Are you seriously suggesting that acts of heroism are mere "Cosplay & Theatre "?
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But the Consul's brow was sad, and the Consul's speech was low,
And darkly looked he at the wall, and darkly at the foe.
"Their van will be upon us before the bridge goes down;
And if they once might win the bridge, what hope to save the town?"
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,
"And for the tender mother who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses his baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus, that wrought the deed of shame?
"Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may!
I, with two more to help me, will hold the foe in play.
In yon strait path, a thousand may well be stopped by three:
Now, who will stand on either hand and keep the bridge with me?'
Then out spake Spurius Lartius; a Ramnian proud was he:
"Lo, I will stand at thy right hand and keep the bridge with thee."
And out spake strong Herminius; of Titian blood was he:
"I will abide on thy left side, and keep the bridge with thee."
"Horatius," quoth the Consul, "as thou sayest, so let it be."
And straight against that great array forth went the dauntless Three.
For Romans in Rome's quarrel spared neither land nor gold,
Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, in the brave days of old.
Then none was for a party; then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor, and the poor man loved the great.
Then lands were fairly portioned; then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers in the brave days of old."
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When words are used to convey meaning, the yes thousands of words are good, but pointless adjectives and circular loquaciousness do not add bur subtract from the message, if there is in fact a message.
To use your metaphor, you do not "hammer home" anything by throwing a ton of feathers at it, but by using a single, well aimed, blow from the correct size hammer.
Winston Churchill said, "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others".
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill
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If you have nothing that you believe is worth dying for, then you have nothing worth living for.
“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
A dude in his 50s working an office job (this is a widespread situation many people are in) saying that he is 'Heroic' for LARP-ing as a Barbarian & threatening to 'kick out the invader! 😡' ...
He's delusional. Period, end of discussion.
He's not 'Heroic,' he's having a midlife crisis in which to feel relevant in the face of large-scale unstoppable sociopolitical & Geo-Economic forces... he is engaging in wishful thinking & fantasy.
This is no different from (say) that young lady who thought that she was being 'heroic' for trying to climb Mount Everest on Sheer Willpower alone rather than getting the relevant training & competence.
Sure enough, she perished on Everest.
That micro situation is a terrific summation of what will happen to all these LARP-ers at the macro level who are cosplaying.
Your whole article and response merely shows that you have no purpose in life and therefore try to make yourself relevant by denigrating everyone else and belittling any goal or purpose.
Those who cannot rise up want equality by pulling everyone else down.
Entropy is such a sophisticated thing that it is normally taught only at the college level, to STEM students. They struggle with it. And yet, it is a simple concept, really.
Most people have the incorrect definition that entropy is an increase in "disorder." So what is disorder or order?
Originally, entropy was defined in terms of heat--the tendency of heat to spread out if nothing stops it. But any particles or energies in motion will spread out if nothing stops it. Any force has a counter-entropic effect. In fact, that is what a force IS--something that collects or pushes particles or energies in a nonrandom direction.
Entropy has also been defined as "an increase in available microstates." The biggest entropy generator is the carbon atom, because it can form long chains with oodles of branches, and each different possible configuration is another possible microstate. A whole lot of CO2s will move around all over the place, but if you combine some to C2H6 and others combine with O2 to make C4O2H10 etc. then you have lots of microstates. When you get proteins, the number of available microstates is greater than all the atoms in the universe, and more than would be formed in a billion years if every atom formed a new configuration several times a second.
And LIFE--souls or God--take the building blocks and make something with intention. Your essay is about a soul that is bored and not creating anything. So decide on a purpose and make something beautiful!
>>And LIFE--souls or God--take the building blocks and make something with intention. Your essay is about a soul that is bored and not creating anything. So decide on a purpose and make something beautiful!<<
Well said!
Yes, I think what will eventually happen during this New Dark Age is that people will have to shed their LARP & Pageantry & pursue genuine worldviews that have Telos, Meaning, Purpose & Intention behind them.
But that's still a few miles away & until then, the showmanship will continue & the nominal Westerner will pretend to be courageous by LARP-ing the role of the knight &/or barbarian &/or warrior (Hint: Most fail at being even a squire these days 😂 )
This unpublished paper presents a fresh perspective on the nature of entropy, negentropy, and system morphogenesis. LaViolette shows that the concepts of process and form provide a better context for understanding order genesis than do concepts borrowed by convention from the field of thermodynamics.
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One term which is perhaps a bit overused by general systems cosmologists is the term "entropy". It is of particular interest because it presents the disturbing paradox that in considering closed physical system entropy is seen to increase over time whereas in open physical systems and living systems it appears to decrease over time. Such distinctions are good because they are helpful in classifying system and lead the initiate to probe deeper into the mysteries of systems metaphysics to discover a reasonable explanation.
However the term "entropy" is borrowed from the field of physics. It is normally defined in thermodynamic terms as S = dQ/T, the change in heat (dQ) divided by the prevailing emperature T. Its terminology was originally introduced to describe the workings of the steam engine. Believing the principles to be of general import beyond the realm of steam engines, they were set forth as the laws of thermodynamics. Whereupon, the Second Law, that entropy is always the same or increases in a closed system, became philosophically taken as a universal law of existence. The general nature of this principle became more apparent when information science came up with the isomorphic derivation that systems of order tend toward disorder, i.e., from states of lesser to greater probability.
It soon became obvious that entropy, whether it was increasing or decreasing or staying the same, was an important concept for the general system theorist. The fact that the concept was borrowed from physics or information theory does not seem to disturb the average theorist since he can feel that he will be above criticism if he uses a term that is mathematically well documented in respectable fields. When asked by the layman what is meant by entropy (i.e. positive entropy), the systems theorist gives general examples like: 1) the experiment where a sugar cube dissolves in coffee, 2) the decaying of living matter, i.e., catabolism, or 3) the running down of a wound-up clock.
Yet, in bringing up a variety of qualitative examples such as these, it no longer makes same to restrict the definition of entropy just to thermodynamics and information theory. A universal conceptual symbol must be utilized. Such a symbol has already been formulated, indeed, long ago. In fact, it dates back to antiquity. It is the esoteric meaning behind the astrological sign Aries () [astrology sign], the meaning of the first arcanum of the tarot card deck (the Magician), the significance of the male principle, yang.* In modern terminology it is the geometric concept of divergence (symbolized in modern mathematics by the vector operator ∇•). In the English language the words "dispersion" and "dissemination" express the positive side of this principle, while the word "dissipation" emphasizes the negative aspects.
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[* - (footnote from above paragraph) In astrology, the ideogram for Aries can be interpreted either as the rams head or as the fountain, the tremendous outpouring of life force. Astrology holds that Aries is the pioneer. This sign is cardinal, meaning that it initiates or generates activity. It is also a fire sign, i.e.. one expressing dynamic creativity. Aries represents self-expression, self-projection upon the immediate environment, and is characterized by urgency and emphasis. The Magician of the tarot, sometimes symbolized mythologically by Mercury (the messenger) or by the dove, is characterized by similar terms such as: beginning, potential, action, creative force, aspiration, and will power.
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This paper is something LaViolette wrote for a university class in systems science in 1976
Wow! What an awesome contribution. A little over my head; I will be processing it for a while.
You will enjoy Mike Adams current experiments with xylitol crystallization shown in his Brighteon videos. He shows how thought--his thoughts--impacted the form of crystals that formed. For example, he thought of a dog, and the crystals formed a dog. He thought of Iran/Persia, and a falcon appeared, the symbol of Persia.
We are moving into a fork in the road. Those who are adult and responsible enough will be co-creating with God, choosing among the infinite possible timelines. The infants who want to be taken care of, responsible for nothing, only aware of themselves, well they will get a technocratic crib. Even their thoughts will be pumped in from outside.
You will also benefit from Backster's book "Primary Perception," on what happened when he hooked up his lie detector to plants, and discovered immediate responses to his thoughts.
Everyone has been so black pilled today, I'm surprjsed more whites arent fleeing to Russia to complement the only culturally sane bastion left on Earth.
I feel like I just read the Lars Von Trier rendition of T.S. Elliot's 'The Hollow Men'.
That said, whether or not this perspective truly encapsulates the era we're in at the most macro -it certainly rings true in the micro. It took me a long time to mourn after the realization that so much of the most pervasive voices in both the public forum as well as my private life were not only shallow, but insincere.
I can make no claims as to the truths of grand resets and what it really means for an Age to End, but I appreciate the effort to explain the phenomenon in zeitgeist terms.
That said-that said, I didn't intuit a 'therefore' outside of 'let it be', so, it did kinda feel like a 'fuck you ending' after such a long read.
'Hope you can fruitfully elaborate going forward, though I kinda suspect that would be to miss the point, if I've taken it correctly.
A bit repetitive. To your main point, you're right, the Northern Charge gives gravitas and logos to a futile gesture in the hope someone will write an epic poem about heroes and dragons after the fait accompli (Beowulf, but also El Cid), which in today's world gives the downtrodden some hope for a final reprieve in the dying of the light, as after they're gone, they won't have to roll up their sleeves to survive or rebuild.
But actually, this mythologized collapse won't follow this script. And you say as much. We're in this grinding "slowly slowly" phase, descending, unmoored from past foundations, drifting and gliding from inertia, while the human powers that be flail to and fro charting a course on their imaginary 10 Year Strategic Plan.
In this sense, DJT is like a breathe of fresh air, akin to putrid decay with a hefty dose of rose air freshener, an attempt at reshuffling the cards and changing the deck. It's a normal reaction by factions as the end game nears. Incidentally, his alt-right literati followers are consumed by ideas of nobility and an imaginary past, oblivious to the obvious.
What I would say is "learn to dodge" so when "all of a sudden" collapse unfolds. And I think you mirror this with your 'let the form die'. The foundations were rotten anyway, Christendom was an imaginary facade to an ugly reality. Analogous to today's reprieve of nobility with aristocratic ambitions, as if the feudal lords of ages past didn't use their privilege to squeeze their peasants ("no but because Hollywood").
In terms of the final revelation, isn't this more about which question we've chosen to answer? I'm not sure if towards the end you think the script will keep going, reprised by another generation.
I think the mundane will always be dependent on conditions arising. Whether a new arbiter of power floats down to put order in the kindergarten is debatable. Maybe, probably not (as you say). So those who have infused the mundane they see with meaning instead of looking within, will forever be left in lack.
Karma's a bitch, so for the rest of us, learn to fucking dodge.
Repetition is the Mother of Learning... especially so in the case of Quasi-Poems. 😊
"Learn to Fucking Dodge"... Well said! 👏
Yes, basically in the New Dark Age... the world will be Negative Sum, meaning that in the majority of cases, the 'winning move' will be not to play the game in the first place & remove yourself from destructive situations, such that several centuries from now you do actually have descendants who can 'come back' & participate.
Unfortunately (& you're free to read the comments on this post! 😅) most Westerners view Inaction as 'Nihilism' & are DOOM-ed to their nonsensical pursuit of 'Action no matter what! 😡'... DOOM-ing them & their loved ones in the process.
This is neither 'intelligent' nor 'clever,' but for a people who are uber-Ethnosolipsist... it's to be expected after several decades of brainwashing... 😅
A Civilization sees only itself until nothing else remains.
Ethnosolipsism is the metaphysical condition in which a culture becomes incapable of perceiving the Other:
It no longer listens, receives, or descends. Everything alien is either ignored or assimilated. Inclusion becomes erasure. Diversity becomes interface. The world becomes a hall of mirrors. The Self expands until it suffocates.
Ethnosolipsism emerges from the fusion of Sadopopulism & Mascholiberalism.
It is not hatred. It is solipsism.
The culture sees only its reflection & mistakes it for the world. <<
Go boil your head with basil and wormwood. Go feed your feckless fanny to the snakes. You have no faith, you get of jeet and jewry. The sky grows darker yet, and the sea rises higher.
It’s not about “faith” when the people in question are more interested in spectacle, theatre & cosplay than they are with actual governance, action & empirical reality 😉… Simple!
People need to (first & foremost) be honest about what their Individual capabilities are & then act accordingly.
It is folly to think that Cosplay & Pageantry is somehow 'courageous' as opposed to learning actual Skills & competently acting in the real world with a Team of Dedicated individuals (either under command, or alongside you).
If material, empirical reality tells you 'You're not it,' you should settle for less.
This is less about 'Christians being deluded' (I disagree with this formulation) & more about individual people thinking that LARP can somehow be a valid substitute to Hard, Physical Toil in the real world.
And yet it is. Still, you deserve an attempt at a more comprehensive explantion of what you're missing (and I'm not ascribing a nefarious purpose to your text).
Eastern fatalism is a mindset that makes it pointless to fight against overwhelming odds or perceived certainty.
Western (Nordic in this case) culture is not fatalist, nor is it defeatist in nature.
To fight is to win: to not fight is to lose.
I know from working with Easterlings of various origins that that mindset is completely alien to them; giving in and showing deference (or as they say, misunderstanding the Western meaning of the word: "respect") is their go-to position when confronted with someone they perceive, or can be made to perceive, as "stronger".
Hardly surprising given the history of the Near and Far Orient.
For someone trying to get potential competitors/opponents to stop resisting or to get them to think fighting is pointless, your text is logical in execution and conclusion.
Doesn't make it true, of course.
And again, the point isn't to show bravery or anything like that; the point of the fight is to fight (the translation to English mangles the meaning: German Kampf is a much better meaning, despite being translated to "struggle" in English).
If you don't fight, you have lost already. If your mind is set up so that you never dare fight except when you may win, you have lost every fight where the opponent may appear stronger, in advance.
I think your comment has a lot of merits, but you're addressing a different issue from the text.
My understanding is you're addressing honor and courage, to stand your ground because sometimes fight one must (Scott "weapons of the weak" has intriguing insights on asymmetric conflict in SE Asian cultures if you're interested, re: easterlings).
This however is a lot different from what's alluded to in the text. The text refers to a mythologized interpretation of reality, whereby the writing is on the wall and there's one last charge, into oblivion as it were. It's a pointless pursuit of an imaginary Epic existing only in the mind of the beholder. Ride with glory (and let someone else clean up the mess).
At the macro levels, like in reality, unless another forceful personality (like DJT in '15) steps into the arena, we're now stuck with the existing players, factions, ideologies, zeitgeist, etc. So then to imagine somehow a rabble of couch potatoes, CrossFit MMA jocks, and pseudo-intellectual types rehashing myths about how good life was with feudal lords, they're going to come together, get organized, embody virtue and clutch victory from the fangs of the dragon, this is a big ask, and realistically, not happening. I'm in Europe, we be screwed bro, just like in the US and Canada; the reprisal of nationalism might hasten a system collapsing under its own hubris, but at their core, these people aren't the cavalry, they're part of the same dragon the imaginary rabble wants to fight. The rabble itself is a part of the dragon, even if it thinks and sees itself as divergent and unique.
And then what? What happens the day after?
We're not in an age where there's time to be locked up on Robbrn island for three decades and made King upon release, nor do we have a list of Great Statesmen on the bench available to get subbed in. The illusory narrative masks of modernity are cracking and slipping fast in 2025. Change is happening, we'll be lucky to get three years.
So then, maybe, don't get carried away with the tide, better yet, don't be found in the flood basin before it floods, and when everyone is running amok in the madness like mindless chickens, be safe and keep family and if possible the community safe. In reality very few heroes actually survive. That's why we write Epic poems about the best of them and praise the masses in memorials, so they think dying in stupid wars declared by special interests wasn't for nothing.
" Researchers have figured out how to probe what goes on inside a large language model (LLM). There are some surprises. "
An outline of topics:
How it's done.
Multiple concepts contribute to an answer.
Responses are planned more than one word in advance.
Arithmetic is still goofy.
When asked how it has reasoned, the LLM lied.
Hallucinations result from failure to inhibit.
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"The really big lesson here is that LLMs differ crucially from earlier logic-based AI, in that they have no reliable way to know what they don’t know. Traditional AI makes a “closed-world assumption,” i.e., “don’t suppose something is true if you can’t deduce it.”
Not LLMs. They make up their own reality — or rather, they use language without checking the truth of what they say."
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My suggestion from replies to a previous post on Contemplations:
Look at Tarski's undefinability theorem on Wikipedia.
Then, look at references to the theorem on the article, Incompleteness Theorems, on Wikipedia.
Machines more powerful than 2nd grade addition and multiplication are incapable of policing their own consistency and honesty.
Machines as powerful as AI might be too complex to be policed by human beings.
So is this a poem? A stating of your view? A spit in the face of what meager virtue this age can muster? To me it simply reads as a nihilistic celebration, cloaked in a critique. It states, but does not bargain, it proclaims but does not prove, it simply throws it in your face smuggly it reads
It's an accidental poem... a 'quasi-poem' if you will. 😉
Oh, it's definitely *part* of my worldview... but for an entire statement of that, you will have to wait a few more months (at which point I can write it out in full) 😉
It's less a spit, & more an observation that the general Disenchantment of the nominal Westerner is a feature, & not a bug of the Modern, Technophillic era.
Finally... it's less a Nihilistic Celebration & more a statement of the facts. The average Western, mired in Faustian Technics... is engaging in Cosplay & Theatre.
Of course I don't Bargain & instead State things Forcefully. & of course I proclaim rather than (say) use citations to 'prove' what is obvious for all to see:
It's not about 'smugness' when it is clear to any dispassionate observer that a bunch of 50+ something year olds talking about donning Viking Hats & becoming Barbarians who will 'save the nation from the invading hordes of MIGRANTS! 😡'...
That said emotive outburst is Late-Stage Societal LARP & Pageantry 😉
The world that we have is the world that we wanted, because we feared Judgement. We decided that to be 'Nice' to be 'Tolerant' was more important (and easier) than being Good. However, it's all part of the plan-
Matthew 12:38-45
"{12:38} Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
"Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
{12:39} But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah
the prophet. {12:40} For as Jonah was three days and three nights in
the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. {12:41} The men of Nineveh will stand
up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they
repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than
Jonah is here. {12:42} The queen of the south will rise up in the
judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from
the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold,
someone greater than Solomon is here. {12:43} But the unclean spirit,
when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places,
seeking rest, and doesn't find it. {12:44} Then he says, 'I will return
into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he
finds it empty, swept, and put in order. {12:45} Then he goes, and
takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they
enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than
the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."
That is EXACTLY what this 'Modern Era' was designed to do- Strip *everything* away, to leave our Hearts empty, to be filled with healthy-seeming Poison. Nothing has actually changed in terms of Good and Evil, in terms of Eternal Truths, in terms of what really matters, what has always been worth fighting for. However, this World-System wants us to *Pretend* it has, so it can offer a tired, disheartned and aimless people something, 'New'.
You said, "The Dragon is no longer a threat."
I beg to differ. He is more of a threat than ever. I've seen the damage he has wreaked and that damage was unbearable. As I've said before, the Ancients knew that Dragons are far more dangerous for the lies they tell than the buildings they destroyed. The Dragon's Horde of Stolen Hearts is a treasure that far outstrips any physical (or digital) trove. It has grown at a staggering pace as the Creature pipes his sickeningly sweet song, entrancing so many, desperate for 'Meaning' as they face "...the desert of post-meaning existence."
Yet *Real* Meaning, Real Truth, has never gone away and never will. At times it emerges and is recognized by some, at times Many. At the last it will be incontrovertable and eternal, but for now the Darkness of the Dragon Dominates, as there are so many who desire it, as opposed to being fully revealed and fully healed, in the Light of the Lamb.
Many Westerners are not Christians. Some are Apathetic to religion, writ large, while others are outright Atheists... some even call themselves Pagans!
So while a lot of the points you raise here will find common ground with Western Christians, these other Westerners won’t view them as relevant for a whole host of reasons... chief among them being that they don’t share your Metaphysics.
Thus, when I wrote 'The Dragon is no longer a threat,’ I am speaking about the fact that for *many* people the world is now disenchanted, & this won’t be changing anytime soon, no matter how much Christians wish for them to adopt their Metaphysics which (as noted earlier) they don’t share to begin with.
‘I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes.
I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles.
I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags.
I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot.
I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians.
I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one’s eyes.
I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime.
I look upon the judgement of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.’
Fucking sand people.
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Well that was a waste of 20 minutes. One keeps on going hoping that it will make some sense or at least come to a point.
Ah well.
The desired effect was to make the reader &/or listener go: “Nooooo there is no point! 😢 “
Looks like I have succeeded 🥰
Well it took several thousand words to (and hype) to convey what could be said in 4.
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If you are saying that the notion "‘All Hope is Lost,’ & (yet) fight valiantly to One’s Noble Defeat…: has no point", then I vehemently disagree.
If that was what the waffle was all about then you failed.
What I meant was that the wordage had no point, it was self-indulgent nonsense, by someone who thinks that a Thesaurus is the road to erudition.
There are things worse than dying.
Reading claptrap is one of them.
Cosplay & Theatre are not courageous 😉
Sometimes you do need a few thousand words to hammer home said common sense 😘
Are you seriously suggesting that acts of heroism are mere "Cosplay & Theatre "?
I"....
But the Consul's brow was sad, and the Consul's speech was low,
And darkly looked he at the wall, and darkly at the foe.
"Their van will be upon us before the bridge goes down;
And if they once might win the bridge, what hope to save the town?"
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,
"And for the tender mother who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses his baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus, that wrought the deed of shame?
"Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may!
I, with two more to help me, will hold the foe in play.
In yon strait path, a thousand may well be stopped by three:
Now, who will stand on either hand and keep the bridge with me?'
Then out spake Spurius Lartius; a Ramnian proud was he:
"Lo, I will stand at thy right hand and keep the bridge with thee."
And out spake strong Herminius; of Titian blood was he:
"I will abide on thy left side, and keep the bridge with thee."
"Horatius," quoth the Consul, "as thou sayest, so let it be."
And straight against that great array forth went the dauntless Three.
For Romans in Rome's quarrel spared neither land nor gold,
Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, in the brave days of old.
Then none was for a party; then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor, and the poor man loved the great.
Then lands were fairly portioned; then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers in the brave days of old."
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When words are used to convey meaning, the yes thousands of words are good, but pointless adjectives and circular loquaciousness do not add bur subtract from the message, if there is in fact a message.
To use your metaphor, you do not "hammer home" anything by throwing a ton of feathers at it, but by using a single, well aimed, blow from the correct size hammer.
Winston Churchill said, "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others".
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill
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If you have nothing that you believe is worth dying for, then you have nothing worth living for.
“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
– Laurence Binyon, CH”
Look:
A dude in his 50s working an office job (this is a widespread situation many people are in) saying that he is 'Heroic' for LARP-ing as a Barbarian & threatening to 'kick out the invader! 😡' ...
He's delusional. Period, end of discussion.
He's not 'Heroic,' he's having a midlife crisis in which to feel relevant in the face of large-scale unstoppable sociopolitical & Geo-Economic forces... he is engaging in wishful thinking & fantasy.
This is no different from (say) that young lady who thought that she was being 'heroic' for trying to climb Mount Everest on Sheer Willpower alone rather than getting the relevant training & competence.
Sure enough, she perished on Everest.
That micro situation is a terrific summation of what will happen to all these LARP-ers at the macro level who are cosplaying.
'Heroic' for LARP-ing as a Barbarian & threatening to 'kick out the invader!
I know the words are English, but what the heck are you talking about?
What is LARPing and which invader?
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"Period, end of discussion." merely means that you have no logical or rational answer. It is the cry of a loser.
Do you deny that that same person would jump into a river to save a child? Often that same person will risk his life in a riptide to save a dog.
Did the young lady claim that she was being 'heroic' is that some figment of your imagination? Can you provide a source for your statement?
Maybe she was pursuing a personal goal. Clearly you do not understand a "quest".
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsCdTYxHwCs"
Your whole article and response merely shows that you have no purpose in life and therefore try to make yourself relevant by denigrating everyone else and belittling any goal or purpose.
Those who cannot rise up want equality by pulling everyone else down.
Entropy is such a sophisticated thing that it is normally taught only at the college level, to STEM students. They struggle with it. And yet, it is a simple concept, really.
Most people have the incorrect definition that entropy is an increase in "disorder." So what is disorder or order?
Originally, entropy was defined in terms of heat--the tendency of heat to spread out if nothing stops it. But any particles or energies in motion will spread out if nothing stops it. Any force has a counter-entropic effect. In fact, that is what a force IS--something that collects or pushes particles or energies in a nonrandom direction.
Entropy has also been defined as "an increase in available microstates." The biggest entropy generator is the carbon atom, because it can form long chains with oodles of branches, and each different possible configuration is another possible microstate. A whole lot of CO2s will move around all over the place, but if you combine some to C2H6 and others combine with O2 to make C4O2H10 etc. then you have lots of microstates. When you get proteins, the number of available microstates is greater than all the atoms in the universe, and more than would be formed in a billion years if every atom formed a new configuration several times a second.
And LIFE--souls or God--take the building blocks and make something with intention. Your essay is about a soul that is bored and not creating anything. So decide on a purpose and make something beautiful!
>>And LIFE--souls or God--take the building blocks and make something with intention. Your essay is about a soul that is bored and not creating anything. So decide on a purpose and make something beautiful!<<
Well said!
Yes, I think what will eventually happen during this New Dark Age is that people will have to shed their LARP & Pageantry & pursue genuine worldviews that have Telos, Meaning, Purpose & Intention behind them.
But that's still a few miles away & until then, the showmanship will continue & the nominal Westerner will pretend to be courageous by LARP-ing the role of the knight &/or barbarian &/or warrior (Hint: Most fail at being even a squire these days 😂 )
ENTROPY and NEGENTROPY
by Paul A. LaViolette
October 1976, Portland State University
© Paul LaViolette, 2013
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https://starburstfound.org/downloads/physics/entropy.pdf
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This unpublished paper presents a fresh perspective on the nature of entropy, negentropy, and system morphogenesis. LaViolette shows that the concepts of process and form provide a better context for understanding order genesis than do concepts borrowed by convention from the field of thermodynamics.
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One term which is perhaps a bit overused by general systems cosmologists is the term "entropy". It is of particular interest because it presents the disturbing paradox that in considering closed physical system entropy is seen to increase over time whereas in open physical systems and living systems it appears to decrease over time. Such distinctions are good because they are helpful in classifying system and lead the initiate to probe deeper into the mysteries of systems metaphysics to discover a reasonable explanation.
However the term "entropy" is borrowed from the field of physics. It is normally defined in thermodynamic terms as S = dQ/T, the change in heat (dQ) divided by the prevailing emperature T. Its terminology was originally introduced to describe the workings of the steam engine. Believing the principles to be of general import beyond the realm of steam engines, they were set forth as the laws of thermodynamics. Whereupon, the Second Law, that entropy is always the same or increases in a closed system, became philosophically taken as a universal law of existence. The general nature of this principle became more apparent when information science came up with the isomorphic derivation that systems of order tend toward disorder, i.e., from states of lesser to greater probability.
It soon became obvious that entropy, whether it was increasing or decreasing or staying the same, was an important concept for the general system theorist. The fact that the concept was borrowed from physics or information theory does not seem to disturb the average theorist since he can feel that he will be above criticism if he uses a term that is mathematically well documented in respectable fields. When asked by the layman what is meant by entropy (i.e. positive entropy), the systems theorist gives general examples like: 1) the experiment where a sugar cube dissolves in coffee, 2) the decaying of living matter, i.e., catabolism, or 3) the running down of a wound-up clock.
Yet, in bringing up a variety of qualitative examples such as these, it no longer makes same to restrict the definition of entropy just to thermodynamics and information theory. A universal conceptual symbol must be utilized. Such a symbol has already been formulated, indeed, long ago. In fact, it dates back to antiquity. It is the esoteric meaning behind the astrological sign Aries () [astrology sign], the meaning of the first arcanum of the tarot card deck (the Magician), the significance of the male principle, yang.* In modern terminology it is the geometric concept of divergence (symbolized in modern mathematics by the vector operator ∇•). In the English language the words "dispersion" and "dissemination" express the positive side of this principle, while the word "dissipation" emphasizes the negative aspects.
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[* - (footnote from above paragraph) In astrology, the ideogram for Aries can be interpreted either as the rams head or as the fountain, the tremendous outpouring of life force. Astrology holds that Aries is the pioneer. This sign is cardinal, meaning that it initiates or generates activity. It is also a fire sign, i.e.. one expressing dynamic creativity. Aries represents self-expression, self-projection upon the immediate environment, and is characterized by urgency and emphasis. The Magician of the tarot, sometimes symbolized mythologically by Mercury (the messenger) or by the dove, is characterized by similar terms such as: beginning, potential, action, creative force, aspiration, and will power.
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This paper is something LaViolette wrote for a university class in systems science in 1976
Wow! What an awesome contribution. A little over my head; I will be processing it for a while.
You will enjoy Mike Adams current experiments with xylitol crystallization shown in his Brighteon videos. He shows how thought--his thoughts--impacted the form of crystals that formed. For example, he thought of a dog, and the crystals formed a dog. He thought of Iran/Persia, and a falcon appeared, the symbol of Persia.
We are moving into a fork in the road. Those who are adult and responsible enough will be co-creating with God, choosing among the infinite possible timelines. The infants who want to be taken care of, responsible for nothing, only aware of themselves, well they will get a technocratic crib. Even their thoughts will be pumped in from outside.
You will also benefit from Backster's book "Primary Perception," on what happened when he hooked up his lie detector to plants, and discovered immediate responses to his thoughts.
Everyone has been so black pilled today, I'm surprjsed more whites arent fleeing to Russia to complement the only culturally sane bastion left on Earth.
Realism is not necessarily “black pilled”
It’s being clearheaded about what one’s actual state of affairs is 😉
It is what it is.
😊
I feel like I just read the Lars Von Trier rendition of T.S. Elliot's 'The Hollow Men'.
That said, whether or not this perspective truly encapsulates the era we're in at the most macro -it certainly rings true in the micro. It took me a long time to mourn after the realization that so much of the most pervasive voices in both the public forum as well as my private life were not only shallow, but insincere.
I can make no claims as to the truths of grand resets and what it really means for an Age to End, but I appreciate the effort to explain the phenomenon in zeitgeist terms.
That said-that said, I didn't intuit a 'therefore' outside of 'let it be', so, it did kinda feel like a 'fuck you ending' after such a long read.
'Hope you can fruitfully elaborate going forward, though I kinda suspect that would be to miss the point, if I've taken it correctly.
A bit repetitive. To your main point, you're right, the Northern Charge gives gravitas and logos to a futile gesture in the hope someone will write an epic poem about heroes and dragons after the fait accompli (Beowulf, but also El Cid), which in today's world gives the downtrodden some hope for a final reprieve in the dying of the light, as after they're gone, they won't have to roll up their sleeves to survive or rebuild.
But actually, this mythologized collapse won't follow this script. And you say as much. We're in this grinding "slowly slowly" phase, descending, unmoored from past foundations, drifting and gliding from inertia, while the human powers that be flail to and fro charting a course on their imaginary 10 Year Strategic Plan.
In this sense, DJT is like a breathe of fresh air, akin to putrid decay with a hefty dose of rose air freshener, an attempt at reshuffling the cards and changing the deck. It's a normal reaction by factions as the end game nears. Incidentally, his alt-right literati followers are consumed by ideas of nobility and an imaginary past, oblivious to the obvious.
What I would say is "learn to dodge" so when "all of a sudden" collapse unfolds. And I think you mirror this with your 'let the form die'. The foundations were rotten anyway, Christendom was an imaginary facade to an ugly reality. Analogous to today's reprieve of nobility with aristocratic ambitions, as if the feudal lords of ages past didn't use their privilege to squeeze their peasants ("no but because Hollywood").
In terms of the final revelation, isn't this more about which question we've chosen to answer? I'm not sure if towards the end you think the script will keep going, reprised by another generation.
I think the mundane will always be dependent on conditions arising. Whether a new arbiter of power floats down to put order in the kindergarten is debatable. Maybe, probably not (as you say). So those who have infused the mundane they see with meaning instead of looking within, will forever be left in lack.
Karma's a bitch, so for the rest of us, learn to fucking dodge.
Repetition is the Mother of Learning... especially so in the case of Quasi-Poems. 😊
"Learn to Fucking Dodge"... Well said! 👏
Yes, basically in the New Dark Age... the world will be Negative Sum, meaning that in the majority of cases, the 'winning move' will be not to play the game in the first place & remove yourself from destructive situations, such that several centuries from now you do actually have descendants who can 'come back' & participate.
Unfortunately (& you're free to read the comments on this post! 😅) most Westerners view Inaction as 'Nihilism' & are DOOM-ed to their nonsensical pursuit of 'Action no matter what! 😡'... DOOM-ing them & their loved ones in the process.
This is neither 'intelligent' nor 'clever,' but for a people who are uber-Ethnosolipsist... it's to be expected after several decades of brainwashing... 😅
Action no matter what reminds me of the Ukrainian Foreign Legion/Volunteers. Rebels without a cause.
Yeah I totally agree with you 👍🏼
How could a people who are brainwashed for decades not to recognize their peoplehood be "uber-ethnosolipsist" through decades of brainwashing?
Ethnosolipsism has a very specific definition that I coined in this quasi-poem here:
https://thefallofthewest.substack.com/p/the-great-replacement-is-inevitable-865
Relevant:
>> Ethnosolipsism
A Civilization sees only itself until nothing else remains.
Ethnosolipsism is the metaphysical condition in which a culture becomes incapable of perceiving the Other:
It no longer listens, receives, or descends. Everything alien is either ignored or assimilated. Inclusion becomes erasure. Diversity becomes interface. The world becomes a hall of mirrors. The Self expands until it suffocates.
Ethnosolipsism emerges from the fusion of Sadopopulism & Mascholiberalism.
It is not hatred. It is solipsism.
The culture sees only its reflection & mistakes it for the world. <<
Go boil your head with basil and wormwood. Go feed your feckless fanny to the snakes. You have no faith, you get of jeet and jewry. The sky grows darker yet, and the sea rises higher.
It’s not about “faith” when the people in question are more interested in spectacle, theatre & cosplay than they are with actual governance, action & empirical reality 😉… Simple!
So then, what is your answer? If it is so hopeless, if Christendom is so deluded, what would you do?
Not everything in life can be salvaged.
People need to (first & foremost) be honest about what their Individual capabilities are & then act accordingly.
It is folly to think that Cosplay & Pageantry is somehow 'courageous' as opposed to learning actual Skills & competently acting in the real world with a Team of Dedicated individuals (either under command, or alongside you).
If material, empirical reality tells you 'You're not it,' you should settle for less.
This is less about 'Christians being deluded' (I disagree with this formulation) & more about individual people thinking that LARP can somehow be a valid substitute to Hard, Physical Toil in the real world.
Well then:
"76.
Fä dör,
fränder dö,
även själv skiljes du hädan,
men eftermälet
aldrig dör
för envar, som ett gott har vunnit.
77.
Fä dör,
fränder dö,
även själv skiljes du hädan,
men ett vet jag,
som aldrig dör,
domen över död man."
It's not cope. It's the Nordic equivalent to what used to be called "Lakonik".
All-Father knows Ragnarök comes, yet he fights. Understand that, then you understand the difference between "coping" and real.
This quasi poem observes that spectacle, noise & theatre with ample motion… is often something societies do at the end.
So the “fighting even at the very end knowing you will lose”-stance… that is a cope… it’s motion without substance. 😉
Your ignorance is showing.
Not at all! 😉
Feel free to read the quasi-poem once more. I actually address this exact point re: “yes we know ragnarok is coming BUT we will fight anyway! 😡 “
Specifically, I make the point that this is neither courageous nor practical 😊
And yet it is. Still, you deserve an attempt at a more comprehensive explantion of what you're missing (and I'm not ascribing a nefarious purpose to your text).
Eastern fatalism is a mindset that makes it pointless to fight against overwhelming odds or perceived certainty.
Western (Nordic in this case) culture is not fatalist, nor is it defeatist in nature.
To fight is to win: to not fight is to lose.
I know from working with Easterlings of various origins that that mindset is completely alien to them; giving in and showing deference (or as they say, misunderstanding the Western meaning of the word: "respect") is their go-to position when confronted with someone they perceive, or can be made to perceive, as "stronger".
Hardly surprising given the history of the Near and Far Orient.
For someone trying to get potential competitors/opponents to stop resisting or to get them to think fighting is pointless, your text is logical in execution and conclusion.
Doesn't make it true, of course.
And again, the point isn't to show bravery or anything like that; the point of the fight is to fight (the translation to English mangles the meaning: German Kampf is a much better meaning, despite being translated to "struggle" in English).
If you don't fight, you have lost already. If your mind is set up so that you never dare fight except when you may win, you have lost every fight where the opponent may appear stronger, in advance.
I think your comment has a lot of merits, but you're addressing a different issue from the text.
My understanding is you're addressing honor and courage, to stand your ground because sometimes fight one must (Scott "weapons of the weak" has intriguing insights on asymmetric conflict in SE Asian cultures if you're interested, re: easterlings).
This however is a lot different from what's alluded to in the text. The text refers to a mythologized interpretation of reality, whereby the writing is on the wall and there's one last charge, into oblivion as it were. It's a pointless pursuit of an imaginary Epic existing only in the mind of the beholder. Ride with glory (and let someone else clean up the mess).
At the macro levels, like in reality, unless another forceful personality (like DJT in '15) steps into the arena, we're now stuck with the existing players, factions, ideologies, zeitgeist, etc. So then to imagine somehow a rabble of couch potatoes, CrossFit MMA jocks, and pseudo-intellectual types rehashing myths about how good life was with feudal lords, they're going to come together, get organized, embody virtue and clutch victory from the fangs of the dragon, this is a big ask, and realistically, not happening. I'm in Europe, we be screwed bro, just like in the US and Canada; the reprisal of nationalism might hasten a system collapsing under its own hubris, but at their core, these people aren't the cavalry, they're part of the same dragon the imaginary rabble wants to fight. The rabble itself is a part of the dragon, even if it thinks and sees itself as divergent and unique.
And then what? What happens the day after?
We're not in an age where there's time to be locked up on Robbrn island for three decades and made King upon release, nor do we have a list of Great Statesmen on the bench available to get subbed in. The illusory narrative masks of modernity are cracking and slipping fast in 2025. Change is happening, we'll be lucky to get three years.
So then, maybe, don't get carried away with the tide, better yet, don't be found in the flood basin before it floods, and when everyone is running amok in the madness like mindless chickens, be safe and keep family and if possible the community safe. In reality very few heroes actually survive. That's why we write Epic poems about the best of them and praise the masses in memorials, so they think dying in stupid wars declared by special interests wasn't for nothing.
Bingo. (& Excellently said! 😊)
Mythology is important & relevant only insofar as the underlying conditions (ecology, demography, etc) can functionally operate with said framework.
But when you no longer have people competent enough, along with ecological overshoot that makes things increasingly negative sum & whatnot…
You’re better off not participating in the madness & DOOM that cometh 😉
Do Nothing. Win.
That’s an option 😉
Small article today from the highly regarded technical website Ask Woody, in their weekly newsletter, "Ask Wood Newsletter Issue 22.23 2025-06-09" https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/free-edition-what-goes-on-inside-an-llm/
Based on "The Biology of a Large Language Model" https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html
What goes on inside an LLM
By Michael A. Covington
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" Researchers have figured out how to probe what goes on inside a large language model (LLM). There are some surprises. "
An outline of topics:
How it's done.
Multiple concepts contribute to an answer.
Responses are planned more than one word in advance.
Arithmetic is still goofy.
When asked how it has reasoned, the LLM lied.
Hallucinations result from failure to inhibit.
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"The really big lesson here is that LLMs differ crucially from earlier logic-based AI, in that they have no reliable way to know what they don’t know. Traditional AI makes a “closed-world assumption,” i.e., “don’t suppose something is true if you can’t deduce it.”
Not LLMs. They make up their own reality — or rather, they use language without checking the truth of what they say."
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My suggestion from replies to a previous post on Contemplations:
Look at Tarski's undefinability theorem on Wikipedia.
Then, look at references to the theorem on the article, Incompleteness Theorems, on Wikipedia.
Machines more powerful than 2nd grade addition and multiplication are incapable of policing their own consistency and honesty.
Machines as powerful as AI might be too complex to be policed by human beings.
Caveat emptor.
This is not an essay / quasi-poem about 🤖… 😉
Yes. Off topic? Sorry about that.
B.E.
https://burnteliot.substack.com/p/intuition-of-reality-21
So is this a poem? A stating of your view? A spit in the face of what meager virtue this age can muster? To me it simply reads as a nihilistic celebration, cloaked in a critique. It states, but does not bargain, it proclaims but does not prove, it simply throws it in your face smuggly it reads
It's an accidental poem... a 'quasi-poem' if you will. 😉
Oh, it's definitely *part* of my worldview... but for an entire statement of that, you will have to wait a few more months (at which point I can write it out in full) 😉
It's less a spit, & more an observation that the general Disenchantment of the nominal Westerner is a feature, & not a bug of the Modern, Technophillic era.
Finally... it's less a Nihilistic Celebration & more a statement of the facts. The average Western, mired in Faustian Technics... is engaging in Cosplay & Theatre.
Of course I don't Bargain & instead State things Forcefully. & of course I proclaim rather than (say) use citations to 'prove' what is obvious for all to see:
It's not about 'smugness' when it is clear to any dispassionate observer that a bunch of 50+ something year olds talking about donning Viking Hats & becoming Barbarians who will 'save the nation from the invading hordes of MIGRANTS! 😡'...
That said emotive outburst is Late-Stage Societal LARP & Pageantry 😉
The world that we have is the world that we wanted, because we feared Judgement. We decided that to be 'Nice' to be 'Tolerant' was more important (and easier) than being Good. However, it's all part of the plan-
Matthew 12:38-45
"{12:38} Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
"Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
{12:39} But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah
the prophet. {12:40} For as Jonah was three days and three nights in
the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. {12:41} The men of Nineveh will stand
up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they
repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than
Jonah is here. {12:42} The queen of the south will rise up in the
judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from
the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold,
someone greater than Solomon is here. {12:43} But the unclean spirit,
when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places,
seeking rest, and doesn't find it. {12:44} Then he says, 'I will return
into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he
finds it empty, swept, and put in order. {12:45} Then he goes, and
takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they
enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than
the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."
That is EXACTLY what this 'Modern Era' was designed to do- Strip *everything* away, to leave our Hearts empty, to be filled with healthy-seeming Poison. Nothing has actually changed in terms of Good and Evil, in terms of Eternal Truths, in terms of what really matters, what has always been worth fighting for. However, this World-System wants us to *Pretend* it has, so it can offer a tired, disheartned and aimless people something, 'New'.
You said, "The Dragon is no longer a threat."
I beg to differ. He is more of a threat than ever. I've seen the damage he has wreaked and that damage was unbearable. As I've said before, the Ancients knew that Dragons are far more dangerous for the lies they tell than the buildings they destroyed. The Dragon's Horde of Stolen Hearts is a treasure that far outstrips any physical (or digital) trove. It has grown at a staggering pace as the Creature pipes his sickeningly sweet song, entrancing so many, desperate for 'Meaning' as they face "...the desert of post-meaning existence."
Yet *Real* Meaning, Real Truth, has never gone away and never will. At times it emerges and is recognized by some, at times Many. At the last it will be incontrovertable and eternal, but for now the Darkness of the Dragon Dominates, as there are so many who desire it, as opposed to being fully revealed and fully healed, in the Light of the Lamb.
Many Westerners are not Christians. Some are Apathetic to religion, writ large, while others are outright Atheists... some even call themselves Pagans!
So while a lot of the points you raise here will find common ground with Western Christians, these other Westerners won’t view them as relevant for a whole host of reasons... chief among them being that they don’t share your Metaphysics.
Thus, when I wrote 'The Dragon is no longer a threat,’ I am speaking about the fact that for *many* people the world is now disenchanted, & this won’t be changing anytime soon, no matter how much Christians wish for them to adopt their Metaphysics which (as noted earlier) they don’t share to begin with.
Buddha said:
‘I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes.
I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles.
I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags.
I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot.
I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians.
I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one’s eyes.
I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime.
I look upon the judgement of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.’
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Paul Reps: ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES
101. Buddha’s Zen
http://www.chanreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Zen-flesh-Zen-bones-Reps-Paul-Compiler-chanreads.org_.pdf