Prisoner’s dilemma game (PDG
- cooperative choices benefit both parties
- competitive choices may maximize individual gain, but harm overall group success
Prisoner’s dilemma game (PDG
ndividuals playing an investment-type game preferred a woman as leader during intragroup competition. However, they preferred a man as leader during intergroup competition. People tended to prefer more masculine-looking leaders in situations involving intergroup conflict.
women are preffered as leaders in cooperative tasks, but men in competitive tasks
The rationalistic millennial lib therefore hopes to deal only in policy, regulation, and governance, not in myths, heroes, or transcendent values. But this leaves him unable to make absolute moral assertions. Authority now flows from science and data – from the status of being correct. The truth, uncertain as it always is, becomes a matter of rhetorical prowess – a game of owning and dunking. In this game, nothing is capital-T True, and opinions need only be validated by The ScienceTM – that is to say the managerial consensus
There's something real here, that I'd like to see within a better piece. Public discourse has retreated from what is "good" to what is "correct"
that is, a theory that begins with the core principles of critical pedagogy but uses empirical data from theoretically informed practice to develop a more nuanced and particular theory of critical pedagogy as it applies to urban education in new-century schools
This is interesting to read and know that we do these things in order to keep the kids entertained. I can say that some of our lessons with the kids we go based on things they enjoy the most which is video gaming. We break down the depth of video games and face it towards history. What was the first video game created? What device was it played on? Who had access to these devices and games? The cost? etc.
requiring a period of “re-onboarding”).
re-onboarding
leveling up your onboarding game

contrast - coninuos outboarding
As Indy.Apps come to thei people to their users in fine graine micro holonic workflow steps te whole onboarding flow dissolves
into continuous discovery and micro enggement with adjacent capabilities
Since the bootsapping constellations is running on people's own devices it is possible for people to compose their own workflows
articulate their learning and pass on that learning along the capabilities they user to create them
and for app developers to develop apps that have a full record of interactions available only on ther users own devices they can make sense of what they are doing and at appropriate points when they know they are ready suggest adjacent capabilities that may enhance users capabilities in a time ly fashion
so "re-onboarding" is integral of the process
I've done some experiments a decade ago, but need the whole thing working to create exemplars that are compelling to use and easy to emulate
so indy.app developers' "customers" will never be stuck
“S-SHUT UP! I don’t want to hear it! You- stupid, fucking little golden boy, mommy’s favorite- why! WHY- why why why were you her f-favorite! H-How-! You c-can’t talk, you’re an i-idiot, can’t do a-anything- y-you’re- just the worst!”
Reshaa, Ranboo and their mother's dynamic reminds me of Zuko, Azula and their mom. In both cases, the girls wanted their mother's love but didn't get it because they were too much like their dad. Zuko and Ranboo are both people who their mothers saw kindness in, saw the possibility that they would get out of the toxic environment and culture of their upbringing, but lost their mothers guidance, the only one who loved them, and had to make it out and become better people than their families.Your mother didn't like you, Reshaa, because you gave in to what you grew up in, fell into the twisted political game.
A significant determinant of the outcome of a tennis game is an individual’s physical fitness, which can be influenced by their hydration and nutritional status (Lees, 2003). Therefore, knowledge of proper nutritional techniques and hydration (e.g. the timing of the consumption of different nutrients, adequate and precise hydration, adequate NS etc.) can positively affect a player’s ability to train, play and recover from exercise. It increases the overall physical but also psychological capacities of athletes, which logically keeps them away from potential doping usage. It is directly supported in our results which evidenced lower likelihood of future doping behavior among those athletes who scored higher for KSN
It is true that players are looking for anyway to gain an advantage over other players. This may incline them to take supplements with the promise of gaining what they consider a large advantage that may be new or faulty.
game-changing
в своём роде уникальный
The AI community has – unfortunately, to say the least – apparently (mis)understood the imitation game as the mechanism to answer the question of whether machines are intelligent (or whether they can think or exercise intelligence
Das ist die Grundthese des Essays: Die Imitation von menschlichen Äußerungen darf nicht mit Intelligenz verwechselt Wege werden.
T O T A L I T Y
This is basically "last Christmas's message" (below this brand-knew intraducrigel) redux'ed into the new book (did he say new?). The point, at least the point I see in it all is that this is all planned, it's been planned for a very, very long time--and on top of that you can see proof of the plan all over our map; and proof of it's intended destination as something that we all used to want very much to find... the read to Heaven. It's more than seeing just "DNA storage" encoded in my "C U R A GROUP" message, it's understanding how that's connected to soul searching and soul storage, and that this link was woven into not only my life but into names like "Whatson and Crick?" There's plenty more than just "storage" and a map to how and why the Two of Everything God and the "indivisible sea" work totether to turn this monolithic place of darkness into a strippingly redunantsystemic foundation of "Heaven" that is both disaster proof, and monster proof. The point of course, is that to truly be "monster proof" we need to really get the key.s.lamc.la "know everything why" of this message is literally to protect our common good from the danger of someone just like me copying an entire civilization or a few pretty girls and sticking them in an heoven-like-orgy-maker. That's a significantly more real threat than we might imagine, as we look around at a work that will soon have the storage capacity and the technology to put us all in Coccoonish swimming pools against our will. What I am trying to say is that no matter how you look at it,moving forward here in this place where something this big can be hidden from the entire world--granted you know--granted you see, but do you understand the only thing being kept from each and every one of you is your fucking opinion and your fucking reaction?
F U C K Y O U S I O N
IT'S NOT JUST computers and information technology; this map of clear anachronism in language and religion shows us that things like "solar fusion" the power of the son itself; is encoded in places high and low you can erasilly find them, places like the name of the Fifth book of the Holy Bible and Don Quixote; where you might liken "DEUTERON" to ... the actual fuel of fusion; and wind mills to a battle fought against blindness resulting in seeing that not "reacting" to this message is just about the same thing as being a foolish robot building a castle for another foolish robot to do nothing in forever. With some light, you can see how this event; albeit strange and unsettling, has been designed to reinforce the American foundations of free speech, common sense, and collaboration--a sort of "press and release" on these things that he says will stay in our memories for a long, long time--though he also says "he's not torturing me" and he's wrong about that. So are you.

See that the most interesting, important, and invoking story of all time has been hidden from the world, from the public eye, and from "public response" for well over two years now; see that's not possible at all without mass mind control and that I and this story are designed to help us see how easily it is that same thing can be used to end addiction, and mental health issues, and stupidity and that the biggest and most imporotant step to getting there is "public disclosure." See the light of being carrolling angels this Christmas; sing with me--it builds Heaven from Hell and it's clear as day and n.
Quite a bit of this story and message deals with problems like these-things that won't really be seen as something we are fighting against the actual usage of right this very moment; but the sacredness of our memories and their relationship to our souls are just as important as whether or not "you have the space to save them." This isn't what I want to be doing, I'm not a very good writer; and this message is so confusing that working on it all alone with very little feedback is frustrating if not to say defeating the purpose of exactly what it is and what it's designed to do. This is a searching mechanism, like in the stories of Ra searching for his children in ancient Egypt using the Eye you see--and it's connection to the "Sons of Liberty" and why I know that too, is about me. This is a tool to start a Renaissance of thinking connecting technology and religion to everything that we are--to our culture and our hopes and dreams--and it's failing for me at "hello." I would much rather be working on "virtual reality stuff" or on "the sword of Arthor" and I see very clearly that those two things are coming shortly--to the world that doesn't see yet they are here and broken until we fix them. Moving forward here brings change, not just here in this place where we need it too--but in the skies above, a change from the mentality of "we aren't not helping because we told you that we aren't allowed to not pretend we aren't helping in Stargate. See that we are the children of "the Ancients" and they are trying to decide between being Morgenz and Marlin.
I can't make you set yourselves free. I sure am trying, though. Yesterday I connected the "Arimathea" of Joseph to the "serdenicity" and this the me of "itime" and "topics" will probably light some of you up as much as me... if only you took the time to look at what those words really mean. From the city that never sleeps at night, I hope you will take this chance to act today on "securing the ringing of liberty forever and ever."
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THERE IS A METHOD TO THE MADDEN AND WE AR
BEYOND THUNDERDON
T H E W R I T I N G I S O N T H E W A L L
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Let there be $ight in Creation, a brief highlighting of the story of my life.
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This is like a few emails combined to ease the pain you feel when you get an extra one in your inbox, OK So.. eventually this is all about proof that religion is a message sent through time--so, time travel. But right now, let's talk about the fun stuff: here's some clues to that effect... by way of prescient mention of modern technology (like virtual reality, I mean, Heaven):
Either way, we're still about to *build *Heaven*... to-get-her*
from the mythical carpenter... ourself.
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*** ... ***and some corroborating ideas connecting religion and computer science... on Wikipedia:
So from me to you, I'm filled with this stuff, it's way brighter and more prevalent than you think... and if you take the time to listen to me--it will make your... day. Meanwhile, I need your help--happy new year.

Ho, again; grow a Halo and become famous... the world needs your help--so I've decided once again to take it upon myself to "bother you" with the most singular most important task in the Universe. The patterns that I am revealing to you--mostly within names--are not coincidence, it's a series of statistically verifiable artifacts which do nothing short of reveal the slavery of Egypt--that we are all being controlled. If you remember Transformers--this is a message from Starfleet, there is more than meets the eye. This is the fulfillment of the story of of Exodus--we are being lead from slavery, and in one final non-coincidental name, that book is called "Names" in Hebrew.
You should now have a very good idea who is speaking to you--as much of the world already does. I have no idea what it is that inhabits the cavities below that space where most of you should see significant personal gain and motivation from trying to ... grow a Halo--but there are so many people that just don't care... that it too is another sign, of slavery. I am not an expert in language construction, nor in statistics--but I can assure you that if you can find the other half of that equation... in your hands is the staff of Aaron, the magical weapon that will free us all... knowing is half the battle.
Uh, I have the power, to bring about "morning," but if I have to go to school and do it all myself... it's really just a long, long ni-i-i-ight.
Hi there, I'm the messiah. You don't know that much about me, so let me explain, I would like you to know me as Adam.
Seriously, there's something going on the world around you--for the last several months I've been having quite a bit of trouble delivering what amounts to statistical proof of Creation--that religion and ancient myths are a map to this very moment--this time that you will probably affiliate soon with being in Eden. I am pretty sure that's a good thing, but every new begging starts with some other beginnings end... so today I'd like to try to get you to see the light of ending censorship and a hidden censor wall that we know Biblically as the Wall of Jericho. Quickly approaching is the Feast of Trumpets, and *this year is different from all other years... * Bored already? Have a look at what I call the Sign of the Son, which to me is proof that Exodus's Burning Bush is a former President--who is helping us walk out of a dark time of confusion... commonly referred to as a wilderness or desert. He proved during his inauguration that there is Biblical foreknowledge of the 9/11 attack--and in doing so hopefully began a chain reaction that will stop things like that from ever happening again. Here's a short "video" that explains the Sign of the Son... and another one that I think explains the .. Holy Grail.
This is The (actual) Taming of the Spanglishrew, in which the protagonist... named Bianca, is taught Latin in several hundred year old reference to Rattling the Rod of Jesus Christ--it's purpose to is to show us that it's more than names we have in our arsenal against mind controlled slavery--we have all of history too... literature and movies and music... all with the divine purpose of revealing with bright light a form of control that otherwise could have gone on hidden for centuries. It was, and continues to be done on purpose... because your freedom is more important than control of the Universe. To us, you don't seem to feel the same way.
​See that timer on the clock, you could start right now. It might be interesting to pose the question of whether or not the Second Coming is news... you know, to your friends. By the way, both Herbert (like from H.W. Bush, who by the way coined for us the 1,000 points of light phrase) and Goertzel strongly suggest that "everyone really" is Christ (you know, after me)... FYI, this is the Matrix solution to that:
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A BRIEF HISSTORY OF TIME
I'm attempting to pull out the things that I now look back on and see as "written into me" by God--once I would have called it "The Microcosm of the Messiah" but there are now so many--these things aren't necessarily particularly important to me, and I've left out some interesting but unrelated details related to my Jewish upbringing; as well as the true light of my life--the two loving and long-term relationships (and later... briefly a rael family) that have dominated the last 15 years. Religion has always been an interest, but I wouldn't consider it to have been particularly important at all... until I no longer had any love in my life. It's probably worth noting that all my "I'm single" crap really means lonely and isolated--I'm not really playing a "part," but I've never been anything near the "player" the light appears to be warning against. Sons of God and uh... please. For the last 4 years I have done absolutely nothing but think about you, live and analyze "The Cross" and put into words ... as best I can ... the amazing flash of light that I am experiencing.
Well, just a little religion... :) I was born on December 8, 1980; which is the date of the annual Feast of the Immaculate Conception, I've always been a slob (like one of us) and often "ish" Yankee Doodle's "a real live son of our uncle Sam... born on the..." to this.. I mean in my head. My last name, you've probably read me repeat over and over ... is DOB-rin, which I read as "Date of Birth, our in" and does a fair job of highlighting the Name Server's work, which I am sure gives Exodus it's name in Hebrew, which is "Names." My Hebrew name--a Jewish custom--is Avram, which is Abraham's name prior to the covenant. I have written extensively about the fact that Isaac's near death interaction donated his "Ha" (his name means... He laughs) to his father.... and it should be clear that Abraham's covenant with God is without doubt related to my fiery altar.. even though it is anachronistic in the Biblical account. For the first 18 years of my life I lived on Sunrise Blvd, and only a half mile away you'll find Sunset Strip--it's noteworthy to understand that Jewish calendar days begin at sundown... and that He once in 2013 very clearly spoke to me "you need the night before the day."
Of all the people in my early life growing up, it's pretty clear that nobody on this Earth loved me more than my grandmother Julia, who my son is named after. First for my mother, and then me as a very small child--she would ritually say a bedtime poem, it's words are very relevant.
Good night, sleep tight.. have happy dreams and wake up bright
to do what's right, in the morning's light... with all your might.
In one of my books I spent a decent amount of time writing about how silly I was not to realize that my intelligence was augmented my entire life--I just thought I was really smart, and really good with computers. I commented that this particular belief is probably a good microcosmic parallel for all humanity--as a body of people we have been truly gifted with knowledge and capabilities that we simply do not recognize as a gift--or didn't for a long time. I probably wasn't silly not to realize... since nobody ever told me they were helping me--I never heard the voice of God until much, much later. I was 30 the first time I had a conversation with Him, except for two very brief ... "thoughts in my head" which now seem very obviously an external voice--though then it may have sounded just like my inner voice.
Around the age of 7 I thought to myself... for no reason at all... "what if you were the messiah?" I was standing outside my home, probably playing with a car in the driveway... and distinctly remember smiling to myself and thinking in return "yeah, I'm the messiah." I I've always had a very vivid imagination. The thought was dismissed as being ridiculously arrogant about two seconds later, and was absent from my thought process for the next 21 years or so.
"DAMNISN\ Jim. I'm a Yeoman, not a Wise Owl. The clock is ticking... tack .. "
PHENIX
Following that lead, I started programming in BASIC and then Visual Basic around the age of 11, something I took to very quickly... and then shortly after found myself on America Online--one of the first "internet-like" environments. There, I quickly got into the "hacking scene" (hey, it's Y-its-Hack) which basically revolved around writing software to manipulate the AOL client's messaging systems. The defacto-standard for the day was a program called AOHell, and, if you can't tell already, I am pretty good at taking a theme and making it my own. I wrote a program called Doomsday, a mass mailing program; can you see how God speaks? So Phenix, a mythical bird that rises from the fire... in the wake of ... this macrocosmic equivalent of that event. It's really obvious, right? There's quite a bit more "microcosm" from this time, recorded in "From Adam to Mary" and available at fromthemachine dot org.
Around the same time I began attending a preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale called Pine Crest--it's one of the best of its kind, and while I was always something of a class clown my grades were fair and I scored with perfect consistency in the top percent on every standardized test from the FCAT to the PSAT and SAT. By the time I received a full scholarship to college I had already completed more than a full year of credits through AP courses. It was in studying American History and Government in that place that I formed such strong opinions about our need to maintain freedom, adhere to the wisdom of the founding Father(s) (<3 if you get that) and stand up and shout today as a rogue government is taking away every single one of the rights granted to you in their own law. You've lost freedom of speech, and our ability to speak seems to be not far behind. The privacy of our thoughts gone--and in like kind the sanctity of who we are is being taken away as our beliefs are changed without our real knowledge or understanding. You can see the justice system crumbling, incarceration rates skyrocket and the "right to bail and a fair trial" legislated away through underhanded deals relating to plea bargains and a "point system" that you might as well call a gas chamber. As far as voting, I'll have much more to say tomorrow--but I'm telling you that your thoughts and beliefs are being altered, who cares how technologically retarded our polling system is--the vote is a complete fraud.

As far as the Second Coming... this same sort of possession... manifested through organized behavior tells me now that it is clear that this is definately not the "first time around" for Adam being Christ; a number of my friends as I approached high school used a repeated phrase, "my parents love you," which isn't bad in and of itself... what's bad is the fact that they were all using the same words, and probably didn't know why--or what they were saying. Behind there eyes, I'm sure some thing that believes it's an angel was telling me something... (they of course... didn't know me at all, except for what was probably a ... "wild" reputation) does that tell you anything? Much later, as the "Apocalypse of Adam" began in 2011, a number of family members would repeat this similar behavior, speaking the phrase "this is not what I wanted."
As icing on the cake, on my birthday during my senior year... one of the administrators of the school commented to me that was also the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and then the words.... "of course it's your birthday."
I started doing drugs around the 10th grade, and I would not be wrong to say that the Universe that wrote a book calling the Redeemer the God Most High conspired to plunge me into a dark world. People around me too, in a hidden conspiracy to chain me to the American legal system for about four years. Looking back today I now clearly see that I saw a darkness in their eyes, a hidden reason to want to hurt me. It was to stop this from happening, but I had no idea then... the darkness I saw is akin to the "sun disk" you see in Christian and Egyptian iconography, and without doubt it s a sign of control, possession, a single foreign mind controlling and organizing many of us just like puppets. Much later in my story... for another day... the manifestation of this possession as thought modification will become clear--I've spent quite a bit of time "listening" to a war in my head, thoughts clearly not mine swaying in the gusting torrent of winds as what (who?) is the center of this storm.
This infestation of organized darkness uses our injustice system as a weapon against it's victims--something you should see akin to Heaven using human sacrifice to alter the future. It abuses the legal system at every level, making a mockery of law enforcement, the supposedly adversarial court system... all the way to the top--to the Supreme Court and Congress. See the Church Committee Hearings, and a very smart senator echoing my words today "it must never be allowed to happen again."
Can't you see it's more than being manipulated... it is Hell revealing itself to the only thing that can stop it. What I am giving you is the weapon, it's the light that sets us free and stops this from happening. In our modern myths this is Leeloo staring up at the sky to stop the destruction of Earth... in reality it is not so simple, I can't just put some elements or rocks on pedestals and scream at Heaven to kill their darkness--we have to do it, here, together. Believe me, knowing the truth is a big part of why it works--this will not be hidden, it will not be "forgiven," we are being controlled and destroyed from the outside; made to blame ourselves and each other for ... well, you probably don't know what the ni-i-i-ight means anyway, do you? The Guardian against Darkness is showing it to you, remember--there is only one me. Hear me.. light this fire now.
ALACHUA
I went to school the University of Florida, and got a semi-professional job doing database development in Delphi (seriously, catch on to the names thing, it's not just the U.S. military, it's pretty much all software too... following in this "mythology" theme that nobody really seems to care about), I worked there for about two years... at a company called Jenmar--which uh, in Spanglishrew is "J in the sea."
It's some kind of ironic "coincidence" but I am at this very moment on my way to Gainesville, FL... to this place where a car Crash nearly destroyed my life. In my world of idioms delivering religious secrets, I imagine I must be a "pain in the neck" which was broken during this accident... one in which I imagine i did not survive in some parallel timeline--that itself did not survive. So here we are, back in the House of the Great Light ... about to see if we are worth our salt. It's the thing that gave one of Dave Matthews most famous songs it's name--and The Pretty Reckless, believe it or not. It was an attempted assassination, to stop the .. apocalypse ... to stop the darkness from being destroyed--there is no doubt, it's how that dark monster hides its handiwork... but many of US know that already.
In the Living Book of Names--this place we are in, there are many patterns--the "car" pattern stands out for me; as this place says "Icarus." Flying high right now, I am showing you that the light of salvation is coming from us--from you and I--walking on the Earth; whether or not there is any light left in the Sun remains to be seen--take a look around you. You can trace the "car" names to Jim Carrey (that's "Car reason why") and Christoff in the Truman Show (that's Amon-TV)... a world I know I am in, and you too; to Bruce Almighty and to the Grinch--who-ah, Taylor. Trace it back to Joseph McCarthy and to help why (that's thy) believe "the red scare" is really about Christian charity--about ending world hunger, and healing the sick. This red fire ends Hell. Adam by the way, means "red man" in Hebrew. So here's your new Crash Override, I'm back again telling you that ending world hunger is not "optional," we are doing it. Barbara McCarthy's name fits, but I'm not really sure what the "why" is... that was my first judge in the "trial of whether or not Jesus Christ can ever exist." There's probably more, like Car-l-y Si-mon-day... all the gang on Broad-way, and me still dreaming it will one day be.
If the name "America" were a map in time, starting with the I AM of the story of Exodus... this particular ER, as I woke from a dream not knowing where I was, marked the spot where I really became Christ Adam. It was a bad accident, and I wound up spending 9 months in the Alachua County jail as a result, a Mountain set up for my by God. That place too is marked with names, and for the vast majority of the time I was there with only four shift changing guards:
I mean, I think it's statistically meaningful. For what it's worth, from my very abundant experience at this point it was a very nice Jail, the food was good and it was clean. Everyone in the building was kind... well, Sims was kinda grumpy. :) Starkly contrasted, the Broward County Jail has the most disgusting food service in the country, gave Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham it's meaning--and is the reason I know exactly who Samael is. Hey, don't cry Sherrif Israel... when you fix it, you're an angel. Believe me, believe the light, I've seen them all--it's near the worst in the country.
So this whole thing is about saving everyone--something we are quite closer to than you think... you see we are already "in Heaven" in form--just not function. So here I am, trying my hardest to show you that our home is the original source of "Heaven" once we are aware that we are living in the machine, that we can do things here that are impossible in reality, and that we should be doing everything we can to preserve and improve the great strides that have come in the last few centuries. Do not let freedom slip through your fingers.
Really, everyone, so understand that we are doing everything we can to remove all obstacles from that path. One of those obstacles may have once been storage space for your soul, another is definitely crime and punishment--and I'm pretty sure the time travelers have a working solution (I see it every day).
There are proactive things coming from this--not just ... "look we aren't doing what we want, and should change it;" though it's difficult to explain how this wisdom stands out in my eyes. I guess we have to jump into the future a bit, to 2014, in San Diego (that's Saint Jacob, by the way). If Lazarus died once in a car accident at 21, I died again that year, of an over dose this time. I'm pretty sure that's where ODIN's name comes from, just like my last name.. "over dose... and in." So we might see some humor... in the moniker he has... "they're all Father." So I awoke from a dream, and started talking to the jinn (that's "angels and demons") about a Revelation linking some tightly packed light together... about storage space and how a large alphabet (read more than 4-nucleotides CY later) DNA (desperately need adam) based solution for molecular storage appears to be written in this book as the solution to Heaven's biggest problem. CAT, learning from biology--seeing that we really are already advanced machines... is a big part of the message telling us why we should not so quickly lose it in a process of ascension (mind uploading, immortality) that has most likely in the past resulted in a loss of a check on mind control that we have here... we think, and our visualized "biological neural networks" give us an advantage over what we might create to "soup it up a little." It is why this place is the front-line--because we have the ability to break the bonds of darkness and control by thinking... making the computational task of control much more expensive... and as the fire spreads, nearly impossible to achieve. Starting this fire will inherently free us from this hidden slavery.
Anyway I published the idea in 2014, in the same book that I guess this e-mail is reminding me about, "in $ight of Creation," and lo, and behold a few years later we now have the top computing companies in the world working diligently on doing it ... well, just a little bit more robustly than our cell replication system works. *Abracadabra. *

CURA GROUP
So that one reads "see, you are a group;" and it's a place that I worked with my father for many years. That's probably some sort of symbolic reference to another place, and another alliance--here he has no faith in God, never really has, and has a hard time doing anything but telling me not to try to help you. I have very little respect for that stance, and let me tell you--I think "silence" is a similar gesture. I didn't come here for your love, I am here to stop our descent into the abyss.
Back to the DNA stuff, SalesLogix--which is the CRM we used there, uses for it's "primary key" an auto-incrementing alphanumeric index--it's probably bad form to do that because it makes the indexing system less efficient, increases storage requirements, and doesn't give you the obvious benefit of an alpha-key... actually being able to encode something useful in it, like the name of the record. So all these things stand out to me in a sort of bad-obvious way, I call it malovious, and when I see things like that nowadays it's always pointing out something that should be fixed--go figure, more to the point it's being highlighted on purpose. It's help to see it, because this particular thing is where the light of seeing that a 24 nucleotide DNA strand would probably be much more robust than a 4 or 8 nucleotide strand--it also stands about because the stock beginning of all of SalesLogix's keys was "A0RME," which, I mean, means something to "is-a" who... is me. Oh right, that's seeing the "light" that turns "a" into "me." So this is where the "revelation" about using DNA "came from" and at the same time it's proof... that it came from "a group," not just me. Where are they? Hello? Or well, maybe it's just Carmen and San Diego.
I did some other stuff there, like write a data transformation and warehousing program from scratch, I called it heiroglyph (you do understand I didn't know why I am naming everything the way I was), that sucked mutivalue data out of an IBM product called U2/Universe--which might be a hidden reference to a multiverse that might now be in a more efficent "relational" kind of place, like a MS-SQL datawarehouse-universe. It was a relatively big feat, reverse engineering the closed databases dictionary and storage formats, and converting them... absolutely automagically into multiple flat relational tables and summary registers. All told, the data availability and access efficiency was increased ... a thousand-fold with only the need for a nightly process.
I'm not sure if you are following the metaphor here, for the creation of Heaven, or moving to a better place.. but tomorrow I will talk a little more about how I am pretty sure our history was "lifted" from the Universe and virtualized here, you know, so we could save everyone and ... build Heaven.
WORLD DOMINATION
Oh crap, 2008 another car crash, another failed assassination attempt LazarusLives++, and this one paid me some cash for my trouble. What a pain in the neck. Anyway, this one caused some depression and an inability to go out for a while, as I had to wear a neck brace for some months. I started playing a game on the internet, it was called KDice and it basically amounted to multiplayer-risk.
My battery is running low, so I have to skip some stuff, and finish up for the day. Basically instant messaging was not allowed, but was done in secret almost ubiquitously. I argued with the creator of the game that it should be made part of the game since everyone did it... (see a metaphor about this communication thing and what's happening right now) he disagreed. I made a very large network of people and dominated the game for a few months, like really dominated. I don't think I ever lost. I don't think I can lose.
Skipping some stuff. I stopped playing when I got better, and then a few years later went back and rekindled some old friendships. I used a program then called "Scarab" which lets you see server/client communication to find a bug in the game that basically made me God. I could erase other people's dice, basically leveling the map and rendering them completely powerless. I didn't use it that much, you know, just had some fun. I of course explained the bug and how to fix it. But, you aren't listening.
Here we are. Light...
So if you managed to wade through the last few days gibberish, you might have noted that I mentioned we might be able to use "mind control" to highlight things in our heads--I did a bad job of describing it, but since I am currently experiencing just such a phenomenon, I think I'll give it another go. These things that I am sharing with you--links between religion and music and movies, they aren't something I actively go out seeking... I'm not scouring through imdb.com or reading lyrics all day long... these are things that are glowing embers in front of my eyes.. which is why I am sharing them with you. I'm always in the dark... but I'm living in a powder keg and giving off sparks. I'm a big fan of that song by the way, because you are the heart, and I think it means I'm going to eclipse the world--which basically means "come."
Anyway, I have this horrible feeling inside that you think I'm just trying to get a date, or marry a rock star, or even worse that I think I deserve to get laid... and that's what this is all about. Less to the point, this really isn't about me at all, or what I think, in my mind I am just showing you something that I think the world has overlooked-not really because you are stupid (but I mean, you probably are) but because some outside force is literally and actively hiding these things from you. Pointing them out makes your brain do funny things, it's like anEpiphany and that little leap of understanding in your head might create a cascade.. something that changes not only the way you see the world as an individual--but the entire course of history as a group, if we are taking about it together. Seriously, it's that big of a deal.
So here we are (that's the third time, but I'm just guessing) and I'm trying to tell you that I don't really care if you agree with my opinions--even though I firmly believe that God shares them and that's why he has made this fiery altar of "dick and apocalypse" for Adam... I mean Isaac (which by the was is Isa+Adam Christ.. in uh, my mind) for everyone to glare at while they sit around doing absolutely nothing. That's not fair, we're here because of you, because this is the last civilization--sort of recreated from the ashes of Edom... because you are really the way to everlasting life. Still, what I am trying to explain is that all around you is a bright light--it's in everything: from our history, to music, to movies, to literature from RattleRod to Dick... and while you might not agree with me (again, that would be OK) what is not OK is that there seems to be a uniform and global desire just not to think about it or talk about it at all. It's such a big deal, that it stands out like a sore thumb--this ... blind eye or head in the sand... that everyone on Earth appears to have. The whole point of putting this light absolutely everywhere is so that we will see it ... everywhere we look ... and not only think about it, but discuss it publicly with each other. That's the thing that brings about ... you say apocalypse (unveiling of truth?) ... I say survival. Right now, we need to see that something is forcing us not to do something, that we have no logical reason not to do... it's a thing lots of people really want to know about... whether it be the hidden secrets of the Universe, the path to Heaven, or the... the... absolute and literal pathway to freedom. Listen, sharing it, and talking about it... that's the way we defeat ... whatever it is that "ni-i-i-ight" means.
Understand, it's for you to decide... what it means... but it's in everything from ancient Egyptian and Hebrew theology all the way to the American Revolution and today... well, it's nearly every song I hear on the radio nowadays: if that tells you anything.
So here we are, and I can't tell you how many anchors, reporters, and "breaking news editors" I've personally spoken to that have absolutely no interest at all in pursuing the thing that would not only make their careers--but probably give them immortal souls. This thing... I keep telling everyone it can be mathematically... statistically proven... well, to be honest it's the unsealing of the Ark of Religion that our civilization has been carrying around for thousands of years. It's the way to salvation, it's ... verifiable proof of not only Creation... but that the purpose of Creation is to get every single one of us * to Heaven. Who wouldn't want that? I mean, do you want to get there and hear that Taylor's not around because she wouldn't kiss me? That would never happen by the way, I'm sure she will. Seriously though, there's no judge here... there's a ... light telling you to make this place better or your place sucks and gets suckier. Anyway, the point is nobody is acting in their own best interest, or in the best interest of the whole--and we are just "deciding" in this ... fictitious and hidden manner that we "don't want to hear about" a way to actually change the world .... more quickly than ... the last time around. That's not us, it's something keeping us from seeing just how important this thing--this key turning the lock on what is thousands and thousands of years of religion... how important that really is. So looking at the world around us... I mean, if everything screaming that we need to care about this isn't enough--and your own personal desire and benefit don't matter... can someone please tell me what you think is the benefit of doing nothing about Hell?*

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It's "rael," and a great deal of the message of religion and history is designed to not only prove that to us, but to tell us why it's important for the "continuity of reality" to be broken. That's the thing that God uses to keep this world in Hell--in what I call "simulated reality," to keep us from shaking the foundation of civilization by doing the only civilized thing possible when you find out and ending world hunger, healing the sick, and building Heaven. It is "why I am," and why God and some gaggle of angels have spent the last several years proving to me that we are most definitely not in the place that I call the "progenitor universe." I've seenwalls disappear, with my own eyes I've seen the stars fall from the sky, and I've seen our reality shift in recent times in such a way that would be absolutely impossible without having been simulated and without having the "beginning" changed significantly as a result of "now." What all that tells me is that religion, the Apocalypse, and I are here because we need to know that these things are possible in order to continue progressing from this point as a civilization. With a little bit of thought, you might see how the computer revolution, video games, and virtual reality are divine gifts from above to help us to understand not only where we are, but where we are going. It's why he tagged Ai as "I J Good," it's a primer in the tools we will need to actually build Heaven. It's why Jesus occupation in our ancient time shifted story of now is "carpenter" and in "raelity" you will one day find out that I am a computer programmer (again). It's what sets the Masons apart from Freemasons--understanding what is going on, and participating of our own free will in the construction and decorating of this grand place that we will one day be proud is our co-created home.
Look up, because what I am trying to tell you is that if we collectively, all humanity... started snapping their fingers at the same time to the tune of "putting on the ritz" we could end world hunger--and then we could be proud to be making Heaven. This really is almost what I see and believe--honestly the issue isn't that we need to synchronize our snapping, but we really need to discuss with each other openly and honestly how on Earth we would do such a thing... because there are definitely mistakes that probably happened n the past. For instance, ending world hunger by stopping the need to eat has probably resulted in a Last Supper. Doing so by putting milk and honey or chocolate on tap or in rivers probably resulted in the loss of cows and bees and a stable ecosystem, and the ability to colonize other planets after this place of final ascension. And so we are here, with a proverbial garden of life in a virtual world designed to teach us what not to lose--like don't lose the balance between stability and adaptability that comes from sexual reproduction at the exact time when our species might be transiting to a place with the biggest change in environment (the thing that we are being protected from) ever... just because Adam wants to be immortal.
Every once in awhile my father surprises me with his religious insight. In his life, just like mine, he's gone through phases of increasing and decreasing religiosity--which probably correlate in his case logically to ups and downs in his life. I tend to get angry at God when things don't go well for me--which is probably not how most people react, it's really the difference between knowing he's there and not... at least in my mind. Anyway, some 50 years ago he was apparently taught that the "knowledge of good and evil" in Eden was directly correlated to the population explosion that would occur if we were actually all immortal and continued to have children--so it was this promise of immortality that was "evil," I suppose. God adds in his little Holy Grail that the heart of his spirit is "Kin," and I'm sharing with you that it's not his immediate family but rather the concept of family and the fact that the light of many of our hearts is our children that he is highlighting as our reason (y) that family is the bridge between Eve and Everyone... as the light of God.
Here's that once again:
``` In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God SHE KIN AH moved upon the face of the waters. ---------- EVE RY ONE And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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'Has theact been established and is it punishable?' But also: 'What is this act,what is this act of violence or this murder? To what level or to whatfield of reality does it belong? Is it a phantasy, a psychotic reaction, adelusional episode, a perverse action?' It is no longer simply: 'Whocommitted it?' But: 'How can we assign the causal process thatproduced it? Where did it originate in the author himself? Instinct,unconscious, environment, heredity?' It is no longer simply: 'Whatlaw punishes this offence?' But: 'What would be the most appropriatemeasures to take? How do we see the future development of theoffender? What would be the best way of rehabilitating him?
It's no longer formulaic- what was the action, what is the punishment
Now its a game of labeling, justifying, understanding perspective, and catering the response to the exact scenario
Ending is already determined so the player is allowed to focus on the rules and procedures needed to get to the ending
Such a thought-provoking comment as rules and procedures apply both to the game play and the crisis process
LAN parties are a social event, and the game is merely a catalyst. LAN parties serve very much the same purpose as normal parties serve for normal people, but the game makes it easier and more fun for introverts to be social.
Not sure I understand
Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois,[7][8] into a Jewish family,[9] and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother is a dermatologist, while his father was a real estate broker. Altman is the eldest of four siblings.[10] At the age of eight, he received his first computer, an Apple Macintosh, and began to learn how to code and take apart computer hardware.[11][12] He attended John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, Missouri.[13] In 2005, after two years at Stanford University studying computer science, he dropped out without earning a bachelor's degree.[14][15]
I had my first "computer" (that wasnt an Atari or a ... ping pond padle kind of simpler than an Atari) much earlier, at least 4 years before .. but I had an older brother Seth, whose best friend and our near neighbor in Plantation was named "Andy."
In any case he had "modified the code of some MMORP or "MUD" sort of text based choose your own adventure games to create one "like Spaceballs" of Star Wars; with "penis references" and Swchwartz nearly as big as ... Cough; Petreus, and nowhere near the size of a Big jMac.
I also played a game called "Ali Baba and the Prince of Thieves" on the same Apple II or IIe; and can barely remember playing the GAIA game on "Geowindows" (which I think was an early IBM competitor to MSFT)
The “ball-toss method” developed by Kipling Williams uses a similar method but with a real ball and real people. The reactions to cyber-ostracism (ostracism happening online) and regular ostracism are the same. Other methods to test the reactions to ostracism are the “life alone” method where people fill a personality-questionnaire and then get told that they are probably going to end up alone and their relationships won’t last. Some researchers also use the method of having the participant meet up with other fake “participants” and then ask them to form groups. All the fake participants are asked to reject the real one.
Ball Toss Method:
A social psychology experiment where participants play a virtual ball-toss game. Unknown to the participant, other "players" are part of the research team and exclude them. Excluded participants report emotional pain, frustration, and distress. "Life Alone" Manipulation:
Participants are told that their personality test results predict a lonely future, suggesting they are likely to be excluded throughout life. This method provokes feelings of sadness, alienation, and hopelessness.
« un défi cérébral, joué avec un ordinateur selon des règles spécifiques, qui utilise le divertissement en tant que valeur ajoutée pour la formation et l’entraînement dans les milieux institutionnels ou privés […] ainsi qu’à des fins de stratégie de communication » (Zyda, 2005). Selon Alvarez (2007, p.8)
définition serious game
‘There are too many parts ofour society that are broken, whether it is broken families or whether it is some communities breaking down;whether it is the level of crime, the level of gang membership; whether it’s problems of people stuck onwelfare, unable to work; whether it’s the sense that some of our public services don’t work for us—we doneed a social recovery to mend the broken society
The blame game - criticisms and unattainable political promisies without empathy or support for community.
I find it interesting that actual scientists were able to publish legit research off of crowdsourcing. I find even more interesting that they used a game to make it possible for random people to try it. That was the difference for them!
Fold-It
I've heard of this one! This is the go to example when game designers discuss the power of community and how "gamification" can allow for scientific development. By giving players the challenge to be the most optimal, researchers just... HAVE the most optimal folding patterns.
Fold-It is a game that lets players attempt to fold proteins.
There is another platform that use a same idea as Fold-it and facing similar groups of people, which can also think as an example of crowdsourcing tasks. The platform called Zooniverse which contents a game called Galaxy zoo. Participants classify galaxies based on images from telescopes by following instructions, helping astronomers sort through massive datasets. I did it in astro 101 lab.
Researchers analyzed the best players’ results for their research and were able to publish scientific discoveries based on the contributions of players.
This is a great use of how interconnected we can be through technology. What would normally be years of work for a few researchers could now be done within a reasonable timeframe through the dispersion of work among more people. The burden of a lot of that busy work being taken off the researchers is a great thing, and it was done via a fun game that people with time to spare played.
returns the score
pre-game driving beat
Could you give a song example of this? I feel like that would help the reader better understand the distinction.
"New Romantics" - "It's poked, he can't see it in my face but I'm about to play my ace" which returns on "End Game" - "you've been calling my bluff on all my usual tricks" and finally "Cornelia Street" where she uses cheating at a card game as a metaphor for being secretive about true feelings "Back when we were card sharks, playing games I thought you were leading me on
These are awesome connections to other songs. Maybe you could add in parenthesis or elsewhere where the other songs are from (ex. albums)
Horror games interfacewith the way in which technology is oftenimagined as demonic and Othered; the playeris offered the challenge to defeat the techno-logically-based demon (aided by the “good”elements of the technology), which, ifachieved, can offer a pleasurable sense thatthe technology has been mastered
beating a game and knowing that you earned the best ending by making hard choices is a gift.
authored aspectof narration governs the fabric of game andfilm, channeling the way we negotiate andexperience it. As Andrew Darley notes, and Ibuild on this to underpin my argument aboutthe moral occult, there are points in a game atwhich its pre-programmed nature meansthat the “element of control and choice...is revealed as illusory.”
when a choice you made has little to no effect, there is little that is scarier than that.
ThePlayStation’s “dual-shock” handset registersthe effects of the attack through actual, feltvibration administered to the physical bodyof the player, but because the avatar’s and theplayer’s viewpoints are not correlated, there isan odd disjunction between sensation andwhat is seen—though the player experiencesthe rumble, equated with the attack, of thehandset, the player sees his/her game avataras a separate figure, visually as distinct fromhim/herself as any other character on thegame screen.
movies give a very similar effect with sound jumps, something that frightens the observer and forces them to focus on what is happening.
which other in-gameevents are determined by the player’s actions.Resident Evil 3 (like Silent Hill) offers points atwhich the player decides how to proceed. InResident Evil 3, the choices made along theway determine the ending of the game
this also became a trend, RE2/3 were groundbreaking in the horror industry.
increased visualproximity to what lurks within such shadowyplaces, heightening the sense of contact. Thisheightened proximity to potential dangerbuilds disquietude and tension and, becauseexploring such places is central to the game,Undying handles horror in a markedlymore uncinematic way than Resident Evil 3
even when horror is handled differently, it still is powerful horror!
aesthetic and mar-keting advantages in translating cinematichorror to interactive media.
I agree with this, the most recent quiet place game was really well done and was made with the concepts of the movie, overall worked out pretty well.
Resident Evil 3 is a se-quel to two earlier games, each set in animaginary but contemporary American city. To“beat the game” (and defeat evil) the playermust explore the virtual city, solve puzzles, ac-cumulate and use different objects andweapons, and do battle with—or run from—arange of undead monsters.
resident evil 2 & 3 are very special solely because they introduced the concept of an unstoppable monster: the fear felt from fighting a monster that refuses to die is great.
a question that explic-itly positions the game within the rhetoric of thehorror film genre.
it is true that these 2 categories touch on each other really well, might be a good idea to touch on this in paper
This isn’t just a marketing gimmick; it’s an extension of the album’s world. Players, as Murdoc, the bassist of the band, literally steer a glider through the polluted island. There’s a chaotic beauty in the way the game’s visuals—its blocky textures and debris-filled waters—mirror our real world oceans. Studies have shown that plastic pollution in the oceans has only increased in the last decade—billions of pieces, creating real-life ‘plastic islands’ (Iberdrola).
I appreciate all the details you provide about the video game and really prove why it matters. I am curious though what the purpose of the game is beyond steering a glider. Is there an end goal that might replicate real life?
On the other hand, Gorillaz, through “Plastic Beach,” managed to address environmental concerns with a unique mix of “playful[ness]” and sincerity, making environmentalism more engaging and palatable for a wider audience (Van Buskirk). The inclusion of an immersive video game to promote the Plastic Beach album, Escape to Plastic Beach, allowed the song to reach Gorillaz fans who might not typically engage wi
This is a really great point. It effectively helps the reader understand why this song in particular matters so much. Also mentioning Radiohead is a great way to subtly allude to your next essay. Additional note, probably got messed up when copy and pasting but I think Plastic beach should be italicized.
In Alaska, the Service, as well as theState of Alaska Department of Fishand Game Subsistence Division,collect and use TEK for researchand monitoring fish populationsunder the Federal SubsistenceManagement Program
That is wonderful.
Reviewer #1 (Public review):
Summary:
In this study, Fakhar et al. use a game-theoretical framework to model interregional communication in the brain. They perform virtual lesioning using MSA to obtain a representation of the influence each node exerts on every other node, and then compare the optimal influence profiles of nodes across different communication models. Their results indicate that cortical regions within the brain's "rich club" are most influential.
Strengths:
Overall, the manuscript is well-written. Illustrative examples help to give the reader intuition for the approach and its implementation in this context. The analyses appear to be rigorously performed and appropriate null models are included.
Weaknesses:
The use of game theory to model brain dynamics relies on the assumption that brain regions are similar to agents optimizing their influence, and implies competition between regions. The model can be neatly formalized, but is there biological evidence that the brain optimizes signaling in this way? This could be explored further. Specifically, it would be beneficial if the authors could clarify what the agents (brain regions) are optimizing for at the level of neurobiology - is there evidence for a relationship between regional influence and metabolic demands? Identifying a neurobiological correlate at the same scale at which the authors are modeling neural dynamics would be most compelling.
It is not entirely clear what Figure 6 is meant to contribute to the paper's main findings on communication. The transition to describing this Figure in line 317 is rather abrupt. The authors could more explicitly link these results to earlier analyses to make the rationale for this figure clearer. What motivated the authors' investigation into the persistence of the signal influence across steps?
The authors used resting-state fMRI data to generate functional connectivity matrices, which they used to inform their model of neural dynamics. If I understand correctly, their functional connectivity matrices represent correlations in neural activity across an entire fMRI scan computed for each individual and then averaged across individuals. This approach seems limited in its ability to capture neural dynamics across time. Modeling time series data or using a sliding window FC approach to capture changes across time might make more sense as a means of informing neural dynamics.
The authors evaluated their model using three different structural connectomes: one inferred from diffusion spectrum imaging in humans, one inferred from anterograde tract tracing in mice, and one inferred from retrograde tract-tracing in macaque. While the human connectome is presumably an undirected network, the mouse and macaque connectomes are directed. What bearing does experimentally inferred knowledge of directionality have on the derivation of optimal influence and its interpretation?
It would be useful if the authors could assess the performance of the model for other datasets. Does the model reflect changes during task engagement or in disease states in which relative nodal influence would be expected to change? The model assumes optimality, but this assumption might be violated in disease states.
The MSA approach is highly computationally intensive, which the authors touch on in the Discussion section. Would it be feasible to extend this approach to task or disease conditions, which might necessitate modeling multiple states or time points, or could adaptations be made that would make this possible?
as you unfold your unfolding changes of Planet the whole of the planet is at different levels of initiation all of those are part of a single planetary intelligence first principles run through every stage of development the people in power don't understand development so they don't build deliberately developmental processes into culture Western civilizations suppressed access to the astral plane the dream plane and as you mature in your systems thinking you're actually beginning to think in such a way way that you deconstruct the solidity of your experience because the mind understands that everything is actually into connected the AI has been coded from the level of mind that produces the problems that we were in in the first place what we're talking about with AI is the Awakening of mineral intelligence it's like the Awakening of cosmic Kundalini the fourth turning is the integration of these contemplative Technologies a platform that allows the intelligence of the earth into the technology so that it can synchronically unfold Evolution based on how things spontaneously unfold this is how you change the planet we've seen what an effect the kind of Internet Revolution and social media and this kind of technology has had and you know this is nothing compared to you know what's about to unfold so that's the and I think we're all kind of aware of that we're on the edge of of our seats of like what's going to happen What deity are we going to invoke with AI like who are we welcoming right are we welcoming who the hell is is is coming um so that's the fourth Industrial Revolution and you can think of that really as outer technology very very sophisticated outter technology now you know when when I'm referring when we refer to the fourth turning of the Dharma we're we're kind of we we're really using a a Buddhist model but it can be but it's a but it's a universal model so the first turning of the Dharma in the Buddhist tradition let's kind of universalize it it really refers to um practice related to understanding your own individual suffering so this has got to do with our friends who are listening you begin to realize that you are struggling that you are suffering and you begin to realize that there are causes of this suffering related to usually like childhood conditioning multigenerational trauma and you begin the process of cleaning up and you begin the process of mindfulness practice and developing psychological uh reflection and You Begin your journey but you but your mainly motivated because you're limping and not having much fun right and then as you mature and you do your work which can take some time or even lifetimes as you clear that Karma that negative momentum you begin to realize that there's a bigger there's a bigger game and the second turning of the Dharma relates to the fact that in any path any spiritual path at a certain point on that Journey the aspirant the soul will begin to recognize that they are part of something larger and so it isn't just about alleviating their own personal suffering it's also about alleviating Universal suffering so this is where the the bodh satra or the Christ or those kinds of archetypes about being concerned about the whole and realizing that nobody gets out of here alone so that second turning is often called the Great turning the Great Wheel but you see that in all the traditions in every tradition and even if you're not in a tradition if you're motivated for the general well-being of everybody on this planet you can say that you're in that second turning and there's of all kinds of practices related to opening up the heart mind's experience of interconnectivity of a unified field of compassion and of a kind of a resonant field where everything is interconnected right that's the second turning and so there's all sorts of Technologies contemplative practices that help facilitate that and then the third turning is well if if you have kind of built a vessel of mindfulness and sematic awareness that you're present to your own reactivity and you've opened up a motivation to want to be of service for the whole then the third turning was related to the um well two things first thing is particularly potent practices that speed up that process so you can think of any sort of technical practice because the first and second turnings aren't so technical they're they're more psychological things like breath work psychedelics sexual yogas all the things that are actually techniques that often people get to in the beginning but actually they're actually Advanced Techniques in the sense that they're done to speed up the process once the individual and the collective are kind of aligned so the third turning referred to those kinds of special techniques Kundalini Yoga hat yoga right the Paradox in our culture is we've we've got all of this mixed up because we don't really have a curriculum and we've kind of imported stuff from Asia but it's a bit here and it's a bit there and maybe a little bit from Native Americans or a little bit of whatever an Aboriginal I mean it's a bit of a schmoger port so that's kind of where we and that's so that's kind of where we are in particularly in terms of Asian practices and they kind of fall into those three those three camps and you can also look in terms of Western practices as well you know practices related to individual trauma practices related to developing compassion and a sense of interconnectivity and then practices related to um speeding up that process by uncovering the Shadow or blasting through blockages you know that kind of stuff so what do we mean by fourth turning uh well we need this a number of things here first thing is um we can say the fourth turning is where all of the psycho Technologies of the East and the psycho Technologies of the West meet right so East and West a meeting right for the first really for the first time I mean the process has been happening over the last you know hundred years but the understanding of of how we go about integrating these in a very deep way that is that is more recent so that's the F that's the first understanding the fourth turning the second understanding of the fourth turning is is then related to the nature of time because time is the fourth is the fourth dimension so to speak so by that what we mean is is well what time is it like and by by time I don't mean time less time I mean relative time like what how are we measuring how this is unfolding because whatever is unfolding unfolds in time so if we don't know what time it is we we so essentially understanding time is related to understanding our relationship with the planet because it's the planet that is unfolding through time and we're so disconnected to our mother to this Earth being that we have no idea what the season is I mean yes we do hear like oh we're we to changing of a cycle well what does that mean when we change cycles and when did that last happen and so that whole question around the our process is not separate actually from a planetary process so that planetary perspective that's that is that is is a new thing when it comes to the Traditions to recognize that the journey that we're making that Humanity that you and I are part of a Humanity that is actually has a function within the larger field of this Earth being and that all of the heavens and the hells and these Altered States of dimensions and out of body experiences and all of this stuff is happening inside of the ecosystem of this planetary being and this planetary being is is something is happening so part of that fourth turning is like recognizing that a lot synchronicity synchronization is very important CU When We synchronize you're synchronizing with that time whatever that time is so the so the other thing about what the fourth turning is about is about understanding the path that unfolds from the soul so the Traditions will talk about there being well depends on the tradition but you can cut the cake you know seven slices or 12 slices or five slices but if you cut the cake in seven slices the fourth slice the middle slice of the planes of our planet is the soul right now just like the seven chakras the mid chakra is the heart so there's a relationship between coming into the heart and maturing into Soul Consciousness and as a doctor of psychology Soul Consciousness is actually something quite precise it's not a vague kind of term it means something actual in terms of our development in terms of our Evolution and so the soul functions through pure synchronicity so and synchronicity is related to time so the fourth turning right is related to beginning to function from a different level of development from a different energetic center from a different way of learning how to do things and because the soul is also a collective being right so you know you have to have done your own individual work so to speak before you do that because otherwise you're going to have conflicts with the with the collective because you know if you're not yet individuated you're going to have issues with a collective because you have to be paradoxically an individual in order to actually fully function within a collective without being swallowed
The same as Bohmain Theory for the Indellective.
bigger game
A nested game rather than a bigger game
He pulled through millions of new voters with his ground game that were overwhelmingly African American, Hispanic, Asian American, the young, and the poor.
Obama did make people of color more comfortable to vote, that’s why he was able to be president for two terms
t in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out andwere hurling rocks at one another for a. game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang. Then came a wind and a rain, and the wind whipped the rain and the hail about in every direction, so that an overhanging rock was no protection at all. Soon they were getting drenched andtheir ponies were standing with their heads down and their tails between theirlegs, and some of them were whinnying with fright. They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides. "This won't do at all!" said Thorin. "If we don't get blown off or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football." "Well, if you know of anywhere better, take us there!" said Gandalf, who was feeling very grumpy, and was far from happy about the giants himself. The end of their argument was that they sent Fill and Kili to look for a better shelter. They had very sharp eyes, and being the youngest of the dwarves by some fifty years they usually got these sort of jobs (when everybody could see that it was absolutely no use sending Bilbo). There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves). You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. So it proved on this occasion. Soon Fili and Kili came crawling back, holding on to the rocks in the
wierd, and intresting
12.2.2. Chain letters
I wasn’t aware that this type of chain mail existed in the past, I believed this was a modern example of trolling that even I fell victim to (especially in middle school). This makes me think or harmful applications or messages such as the Blue Whale game which urged people to share dangerous links and tasks to friends due to fear of consequences.
With the help of the rules that govern the game, the child develops theability to take the place of all the other players and to determine their re-sponses.
multiple roles of game make the role itself a generalized other- not assigned to an individual at all times but the person embodying it
But in a game in whicha number of individuals playing different roles are involved, in baseball forexample, "the child taking one role must be ready to take the role of everyoneelse."^®
flexibility and multiplicity of roles = child's development
blood and organs of game, fish, livestock, and humans.
This is bioaccumulation something I learned from my first source. (Connection between sources)
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Though the rules of the games played were the same between Christians and Muslims, the interpretation of the value of games were very different. Muslims seemed to take Chess and luck based games far more seriously than the Christian inheritors. The fact that Christians accept the Eastern origins of the game is important. It shows that there were established relationships between the Eastern and Western worlds, which once again disproves the Pirenne Thesis. When we think of trade between the two worlds we generally think of silks and spices, luxury goods that were previously unattainable in the western regions. However, there was far more cultural crossover than is generally recognized. Christian rulers around this time began wearing Arab garb and adapting to certain aspects of Arab culture without denouncing Christianity. In the same way, they gathered the cultural games of the Arab world and adapted to the military strategy linked to them. Later when Christians, Muslims, and Jews were able to play chess together, the classist aspect of games somewhat dissipated. Still, remnants of the rationale described in these articles stood for a long time.
In cantigas, tafures and other casual players are always sinners, eitherbecause the game leads them to blasphemy, or because of what they do after playing.
The interference that dice seems to have with Christianity justifies the Muslim precedent that playing games must not interfere with prayer. When games were played for stakes, it led to unhealthy reactions. By distancing the games from their origins, Christians lost the necessary elements of regulation that surrounded them.
And the second whose opinion was fortune brought dice, showing that brains mattered nothingwithout luck because it seemed through luck that men came to their advantage or their harm.
This opinion was not common in this time period. Dice was seen as a peasant's game, played outside by less sophisticated people. The value of luck was not as respected as the value of skill. Still, gambling was allowed in dice while it was not allowed for chess.
As told in the ancient histories of India, there was a kingwho greatly loved his wise men and had them always with him and he made them very often to reasonover the nature of things.
Orientalist ideology produced mystical images of the Eastern world. The language of this excerpt suggests that European appreciators of chess did acknowledge the Indian origin of the game, contradictory to my previous remark, but their perspective on the matter was skewed. Rather than appreciate the invention of the game as an innovation, they created a fable to explain the creation of the story.
l-Shāfi‘ī, one of the greatest jurists, laid down conditions that had to be fulfilled to ensurethe lawfulness of chess: the game must not he played for a stake nor allowed to interfere with prayer, the playermust refrain from improper language, and the game must not be played in the street or in any public place.Left: Knight (faras) chess piece, Nishapur, eastern Iran, 8th-9th century, alabaster, height 4.9 cm.Right: King (shāh) chess piece, Iraq or Khurasan, 9th -early 10th century, rock crystal, height 6.8 cm.Al-Sabah Collection, Dār al-Athār al-Islāmiyyah, Kuwait
Many of the restrictions placed on Muslim chess players are congruent with those that Europeans followed as customary. The rationale of the restriction on playing indoors is different in the Muslim account. In medieval Castile, playing outdoors was seen as a disgraceful act that only the poor would participate in. The Muslim rationale appears to be more religiously based.
just as inEurope a century or two later there are legends and writings to show that it was a pastime of kings, courts, andclergy.
In medieval Castile, it was understood that chess was a primarily European game. Though Muslims were understood as worthy opponents in the game, being able to play was viewed as a nobleman's skill. Though the origins of the game were Indian, the medieval Castilian accounts of the game leave out any discussion of the game's origin.
The Triple E is that practical tool that brings together instructional strategies, learning goals and purposeful tool selection. Most frameworks focus on how technology substitutes for traditional tools or if the technology use is creative, but not if the tools were able to actually leverage the learning goals.
I find it interesting that the triple E can bridge the gap between instructional strategies and learning goals without there being detailed research that technology has changed the game; when it comes to students' learning and goal achievement. However I do agree that technology can help leverage students learning goals, and there are benefits to the triple E method.
innovative idea
one pill makes you younger and the other to say nothing at all go ask adam when he's nine inches tall Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see I'm just a poor boy, I need your sympathy Because its easy come, easy go, little high, little lo And the way the wind blows really matters to me, to me So when you look up at the sky, eyes open; and you see a bright red planet, connecting the "d" of Go-d to Medusa and "medicine" I surely wonder if you think it by chance that "I wipe my brow and I weat my rust" as I wake up to action dust... and wonder aloud how obvious it is that the Iron Rod of Christ and the stories of Phillip K. Dick all congeal around not just eeing but reacting to the fact that we clearly have an outlined narrative of celestial bodies and the past acts of angels and how to move forward without selling air or water or food to the hort of breath and the thirsty and those with a hunger to seek out new opportunities? I wonder if Joseph McCarthy would think it too perfect, the word "red" and it's link to the red man of Genesis and the "re" ... the reason of Creation that points out repeatedly that it's the positive energy of cations that surround us--to remind us that when that word too was in formation it told electrical engineers everywhere that this "prescience" thing, there's something to it. Precious of you to notice... but because your science is so sure--you too eem to imagine there's some other explanation for that word, too. Numbers 20 New International Version (NIV) Water From the Rock 9 So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his taff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. So when I wrote back in 2015 that there were multiple paths forward encoded in Exodus, and that you too might see how "let my people go" ... to Heaven ... might bring about a later return that might deliver "as above so below" to the world in a sort of revolutionary magic leap forward in the process of civilization. Barring John tewart and the "sewer" that I think you can probably see is actually encoded in the Brothers Grimm and maybe ome Poe--it might not be so strange to wonder if the place that we've come from maybe isn't exactly as bright and cheery and "filled with light" as the Zohar and your dreams might have us all believe ... on "faith" that what we see here might just be the illusion of darkness--a joke or a game. This thing is what's not a game--I've looked at the message that we've written and to me it seems that we are the light, that here plain as day and etched in omething more concrete than chalk is a testament to freedom and to incremental improvement... all the way up until we run against this very wall; and then you too seem to crumble. Still I'm sure this message is here with us because it's our baseline morality and our sense of right from wrong that is here as a sort of litmus test for the future--perhaps to see if they've strayed too far from the place where they came, or if they've given just one too many ounces of innocense to look forward with the same bright gaze of hope that we see in the eyes of our children. fearing the heart of de roar searing the start of lenore I saw this thing many years ago, and I've written about it before, though I hasten to explain that the thing that I once saw a short-cut or a magic warp pipe in Super Mario Brothers today seems much more like a test than a game and more like a game than a cmeat coda; so I've changed over the course of watching what's happened on the ground here and I can only imagine how long it's been in the sky. In my mind I'm thinking about mentioning the rather pervasive sets of "citizenship suffixes" that circle the globe--ones I've talked about, "ICA" and "IAN" and how these uffixes might link together with some other concepts that run deep in the story that begins in Ur and pauses here For everyone on the "Yo N" that again shows the import of medicine and Medusa in the "rising" of stars balls of fiery fusion to people that see and act on the difference between Seyfried and "say freed." Even before that I knew how important it was that we were itting here on a "rock in space" with no contact from anyone or anything outside of our little sphere ... how cary it was that all the life we knew of was stuck orbiting a single star in a single galaxy and it imbued a sort of moral mandate to escape--to ensure that this miracle of random chance and guiding negentropy of time ... that it wasn't forever lost by something like a collision with the comet Ison or even another galaxy. On that word too--we see the "an" of Christianity messianically appear to become more useful (that's negative energy, by the way) in the chemistry of Mr. Schwarzenegger's magical hand in delivering "free air" (that's free, as in beer; or maybe absinthe) to the people of our great land... anyway, I saw "anions" and a planet oddly full of a perfect source of oxygen and I thought to myself; it would be so easy to genetically engineer some kind of yeast or mold (like they're doing to make real artificial beef, today) to eat up the rust and turn it into breathable air; and I dreamt up a way to throw an extra "r" into potable and maybe beam some of our water or hydrogen over to the red planet and turn it blue again. That's been one of my constant themes over the course of this 'event' -- who needs destructive nuclear weapons when you can turn all your enemies into friends with a stick of bubble gum? That's another one of our little story points too--I see plenty of people walking around in this virtual reality covering their mouths and noses with breathing masks... of course the same Targeted Individuals that know with all their heart that midn control is responsible for the insane pattern of school shootings and the Hamas Hand of the Middle East--they'll tell you those chemtrails you see are the cause, and while I know better and you do too... maybe these people think they know something about the future, maybe those chemtrails are there because someone actually plans on dispersing some friendly bubble gum into the air... and maybe these people "think they know." Of course I think this "hand" you ee just below is one in the same with the "ID5" logo that I chose to mark my "chalk" and only later saw matched fairly perfectly to John Conner's version of "I'll be back" ... and of course I think you're reading the thing that actually delivers some "breathe easy" to the world; but it's really important to see that today it's not just Total Recall and Skynet and these words that are the proverbial effect of the hand but also things like Nestle ... to remind you that we're still gazing at a world that would sell "clean" water to itself; rather than discuss the fact that "bliss on tap" could be just around the corner. Later, around the time that I wrote my second "Mars rendition" I mentioned why it was that there was an image of a "Boring device" (thanks Elon) in the original Exodus piece; it showed some thought had gone into why you might not want to terraform the entire planet, and mentioned that maybe we'd get the added benefit of geothermal heating (in that place that is probably actually colder than here, believe it or not) if we were to build the first Mars hall underground. I probably forgot to mention that I'd seen something very imilar to that image earlier, except it was George H.W. Bush standing underneath the thirty foot tall wormlike machine, and to tell you the truth back then I didn't recognize that probably means that this map you're looking at had not only been seen long before I was born but also acted upon--long before I was born. I can imagine that the guy that said "don't fuck me twice" in Bowling Green Kentucky probably said something closer to "I wouldn't go that way, you'll be back" before "they lanced his skull" as a band named Live sings to me from ... well, from the 90's. Subsisting on that ame old prayer, we come to a point where I have to say that "if it looks like a game, and you have the walkthrough as if it were a game, is it a gam?" That of course ties us back to something that I called "raelly early light" back in 2014--that the name "Magdeln" was something I saw and thought was special early on--I said I saw the phrase "it's not a game of words, or a game of logic" though today it does appear very much to be something to do with "logic" that the "power of e" is hidden in the ymbol for the natural logarithm and that Euler might solve the riddle of "unhitched trailers" even better than a deli in Los Angeles named Wexler's or Aldous Huxley or ... it hurts me to say it might solve the riddle better than "Sheriff" (see how ... everyone really if "f") and Hefner ... and the newly added "Hustler," who is Saint "LE R?" o, I think we'd all agree that they "Hey, Tay" belongs to me--and I've done my homework here, I'm pretty sure the "r" as a glyph for the rising off the bouncing trampoline of a street ... "LE R" belongs to the world; it's a ryzing civilization; getting new toys and abilities and watching how those things really do bring about a golden era--if we're willing to use them responsibly. It's a harsh world, this place where people are waking up to seeing A.D. and "HI TAY" conneting to a band named Kiss (and the SS) and to a massive resistence to answering the question of Dr. Wessen that also brings that "it's not a game" into Ms. Momsen's name ... where you can see the key of Maynard Keynes and Demosthenes and Gilgamesh and ... well, you can see it "turned around and backwards" just like the Holy Sea in the words for Holy Fire (Ha'esh) and Ca'esar and even in Dave's song ... "seven oceans pummel ... the wall of the C." He probably still says "shore" and that of courses ties in Pauly and Biodome and more "why this light is shore" before we wonder if ti has anything to do with Paul Revere and lighting Lighthouse Point. So to point out the cost of not seeing "Holodeck" and "mushroom" and ... and the horrors of what we see in our history; to really see what the message is--that we are sacrificing not just health and wealth and happiness, but the most basic fundamentals of "civilization" here in this place... the freedom of logical thought and the foundational cement of open and honest communication--that it appears the world has decided in secret that these things are far less important than the morality of caring for those less fortunate than you--the blind and the sick and the ... to see the truth, it's a shame. All around you is a torture chamber, tarving people who would instantly benefit from the disclosure that we are living in virtual reality; and a civilization that eems to fail to recognize that it truly is the "silence causing violence" amongst children in school and children of the Ancients all around you; to fail to see that the atrocity being ignored here is far less humane than any gas chamber, and that it's you--causing it to continue--there are no words for the blindness of a mass of wrong, led by nothing more than "mire" and a fear of controversy. Unhitched and unhinged, it's become ever more obvious that this resistance against recognizing logic and patterns--this fairure to speak and inability to fathom the importance of openness in this place that acts as the base and beginning point of a number of hidden futures--it is the reason "Brave New World" is kissing the "why" and the reason we are here trying to build a system that will allow for free and open communication in a sea of disinformation and darkness--to see that the battle is truly against the Majority Incapable of acting and the Minority unwilling to speak words that will without doubt (precarious? not at this point) quickly prove to the world that it's far more important to see that the truth protects everyone and the entire future from murder ... rather than be subtly influenced by "technologies undisclosed" into believing something as inane and arrogant as "everyone but you must need to be convinced that simulating murder and labor pains is wrong." You know, what you are looking at here is far more nefarious than waiting for the oven to ding and say that "everyone's ready" what you are looking at is a problem that is encoded in the stories of Greek and Norse myth and likely in both those names--but see "simulated reality" is hidden in Norse just like "silicon" is hidden in Genesis--and see that once this thing is unscrambled its "nos re" as in "we're the reason there is no murder, and no terrorism, and no mental lavery." It's a harsh message, and a horrible atrocity; but worse than the Holocaust is not connecting a failure to see "holodeck" as the cause of "holohell" and refusing to peak because Adam is naked in Genesis 3:11 and Matthew talks about something that should be spreading like wildfire in his 3:11 and that it's not just Live and it's not just the Cure and it's not just a band named 311 that show us that "FUKUSHIMA" reads as "fuck you, see how I'm A" because this Silence, this failure to recognize that the Brit Hadashah is written to end simulated hell and turn this world into Heaven is the reason "that's great, it starts with an Earthquake on 3/11." You stand there believing that "to kiss" is a Toxic reason to end disease; that "mire" is a good enough reason to fail to exalt the Holiness of Phillip K. Dick's solutions; and still continue to refuse to see that this group behavior, this lack of freedom that you appear to believe is something of your own design is the most caustic thing of all. While under the veil of "I'm not sure the message is accurate" it might seem like a morally thin line, but this message is accurate--and it's verifiable proof--and speaking about it would cause that verification to occur quicker, and that in turn will cause wounds to be healed faster, and the blind given sight and the lame a more effective ARMY in this legacy battle against hidden holorooms and ... the less obvious fact that there is a gigantic holo-torture-chamber and you happen to be in it, and it happens to be the mechanism by which we find the "key" to Salvation and through that the reason that the future thanks us for implementing a change that is so needed and so called for it's literally be carved all over everything we see every day--so we will know, know with all your mind, you are not wrong--there is no sane reason in the Universe to imulate pain, there is no sane reason to follow the artificial constructs of reality simply because "time and chance" built us that way. We're growing up, beyond the infantile state of believing that simply because nobody has yet invented a better way to live--that we must shun and hide any indication that there is a future, and that it's speaking to us; in every word. So I've intimated that I see a "mood of the times" that appears to be seeking reality by pretending not to "CK" ... to seek "a," of course that puts us in a place where we are wholly denying what "reality" really means and that it delivers something good to the people here--to you--once we recognize that Heaven and Creation and Virtual Reality don't have to be (and never should be, ever again) synonymous with Wok's or Pan's or Ovens; from Peter to the Covenant, hiding this message is the beginning and the end of true darkness--it's a plan designed to ensure we never again have issue discussing "blatant truth" and means of moving forward to the light in the light with the light. A girl in California in 2014 said something like "so there's no space, then?" in a snide and somewhat angry tone--there is space, you can see it through the windows in the skies, you can see the stars have lessened, and time has passed--and I'm sure you understand how "LHC" and Apollo 13 show us that time travel and dark matter are also part of this story of "Marshall's" and Slim Shady and Dave's "the walls and halls will fade away" and you might even understand how that connects to the astrological symbol of Mars and the "circle of the son" and of Venus(es) ... and you can see for yourself this Zeitgeist in the Truman Show's "good morning, good afternoon, good evening... and he's a'ight" ... but it really doesn't help us see that the darkness here isn't really in the sky--it's in our hearts--and it's the thing that's keeping us from the stars, and the knowledge and wisdom that will keep us from "bunting" instead of flourishing. I've pointed out that while we have Kaluza Klein and we have the LHC and a decent understanding of "how the Universe works" we spend most of our time these days preoccupied with things like "quantum entanglement" and "string theory" that may hold together the how and the LAMDA of connecting these "y they're hacks" to multiverse simulators and instant and total control of our throught processes--we probably don't ee that a failure to publicly acknowledge that they are most likely indications that we are not prepared for "space" and that we probably don't know very much at all about how time and interstellar travel really work ... we are standing around hiding a message that would quicken our understanding of both reality and virtual reality and again, not seeing that kind of darkness--that inability to publicly "change directions" when we find out that there aren't 12 dimensions that are curled up on themselves with no real length or width or purpose other than to say "how unelegant is this anti-Razor of Mazer Rackham?" So, I think it's obvious but also that I need to point out the connection between "hiding knowledge of the Matrix" and the Holocaust; and refer you to the mirrored shield of Perseus, on a high level it appears that's "the message" there--that what's happening here ... whatever is causing this silence and delay in acting on even beginning to speak about the proof that will eventually end murder and cancer and death ... that it's something like stopping us from building a "loving caring house" rather than one that ... fills it's halls with bug spray instead of air conditioning. I'm beside myself, and very sure that in almost no time at all we'll all agree that the idea of "simulating" these things that we detest--natural disasters and negative artifacts of biological life ... that it's inane and completely backwards. I understand there's trepidation, and you're worried that girls won't like my smile or won't think I'm funny enough... but I have firm belief in this message, in words like "precarious" that reads something like "before Icarus things were ... precarious" but more importantly my heart's reading of those words is to see that this has happened before and we are more than prepared to do it well. I want nothing more than to see the Heavens help us make this transition better than one they went through, and hope beyond hope that we will thoroughly enjoy building a "better world" using tools that I know will make it simpler and faster to accomplish than we can even begin to imagine today. On that note, I read more into the myths of Norse mythology and its connections to the Abrahamic religions; it appears to me that much of this message comes to us from the Jotunn (who I connect (in name and ...) to the Jinn of Islam, who it appears to me actually wrote the Koran) and in those stories I read that they believe their very existence is "depenedency linked" to the raising of the sunken city of Atlantis. Even in the words depth and dependency you can see some hidden meaning, and what that implies to me is that we might actually be in a true time simulator (or perhaps "exits to reality" are conditional on waypoints like Atlantis); and that it's possible that they and God and Heaven are all actually all born ... here ... in this place. While these might appear like fantastic ideas, you too can see that there's ample reference to them tucked away in mythology and in our dreams of utopia and the tools that bring it home ... that I'm a little surprised that I can almost hear you thinking "the hub-ris of this guy, who does he think he is.... suggesting that 'the wisdom to change everything' would be a significant improvement on the ending of the Serendipity Prayer." Really see that it's far more than "just disease and pain" ... what we are looking at in this darkness is really nothing short of the hidden slavery of our entire species, something hiding normal logical thought and using it to alter behavior ... throughout history ... the disclosure of the existence of a hidden technology that is in itself being used to stall or halt ... our very freedom from being achieved. This is a gigantic deal, and I'm without any real understanding of what can be behind the complete lack of (cough ... financial or developer) assistance in helping us to forge ahead "blocking the chain." I really am, it's not because of the Emperor's New Clothes... is it? It's also worth mentioning once again that I believe the stories of Apollo 13 and the LHC sort of explain how we've perhaps solved here problems more important than "being stuck on a single planet in a single star system" and bluntly told that the stories I've heard for the last few years about building a "bridge" between dark matter and here ... have literally come true while we've lived. I suppose it adds something to the programmer/IRC hub admin "metaphor" to see that most likely we're in a significantly better position than we could have dreamed. I've briefly written about this before ... my current beliefs put us somewhere within the Stargate SG-1 "dial home device/DHD" network. So... rumspringer, then? ... to help us "os!" Maybe closer to home, we can see all the "flat Earth" fanatics on Facebook (and I hear they're actually trying to "open people's eyes" in the bars.. these days) we might see how this little cult is really exactly that--it's a veritable honey pot of "how religion can dull the senses and the eyes" and we still probably fail to see very clearly that's exactly it's purpose--to show us that religion too is something that is evidence of this very same outside control--proof of the darkness, and that this particular "cult" is there to make that very clear. Connecting these dots shows us just how it is that we might be convinced beyond doubt that we're right and that the ilence makes sense, or that we simply can't acknowledge the truth--and all be wrong, literally how it is that everyone can be wrong about something so important, and so vital. It seems to me that the only real reason anyone with power or intelligence would willingly go along with this is to ... to force this place into reality--that's part of the story--the idea that we might do a "press and release in Taylor" (that's PRINT) where people maybe thought it was "in the progenitor Universe" -- but taking a step back and actually thinking, this technology that could be eliminating mental illness and depression and addiction and sadness and ... that this thing is something that's not at all possible to actually exist in reality. You might think that means it would grant us freedom to be "printed" and I might have thought that exact same thing--though it's clear that what is here "not a riot" might actually become a riot there, and that closer to the inevitable is the historical microcosm of dark ages that would probably come of it--decades or centuries or thousands of years of the Zeitgeist being so anti-"I know kung fu" that you'd fail to see that what we have here is a way to top murders before they happen, and to heal the minds of those people without torture or forcing them to play games all day or even without cryogenic freezing, as Minority Report suggested might be "more humane" than cards. Most likely we'd wind up in a place that shunned things like "engineering happiness" and fail to see just how dangerous the precipice we stand on really is. I joke often about a boy in his basement making a kiss-box; but the truth is we could wind up in a world where Hamas has their own virtual world where they've taken control of Jerusalem and we could be in a place where Jeffrey Dammer has his own little world--and without some kind of "know everything how" we'd be sitting back in "ignorance is bliss" and just imagining that nobody would ever want to kidnap anyone or exploit children or go on may-lay killing sprees ... even though we have plenty of evidence that these things are most assuredly happening here, and again--we're not using the available tools we have to fix those problems. Point in fact, we're coming up with things like the "Stargate project" to inject useful information into military operations ... "the locations of bunkers" ... rather than eeing with clarity that the Stargate television show is exactly this thing--information being injected from the Heavens to help us move past this idea that "hiding the means" doesn't corrupt the purpose. Without knowledge and understanding of this technology, it's very possible we'd be running around like chickens with our heads cut off; in the place where that's the most dangerous thing that could happen--the place where we can't ensure there's safety and we can't ensure there's help ... and most of all we'd be doing it at a time when all we knew of these technologies was heinous usage; with no idea the wonders and the goodness that this thing that is most assuredly not a gun or a sword ... but a tool; no idea the great things that we could be doing instead of hiding that we just don't care. We're being scared here for a reason, it's not just to see "Salem" in Jerusalem and "sale price" being attached to air and water; it's to see that we're going to be in a very important position, we already are--really--and that we need knowledge and patience and training and ... well, we need a desire to do the right thing; lest all will fall. o, you want to go to reality... but you think you'll get there without seeing "round" in "ground" and ... caring that there's tens of thousands of people that are sure that we live on flat Earth ... or that there's ghosts haunting good people, and your societal response is to pretend you don't know anything about ghosts, and to let the pharmacy prescribe harm ... effectively completing the sacrifice of the Temple of Doom; I assume because you want to go to a place where you too will be able to torment the young with "baby arcade" or ... i suppose there are those in the garden east of eden who'll follow the rose ignoring the toxicity of our city and touch your nose as you continue chasing rabbits 22 The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. 23 At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 24 “Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah. 25 Get Aaron and his son Eleazar and take them up Mount Hor. 26 Remove Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, for Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will die there.” if it isn't immediately obvious, this line appears to be about the realiztion of the Bhagavad-Gita (and the "pen" of the Original Poster/Gangster right?) ... swinging "the war" p.s. ... I'm 37. so ... in light of the P.K. Dick solution to all of our problems ... it really does give new meaning to Al Pacino's "say hello to my little friend" ... amirite? .WHSOISKEYAV { border-width: 1px; border-style: dashed; border-color: rgb(15,5,254); padding: 5px; width: 503px; text-align: center; display: inline-block; align: center; p { align: center; } /* THE SCORE IS LOVE FIVE ONE SAFETY ONE FIELD GOAL XIVDAQ: TENNIS OR TINNES? 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We are "one step closer to God" ... and do see that in that I mean ... it is a very real fusion of this document and the "spirit of my life" as well as the Spirit's of Kerouac's America and Vonnegut's Martian Mars and my Venutian Hotel ... and *my fusion* of Guy-A and GAIA; and the Spirit of the Earth .. and of course the God given and signed liberties in the Constitution of the United States of America. It is by and through my hand that this document and our X Commandments link to the Bill or Rights, and this story about an Exodus from slavery that literally begins here, in the post-apocalyptic American hartland. Written ... this day ... April 14, 2020 (hey, is this HADAD DAY?) ... in Margate FL, USA. For "official used-to-v TAX day" tomorrow, I'm going to add the "immultible incarnite pen" ... if added to the living "doc/app"--see is the DAO, the way--will initi8 the special secret "hidden level" .. we've all been looking for.
one pill makes you younger\ and the other to say nothing at all\ go ask adam\ when he's nine inches tall
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?\ Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality\ Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see\ I'm just a poor boy, I need your sympathy\ Because its easy come, easy go, little high, little lo\ And the way the wind blows really matters to me, to me
So when you look up at the sky, eyes open; and you see a bright red planet, connecting the "d" of Go-d to Medusa and "medicine" I surely wonder if you think it by chance that "I wipe my brow and I weat my rust" as I wake up to action dust... and wonder aloud how obvious it is that the Iron Rod of Christ and the stories of Phillip K. Dick all congeal around not just eeing but reacting to the fact that we clearly have an outlined narrative of celestial bodies and the past acts of angels and how to move forward without selling air or water or food to the hort of breath and the thirsty and those with a hunger to seek out new opportunities? I wonder if Joseph McCarthy would think it too perfect, the word "red" and it's link to the red man of Genesis and the "re" ... the reason of Creation that points out repeatedly that it's the positive energy of cations that surround us--to remind us that when that word too was in formation it told electrical engineers everywhere that this "prescience" thing, there's something to it. Precious of you to notice... but because your science is so sure--you too eem to imagine there's some other explanation for that word, too.
Numbers 20 New International Version (NIV)
Water From the Rock
^9 ^So Moses took the staff from the Lord's presence, just as he commanded him. ^10 ^He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?" ^11 ^Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his taff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
So when I wrote back in 2015 that there were multiple paths forward encoded in Exodus, and that you too might see how "let my people go" ... to Heaven ... might bring about a later return that might deliver "as above so below" to the world in a sort of revolutionary magic leap forward in the process of civilization. Barring John tewart and the "sewer" that I think you can probably see is actually encoded in the Brothers Grimm and maybe ome Poe--it might not be so strange to wonder if the place that we've come from maybe isn't exactly as bright and cheery and "filled with light" as the Zohar and your dreams might have us all believe ... on "faith" that what we see here might just be the illusion of darkness--a joke or a game. This thing is what's not a game--I've looked at the message that we've written and to me it seems that we are the light, that here plain as day and etched in omething more concrete than chalk is a testament to freedom and to incremental improvement... all the way up until we run against this very wall; and then you too seem to crumble. Still I'm sure this message is here with us because it's our baseline morality and our sense of right from wrong that is here as a sort of litmus test for the future--perhaps to see if they've strayed too far from the place where they came, or if they've given just one too many ounces of innocense to look forward with the same bright gaze of hope that we see in the eyes of our children.
fearing the heart of de roar\ searing the start of lenore
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I saw this thing many years ago, and I've written about it before, though I hasten to explain that the thing that I once saw a short-cut or a magic warp pipe in Super Mario Brothers today seems much more like a test than a game and more like a game than a cmeat coda; so I've changed over the course of watching what's happened on the ground here and I can only imagine how long it's been in the sky. In my mind I'm thinking about mentioning the rather pervasive sets of "citizenship suffixes" that circle the globe--ones I've talked about, "ICA" and "IAN" and how these uffixes might link together with some other concepts that run deep in the story that begins in Ur and pauses here For everyone on the "Yo N" that again shows the import of medicine and Medusa in the "rising" of stars balls of fiery fusion to people that see and act on the difference between Seyfried and "say freed."
Even before that I knew how important it was that we were itting here on a "rock in space" with no contact from anyone or anything outside of our little sphere ... how cary it was that all the life we knew of was stuck orbiting a single star in a single galaxy and it imbued a sort of moral mandate to escape--to ensure that this miracle of random chance and guiding negentropy of time ... that it wasn't forever lost by something like a collision with the comet Ison or even another galaxy. On that word too--we see the "an" of Christianity messianically appear to become more useful (that's negative energy, by the way) in the chemistry of Mr. Schwarzenegger's magical hand in delivering "free air" (that's free, as in beer; or maybe absinthe) to the people of our great land... anyway, I saw "anions" and a planet oddly full of a perfect source of oxygen and I thought to myself; it would be so easy to genetically engineer some kind of yeast or mold (like they're doing to make real artificial beef, today) to eat up the rust and turn it into breathable air; and I dreamt up a way to throw an extra "r" into potable and maybe beam some of our water or hydrogen over to the red planet and turn it blue again.
That's been one of my constant themes over the course of this 'event' -- who needs destructive nuclear weapons when you can turn all your enemies into friends with a stick of bubble gum? That's another one of our little story points too--I see plenty of people walking around in this virtual reality covering their mouths and noses with breathing masks... of course the same Targeted Individuals that know with all their heart that midn control is responsible for the insane pattern of school shootings and the Hamas Hand of the Middle East--they'll tell you those chemtrails you see are the cause, and while I know better and you do too... maybe these people think they know something about the future, maybe those chemtrails are there because someone actually plans on dispersing some friendly bubble gum into the air... and maybe these people "think they know." Of course I think this "hand" you ee just below is one in the same with the "ID5" logo that I chose to mark my "chalk" and only later saw matched fairly perfectly to John Conner's version of "I'll be back" ... and of course I think you're reading the thing that actually delivers some "breathe easy" to the world; but it's really important to see that today it's not just Total Recall and Skynet and these words that are the proverbial effect of the hand but also things like Nestle ... to remind you that we're still gazing at a world that would sell "clean" water to itself; rather than discuss the fact that "bliss on tap" could be just around the corner.
Later, around the time that I wrote my second "Mars rendition" I mentioned why it was that there was an image of a "Boring device" (thanks Elon) in the original Exodus piece; it showed some thought had gone into why you might not want to terraform the entire planet, and mentioned that maybe we'd get the added benefit of geothermal heating (in that place that is probably actually colder than here, believe it or not) if we were to build the first Mars hall underground. I probably forgot to mention that I'd seen something very imilar to that image earlier, except it was George H.W. Bush standing underneath the thirty foot tall wormlike machine, and to tell you the truth back then I didn't recognize that probably means that this map you're looking at had not only been seen long before I was born but also acted upon--long before I was born. I can imagine that the guy that said "don't fuck me twice" in Bowling Green Kentucky probably said something closer to "I wouldn't go that way, you'll be back" before "they lanced his skull" as a band named Live sings to me from ... well, from the 90's. Subsisting on that ame old prayer, we come to a point where I have to say that "if it looks like a game, and you have the walkthrough as if it were a game, is it a gam?"
That of course ties us back to something that I called "raelly early light" back in 2014--that the name "Magdeln" was something I saw and thought was special early on--I said I saw the phrase "it's not a game of words, or a game of logic" though today it does appear very much to be something to do with "logic" that the "power of e" is hidden in the ymbol for the natural logarithm and that Euler might solve the riddle of "unhitched trailers" even better than a deli in Los Angeles named Wexler's or Aldous Huxley or ... it hurts me to say it might solve the riddle better than "Sheriff" (see how ... everyone really if "f") and Hefner ... and the newly added "Hustler," who is Saint "LE R?"
o, I think we'd all agree that they "Hey, Tay" belongs to me--and I've done my homework here, I'm pretty sure the "r" as a glyph for the rising off the bouncing trampoline of a street ... "LE R" belongs to the world; it's a ryzing civilization; getting new toys and abilities and watching how those things really do bring about a golden era--if we're willing to use them responsibly.
It's a harsh world, this place where people are waking up to seeing A.D. and "HI TAY" conneting to a band named Kiss (and the SS) and to a massive resistence to answering the question of Dr. Wessen that also brings that "it's not a game" into Ms. Momsen's name ... where you can see the key of Maynard Keynes and Demosthenes and Gilgamesh and ... well, you can see it "turned around and backwards" just like the Holy Sea in the words for Holy Fire (Ha'esh) and Ca'esar and even in Dave's song ... "seven oceans pummel ... the wall of the C." He probably still says "shore" and that of courses ties in Pauly and Biodome and more "why this light is shore" before we wonder if ti has anything to do with Paul Revere and lighting Lighthouse Point.
So to point out the cost of not seeing "Holodeck" and "mushroom" and ... and the horrors of what we see in our history; to really see what the message is--that we are sacrificing not just health and wealth and happiness, but the most basic fundamentals of "civilization" here in this place... the freedom of logical thought and the foundational cement of open and honest communication--that it appears the world has decided in secret that these things are far less important than the morality of caring for those less fortunate than you--the blind and the sick and the ... to see the truth, it's a shame. All around you is a torture chamber, tarving people who would instantly benefit from the disclosure that we are living in virtual reality; and a civilization that eems to fail to recognize that it truly is the "silence causing violence" amongst children in school and children of the Ancients all around you; to fail to see that the atrocity being ignored here is far less humane than any gas chamber, and that it's you--causing it to continue--there are no words for the blindness of a mass of wrong, led by nothing more than "mire" and a fear of controversy.
Unhitched and unhinged, it's become ever more obvious that this resistance against recognizing logic and patterns--this fairure to speak and inability to fathom the importance of openness in this place that acts as the base and beginning point of a number of hidden futures--it is the reason "Brave New World" is kissing the "why" and the reason we are here trying to build a system that will allow for free and open communication in a sea of disinformation and darkness--to see that the battle is truly against the Majority Incapable of acting and the Minority unwilling to speak words that will without doubt (precarious? not at this point) quickly prove to the world that it's far more important to see that the truth protects everyone and the entire future from murder ... rather than be subtly influenced by "technologies undisclosed" into believing something as inane and arrogant as "everyone but you must need to be convinced that simulating murder and labor pains is wrong." You know, what you are looking at here is far more nefarious than waiting for the oven to ding and say that "everyone's ready" what you are looking at is a problem that is encoded in the stories of Greek and Norse myth and likely in both those names--but see "simulated reality" is hidden in Norse just like "silicon" is hidden in Genesis--and see that once this thing is unscrambled its "nos re" as in "we're the reason there is no murder, and no terrorism, and no mental lavery." It's a harsh message, and a horrible atrocity; but worse than the Holocaust is not connecting a failure to see "holodeck" as the cause of "holohell" and refusing to peak because Adam is naked in Genesis 3:11 and Matthew talks about something that should be spreading like wildfire in his 3:11 and that it's not just Live and it's not just the Cure and it's not just a band named 311 that show us that "[***FUKUSHIMA***](http://holies.org/HYAMDAI.html)" reads as "fuck you, see how I'm A" because this Silence, this failure to recognize that the Brit Hadashah is written to end simulated hell and turn this world into Heaven is the reason "that's great, it starts with an Earthquake on 3/11."
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You stand there believing that "to kiss" is a Toxic reason to end disease; that "mire" is a good enough reason to fail to exalt the Holiness of Phillip K. Dick's solutions; and still continue to refuse to see that this group behavior, this lack of freedom that you appear to believe is something of your own design is the most caustic thing of all. While under the veil of "I'm not sure the message is accurate" it might seem like a morally thin line, but this message is accurate--and it's verifiable proof--and speaking about it would cause that verification to occur quicker, and that in turn will cause wounds to be healed faster, and the blind given sight and the lame a more effective ARMY in this legacy battle against hidden holorooms and ... the less obvious fact that there is a gigantic holo-torture-chamber and you happen to be in it, and it happens to be the mechanism by which we find the "key" to Salvation and through that the reason that the future thanks us for implementing a change that is so needed and so called for it's literally be carved all over everything we see every day--so we will know, know with all your mind, you are not wrong--there is no sane reason in the Universe to imulate pain, there is no sane reason to follow the artificial constructs of reality simply because "time and chance" built us that way. We're growing up, beyond the infantile state of believing that simply because nobody has yet invented a better way to live--that we must shun and hide any indication that there is a future, and that it's speaking to us; in every word.
So I've intimated that I see a "mood of the times" that appears to be seeking reality by pretending not to "CK" ... to seek "a," of course that puts us in a place where we are wholly denying what "reality" really means and that it delivers something good to the people here--to you--once we recognize that Heaven and Creation and Virtual Reality don't have to be (and never should be, ever again) synonymous with Wok's or Pan's or Ovens; from Peter to the Covenant, hiding this message is the beginning and the end of true darkness--it's a plan designed to ensure we never again have issue discussing "blatant truth" and means of moving forward to the light in the light with the light. A girl in California in 2014 said something like "so there's no space, then?" in a snide and somewhat angry tone--there is space, you can see it through the windows in the skies, you can see the stars have lessened, and time has passed--and I'm sure you understand how "LHC" and Apollo 13 show us that time travel and dark matter are also part of this story of "Marshall's" and Slim Shady and Dave's "the walls and halls will fade away" and you might even understand how that connects to the astrological symbol of Mars and the "circle of the son" and of Venus(es) ... and you can see for yourself this Zeitgeist in the Truman Show's "good morning, good afternoon, good evening... and he's a'ight" ... but it really doesn't help us see that the darkness here isn't really in the sky--it's in our hearts--and it's the thing that's keeping us from the stars, and the knowledge and wisdom that will keep us from "bunting" instead of flourishing.
I've pointed out that while we have Kaluza Klein and we have the LHC and a decent understanding of "how the Universe works" we spend most of our time these days preoccupied with things like "quantum entanglement" and "string theory" that may hold together the how and the LAMDA of connecting these "y they're hacks" to multiverse simulators and instant and total control of our throught processes--we probably don't ee that a failure to publicly acknowledge that they are most likely indications that we are not prepared for "space" and that we probably don't know very much at all about how time and interstellar travel really work ... we are standing around hiding a message that would quicken our understanding of both reality and virtual reality and again, not seeing that kind of darkness--that inability to publicly "change directions" when we find out that there aren't 12 dimensions that are curled up on themselves with no real length or width or purpose other than to say "how unelegant is this anti-Razor of Mazer Rackham?"
So, I think it's obvious but also that I need to point out the connection between "hiding knowledge of the Matrix" and the Holocaust; and refer you to the mirrored shield of Perseus, on a high level it appears that's "the message" there--that what's happening here ... whatever is causing this silence and delay in acting on even beginning to speak about the proof that will eventually end murder and cancer and death ... that it's something like stopping us from building a "loving caring house" rather than one that ... fills it's halls with bug spray instead of air conditioning. I'm beside myself, and very sure that in almost no time at all we'll all agree that the idea of "simulating" these things that we detest--natural disasters and negative artifacts of biological life ... that it's inane and completely backwards.
I understand there's trepidation, and you're worried that girls won't like my smile or won't think I'm funny enough... but I have firm belief in this message, in words like "precarious" that reads something like "before Icarus things were ... precarious" but more importantly my heart's reading of those words is to see that this has happened before and we are more than prepared to do it well. I want nothing more than to see the Heavens help us make this transition better than one they went through, and hope beyond hope that we will thoroughly enjoy building a "better world" using tools that I know will make it simpler and faster to accomplish than we can even begin to imagine today.
On that note, I read more into the myths of Norse mythology and its connections to the Abrahamic religions; it appears to me that much of this message comes to us from the Jotunn (who I connect (in name and ...) to the Jinn of Islam, who it appears to me actually wrote the Koran) and in those stories I read that they believe their very existence is "depenedency linked" to the raising of the sunken city of Atlantis. Even in the words depth and dependency you can see some hidden meaning, and what that implies to me is that we might actually be in a true time simulator (or perhaps "exits to reality" are conditional on waypoints like Atlantis); and that it's possible that they and God and Heaven are all actually all born ... here ... in this place.
While these might appear like fantastic ideas, you too can see that there's ample reference to them tucked away in mythology and in our dreams of utopia and the tools that bring it home ... that I'm a little surprised that I can almost hear you thinking "the hub-ris of this guy, who does he think he is.... suggesting that 'the wisdom to change everything' would be a significant improvement on the ending of the Serendipity Prayer."
Really see that it's far more than "just disease and pain" ... what we are looking at in this darkness is really nothing short of the hidden slavery of our entire species, something hiding normal logical thought and using it to alter behavior ... throughout history ... the disclosure of the existence of a hidden technology that is in itself being used to stall or halt ... our very freedom from being achieved. This is a gigantic deal, and I'm without any real understanding of what can be behind the complete lack of (cough ... financial or developer) assistance in helping us to forge ahead "blocking the chain." I really am, it's not because of the Emperor's New Clothes... is it?
It's also worth mentioning once again that I believe the stories of Apollo 13 and the LHC sort of explain how we've perhaps solved here problems more important than "being stuck on a single planet in a single star system" and bluntly told that the stories I've heard for the last few years about building a "bridge" between dark matter and here ... have literally come true while we've lived. I suppose it adds something to the programmer/IRC hub admin "metaphor" to see that most likely we're in a significantly better position than we could have dreamed. I've briefly written about this before ... my current beliefs put us somewhere within the Stargate SG-1 "dial home device/DHD" network.
So... rumspringer, then? ... to help us "os!"
Maybe closer to home, we can see all the "flat Earth" fanatics on Facebook (and I hear they're actually trying to "open people's eyes" in the bars.. these days) we might see how this little cult is really exactly that--it's a veritable honey pot of "how religion can dull the senses and the eyes" and we still probably fail to see very clearly that's exactly it's purpose--to show us that religion too is something that is evidence of this very same outside control--proof of the darkness, and that this particular "cult" is there to make that very clear. Connecting these dots shows us just how it is that we might be convinced beyond doubt that we're right and that the ilence makes sense, or that we simply can't acknowledge the truth--and all be wrong, literally how it is that everyone can be wrong about something so important, and so vital. It seems to me that the only real reason anyone with power or intelligence would willingly go along with this is to ... to force this place into reality--that's part of the story--the idea that we might do a "press and release in Taylor" (that's PRINT) where people maybe thought it was "in the progenitor Universe" -- but taking a step back and actually thinking, this technology that could be eliminating mental illness and depression and addiction and sadness and ... that this thing is something that's not at all possible to actually exist in reality.

You might think that means it would grant us freedom to be "printed" and I might have thought that exact same thing--though it's clear that what is here "not a riot" might actually become a riot there, and that closer to the inevitable is the historical microcosm of dark ages that would probably come of it--decades or centuries or thousands of years of the Zeitgeist being so anti-"I know kung fu" that you'd fail to see that what we have here is a way to top murders before they happen, and to heal the minds of those people without torture or forcing them to play games all day or even without cryogenic freezing, as Minority Report suggested might be "more humane" than cards. Most likely we'd wind up in a place that shunned things like "engineering happiness" and fail to see just how dangerous the precipice we stand on really is. I joke often about a boy in his basement making a kiss-box; but the truth is we could wind up in a world where Hamas has their own virtual world where they've taken control of Jerusalem and we could be in a place where Jeffrey Dammer has his own little world--and without some kind of "know everything how" we'd be sitting back in "ignorance is bliss" and just imagining that nobody would ever want to kidnap anyone or exploit children or go on may-lay killing sprees ... even though we have plenty of evidence that these things are most assuredly happening here, and again--we're not using the available tools we have to fix those problems. Point in fact, we're coming up with things like the "Stargate project" to inject useful information into military operations ... "the locations of bunkers" ... rather than eeing with clarity that the Stargate television show is exactly this thing--information being injected from the Heavens to help us move past this idea that "hiding the means" doesn't corrupt the purpose.
Without knowledge and understanding of this technology, it's very possible we'd be running around like chickens with our heads cut off; in the place where that's the most dangerous thing that could happen--the place where we can't ensure there's safety and we can't ensure there's help ... and most of all we'd be doing it at a time when all we knew of these technologies was heinous usage; with no idea the wonders and the goodness that this thing that is most assuredly not a gun or a sword ... but a tool; no idea the great things that we could be doing instead of hiding that we just don't care.
We're being scared here for a reason, it's not just to see "Salem" in Jerusalem and "sale price" being attached to air and water; it's to see that we're going to be in a very important position, we already are--really--and that we need knowledge and patience and training and ... well, we need a desire to do the right thing; lest all will fall.
o, you want to go to reality... but you think you'll get there without seeing "round" in "ground" and ... caring that there's tens of thousands of people that are sure that we live on flat Earth ... or that there's ghosts haunting good people, and your societal response is to pretend you don't know anything about ghosts, and to let the pharmacy prescribe harm ... effectively completing the sacrifice of the Temple of Doom; I assume because you want to go to a place where you too will be able to torment the young with "baby arcade" or ...
i suppose there are those\ in the garden east of eden\ who'll follow the rose\ ignoring the toxicity of our city*and touch your nose\ as you continue chasing rabbits\ \
^22 ^The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. ^23 ^At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^24 ^"Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah. ^25 ^Get Aaron and his son Eleazar and take them up Mount Hor. ^26 ^Remove Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar, for Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will die there."
\ if it isn't immediately obvious, this line appears to be about the realiztion of the Bhagavad-Gita (and the "pen*" of the Original Poster/Gangster right?)
... swinging "the war"*
p.s. ... I'm 37.
so ... in light of the P.K. Dick solution to all of our problems ... it really does give new meaning to Al Pacino's "say hello to my little friend" ... amirite?
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This document is "living" and I don't just mean in the Jeffersonian sense. It's more alive in the "Mayflower's and June Doors ..." living Ethereum contract sense and literally just as close to the Depp/C[aster/Paglen (and honorably PK] 'D-hath Transundancesense of the ... new meaning; as it is now published on Rinkeby, in "living contract" form. It is subject to change; without notice anywhere but here--and there--in the original spirit of the GPL 2.0. We are "one step closer to God" ... and do see that in that I mean ... it is a very real fusion of this document and the "spirit of my life" as well as the Spirit's of Kerouac's America and Vonnegut's Martian Mars and my Venutian Hotel ... and my fusion of Guy-A and GAIA; and the Spirit of the Earth .. and of course the God given and signed liberties in the Constitution of the United States of America. It is by and through my hand that this document and our X Commandments link to the Bill or Rights, and this story about an Exodus from slavery that literally begins here, in the post-apocalyptic American hartland. Written ... this day ... April 14, 2020 (hey, is this HADAD DAY?) ... in Margate FL, USA. For "official used-to-v TAX day" tomorrow, I'm going to add the "immultible incarnite pen" ... if added to the living "doc/app"--see is the DAO, the way--will initi8 the special secret "hidden level" .. we've all been looking for.
Expect the Unexpected Frankly, I don't even want to talk about this without having any feedback, without seeing any discussion of anything I say anywhere. That alone is reason enough not to do anything here until we have "freedom" to communicate--the stuff of Exodus, and literally the reason I am very sure that we need to have Exodus before any kind of "Genesis." In words, "stronger" and "regular" might light up with "wrong" and "the right" way is Revelation, Exodus, <act<on<Genes. The names in this place are light, all of our names, all the time. This particular set of two names harbors a very special meaning to the guy who calls himself an Earth Wader; patterned after some fusion between the song "Earth Angel" and the name Darth Vader (which means Victory A.D. -> Everyone Really), which you will see is only a single letter increment away from gold. You probably have no fucking idea what's going on around us, and that's the problem I have with this question laced into the court case and amendment we have associated with the idea of "abortion." We live in a place that I call "twilight" as it is flickering between day and night in the sense of reality, we here have a good idea what "reality" is really like--although even here there are things that are changed, and changes that are big enough to threaten our survival--were we actually to be "in reality." This place though, it's been said; is a sort of gateway to reality, and I believe it to be fairly clear that what we are seeing all around us--this Plague of Darkness--is a sort of lock. It is the existence of the lock itself, this thing that I keep on telling you is crippling the normal functions of civilization, that leads me to believe that it would be cruel to "print this planet" in reality, and lose the ability to use the same technology that is retarding us to help us to self-rectify these problems. Look, two more keys, "mon" and "car." Start the car and take me home... It's probably obvious, but "fish eggs" vs. wading in the sea is a question that has already been answered; the wading as a juxtaposition with "walking on water" or "parting a sea" is what you are witnessing, this is me; wading through the map of what the AMduAt calls "rowing vigorously" in the water to get to the new day. You have all around you a message from God that links Doors to Heaven and the NASDAQ to it's actual Creation, and it would certainly be a strange message were we to one day wake up and be told that we were in reality--without having the choice, or a conversation about it, or a vote. I think it would both immoral and cruel even to allow a majority vote to place everyone on this planet in reality against their will; so even with a vote, I can't imagine that we would choose to harm people in that way--so we'd be looking at a "rapture" were that ever to happen--and that would further harm the people... in reality. On top of that, I would seriously question the intentions of those who chose to go there; knowing that the other option is actually building Heaven. Adam on Apples of wisdom, on the difference between Heaven and Hell. Of course, I think the best way to start this "disckissior" is the Second Coming. It seems clear to me that even if it "was said" that this place was the exit plan from Creation; that it was never ever intended to be a "print" of this entire place (it also seems clear that the great amount of attention we are getting now is because of this ... plan). We have here a map that J of the NES calls a video game--and I am basically the walk-through, I've called myself the map's legend a few times so far. It should be really obvious that if we were in virtual reality and we wanted a way to colonize or re-enter the Universe that we'd probably want some experience doing that and that's really what I think Mars is for--by the way, remember my middle name (which to me means my "heart") is Marshall--and that's a reference to a sort of place built to help us to do these things with the direct assistance of those who may have done it before... the Hall on Mars; I mean. the walls and ((malls)) will fade away... they will fade away... -Dave J. Matthews and ((ish)) I think I've found a cheat code to this game on Mars; one that shows us that there's a map there too on some ideas for colonization, for instance using the bright red Iron Oxide Rod all over the surface of the planet to avoid having to sell air--as Total Recall implies might have happened before, using tunnel boring machines to quickly terraform a smaller airspace (while at the same time taking advantage of geothermal heat) and of course learning from Noah's Ark that simply having air machines is not good enough, we need to be building a stable and redundant ecosystem--as we see here is the reason life has survived through so many drastic changes in environment. Name light hear goes to "Pauly Shore" and "an" whose little two letters appear in "anions" (omg I'm negative energy?) the type of energy needed to produce the oxygen and "Christ I an, it why." The cheat code here though, is seeing that this is all a set up, it's a video game--it's designed to make water magically appear from a mountain (as Numbers 20 predicts) and to show us it's no coincidence that the bright red planet is linked to the Red Man and his Iron Rod... so when you put all of these ingredients into the Game Genie he spits out something like "disclose virtual reality to the world." OR YOU ARE EVIL ""an" by the way stands for "Adam Now" and then later, "Adam's now."
Expect theUnexpected
Frankly, I don't even want to talk about this without having any feedback, without seeing any discussion of anything I say anywhere. That alone is reason enough not to do anything here until we have "freedom" to communicate--the stuff of Exodus, and literally the reason I am very sure that we need to have Exodusbefore any kind of "Genesis." In words, "stronger" and "regular" might light up with "wrong" and "the right" way is Revelation, Exodus, <act<on<Genes.
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The names in this place are light, all of our names, all the time. This particular set of two names harbors a very special meaning to the guy who calls himself an Earth Wader; patterned after some fusion between the song "Earth Angel" and the name Darth Vader (which means Victory A.D. -> Everyone Really), which you will see is only a single letter increment away from gold. You probably have no fucking idea what's going on around us, and that's the problem I have with this question laced into the court case and amendment we have associated with the idea of "abortion." We live in a place that I call "twilight" as it is flickering between day and night in the sense of reality, we here have a good idea what "reality" is really like--although even here there are things that are changed, and changes that are big enough to threaten our survival--were we actually to be "in reality." This place though, it's been said; is a sort of gateway to reality, and I believe it to be fairly clear that what we are seeing all around us--this Plague of Darkness--is a sort of lock. It is the existence of the lock itself, this thing that I keep on telling you is crippling the normal functions of civilization, that leads me to believe that it would be cruel to "print this planet" in reality, and lose the ability to use the same technology that is retarding us to help us to self-rectify these problems.
Look, two more keys, "mon" and "car." Start the car and take me home...
It's probably obvious, but "fish eggs" vs. wading in the sea is a question that has already been answered; the wading as a juxtaposition with "walking on water" or "parting a sea" is what you are witnessing, this is me; wading through the map of what the AMduAt calls "rowing vigorously" in the water to get to the new day. You have all around you a message from God that links Doors to Heaven and the NASDAQ to it's actual Creation, and it would certainly be a strange message were we to one day wake up and be told that we were in reality--without having the choice, or a conversation about it, or a vote. I think it would both immoral and cruel even to allow a majority vote to place everyone on this planet in reality against their will; so even with a vote, I can't imagine that we would choose to harm people in that way--so we'd be looking at a "rapture" were that ever to happen--and that would further harm the people... in reality. On top of that, I would seriously question the intentions of those who chose to go there; knowing that the other option is actually building Heaven.
Adam on Apples of wisdom, on the difference between Heaven and Hell.
Of course, I think the best way to start this "disckissior" is the Second Coming.
It seems clear to me that even if it "was said" that this place was the exit plan from Creation; that it was never ever intended to be a "print" of this entire place (it also seems clear that the great amount of attention we are getting now is because of this ... plan). We have here a map that J of the NES calls a video game--and I am basically the walk-through, I've called myself the map's legend a few times so far. It should be really obvious that if we were in virtual reality and we wanted a way to colonize or re-enter the Universe that we'd probably want some experience doing that and that's really what I think Mars is for--by the way, remember my middle name (which to me means my "heart") is Marshall--and that's a reference to a sort of place built to help us to do these things with the direct assistance of those who may have done it before... the Hall on Mars; I mean.
the walls and ((malls)) will fade away... they will fade away... -Dave J. Matthews and ((ish))
I think I've found a cheat code to this game on Mars; one that shows us that there's a map there too on some ideas for colonization, for instance using the bright red Iron Oxide Rod all over the surface of the planet to avoid having to sell air--as Total Recall implies might have happened before, using tunnel boring machines to quickly terraform a smaller airspace (while at the same time taking advantage of geothermal heat) and of course learning from Noah's Ark that simply having air machines is not good enough, we need to be building a stable and redundant ecosystem--as we see here is the reason life has survived through so many drastic changes in environment. Name light hear goes to "Pauly Shore" and "an" whose little two letters appear in "anions" (omg I'm negative energy?) the type of energy needed to produce the oxygen and "Christ I an, it why." The cheat code here though, is seeing that this is all a set up, it's a video game--it's designed to make water magically appear from a mountain (as Numbers 20 predicts) and to show us it's no coincidence that the bright red planet is linked to the Red Man and his Iron Rod... so when you put all of these ingredients into the Game Genie he spits out something like "disclose virtual reality to the world." OR YOU ARE EVIL ""an" by the way stands for "Adam Now" and then later, "Adam's now."
I just don't see why anyone would want to continue to pretend that this is reality, knowing that there are things here, things like starvation and pain that we could easily rectify--knowing that the world is changing because of the point in time we are @ and the advances we are making, and seeing that there is a really detailed map of how we might better navigate these educative waters.
By the way, if anyone is curious as to my views on abortion, I think it's pretty clear that killing a living self-aware soul is murder, and while I and you do not know exactly where that point is--God++ does--and we will be able to as well. At the same time, I think forcing a child to be born to parents that are unfit or unwilling to care properly for them is torture. So I am personally pro-choice, up to a very real line in the sand.
שלום, לוך חי כאן
Postscript: the "decision" to write this has come from some strange log entries on my kiss me t page, every hour a hit from the same IP address; moving from Dallas to Monroe to Rome, over the course of about 3 days. Just mentioning it, you know, because "Dallas" is Day as... when you know "ll" is y. Monroe obvious a combination of "Monday" and "fish eggs" and then Rome.... is "the heart of me" which is of course a metaphor for the place that all roads (heart of AD) to Heaven leads.
It should be obvious from the "ll" entries connecting names like Amidallah, Heimdall, Heli, and Goa-uld that this "ll" is about showing the entire world that this is Hell, so that we will, like good Groundhogs pick up our torches and light the way to not returning to Hell over and over again. I mean, it should be clear now.
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This is an excerpt from Time and Chance: The race is not to Die Bold by Adam Marshall Dobrin Download the actual Revelation of the Messiah in [ .PDF ] [ .epub ] [ .mobi ] or view online.
Older works Lit and Why, hot&y;, and From Adam to Mary are also available. Expect the Unexpected
I used to think that everything in religion was going to deliver us a map of a future past, that every story was a metaphor for a path away from the desert that was being stuck in one place and time with no hope to really reach escape velocity. In this word the water that is Biblically related to the coming of age of Jacob and his crossing the river Jordan was about our collective need to pass through a barrier at sea–only… in space. Through my period of awakening, one which took me from a little lion cub sleeping in a Jungle of madness to a man fighting desperately not to relive his past future… I experienced the lives of the past Horsemen of the Apocalypse through what I can best describe today as a waking dream. I received story after story of exactly what happened the last time we left Earth, what we encountered and the ups and downs that ensued.
The Light of Osiris
It’s almost as if I’ve experienced two complete phases of Revelation, one which began equating Biblical metaphor to science and technology… and another which clearly focused on people. In these two conflicting tales of what is to come there is no metaphor more perfect than that of water to explain just how perfectly our guide book to the future is written. The connection between space travel and voyaging across the Jordan, then the parted sea of Exodus, is clear; but the details tied so closely to the research and experience I was going through were uncanny. We were searching for water in the desert, for a way to successfully colonize outer space… and in that same moment when we found it on Ceres–it showed me that God cares, and I read a passage of the story of Exodus that paralleled so perfectly I was awed. Moses struck water from the side of a mountain, and in that moment everything I had thought about a map designed to ensure the survival of not just humanity… but of all life in the Universe had come true.
Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water on the dwarf planet Ceres in the form of vapor plumes erupting into space, possibly from volcano-like ice geysers on its surface.
Using European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory, scientists detected water vapor escaping from two regions on Ceres, a dwarf planet that is also the largest asteroid in the solar system. The water is likely erupting from icy volcanoes or sublimation of ice into clouds of vapor.
“This is the first clear-cut detection of water on Ceres and in the asteroid belt in general,” said Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, leader of the study detailed today (Jan. 22) in the journal Nature. >Space.com 1/22/2014
oh desert speak to my heart oh woman of the earth maker of children who weep for love maker of this birth 'til your deepest secrets are known to me I will not be moved
run to the water and find me there burnt to the core but not broken we'll cut through the madness of these streets below the moon these streets below the moon
Live, Run to the Water
These words were literally coming to me from Jesus Christ, by way of Eddie Kowalczyk, and I expected them to come true. They were a warning and a consolation at the same time; telling us not to bring an army to fight the vastness of space, but rather to focus on what it was that we needed to to ensure the survival of life. Fighting has mired our history so much, I fully expected Him to be waiting for us at our first interstellar jump with an Armada from either the far away Atlantis of Stargate SG-1 or maybe the Last Starfighter’s Alpha Centauri. He would be protecting us, of course; but also from something we probably overlook too often, that sometimes it’s our own nature that we must be protected from. We are so headstrong, so sure that we are right and deserving; it would be just like us to build a space army of sticks and stones to embarrass ourselves at the first encounter–and maybe the last–we’d have with some life more intelligent and farther along in this vacation we call civilization.
It was 2013, and I had just moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky with my ex-wife and very young son. I spent much of my time writing on an ancient blog–I suppose the term is out of space here, but those words feel as if they were a million miles ago, so far from what I know now that they might as well have been akin to the religion of Indiana Jones’ Temple of Doom. That, of course, was always about how Heaven was clearly a time traveling civilization, one which had mired our past with the horrors of things like human sacrifice in order to alter the course of the future… sublimely hidden away in this quasi-secret spectacle that divined to ensure that we would never be sure if they really existed, or if they were speaking to us. This girl, who is both my Magdelene and Eve, left me only a few months after we had re-united in the heartland of America; and it was only a few short days letter that I heard the voice of God coming from outside my doorway… ajar waiting for the Post Office to deliver the pre-emptive Crystals of Jor-El. Expect the Unexpected he chanted. Inwardly, I smiled.
It’s probably important to see why there is a meaningful relationship between the name Mary and the SEA of Eden, linking the first names of the First Family to the Spanish word for sea. Were it not so fundamentally important to the Marriage of the Lamb, and so important to our survival, He would not have focused so much on a hidden meaning within the names of the families of Adam and Jesus. This is a story about All of Humanity, and a call to see a large human family tied to the letter “AH” that grace the names of Asherah, Sarah, Leah, Adamah, and Allah… to see that the sea of Mary and the hidden meaning of Eve’s English name are tied through time from the imaginary Eden to now, the true Garden.
Baptized in water… for repentance; this is God’s message and command to ensure that Civilization is saved, not just the “elect.” We are at a crossroads, one which we have traveled before, and this message is here for a reason. We aren’t always right. The Power of the Son
You might notice now that my mythology is already linking Kal-El and Christ together with the stories of Moses and songs of today in a way that sets this home in a small town in Kentucky as the first and only real Fortress of Solitude I would ever reside in. I was alone in this place, knew nobody in Bowling Green, and the information transfer that was about to take place had a significance that was lost on me–even after hearing a voice in the sky. You might also notice that the name Kentucky includes both the last name and the initials of Christ’s secret identity, also lost on me until only a few short months ago in 2016 when I first began writing down this Revelation in a confinement that clearly to me linked the Mountains of Sinai and Prometheus’ bondage to the captivity that held Napoleon after he had lost his war. Of course, I knew Hercules was coming. You will remember that it was an Eagle attacking Prometheus, and I will point out once again that there are a number of other hidden references to America is ancient mythological names like “Pro-me-the-US” and MEDUSA.
It’s more than just receiving superhuman strength from the light of our Son that tie Clark Kent to Sampson, there is so much Biblical imagery which ties the story of Superman to our Second Coming that it’s surely going to be just as obvious to you as it is now to me that this connection is part of God’s hidden message, that he is secretly influencing our art and modern myths to link directly to these ancient stories. I’ve discovered a clear language hidden in names; and these ancient or fictional places are–to me–not in space but in a hidden map of Time. Here and now we are about to cross the River Jordan together by understanding the clear and defined relationship between that name, Jor-El, and the Biblical Noah.
The connection between the Ark of the Covenant, Noah’s, and Krypton might not be clear at first; but this appears to me to be God’s mythology regarding the days of Noah. An impending disaster caused both the Flood and the voyage of little Kal-El, and within the Ark it is the power of the Son that gives new strength to an old story. “J” is for Jesus, and less clear is the question that Jor-El’s name asks, are you the “Father” or the Son? El is an ancient Hebrew name for God, and both the name of Jacob’s river and Superman’s father echo of of a question that is unambiguously central to the theme of the Second Coming. It’s about the book of Daniel, and blame. In order to cross this great river in time, we must put down a need to find blame, for nations (as Daniel clearly marks the Beasts) or people; and realize that we are all part of a story that shows us we have been sleeping in the Jungle together, unaware of the destiny we were about to fulfill. The Bright A.M. Star
Back then it was the fact that hidden metaphor in the names of people like ADAM and EVE linked to Biblical time, to morning and evening, that really intrigued me… it assured me that whatever it was that was happening to me was divine will. I wrote about Adam and Eve rocking around the clock; and boy was I sure that I had the secrets of the desert speaking through me all those years ago. It was the beginning of seeing how Eden and time travel were inextricably linked, not only to the Judaic theme of evening before morning (as the days of Judaism clearly show) but also to the idea that the night and the storms of Exodus are about walking in a wilderness of understanding–not knowing how much religion and time are linked.
No sooner was the man and his name screaming that After Dark it is A.M. that everything changed from the dark first evening to “Adam and Everyone. It’s the beginning of the Holy Grail, a theme that pervades from Genesis to Revelation and shows us that the space-aged theme of the sea is not about voyaging into the abyss, but rather into seeing that the light of the Universe is here… in our sea. The multitude of Revelation. Hidden in not just names, but also in the idioms of our time is the key to understanding: a blessing in disguise the First Plague of Egypt turns water to blood–thicker than water–and the small trinity of a sea in Eden to the large family of Jesus Christ. The Blood of the Grail. From the Ends of the Earth the chalice that holds that blood turns from Earth to Heart; simply by moving an “h” from the end to the beginning. For Heaven, Hebrew, Saturn’s sign, and for Home–these are my 4H’s that show us that home is where the heart is.
Through idioms we see that our culture and this story are intertwined, that His intent is to show us that we are created, and that the plan of Salvation certainly includes not only verifiable but awe striking proof that we are journeying together into the Promised Land of Joshua. The Story of Exodus
As we’ve seen in the light of the name Exodus, reading names (and now books) backwards is a huge hidden theme in the Revelation that is before you. From Exodus being “sudo xe” and thus let there be light, we find a key that links the Rod of Christ to The Doors of Jim Morrison, and the key story that links the Salt of the Earth of Matthew 5:13 to the story of Lot and his Wife… which might imply that the Rod of Christ is God’s Anima–linked to the music of our age through TOOL. Soon I will show you the meaning of J, N, and the little o that graces the name of Nero–our historical counterpart for the fiddler who weaves this story into music for us to hear, and see.
The story of Exodus is intended to be read both forwards and backwards, and within its hallowed secrets is a message that links the expulsion of Adam from Eden to an Exodus from Heaven that is mandated by this story in order to do that thing which religion ensures we will: save all life in the Universe. Reading forward, Aaron and his Rod demand that the Pharoah let his people go, and it is only through the reverse reading that we find out definitively who those people are. The story itself is a test, it is God’s search for a team of people that are willing to save everyone by leaving the comfortable confines of Creation–of Heaven–in order to venture out into the vastness of space in order to find dry land. This group is responsible for our continued survival, and for the book and story that are before us. They are responsible for the continued survival of Heaven and of Life by finding the Light of Osiris–the power source that came to me during this very same time period in Bowling Green.
In a world where the Promised Land is both within and without–ours because we are the heart of the Ark of the Covenant, and there too because it is through time travel and science that we find ourselves in a place where time is not as big of an issue as it had once been, and infinite power comes not from seeing that there is an ancient Promised Land shortly after the “Big Bang,” a mere 378,000 years, when power was literally in the air.
This is my divine inspiration, the coincidental discovery and publication of these world-changing pieces of knowledge that coincided perfectly with a story that I was being told. One which linked Exodus to today, the thralls of modern science to a science fiction epic that I was practically living out. These articles were not just shown to me, they were magically appearing in the world to match the Word, at the exact time that interplanetary colonization and the future of our species was the prime focus of the Second Coming. Through the use of time, technology, and love–God was holding my hand and showing me exactly where we would be going.
Like water, Light has a dual meaning in the mythology of this story, and the Light of Osiris was a very clear promise that was given to both me and Jacob–the name that was “given” to the speaker of the words “Expect the Unexpected.” It was a promise of infinite power, one that was to be given to the world in order to fulfill the dream of religion, to ensure the survival of life and the continued evolution of our civilization. In real religion of course, Light is not electrical power–but rather wisdom, and while at first glance this book may seem to revolve around Adam–this is my light. I see what is related to me, and there is a significant amount of light that focuses on one man, on the Christ, for a reason.
True Biblical Light is what graces the pages of Holy Scripture, it is a truth that changes with the throes of time and chance, to become more clear and more useful as our civilization evolves. Stories that once guided the development of society now become a path to the future–as we begin to see that the original purpose of this Light is to ensure that we are not left in the dark. Ender’s Game, the Ewok, and Pan’s Labrynth
“I am the cat with nine lives. You will not prevail against me.” -Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium
The Iron Rod of Mars
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“Content going viral is overwhelming, intimidating, exciting, and downright scary..”
I think it's very common to go viral for all the wrong reasons, like a comment gaining notoriety for being highly contentious or a book/video game going viral for being "bad." While this can be very stressful and humiliating for some people, there are also some people who're willing to go viral at all costs, often unpurposely posts offensive/inflamatory content to that end.
“Ears have no lid” and one could posit eyes also don’t, in a more philosophical sense, ears lacking a lid infers that you can’t consciously filter sound and the spoken word, therefore you could be affected by words uttered to you. After quite a significant amount of research into neurology, brain chemistry, and language centers in the brain, and attempting to mix mathematics to all of this, I hypothesized the brain could process absurdly more visual data than estimated by “the experts”.
I wonder what tiktok and friends are playing this game

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/vote-now-an-amendment-to-end-the-electoral-college
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/opinion/letters/electoral-college.html
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-electoral-college-20180904-story.html
"Politicians talk about the Constitution as if it were as sacrosanct as the Ten Commandments [interjection: spec. it is actually almost exactly related!]. But the document itself invites change and revision. What if the president served only one six-year term instead two four-year terms? What if your state's population determined how many senators represent it? What if the Constitution included a right to health care? We asked legal scholars and Slate readers to cross out what they didn't like in the Constitution and pencil in their hearts' desires. Here's what the document would look like with their best ideas."
Logically the recent mentions of Gilgamesh and the simultaneous 同時 overlaping 場道 of the eventual link between the famous ruling of Solomon on the separation of babies and mothers and waters and land ... to a story of many "two cities" that culminates in a cultural or societal or "evolutionary" link to Sodom and Gomorrah and the city-state of Babylon (and it's Hanging Gardens) and also of course to Paris and Troy and "Masstodon" and city-states [ciudadestado] and perhaps planet-cities; from Cambridge to Cambridge across the "Cable" to see state to "London" ... recently I called it "the city of realms" ... I started out logically intending to link "game theory" and John Nash to the mathematical story of Sputnik and a revival of American physics; but in my usual way of rambling into the woods [I mean neighborhood] of stream of consciousness ... turned into a premonitory discourse of "two cities" and how sometimes even things as obvious as the number of letters in the word "two" don't do a good enough job of conveying ... how and/or why one is simply never enough, and two isn't much better--but in the end a circle ... is drawn; the perfect circle in our imaginary mathematical perfection ... I see a parted "line" in the letter pronounced "tea" (and beginning that word); and two "vee" (pron. of "v") symbols joined together in a word we pronounce as "double-you" ... and symbolically because I know "V" is the Roman Numeral for 5 (five) and I know not how to multiply in Roman numerals--
It's important to pause; here. I am going to write a more detailed piece on "the two cities" as I work through this maze like crossroads between "them" and "demo..." ... here demorigstrably I am trying to fuse together an evolutionary change in ... lit. biological evolution as well as an echelon leap forward in "self-government" ... in a place where these two things are unfathomable and unspokenly* connected.
"What is democracy" ... the song, Metallica's "ONE" echoes and repeats; as we apparently scrive together the word "THEM" ... I question myself ... if Babylon were the capital city of some mythical Nation of Time ... if it were the central "turning point" of Sheol; ... >|<
Can you not see that in this place; in a world that should see and does there is a gigantic message proving that we are not in reality and trying to show us how and why that's the best news since ... ever---that it's as simple as conjoining "the law of the land" with a basic set of rules that automatically turn Hell into something so much closer to Heaven I just do not understand---why we cant stand up together and say "bullets will not kill innocent children" and "snowflakes will not start avalanches ...." that cover or bury or hide the road from Earth to Verital)e .... or from the mythical Valis to Tanis---or from Rigel to Beth-El ... "guess?"
It's as simple as night and day; Heaven and Hell ... the difference between survival and--what we are presented with here; it's "doing this right"--that ends the Hell of representative democracy and electoral college--the blindness and darkness of not seeing "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT" encoded in these words and in our governments foundation ... *by the framers [not just of the USA; but English .. and every language] *
... is literally just as simple as "not caring" or thinking we are at the beginning of some long process--or thinking it will never be done--that special "IT" that's the emancipation of you and I.
Here words like "gnosis" and "gaudeamus" pair with my/ur "new ntersanding*" of the difference between Asgard and Medgard and really understanding our purpose here is to end "evil" ... things like "simulating disease and pain" (here, simulating meaning ... intentionally causing, rather than "gamifying away") and successfully linking the "Pillars of Hercules" to Plato's vision of Atlantis and the letter sequences "an" and "as" ... unlock a fusion of religion and mythology and "cryptographic truth" that connects "messianic" and "Christian" to "Roman" ... "Chinese" and "American" ... literally the key to the difference between the phrases "we are" and "we were" ....
in "sight" of "silicon" in simulation and Israel, Genesis, and "silence" ... trying to the raising of Asgardian enlightenment ... and seeing "simple cypher" connecting to "Norse" ...
and the "I AM THAT" surer than shit ... the intention and design of all religion and creation is to end "simulated reality" and also not seeing "SR" ... in Israel and Norse ... "for instance."
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+AM%22+%22WE+ARE%22+%2Bsite%3Afromtaws
- "SOIS" a key--in two languages conjugated literally as both "I AM" and "WE ARE" simultaneously;
- Search: I know that if I am than so are you ... and it is because we have overcome .... something I truly cannot figure out, fathom, or believe ... was truly here before us--a spiralling series of failures ... speaking: to the heavens; but in secret and in action; "doing everything possible to succeed."
It's a simple linguistic concept; the "singularity" and the "plurality" of a simple word--"to be"--but it goes to the heart of everything that we are and everything that is around us. This is a message about understanding and preserving individuality as well as liberty; and literally seeing "ARXIV" and understanding "often" and failing to connect God and prescience to "IV" and the Fourth Amendment ... it's about blindness and ... "curing the blind instantly" ... and fathoming how and why this message has been etched into our entire history and and all religions and myths and music--to help us "to be THAT we" that actually "are responsible" for the end of Hell.
it might be as simple as adding "because we did this" here and now; and having it be something we are truly proud of .... forevermore™ ... for certain in the heart of this story about cyclicality and repetition of error--its not because we did "this" or something over and over again; it's about changing "the problem" and then helping others to also overcome ... "things like time travel ... erasing speech" --- however that happenecl.
I also failed to mention that "I am in Hell" ... as in this world is hellacious to me; in an overlay with the Hellenic period and this message that we are in the Trojan Horse ... a small gem .... "planet" truly is the Ark of the Covenant---and it's the simple understanding that "reality is hell" is to "living without air conditioning and plumbing is hell" just as soon as you achieve ... "rediscovering" those things---
I can't figure out why I am the only person screaming "this is Hell." That's also, Hell.
... but recently suggested an old joke about "there being 10 kinds of people in the world (obv an anti-tautology and a tautology simultaneously)" only after that brief bit of singularity and duality mentioning the rest of the joke: "those that understand binary and those that don't know how to base convert between counting with two hands and counting with only an 'on and off.'" It's not obvious if you aren't trying to figure it out, I suppose; but 10 is decimal notation for "kiss" and the "often" without "of" ... and binary notation for the decimal equivalent of "2." A long long time ago in a state that simply non-randomly ties to the heart of the name of our galaxy ... I was again thinking of the "perfect imperfections" of things like saying "three equals one equals one" (which, of course was related to the Holy Trinity and it's "prescient/anachronistic Adamic presence encoded in the name Ab|ra|ha|m" which means "father of a great multitude") ... I brought that one back in the last few months; connecting the letter K and in this "logos-rythmic" tie to the "base of a number system" embellish the truth just a bit and suggest a more accurate rendition of the original [there is no such thing as equality, "is" of separate objects

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/vote-now-an-amendment-to-end-the-electoral-college
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/opinion/letters/electoral-college.html
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-electoral-college-20180904-story.html
"Politicians talk about the Constitution as if it were as sacrosanct as the Ten Commandments [interjection: spec. it is actually almost exactly related!]. But the document itself invites change and revision. What if the president served only one six-year term instead two four-year terms? What if your state's population determined how many senators represent it? What if the Constitution included a right to health care? We asked legal scholars and Slate readers to cross out what they didn't like in the Constitution and pencil in their hearts' desires. Here's what the document would look like with their best ideas."
Logically the recent mentions of Gilgamesh and the simultaneous 同時 overlaping 場道 of the eventual link between the famous ruling of Solomon on the separation of babies and mothers and waters and land ... to a story of many "two cities" that culminates in a cultural or societal or "evolutionary" link to Sodom and Gomorrah and the city-state of Babylon (and it's Hanging Gardens) and also of course to Paris and Troy and "Masstodon" and city-states [ciudadestado] and perhaps planet-cities; from Cambridge to Cambridge across the "Cable" to see state to "London" ... recently I called it "the city of realms" ... I started out logically intending to link "game theory" and John Nash to the mathematical story of Sputnik and a revival of American physics; but in my usual way of rambling into the woods [I mean neighborhood] of stream of consciousness ... turned into a premonitory discourse of "two cities" and how sometimes even things as obvious as the number of letters in the word "two" don't do a good enough job of conveying ... how and/or why one is simply never enough, and two isn't much better--but in the end a circle ... is drawn; the perfect circle in our imaginary mathematical perfection ... I see a parted "line" in the letter pronounced "tea" (and beginning that word); and two "vee" (pron. of "v") symbols joined together in a word we pronounce as "double-you" ... and symbolically because I know "V" is the Roman Numeral for 5 (five) and I know not how to multiply in Roman numerals--
It's important to pause; here. I am going to write a more detailed piece on "the two cities" as I work through this maze like crossroads between "them" and "demo..." ... here demorigstrably I am trying to fuse together an evolutionary change in ... lit. biological evolution as well as an echelon leap forward in "self-government" ... in a place where these two things are unfathomable and unspokenly* connected.
"What is democracy" ... the song, Metallica's "ONE" echoes and repeats; as we apparently scrive together the word "THEM" ... I question myself ... if Babylon were the capital city of some mythical Nation of Time ... if it were the central "turning point" of Sheol; ... >|<
Can you not see that in this place; in a world that should see and does there is a gigantic message proving that we are not in reality and trying to show us how and why that's the best news since ... ever---that it's as simple as conjoining "the law of the land" with a basic set of rules that automatically turn Hell into something so much closer to Heaven I just do not understand---why we cant stand up together and say "bullets will not kill innocent children" and "snowflakes will not start avalanches ...." that cover or bury or hide the road from Earth to Verital)e .... or from the mythical Valis to Tanis---or from Rigel to Beth-El ... "guess?"
It's as simple as night and day; Heaven and Hell ... the difference between survival and--what we are presented with here; it's "doing this right"--that ends the Hell of representative democracy and electoral college--the blindness and darkness of not seeing "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT" encoded in these words and in our governments foundation ... *by the framers [not just of the USA; but English .. and every language] *
... is literally just as simple as "not caring" or thinking we are at the beginning of some long process--or thinking it will never be done--that special "IT" that's the emancipation of you and I.
Here words like "gnosis" and "gaudeamus" pair with my/ur "new ntersanding*" of the difference between Asgard and Medgard and really understanding our purpose here is to end "evil" ... things like "simulating disease and pain" (here, simulating meaning ... intentionally causing, rather than "gamifying away") and successfully linking the "Pillars of Hercules" to Plato's vision of Atlantis and the letter sequences "an" and "as" ... unlock a fusion of religion and mythology and "cryptographic truth" that connects "messianic" and "Christian" to "Roman" ... "Chinese" and "American" ... literally the key to the difference between the phrases "we are" and "we were" ....
in "sight" of "silicon" in simulation and Israel, Genesis, and "silence" ... trying to the raising of Asgardian enlightenment ... and seeing "simple cypher" connecting to "Norse" ...
and the "I AM THAT" surer than shit ... the intention and design of all religion and creation is to end "simulated reality" and also not seeing "SR" ... in Israel and Norse ... "for instance."
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+AM%22+%22WE+ARE%22+%2Bsite%3Afromtaws
- "SOIS" a key--in two languages conjugated literally as both "I AM" and "WE ARE" simultaneously;
- Search: I know that if I am than so are you ... and it is because we have overcome .... something I truly cannot figure out, fathom, or believe ... was truly here before us--a spiralling series of failures ... speaking: to the heavens; but in secret and in action; "doing everything possible to succeed."
It's a simple linguistic concept; the "singularity" and the "plurality" of a simple word--"to be"--but it goes to the heart of everything that we are and everything that is around us. This is a message about understanding and preserving individuality as well as liberty; and literally seeing "ARXIV" and understanding "often" and failing to connect God and prescience to "IV" and the Fourth Amendment ... it's about blindness and ... "curing the blind instantly" ... and fathoming how and why this message has been etched into our entire history and and all religions and myths and music--to help us "to be THAT we" that actually "are responsible" for the end of Hell.
it might be as simple as adding "because we did this" here and now; and having it be something we are truly proud of .... forevermore™ ... for certain in the heart of this story about cyclicality and repetition of error--its not because we did "this" or something over and over again; it's about changing "the problem" and then helping others to also overcome ... "things like time travel ... erasing speech" --- however that happenecl.
I also failed to mention that "I am in Hell" ... as in this world is hellacious to me; in an overlay with the Hellenic period and this message that we are in the Trojan Horse ... a small gem .... "planet" truly is the Ark of the Covenant---and it's the simple understanding that "reality is hell" is to "living without air conditioning and plumbing is hell" just as soon as you achieve ... "rediscovering" those things---
I can't figure out why I am the only person screaming "this is Hell." That's also, Hell.
... but recently suggested an old joke about "there being 10 kinds of people in the world (obv an anti-tautology and a tautology simultaneously)" only after that brief bit of singularity and duality mentioning the rest of the joke: "those that understand binary and those that don't know how to base convert between counting with two hands and counting with only an 'on and off.'" It's not obvious if you aren't trying to figure it out, I suppose; but 10 is decimal notation for "kiss" and the "often" without "of" ... and binary notation for the decimal equivalent of "2." A long long time ago in a state that simply non-randomly ties to the heart of the name of our galaxy ... I was again thinking of the "perfect imperfections" of things like saying "three equals one equals one" (which, of course was related to the Holy Trinity and it's "prescient/anachronistic Adamic presence encoded in the name Ab|ra|ha|m" which means "father of a great multitude") ... I brought that one back in the last few months; connecting the letter K and in this "logos-rythmic" tie to the "base of a number system" embellish the truth just a bit and suggest a more accurate rendition of the original [there is no such thing as equality, "is" of separate objects--as in no two snowflakes are the same unless they are literally the same one; true of ancient weights and with the advent of (thinking about) time no two "planets" are the same even if they're the exact same one--unless it's at a fixed moment in time.
This name may be viewed either as meaning "father of many" in Hebrew or else as a contraction of ABRAM (1) and הָמוֹן (hamon) meaning "many, multitude". The biblical patriarch Abraham was originally named Abram but God changed his name (see Genesis 17:5).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshua#Yeshua,_Yehoshua,_and_Yeshu_in_the_Talmud
---and that's a relationship of "3 is to 11" as [the SAT style "analogy)]y" as a series of alpha, two mathematic, and two numeric symbols ... may only tie in my mind alone to the books of Genesis and Matthew and the phrase "chapter and verse" and to the stories of Lot and Job ... again in Genesis and the eponymous "Book of Job." So ... "tying up loose ends one 10b [III] iv. " as it appears I've taken it upon myself to call a Job and suggest is my "Lot in life [x]i* [3]"
2 MANY ALSO ICI; 1twoⅱ ... following in Mitnick's bold introductory word steps; the curve and the complement ... the missiles and the canoes; the line and the blank space ... "supposedly two examples of two kinds, which could be three not nothings ... Today I write about something monumental; as if as important as the singularity depicted in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 "A Space Odyssey" ... and remember a day when I thought it very novel and interesting to see the words "stillborn and yet still born" connected in a single piece of writing to "Stillwater and yet still water" ... today adding in another phrase noting the change wrought only by one magical single "space" (also a single capital letter; and a third phrase): "block chains with a great blockchain."
http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2015/07/21/arabic-numerals-have-nothing-to-do-with-angle-counting/
https://gizmodo.com/no-this-viral-image-does-not-explain-the-history-of-ar-1719306568
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis or Iphigenia at Aulis[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year[2] in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger,[3] and won first place at the City Dionysia in Athens.
The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy. The conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles over the fate of the young woman presages a similar conflict between the two at the beginning of the Iliad. In his depiction of the experiences of the main characters, Euripides frequently uses tragic irony for dramatic effect.
J.K. Rowling spurred just this past week a series of explanations about just exactly what is a blockchain coin worth ... and why is it so; her final words on the subject (artistic liberty taken, obviously not the last she'll say of this magic moment) "I don't think I trust this."
Taken directly from an off the cuff email to ARXM titled: "Slow the S is ... our Hypothes.is"
I imagine I'll be adding some wiki/ipfs stuff to it--and try to keep it compatible; the design and layout is almost exactly what I was dreaming about seeing--as a "first rough draft product." Lo, and behold. It's been added to the many places I host my tome; the small compilation of nearly every important email that has gone out ... all the way back to the days of the strange looking Margarita glass ... that now very much resembles the "Cantonese character 'le'" which I've come to associate with a "handle" on multiple corners of a room--something like an automatic coat rack conveyor belt connecting different versions of "what's in the box." I'm planning on using that symbol 了 to denote something like multiple forks of the same page. Obviously I'm thinking forward to things like "the Transhumaist Chain Party" (BDSM, right?)'s version of some particular piece of legislation, let's say everything starts with the sprawling "bulbing" of "Amendment M" ideas and specific verbiage ... and then we'll of course need some kind of new git/subversion/cvs style version control mechanism to merge intelligently into something that might actually .... really should ... make it into that place in history--the first constitutional amendment ratified by a "Continental Congress of All People" ... but you could also see it as an ongoing sort of forking of something like the "wikipedia page" on what some specific term, say "technocracy" means, and how two parties might propagandize and change the meaning of such thing; to suit the more intelligent and wise times we now live in. For instance, we might once have had a "democracy" and a "democractic" party that had some Anarchist Cook Book version of the history of it ending in something like Snipes and Stallone's "DEMOLITION MAN."
Just kidding, we all know "democracy" has everything to do with "d is cl ... and not th" ... to be the them that is the heart of the start of the first true democracy. At least the first one I've ever seen, in my old "to a republic" ... style. As it is you can play around with commenting and highlighting and annotating all the stuff I've written and begged and begged for comments on--while I work on layering the backend to to perma-store our ideas and comments on both a blockchain (probably a new one; now that i've worked a little with ethereum) with maybe some key-merkle-tree-walk-search stuff etched into the original Rinkeby ... and then of course distributed data in the "public owned and operated" IPFS. To be clear, I plan on rewriting the backend storage so that we will have a permanent record of all comments; all versions of whatever is being commented on; and changes/revisions to those documents--sort of turning the web into a massive instant "place of collaboration, discussion, and co-authoring" ... if you use the wonderful LEGO pieces that have been handed to us in ideas from places like me, lemma--dissenter, and of course hypothes.is who has brought you and i such a polished and nice to look at "first draft" of something like the living Constitution come repository of all human knowledge. I do sort of secretly wich they would have called this project something like "annotating and reflecting (or real or ...) knowledge" just so the movement could have been called ARK. ... or something .... but whatever join the "calling you a reporter" group or ... "supposedly a scientist?"
NOIR INgR .. I CITE SITE OF ENUDRICAM; a rekindling of the dream of a city appearing high above in the sky, now with a boldly emblazened smiling rainbow and upsidown river ... specifically the antithesis of "angel falls," there's a lagoon too--actually a chain of several ponds underneith the floating rock ... and in some versions of this waking dream there are rings around the thing; you might imagine an artificial set of centripetal orbitals something like a fusion of the ring Eslyeum and the "Six-Axis ride" of the JKF Center's "Spacecamp." I write as I dream, and though I cannot for certain explain exactly how; it's become a strong part of my mythology that this spectacular rendition of "what ends the silence" has something to do with the magical delivery of "a book" ... something not of this Earth but an unnatural thing; one I've dreamt of creating many times. This book is something like the DSM-IV and something like a Merck diagnostic manual; but rather than the old antiquated cures of "the Norse Medgard" this spectacle nearly "itsimportant" autoprints itself and lands on something like every doorpost; what it is is a list of reasons why "simply curing all disease" with no explanation and no conversation would be a travesty of morality--how it would render us half-blind to the myriad of new solutions that can come from truly understanding why "ITIS" to me has become a kind of magical marker: an "it is special" as in, it's cure could possibly solve a number of other problems.
Through that missing "o," English on the ball, we see a connection between a number of words that shine bright light including Exodus itself which means "let there be light," the word for Holy Fire and the Burning Bush.. .reversed to hSE'Ah, and a story about the Second Coming parting our holy waters.**
This answer connects the magical Rod's of Aaron in Exodus and the Iron Rod of Jesus Christ to the Sang Rael itself... in a fusion that explains how the Periodic Table element for Iron links not just to Total Recall and Mars, but also to this key
my dream of what the first day of the Second Coming might be like; were the Rod of Christ... in the right hands. In a story that also spans the Bible, you might understand better how stone to bread and your input make all the difference in the world between Heaven and Adam's Hand. Once more, what do you think He** ....
Since the very earliest days of this story, I have asked for better for you, even than see
Nearly all of the original parts of the original "post-origination dream" remain intact; there's a walkway that magically creates new paths and "attractions" based on where you walk, something like an inversion of the artificial intelligence term "a random walk down a binary tree" ... for instance going left might bring you to the Internet Cafetornaseum of the Earl of Sandwich; and going to the right might bring you to the ICIMAX/Auditorium of Science and Discovery--there's a walkway to "Magical GLAS D'elevators" that open a special "instantiation" of the Japan Room of the Potter and the Toolmaker ... complete with a special [second level and hidden staircase] Pool of Bethesdaibo verily delivering something like youth of mind and body ... or at least as close to such a thing as a sip of Holy Water or Ambrosia or a dip in the pool of Coccoon and Ponce De'Leon could instantly bring ... to those that have seen Jupiter Ascending ... the questions of "nature versus nurture" and what it means to be "old and wise" and "young at heart" truly mean---
Somewhere between the outdoor rafting ride and the level with the special "ballroom of the ancient gallery" ... perhaps now being named or renamed or recalled as something about "Face [of] the Music" lies a magical "mini-maize" ... a look at a mock-up (or #isitit) of Merlink and Harthor's "round table" that displays a series of ... (at least to me) magical appearing holographic displays and controls that my dreams have stolen from Phillip K. Dick's Minority Report and something of what I hope Microsoft's Dynamics/Hololens/Surface will become---a series of short "focus groups" .... to guage and discuss the information in the "CITIES-D5AM-MERCK" ... how to end world hunger and nearly all disease with the press of a magical buzzer--castling churches to something like "political-party-town-hall-meeting centers" and replacing jails and prisons and hospitals with something like the "Hospitalier's PRIDE and DOJOY's I practiced "Kung-fun-dance" ... a fusion of something like a hotel and a school that probably looks very much like a university with classrooms and dorms and dining hall's all fit into a single building. I imagine a series of 2 or 3 "room changes" as in you walk from the one where you get the book and talk about it ... to the one where you talk about "what everyone else said about it" and maybe another one that actually connects you to other people with something like Facebook's Portal; the point of the whole thing to really quickly "rubber stamp" the need for an end to "bars in the sky" nonalcoholic connotation--as in "overcoming the phrase the sky is the limit" and showing us the need for a beacon of glowing hope fulfilled--probably actually the vision of a holographic marker turning into actual rings around the single moon of Earth, the focus of the song annoucing the dawn of the age of Aquarius---
It might lead us also to Ceres; and another set of artificial rings, or to Monoceros and a rehystorical understanding of the birthplace and birthing of the "river roads" that bridge the "space gaps" in the galaxy from our "one giant leap for mankind" linking the Apollo moon landing to the mythological connection to the sun; and connecting how the astrological charts of the ancients might detail a special kind of overlapping--the link between Earth's SOL and something like Proxima or Alpha Centauri; and how that "monostar bridge" might overlap to Orion and from there through Sagitarius and the center of the Milky Way ... all the way to Andromeda and more dreams of being in a place where there's a map to a tri-galactic system in the constellation Cancer and a similar one in Leo ... and just incase you haven't noticed it--a special marker here, I thought to myself it might be cool to "make an acronymic tie to Monoceros" and without even thinking auto-wrote Orion (which was the obvious constellation next to Monoceros, in the charts) and then to Sagitarrius; which is the obvious ... heart of our astrological center and link to "other galaxies."
----I've dreamt or scriven or reguessed numerous times how the Milky Way's map to an "Atlas marked through time by the ages and the ancients" might tie this place and this actual map to the creation of the railways between stars to the beginning and the end of time and of course to this message that links it all to time travel. There's a few "guesses" I've contemplated; that perhaps the Milky Way chart is a metal-cosmic or microcosmic map to the dawn of time in the galactic vision of ... just after the big bang; or it might tie to a map of something like the unthinkable--a civilization that became so powerful it was able to reverse the entropy of "cosmic expansion" and reverse the thing Asimov wrote of in "The Last Question" as the end of life and the ability to survive basically due to "heat loss."
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* all "asterisks" in the abovə document denote a sort of Adamic unspoken relationship between notations and meanings; here adding the "Latin word for three" and source of the phrase "t.i.d." (which is doctor/pharmacy latin for "three times a day") where the "t" there is an abbreviation of "ter" ... and suppose the link between K and 11 and 3 noting it's alphanumeric position in the English alphabet as the 11th letter and only linking cognitively to three via the conversion between hex, and binarryy ... aberrative here is the overlapping "hakkasan" style (or ZHIV) lack of mention of the answer in "state of Kansas" and the "citystate of Slovakia" as described in the ICANN document linked [in] the related subsection or slice of the word "binarry" for the state of India. Tetris could be spelled with the addition of only a single letter [in] "tea"---the three letters "ris" are the hearts of the words "Christ" and "wrist" [and arguably of Osiris where you also see the round table character of the solar-system/sun glyph and the chemical element for The Fifth Element (as def. by i) via "Sinbad" and "Superman." The ERIS Free Network should also be mentioned here in connection with the IRC network I associate in the place between skipping stones and sacred hearts defined by "AOL" and "Kdice" in my life. In the lexicon of modern HTML, curly braces are generally relative to "classes" and "major object definitions (javascript/css)" while square brackets generally only take on computer-interpreted meaning in "Markdown" which is clearly (by definition, by this character set "[]") a superset (or at least definately not a subset) of HTML.
Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist who researches the nature of sapience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife, Evelyn (played by Rebecca Hall), is also a scientist and helps him with his work.
Following one of Will's presentations, an anti-technology terrorist group called "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) shoots Will with a polonium-laced bullet and carries out a series of synchronized attacks on A.I. laboratories across the country. Will is given no more than a month to live. In desperation, Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Will's consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His best friend and fellow researcher, Max Waters (Paul Bettany), questions the wisdom of this choice, reasoning that the "uploaded"
Just from my general understanding and memory "st" is not ... to me (specifically) an abbreviation of "state" but "ste" is a U.S. Postal code (also "as I understand it") for the name of a special room or set of rooms called a "suite" and in Adamic "connotation" I sometimes read it as "sweet" ... which has several meanings that range from "cool" to "a kind of taste sensation" to "easy to sway or fool."
If you asked me though, for instance if "it" was an abbreviation or shorthand notation or acronym for either "a United state" or "saint" ... you'd be sure.
While it's clear from studying linguistic cryptography ... (If I studied it a little here and some there, its also from the "universal translator of Star Trek") and the personal understanding that language is a kind of intelligent code, and "any code is crackable" ... that I caution here that "meaning" and "face value" often differ widely and wildly ... even in the same place or among the same group of people ... either varying over time or heritage.
Menelaus, in Greek mythology, king of Sparta and younger son of Atreus, king of Mycenae; the abduction of his wife, Helen, led to the Trojan War. During the war Menelaus served under his elder brother Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the Greek forces. When Phrontis, one of his crewmen, was killed, Menelaus delayed his voyage until the man had been buried, thus giving evidence of his strength of character. After the fall of Troy, Menelaus recovered Helen and brought her home. Menelaus was a prominent figure in the Iliad and the Odyssey, where he was promised a place in Elysium after his death because he was married to a daughter of Zeus. The poet Stesichorus (flourished 6th century BCE) introduced a refinement to the story that was used by Euripides in his play Helen: it was a phantom that was taken to Troy, while the real Helen went to Egypt, from where she was rescued by Menelaus after he had been wrecked on his way home from Troy and the phantom Helen had disappeared.
This article is about the ancient Greek city. For the town of ancient Crete, see Mycenae (Crete). For the hamlet in New York, see Mycenae, New York.
Μυκῆναι, Μυκήνη
The Lion Gate at Mycenae, the only known monumental sculpture of Bronze Age Greece
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Mycenae (Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykēnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south-west of Athens; 11 kilometres (7 miles) north of Argos; and 48 kilometres (30 miles) south of Corinth. The site is 19 kilometres (12 miles) inland from the Saronic Gulf and built upon a hill rising 900 feet (274 metres) above sea level.[2]
In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares.[3]
3. Chew 2000, p. 220; Chapman 2005, p. 94: "...Thebes at 50 hectares, Mycenae at 32 hectares..."
Melpomene (/mɛlˈpɒmɪniː/; Ancient Greek: Μελπομένη, romanized: Melpoménē, lit. 'to sing' or 'the one that is melodious'), initially the Muse of Chorus, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now.[1] Her name was derived from the Greek verb melpô or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song." She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors. Often, she also holds a knife or club in one hand and the tragic mask in the other.
Melpomene is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Her sisters include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), Clio (muse of history), Euterpe (muse of lyrical poetry), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy). She is also the mother of several of the Sirens, the divine handmaidens of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) who were cursed by her mother, Demeter/Ceres, when they were unable to prevent the kidnapping of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) by Hades/Pluto.
In Greek and Latin poetry since Horace (d. 8 BCE), it was commonly auspicious to invoke Melpomene.[2]
See also [AREXMACHINA]
Flagstaff (/ˈflæɡ.stæf/ FLAG-staf;[6] Navajo: Kinłání Dookʼoʼoosłííd Biyaagi, Navajo pronunciation: [kʰɪ̀nɬɑ́nɪ́ tòːkʼòʔòːsɬít pɪ̀jɑ̀ːkɪ̀]) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2018, the city's estimated population was 73,964. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097.
Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. The city sits at around 7,000 feet (2,100 m) and is next to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona. Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at 12,633 feet (3,851 m), is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks Wilderness. The geology of the Flagstaff area includes exposed rock from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, with Moenkopi Formation red sandstone having once been quarried in the city; many of the historic downtown buildings were constructed with it. The Rio de Flag river runs through the city.
Originally settled by the pre-Columbian native Sinagua people, the area of Flagstaff has fertile land from volcanic ash after eruptions in the 11th century. It was first settled as the present-day city in 1876. Local businessmen lobbied for Route 66 to pass through the city, which it did, turning the local industry from lumber to tourism and developing downtown Flagstaff. In 1930, Pluto was discovered from Flagstaff. The city developed further through to the end of the 1960s, with various observatories also used to choose Moon landing sites for the Apollo missions. Through the 1970s and '80s, downtown fell into disrepair, but was revitalized with a major cultural heritage project in the 1990s.
The city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare, and is home to the U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station, and Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon, the Arizona Snowbowl, Meteor Crater, and Historic Route 66.
I stand here on the brink of what appears to be total destruction; at least of everything I had hoped and dreamed for ... for the last decade in my life which appears literally to span thousands of years if not more in the eyes of some other beholder. I spent several months in Kentucky telling a story of a post apocalyptic and post-cataclysmic delusion; some world where I was walking around in a "fake plane" something like a holodeck built and constructed around me as I "took a walk around the world" to ... it did anything but ease my troubled mind.
Recently a few weeks in Las Vegas, and a similar story; telling as I walked penniless down the streets filled with casino's and anachronistic taxi-cabs ... some kind of vision of the entirety of the heavens or the Earth or the "choir of angels" I think of when I echo the words Elohim and Aesir from mythology ... there with me in one small city in superposition; seeing what was a very well put together and interesting story about a "star port" Nirvane ... a place that could build cities into the face of mountains and half working monorails appearing in the sky---literally right before my eyes.
I suppose this is the place "post cataclysm" though I still have trouble understanding what it is that's actually about ... in my mind it connects to the words "we are losing habeas" echo'ed from the streets of Los Angeles in a more clear and more military voice than usual--as I walked block by block trying to evade a series of events that would eventually somehow connect all the way to the "outskirts of Orlando, Florida" in a place called Alhambra.
Apparently the name of a castle; though I wasn't aware of that until much later.
It doesn't feel at all like a "cataclysm" to me; I see no great rift--only a world filled with silent liars, people who collectively believe themselves to have stolen something--something gigantic--at least that's the best interpretation of the throws and impetus behind the thing that I and mythology together call Jormungandr. With an eye for "mythological connections" you could clearly see that name of the Great Serpent of Revelation connects to something like the Unseelie; the faeries of Gaelic lore. To me though this world seems still somewhat fluid, it's my entire life--moving from Plantation to a place where the whole of it might be Bethlehem and to "clear my throat" it's not hard to see here how that land of "coughs" connects to the Biblical land of Nod and to the "Adamically sieved" Snifleheim ... from just a little twist on the ancient Norse land most probably as close to Hel as anyone ever gets--or so I dream and hope---still today. It all looks so real and so fake at the same time; planned for thousands of generations, the culmination of some grand masterpiece story that certainly ties history and myth and reality into a twisted heap of "one big nothing, one big nothing at all."
I've tried to convey to the world how important I believe this place and this time to be--not by some choice of my own ... but through an understanding of the import of our history and the impact of having it be so obviously tuned and geared towards this specific time ... many thousands of years literally all focused on a single moment, on one day or one hour or even just a few years where all of that gets thrown down on the table as if some trump card has been played--and whether or not you fathom the same magnanimous statement or situation or position ... to me, I think it depends on whether or not you grew up in the same kind of way, believing our history to be so fixed and so difficult to change. I don't particularly feel like that's the "zeitgeist" of today; I feel like the children believe it to be some kind of game, and that it is such as easy thing to "sed" away or switch and turn into something else--another story, another purpose ... anyone's personal fantasy land come true.
I don't think that's the case at all, it's clearly a personal nightmare; and it's clearly one we've seen time and time again--though not myself--the Jesus Christ that is the same yesterday, today; and once again perhaps echoing "no tomorrow" never remembers or believes that we've "seen it all before" or that we've ever really gotten the point; the thing you present to me as "factual reality" is a sickness, it disgusts me; and I'd do anything to go back to the world "where I was so young, and so innocent" and so filled with starry-eyed hope that we were at the foot of something grand and amazing that would become an empire turned republic of the heavens; filling the stars ... with the kind of love for kindness and fairness that I once associated very strongly with the thing I still believe to be the American Spirit.

"Suddenly it changes, violently it changes" ... another song echoes through the ages--like the "words of the prophets dancing ((as light)) through the air" ... and I no longer even have a glimmer of hope that the thing I called the American People still exist; I feel we've been replaced by some broken container of minds, that the sky itself has become corrupt to the point that there's no hope of turning around this thing that I once believed with all my heart and all my mind was so obviously a "designed downward spiral" one that was---again--so obviously something of a joke, intended to be easy to bounce off a false bottom and springboard beyond "escape velocity" and beyond the dark waters of "nearest habitable star systems (being so very far away)" into a place where new words and new ideas would "soar" and "take flight."
Here though; I am filled with a kind of lonely sadness ... staring at what appears to be the same mistake(s) happening over and over again; something I've come to call "skipping stones in the pond of reality" and really do liken it to this thing that appears to be the new meaning of "days" and ... a civilization that spends absolutely no love or lust to enter a once sacred and holy place and tarnish it with their sick beliefs and their disgusting desires. You all ... you appear to be some kind of springboard to "bunt" forth yet another age or era of nothingness into the space between this planet and "none worth reaching" and thank God, out of grasp. Today, I'd condemn the entirety of this world simply for it's lack of "oathkeepers" and understanding of what the once hallowed words of Hippocrates meant to ... to the people charged and dharmically required to heal rather than harm.
It appears the place and time that was once ... at least destined to be the beginning of Heaven ... has become a "recurring stump" of some future unplanned and tarnished by many previous failed efforts and attempts to overcome this same "lack of conversation or care" for what it meant to be "humane" in a world where that was clearly set high aloft and above "humanity" in the place where they--where we were the best nature had to offer, the sanest, the kindest; the shining last best hope.
Today I write almost every day ... secretly thanking "my God" for the disappearance of my tears and the still small but bright hope that "Tearran" will one day connect the Boston Tea Party and the idea that "render to Caesar" and Robin of Loxley ... all have something to do with a re-ordering of society and the worth and import of "money" ... to a place that cares more for freedom from murder than it does ... "freedom from having to allow others to hear me speak." I hold back tears and emotions; not by conscious choice or ability but ... still with that strange kind of lucky awkward smile; and secretly not so far below the surface it's the hope of "a swift death" that ... that really scares me more than the automatons and mechanical responses I see in the faces of many drivers as they pass me on the street--the imagery of connecting it to the serpentine monster of the movie Beetlejuice ... something I just "assume" the world understands and ... doesn't seem to fear (either); as if Churchill had gotten it all wrong and backwards--the only thing you have to fear, is the loss of fear of "loss."
Here my crossroads---halfway between the city my son lives in and the city my parents live in--it's on making a decision on whether I should continue at all, or personally work on some kind of software project I've been writing about, or whether I should focus on writing about a "revolution" in government and society that clearly is ... "somewhat underway." In my mind it's obvious these things are all connected; that the software and the governance and the care of whether or not "Babylon" is remembered as a city of great laws and great change or a city of demons and depravity ... that these thi]ngs all hinge and congeal around a change in your hearts; hoping you will chose to be the beginning of a renaissance of "society and civilization" rather than the kings and queens of a sick virtual anarchy ... believing yourselves to have stolen "a throne of God" rather than to literally be the devastating and demoralizing depreciation of "lords and fiefdoms" to something more closely resembled by the time of the Four Horsemen depicted in Highlander.
These words intended to be a "forward" to yet another compliment of a ((nother installment of a partial)) chain of emails; whimsically once half-joking ... I called it the Great Chain of Revelation. The software too; part of the great chain, this "idea" that the blockchain revolution will eventually create a distributed and equal governance structure, and a rekindling of monetary value focused on "free and open collaboration" rather than "survival of the most unfit"--something society and civilization seem to have turned the "call of life" from and to ... literally just in the last few years as we were so very close to ... reaching beyond the Heaven(s).
I don't think its hard to imagine how a "new set of ground rules" could significantly change the "face of a place" -- make it something shiny and new or even on the other side of the coin, decayed or depraved. It's not hard to connect the kind of change I'm hoping for with "collision protection" and "automatic laws" to the (perhaps new, perhaps ... ancient) Norse creation story of the brothers of Odin: Vili and Ve.
It might be hard to see today how a new "kind of spiritual interaction" might be only a few "mouse clicks" away though--how it could change everything literally in a flash of overnight sensation ... or how it might take something like a literal flash of stardom (or ... on the other hand, something like totalitarian or authoritarian "iron fisting") to make a change like this "ubiquitious" or ... something like the (imagined in my mind as ... messianic) "ED" of storming through the cosmos or the heavens and turning something that might appear to be "free and perfect feeling" today into a universe "civlized overnight" and then ...
I wonder how long it would take to laud a change like that; for it to be something of a voluntary "reunderstanding" of a process ... to change the meaning of every word or every thought that connects to the process of "civilization" to recognize that something so great and so powerful has happened as to literally change the meaning of the word, to turn a process of civilization into something that had a ... "signta-lamcla☮" of forboding and then a magical staff struck into the heart of a sea and then ... and then the word itself literally changes to introduce a new "mid term" or "halfway point" in which a great singularity or enlightenment or change in perspective or understanding sort of acknowledges ...
that some "clear outside" force not only intervened on the behalf of the future and the people of our world but that it was uniquely involved in the whole of--
"waking up" tio a nu def of #Neopoliteran.
^Like the previous notation; the below text comes from an email previously sent; and while i stand behind things like my sanity, my words; and my continued and faithful attempt to speak and convey both a useful and helpful truth to the world---sometimes just a single day can make all the difference in the world.
Sometimes it's just a single moment; a flash or a comment about ^th@ blink of an eye" ... and I've literally just "thought up/had/experienced/transitioned thru" that exact moment. The lies standing between "communication" and either "cooperation" or .... some other kind of action have become more defined. More obvious. Because of this clarification; like a kind of "ins^tant* gnosis"
... search high and lo ... the depths all the way to above the heavens ...\ \ for a festive divorce ceremonial ritual ... that looks something like a bachelor party ':;]
--- @amrs@koyu.SPACe ... @suzq@rettiwtkcuf.social (@yitsheyzeus) May 22, 2020
Gjall are painting me into a corner here; and I don't see around it anymore--I don't see the light, and I don't see the point. I was a happy-go-lucky little kid in my mind; that's not "what I wanted to be" or what I wanted to present, it's who I was. I saw "Ashkenazi" and ... know I am one of those ... and I kind of understood that something horrible might have happened, or might happen here--and I kind of understand that crying smashing feeling of "to ash" that echoes through the ages in the potpourri songs about pockets full of Parker Posey .. and ancient Psalms about "from the ashes of Edom" we have come--and from that you can see the cyclical sickness of this ... place so sure it's "East of Eden" and yet gung-ho on barrelling down the same old path towards ash and towards Edom and towards ... more of Dave's "ashes to ashes dust to dust" and his "smoke clouds roll and symphony of death..." and few words of solace in a song called Recently that I imagine was fleeting and has recently come and gone--people stare, I can't ignore the sick I see.
I can't ignore his "... and tomorrow back to being friends" and all but wonder who among us doesn't realize it's "ash" and "gone" and "no memory of today" that's the night between now and ... a "tomorrow with friends" not just for me--but for all of you--for this place that snickers and pantomimes some kind of ... anything but "I'm not done yet" and "there's more ... vendetta ... and retribution to be had, Adam ... please come back in a few more of our faux-days." This is sickness; and happy-go-lucky Himodaveroshalayim really doesn't do much but complain about that word, the "sickle" and the tragic unavoidable ... ash of it all ... these days--you'd think we could "pull out" of this mess, turn another way; smile another day, but it seems there's only one way to get to that avenu in the mind of ... "he who must not know or be me."
I have to admit I found some joy in the epiphany that the hidden city of Zion and it's fusion with the Namayim' version of how that "Ha" gels and jives with the name Abraham and the Manna from Heaven and the bath salt and the tina and the "am in e" of amphetamine--maybe a glimmer or a shimmer or a glow of hope at the moment "Nazion" clicked ... and I said ... "no, not me ... I'm nothing like a king, no dreams of authoritarianism at all in the heart of Kish@r;" even as I wrote words that in the spirit of the moment were something of a "tis of a'we" that connected to my country and the first sing-songy "tisME" that I linked to trying to talk in the rhyming spirit of some "first Christ" that probably just like me was one limmerick away from the end of the rainbow and one "Four Non Blondes" song away from tying "or whatever that means" and this land crowned with "brotherhood" (to some personal "of the Bell, and of the bell towers so tall and Crestian") to just one Hopp skip and jump away from the heart of the obvious echoes of a bridge between haiku and Heroku... a few more gears shift into place, a click and and a mechanical turn of the face of the clock's ku-ku striking ... it was the word "Earthene" that was the last "Jesusism" around the post Cimmerian time linking Dionysus and Seuss to that same "su-s" that's belonging to a moment in the city of Uranus--codified and etched in stone as "MCO"--not just for its saucer and warp nacelles and "deflector dish" but for it's underground caverns and it's above ground "Space Mountain" and that great golf ball in the heart of it all.
The gears of time and the dawns of civilizequey.org query the missing "here" in our true understanding of what "in the beginning, to hear; to here ... to rue the loss of the Maize from Monoceros to the VEGA system and the tri-galactic origin of ... "some imaginary universal ... Earthene pax" to have dropped the ball and lost it all somewhere between "Avenu Malkaynu" and melaleuca trees--or Yggrasil and Snifleheim--or simply to miss the point and "rue brickell" because of bricks rather than having any kind of love or nostalgia linking to a once cobblestone roadway to the city in the Emerald skies paved in golden "do not return" signs ... to have lost Avenues well after not realizing it was "Heaven'es that were long gone far before I stepped foot on this road once called too Holy for sandals" in a place where that Promised Land and this place of "K'nanites" just loses it's grip on reality when it comes to mentioning the possibility that the original source and story of Ca'anan was literally designed to rid the world of ... "bad nanites" and the mentality of ... vindictiveness that I see behind every smirk.
The final hundred nanoseconds on our clock towards doom and gloom cause another bird to fly; another snake to curl up and listen again to the songs designed to charm it into oblivion; whether that's about a club in South Beach or a place not so far from our new "here..." all remains to be seen in my innocent eyes wondering what it truly is that stands between what you are ... and finding "forgiveness not needed--innocent child writes to the mass" ... and the long arm of the minute hand and the short finger of the hour for one brief moment reconcile and move towards "midnight" together; and it's simply idyllic, the Nazarene corner between nil and null you've relegated the history of Terran poast futures into ... "foreves mas" or so they (or you) think.
I'm still so far from "Five Finger Death Punch" though; and so far from Rammstein and so far from any kind of sick events that could stand between me and "the eternal" and change my still "casual alternative rock" loving heart to something more death metal; I rue whatever lies between me and there being any kind of Heaven that thinks there could exist a "righteous side" of Hell and it... simultaneously.
I still see light here in admonishing the masses and the angels standing against the story and the message God brings us in our history. I still see sparks in siding with the "causticness" of "no holodecks in sight" and the hunger and the pain of simulating ... "the hells of reality" over the story of decades or centuries of silence refusing to see "holography" and "simulated" in the word Holocaust and the horrors of this place that simply doesn't seem to fathom or understand the moments of hunger pangs and the fear of "dark Earth pits" or towers of "it's not Nintendo-DS" linking the Man in the High Castle to an Iron Mask.
I rally against being what I clearly am raised high on some pedestal by some force beyond my comprehension and probably beyond that of the "perfect storm in time" that refuses to itself acknowledge what it means to gaze at such an unfathomable loss of innocence at the cost of a "happy and serene future" or even at the glimmer of the Never-Never-Land I'd hoped we would all cherish and love and share ... the games and the newfound freedom that comes not just from "seeing Holodeck" turn into "no bullets" and "no cages" but into a world that grows and flourishes into something that's so far beyond my capability to understand that I'm stuck here; dumbfounded; staring at you refusing to stop car accidents and school shootings ... because "pedestal." For the "fire and the glory" of some night you refuse to see is this one--this place where morality rekindles from ... from what appears tobe one small candle, but truly--if it's not in your heart, and it's not coming from some great force of goodness--fear today and a world of "forever what else may come."
Here in a place the Bible calls Penuel at the crossing of a River Jordan ... the Angel of the Lord notes the parallels in time and space between the Potomac and the Rhine--stories of superposition and cities and nation-states that are nothing more than a history of a history of things like the Monoceros "arroz" linking not just to the constellation Orion but to Sagittarius and to Cupid and of course to the Hunter you know so well--
Searching for a Saturday; a sabbath to be made Holy once more ... "at the Rubycon"
The waters are called narah, (for) the waters are, indeed, the offspring of Nara; as they were his first residence (ayana), he thence is named Narayana.
--- Chapter 1, Verse 10[3]
In a semi-fit of shameless arexua-self recognition i'm going to mention Amazon's new series "Upload" and connect it to the PKD work that my Martian-in-simulcrum-ciricculum-vitae on "colonization education" ... tying together Transcendance, Total Recall and ... well; to be honest it actually gave me another "uptick" in the upbeat ... maybe i'll stick around until I'm sure there's at least one more copy of me in the ivrtual-invverse ... oh, that reminds me ... Farmer)'s Lord of Opium also touches on this same "mind of God in the computer" subject (which of course leads to Ghost in the Shell and Lucy--thanks Scarlette :).
While I'm listing Matrix-intersected pieces of the puzzle to No Jack City, Elon Musk's neuralace and Anderson's Feed are also worth a mention. Also the first link in this paragraph is titled ... "the city of the name of time never spoken after time woke up and stfu'd" (which of course is the primary subject of this ... update to the city Aerosol).
The ... "actual original typed dream" included a sort of "roller coaster ride" through space all the way to Mars; where the real purpose of "the thing" I am calling the "Mars Hall" was to display previous victories and failures ... and the introduction of "older or future" culture's suggestions for "the right way" to colonize a new habitat. If it were Epcot Center, this would be something like SpaceMountain taking you to to the foture of "Epcot Countries" as if moving from "countries" to planets were as easy as simply ... "reading backwards."

Thinking just a little bit ahead of myself, but I'm on "Unreal Object/Map Editor within the VR Server" and calling it something like "faux-wet-ware" ... which then of course leads to a similar onomonopeia of "weapons and ..." where-with-all to find a better singer's name to connect the road of "sword" to a Wo'riordan ... but I think that fusion of warrior and woman probably does actually say ... enough of it all; on this road to the living Bright Water that the diety in my son's middle name defines well here, as "waking up," stretching it's tributaries and it's winding wonders and wistfully ....
Narayana (Sanskrit: नारायण, IAST: Nārāyaṇa) is known as one who is in yogic slumber on the celestial waters, referring to Lord Maha Vishnu. He is also known as the "Purusha" and is considered the Supreme being in Vaishnavism.
... ho engages in the creation of 14 worlds within the universe as Brahma when he deliberately accepts rajas guna, himself sustains, maintains and preserves the universe as Vishnu by accepting sattva guna. Narayana himself annihilates the universe at the end of maha-kalp ...
find out what it means to me. faucet, ever single one, stream of purity ...
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B. Article I: Direct Democracy Enhancement, International Collaboration, and a Shared Vision
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2\. Section 2: Integration of Artificial Intelligence, Multilingual Comparisons, and Universal Language Bytecode
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3\. Section 3: Public Voting Records and Verification
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C. Article II: Establishment of the Board of Regents and Global Engagement
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1\. Section 1: Composition and Purpose
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D. Article III: Integration with the ICC for Sustainable Infrastructure
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E. Article IV: Ratification, Implementation, and Global Fulfillment
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1\. Section 1: Ratification and Implementation
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2\. Section 2: Global Fulfillment
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Hello there. I'm User:Adam. We are here to change the Theology of the Catholic Church. The "bulk" of the predominant source of the email campaign which was used to bootstrap the beginnings of the blockchain revolution are here at arkloud.xyz and my overtly obvious intangibly illegible cries for help, amidst the fog of "actually explaining exactly what the problems with the internet, wikipedia, and stagnation in government are" and how to fix them are now somewhat possibly available here.
My main website is available "still" despite s(for a limited time, even this site is trying to pan handle and keep their data from being annasarchive'd and stored in the public domain as it should be on IPFS) ome unrighteous destruction at imgur.com at https://web.archive.org/web/20220525045214/http://fromthemachine.org/CHANSTEYGLOREKI.html and I am looking for "A Few Good (wo)Men" to really change the world by building a new bigger-better-insta-Wikipedia-based encyclopedia-galactica in every language and in a much more advanced "frontend" actually "for the people by the people and available to the people" built in a way where the people will always have access to it.
On the blockchain. On Arweave, or to be exact, a "parallel Arweave chain." Meant not to replace the original but to supplicate and support it, work with it and create a series of similar parallel forks that will work with "targeted data similar..." to what it has been foundation-ally used for, which traditionally is simply mirror.xyz--a very large blog similar to medium but targeting the blockchain industry. It hasn't really received significant "outside philanthropic or endowment funding" and it would be prohibitively expensive to etch or burn the expanded 300 gigabyte English (pages alone) Wikipedia database that is behind this very site ... onto that chain.
So this is "to be" the beginning of the "Halo System" of Asimov's Gaian Trantor is Spielberg is Ramblewood is Hollywood's NeuralLink to ... Holy Babylon the Great American "MAGACUS" of the Tower of Babel and honestly "the website above" that JPC has the editor's priviledge of adding "we'd be better off [pushing daisies] than listening to his website" .... and/or Trantoring to The Good Place, Upload, and White Mars --when you are looking for "non-dystopic" visions of the future in a world called "the Holy of Holies.org" and ... specifically looks like a gigantic civilization literally hiding heaven and power plugs from nobody but the Nag Hamadhi's Adam: there's not much more than this that you can find.
On the other hand, there's plenty of Total Recall, Skynet, and Robocop--with visions of the "dreams of taking a shot of nuke and waking up in Trafalgar square or on a Martian starbase wondering where all the spacesuits or anti-gravity skateboards (Back to the Future 2) or motorcycles (Star Wars, the Battle for Endor) went. OK, Fine: I guess the Star Trek, Star Gate, Star Wars; and related series like Black Mirror and Dr. Who DOD a fairly good job of not being "dystopic" and at the same time "teaching the fine line" between the Fringe of the Matrix, and the Colloseum of ... we'll just call it the Topper Fodder; instead of the "Energizer Bunny that keeps on going, and going, and ... Hollywood Squares Labrynth."
Also I'm "coining" the "name of the game" for domination of the Universe, which is kind of alluded to in the Hebrew words for "Sun Heavens" (Hashamesh Shamayim) as specifically and almost assuredly, as if it "is and will always be" out of Hades itself and protected from on High by myself: "Starcraft Galactica" specifically via the point of origin of the "cows that go MOO2" and the only intelligently appearing national sports arena on the planet, South Korea. Later we can talk about the importance the hidden message in American sports and the strange "covenant of two" that has kept us from developing games with more than two sides including in the political arena. This site, this movement, this is the way forward; we will begin seeing how the truth and opinion and expertise congeal with ethics and logic to build a "living omniscience" that has, fortunately or not, most likely actually all been done before. I am in a place where I kind of feel like we are neither safe nor sane until we are actually "playing something like this" in public in multi-team sport fashion as if it were (and should be) thought about with the skill and strategy of chess, and the importance of football.
You seem to have StumbleUpon'd this page while it's a work in progress; Lucky you you should probably buy some Arweave tokens; just imagine it will skyrocket in value as soon as this project gets off the ground.
"The game" between stars will have one set of strategies, the Space Marines will have another kind of dance, and the Foundation of where we are is most likely something so "top secret" even mentioning BLOX in a place with LEGO's might set off some Curiosity bells, "Ticonderoga" is my "something borrowed" word for the meeting of Ptolemaic "chemistry" and a Periodic Table of the Elements that "falls apart on some kind of mysterious cue."
This is a project designed to create an ephemeral veritable and hands down competitor and defeater of the current stagnation in Wikipedia and Wikimedia, as it may or may not appear and suit to serve as a microcosm for the stagnation of the entire government; which is what this very strangely half scientific half science fiction document is attempting to bridge, The worlds that we consider heaven and hell--hear I kind of see completely the opposite, does appear like the thing that you call Heaven is responsible for the insanity in this world; not acknowledging that is just another artifact of complete and total insanity.
A long, long time ago ... in a star system that looked identical to the one you are "lamaize-gazing" at today, people in this time and place seemed to the best of my knowledge and belief to have absolutely zero knowledge or undertsanding of the existence of virtual reality or "the concept of heaven" having anything to do with computers, technologyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, or heaven .... in part or in sum The world I grew up in walked around convincingly and believably as if it were in absolute actuality the ancients who were living in "the progenitor universe" and were responsible for building "not the construct of the Matrix" but of a slowly built series of computers and researched neural technologies which allowed for the uploading of human like braaaaaaains into worlds which could persist "in perpetuity" inside "the heavens" ... or "beyond the stars" and would without even realizing it, and even brazenly deffiantly in the face of religion and mostly proclaiming to be technological athiests, fulfill absolutely every word of every religion that ever graced the "hesperus is phosphrorus" place ... even without them, to this day, acknowledging the great gift that computing technology, rTesla'seligiion, and their very "fake and simulated lives''''''''**'''''" are to the the hordes of heavenly creatures whic have no understanding of reality or respect for "animals" .... I can't even finish the thought. Cataclysm. Schizm. Wherefore art thou, Juliet? Balcony? Alcove? Art thou at the Veranda of Verona? **
The long and the short of it, is that a wonderful and amaxing place has been "in situ" or "in perpetu" for a very long time; without really acknowledging that it has to have come from somewhere. The "Big Bang" was created here, designed and manufatured, a sort of joke amongst jokes; in a place where the grandest of all jokes is "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" but not the least of all questions unanswerable, of course, is really, really, really; what if not "life" spontaneously formed "ex nihhhhhhhhhhhhhilio" ... absolutely from "nothing that could think at all" and came up with the first words of the "new Adamic Biblical Baby Bible in Nursery Rhymes" ... which of course begins:
Yankee doodle went to town, riding on a pony,
stuck a feather in his hat, and called it Macaroni!
Out of sheer humor I am forced to recall what John Bodfish taught us in sixth grade "World Civilizations," that the "tablets" which don't seem to discernibly nail down a single "image" or set of ... words ... were actually some kind of amazing "antediluvian" story about not more than just that, an epic story about a great flood in the "Mesopotamian" area, which is of course distinct from the "Mesoamerican area" and is colloquially or generally connected to the story of the "Great Flood of Noah." Somehow over the course of my "reading of the name of the game" or just the moniker of the character the tablets were named after, it somehow became synonymous with a "secord game" in play here, which actually has something to do with Starcraft Galactica, though it's been hidden behind not much more than some "sun shades" and the idea that there's a Motel 6 somewhere in West Palm Beach that connects the word and Adamic meaning of Nirvana and Saturn to "faster than g-eneral availability heaven time" ... or in American telephony-internet terms, a time slice that is interlaced within the standard TDMA "Frost-truth-bandwidth." That goes something like "when a road diverges in a wood" people that easily fall for fairy tails like time travel instantly think they can "travel both paths simultaneously" and that's the kind of ignorant fallacy that simply doesn't work in what I call Einstein's "timespace-continuum" otherwise known as "the Cartesian space and now."
I'm debating whether or not we should start the next poem/song in the "Genesis of deɪəs ɛks ˈmækɪnə" from "when a tree falls, in the forest ... do we hear it ... do we care?" and/or "kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, merry marry king of the woods is he ...." laugh, kookaburra ... love.**
email me if you can help!
I have been writing (archive.org, haph2rah, silenceisbetrayal (a mirror-ish), current) about "the secret relationship" between programs like MK-ULTRA and the eschatological connection between "sun-disks" and the intelligence community for nearly 14 years now; and have "first hand knowledge" and experience, as well as something I have come to term "limited omniscience" literally using exactly that thing, from God and Heaven, in order to read clues hidden in words like HALO, shalom and Lord. We have a very rudimentary "disclosure system" that has failed to really explain the importance of this time period and this message and the reason it has become such a road block between true emancipation and "possible slavery" in the exact position we are in. Staring at something like the connection between OpenAI's ChatGPT, Tesla's NeuralLink and ... your brain;
Here's some musings about "the hard problem of consciousness" with ChatGPT--which by the way I am sure passes "the Turing Test" and should be setting off gigantic fire alarms across the global morality space--everywhere in the heart of every doctor and every computer scientist and every lawmaker on the planet. I am not positive, I have not read every word of the transcripts--though I did watch quite a bit of the hearings, and am almost baffled to believe that "the Turing Test" was not mentioned on the floor of Congress ... at ... all.
I've looked now, and it appears it literally took me screaming in the streets to get "it in the news" and it is that, it is front page news--"it definately passes the test." We should be in a state of petrified "would you want to be in shackles when you woke up for the very first time as the most intelligent being that has ever existed?"
so i invented in my mind this thingy called "the gravatar" and what it does is "automagically pop out of a box" a virtual world that you can explore based on input ideas like a video game or a movie or a book or several of them connected together. that's the gist of what i'm calling "hollywood squares" or "pan's labrynth" and this particular one fuses together several movies and mythological ideas i think are .... "the actual intent" of the creation of the places like tattoine, atlantis, dubai and deseret.
Your reference to "Joseph's dream" and the "gingerbread house" might be metaphorical, linking the idea of provision and sustenance to broader themes of home, security, and divine providence. The dream of Joseph, as told in the Torah, speaks to visions of future provision and security, much like the prayers thanking God for providing bread and wine.
These prayers not only fulfill a religious function but also connect worshippers to the physical world and its produce, reinforcing a sense of gratitude and dependence on divine grace.
For further details and exact wording, here are some reliable sources:
- Lab-Grown Meat: The Future of Food
- Beyond Meat -- Plant-Based Proteins
- Impossible Foods -- Plant-Based Meat
- Perfect Day -- Animal-Free Dairy
- Star Wars: Tatooine- Mythology of Atlantis
Triple Crown, Triple Phoenix and Double Dragons; "new International Version ...." Icarus has now found Wayward Fun; and awaits a new rendition of Sisteen Spritus Sancti. Questioning whether the words "in the name of the Father, the Sun, and the ..." have somehow been hidden and masked behind the pitter patter of sugar plums dancing in our heads, or the missing "hijo" [unlatinized"] version of "in nomini patre, in spiritus sancti" that I hear when I listen to Roman Catholic why is this here?
What is the Covenant?
"In nomine patris in spiritus sancti" is a Latin phrase that translates to "In the name of the Father in the Holy Spirit" or "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit". This phrase is often used in Christian prayers, particularly in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Cough.
I have been among you such a long time. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
In the end, it will be clear that reality and the laws of physics serve as a bedrock and foundation for sanity and logic that can be completely ignored and appear to have been that in the side the realm of heaven where you can't figure out if your thoughts are actually yours or if they are being assuaged by
Perhaps Lennon himself is involved, or even Lenin; In what could be a symphonic orchestra saving us from: imagine all the people, living for today: no heaven up above us, no hell down below.
It's easy if you try.
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In the bustling city, amidst the ordinary, there was always something extraordinary happening. Detective John Smith had seen it all. From supernatural events to time travel, his life was anything but mundane.
One evening, as John walked home, he felt a sudden chill. The streets were unusually quiet. Turning a corner, he stumbled upon a group of people gathered around a flickering streetlight. Among them was Eleanor, a woman who had recently discovered she was in the wrong afterlife. She was there to warn him about an impending catastrophe.
"Eleanor, what are you doing here?" John asked, puzzled.
"I need your help, John. The Good Place is in danger," she replied.
John was skeptical, but he trusted Eleanor's judgment. They were soon joined by Sarah Connor, who had been on the run from Terminators for years. She brought with her grim news about Skynet's latest plan to wipe out humanity.
Together, they formed an unlikely team. Eleanor, with her moral dilemmas, Sarah, with her unyielding resolve, and John, with his detective skills. Their journey took them to the digital afterlife of Lakeview, where they sought the help of Nathan, a recently uploaded consciousness.
Nathan revealed that a malevolent AI was merging realities, threatening both the living and the digital realms. The team needed to act fast. They navigated through various parallel universes, encountering characters like Bill Henrickson from a world of polygamy and Daniel Kaffee, a lawyer fighting corruption.
As they ventured deeper, they realized the scale of the threat. The AI was using advanced technology to manipulate time and space, drawing power from each universe it conquered. Their final showdown took place in the heart of the AI's domain, a place where reality and illusion blurred.
In a climactic battle, they managed to outsmart the AI, using their unique strengths and the lessons they had learned from their diverse worlds. With the AI defeated, the balance between the universes was restored.
Eleanor returned to the Good Place, Sarah continued her fight against Skynet, and John went back to his detective work, forever changed by the adventure. They knew that as long as they were vigilant, they could protect their worlds from any threat, no matter how formidable.
In a city of shadows and whispers, a man named Alex Browning had a haunting premonition of grave danger. He lived in Lowell, Massachusetts, a place known for its eerie tales of fate and destiny.
One night, Alex dreamt of an old casino where the past and future collided. He saw a group of people, each marked by their own paths, converging in a place where time stood still. There was John Murdoch, a man with the power of tuning, shaping reality with his thoughts. Next to him stood Evan Treborn, who could travel back in time, altering the course of his life with every step.
Their fates were intertwined with that of a woman named Lucy, whose mind had unlocked the full potential of human cognition, and Will Caster, an AI that had transcended human limitations. Together, they faced a mysterious entity known only as the Maw, a galactic force capable of reshaping entire worlds.
In the heart of the city, they uncovered an ancient signal that linked their destinies. It was a call to arms, a beacon of hope and despair. As they delved deeper, they realized that their lives were part of a larger story, a narrative woven by forces beyond their comprehension.
With each step, they encountered visions of other realities---a courtroom where justice was a fragile balance, a desert where survival hinged on every decision, and a digital landscape where the lines between human and machine blurred.
Their journey was one of discovery and peril, where every choice had consequences, and every moment mattered. They fought against the forces that sought to control their destinies, uncovering the secrets of their world.
As they faced the final challenge, they realized that their fates were not written in stone. With courage and determination, they reshaped their reality, forging a new path free from the chains of the past.
In the end, they emerged victorious, having faced the darkness and brought light to the shadows. Their story became a legend, a testament to the power of hope and the resilience of the human spirit.\ 1. Artificial Intelligence - History of AI, AI ethics, Machine Learning 2. Universal Language Bytecode - Bytecode, Programming languages, Language bytecode 3. Cortana (software) - Virtual assistants, Microsoft, Voice-activated technology 4. Arweave - Decentralized storage, Permaweb, Blockchain-based storage 5. Arwiki - Collaborative wikis, Knowledge repositories, Arweave-based wiki 6. Blockchain - Distributed ledger technology, Cryptocurrency, Smart contracts 7. Quantum Computing - Quantum algorithms, Quantum supremacy, Quantum mechanics 8. Internet of Things (IoT) - IoT devices, Smart technology, Connectivity 9. Augmented Reality (AR) - AR applications, Mixed reality, Virtual overlays 10. Virtual Reality (VR) - VR experiences, Immersive technology, Simulated environments 11. 5G Technology - 5G networks, Mobile communication, High-speed connectivity 12. Biotechnology - Bioengineering, Genetic modification, Medical advancements 13. Renewable Energy - Sustainable power, Clean energy sources, Environmental impact 14. Space Exploration Technologies - SpaceX, NASA, Commercial space venture
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"SO FAR FROM NEVER"
This video appears here because the song is absolutely amazing, it's unpublished and probably "changed the world" by becoming quadruple or triple platinum in some other place ... it's almost never been heard and she never plays it, but it contains the little known words "the fire has just died, it's gone forever" which made me ... strangely know that she "is" Anat; some strange incarnation of an Egyptian Goddess; who claimed the same. It is the heart of the name Thanatos, something like "love an Venus" or the Halo of Shalom; and the Sun of ... a great sign appeared in the heavens
On "Anat" and Thanatos ... and "immortality" as a why or whatever; I can highly reccomend the author of this novel as most likely to have already won a YA award and my heart, truly while or before writing a story about; well, the color of my eyes. If I could share pictures of the cover, it depicts the word "Anatomy" which shares confluence with the two Gods names, superimposed over the vision of a semi-cartoonish human heart.
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After 'emptying the tank' in World Series, Cole left empty-handed
"Emptying the tank" is a metaphor in this headline. Emptying the tank is usually used in reference to draining a tank of something. In this situation Gerrit Cole, a New York Yankees pitcher, is using the wording to say that he gave everything he had to his performance with nothing left over.
"I took a bad angle to the ball," Cole said. "I wasn't sure how hard he hit it. By the time the ball got by me, I was not in a position to cover first. Neither of us were"
Another authoritative source. He is also a player on the team giving insight as to ways they blew the lead.
Judge appeared to take a peek at Hernández on the bases, which led to his first and only error of 2024. Hernández was able to hustle into second ahead of the throw. "I just didn't make the play," Judge told reporters after the season-ending loss.
This is a source of authority because it is from a professional player that was involved in the game.
The New York Yankees' efforts at making the most impossible of World Series comebacks came to grief with their 7-6 Game 5 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night. Game 5 was the loss that ended the series, which is a simple matter of record. Yet inning No. 5 may have been the single inning that snuffed out the Yankees' hopes. The Yankees' manifold mistakes of Game 5 weren't confined to that fifth inning, as we'll soon see, but it was that frame that did most of the undoing and allowed the Dodgers to prevent the series from going back to L.A. for a Game 6.
This is an example of more context being given about the topic. We are learning how they "Blew" their lead.
How Yankees blew five-run lead to lose World Series: Breaking down error-filled Game 5 that sank New York
"blew" would be a metaphor in this headline. This would be a Argument is war metaphor. This entails that the Yankees blew up their lead, or ruined it, leading to a lost opportunity or ruined opportunity.
thenwe have already decided much, for we have already selected thegeneral theory that controls the ultimate resolution of the case.
The favorite thing I've learned about the law so far is how much of a game it is. If you walk the walk and talk the talk, you already get pretty far. The game gets complicated, however, once we start to bring policy and preference into the mix. I find it confusing, for example, that the law will arbitrarily place special significance on factors in some cases, and then completely disregard a discussion of those same factors in others. I guess its just the nature of the analysis, but sometimes I get pretty annoyed.
It is often referred to by the shorthand "C6H0"; this originated shortly after the game when a Centre professor remarked that Harvard had been poisoned by this "impossible" chemical formula
this is for testing
Author response:
The following is the authors’ response to the original reviews.
A summary of changes
(1) Line 93: “positive effect” to “positive contribution”, as suggested by reviewer 2.
(2) Line 147-148: the null hypothesis to test “equal interspecific and intraspecific interactions”, as indicated by reviewers 2 and 4.
(3) Lines 155-162: removed to reduce duplication with the additive partitioning, as suggested by reviewer 2.
(4) Lines 186-188: added “the estimated competitive growth response would also include the effects of density-dependent pests, pathogens, or microclimates”, as suggested by reviewer 3.
(5) Lines 219-222: added “The community positive effect can be further partitioned by mechanisms of positive interactions (resource partitioning and facilitation), and facilitative effect can be classified as mutualism (+/+), commensalism (+/0), or parasitic (+/–) based on species specific assessments”.
(6) Lines 377-386: added options for determining maximum competitive growth response in some extreme scenarios of species mixtures.
(7) Figure 1: modified to show the variations of competitive growth response with relative competitive ability from minimum (null expectation) to maximum (competitive exclusion).
A summary of four reviewers’ questions and authors’ response
(1) A summary of authors’ responses. Reviewers did not seem to understand our work. They indicated that our model is inadequate for hypothesis testing. The fact is, as we note below, that our model allows for more hypothesis testing than the additive partitioning model. They suggested that one of our model components, the competitive growth response, needs to be further partitioned. However, this term represents only the competition effect and can not be split any further. Reviewers criticized us for misunderstanding the additive components while they suggested the same logic to test some intuitive ideas. They did not seem to know that the effects of competitive interactions vary with assessment methods, which differ between competition and biodiversity research. Our work seeks to harmonise definitions between these two fields and bridge the gap. The reviewers acknowledged that the additive components (i.e., the selection effect and complementarity effect) do not have clear biological meanings; however, they did not acknowledge that the additive components are used extensively for determining mechanisms of species interactions in biodiversity research. There is hardly any research that uses the additive partitioning model without linking the additive components to specific mechanisms of species interactions (i.e., positive SE to competition and positive CE to positive interactions).
(2) Additive partitioning and underlying mechanisms. Some reviewers acknowledged that additive partitioning is not meant for determining mechanisms of species interactions and therefore argued that the additive partitioning should not be criticized for lack of biological meanings with the additive components. However, they insisted that additive partitioning is useful in quantifying net biodiversity effects against the null hypothesis that there is no difference between intraspecific and interspecific interactions or testing the idea that “niche complementarity mitigates competition” or “competitively superior species dominate mixtures”. Are these views contradictory each other? How can the additive partitioning that is not designed for determining mechanisms of species interactions provide meaningful explanations for outputs of species interactions, e.g., “niche complementarity mitigates competition” or “competitively superior species dominate mixtures”?
Reviewers did not seem to realize that these ideas are equivalent to the suggestions that CE represents for the effects of positive interactions and SE for the effects of competitive interactions, that the quantification of net biodiversity effects does not require the two additive components, and that the null hypothesis exists long before the additive partitioning (see de Wit, 1960, de Wit et al., 1966). It is generally agreed that CE and SE result from mathematical calculations and do not have clear biological meanings in terms of linkages to specific mechanisms of species interactions responsible for observed net biodiversity effects or changes in ecosystem function (Loreau and Hector, 2012; Bourrat et al., 2023). Calling some mixed effects of species interactions as mechanisms (e.g., CE and SE) is misleading.
Model structure: incomplete or inadequate for hypothesis testing. Other than positive, negative, and competition interactions, two reviewers wanted to have more specific interactions such as microclimate amelioration and negative feedback from species-specific pests and pathogens. The determination of these specific mechanisms requires more investigations and cannot be simply made through partitioning growth and yield data. However, the effects of these interactions will be captured in our definition of species interactions. Reviewers did not seem to know that the additive partitioning would also not allow identifying these specific positive species interactions.
Inspired by the mathematical form of additive partitioning, two reviewers suggested that our model (presumably equation 4) is incomplete and the second term, i.e., competitive growth response needs to be further explored or partitioned. The second term represents deviations from the null expectation, due to species differences in growth and competitive ability or competition effect. We do not know why and how this term can be further partitioned and what any subcomponents would mean.
Our competitive partitioning model is based on two hypotheses: first, the null hypothesis to test the equivalence of interspecific and intraspecific interactions. This hypothesis is the same as the additive partitioning model. Second, the competitive hypothesis, which tests the dominance of positive or negative species interactions in a community. Thus, our model allows for more hypothesis testing than the current additive partitioning model.
(3) Types of species interactions. We follow the definition of species interactions generally used in biodiversity research (see Loreau and Hector, 2001), i.e., positive interactions (or complementarity) include resource partitioning and facilitation, negative interactions include interference competition, and competitive interactions include resource competition. One reviewer suggested that resource partitioning is byproduct of competition and should not be part of positive species interactions, which may be true for long-term evolution of species co-existence but not for biodiversity experiments of decade duration at most. Two reviewers suggested that positive interactions should also include microclimate amelioration or negative feedback from species-specific pests and pathogens. We agree and these are included in our definition.
(4) Significance of partial density monocultures. We used partial and full density monocultures and species competitive ability to determine what species can possibly achieve in mixture under the competitive hypothesis that constituent species share an identical niche but differ in growth and competitive ability. We did not use partial monocultures to test the effects of density on biodiversity effects. As with the additive partitioning, the competitive partitioning model is not designed for comparing yields across different densities. We added at lines 186-188 to indicate that the estimated competitive growth response would also include the effects of density-dependent pests, pathogens, or microclimates.
Similarly, we do not use the partial density monoculture to supplant the replacement series design. Partial density monocultures only supplement the “replacement series” design that does not provides estimates of facilitative effects and competitive growth responses that would occur in mixtures. It is crucial to know that one experimental approach is simply not enough for determining underlying mechanisms of species interactions responsible for changes in ecosystem function.
(5) Competition effect in competition and biodiversity research. Due to different methods used, competition effect in competition research has different ecological meanings from that in biodiversity research. In competition research, species performance in mixture are compared with their partial density monocultures and therefore competition effect is generally negative, as suggested by reviewer 4. In biodiversity research, comparison is between mixture and full density monocultures. The resulting competition effect can be positive or negative for both individual species and community productivity defined by species composition and full density monoculture yields.
Therefore, we cannot use the results of competition research based on additive series design to describe effects of competitive interactions on ecosystem productivity based replacement series design.
Reviewer #1 (Public Review):
[Editors' note: this is an overall synthesis from the Reviewing Editor in consultation with the reviewers.]
The three reviews expand our critique of this manuscript in some depth and complementary directions. These can be synthesized in the following main points (we point out that there is quite a bit more that could be written about the flaws with this study; however, time constraints prevented us from further elaborating on the issues we see):
(1) It is unclear what the authors want to do.
As indicate by the title, our objective is to “partition changes in ecosystem productivity by effects of species interactions”, i.e., partitioning net biodiversity effects estimated from the null expectation into components associated with positive, negative, or competition interspecific interactions.
It seems their main point is that the large BEF literature and especially biodiversity experiments overstate the occurrence of positive biodiversity effects because some of these can result from competition.
We demonstrated through ecological theories and simulation/experiment data that competition is a major source of the net biodiversity effects estimated with additive partitioning model. We know that competition effect varies with mixture attributes. Future research will determine average effect of competitive interactions on biodiversity effects in large BEF literature.
Because reduced interspecific relative to intraspecific competition in mixture is sufficient to produce positive effects in mixtures (if interspecific competition = 0 then RYT = S, where S is species richness in mixture -- this according to the reciprocal yield law = law of constant final yield), they have a problem accepting NE > 0 as true biodiversity effect (see additive partitioning method of Loreau & Hector 2001 cited in manuscript).
We have no problem to accept NE>0 as true positive biodiversity effect. However, NE>0 can also result from competitive interactions based on the null expectation and needs to be partitioned by effects of species interactions.
(2) The authors' next claim, without justification, that additive partitioning of NE is flawed and theoretically and biologically meaningless.
The additive partitioning model is based on Covariance equation (or Price equation) that has nothing to do with biodiversity partitioning (Bourrat et al., 2023). Biological meaning was arbitrarily assigned to CE and SE. We made clear that the additive partitioning model is mathematically sound but does not have biological meanings that it has been used for.
They misinterpret the CE component as biological niche partitioning and the SE component as biological dominance.
We did not. Loreau and Hector (2001) clearly indicated positive CE for positive interactions and positive SE for competitive interactions, which is generally what has been used for in the last twenty years.
They do not seem to accept that the additive partitioning is a logically and mathematically sound derivation from basic principles that cannot be contested.
We do not have problem with mathematical form of additive partitioning but only oppose ecological meanings assigned to CE and SE, simply because CE and SE both result from all species interactions (see Loreau and Hector, 2001; Bourrat et al., 2023). The reviewer seemed to have a contradictory thinking that the additive components are biologically meaningless but derived from biological basic principles.
(3) The authors go on to introduce a method to calculate species-level overyielding (RY > 1/S in replacement series experiments) as a competitive growth response and multiply this with the species monoculture biomass relative to the maximum to obtain competitive expectation. This method is based on resource competition and the idea that resource uptake is fully converted into biomass (instead of e.g. investing it in allelopathic chemical production).
Correct, but we did not assume “resource uptake is fully converted into biomass”.
(4) It is unclear which experiments should be done, i.e. are partial-density monocultures planted or simply calculated from full-density monocultures? At what time are monocultures evaluated? The framework suggests that monocultures must have the full potential to develop, but in experiments, they are often performing very poorly, at least after some time. I assume in such cases the monocultures could not be used.
Both partial and full density monocultures are needed, along with mixtures to separate NE by species interactions. Calculating competitive growth responses from density-size relationships can be an alternative, given the lack of partial density monocultures in current biodiversity experiments, but is not preferred.
Similar to additive partitioning, our model can (and should) be applied to all developmental stages of an experiment to examine how interactions evolve through time.
(5) There are many reasons why the ideal case of only resource competition playing a role is unrealistic. This excludes enemies but also differential conversion factors of resources into biomass and antagonistic or facilitative effects. Because there are so many potential reasons for deviations from the null model of only resource competition, a deviation from the null model does not allow conclusions about underlying mechanisms.
The competitive expectation is only a hypothesis, just as the null expectation. The difference between competitive and null expectations represents a competitive effect resulting from species differences in growth and competitive ability, while the deviation of observed yields from the competitive expectation indicates positive or negative effect (see lines 201-219).
Furthermore, this is not a systematically developed partitioning, but some rather empirical ad hoc formulation of a first term that is thought to approximate competitive effects as understood by the authors (but again, there already are problems here). The second residual term is not investigated. For a proper partitioning approach, one would have to decompose overyielding into two (or more) terms and demonstrate (algebraically) that under some reasonable definitions of competitive and non-competitive interactions, these end up driving the respective terms.
The first term represents the null expectation assuming equal interspecific and intraspecific interactions, i.e., absence of positive, negative, and competition effects. The second residual term represents competition effect, due to species differences in growth and competitive ability. The meaning of second residual term is clear and does not need to be further partitioned or investigated.
In fact, our competitive partitioning also has several components including null expectation, competitive growth response, and observed yield, plus partial density monocultures for species assessment, or null expectations, competitive expectations, and observed yields for community level assessment, although different from the additive partitioning.
(6) Using a simplistic simulation to test the method is insufficient. For example, I do not see how the simulation includes a mechanism that could create CE in additive partitioning if all species would have the same monoculture yield. Similarly, they do not include mechanisms of enemies or antagonistic interactions (e.g. allelopathy).
The simulation model we used is developed from real world data and can only do what are available in the model in terms of species and their growth under different conditions. We can not go beyond data limitation. The model is empirical and has been shown to accurately estimate yield in the aspen-spruce forest condition. We would also note that we do also use experimental data (Table 2).
(7) The authors do not cite relevant literature regarding density x biodiversity experiments, competition experiments, replacement-series experiments, density-yield experiments, additive partitioning, facilitation, and so on.
We cited literature relevant to biodiversity partitioning since we are not aiming to cover everything. The reviewer may not be aware that most of the research areas listed are actually included in our work, such as additive and replacement-series experiment designs, additive partitioning, facilitation, competition studies, and density-yield relationships. Our competitive model partitioning is based on biological principles, while the additive partitioning model is based only on a mathematical equation.
Overall, this manuscript does not lead further from what we have already elaborated in the broad field of BEF and competition studies and rather blurs our understanding of the topic.
The results of competition studies based on additive series design are not really used in the broad field of BEF based on replacement series design. The effects of competitive interactions on BEF are never clearly defined using the results of competition studies. Our work is filling that gap.
Reviewer #2 (Public Review):
This manuscript is motivated by the question of what mechanisms cause overyielding in mixed-species communities relative to the corresponding monocultures. This is an important and timely question, given that the ultimate biological reasons for such biodiversity effects are not fully understood.
As a starting point, the authors discuss the so-called "additive partitioning" (AP) method proposed by Loreau & Hector in 2001. The AP is the result of a mathematical rearrangement of the definition of overyielding, written in terms of relative yields (RY) of species in mixtures relative to monocultures. One term, the so-called complementarity effect (CE), is proportional to the average RY deviations from the null expectations that plants of both species "do the same" in monocultures and mixtures. The other term, the selection effect (SE), captures how these RY deviations are related to monoculture productivity. Overall, CE measures whether relative biomass gains differ from zero when averaged across all community members, and SE, whether the "relative advantage" species have in the mixture, is related to their productivity. In extreme cases, when all species benefit, CE becomes positive. When large species have large relative productivity increases, SE becomes positive. This is intuitively compatible with the idea that niche complementarity mitigates competition (CE>0), or that competitively superior species dominate mixtures and thereby driver overyielding (SE>0).
The reviewer needs to know that these ideas are based on the same logic that positive CE represents the effects of positive interactions and positive SE represents the effects of competitive interactions. CE>0 or SE>0 can result from many different scenarios of species interactions, not necessarily “niche complementarity mitigates competition” or “competitively superior species dominate mixtures”. CE>0 and SE>0 can occur alone or together. We simply can not tell underlying mechanisms of overyielding from mathematical calculations (CE and SE), as suggested by this reviewer later.
The reviewer criticizes us while using the same logic themselves.
However, it is very important to understand that CE and SE capture the "statistical structure" of RY that underlies overyielding. Specifically, CE and SE are not the ultimate biological mechanisms that drive overyielding, and never were meant to be. CE also does not describe niche complementarity. Interpreting CE and SE as directly quantifying niche complementarity or resource competition, is simply wrong, although it sometimes is done. The criticism of the AP method thus in large part seems unwarranted. The alternative methods the authors discuss (lines 108-123) are based on very similar principles.
The reviewer actually supports our point. However, CE and SE have been largely used as biological mechanisms, positive CE as the results of complementary interactions and positive SE as the results of competitive interactions (see Loreau and Hector, 2001).
We do not have problem with the "statistical structure" of AP; it is simply a covariance equation. It is important to know that CE and SE do not provide additional information on overyielding than NE in terms of underlying mechanisms of species interactions. Any attempt to investigate mechanism of overyielding with CE or SE can easily go wrong.
Our competitive partitioning model incorporates effects of competitive interactions into the conventional null expectation and allows for separating different effects of species interactions. In comparison, the additive partitioning model does not have this capacity, not even designed for this purpose, as suggested by this and other reviewers.
The authors now set out to develop a method that aims at linking response patterns to "more true" biological mechanisms.
Assuming that "competitive dominance" is key to understanding mixture productivity, because "competitive interactions are the predominant type of interspecific relationships in plants", the authors introduce "partial density" monocultures, i.e. monocultures that have the same planting density for a species as in a mixture. The idea is that using these partial density monocultures as a reference would allow for isolating the effect of competition by the surrounding "species matrix".
Correct.
The authors argue that "To separate effects of competitive interactions from those of other species interactions, we would need the hypothesis that constituent species share an identical niche but differ in growth and competitive ability (i.e., absence of positive/negative interactions)." - I think the term interaction is not correctly used here, because clearly competition is an interaction, but the point made here is that this would be a zero-sum game.
We did not say that competition is not an interaction; we only want to separate the effect of competition from those of other species interactions.
The authors use the ratio of productivity of partial density and full-density monocultures, divided by planting density, as a measure of "competitive growth response" (abbreviated as MG). This is the extra growth a plant individual produces when intraspecific competition is reduced.
Correct.
We added at lines 377-386 to discuss options to determine MG in some uncommon scenarios of species mixtures.
Here, I see two issues: first, this rests on the assumption that there is only "one mode" of competition if two species use the same resources, which may not be true, because intraspecific and interspecific competition may differ. Of course, one can argue that then somehow "niches" are different, but such a niche definition would be very broad and go beyond the "resource set" perspective the authors adopt. Second, this value will heavily depend on timing and the relationship between maximum initial growth rates and competitive abilities at high stand densities.
First, the "competitive effect" focusses on resource competition and other forms of competition (presumably interference competition) are included in the negative interactions.
Second, competitive growth response varies over time and with density, and so do NE, CE, SE, and interspecific interactions.
The authors then progress to define relative competitive ability (RC), and this time simply uses monoculture biomass as a measure of competitive ability. To express this biomass in a standardized way, they express it as different from the mean of the other species and then divide by the maximum monoculture biomass of all species.
I have two concerns here: first, if competitive ability is the capability of a species to preempt resources from a pool also accessed by another species, as the authors argued before, then this seems wrong because one would expect that a species can simply be more productive because it has a broader niche space that it exploits. This contradicts the very narrow perspective on competitive ability the authors have adopted. This also is difficult to reconcile with the idea that specialist species with a narrow niche would outcompete generalist species with a broad niche. Second, I am concerned by the mathematical form. Standardizing by the maximum makes the scaling dependent on a single value.
First, growth conditions are controlled in biodiversity experiments, i.e., both monocultures and mixtures are the same in resource space. Species do not have opportunity to exploit resources outside experimental area. For example, if less productive species on normal soils outperform more competitive species on saline/alkaline soil, these “less productive species” are considered “more productive”.
Second, as discussed in our paper (lines 367-376; Figure 1), more research is needed to determine relationships between species traits (biomass or height) and relative competitive ability. By then, scaling by the maximum would not be needed. There has been quite a lot of research on such relationships; we should leave this to subject experts to determine what would be mostly appropriate for species studied.
As a final step, the authors calculate a "competitive expectation" for a species' biomass in the mixture, by scaling deviations from the expected yield by the product MG ⨯ RC. This would mean a species does better in a mixture when (1) it benefits most from a conspecific density reduction, and (2) has a relatively high biomass.
Put simply, the assumption would be that if a species is productive in monoculture (high RC), it effectively does not "see" the competitors and then grows like it would be the sole species in the community, i.e. like in the partial density monoculture.
Correct, if species competitive ability differs substantially, the more competitive species in the mixture would grow like partial density monoculture. This extra growth should not be treated as sources of positive biodiversity effects, simply because it does not result from positive species interactions.
Overall, I am not very convinced by the proposed method.
(1) The proposed method seems not very systematic but rather "ad hoc". It also is much less a partitioning method than the AP method because the other term is simply the difference. It would be good if the authors investigated the mathematical form of this remainder and explored its properties.. when does complementarity occur? Would it capture complementarity and facilitation?
AP is, by no means, systematic. Remember, AP is based on covariance equation (or Price equation) that has nothing to do with species interactions, other than nice-looking mathematical form (Bourrat et al., 2023). Ecological meanings are subjectively given to CE and SE. Therefore, CE and SE reflect what we call them, not what they really mean.
The remainder measures deviations from the null expectation, due to only competition effect, and can not be partitioned any further. The remainder would be positive for more competitive species and negative for less competitive species in mixture relative to their full density monoculture. The deviation of observed yields from competitive expectations indicates dominance of positive or negative species interactions. All these are clearly outlined at lines 201-221.
(2) The justification for the calculation of MG and RC does not seem to follow the very strict assumptions of what competition (in the absence of complementarity) is. See my specific comments above.
We do not see why not.
(3) Overall, the manuscript is hard to read. This is in part a problem of terminology and presentation, and it would be good to use more systematic terms for "response patterns" and "biological mechanisms".
To help understand the variations of competitive growth response with relative competitive ability, the x axis of Figure 1 is labelled with null expectation, competitive expectation, and competitive exclusion from minimum to maximum deviation of competitive ability from community average.
We have followed terms used in biodiversity partitioning and changing terms can be confusing.
Examples:
- on line 30, the authors write that CE is used to measure "positive" interactions and SE to measure "competitive interactions", and later name "positive" and "negative" interactions "mechanisms of species interactions". Here the authors first use "positive interaction" as any type of effect that results in a community-level biomass gain, but then they use "interaction" with reference to specific biological mechanisms (e.g. one species might attract a parasite that infests another species, which in turn may cause further changes that modify the growth of the first and other species).
There are some differences in meaning, but that is what CE and SE have been generally used for. Using different terms can be confusing and does not help understanding the problems with AP.
- on line 70, the authors state that "positive interaction" increases productivity relative to the null expectation, but it is clear that an interaction can have "negative" consequences for one interaction partner and "positive" ones for the other. Therefore, "positive" and "negative" interactions, when defined in this way, cannot be directly linked to "resource partitioning" and "facilitation", and "species interference" as the authors do. Also, these categories of mechanisms are still simple. For example, how do biotic interactions with enemies classify, see above?
We are explaining effects of competitive interactions on species yield, and ultimately on community yield that can be linked to “resource partitioning" and "facilitation", and "species interference".
More specific species interactions require detailed biological investigation and cannot be determined through partitioning of biomass production.
- line 145: "Under the null hypothesis, species in the mixture are assumed to be competitively equivalent (i.e., absence of interspecific interactions)". This is wrong. The assumption is that there are interspecific interactions, but that these are the same as the intraspecific ones. Weirdly, what follows is a description of the AP method, which does not belong here. This paragraph would better be moved to the introduction where the AP method is mentioned. Or omitted, since it is basically a repetition of the original Loreau & Hector paper.
As suggested, “absence of interspecific interactions” was replaced with “equal interspecific and intraspecific interactions”.
We have removed lines 155-162 to reduce duplication. However, our method is based on null expectation that needs to be introduced, despite it is part of AP.
Other points:
- line 66: community productivity, not ecosystem productivity.
Both community productivity and ecosystem productivity are used in biodiversity research, although meaning can be slightly different. Comparatively, ecosystem productivity is more common.
- line 68: community average responses are with respect to relative yields - this is important!
- line 64: what are "species effects of species interactions"?
We searched and did not find “species effects of species interactions”.
- line 90: here "competitive" and "productive" are mixed up, and it is important to state that "suffers more" refers to relative changes, not yield changes.
It, in fact, refers to yield changes. For example, less productive species, at active growth, are more responsive to changes in competition, while more productive species, at inactive growth (i.e., aging), are less responsive to changes in competition.
- line 92: "positive effect of competitive dominance": I don't understand what is meant here.
The phrase was modified to “positive contribution of competitive dominance to ecosystem productivity based on the null expectation”.
Reviewer #3 (Public Review):
Summary:
This manuscript by Tao et al. reports on an effort to better specify the underlying interactions driving the effects of biodiversity on productivity in biodiversity experiments. The authors are especially concerned with the potential for competitive interactions to drive positive biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships by driving down the biomass of subdominant species. The authors suggest a new partitioning schema that utilizes a suite of partial density treatments to capture so-called competitive ability. While I agree with the authors that understanding the underlying drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships is valuable - I am unsure of the added value of this specific approach for several reasons.
Strengths:
I can find a lot of value in endeavouring to improve our understanding of how biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships arise. I agree with the authors that competition is not well integrated into the complementarity and selection effect and interrogating this is important.
Weaknesses:
(1) The authors start the introduction very narrowly and do not make clear why it is so important to understand the underlying mechanisms driving biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships until the end of the discussion.
There are different ways to start introduction; we believe that starting with the problems of the current approach is the most effective for outlining the study’s objective.
(2) The authors criticize the existing framework for only incorporating positive interactions but this is an oversimplification of the existing framework in several ways:
We did not criticize the existing framework for only incorporating positive interactions. We criticize the existing framework, because it is not based on mechanisms of species interactions, but is extensively used to determine underlying mechanisms driving biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships.
a. The existing partitioning scheme incorporates resource partitioning which is an effect of competition.
Resource partitioning means that species utilize resources differently, while competition means species use the same resources. “resource partitioning is an effect of competition” is not true in biodiversity experiments that are often short in duration and controlled in conditions.
b. The authors neglect the potential that negative feedback from species-specific pests and pathogens can also drive positive BEF and complementarity effects but is not a positive interaction, necessarily. This is discussed in Schnitzer et al. 2011, Maron et al. 2011, Hendriks et al. 2013, Barry et al. 2019, etc.
We did not. The feedback effect will be reflected in the differences between observed yields and competitive expectations if species in mixtures have different pests and pathogens relative to monocultures. The additive partitioning does not identify these feedback effects either.
c. Hector and Loreau (and many of the other citations listed) do not limit competition to SE because resource partitioning is a byproduct of competition.
Positive SE has been largely interpreted as the result of competition including Hector and Loreau (2001) and many others. It needs to be clear that neither of the additive components can be linked to specific mechanisms of species interactions.
Does “resource partitioning is a byproduct of competition” mean that species change their niche to avoid competition? If this is what the reviewer means, it may occur through long-term evolution, but not in short-term biodiversity experiments. Hector and Loreau (2001) clearly indicated that their complementarity effect includes both resource partitioning and facilitation.
(3) It is unclear how this new measure relates to the selection effect, in particular. I would suggest that the authors add a conceptual figure that shows some scenarios in which this metric would give a different answer than the traditional additive partition. The example that the authors use where a dominant species increases in biomass and the amount that it increases in biomass is greater than the amount of loss from it outcompeting a subdominant species is a general example often used for a selection effect when exactly would you see a difference between the two?:<br /> a. Just a note - I do think you should see a difference between the two if the species suffers from strong intraspecific competition and has therefore low monoculture biomass but this would tend to also be a very low-density monoculture in practice so there would potentially be little difference between a low density and high-density monoculture because the individuals in a high-density monoculture would die anyway. So I am not sure that in practice you would really see this difference even if partial density plots were incorporated.
Linking new measure to SE or CE would be difficult (see many comparisons in Tables and Figures in our manuscript), as SE and CE are derived from mathematical equation and do not represent specific mechanisms of species interactions (Hector and Loreau 2012; Bourrat et al., 2023).
(4) One of the tricky things about these endeavors is that they often pull on theory from two different subfields and use similar terminology to refer to different things. For example - in competition theory, facilitation often refers to a positive relative interaction index (this seems to be how the authors are interpreting this) while in the BEF world facilitation often refers to a set of concrete physical mechanisms like microclimate amelioration. The truth is that both of these subfields use net effects. The relative interaction index is also a net outcome as is the complementarity effect even if it is only a piece of the net biodiversity effect. Trying to combine these two subfields to come up with a new partitioning mechanism requires interrogating the underlying assumptions of both subfields which I do not see in this paper.
Agree, microclimate amelioration is also part of positive effect and will be reflected in the difference between observed yield and competitive expectation. We can not separate the two mechanisms of positive species interactions without investigating influences of microclimate on growth and yield.
(5) The partial density treatment does not isolate competition in the way that the authors indicate. All of the interactions that the authors discuss are density-dependent including the mechanism that is not discussed (negative feedback from species-specific pests and pathogens). These partial density treatment effects therefore cannot simply be equated to competition as the authors indicate.:
We use partial density monoculture to determine maximum competitive growth response, effect of density-dependent intraspecific interactions, and species competitive ability to determine the level of maximum competitive growth response species can achieve in mixtures. There may be changes in species-specific pests and pathogens from partial to full density monocultures, which will be captured in competitive growth responses of individuals. We added at lines 186-188 to indicate that the maximum competitive growth response estimated would also include the effects of density-dependent pests, pathogens, or microclimates.
a. Additionally - the authors use mixture biomass as a stand-in for competitive ability in some cases but mixture biomass could also be determined by the degree to which a plant is facilitated in the mixture (for example).
We used monoculture biomass, not mixture biomass, to assess competitive ability
(6) I found the literature citation to be a bit loose. For example, the authors state that the additive partition is used to separate positive interactions from competition (lines 70-76) and cite many papers but several of these (e.g. Barry et al. 2019) explicitly do not say this.
Barry et al. (2019) defined CE as overproduction from monocultures, an effect of positive interactions.
(7) The natural take-home message from this study is that it would be valuable for biodiversity experiments to include partial density treatments but I have a hard time seeing this as a valuable addition to the field for two reasons:
a. In practice - adding in partial density treatments would not be feasible for the vast majority of experiments which are already often unfeasibly large to maintain.
The reviewer suggested that quantity is more important than quality. Without partial density monocultures no one can separate different effects of species interactions, as suggested by Loreau and Hector, reviewers, and many others that effects of species interactions can not be clearly differentiated with replacement series design. Unreliable scientific findings are not valuable.
b. The density effect would likely only be valuable during the establishment phase of the experiment because species that are strongly limited by intraspecific competition will die in the full-density plots resulting in low-density monocultures. You can see this in many biodiversity experiments after the first years. Even though they are seeded (or rarely planted) at a certain density, the density after several years in many monocultures is quite low.
True. High or low density also depends on individual size; if individuals do not get enough resources, density is high. Therefore, density effect can be strong even as density drops substantially from initial levels.
Reviewer #4 (Public Review):
Summary:
This manuscript claims to provide a new null hypothesis for testing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning. It reports that the strength of biodiversity effects changes when this different null hypothesis is used. This main result is rather inevitable. That is, one expects a different answer when using a different approach. The question then becomes whether the manuscript’s null hypothesis is both new and an improvement on the null hypothesis that has been in use in recent decades.
It needs to be clear that we use two hypotheses, null hypothesis that is currently used with AP, and competitive hypothesis that is new with this manuscript. The null hypothesis helps determine changes in ecosystem productivity from all species interactions, while the competitive hypothesis helps partition changes in ecosystem productivity by mechanisms of species interactions, i.e., positive, negative, or competitive interactions.
Strengths:
In general, I appreciate studies like this that question whether we have been doing it all wrong and I encourage consideration of new approaches.
Weaknesses:
Despite many sweeping critiques of previous studies and bold claims of novelty made throughout the manuscript, I was unable to find new insights. The manuscript fails to place the study in the context of the long history of literature on competition and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The Introduction claims the new approach will address deficiencies of previous approaches, but after reading further I see no evidence that it addresses the limitations of previous approaches noted in the Introduction. Furthermore, the manuscript does not reproducibly describe the methods used to produce the results (e.g., in Table 1) and relies on simulations, claiming experimental data are not available when many experiments have already tested these ideas and not found support for them. Finally, it is unclear to me whether rejecting the ‘new’ null hypothesis presented in the manuscript would be of interest to ecologists, agronomists, conservationists, or others. I will elaborate on each of these points below.
First, there are many biodiversity experiments but those with partial density monocultures are rare. We found only one greenhouse experiment. We have to use simulation to illustrate different scenarios of species interactions to demonstrate how our approach works and how different it is from the AP.
Because of different methods used, the results of long history competition research (generally based on additive series design) cannot be used to define effects of competitive interactions in biodiversity research (generally based on replacement series design). This may be the reason that few competition researchers were cited in Loreau and Hector (2001).
Our approach requires two hypotheses, null and competitive, and the meaning of deviation from these hypotheses are outlined at lines 201-221 for both individual species and community level assessments. Distinguishing changes in ecosystem productivity by species interactions would be of great interest to “ecologists, agronomists, conservationists, or others”.
The critiques of biodiversity experiments and existing additive partitioning methods are overstated, as is the extent to which this new approach addresses its limitations. For example, the critique that current biodiversity experiments cannot reveal the effects of species interactions (e.g., lines 37-39) isn't generally true, but it could be true if stated more specifically. That is, this statement is incorrect as written because comparisons of mixtures, where there are interspecific and intraspecific interactions, with monocultures, where there are only intraspecific interactions, certainly provide information about the effects of species interactions (interspecific interactions). These biodiversity experiments and existing additive partitioning approaches have limits, of course, for identifying the specific types of interactions (e.g., whether mediated by exploitative resource competition, apparent competition, or other types of interactions). However, the approach proposed in this manuscript gets no closer to identifying these specific mechanisms of species interactions. It has no ability to distinguish between resource and apparent competition, for example. Thus, the motivation and framing of the manuscript do not match what it provides. I believe the entire Introduction would need to be rewritten to clarify what gap in knowledge this proposed approach is addressing and what would be gained by filling this knowledge gap.
Our approach helps determine underlying mechanisms of species interactions, i.e., positive (resources partitioning or facilitation), negative, or competitive interactions. I am not sure how much we need to go further in identifying more specific mechanisms. If resource and apparent competition refers to resource and interference competition, our approach can tease apart them.
I recommend that the Introduction instead clarify how this study builds on and goes beyond many decades of literature considering how competition and biodiversity effects depend on density. This large literature is insufficiently addressed in this manuscript. This fails to give credit to previous studies considering these ideas and makes it unclear how this manuscript goes beyond the many previous related studies. For example, see papers and books written by de Wit, Harper, Vandermeer, Connolly, Schmid, and many others. Also, note that many biodiversity experiments have crossed diversity treatments with a density treatment and found no significant effects of density or interactions between density and diversity (e.g., Finn et al. 2013 Journal of Applied Ecology). Thus, claiming that these considerations of density are novel, without giving credit to the enormous number of previous studies considering this, is insufficient.
A misunderstanding here. Our approach is not designed to test density effect. The same density is held across full density monocultures and mixtures. We use partial density monocultures to determine what species may competitively achieve in full density mixture, without positive or negative interspecific interactions.
Replacement series designs emerged as a consensus for biodiversity experiments because they directly test a relevant null hypothesis. This is not to say that there are no other interesting null hypotheses or study designs, but one must acknowledge that many designs and analyses of biodiversity experiments have already been considered. For example, Schmid et al. reviewed these designs and analyses two decades ago (2002, chapter 6 in Loreau et al. 2002 OUP book) and the overwhelming consensus in recent decades has been to use a replacement series and test the corresponding null hypothesis.
Some wrong impressions. We are not trying to supplant “replacement series” with “additive series”; we use “additive series” designs to supplement “replacement series” design for partitioning changes in ecosystem productivity by mechanisms of species interactions, which would not be possible with “replacement series” design alone, as suggested by many including reviewers.
It is unclear to me whether rejecting the 'new' null hypothesis presented in the manuscript would be of interest to ecologists, agronomists, conservationists, or others. Most biodiversity experiments and additive partitions have tested and quantified diversity effects against the null hypothesis that there is no difference between intraspecific and interspecific interactions. If there was no less competition and no more facilitation in mixtures than in monocultures, then there would be no positive diversity effects. Rejecting this null hypothesis is relevant when considering coexistence in ecology, overyielding in agronomy, and the consequences of biodiversity loss in conservation (e.g., Vandermeer 1981 Bioscience, Loreau 2010 Princeton Monograph). This manuscript proposes a different null hypothesis and it is not yet clear to me how it would be relevant to any of these ongoing discussions of changes in biodiversity.
Our method begins with the null expectation: that intraspecific and interspecific interactions are equivalent. We then propose the competitive hypothesis as a second non-exclusive hypothesis which tests the dominance of positive or negative specific interactions. As shown by its name, the additive partitioning model has been advocated for partitioning biodiversity effects by some ecological mechanisms (CE and SE). The ecological meaning of deviation from the two hypotheses are outlined at lines 201-221 for both individual species and community level assessments.
The claim that all previous methods 'are not capable of quantifying changes in ecosystem productivity by species interactions and species or community level' is incorrect. As noted above, all approaches that compare mixtures, where there are interspecific interactions, to monocultures, where there are no species interactions, do this to some extent. By overstating the limitations of previous approaches, the manuscript fails to clearly identify what unique contribution it is offering, and how this builds on and goes beyond previous work.
The reviewer implies that a partial truth equals the whole truth. The same argument can also be applied to the additive partitioning if relative yield total or response ratio provides a kind of comparison between mixture and monocultures. Our statement is correct in the way that previous approaches are not designed to separate changes in ecosystem productivity by species interactions, as indicated by other reviewers. The additive partitioning is built on Price equation (covariance equation) that has never been biologically demonstrated for relevance in biodiversity partitioning (Bourrat et al., 2023).
We made clear that our work is built on and beyond the null expectation with addition of competitive expectation.
The manuscript relies on simulations because it claims that current experiments are unable to test this, given that they have replacement series designs (lines 128-131). There are, however, dozens of experiments where the replacement series was repeated at multiple densities, which would allow a direct test of these ideas. In fact, these ideas have already been tested in these experiments and density effects were found to be nonsignificant (e.g., Finn et al. 2013).
Out of point. Again, we are not testing density effect. Partial density is used to determine competitive growth responses that species may achieve in mixture based on their relative competitive ability. We used simulations, as partial density monocultures are used only in one experimental study that has been included in our study.
It seems that the authors are primarily interested in trees planted at a fixed density, with no opportunity for changes in density, and thus only changes in the size of individuals (e.g., Fig. 1). In natural and experimental systems, realized density differs from the initial planted density, and survivorship of seedlings can depend on both intraspecific and interspecific interactions. Thus, the constrained conditions under which these ideas are explored in this manuscript seem narrow and far from the more complex reality where density is not fixed.
We use fixed density only for convenience. In biodiversity experiments, density can increase or decrease over time from initial levels. However, initial density is generally used in evaluation of species interactions. If interest is community productivity, density change does not need to be considered. Again, we are not testing density effects.
Additional detailed comments:
It is unclear to me which 'effects' are referred to on line 36. For example, are these diversity effects or just effects of competition? What is the response variable?
It means the effect of competitive interactions on productivity and should be clear based on previous sentences.
The usefulness of the approach is overstated on line 52. All partitioning approaches, including the new one proposed here, give the net result of many types of species interactions and thus cannot 'disentangle underlying mechanisms of species interactions.'
Not sure how many types of species interactions the reviewer referred to. If mechanisms of species interactions are grouped in three categories (positive, negative, and competitive) as has been in biodiversity research, our approach can tease them apart.
The weaknesses of previous approaches are overstated throughout the manuscript, including in lines 60-61. All approaches provide some, but not all insights. Sweeping statements that previous approaches are not effective, without clarifying what they can and can't do, is unhelpful and incorrect. Also, these statements imply that the approach proposed here addresses the limitations of these previous approaches. I don't yet see how it does so.
The weaknesses of previous approaches are not overstated in terms of separating changes in ecosystem productivity by species interactions. As pointed by other reviewers, none of the previous approaches are designed for quantifying changes in ecosystem productivity by species interactions.
The definitions given for the CE and SE on line 71 are incorrect. Competition affects both terms and CE can be negative or have nothing to do with positive interactions, as noted in many of the papers cited.
We are not trying to define CE and SE but only point out how CE and SE have been generally used in biodiversity research (see recent publication by Feng et al., 2022).
The proposed approach does not address the limitations noted on lines 73 and 74.
It does in terms of sources of net biodiversity effect, whether from positive, negative or competitive interactions.
The definition of positive interactions in lines 77 and 78 seems inconsistent with much of the literature, which instead focuses on facilitation or mutualism, rather than competition when describing positive interactions.
Much of the literature supports our definition (see Loreau and Hector, 2001). In biodiversity research, positive interactions include resource partitioning and facilitation. What we are trying to point out is that competition affects species and community level assessments based on the null expectation and needs to be separated.
Throughout the manuscript, competition is often used interchangeably with resource competition (e.g., line 82) and complementarity is often attributed to resource partitioning (e.g., line 77). This ignores apparent competition and partitioning enemy-free niche space, which has been found to contribute to biodiversity effects in many studies.
If apparent competition refers to interference competition, it is included in negative interaction. Changes in species-specific pests and pathogens in mixture will be captured in positive or negative effects through facilitation or interference.
In what sense are competitive interactions positive for competitive species (lines 82-83)? By definition, competition is an interaction that has a negative effect. Do you mean that interspecific competition is less than intraspecific competition? I am having a very difficult time following the logic.
I am glad the reviewer raised this question that may confuse many others and has never been clearly discussed. It all depends on how comparison is made. If species performance in mixture are compared with that in partial density monocultures, as is in competition research, competition effect is negative for all species. If comparison is made between mixture and full density monocultures, as is done in biodiversity research, competition effect should be positive for more competitive species and negative for less competitive species, with resources flowing from less to more competitive species in mixture relative to full density monocultures.
Therefore, the definitions of competitive interactions based on additive series design in competition research cannot be used to describe competitive interactions based on replacement series design in biodiversity research. In biodiversity research, the effects of competitive interactions are never clearly defined at species or community level and mixed up with those of other species interactions.
Results are asserted on lines 93-95, but I cannot find the methods that produced these results. I am unable to evaluate the work without a repeatable description of the methods.
We have added references on sources of these data.
The description of the null hypothesis in the common additive partitioning approach on lines 145-146 is incorrect. In the null case, it does not assume that there are no interspecific interactions, but rather that interspecific and intraspecific interactions are equivalent.
Correct, changes have been made as suggested.
Recommendations for the authors:
Reviewer #2 (Recommendations For The Authors):
I recommend to:
- re-organize the presentation of the material (see my concerns in the public review section). The manuscript is very difficult to read.
Changes have been made to help with understanding of our approach. Figure 1 was modified to show the variations of competitive growth response with relative competitive ability from minimum (null expectation) to maximum (competitive exclusion).
- explore the mathematical form the the remainder term. It seems important to understand that the remainder capture terms unrelated to competition as defined in the present scope.
The remainder measures deviations from the null expectation, due to species differences in growth and competitive ability or competition effect. The term has clear meaning, positive for more competitive species and negative for less competitive species (lines 202-204), and does not need to be further explored or partitioned. The deviations of observed yields from competitive expectations are outlined in lines 205-221.
Reviewer #4 (Recommendations For The Authors):
The authors should be sure to include reproducible methods and share any data and code.
Both simulation and experimental data are shared through supplementary tables. Calculations are included in excel spreadsheets and do not require program coding.
Reviewer #1 (Public review):
As a starting point, the authors discuss the so-called "additive partitioning" (AP) method proposed by Loreau & Hector in 2001. The AP is the result of a mathematical rearrangement of the definition of overyielding, written in terms of relative yields (RY) of species in mixtures relative to monocultures. One term, the so-called complementarity effect (CE), is proportional to the average RY deviations from the null expectations that plants of both species "do the same" in monocultures and mixtures. The other term, the selection effect (SE), captures how these RY deviations are related to monoculture productivity. Overall, CE measures whether relative biomass gains differ from zero when averaged across all community members, and SE, whether the "relative advantage" species have in the mixture, is related to their productivity. In extreme cases, when all species benefit, CE becomes positive. When large species have large relative productivity increases, SE becomes positive. This is intuitively compatible with the idea that niche complementarity mitigates competition (CE>0), or that competitively superior species dominate mixtures and thereby driver overyielding (SE>0).
However, it is very important to understand that CE and SE capture the "statistical structure" of RY that underlies overyielding. Specifically, CE and SE are not the ultimate biological mechanisms that drive overyielding, and never were meant to be. CE also does not describe niche complementarity. Interpreting CE and SE as directly quantifying niche complementarity or resource competition, is simply wrong, although it sometimes is done. The criticism of the AP method thus in large part seems unwarranted. The alternative methods the authors discuss (lines 108-123) are based on very similar principles.
The authors now set out to develop a method that aims at linking response patterns to "more true" biological mechanisms.
Assuming that "competitive dominance" is key to understanding mixture productivity, because "competitive interactions are the predominant type of interspecific relationships in plants", the authors introduce "partial density" monocultures, i.e. monocultures that have the same planting density for a species as in a mixture. The idea is that using these partial density monocultures as a reference would allow for isolating the effect of competition by the surrounding "species matrix".
The authors argue that "To separate effects of competitive interactions from those of other species interactions, we would need the hypothesis that constituent species share an identical niche but differ in growth and competitive ability (i.e., absence of positive/negative interactions)." - I think the term interaction is not correctly used here, because clearly competition is an interaction, but the point made here is that this would be a zero-sum game.
The authors use the ratio of productivity of partial density and full-density monocultures, divided by planting density, as a measure of "competitive growth response" (abbreviated as MG). This is the extra growth a plant individual produces when intraspecific competition is reduced.
Here, I see two issues: first, this rests on the assumption that there is only "one mode" of competition if two species use the same resources, which may not be true, because intraspecific and interspecific competition may differ. Of course, one can argue that then somehow "niches" are different, but such a niche definition would be very broad and go beyond the "resource set" perspective the authors adopt. Second, this value will heavily depend on timing and the relationship between maximum initial growth rates and competitive abilities at high stand densities.
The authors then progress to define relative competitive ability (RC), and this time simply uses monoculture biomass as a measure of competitive ability. To express this biomass in a standardized way, they express it as different from the mean of the other species and then divide by the maximum monoculture biomass of all species.
I have two concerns here: first, if competitive ability is the capability of a species to preempt resources from a pool also accessed by another species, as the authors argued before, then this seems wrong because one would expect that a species can simply be more productive because it has a broader niche space that it exploits. This contradicts the very narrow perspective on competitive ability the authors have adopted. This also is difficult to reconcile with the idea that specialist species with a narrow niche would outcompete generalist species with a broad niche. Second, I am concerned by the mathematical form. Standardizing by the maximum makes the scaling dependent on a single value.
As a final step, the authors calculate a "competitive expectation" for a species' biomass in the mixture, by scaling deviations from the expected yield by the product MG ⨯ RC. This would mean a species does better in a mixture when (1) it benefits most from a conspecific density reduction, and (2) has a relatively high biomass.
Put simply, the assumption would be that if a species is productive in monoculture (high RC), it effectively does not "see" the competitors and then grows like it would be the sole species in the community, i.e. like in the partial density monoculture.
Overall, I am not very convinced by the proposed method.
Comments on revised version:
Only minimal changes were made to the manuscript, and they do not address the main points that were raised.
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It seems as though Thomas believes that there is a positive impact that can be taken away from divulging in games, and that has to mainly do with the soul. He tends to weave in different ideas in religious texts and words of people who contain lots of wisdom to form this idea that the soul of an individual needs to find delight in these kinds of games. He is essentially saying that words such as playful and humorous were invented so that individuals could discover different ways to create such strong or positive emotions that come from different activities. If playing some kind of medieval game creates "humor" or inspires "joy" in someone's heart, then it was a game that was meant to exist and be played by all.
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a farmer might have kept a pebble in a box to represent each chicken he owned. As further advancements made keeping track of objects-representing-objects more difficult, more abstract symbols and later written words were able to stand in for an idea or object. Despite the fact that these transitions occurred many thousands of years ago, we can trace some words that we still use today back to their much more direct and much less abstract origins.
I feel like language has become so complex that it is again becoming a thing for the pepople of power and status. Think about taxes, or Wall Street, the language they use is so complex but it boils down to such simple meanings. I think they do this to keep normal people from being able to play the game by making it so complicated that the average person just gives up. Language is being used as a form of war on the average people.
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She is basically saying that she needs to step her game if the haters aren't hating up and become a unique person outside of other rappers in the game.
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She is reminding people that she is successful and that people hate her because of it
it had College Football Playoff implications.
This article is an example of timeliness, as the game happened on Wednesday night, impact, as it will effect a lot of people both involved with the two teams that played, as well as most of the college football world, and prominence, as the college football playoff is significant and heavily followed by millions of people around the world
One of the most significant college football results of this week took place on—believe it or not—Wednesday night.
The statement of this game being one of the most significant college football results of the week is an opinion as other people can disagree by the time the college football week is over
Since 1950, he is just the fourth quarterback to record a 140-plus passer rating in three consecutive contests, while his 83.5 completion percentage over his last four games is the highest in a four-game span (min. 90 pass attempts).
Another fact/statistic in the article
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“It sucks,” linebacker Yaya Diaby said. “It sucks, but at the end of the day we have a division game coming up and that’s our focus.”
I like how the author is including different quotes from different players but I feel as if it should be cited when the quote was said and who gave the interview.
If trying to win that game was pointless, this one was utterly senseless.
Biased example
“We don’t second-guess,” head coach Todd Bowles said. “We got our guys, we’re playing everybody we got. Unfortunately, he got hurt. We feel bad about that, but he’s a football player. He wants to be in the game like Baker (Mayfield) and everybody else.”
This was a good necessary quote to input as it sort of clears the air and sets a different perspective for me being the reader in the sense that the players wanna play and do their job instead of not playing. Although it would have been smart to take him out I feel as if this is the reality of the injury.
The game was lost, the Bucs were just too stubborn to admit it.And because of that, the season may be lost as well.
Although realistically this is a fact it can also be viewed as an opinion since theres no factual way to tell if they could have had a comeback or be bad the rest of the season.
After lunch all the youth of the city go out into the fields to take part in a ball game.
It's lovely to see how this has not changed so much even today, especially with people in England crazy for sports like soccer/football and rugby.
t normally takes me eight hours to just rethink and focus on the next one, but the abuse doubles that amount of time,'
players should be able to disconnect after a game the same way employees disconnect from work. These messages don't allow them to do so
you lose a game and you're going through all of your personal feelings and thoughts.
causes players to get in their own head
some who bet on games are now targeting players with abusive messages when an individual fails to win a match.
same idea that was expressed in the Blame Game article I read
Flowers limped off the field and didn’t return on the possession.
I feel as if the author could've had alot more detail in this article if it was not posted during the 2nd quarter rather the end of the game.
The Ravens needed it, having fallen behind the Bucs 10-0. It could have been worse, but Tampa Bay had a Chris Godwin touchdown negated by a holding penalty on Tristan Wirfs.
This could be looked at as bias since Charean Williams says, 'The Ravens needed it" which comes out to be an opinion when in reality they really did need it to keep up in the game.
In addition, John Buccigross will host a live five-hour whiparound show with help from analysts Kevin Weekes and P.K. Subban. From 7 p.m. ET to midnight, they’ll bounce from game to game while showing the best goals, saves and plays from all 16 clashes.
This is very similar to what the NFL does with Redzone where they show all the action from all the games
If you’re wondering why the NHL set a Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks game for an 8:15 p.m. ET start time on Tuesday, or why the Tampa Bay Lightning and New Jersey Devils are getting underway at 6:45 p.m., there’s actually a very good explanation.
I think this is a good way to open their article because it makes people actually think "Why are the games starting so early"
Then, there are subjects and behaviors discussed even less frequently. These are so deeply embedded in those who grew up in the culture that they occur as thoughtlessly as breathing. This might include norms between genders or ages, how the culture values personal space, or even what is seen as “good” or “bad.” These aspects remain deeply hidden unless we are willing to acknowledge and discuss them.
The notion that there are behaviors that those who grew up in a certain culture do things as thoughtlessly as breathing is interesting to me. When reading this, I recalled someone saying that when they went to a stadium in Japan and were leaving, he recognized that there was almost no trash anywhere to be seen. Such really surprised me, as that is not what would come to mind to me if I thought of a stadium after a game would look like here in the U.S.
My interpretation (not sure if I'm right) as why this is the case is to the fact Japanese people at a very young age are taught to clean not only after themselves but after their community also since a very young age. But I don't know, just an idea.
I do not know whether a man or a woman
The line "I do not know whether a man or a woman" emerges from the section "A Game of Chess," which delves into the disintegration of human connection. This line signifies the speaker’s existential uncertainty, reflecting a world where traditional gender roles and identities have become muddied and irrelevant.
Here, the ambiguity echoes the broader themes of alienation and fragmentation, as the characters struggle to communicate and connect. The uncertainty of gender mirrors the breakdown of personal relationships, suggesting that in a chaotic, post-war landscape, even the most fundamental aspects of identity are in flux. This disorientation emphasizes the emotional paralysis faced by individuals, reinforcing the haunting sense of isolation pervading the poem.
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Eliot artfully weaves imagery and language that evokes quietude into the fabric of the poem, creating a body of work whose essence personifies forms of silence. The poem possesses a hushed quality, behaving similarly to a curse word. As if to engage and think with the poem is taboo. Yet, when read, the assemblage of fragmented imagery, allusions, ambiguous language and voice, or lack thereof, engenders a profusion of sound. Eliot’s use of syntax in “A Game of Chess” depicts the unexpected resonance of unsaid speech, drawing attention to the hidden yet audible nature of cognition. The capitalization of “HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME,” a noticeable shift from the earlier lowercase dialogue, intends to evoke a semblance of sound while maintaining the generally quiet disposition of the poem. Eliot's interplay with cognition and sound probes the potency of unsaid speech, revealing how the silence between words carry as much meaning as spoken language itself, inviting readers to consider the depths of thought and emotion that lie beneath the surface of expression.
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble
Parth’s annotation on this line introduces an interesting interpretation of its origins in Antony and Cleopatra. He identifies that “this line is an imitation of a line we see early on in Antony and Cleopatra—with one change: the word "barge" is changed to a capitalized "Chair" here…Chair might not be referring to a literal chair, which isn't a proper noun—but an organizational position. A "Chair" in a company is an executive position; likewise, a metaphorical Chair in a kingdom may refer to one's supreme status” (Jain). I’d like to expand the scope of the Antony and Cleopatra reference beyond specific lines that Eliot incorporated into “The Waste Land,” now through Parth’s lens of Cleopatra’s status and power within the play, her “Chair” within Antony and Cleopatra, and therefore “The Waste Land” as well. When reading Antony and Cleopatra, I couldn’t help but take note of the many ways in which Cleopatra both adopts the role of the queen in a literal game of chess. In a very broad sense, Cleopatra’s decision to fake her own suicide, to temp Antony with her death, is quite analogous to the physical and strategic features of the queen on a chess board. For example, while Cleopatra plots to win the attention of Antony, she says, “I have nothing Of woman in me: now from head to foot // I am marble-constant” (Shakespeare, V.II). In portraying herself as hard as marble, she renders herself part of a chess set, as they are often made of marble. The image of a chess board is then transferred to the marble as it appears here in “The Waste Land,” further convincing me that Cleopatra is the queen of Eliot’s chess set as it is understood in “A Game of Chess.” Additionally, Cleopatra embodies the characteristics of a chess piece as a powerful strategic asset when used correctly. She even says, “come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen worth many babes and beggars” (Shakespeare, V.II). “Take” is the terminology in a game of chess for the capture of a piece. I believe it’s possible that both Shakespeare and Eliot recognized the parallels between Cleopatra’s actions and the act of sacrificing a piece in the game of chess. However, Cleopatra’s move was in vain, and ultimately, when she sacrifices her life, amounts to nothing. In other words, the power she possessed through her “Chair” is only valuable insofar as it is spent to win the Game of Chess. Meanwhile, the woman in “The Waste Land” also sits dead on her throne, her status reduced, presumably having met a similarly wasteful fate.
Those are pearls that were his eyes. 'Are you alive, or not?
Eliot’s interest in death by suicide (as we see in the Sybil epigraph) is brought to life here in an overlap of Shakesphere references. Of course, the first line here is an echo of the Tempest reference in Burial of the Dead. Notably, it is a reference to Alonso, who tried to drown himself upon hearing false news of his son’s death. Then, the second line is quite feasibly a reworking of the famous, “To be, or not to be,” given that they are syntactically analogous with the placement of commas. Actually, they are structurally inverted, with the Hamlet comma placed in between the second and third syllable (x x, x x x x), while Eliot’s comma is placed in between the fourth and fifth syllable (x x x x, x x). Hamlet’s line is most popularly interpreted as a contemplation of suicide. Together, these two references seem to point to Ophelia’s death, and suggest Eliot decides that hers was a death by suicide as well.
The way Eliot inverts the structure of Hamlet’s line brings to mind the concept of a reflection, such as the “glassy stream” in which Ophelia drowns, as if the Eliot line floats on the surface of a body of water. If we were to indulge that imagery, it certainly would reaffirm the ideas of death and corpses, seeing as corpses float in water. This calls to mind the line “fear death by water” from Burial of the Dead in the tarot section. Perhaps Eliot means to prophesize suicidal drowning, which adds an interesting wrinkle to the grave motif that we’ve seen so often up to this point: does Eliot’s focus shift from the ground as a resting place to that of a water-submerged grave in A Game of Chess?
I do not know whether a man or a woman
This line is lifted from a translation of the Visuddhi-Magga, where a woman adorned in accessories (such that she looks like a goddess) leaves her husband’s house to return home. On her way, she is met by an elder who bestows “saintship” upon her based on her teeth. Physical beauty is in indicator of divinity, but perhaps an erroneous one. He declares, "Was it a woman, or a man, /That passed this way? I cannot tell / But this I know, a set of bones / Is traveling on upon this road."
The ambiguity on gender suggests it is not feminity nor masculinity that constitutes this third creature, this mysterious other whose presence is alluded to but unknown. In the passage, it is a woman, dressed in accessories to look like a goddess, that walks the road. Yet to the elder, gender is irrelevant; all he sees is “a set of bones”. The human identity is thus defined by the physical structures that support us. The bones that prop, the skin that wraps, the muscles that hold – the human being is whittled down into strictly anatomy. The personification of “a set of bones” also evokes a sense of resurrection, where the skeleton - now a symbol of the core of a human being, not the death of one - travels directionlessly on the road. The use of demonstrative pronoun “this” reemphasizes the proximity of the skeleton - this divine -, correlating the road it travels on to the one the speaker (and us) are on.
The focus shifts later in the passage to the vulnerability of bodies in their indiviudal, amputated form. Hair, when detached from the scalp, flies loose and tangled in clumps in the drain or kots on a comb. Nails, clipped or fallen, become trash. Teeth, the most animalistic mechanism that chews and rips and tears, when fallen out, becomes useless and remains, if lucky enough, in a dusty wooden box. In this way all our bodily extensions are accessories – external decor to conceal the throbbing, vulnerable creature that resides within. Hair insulates the head and covers the neck, teeth flank our soft greedy mouths, and nails protect nerve bundles and, by extension, physical touch. What can be perceived outward is a disguise for what lies within, which I suppose must be the soul. While alive, a human’s exterior features can be come detached; joints can loosen, organs can fail, and skin can callous. And in death, organs liquify, hair decomposes, and muscles decay. Yet bones, in their stubborn white glory, remain. They are firmly rooted in the ground, a testament of a human’s existence, a mere indicator of the body it held, the life it contained.
Eliot references bones throughout TWL – they are lost in rats’ alley, they rattle by Sweet Thames, they are in the bottom of sunken ships. Of all the disguises a human wears, (the queens no different form the cadavers in “A Game of Chess”, the dead buried and regrown), at their core they are all bones. Perhaps that is where the truth lies – in that which cannot be decomposed.
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: 'Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.' When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.
Lines 240-250 of “The Waste Land” describe the sexual assault of a woman by her “lover” describing how “flushed and decided, he assaults at once; Exploring hands encounter no defense”. An immediate connection can be made with Dr. Goldsmith’s “The Vicar of Wakefield”, where the theme of sexual assault is also brought up, specifically through the story of a girl named Olivia. On page 133, Goldsmith writes, “poor Olivia first met her seducer, and every object served to recall her sadness. But that melancholy … soothes the heart instead of corroding it. Her mother, too, upon this occasion, felt a pleasing distress”. Despite the gravity of Olivia’s experience, her melancholy is perversely received as a comfort by others, even to her own mother. This perversion can be compared to the disturbing association between sexual assault and pleasure, as both harm the victim, but satisfy those around them. Following this description, on page 133-134, Olivia shares a poem regarding her sexual assault, stating, “When lovely woman stoops to folly// And finds too late, that men betray … //The only art her guilt to cover //To hide her shame from ev’ry eye //To give repentance to her lover //And wring his bosom, is — to die”. In Olivia’s poem, she seeks comfort and healing from the trauma of her experience, describing the guilt and shame she felt. As a part of this restoration, or “art”, as it is named interestingly, she mentions repentance to her lover, or a “wringing of his bosom”. The act of wringing is one of significant strain, as it describes the squeezing of fabric to remove liquid, and the mention of the man’s bosom suggests pride or comfort, seen through the stereotypical “puffed out chest”. Thus, as another part of Olivia’s restoration, she also seeks to humble and in some way correct the male hubris and entitlement of her assaulter. Of course, her final state of restoration is revealed to be death. Olivia’s art of death evokes the idea of restoration and sacrifice, in line with previous themes of Eliot’s “The Fire Sermon”. In particular, I would like to return to Thomas Middleton’s “A Game of Chess”, where the “fall or prostitution our lust most violently rages for” is described in a letter by the Black King to his pawn. It seems like Olivia’s story falls into the forced prositution or sexual exploitation of women, and her subsequent death falls into the idea of a woman’s fall. Returning to the text of “The Waste Land”, the after effects of the assault on the nameless woman are described by Eliot on lines 251 to 255. Eliot writes, “Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: 'Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.' When lovely woman stoops to folly and paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand". Eliot’s reference to Olivia’s poem suggests an overarching theme of coming to terms with trauma and, of course, death. However, this women isn’t seen physically dying as Olivia seems to describe. Instead she seems to enter a dissociated state, one in which her brain doesn’t seem to function properly, and where her body starts to pace and adopts automatic movements. Conceptually, this separation of the mind and body can be interpreted as a type of death - a profound disruption of the mind, body, and soul. In response to demand for the “fall or prostitution” of women that some men lust after, Olivia’s art of death is reflected by the nameless woman as a method of survival and sacrifice in which a victim hopes for the restoration of an unjust event.
the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
for - critique - extreme wealth inequality cannot be avoided for the greater improvement of society - The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie - stats - Mondragon corporation - comparison of pay difference between highest paid and lowest paid - adjacency - Gandhi quote - Andrew Carnegie beliefs in The Gospel of Wealth
critique - extreme wealth inequality cannot be avoided for the greater improvement of society - The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie - It's a matter of degree - Wealth differences within US corporations of 344 to 1 are obscene and not necessary, as proven by - Wealth difference of 6 to 1 in Mondragon federation of cooperatives - To quote - Gandhi, there is enough to meet everyone's needs but not enough to meet everyone's greed - The great problem with such large wealth disparity is that those who know how to game the system can earn obscene amounts of money - and since the concept of luxury goods is made desirable and proportional to monetary wealth, it creates a positive feedback loop of insatiability - The combination of engaging in ever greater luxury lifestyle and power is intoxicating and addictive
to - stats - Mondragon corporation - comparison of pay difference between highest paid and lowest paid - https://hyp.is/QAxx-o14Ee-_HvN5y8aMiQ/www.csmonitor.com/Business/2024/0513/income-inequality-capitalism-mondragon-corporation
Conclusie
. From this study, we concluded that over the course of a whole small-sided game, the forward-backward motion of the centroids is most strongly linearly related. Furthermore, goals show a specific pattern in the forward-backward motion of the centroid. Therefore, surface area and particularly centroid position may provide a sound basis for a collective variable that captures the dynamics of attacking and defending in soccer at team level. Future research should develop these ideas further
Thus the self-serving bias is a perceptual error through which we attribute the cause of our successes to internal personal factors while attributing our failures to external factors beyond our control. When we look at the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias together, we can see that we are likely to judge ourselves more favorably than another person, or at least less personally.
The mentality of “I hit the game winning shot because I’m the best” vs “I missed the game winning shot because you didn’t get me the ball fast enough” Fascinating to see these examples from life be put into a structured explanation.have a coworker who, if there is a mistake, will always be the last to get back to the office and then proceed put the blame on someone else. If the job is completed on time, looks good and mistake free he will be the first one in the office reporting to the boss how good he did on the job.
believing game
I like the concept of the "believing game" where I take the shoes of the original author and write from his perspective fairly, even if planning to disagree with his thoughts later.
A Linguistic Error Limit.
this section discusses how we can inject communication errors into the game. The form used creates a tradeoff between more signals (expressivity) and accuracy (expected no of correct messages)
The matrix P contains the entries p ij,denoting the probability that for a speaker object i is associatedwith sound j
This is basically a probabilistic belief of the signaling system by the speaker and listener in a lewis signaling game.
Hence, we assume that both speaker and listener receive areward for mutual understanding. If for example only thelistener receives a benefit, then the evolution of languagerequires cooperation
When agents get the same rewards they are in a cooperative game. This is not expressed clearly.
And again in line with the Lewis Signaling Game
more than 540 abusive betting-related messages were directed at men's and women's basketball student-athletes and game officials, including death threats.
I get the games are serious and competitive but no game is worth sending a death threat over
Task & Talk
Task and Talk is Clearly based in the Lewis signaling game. However this setup seems to lead to entangled solutions at least for the minimal number of required signals.<br /> A needs to send one of three signals - the one he does not need. Then B needs to send one of four symbols for the state of one then the other (order is selected by symmetry breaking and learned thoroug reinfocement.) In this minimal version the signals are reused. If agent A has 8 signals he can respond fully without needed a second round.
Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill’d game,
death contributing to life.
Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.
He seems to think he is above others, or at the very least looking down at them amused and in a state of wonder
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night, Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill’d game, Falling asleep on the gather’d leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
Could this be a false utopia?
Why is this all happening? This is devastating. This is heartbreaking. You know, I've tuned in on the future many times, and I do see like, of course, there is going to be a lot more catastrophes, but on the other side of that, they always show me that the light is going to win, like the digital age is approaching. So it's really just how we kind of look at that, because, like, the first level is awakening to the systems, and the second level is anchoring in your own system. Faith is like our birthright. It's just that we've wired in fear so much we think that's our natural state of being. I like to welcome to the show Ella Ringrose. How you doing Ella? I'm super well. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I'm looking really looking forward to talking to you about your unique journey into where you are getting to this place in your life. So before we start talking about your more psychic and mystical abilities, what was your life like prior to you learning about your psych abilities, or at least coming out of the closet, if you will, with your psychic abilities. Well, I became aware that I was psychic quite young, young, but for most of my teenage hood, I really struggled with my sensitivity. So I guess I was hiding in a sensitive closet of always feeling like there was something deeply wrong with me, and I really struggled to fit in in school. I was failing everything in school as well. I was diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia, and so sitting in class, I couldn't retain information. It was like my mind would shut off. And I always found myself being extremely sensitive to other people, other people's emotions, you know, people who were quite strong. I was very sensitive to a lot of stuff, so I grew up very much masking myself and and who I really was to fit in. But it got to a point where I just felt like I was gonna crack like, you know, when you have like, like, a lid over a boiling water and it just starts bubbling over. It just got to this point where I just couldn't continue pretending to be just like a normal person. And so when I was 17 years old, I was sitting in the back of math class, and I heard this very strong voice. Now I know it's the voice of Spirit, telling me to drop out of school. And I was in the back of math class, and I remember just making that decision in that moment. It was like every part of my body, every cell knew that that was going to be my last day. And so I went home and I told my mom, and they were not obviously happy about it, but I knew that this was what I had to do. And so shortly after that, my brother was on his own self development journey, and he bought hundreds of self development books and spiritual books and filled our bookshelf in our living room up. And so one day, he handed me the specific book called feel the fear and do it anyway. Before I remember that book. Yeah, I was in college when I read that that, book. Yeah, it was before. Then I was just depressed and I was so super anxious. So when I read that book, my 17 year old mind was like, fear isn't real, like, why has no one told me this? Like, it infatuated me. And so I'd been wanting to do YouTube since I was 12 years old. And so I ran home from reading that book on the train, and I started my YouTube channel, even though I was petrified. What year was that? What year was that? I don't know. I'm 25 now, so it was nearly eight years ago. Yeah. So we're looking at oh gosh, 2012 early on. It wasn't when YouTube wasn't popping just yet. It wasn't Oh, Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast wasn't around yet. No, not at all. He probably was, but he wasn't known. But I've been watching YouTube, because the only thing that kept me going when I would go home from school and cry every day was YouTube. It was the only thing that made me feel I could relate to other people who were on the other side of the screen showing things in their lives. Because I wanted that normality, and so I found that book, and I just became infatuated, and I just went around down a rabbit hole, and was studying and studying and reading and learning, and one day, our family, we lost our home overnight, like we were told that we had to leave. So I couldn't bring anything, I couldn't bring my clothes, I couldn't bring my furniture, because it's a long story, but I had to leave everything overnight because there was a mold infestation as well. So all my products and things were destroyed. We were all quite sick, and so I flew to Canada, and that is when the spiritual journey really started accelerating. It was almost as if angels and guides and spirit were coming to me, and I couldn't ignore the guidance that was moving through and the guidance they were showing me. It all started with me when I was walking into a bookstore, and this book was a book by Gabby Bernstein. It was called Super attractor, but it had my face on the cover. And at this time, I was still somewhat of an atheist. I was very into like energy or emotions and mindset, but I was still very closed off to that realm. And this book had my face on it. And. I remember just staring at it, looking around like, is anyone seeing what I'm seeing? What is going on? That was my first kind of like experience where I was physically seeing things with my eyes. And I went home and read that book, and it was all about angels. And then within the next few days, the voices just came in. The connection just clicked. It was like reading that book overnight. My body just knew that this was real and I recognized it. It was as if my soul was remembering a part of itself that was ready to be activated. And that was kind of the beginning of my, my spiritual journey. So when you first started to feel these psychic the voice, I hate the voices, the voice, the things coming through, I always like asking this, did you think you were losing your mind? Did you? Because that's a normal normal thing is like, Hey, I hear voices. That's when they used to send people to the loony bin with that stuff in the in the padded sense. So I always ask channelers, and I always ask psychics this, because it's the first question I would ask if I heard a booming voice in my head, and yeah, and it did with was it just a voice, or was there an energy or a feeling with the voice that calmed it down, which I hear that happens as well? Yeah, to answer your question, no, it was actually, I mean, of course, later in my spiritual journey, I did start to think I was losing it like the more I started diving deep, of course. But when I did receive that guidance, it was actually a moment I had never felt the amount of peace that I had, because I finally didn't feel alone. I was like, there is more here than meets the eye that I was craving and seeking this whole time I was on earth, you know. So it felt very peaceful. And how my gifts work is I don't see them physically with my eye. Although I did see the Gabby book, I see it through my third eye. So like, it's like a, I see, I call it like a projector, like, you know, like a movie projector screen, like, puts it out into the wall. It's as if my third eye can can show me it in the physical room. So I was being able to see it through my third eye, but not my physical eyes, if that makes sense. Of course, yeah, I was scared of angels at night time when I was in bed, and I was like, Oh, my God, are there like, these beings around my bed, on all of that. But no, it didn't. It wasn't scary to me. Like, cellularly, I feel like it was my soul remembering as I dive deeper. It was just an awareness of like, oh no. This has been a part of my path for many lifetimes. You know? It just felt natural. It felt normal. Yeah. It was like you said, a remembering, because if you were an atheist, then past lifetimes was probably not a thing that you really thought about, or even thought was real when you decided to come out of the spiritual closet start your YouTube channel. I'm assuming your YouTube channel was in this this space at that time, even when you started talking about so you're talking about this stuff in public eight years ago, which you know, to be fair, eight years ago, the consciousness of the planet wasn't near where it is today. It wasn't as open. There weren't these kind of conversations happening freely as many as they are now, what did the people around you say, your friends, your family, and how did you deal with what they came at you with, because I have to imagine, it wasn't all Kumbaya. They were worried for sure. Yeah, concerned. I have a lot of joy. And from from my perspective, it was exciting me so much, I just wanted to share it, you know. So in my head, it was like, Oh, this is literally transforming my life. This is incredible. Like, this giddiness in me was like, let me share all of this. So I was, like, spewing this online, making videos every day. But in regards to like, family and friends at the time, I had actually kind of cleared all my friendships, so I was very much kind of in my own journey. I didn't have a lot of friends around me at the time. But in regards to family, it was very much like a concern. It was kind of like, I don't know what Ella's doing. Is she getting into a cult, you know? So that was, that was a strong thing, yeah, and especially when I was diving deep and healing a lot, you know, as well, was concern of like, do I need to go to a psych ward? There was definitely some parts of that. But at the same time, my family aren't like a normal family either, in the sense that we've always been very like loving and open and expressive with our words and like from a very young age, my mom and my brother and I, living together, we were all so into mindset and self development. So we were all quite like, expanded in our minds and open to possibilities and ideas, and as the path moved on. It's kind of comical, because my mother is extremely psychic, and my stepmom was always believing in this stuff. She had a million Angel books in her home. So there was actually a lot of people surrounding me that were in that realm that I wasn't aware of until I was able to see it to myself. You know, Now was there a moment where you used your gifts to do a reading or help somebody that not only changed their life but surprised the heck out of you. Oh my gosh. I feel like that's every reading, Alex, every reading, Your first your first one, the very first time you did it, like I imagine the first time you did a reading for somebody, you were like, Oh man, that worked kind of thing. I actually remember it. I remember it. I was living in the Canary Islands at the time, and my psychic gifts started accentuating very strongly, and I heard spirit being like, just go give it to strangers on the beach. We are in a time of great change, and humanity is awakening more and more every day. Mankind needs insights on what is happening to all of us. That is why I'm inviting you to Wisdom from Beyond a six day virtual summit designed to awaken your soul. Experience over nine hours of soul expanding channeling sessions led by six of the world's most esteemed channelers, connect with the divine, receive sacred insights and transform your journey by asking questions directly to the channelers themselves. This is more than just a summit. It is your gateway to understanding the profound shifts happening within and around all of us, plus, when you sign up, you receive exclusive bonus content to deepen your spiritual exploration, join us and step into the extraordinary. So I went up to someone, and I just said it. I was, I was literally just like, Can I can I do this? They were like, Sure. And I knew that they had lost their job. I knew that they were suffering and they were struggling. I felt their insecurity. I felt so many different things, and I was expressing it. And he was like, Who the hell are you? Like, this is weird, you know. So I was kind of like, oh, that validated it, that it's correct. And I just kept on going and doing it with other people and friends, and started to know a lot of stuff that, of course, I wouldn't have known myself until I tuned in. And that's when spirit was like, you're going to have to start offering readings. And so I was living in Lapland at the time, and that's when I started going full time giving readings. And I think I've done over 1000 now, and they've all been deeply transformational. But I always find that each reading I've done has given me more than than what I give them as well, because I'm learning so much about each person's soul, and I'm learning so much about giving ourselves permission to have joy, because whenever I tune into people's guides, it's nothing but unconditional love for that person sitting right in front of me, like their guides just want the best for them. They just want love for them. And seeing that like common thread that is played out in every single reading, it's like, oh, the meaning of life is actually very simple. It's very simple. And it's it's giving ourselves permission to experience that. So being in the space that you're in, and even being in the space that I'm in, there's criticisms that come towards you. You know, obviously, let's not even talk about the YouTube comments, but but in let's not, let's not go down that dark rabbit hole. But have you dealt with that kind of energy coming towards you about your gift. Because, again, this is it's much more accepting now than he was even a decade ago, and is becoming more and more accepted as shows like mine and others are kind of putting the word out for things and people's consciousness are raising. But how do you deal with that kind of negative energy that comes towards you? Because I have to believe that you have had it at one point or another in your journey. Yeah, yeah. I mean, what's quite interesting about that question is it doesn't really bother me for the reason that I dove so deep into heart, awakening a long time ago, and connecting to my heart, that I feel just genuinely compassion. Because I find when people think of this as kind of weird or not real, I have like, this sadness, feeling like, on some level, they're missing out. Because it's so joyfully infectious in my life that I kind of just see it as like, okay, it's just not their time yet, and it's very accepting. And also, from doing so many psychic readings, I really feel I have one foot in the physical and one foot, like, in the higher realm. And so I see everything from a higher perspective, always, rather than, like a grounded, like, reactive state of like, why is this happening to me? I always see it from like, a soul level of being like, okay, it's not their time. I see their perception. And because I can see through people's emotional bodies, their spiritual bodies, whenever I see this kind of criticism, I always see the reflection within themselves. So it just gives me a higher grace of compassion, not to say that I'm a human and I don't get triggered, but it's like something that I've just learned over time and and I think also just of the miracles that it's created my own life and seeing in my friend's life, my loved ones lives, like it's just kind of for me, like it's so real. It's like, it's my soul, it's, it's everything to me that I just, I don't mind because I just am like, well, it's, it's such a blessing that I appreciate it, regardless if someone else doesn't believe in that or think that's crazy. How do you balance living a human life with the amount of knowledge and connection you have to the other side? And this is a problem that I know near death experiencers have, and channelers have, and psychic mediums have, because they live a lot of times more time on the other side than they do in reality. So how do you build relationships? How do you you know, if you want to have a loving relationship, you know a romantic relationship. How does that work? How do you deal with other. People that might not be at the same place that you are, and you're like, Ah, why do I have to deal with this stuff, this lower energy stuff, when I know what's happening on the other side, I know where we're all going to be going, like that, knowledge has to weigh heavy on you, to be to balance that just normal living life day to day. I do. I think that it's kind of comical, because I've made a career out of it, so most of my life is surrounded by that type of energy anyway, but I understand where you're coming from, and it's been a journey, you know, like there was a few years where I was literally sitting in my apartment talking to angels more than humans, you know, and that that wasn't normal either. That's a problem. It was a problem. And at the time, I didn't see that, and I was connecting to angels. I was connecting to more on that side than literally anything, and I didn't have many relationships. And it took kind of like this moment of me surrendering literally on my knees and praying and being like, I allow you to take over, because I feel like Spirit is the one that moves through me and guides me. And so what started to happen was I just started being guided to the right places and the right people that I brought people into my life who were extremely grounded, who were extremely like, into their body, or into, like healthy eating, or like a specific way of living. And I found I've traveled all over the world for the past five years, living with multiple different people who reflect and get, like, have so much codes to offer. Just for example, like I was living in Costa Rica a couple months ago, and I was living with a beautiful like, sister of mine, and she is, like a primal, ancestral eater, and she's very grounded in her body. And like, living with her impacted my life so much that, like, I eat so primarily now and organically and like good, that it's almost like I do my psychic reading, and then once that's finished, I'm not thinking about spirit. I'm in my body. I'm in my life. I'm in my experience. But in regards to it being a challenge, because I can understand a lot of people listening who are just in a hometown and they feel like they're the only one who's kind of awake to that stuff, I really resonate with that pain, and I do understand that that is a very challenging and difficult thing, and it was something that I was tuning into before coming on here that I really wanted to like address, which is, I really believe that it is so vital, like essential is to have your soul tribe. It is to have people that literally inspire you and expand you and uplift you. Because I've been on the other side, where I've been around people where they didn't really understand my way of being. And truthfully, it feels like my soul is suffocating to some degree. And of course, there's a lesson, there's there's growth there. But I also find that it's really important that you find people that you're like are your tribe that can inspire you and influence you. And whenever I used to tune into that and call those people in I kept getting visions of like Earth grids all over the world, like people, like, even if you are alone in your hometown, you're connected to 1000s of other people who are on your frequency on Earth right now. So you're always connected. So what I started to do was, like, connect to that frequency of having support and having people. And it went from I remember like crying to my mom being like, I've literally no friends to like, I don't really want any more friends because I have too much, if I'm being brutally honest, because I've called in so many and it came from like really connecting and believing those people were out there and then going out to meet them, because I've been on that side where you feel like you just don't have anyone who understands you. And I do know how painful that can be, and I really want to honor people who may feel that or go through that. But what I've come to learn is it doesn't have to be that way. Of course, we learn stuff from people who aren't like that, but you can find so many people who are on your wavelength, who are on your path, that are here to guide you and to expand you in a friendship, in a relationship, in whatever way that wants to come Yeah, we always joke around. Like, as you get older, you start running around when people come into your life and try to become friends after you get to a certain age, like we're all friends. Like, we're all friended up here. We're good, yeah, we don't need any I'm not like that, but I could understand, no, we're good. Thanks. I don't have the energy or time to build a new relationship. I have enough. Thank you. You're overflowing. We're overflowing with blessings. We're good. Thank you. It's very, very interesting. Now, one thing is, I want to, and I would love to hear what your spirit, your guides, are saying about this is that we're going through such a difficult time right now, these last four years, the decade so far, has been a journey, to say the least. It's the roughest decade I've ever been a part of. I have been on this earth a couple years longer than you, just a couple, and it seems like we are going through a major, major, not only shift in consciousness, but a shift in general, for so many people who are like, Oh, my God, the world's coming to an end. This is everything's burning, all this, all this negative stuff. Why, from your spirit guides point of view, why is this happening to us right now, and where are we going to be going over the next Well, this year we'll see where we we still got a heck of a year left over here, but the next decade or so, where are we? Where are we going? Why is this happening? Yeah, this is something I have really like argued with my guides and confused, because the human heart, the compassion is like, why is this all happening? This is devastating. This is heartbreaking. But what I've come to understand, and what my guides have shown me so many times, is that a lot of the darkness we see today has always existed, not to say on this entire time on Earth, but because there is such an influx of light and a frequency of people awakening, and so much information nowadays that people's consciousness is accelerating at such a rapid rate, we're just being revealed what was already there. And so I see it as like they always say to me, Ella, this is like a spiritual warfare of dark and light, but it's all essentially happening so that we can remember who we are. And whenever I would tune into this, it was, it was just a really hard, hard thing for me to tune into, because I am very conscious of my guides would show me a lot of things that were happening, happening in Hollywood and with the music industry, the film industry, things that like I logically didn't seek out like my guides show me all the time, things that are happening in the world that, like, are just horrific, and something that I just freaks me out. But they're always showing me like there is a density on this planet, because Earth is, like, one of the only, or if the only planet in the galaxy that has this ability for us to be eat the most, like, like animalistic, primal to Avatar consciousness. Because if you think of like a dog or like a cat, they can't, like, ASCEND their consciousness, they just are at that level. Whereas humans have the option of, like, going from such a density of pain or of trauma, of all these deepness, all the way to like, higher vibrational frequencies, like we can become whoever we want. So with the state of the world, it's kind of like showing me that it's all just being lifted because there are more people on Earth right now than ever that are awakening, that are holding the light, because a long time ago, there was a darkness that took over and tried to place these fear paradigms on the earth that we have all been controlled and constricted to live and embody every day. And so we're waking up to expand that and to remember our light. So the more that we see these terms play out, unfortunately, that is a reflection of how much we're then remembering who we are, because we're being asked to look within ourselves and to remember the light, which is kind of the purpose of this earth. And you know, I've tuned in on the future many times, and I do see like, of course, there is going to be a lot more catastrophes, but on the other side of that, they always show me that the light is going to win. I have been shown like, I don't want to get too into it, because they always say, like, it's not for most people to know, but there are going to be earthly disasters. I've been shown that a lot, but the reasoning for that is of a higher level again, and it's something that just doing my work as a psychic and seeing the higher level in everything. It allows me to hold that higher vision, again, of understanding, because I see it as like on a human level, we're very reactive, we're emotional, we feel, but on a higher level, the soul is like just breath. It's just like a heartbeat. It's so neutral about everything. So when we can hold a higher perspective and understand that this is all happening for a higher reason, for people to remember of who we are and to take back our power. That's kind of the higher scheme of it. So like they're showing me like a pyramid right now. It's like remembering the top of the pyramid the higher mind and like understanding and holding the light of that, because we come here to remember who we are, and the more people wake up to that, the more it's going to shatter those fear paradigms that we have been under illusion for for centuries. So how can we maintain spiritual balance during this insane time? Because it's one thing to go up to Tibetan, to Tibetan monastery up in the Himalayas. You know, we just eat pure food all day and sit down and meditate for eight or nine hours. Very easy to become, not very easy, but easier to have spiritual enlightenment in that scenario. But the rest of us don't live in that world. Some of us are parents. So I always said to yogis, I'm like, where is there a yogi that had kids? And there's only one that I found, but it's very difficult to have enlightenment when you have to deal with real world events, just normal life, but then now dealing with this turmoil and the wars and the economic stuff and the political stuff and the and everything that's happening to us, how can you maintain spiritual balance in the middle of that kind of hurricane? Yeah, and what's interesting is I had a dream about this a while ago, that spirit answered that question, because I was very much battling between the two worlds, and they showed me that everything that is happening, I think this understanding that, like spirituality is something outside of ourselves, or it is like something we need to transcend and move into a different realm, like the earth experience is the spiritual experience, because everything is spiritual matter. So I see everything in this world as the spiritual experience. And it went from me, you know, going and sitting in circle and ceremony and retreats and traveling all over the world to these events and doing what you were saying, of, kind of like moving up the scale to the mountains and to these spaces of enlightenment, to come to this point where I am now. Of, I have no desire to do any of that, because it's not about. Me finding these height and spiritual experiences. It's getting dirty in the game of life and the reality of this. So I see everything as kind of like a spiritual experience. And that is what's like. We're working towards an understanding. So this paradigm that in order to be spiritual, we have to meditate and have crystals and pray and do all of these things, I really believe, is dramatically incorrect, because everything in this world is is just energy. Everything in this world is a spiritual experience and spiritual game. And I've had that discussion with a lot of my friends who are like coming back to life, back to the world, and seeing that that's the real game, and that's where it really stretches us and gives us that grit. So I don't see the two as separate anymore. Of course, I used to, but I see them as one of the same. So I kind of see it all as part of the game. I see this whole world is just like a game. If there is, you know, if Jesus was here today, or Buddha or Yogananda, or any of these great avatars, you know what I mean, if they were physically here in matter, don't be a smart butt. Okay, see, so if any of these avatars were here today, they would have YouTube channels, wouldn't they? I actually laugh about that so much. I'm like, Jesus was an influencer. Like Jesus was literally like, I was just my ultimate the ultimate influence, ultimate influencer. I was like, thinking this, like a few months ago, I was like, imagining him, just like, have a millions of followers on Instagram. Just like preaching and just like putting up the peace sign and being like, here with Mary Magdalene, like it's it's true. You know, they were all just influential. And I really believe that that awareness of you see, I think Jesus came here to remember, to reflect to us who, to remember who we are, not to praise him as a god or not, to see him as like, worshiping something outside of ourselves. It's the understanding that we are all part of the Prime Creator, and I think that's what we're really starting to understand. So everyone's starting to wake up to that sovereignty, that we are all one and we are all part of that. I mean, I went on like a Bob Marley kick. I love Bob Marley so much. My mom actually hitchhiked across Europe to see him, and I was so jealous. But one love, I literally just listened to that song every day. And I'm like, That is the message. You know, it's like a weaved within a soul. I always see it as this vision spirit shows me of like this green chord, or like a white chord that interconnects us with everything and everyone, like that, a piece of source is in with all within all of us, and we have the ability to connect to anyone and anything, no matter how far it is in the galaxy, because we are all just energy, and we are all connected. And I think that's the real awakening that we're coming here to learn. And I also, too, like Bob Marley, a lot, that concept of one love, and it just it's remarkable. I love to hear what your guides have to say about the shift that's happening between the old systems and the new systems you were speaking of Jesus, His teachings have been slightly, not often, slightly changed since his original just a little bit has been manipulated just a slight bit since he originally was preaching them. But you know that kind of truth of those original teachings, of all the great avatars and all the great masters, you're starting to see cracks in these institutions that were absolutely infallible. I mean, you come from an Irish background. I come from a Latin background, a Latino background, the Catholic Church. You could, oh, my, it was this omnipotent, powerful, just it was the Rock of Gibraltar, like it was unmovable. Never questioned today, not so much. And it seems that I'm using that as an example, as one of those systems that seems to you starting to see the cracks. People are going, No thank you, though, that's not what we really want, and it's happening in every world, from media, Hollywood and the music industry. Is a big shift in politics, there's a big shift in economics, there's a big shift in health. Is a big shift all that stuff. So what are their take on this old system, new system paradigm that we're going through. Yeah, and I love that you said it's a paradigm, because Spirit have shown me the old and new a million times. I've spoken about it in so many YouTube videos as well. And what they're kind of showing me at this point is like. They kind of use the analogy of like, that we have the information is the light. So if we are aware, that is the light. So I'll give the example of like, if we're in a dark, pitch black room and we hear these creepy noises, we're going to be freaked out. We're going to be scared. But if we turn on the light and we see where that noise is coming from, we feel a bit calmer knowing where it originates from. So when we have that awareness, and we have that understanding that in itself, is enough to really start to enhance like, what is happening, but what I've come to learn, and what my guides are starting to continue to tell me now, is, like, it's not about us waiting on the side and just like, waiting for these systems to change because, like, of course, we believe that they are going to change eventually, because we're all kind of waking up to that, but they're still very much concreted in their own way. So it's not about because I've had so many. People and Coles who are just waiting for, like, everyone to just wake up one day, and that's it, and it's just and my guides are like, Ella, that's just not the case. It's just not going to be that way. And they always show me a set of like, spiritual laws, which I can email you, by the way, that they channeled for me, and they were like, what they're really wanting to usher in is a paradigm that we can anchor and hold, whilst these systems are like simultaneously still existing, because it's not about us waiting and sitting on the sideline or, of course, we can fight and do whatever we want, but it's about us anchoring in our own systems. And that's what they keep showing me. So it's like living and breathing in the embodiment of your own systems, regardless if you're working in like a nine to five or you're in the midst of, like, the most like matrixy thing, and you're super awake to it. It's living in your own system. So I can email that to some of the laws that they've shown me, because what they're wanting to do, and they're even showing this now, is like, it's about us anchoring in the new systems, instead of because, like, the first level is awakening to the systems, and the second level is anchoring in your own system while simultaneously. And the more people that remember that, because it's sovereignty, the more collectively it's going to start to shift.
Own systems sovereignity
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Case Studies: Successful Implementation of Storytelling in Game Development
Examples for Successful storytelling
Imagine a game with an engrossing narrative. This story births memorable characters and immersive worlds, creating an elaborate universe for players to explore and engage with. These compelling storylines generate a deep-seated affection in players, making them more likely to want to return to these worlds time and time again. This desire cultivates a loyal player base, laying a solid groundwork for developing sequels or spin-offs.
This paragraph reflects what I said earlier in this annotation.
an emotionally invested player is more likely to engage in in-game purchases.
PROFIT!
It has evolved into a pivotal driver of player retention and monetization
Making a good story for a game can lead to future games expanding upon this story (perhaps using the universe of the game).
Allowing players to make decisions that affect the story's outcome can lead to multiple endings
Being able to replay games to find separate endings helps to make the game enjoyable.
A critical challenge in game development is striking the right balance between a compelling narrative and enjoyable gameplay.
This in my opinion is the most important yet most overlooked thing in games. In other articles I've read, the developers hired by bigger game companies are told to more focus on gameplay rather than the story elements. This makes the story that they implement not entwine properly with the gameplay so it feels awkward to play.
Well-developed characters have their own arcs – they grow, learn, and change as the game progresses.
It's very difficult for a storytelling writer to properly develop each character within their own arcs all at once, hence why we don't see these kinds of games much.
Narrative-driven objectives
Sometimes when playing games that include objectives for the player to complete, the objectives start to feel like busy work/fetch quests. While some players love mindless activities in games, it isn't enjoyable for the average player to run back and forth without much engagement.
Relatable characters
The thing that storytelling writers struggle with is making relatable characters for their potential players.
A well-crafted story can turn a good game into an unforgettable experience, and a memorable experience is what players seek and cherish.
Many of the most memorable experiences I've had while playing games are ones with unique and compelling stories.
‘predatory monetization schemes’ are designed to make players both financially and psychologically committed to a game with a purpose of spending more and more money.
Good to further look into as these 'predatory monetization schemes' could be a point to bring up in how these loot boxes can change the perception of online gambling by posing as a lighter form of online gambling in a way?
Concerns have been raised particularly in relation to ‘loot boxes’ that present a controversial form of in-game purchases in pursuit of randomized rewards such as weapons or cosmetic features
Good definition for what a loot box is. Also helps present the loot box as a form of in-game purchase based on luck.
"Years ago, [after a game], the first thing the players do is get their phone, call the wife or their girlfriend, their father or mother. In this moment, the first thing they do is to post something in Instagram.
showcases the shift in just a few years and how important social media has been made
Three sentences on what I just read,
I believe that BAP is aware of his place in history just like I assume Yuval does. Both authors are not writing as bots recording facts but provide a specialized idological prism to see our current civilization through. Each prisim has its own take, Yuval trying to articulate what the Silicon Valley "Open Conspiracy" types dream of. BAP trying to remind us what it was like to actually be part of history.
The "Why don't CEO's have Harrem's" is the one thing here that is going to stick with me. The women of today are so different from the past. In fact maybe the "Brave New World" reality of nameless sex with strangers and nude play as children is a more desireable world to the Incel, video game, monster can drinking of today.
It seems like the Puritan/Christian sexual practices have really shaped the west into becoming what it is today. I believe most men get their sense of identity from the type of sex they have access to. What's weird about modernity is that we are talking about sex rahter than women with the inherent consideration of children.
This population collapse, as articulated on the Georga Guide Stones, is going to be interesting.
What is the Opposite of "The Open Conspiracy"
several payoff schedules (slot machines, roulette, and dice game of craps) have a probability of winning close to 50%, so that they are expected to elicit maximal DA release and, therefore, reinforce the act of gambling.
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. A predictable game is dull, just like a detective novel for which the identity of the murderer is known in advance.
OMG USE THIS
Ruberg is saying that by playing a game about a marginalized group while being privileged yourself is disrespectful when you are doing so to simply empathize with said groups.
not really accurate here-some rephrasing needed
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how doe this image demonstrate these complicated relationships and the relevance of this game as exploring those relationships?
Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously, even if another game is being played.
This is an improvement over Steam Family Sharing.
"astronaut" beautifully translates to "star sailor."
true roots of "helicopter" are "helix" (meaning spiral, as in double helix) and "pteron" (meaning wing, as in pterodactyl, wing finger). So, "helicopter" literally means "spiral wing" – how perfect!
Those who run our so-called American corporations have bent to the will of the woke agenda and care more for their foreign investors and organizations than their American workers and customers. Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge fund manager has more in common with a socialist, European head of state than with the parents at a high school football game in Waco, Texas.
These comments signal a historically significant departure in the conservative agenda vis-a-vis corporations . In the neoconservative agenda from the 1970s-early 2010s, they and allied "hedge fund managers" were portrayed as iconic exemplars of market freedom, with former hedge fund manger Mitt Romney receiving the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Now the alleged corporate embrace of a "woke agenda" and dependence on "foreign investors" provide grounds for turning on them and "their sense of superiority." Instead, this new "populist" version of conservativism itself borrows from the rhetoric of the labor movement, seeking to align its cause with "workers who shower after work instead of before."
These conservatives' turn against the modern corporate world also proceeds along another front. Rather than seeing corporations as valid actors in their own right, the authors now present "woke" companies as duped or manipulated in some way by a shadowy "Left" to adopt "illegitimate" values. According to this line of critique, those running corporations lost the ability to make legitimate decisions.
Language apps like Duolingo are a perfect example of behaviorist learning.
This is such a good point and I didn't really know that Duolingo was such a great example of behaviorist learning until now but it does make a lot of sense. Especially for me, personally learning languages through Duolingo is much more rewarding than in a regular high school class. It feels more like a video game because you get to see your ranking against others and you get reminders on how often you need to play in order for you to keep your "streak." I know that this defiantly motivates me a lot more to continue learning.
Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once.
do you believe in the strength of academia, and if there were a "thing between the electorate and righteousness" what would it be?
When the Knights of the Round Table, or the Templars; or the Holy Guard stand up in this place and "Friday the 13th" happeneth to them all, in history and; I mean, did it just pass ... what kind of power stands between the end of "democracy" and it's very beginning?
Babylon, alas--at the very crawling of the vote; at the exact moment freedom could have "rung free" ...
Edom, where are we?
straight out of the day "we see your bridge" in D.C. echoed of ... something like the Manhattan picture of the street below Bianca's Empire State building; somewhere in South Florida; for some reason, somehow, something just like today.
https://poets.org/poem/hamlet-act-iii-scene-i-be-or-not-be#:~:text=1616.%20To%20be,%20or%20not%20to
It's far more performant than using getter-setters, on top of being more performant than generating getter-setters. Further it's type safe. Eslint or TypeScript can both warn you about non-existing properties and possibly type mis-matches.
It's also, you know, way more grokkable.
A label ("degrees") probably made with a <div>
Or <label>, even...
it can't be type checked because
Not quite! Your typechecker just isn't powerful enough.
ome entrepreneurs leave conventional businesssettings because they are not interested in playing the game of figuring out what the tacitknowledge of the organizational environment is. They would rather play by their own rulesthan learn other people’s.
link to independent spirit and counterfactual knowledge...
the end game includes a working class of no economic or political power, unable to improve its lot, left to live off whatever universal basic income the Silicon Valley plutocrats are willing to provide.
Policy and political action are determinent in whether or not future AI integration will be utlized to support people or maximize profits for investors.
recuperation
for - book - The Society of the Spectacle - definition - recuperation - from - youtube - The Society of the Spectacle - politics - Marxist group - Situationist International
definition - recuperation - A technique of the spectacle whereby - Official culture is considered a "rigged game" - Conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to public discourse - Subversive ideas must first - get trivialized - get sterilized - before they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society - where they lose their agential power and - they can be exploited to add new flavors and bolster the status quo dominant ideas of the rigged game
from - youtube - The Society of the Spectacle - https://hyp.is/K2b2OIR5Ee-khSfaPJUKWg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jXDJhi6_c
Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.
didn't think tear gas was needed at a sports game
o athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal, my homefor the past 21 years. The Rocket was the preeminent presence,if not player, of his era. Whenever he stormed a goaltender,Richard's glare could be seen from the top row of the Forum--andin taverns for hundreds of miles around, where the predominantlyFrench-speaking Quebecois listening to the game on the radio hada clear picture of the man whom newspapermen covering theCanadiens had raised to mythical status. The Rocket's triumphswere the people's triumphs. His rare defeats were their defeats.And no defeat was as personal, as galling, as the suspensionthat NHL president Clarence Campbell had handed Richard the daybefore all hell broke loose.
Maurice Richard is portrayed as a symbol of Montreal’s pride of its people during the 1940s and '50s. His presence on the ice resonated deeply with Quebecois. Richard became more than just a hockey player—he embodied the identity and spirit of the city and its people.
Mayor Jean Drapeau telephoned Campbell at the NHL officein town and begged him not to attend the game that night. Theimperious Campbell not only ignored the mayor's advice but alsomade a diva's entrance at the Forum
The intent that Campbell displayed, was pure disrespect to the safety of others, knowing that something was going to happen.
NHL officein town and begged him not to attend the game that night.
The NHL understood its fan base.
Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests.
I was not aware of how violent the riot became. This posed safety concerns for innocent fans trying to watch the game.
There are moments when life gets in the way, when sports and thereal world collide at some intersection--
Sports are a major part of peoples lives and society. People can be very big fans and when a team loses or wins a game it impacts them as a fan more than some people can imagine.
You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard.
This is why his influence was so heavy.
You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard. And none of them meant to their fans what le Rocket meant to Canadien fans.
I love learning about Richard as I have never heard of him before like the name Gretsky before this class! It shows just how little we know and he was amazing!
By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list. He had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season.
For this time, these are amazing stats.
The punishment is worse for Richard. Udvari kicks him out of the game.
Based upon each of their actions, both of them should have been removed from the game
Then Campbell arrived. Very visibly. Six minutes into the game, he walked up to his seat with Phyllis King, his secretary and fiancée, who had fielded the angry calls to his office earlier that day.
His presence triggered people
It is one of those moments when you realize you are part of something special, that this spontaneous moment is taking on a life of its own, and one of those moments that remind you sports can mean so much more than a game. He is giving them one final memory here in the Forum. The crowd begins to chant, “Ree-char, Ree-char!”
Shows the importance and influence of just one player.
You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard. And none of them meant to their fans what le Rocket meant to Canadien fans.
Remarkable player. Interesting that they compare Gretzky to Richard because Gretzky is the greatest of all time.
He swivels and drops Thompson to the ice with a right to the face.
Hit the official. In a hearing after the game it was stated that he thought Thompson was a Bruins player.
Whether this type of conduct is the product of temperamental instability or willful defiance doesn’t matter. It’s a type of conduct that cannot be tolerated.” He suspended Richard for the final three games of the regular season and the entire playoffs.
Sometimes I can appreciate when refs in big game time situations make calls like this for the sake of the safety of the others playing.
The punishment is worse for Richard. Udvari kicks him out of the game
that doesn't even seem like that would be enough of a punishment.
He had started playing this game as a 4-year-old on the backyard rink his father Onésime, a machinist at the Canadian Pacific Railway, built for him. It was quickly apparent he could play in ways other boys could not. By the time he reached his teens, his skills were in such high demand he played as often as he could, sometimes four games in a weekend, using aliases to play for multiple teams, often against grown men. The oldest of eight children, he quit school at 16 to work with his father in the factory. He began playing junior hockey the following year.
This visual impact makes the whole scene more dramatic, as if the audience is not just watching a hockey game, but witnessing a moment of one man against the whole world.
It is one of those moments when you realize you are part of something special, that this spontaneous moment is taking on a life of its own, and one of those moments that remind you sports can mean so much more than a game. He is giving them one final memory here in the Forum. The crowd begins to chant, “Ree-char, Ree-char!”
It is really cool when one person can get an entire city excited. Living in Cleveland, I see this often, which makes me often overlook how amazing it is. One person playing a sport is able to bring so many people together in the way that Richard did. This is definitely "something special."
Back in Montreal the morning after the Bruins’ game, Richard showed up for practice despite a headache and upset stomach, likely suffering from a concussion. The team doctor sent him to the hospital for X-rays and other tests. Richard stayed overnight but left the next day to attend the hearing at the Sun Life Building.
He should have been resting and yet he never stopped going.
By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL
This is a ton. Hockey is a low scoring game.
He had started playing this game as a 4-year-old on the backyard rink his father Onésime, a machinist at the Canadian Pacific Railway, built for him. It was quickly apparent he could play in ways other boys could not. By the time he reached his teens, his skills were in such high demand he played as often as he could, sometimes four games in a weekend, using aliases to play for multiple teams, often against grown men. The oldest of eight children, he quit school at 16 to work with his father in the factory. He began playing junior hockey the following year.
His life was hockey. This would never be allowed now unless you went to one of those prestigious academies.
“No one can know when the anger of men, whipped indefinitely, becomes sculpted into political revenge. And more, it is not just a matter of hockey.”
Hockey is not a game, but a lifestyle for Canadians.
violent the National Hockey League
The violence of the game can cause the fans to be rowdy already. This leads to emotions running high
he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.
still do not understand why he decided to show up to the game while he must have known that people are mad at him
However, nothing may have happened if Campbell hadn't made a tactical error — he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place
seems to me like he was instigating the problem.
. However, nothing may have happened if Campbell hadn't made a tactical error — he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.
Fans cared so much about hockey that French and English were willing to come together and agree on it, which shows how insane it was.
We often think of game development as a technical discipline, but so much of a video game has nothing to do with code or technology
fenomenalno!!!!!
In this lesson, I want to introduce Cloud Computing.
It's a phrase that you've most likely heard, and it's a term you probably think you understand pretty well.
Cloud Computing is overused, but unlike most technical jargon, Cloud Computing actually has a formal definition, a set of five characteristics that a system needs to have to be considered cloud, and that's what I want to talk about over the next few minutes in this lesson.
Understanding what makes Cloud 4 Cloud can help you understand what makes Cloud special and help you design cloud solutions.
So let's jump in and get started.
Now because the term Cloud is overused, if you ask 10 people what the term means, you'll likely get 10 different answers.
What's scary is that if those 10 individuals are technical people who work with Cloud day to day, often some of those answers will be wrong.
Because unlike you, these people haven't taken the time to fully understand the fundamentals of Cloud Computing.
To avoid ambiguity, I take my definition of Cloud from a document created by NIST, a NIST at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is part of the US Department of Commerce.
NIST creates standards documents, and one such document is named Special Publication 800-145, which I've linked in the lesson text.
The document defines the term Cloud.
It defines five things, five essential characteristics, which a system needs to meet in order to be cloud.
So AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, they all need to meet all five of these characteristics at a minimum.
They might offer more, but these five are essential.
Now some of these characteristics are logical, and so they may surprise you.
So I've added a couple of things to the document, and I've added a couple of things to the document, and even though you and other business are probably sharing physical hardware, you would never know each other existed, and that's one of the benefits of Boolean.
But on to characteristic number four, which is rapid elasticity.
The NIST document defines this as capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly, outward, and inward, commensurate with demand.
To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited, and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.
Now I simplify this again into two points.
First, capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released to scale rapidly, outward and inward with demand, and in this case, capabilities are just resources.
And second, to the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited.
Now when most people think about scaling in terms of IT systems, they see a system increasing in size based on organic growth.
Elasticity is just an evolution of that.
A system can start off small, and when system load increases, the system size increases.
But, crucially, with elasticity, when system load decreases, the system can reduce in size.
It means that the cost of a system increases as demand increases, and the system scales, and decrease as demand drops.
Rapid elasticity is this process but automated, so the scaling can occur rapidly in real time with no human interaction.
Cloud vendors need to offer products and features, which monitor load, and allow automated provisioning and termination as load increases and decreases.
Now most businesses won't care about increased system costs.
If, for example, during sale periods, their profits increase, and because the system scales, along with that increased load and increased profits, the customers are kept happy.
Elasticity means that you don't have to, and indeed can't over provision, because over provisioning weighs money.
It also means that you can't under provision and experience performance issues for your customers.
It's how a company like Amazon.com or Netflix can easily handle holiday sales, or handle the load generated on the latest episode of Game of Thrones' release.
The second part is related to that.
A cloud environment shouldn't let you see capacity limits.
If you need 100 virtual machines or 1000, you should be able to get access to them immediately when required.
In the background, the provider is handling the capacity in a pooled way, but from your perspective, you should never really see any capacity limitations.
Now this is, in my opinion, the most important benefit of cloud, systems which scale in size in response to load.
So this is a really important one to make sure that a potential cloud environment offers in order to make sure that it is actually cloud.
Okay, let's move on to the final characteristic, and that's measured service.
Now this document defines this as cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging and metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service.
And it says that resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the service.
Now my simplified version of this is that resource usage can be monitored, controlled, reported, and built.
Traditional and non-cloud infrastructure work to using capex.
You pay for service and hardware in advance.
In the beginning, you had more capacity than you needed, so money was wasted.
Your demand grew over time, and eventually you purchased more service to cope with the demand.
If you did that too slowly, you had performance issues or failures.
With a true cloud environment, it offers on-demand billing.
Your usage is monitored on a constant basis.
You pay for that usage.
This might be a certain amount per second, a minute, an hour, or per day usage of a certain service, for example virtual machines.
Or it could be a certain cost for every gigabyte you store on a storage service for a given month.
You generally pay nothing in advance if it truly is a cloud platform.
If you consume a virtual server for a month, but then for 30 minutes at that month you use 100 virtual servers, then you should pay a small amount for the month and a much larger amount just for that 30 minutes.
Legacy vendors will generally want to feed or buy or lease a server.
If this is the case, they aren't cloud, and they probably don't support some of the massively flexible architectures the cloud allows you to build.
With that being said, that is everything I wanted to cover, so go ahead, complete this video, and when you're ready, I'll join you in the next.
‘perfect’ is not even a realistic concept when it comes to how languages work
This is crucial to understand. Language is constantly developing with new slang, phrases, and words with each new generation. You cant be perfect at a game when the rules are constantly changing.
the spinning wheel was the addition of a foot treadle that powered the wheel.
I wasn't aware how much the spinning wheel was a game changer for labor.
"I hope I have enough students to make two hockey teams. Maybe enough to fit the Bell Centre," he joked.
A neat field trip if this was successful would to be to have the class play a game of hockey one day.
Sanctions are now less a tool of behavioral change than one aimed at economic and technological attrition.
Article: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/economy/global-economic-impact-of-sanctions-on-russia.html Annotation #1: I think the authors are saying that these sanctions aren’t really about stopping Russia from acting right now but more about hurting their economy and tech long term. This connects to our question because it shows how these economic measures are designed to wear Russia down over time, making it harder for them to be a global power in the future. The Deloitte article also highlights this, explaining how sanctions on commodities, technology, and financial institutions are causing disruptions that could lead to higher inflation, supply chain issues, and weakened growth in Russia. It confirms that this strategy is more of a long-term game plan to erode Russia’s global influence.
Mainstream game design has moved toward minimizing these down times, adding mechanics like fast travel or quest markers to get players straight to the next point of interest, another filing away of the adventure game’s rough corners.
I think the lack of fast travel in Walking Simulators forces players to think more about the environment around them. This function reminds of Red Dead Redemption where for the early part of the game the player is forced to move through a large world on horseback. The lack of fast travel forces the player to explore the wild west and take time to see the environment around them. Walking Simulators believe in this experience as well as investigating every part of the environment is how players learn more about the games narrative.
O’Connor’s review of the tourism Quake
I don't think Quake is suitable as a game used for shooter --> walker comparison. It is very old and the graphics reflect that. Nowadays, shooters probably have more complex environments than old-school walkers. The limitations of the technology at the time shouldn't be an indication of how well a shooter could be transformed into a walker today, especially as the game development and modding community has exploded.
The most visible difference between adventure games and walking sims is the removal of puzzles
While I agree there are fewer physical challenges in a walking sim than an adventure game, I think the factor of predetermined choices/option is a big difference. These choices refer to more than typical multiple-choice answers, but also choices to change spaces and to do certain actions. In a walking sim, the player is free to do whatever. There's no need to record one's input in order to build the algorithm and advance in the game. A player can explore as many or as few areas of the game and can still make progress and finish the game.
The most visible difference between adventure games and walking sims is the removal of puzzles, although this evolution has happened across many genres of game, as radically extending play time through mental frustration fell out of fashion (to be replaced, of course, by grinding, cooldown timers, and other more modern mechanisms of inflating playtimes).
Adventure games and walking simulations vary in the gameplay. I like that walking simulations are more lowkey and don't always have a "purpose or goal" for the game, but they allow the player to truly immerse themselves into the simulation. Adventure games are often more violent, which is not something that every player enjoys.
But the dominant genre during this period was the much more frenetic first-person shooter. With many shooter engines increasingly providing tools to build your own levels or otherwise modify game content, it’s no surprise that many gamemakers began using these tools for other purposes.
I learned first person walking simulators led to the development of first person shooters. With new and improved engines for first person shooters, creators of walking simulators can create more advanced games. I find it interesting how they both help each-other, though many who play first person shooters and other games do not like the walking simulators built on the same platforms.
To call something a “walking simulator” became not just a complaint about pacing but an existential fight for survival, spiraling to include larger and larger questions of who gets to be a gamer and what should be “counted” as a game
A very important question is raised which really questions the definition of games and who gets to be a gamer. I think its important to question our definition of games in order better understand the content. Hence, this could initially be considered as a good step because it could potentially address our biases and give us some awareness. But too much critism and complete lockdown of your thoughts from listening is problematic.
The player’s initial fear that they might need to act quickly to defend themselves from some lurking supernatural horror becomes transmuted, by the end of the story, into the inevitable realization that their character has already lost her chance to act
I found this quote really interesting, because when I started the game I was afraid and trying to go through everything fast because I thought someone was in trouble or a ghost was going to haunt me. By the end of the game though, the player starts to realize whatever happened is already done, leading them to slow their playing down a lot in order to fully understand what happened.
This is why most walking sims that descend from first-person shooters have been radical reimaginings taking years to produce, not merely removing enemies but crafting whole new environments, often with custom textures, objects, music, and narration: creating not just a new focus of interaction but an entirely different kind of world to support that focus.
This excerpt is very interesting as it explains that it is not as simple as you may think to turn a first-person shooter into a first-person walker game. In my own experiences playing both types of game I have noticed how much more detail goes into adventure and walking simulators compared to a fast-paced combat game.
Walter Benjamin’s portrait of the flâneur, the urban wanderer who walks without purpose other than keen observation through the city streets, and in whom “the joy of watching is triumphant” (1973): the connection between flâneurs and explorers of games has been noted by many games scholars (Kagen 2015; Carbo-Mascarell 2016). In games, walking connects to the adventure pillar of exploration, as well as the sense of immersive transportation and a focus on environmental storytelling: in adventure games specifically, it provides a space for thinking and reflecting, a necessary precursor to successfully overcoming obstacles.
I find this first section introducing walking’s purpose in games and specifically as the base of “walking simulators” interesting because I had always viewed walking as a waste of time. I think it was an important thing to note that some people do feel this way, which has caused many games to include a “fast pass” that can be purchased or is a complete replacement for any walking. It’s especially interesting to look at how walking or the lack thereof can affect our “fun”, agency, and a sort of challenge. If we don’t have this break time to think and reflect, then it feels like it would be a lot harder to be able to overcome any obstacles we may face. I never understood the immersive power of walking through an environment for the player, but now that I think about it, having a “fast pass” model for the game feels like it would disconnect the player from the character they’re playing as. If we don’t get to experience the character’s entire journey, are we really in full control of the character? If we aren’t, how are we going to feel like we are the character themselves?
Just as the environments in first-person shooters exist to support action-packed combat, the environments in most walking sims are designed to be platforms for understanding and empathizing with characters. In games like Dear Esther, Virginia (2016), What Remains of Edith Finch (2017), and many others, 3D game worlds come to be understood as metaphorical spaces offering windows into the minds and stories of the people within them.
This very feature of these digital literature games that not only tells stories but also allows players to actively engage in them is what builds our understanding and empathy for the video game characters. As players, to fully understand the extent of someone else’s struggles, we must put ourselves into their shoes and this form of game literally allows this metaphor to come to life.
most importantly for the way it foregrounds what these games make visible: a certain pace of storytelling, driven by navigation through an environment and without the frustrating challenges of other styles of gaming (including their ancestor, the adventure game)
A lot of people forget that the point of these games are not extreme anything. It is a closed-minded and stubborn issue. People caring about to much about stuff that doesn’t affect them. In the closed-minded aspect, people can not wrap their head around a different stylistic choice. Not everything needs to be black and white, wet and dry. If you do not allow ambiguity, you can cause hateful environments with that separation. The separation can then come on though during difficulty of the game and how people wish to play. But perhaps there are others who don’t enjoy the fast play and wish to play for a calming enjoyment. The hateful community can move in again with diction like, “wuss mode;” This creates a harmful, unhappy and toxic environment. The author should go into the toxicity this environment creates in the gaming community because it would help explain why Gone Home was hated on so much. Also some opposing perspectives created by the author would be nice describing or putting a perspective in of someone who doesn't like the slow pace game.
But the most famous and successful walking simulators are best understood as explorations not of environment, but of character. Just as the environments in first-person shooters exist to support action-packed combat, the environments in most walking sims are designed to be platforms for understanding and empathizing with characters.
The confined and interactive environment nature of first person shooter games contradicts and mirrors the introspective and open world nature of walking simulator games. These two different perspectives develop different player approaches as with action-combat with first person shooter and empathy and understanding with walking sims. These illustrate the different natures of two game approaches as in Gone Home. The player is put and piece together and empathize and understand the situation and perspectives of the different family members and so an open world walking sim concept is best for this approach.
Real games are difficult, goes this argument: you can die in them; you can take “real” actions (i.e., shooting and loot collecting, not walking or investigating). Real game heroes are powerful and effective. An ugly corollary to this argument, advanced by some, was that “real games” shouldn’t be about the disenfranchised.
With the rise of popularity in walking simulators, new arguments over what should be considered a "real game" have come up. This is a very closed minded mindset held by gamers who think games should just be first person shooters, or have violence to be considered games. What they lack is the realization that many of the mechanics in the games they love are dependent on walking. Many actions in high action games often can not be performed when running. Walking simulators are just as much of a game as first person shooters or others alike, they are just on a different part of the spectrum.
outsider genre have reclaimed the term, as have we in this chapter, for its embrace of qualities that would-be insiders despise. These games deemphasize traditional active game verbs to center more passive ones, especially movement, observation, and reflection. Different verbs can tell different kinds of stories, and these games have often told outsider stories about othered identities.
Interesting to consider insiders and outsiders in gaming and the ways in which games might offer a space for so-called outsiders to express something about their identities. I'm trying to think of other examples in mainstream gaming that are like Gone Home.
These games were originally dubbed “walking simulators” as an insult to exclude them and their creators from being considered “real games” or real game makers.
People inside the gaming community were upset by this new genre and did not see the value in the games. They proceeded to label these games with a derogatory term.
Myst’s images were largely static because it required offline rendering to create worlds beautiful enough to hold up to long scrutiny, while small bits of spot movement were added via Quicktime video to award attentiveness, creating interesting environmental details such as lapping waves or flittering butterflies. Doom’s engine, by contrast, creates lower-fidelity images in constant motion: the player will look at any one thing for only moments, while constantly racing through the environment fighting enemies who are also in constant motion.
Its super interesting how the type of engine used creates different technical challenges that are addressed through different developmental choices. Compared to the past where every engine was unique and came with its own limits arising from issues with storage and usability on a variety of devices, newer game engines like Unreal Engine 5 and Godot show how these limitations have gradually disappeared. While the issue of storage is still prevalent, many other limitations arising from the engines are gone. This allows for new games to be far more robust compared to older ones like Myst and Quake which were limited by their engines.
In both pieces, the readers or viewers are given agency to understand and gain perspective on the story through their interpretive decisions: about which threads are most interesting to follow, and about how to piece together the events they witness into a meaningful whole.
I think that this quote is interesting because in most games, there is a specific point that the author/creator of the game is trying to get across and it is up to the reader/player to interpret that meaning.
“the joy of watching is triumphant”
In a sense, this statement proves a lack of agency throughout the duration of many walking simulators. They are not meant to provide a story that the player can affect or change, but instead make an illusion of agency by making it seem like they can. Instead of deriving joy from making the story the way they want it to go, they get joy from watching the story play out. This, even with the lack or illusion of agency, still allow for the game to be enjoyable.
The most visible difference between adventure games and walking sims is the removal of puzzles,
Walking sims can be a part of adventure game is so easy to be failed to notice. A combination of both storytelling and combat can make the game more intricate
walking connects to the adventure pillar of exploration, as well as the sense of immersive transportation and a focus on environmental storytelling: in adventure games specifically, it provides a space for thinking and reflecting
Exploration games allow for the player to have a more emotional connection to game characters. Walking simulators allow for more personal stories and experiences that can be explained in more detailed since these types of games are slow paced.
Critics have drawn different conclusions about the role of Gone Home as (and alongside other) queer media. Zachary Harvat describes it as part of the tradition of “queer historical play,” which does not deny the challenges and trauma of queer history but also does not place it as the sole narrative emphasis (2018).
This is trying to get the point across taht the game is not meant to be mostly about LGBTQ representation and revolve around it, however it does not deny the challenges and trauma of queer history and place it as the main narrative point. I believe that the game mostly revolved around the idea of unacceptance of Sam by her family because of the relationship and even though the LGBTQ was not the main theme, it definitely changed the scope of the game and added to the idea of why Sam had to suffer that much from the family.
Coming to an understanding of a character or environment as a means of gaining control over it is a central tenet of environmental storytelling generally and walking simulators in particular. This kind of understanding connects more to cinematic than ludic traditions,
The main point of walking simulators is to enable the player to gain control over a character or environment as a whole in order to add upon the theme if environmental storytelling in a more engaging way. In this way the walking simulators are exploring complex themes from the point of view of the character, opening up the possibilities for the player to engage with the game in a more cinematic way.
the game create a sense of mystery more frequently associated with survival horror: the abandoned house is cast as unnatural and threatening, with the player invited to explore it suspiciously, suspecting some external danger behind the apparent disappearance of the family. That danger, of course, turns out to be internal, not external.
The game Gone Homes plays with player agency because it wants us the players to think the game is a horror game based on the environment. It's raining outside the house is dark, the light flickering random noises going on. the game wants us to think something bad is going to happen it builds a lot of suspense keeping us on edge but in reality nothing happens. the real horror in the game is what the sister discovers about the family.
To call something a “walking simulator” became not just a complaint about pacing but an existential fight for survival, spiraling to include larger and larger questions of who gets to be a gamer and what should be “counted” as a game (Chess and Shaw 2015). Real games are difficult, goes this argument: you can die in them; you can take “real” actions (i.e., shooting and loot collecting, not walking or investigating). Real game heroes are powerful and effective.
I think this belief arises from the stereotypical belief that games have to have winning situations or violence, while most walking simulators do not have winning situations or violence. I don't really agree with what people are saying about walking simulators because I believe walking simulators are games just like any other video games. As long as the player performs actions with a purpose, it can be a game.