, from sunrise to sunset, and it was not uncommon for prisoners to die young under the endless days of severe stress. Many of the prisoners had all but given up hope, choosing instead to wallow in despair, while many others cried out for some form of relief, some form of freedom, only to be silenced by the armed prison-keepers who had no problems killing any prisoner who "behaved incorrectly." Then, one day, a thirty-third of the prisoners found what seemed to be a corridor out of the prison, and as they escaped through this way out, they were surprised to find that none of the prison-keepers tried to kill them. After traveling a great distance from the prison through the corridor, this small group of prisoners then found themselves in a vast paradise stretching for many thousands of miles in every direction, decked with immaculate natural parks, pristine wildlife, monumental valleys and mountains, beautiful beaches, and an overwhelming abundance of every resource they could ever want or need. They found that they were free to do nearly everything they had ever imagined possible, and so they called themselves a free and liberated people. Even though a small group of these people became explorers, travelled as far as they could, and constantly ran into a boundless barrier of what resembled prison bars, these bars were made of gold, silver, and precious gems instead of iron, and they were so incredibly beautiful that nearly all of these explorers never considered them to be prison bars at all. Nevertheless, eleven of the explorers came to realize that the people merely escaped from one prison to another, that these beautiful prison bars were still prison bars just the same, and that the people were never truly free at all, which is why the prison-keepers never tried to pursue them or kill them. But the new prison was so vast and so beautiful, and the prisoners living so luxuriously, that the eleven explorers who knew the truth were violently persecuted into oblivion; the prison-keepers never had to lift a single weapon.

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