I have been floating a theory, it covers npc idea and promotes the "personality" concept of the demi gods and assholes who run this place.

You start at level 1, base npc level shit. Level 2, you wake up to like, wtf is going on. This is where the system has addictions a plenty to stall you up and drive you back to level 1. However these addictions and traumas can inverse manifest and open your fucking mind. You hit level 3 where you understand reality is like multiple positive and negative onions, for lack of a better term, spawning off your consciousness/ 3rd eye experience. level 4 you begin to integrate the self developed reality/personality into the common reality- this step does drive some people insane. This is the Rubicon moment in the awakening process. Level 5, you are you. "be yourself, and you can do anything" is as much a truth as a jab at people unaware of their own potential. Step into yourself, be yourself, for yourself - and all your selves. Others are much a mirror of ourselves as a projection of what we could be.

in the Netflix series, Altered Carbon, the main guy faces many deep psychological challenges. But there is one saying I feel applies very much now with what we are faced with..

"Get To The Next Screen"

>be me
>medieval peasant
>rainfall blesses my crops
>townsfolk gather in square to watch hanging of a heretic
>twirl mustache to the kicking of the poor fool
>parched so I head to Black Bear Spirits, wonder why they call it that

>mug of beer as always
>barkeeper has it topped up to the tits
>lively other than the occasional visit from the King
>Oliver joins me from his drunken stupor when he sees me
>bastard drove a family heirloom of his into my assailant last Sun's Day
>ruffians have been coming in from the south nowadays
>'I could always forge a new pitchfork' says he
>leave 2 silver on the counter, that should settle my tab
>thank Jesus and my Lord for not installing a Federal Reserve

>go home
>carpenter is almost finished fixing the door handle
>doesn't lay a finger on my missus
>doesn't charge a single doubloon for the new contraption called a 'tumbler'

>12 chicken cuckoo's past sunrise
>painting and sonnet is near completion
>set reminder to daughter
>'I need to sow more wheat next seven sunrises.'
>she notes it down in her diary and milks the cows
>what a strong girl even at 7

>sit back in study
>wonder if future generations of mine get this treatment
>surely they would not have built steam contraptions by then
>laugh it off and lie on cot

Recommend giving this a read.

And then this dream..

Being in some sort of shop or lab, working on a giant cube. It was like one of those puzzle chests, turn this here, tap this, use this rod to open that, etc.. it was all golden. With gemstones.

I was drawn to it in this shop and began to solve it, laughing and humming to myself as I took this puzzle apart.. I was almost done when whoever was in the room "called" for me, like a mind nudge. I stopped humming to myself as I was and looked up into darkness and then the dream ended.

Before I studied Zen, mountains were mountains, and water was water.

After studying Zen for some time, mountains were no longer mountains, and water was no longer water.

But now, after studying Zen longer, mountains are just mountains, and water is just water

What is stated in this koan is a comparison between the three stages of reaching enlightenment. In the first stage, a student is still limited by the conventional reality according to which mountains and water have a certain substance that is knowable to the human mind, and they exist in the external world. In other words, in this stage, mountains and water are reducible to their existence in the outside world and a number of qualities (extension, color, usability as a place of retreat, etc.). However, in the second stage, a Buddhist student starts following the path, and upon some reflection, understands how mountains and water are essentially empty and lack any self-existence outside what they appear to a viewer. In other words, in this second stage, mountains and water are reduced and exhausted in a boundless “emptiness” which reminds a scholar of western philosophy of the ancient concept of “apeiron.” Yet, in the third stage, an enlightened Buddhist goes even further. At this stage, he neither reduces mountains and water to some kind of substance, nor their qualities, appearances before the mind, or emptiness. Rather, the enlightened being views mountains and water, but this time in their autonomy and irreducibility to any form of being or appearance. Here, mountains and water are nothing but this ultimate irreducibility – which is brilliantly expressed in the use of the word “just” before “mountains” and “water”.

Stated differently, in this third stage, mountains and water transgress any conception or understanding and withdraw into some chasm to which no understandings and definitions may hope to lead. As Bodhidharma notes in his Zen teachings “Trying to find a Buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.”

The Third Mountain By Mohammad Hadi Forouzesh Nia

«The Flammarion engraving» 1888. Wood engraving by an unknown artist

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Sue Zhao

Another explanation of where reptilians come from (they are the descendants of Cain—they have always been here).

The enclosed clip is from a very detailed lecture on exactly how Cain came out reptilian, and the full video by Rabbi Alon Anava can be found here. Feel free to ask questions.

I pinned some of the videos that I created that might also be helpful to anyone joining more recently.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/reptilianshapeshiftersandothers

Indeed.

So whom wins?

I think the immovable object.

As it comes into being, to become an object. Force, comes later, targeting the object. If both are infinite, then perhaps at best you get a stalemate - the yin yang of duality. The force pushes the object but said object gets to watch force come into existence. It saw where the pieces of force fit, and how it came to be. The object can be studied and seen by the force this is true...

But;
Force - Power made operative against resistance; exertion.

The object comes into being, to resist the force - to be forced by the force to move.

So again. the Yin Yang of Force and Object.

Chaos and Order.

The dualities of this realm )

The lesson to step back and become the 3rd party, the observer, the 3rd eye. One then Two but Three begins to tip the scales.

It's why I like 5, two to a side and one in the middle.

A partnership within Order, and Chaos.. mediated by the middle - the balance. Who has no partner, instead is party to the whole thing.

Balance.

2 orders and 2 chaos
1 order partnership and 1 chaos partnership
0 in the middle,

From Zero to Hero just playing with both sides and ultimately owning the middle. Owning nothing, to have everything.

re: unstoppable force vs immovable object