I pursued the question, how many of each?
The child replied, I think there are 100 devils to make one angel.
So I learned that in the child's eyes, the ratio of devils to fairies is one hundred to one.
Again, I went to ask the adult women. They said, when babies are born, they are all angels. When men grow up day by day, they are on the way to the devil. The devil's billet in the man in the content is higher, the devil is like a beard, with age day by day thick. In middle-aged men, you can almost always find the devil's ingredients. In old age, some of them will gradually become kinder and regain a little of their angelic flavor. Only that is a kind of old angel now, aging without power.
I asked again, how many devils and angels do you think there are of each?
The women said that if you count the time, it takes about 10 encounters with the devil for an angel to appear once. There are never too many angels. Where angels gather, that's heaven. Does the world around us look like heaven?
In front of this iron logic, I was speechless, only silent. So go and ask the men, that is, the kind of stout men who are called by women to be the most prevalent of the demonic one. They were very quick to answer, angels, mostly children and women, all incapable of fine weak species, ethereal coupled with ignorance. They are like the transparent fat inside the shell of a clam, delicious in flavor but not in strength. The world could never be made up of angels, it would be too sweet and weak. Devils are generally males, ugly to look at, but cloudy and muscular. They call the wind and rain from the palm of their hands and fingers, and have a lot of energy.
I said, the number? By your estimation, angels and devils, what share of the world is each?
The man smiled and said, quantity is actually useless, it depends on the quality. A devil, can make a dozen angels cry. I stubbornly asked on, quantity plus quality, there is always a composite index, right? Nowadays almost everything can be expressed in numbers, from the curve of the human body to the equivalent of an atomic bomb.
The man said decisively that there must be many angels in the world, but in the final composite strength, the devil is "1", and the angels are "0". Of course, "0" is also a kind of existence, but when it is isolated in the world, nothing, nothing. It doesn't represent either, it doesn't symbolize the entity. The only thing left behind is bleakness and nothingness. No matter how many zeros are stacked on top of each other, all to no avail, the rings are intertwined, stacking up in vain a beautiful black well, in which stings the no longer flowing train of the angels and the red rusted bow and arrow of love. But with "1" in command, the situation is very different. The devil is a horse, make the whole world forward, the angel is just a gorgeous wheel, it can not open the road, only clattering behind, with clear ruts to cover the trekking horse hoofprints. Those who came afterward, pointing to the fading wheel marks, said, "Look! The first time I've ever seen a car, I've never seen one before.
From this man's mouth, I heard about the most disparate proportions of angels and demons, zero and infinity.
The last person I asked was an old man. He said kindly that there is no such thing as devils and angels in the world, and that they are the embodiment of good and evil that people fantasize about. They are the embodiment of good and evil that people fantasize about. Their home is our hearts. The wise man has long since given his answer, man ah man, half is an angel, half is the devil.
I say, that means at one moment in one person. What I want to ask is whether, throughout the ages and on a macro level, there are more devils or angels in the crowd? If all the people were crushed by machines, centrifuged, filtered through filter paper, separated by instruments, the good elements molded into angels, the evil dregs pinched into devils, each variety pure, authentic and well-made. They will be wall-to-wall rearranged in line, which you think the team meanders longer?
The old man did not look at me, and with the wisdom of an old man firmly repeated, half are angels, half are devils.
In any case, that was the most optimistic estimate of the number of angels out of all the answers I'd solicited - two and one make five. I went back to the books to see what previous generations had analyzed and judged on this issue. I found only foreign sources, perhaps because the word "angel" was originally imported.
The earliest record is from the 4th century AD. The Christian philosopher St. Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria and opponent of Arianism, said: "The air is full of devils".
His contemporary, St. Macario, called the devils: "as numerous as wasps".
In 1467, Alfonso. De. Spina put the total number of devils at that time at 13,331,6666. (How accurate! The Devil's Census Police were really in charge.)
A hundred years later, in the mid-16th century, John Weyer thought that the number of devils was not as high as it should be. Weyer thought that the number of devils was not so high, and that there were 666 groups of devils ***, each group of 6666 devils, ruled by 66 devils, *** with 44435622 names.
With the end of the medieval age of obscurantism, specific statistics on the number of devils were annihilated in the haze of science and no longer found in books.
What about angels? What was the population of angels in the age of the devil? This is the crux of the matter.
According to the records, when the number of devils was at its peak in the 15th century, reaching 130 million, the number of angels was a full 400 million!
I sigh before this number.
In the history of mankind, due to the ignorance of knowledge and deification of the imagination, there have been countless stories of devils and angels outlined in the legends, in the misty imagination, in the barren material, in the deterrent of nature's power, in the absurdity and fantasy, the angels and devils are living and reproducing, and life and death struggle, leaving behind countless stories of songs and tears. The ancestors were childish and sincere. Their basic judgments about the world still astound us today. Even during the devil's most prosperous period, there were three times as many angels as devils. That is to say, even in the darkest of days, angels continued to occupy the overwhelming majority of the world.
When I tell people the statistics of the devil and the angels, for some reason, many of them look puzzled and ask, "Were there really 75% of angels?
I asked, "How many angels do you think there should be?
They replied that they had always thought that there must be many more devils in the world than angels!
Why are we so used to bumping into devils? Why is it generally believed that angels are powerless? Why is it that the more ignorant children are of the world, the more they visualize the devil as invincible? Why is it that women are afraid of the devil and men are happy to think of themselves as devils? Why is it that when old age approaches, the number of angels is gradually increased in valuation? Why is it that when science becomes more advanced and mankind more powerful than ever before, knowing that there are no devils or angels in the world, they take a big step backward on the question of good and evil, and lose their desire for and trust in the good things of the world?
The devil's strength, intelligence, frequency of appearance and their mastery of charms, as well as all the infinite power of demons and monsters means, integrated together, I believe that it must be the scale of the astronomical figures. But there is no reason for mankind to be pessimistic and to always believe in the power of angels. Even if a single angel cannot defeat a devil in a single coach, please do not forget that the number of angels is overwhelmingly superior to that of devils, and unity is strength. If the unity of ordinary people can turn earth into gold, the combined power of the angels must be more of a fighting force.
Thanks to the valuable legacy left to us by our ancestors, the base of angels is more than the devil. Extrapolating this, the power of the angels increases with each passing day, and must also be greater than that of the devils. This superiority, even if it is only one percentage point more, is a warrant issued to give light and joy to mankind. Conversely, the devil must have been the underdog in the course of history. Otherwise, if there were more devils than angels, and if family planning was not practiced, they would have spread like moss, rubbing shoulders, and causing chaos, and the earth would have become hell. The fact that mankind is advancing day by day is solid evidence that the angels have triumphed and continue to triumph. Not to mention that angels sometimes just need a smile to make the whole devil's palace collapse.