In the Formal World there is no such thing as free will - obviously there can't be or else there be nothing ‘formal’ about it. Formal means that everything is decided in advance - it means [1] That certain conditions...
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Collectively speaking, we have absolutely no interest in Being. That’s just not a ‘thing’ for us. This is indisputably true - gaining Being absolutely can't be a collective endeavour, we absolutely can't turn it into a task that can be...
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Instead of life, we are presented with a package, we are presented with a game, and this package or game has two distinct elements to it - the one that we're supposed to see (which is made up of the...
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Zero perspective equals ‘the self’. If we wanted a handy definition of the self – which is to say, the ubiquitous sense of having a concrete identity that we all subscribe to – then that would be it. To gain...
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There's no such thing as ‘a framework within which we could grow’, no such thing as ‘a logical context within which we can thrive and realize our potential’. Within the framework (which equals 'the reality that we have been provided...
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Any construct, any system, when it is used allowed to run freely on its own terms, will always do the very same thing - it will expand rapidly until it has taken up all the available space. It will blow...
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Paradox (or self-contradiction) is present, in seed form, in even the simplest of machines, in even the most basic of tools. There is paradoxicality even in machines as simple as a plough or water wheel. It may not be in...
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The good feeling we get when we pick up a bargain in the local supermarket has nothing to do with a consideration of the benefit to our personal finances. That's the way we understand it - that's the way it...
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We live our lives - whether we know it or not, and we rarely do - in accordance with what might be called the ‘Thing-Based Paradigm’. If we have any rational / logical theory of the world at all (which...
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Our normal form of consciousness is one in which we are endlessly fascinated by trivialities of one sort or another. We are lost in trivialities, we are lost in endless, all-pervading superficiality. This is ‘conditioned consciousness’ - it is awareness...
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What is ‘the Rubbish World’? What exactly do we mean when we talk about ‘the Trash-O-Sphere’? What are the most important points to take note of when we are considering - as we are here – ‘the Degenerate (or ‘Lower’)...
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The general way of things is that ‘the collective’ (or ‘the group’) decides ‘what is what’ and then enforces this decision on everyone else whether they like it or not. In a very superficial way therefore, this might be said...
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Can radical indeterminacy be used as a basis for constructing a black-and-white picture, for constructing ‘a definite story’? Clearly it can't - we can't start off from indeterminacy and somehow go on from that beginning to create a story which...
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When we take two steps forward in virtual space (which is to say, in the Mind-Created Virtual Reality) this equals two steps backwards. It's not that we take two steps in one direction and then two steps in the opposite...
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To repeat is to mock - every child knows this. To repeat is to mock and Thought is the great repeater. Thought is the Great Repeater and the world that it creates for us is nothing but blank repetition. The...
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In the Equilibrium Realm reality is always what the Authorities say it is. The ER is the will (or intention) of the Authorities. If there isn't an authoritative (or ‘magisterial’, as Carse says) voice defining the rules - which we...
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There is no advantage in symmetry (by definition there is no advantage to be had in symmetry). For there to be advantage there must be the lack of symmetry, there must be inequality. We are all about chasing the advantage...
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The lives of mortal men are nothing more than entertainment for the gods, (or at least so it was said in ancient Greece, back in the days where gods were presumably more of a ‘thing’ than they are now). The...
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