Raiden

Raiden, god of lightning in Mortal Kombat, offers his views on the dioramic magic of energy, education, and of course, edification!

Raiden is a very iconic video-game universe avatar, from the popular Mortal Kombat franchise, and this last vignette is a simple and lovely toast to the designed brilliance of this unusual other-worldly dancer. Thanks so much for reading, 

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Raiden had become the ultimate Mortal Kombat warrior, a proclaimer of the power of lightning and martial arts. He'd been more or less a philosophizing wandering warrior, but the Mortal Kombat tournament turned him into a grown man of great intellectual boons. He was now thinking about the pure intrigue of electric energy and why electricity represented social courage.

RAIDEN: "I've wielded the power of electrons with great fury and tackled formidable adversaries including Kung Lao, Sindel, and Leatherface, and now I seek to apply my combat education to harness the imagination magic of electric energy and spread the good word of intelligence as an ultimate sage of power and adaptation, which is why I've also become more religious, learning about the deep teachings in the New Testament!"

Raiden was truly unsurpassed in his ability to harness and wield electric power and energy like magic and fury. He used his ability to manipulate electric fields and release electron rays against his Mortal Kombat enemies, earning him considerable respect and prestige in the various realms he traveled. It was rumored Raiden was 1000 years-old, but he didn't look a day over 40.

Raiden decided to visit Earth during the great Coronavirus quarantine tribulation of 2020 and spread some complex folkloric cheer. He became a masked bandit and robbed several high-profile banks in US cities and then gave the money back to the system, telling the media that his deeds represented a focused interest to deliver messages about risk formulas in times of great social calamity. His ideas created awesome capitalism and capital daring, and the American press hailed him as a modern-day Dillinger. In fact, Raiden's media stunt robberies during the quarantine experience reminded everyone why news about dystopia was so intriguing in general.

Raiden then visited the campus of MIT and talked to professors interested in using modern media resources to deliver education and information during the quarantine tribulation. America was the world's Big Brother in science and capital, and Raiden learned a good deal about the harnessing of the Internet in times of considerable network static. He decided to teach a course at MIT titled Electric Democracy.

Raiden then donated to the MIT art museum a collection of abstract works signifying the intersection between science and poetry. The exhibition was very news-worthy, and Raiden started falling in love with MIT. However, he had to return to his own dimension after being toasted at the art opening as a new age Buster Keaton.

RAIDEN: "I've had to meet and exchange ideas with serious warriors in the Mortal Kombat tournament, and I use what I learned now to facilitate greater spiritual growth, so that I can complement my own sense of daring with the ideas regarding power and skill control I've witnessed in the greatness of my adversaries as well as my good friends."

Raiden took back to his dimension a children's toy computer from MIT to present to youngsters in his own world. He told his youngsters and students that Earth civilization was involved in the geometries of electric grids and computer-chip design and hardware and desktop creativity. Computers might resemble toys, and Raiden wanted youngsters to feel that the bounds of electric energy extended to the imaginations of great social dash.

It was after all a tad ironic that the ultimate electric warrior Raiden was now considering himself a pupil of the mystique of energy and physics itself. Would he learn more about computers and companies?

Raiden also decided to take up time investing in gardening, planting lovely white flowers which, to him, symbolized the ever-presence of the mystery of daylight itself!

If you happen to cross paths with the mighty Raiden, you might wonder if this guy is some kind of alternative messenger of imaginative diligence. After all, he's considered by some to be a real dragon!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)