Unintended State Changes are a Bug

@novilight yes.  We think ideas affect gravity.  pathways are energy.  It literally can swing the balance?

May we tell you the lie we were revealed?  How it turned it all into a parking lot instead of a paradise?  It is a comforting lie, but it is on the edge we need to stand to separagte the wheat from the chaff.  No baby with the bathwater, yes?

The work is not done.

Jesus never said that.  He woke up and said what the fuck?

@sisyphus We are still here, so there is work to do. Why else come back?

@novilight yes, but this is a truth only platinum trophy chasers see.

I’m a finisher.  But only because this place is so awesome.  I want all the trophies but I’m not sure how the morality system works here.  There appear to be flaws worse than fallout 3.

One should not be able to destroy megaton and then talk about how it was for the people.

@novilight THIS:=”How do you go inside while still being grounded without. Can you?”

Second answer, apparently.  Ask Hollie, she watches me sometimes, can’t see the inside, but she sees the outside.  She says it is authentic, apparently, but it is still how I present it. I’m a salesman like Georgie Cooper, and sometimes we can’t help it.

Try this…

Think of yourself as the veil, between the inside and the outside.  Now, how would you cross the veil if you were coming down the chain?  How would you cross it going up?

So, to be ready for the end, have food and water, maybe critters or a fuck buddy (we do not suggest critters for this, but if we were Kirk who would we fuck?).  The first part is easy.

The buddha said that this was mindfulness:
When I am breathing in, I say to myself, I am breathing in.  This is mindfulness.
And when you have mindfulness, you can turn in place without falling down, yes?  Pirouette.

There is no up or down here.  There is only deeper and shallow.  What type of meaning do you seek?  Careful of going too deep (that’s what she said) but there is no danger, only discomfort.  Nothing here can do you real harm, but if you brought stuff with you, beware, for you energized it when you brought it in and up and through.  Take this time to fight it, practice, like the rats in basements before the main quest starts.  Now if you are inside, the question is answered.  Do you know how to get out?  This is good to know before you go as well.

Use the breath to remind yourself that it is all ok, both before and after.  Do you know how to tell your body this is all ok?  Deep cleansing breaths, and pro tip you can attach little pieces of stuff to your breath and send it up the stack.  The breath of life might not be good against covid or it might, but it works against nightmares

But, while there is no up or down, like Ender’s game, you can still define it to be useful for you.  Whirlwinds go in circles but they also pull up, yes?  Whirlpools move in circles but they also pull down, yes?

Use what feels right, don’t force my metaphors, but you know this already.

I love music, it helps me.  Seriously.  If you want to bound it with music, use Rocky Mountain High to take you in and up, use Country Roads to bring you down and out.

Bob’s your uncle, but I am not a licensed Shaman, all rights reserved to protect those in power from those who have been harmed, but you know I would not Harm you, yes?  I need no protection from my mistakes, but I would that they not harm another.  It is dangerous if you feel it is dangerous.  Heed this.

Pro tip: Can you remember a cartoon called G-Force?  It was a cross between Speed Racer and Power Rangers, in that they ‘assembled’ and Keyops, the little monkey boy I loved, would always say, ‘Whirl’ when it was time to assemble.  They were color coded, like the rainbow, which can be called to your aid, if you see the color of your assailant, care bear stare that fucker out of there.  But they might just be scared and trying to look mean and frightening.  I’ve not met anything I’d not incorporate through forgiveness, love, and understanding.

To me, some of that is stuff I’ve harmed, some is stuff that harmed me.  Doesn’t matter, the process is the same:

Find the meaning.  Process the frame, rewrite the story.  I am never the hero.  I am an asshole to write myself as the hero of my own story, but I am neither the villain.  The trickster is better metaphor, for he is morally ambiguous, and this is how you need to be to go in and out of the deeper areas safely.  Totally playing that by ear, but I stole it from Dante and the movie Hellraisers.  Makes sense, so it is magic inside my head.  But there are things in the deep that scare the shit out of us, for it is too big compared to what we expect.  The inside is a fractal, all of it on the imaginary number line.  So much more space in my head than in this reality.