Interesting thing happened at work the other day during closing. The guys I work with started talking about the apparently creepy history of Priest Point Park here in Olympia. From Indian burial grounds to suicides, stories of the bizarre continued late into the night as we closed the park up. How factual these stories are is highly debatable, but I kept thinking how interesting it was that these modern rational guys all agreed that they would be terrified to be left alone in the dark forest of an empty park long after closing.
So the next time someone tells me there is no such thing as Satan, evil, demons, etc, I think I'll put their hypothesis to the test and offer to drop them off deep in the forest during the middle of the night by themselves for a more balanced approach to the subject. Something very honest and humbling happens to the human soul when it's plucked out of the simple, even unnoticed comforts of the city and placed in the middle of a dark forest where there is absolutely no one for miles. In the forest there are no street lights, no cell phone coverage, no cars, no shelter, nothing that can puff the soul up with pride and make is feel secure, its all gone way out there and the soul is faced with honest, humbling, pure, primal fear.
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