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Originally Posted by mechanicvirus
Interesting. So you are saying the snail isn't necessary god but the prospect of being followed can never be killed when said person is dealing with a life that follows them.
In that case everyone saying they would fart on a stick and the snail would stop are basically trying to escape the inevitable which is humanity judging them severely for their wrongdoings and they will try anything to get out of such responsibility.
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I think the snail represents the bad things you do in life that follow you forever.
For example, say you borrow some money but don't pay it back. The institution or person that you borrowed from eventually gets tired of trying to get the money from you so they write off the debt or forgive the debt. You, however, know that you still owe that debt even if it has been forgiven. The knowledge that you ripped someone off stays with you until you either pay the debt back or you die.
Every time that something like that occurs in your life, when you chose the bad road over the good road takes a little bit of your soul. It builds and builds with every decision where you knowingly do the wrong thing. You cannot escape it no matter how much you lie to yourself or try to fool yourself, it is always there.
You can try to Dorian Gray the whole mess but just like he found out, there is no escaping it.
The snail is all the times you took the wrong path and did not bother to fix it, you cannot escape them and eventually they will most certainly kill you.