We can't be authentic on purpose – that is a profound impossibility. The harder we try to be real the more fake we become! We could also put this the other way around too and say that we can't stop...
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When we have an idea of what's going on then what this means is that we're disconnected from the reality of what's going on. When we know who we are then we're alienated from who we really are. The conceptual...
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A Complex Reality is one which cannot be accounted for by only one level of description. In fact, no matter how many levels of description we have we can't account for a complex reality. We could just cut to the...
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Just as Kierkegaard says, ‘If you judge me you negate me’, so too we could say ‘If you have an image of me you negate me’, and the funny thing about this is that no one in this world interacts...
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When everything is all about ‘fidelity to the image’ then the one thing we can be sure of here is that there is no humour. There's either ‘getting it right’, which is rewarded, or there is ‘getting it wrong’, which...
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No matter how much rational bullshit we throw up into the air, we can't alter the bald truth of our situation, which is that life comes down to one thing and one thing only, which is risk. We do anything rather...
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Control is our God. When we see something that we like then we exercise control so as to enable us to obtain it. When we come across something that we don't like, something that we don't value, then we exercise...
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Systems are always perfectly 'null', always perfectly 'hollow', but this is the one thing we will never see (or never suspect) from the inside of the system, as it were. We can’t see things 'as they are' from inside the...
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Reality doesn't work by rules (there are no rules for reality). Logic works by rules, machines work by rules, thinking works by rules’ - all sorts of things work by rules, but not reality. Sewing machines, toasters and clocks work...
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‘Positive’ means that ‘it's a construct’, it means that ‘we made it’, it means that we didn't have to make it but that we made it anyway. ‘Positive’ means that it comes about by force, as ‘an effort of will’… There's...
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In a Finite Game everything is always strictly ‘black and white’ - you're either with us or against us, you’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem, etc., etc. This is its limitation, of course -...
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We can either carry on copying (i.e., carry on reading from the script that has been conveniently provided for us) or we can ‘become aware of what is actually going on’, but - crucially - we can't do both. We...
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What kind of possibilities are there for the Extrinsic Self as it goes about its business in the world of Definite Appearances - which is the only world it can ever know, the only world it can have ever have...
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Conservative Mode isn't just about overtly trying to preserve stuff (or ‘hang onto the old’), it also comes into play – although not so obviously - every time we make a plan or conceive of a goal - plans and...
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The Illusion Game maintains itself by giving us lots and lots of red herrings to follow; the rule for this game is very simple - we have to keep on chasing the red herrings! The other rule of the game...
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We are orientated - by default, as it were - to the purely formal world that is created by our own mental descriptions. More than just being ‘orientated’ to this extrinsic reality, it’s the only world that we know, it’s...
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All structures - without exception – are ‘made up things’; there isn't a structure anywhere that can claim otherwise. Or rather there is no structure anywhere that can honestly claim otherwise, that can honestly claim to be ‘true in its...
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‘The wages of sin are death,’ as Christian street preachers the world over are so very fond of telling us, but this is a deeply distorted message. It’s not a message to help us (which is what it implicitly claims...
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