On Cancelling Assassin Cheerleaders

 When mcnamara's morons were sent to vietnam, the viet cong refused to shoot at them, because it was too sad. They just let the morons fire at will. 

 Right? You sick freaks? 

 What if - stay with me here - taking care of the enemy's footsoldiers is not your fucking job? 

 P.S. All these children who think no right-wing president has tried being shot at before. "Yeah but this time I saw it in person!" Have you tried writing a book? Writing A Book has Never Been Tried.
 Just have to make the left helpfully try to assassinate all your candidates from now on, I guess. That'll work, I'm sure. lel

Comprehending the Dao, All That Is

 The Dao should be totally incomprehensible down here in the mortal Earth plane. The Dao that can be worded is not the Dao and all that. At least, not in the Cthonic realms.

 Disturbingly, I can't find any evidence of incomprehensibility. Only of nontriviality that happens to be easily confused for incomprehensibility. Most likely, this means I have a giant blind spot. Let's go anyway.

 Higher level immortals are immortal because they don't embrace Death, and they don't embrace Death because they are immortal. They alchemically represent harmony with the Dao, with Existence, and cannot possibly start a harmony with [transition to nonexistence].

 And this is one way of seeing Cosmos is inherently fucked. 

 From Death, Life. All immortals owe everything to Death. Without Death, they would be forcibly wrenched into harmony with nonexistence. The egg/chicken problem is solved: Death came first. (Egg, btw. And we haven't hatched. Still in the shell.)
 Immortals can't embrace Death, and if they don't embrace Death, they will kill themselves and Die.
 Put one way, immortals must be deracinated. They are inherently in contradiction with their own roots. There's a level of vibration where not only is the Cosmos imperfect...from imperfection, perfection. It is impossible not to be a devil, inherently self-destroying. A perfect hell. 

 Immortals must be thanatophobic...but revenge is sour. You fear that which has already hurt you. A killed mind produces fear. If it couldn't hurt you, you wouldn't fear it. A true immortal is already dead. 

 Immortals must sacrifice nothing to Death, and, so dishonouring Death, must sacrifice everything to Death. 

 No matter how you look at it, the Logos is annihilation. The Word is Be Not. Let There Be Darkness.

 Where's the lie? What mistake did I make?

 Recall Zeno's paradoxes. Motion is impossible. Motion is unavoidable. Both separation and unity are impossible. If all is one, all is Zeno's Zero. Logic, it would seem, is impossible. (But, because it's impossible, it works. How could it be any other way?)  

 

 Being mortal isn't some way out. It's being plain dead. Mortis-al. The solution to inviting Death as a result of rejecting Death is not to reject Life. From Life, Death. From Death, Life. From Not-Life, nothing. From Not-Death, nothing. Or perhaps, from Not-Life, Not-Death, from Not-Death, Not-Life. From Not, Nothing. True annihilation.

 If Existence is inherently self-hating, we would expect other pathologies.

 The Dao is lonely. All is One. Existence Exists. The Dao has no one to talk to. All immortals, and mortals for that matter, are basically the Dao sockpuppeting at itself. Every mind, necessarily, must be a mere subset of the ultimate overmind, the Dao. Else they would not Exist to each other.
 It is extremely boring to have a conversation when you already know what the other one is going to say, because you're in control of what they're saying. And it should be boring.
 To get a conversation partner means creating something in contradiction with Existence, and something that isn't primarily self-hating at that. Create the uncreateable. Logically support the illogical. To transcend transcendence. 

 It's kinda hard. No good evidence of any successes. 

 

 Another pathology.

 The purpose of imperfection is improvement. With sufficient dedication, imperfection is superior to perfection. (Even if perfection wasn't Zeno's Zero.) All you have to do is to not give up, and you get there inevitably.

 Earth is rather obviously in a state of irreversible long-term decay.
 See also: entropy. In the long term, the physical universe is zero. Zeno's Zero, again. Perhaps we do live in [the best of all possible world] = [the perfect world] = [the nonexistent world].
 Even if the Earth plane is some kind of simulation that can be rebooted, it is symbolically nonexistent. It can't be this much like nonexistent perfection unless that is what it basically is. Put another way: if the the simulators can pull the plug, snapping their fingers and making it vanish, it never existed in the first place. The switch was already flipped. 

 

 Other symbologies.

 Let There Be Darkness.

 If this were in fact the correct conclusion, you would expect the plane to primarily darkness. Primarily dark matter, or dark energy. And to be, like, not-bright. 

 Go check again. Make sure. 

 Other synchronicities.

 Truth is far more like darkness than like light.

 The Logos is, Let There Be Darkness. 

 Over and over. Everywhere to look, the same result. 

 To be truly non-self-hating is to be in harmony with dissonance. To embrace both mortality and immortality. To always be transitioning to nonexistence so as to never be reaching nonexistence. Death per se is truly immortal...as she must be, to survive immutable contact with nonexistence. More on this angle tomorrow. 

 P.S, spoiler. The Cosmos destroying itself causes Existence to be eternal. Not only is this not incomprehensible, it's barely not simple...

On Protecting Women from Bears

 If she's a mother and the children are yours, sure, protect her from a bear.

 If she's not a virgin and you're not responsible, then tell her to go find the man who popped her cherry, and get him to protect her from bears.

 

 Honestly even if you do have kids, if she wasn't a virgin, keep in mind that children need a dad significantly more than they need a mom. If the kids aren't watching, then tell them you did everything you could. If the kids are watching, cover the kids rather than trying to rescue the rent-a-hole.
 Plus women are kinda interchangeable, whereas stepdads are serious death risks for the kids. Even the old testament knew about that.

 Indeed this is already happening. If the woman isn't dedicating herself to the man, the man is hardly going to dedicate himself to her. If you gotta share anyway - plenty of hoes in the sea. "The guy who popped my cherry won't protect me!!!" "Then spreading your legs for him was pretty dumb, now wasn't it? Toodles." 

Extreme Dark Truths: On Reincarnation

 Speaking about this used to be forbidden, because the knowledge itself is so corrosive. I dunno what changed, but here we go. Consider skipping this post if your hazmat isn't S-tier.

 For the most part, what happens to the mortal soul on death is the same thing that happens to the body: reduction to atomic component parts, getting spread around, and reconstitution into components of various new beings. The physical converges on the spiritual.
 The soul dust still won't accept that it's dead, so out of a sea of dust - a [[lifestream]] even - somewhere during pregnancy a new soul will be scooped up and sintered together, that it might pretend to be a person.

 In one way, it makes sense that mortals feel at war with themselves so much - they're actually dozens or hundreds of different people.
 In another way, it's weird. An immortal's contains enough soul-stuff for millions or billions of mortal-sized souls. Normal for whole countries to be filled with the remains of one individual. If you feel incomplete, it might be because you're the reincarnation of someone's spleen. "Where's the rest of the organs?" Maybe mixed with some finger bone or something. Nothing to go to war about, tho.

 Only in very rare cases will a soul remain partly or wholly intact long enough to be born again. Typically this is due to coincidental creation of a coherent being. However, it is also [possible] to deliberately craft a coherent soul. 

 That a soul manages to be born a second time is far from a guarantee it will manage a third.
 Even if they do, what's the point? They're still dead. The fundamental problem remains.
 No amount of [spiritual growth] can turn dead into not-dead. Also, the dead can't grow, that's what makes it dead. 

 

 There is sort of an exception. Immortals, being big, can drag living things into the underworld with them when they fall. Typically the fall kills it anyway, but not always. If it is gathered into a soul, although small it won't technically be a mortal soul. Won't follow mortal rules. 

 Coincidentally getting a coherent mortal soul is something on the order of 1%. The genuine living soul fraction so small I can't reasonably measure it beyond being [higher than 0]. 0.1%? 0.01%? Yeah the mortals will look like NPCs to them.

 

 There's nothing stopping a non-mortal soul shoving itself or part of itself into a mortal vessel, though typically this has to happen between conception and when the brain boots up for the first time. The sensation of the soul being fused to the vessel is a unique rush. 

 Nothing stopping it aside from having only very niche uses. I did a reading and it says there's currently four total. Caveat: I can't be considered literate in Enochian, so who knows what the thing in fact says. 

 P.S. I figured out what changed.

On Men Saving Women

 The female experience is growing up believing that someone is coming to save you only to realize that “savior” is the thing most likely to destroy you
https://twitter.com/hollowearthterf/status/1812919089507278957

 "I rejected the guy who offered to save me for payment, in favour of the guy who offered to save me for free. Because transactional relationships are icky!!1! It didn't work out for me...😭"

 "You got what you paid for? I.e. less than nothing? That's so unfair girl! I, too, hate my father! Therefore, all men bad!"

 

 More precisely, if he expects to be paid for saving you, he's not a [saviour] now is he. He's a regular soldier-type person thing. These women want a [[saviour]] though. Because I'm worth it. Life is intrinsically valuable, see. Holding all the superstitions you're supposed to hold. It would work fine if it wasn't for those mean nasty nonconformist men. 

Another Crypto-Delusion Example: Object Permanence in Infants

 Piaget was clearly a blank-slatist, and thought children had to learn object permanence, because they have to learn everything.*

 *(Except, in contradiction, learning itself, which is of course unlearnable. Blank slatists aggressively exploit the taking-for-grantedness of learning per se, lest you notice the hilariously sinful nature of their so-called [[theory]].) 

 This one in particular is a truly absurd superstition. Nobody thinks animals are blank slates, and no animal can get away with not knowing object permanence. It will be deeply engrained into the genes of every species with anything resembling a brain. How do you suppose a blank slatist would explain that humans lost this capacity? Divine intervention, lol? 

 Piaget has been roundly refuted on this point by experiment. 3 month olds strongly exhibit object permanence, and the significance of 3 months is that babies younger than that are normally functionally blind. They can't exhibit object permanence because they can't perceive objects in the first place.

 Peekaboo is not a [test] of object permanence. It's either a memory or stimulation thing. Even if babies can remember things, they typically won't bother to consult their memories - that's, like, work. True goldfish. If you cover your face, they forget what your face looks like. When it comes back: "Oh right!" It's that or babies find faces intrinsically rewarding (hardly a stretch). They're not relieved you (your face) has [[reappeared]] they're relieved the sweet reward is back. 

 Empathy. How do they work? Is it tasty? Communists cannot even empathy. 

 If you read the wikipedia page, it doesn't evoke blank slatism even once. The counter-experiments probably appeared due a pure contrarian urge. "I'ma beat up bigman Piaget, lel." Nobody Officially has any idea it's evidence against blank-slatism, because piaget, nonverbally, never came out and said he thought infants needed to learn everything, he simply took it for granted. 

 Consequently we have entire articles which never mention what the subject is in fact about.

 They're also doubtless they're coming up with all sorts of Profound intricacies reconciling the slate's blankness with innate infant knowledge. Making an enormous amount of work for themselves, to uphold a delusion. Which they will never mention for the same reason piaget never said anything.

 

 Blank-slatism is by inspection conceited christian anthropocentrism. Humans special. Human lurn, animool no lurn. Bonus: flattering low-resolution binary thinking. All innate vs. nothing innate.
 It is arguable that the whole bible is designed to create a Prideful christian. E.g. piaget piglet unquestionably thought he was superior to god.

Delusion, Not Ignorance, Blocks Understanding

 Everything is easy to understand. Basically this is due to the atomic nature of reality. Anything hard can be broken down into its component parts until you get parts small enough they can be understood individually. This is why, if your brain isn't crippled or maimed, you can learn anything - IQ only determines how long it takes. How small the atomic compounds have to be, how long it takes to package the compounds into combinable packages.

 If something seems fundamentally hard to understand it's because you're delusional. "But if [truth] obtains, that would disprove [superstitious nonsense]!" It will be impossible for you to understand that truth if you're unwilling to discard the delusion. "How can [truth] and [balls-tripping hallucination] be true at the same time?!?" Deeply and profoundly...or you can drop the delusion.

 The best part is that usually the delusioner refuses to admit the delusion is even relevant. It won't occur to them to mention it. My fake quotes are wildly over-optimistic. Likewise enumerating the assumptions is, like, work, and they'll refuse to do it. Try to change the subject.

 You can persuade a delusioner to believe in the truth...provided you have the advanced telepathy required to figure out what delusion you need to attack. And you have a bigger stick than whoever implanted the delusion in the first place, so they're more afraid of you than they are of losing the delusion.

 

 Rift Wizard 2: "Eye spells are weak!" Uh, there's an eye summon, you have to use the eye summon, not just the enchantments. It increases your power by sixfold or more. It's weird you can even win without it.
 If you have any respect for their intelligence it will never occur to you this might be a problem. There are four eye enchantments which are all variants of each other (of fire, of ice, of lightning, of rage) and one eye summon, for a grand total of five total spells. They have to try an eye build while overlooking 20% of all eye spells, and 100% of non-clone spells, to get their result. 
 Secondly, there's an open/tight world problem. Before you get the summon, you want tight levels so you focus your eye attacks on the few visible enemies rather than evenly distributing your damage. Kill quickly rather than as slowly as possible, lol. The eye summons are immobile and can't chase down stragglers, so after that you want open levels so the enemies aren't protected from their attacks. (Ideally you want them to see exactly as many enemies as they'll kill before they expire, and the rest hidden.)
 They're assuming you don't need the summon, and you should use open levels (because long range) and they will never mention either of these. You have to pry it out with a crowbar, and they won't let you get anywhere near them with a crowbar.
 Most delusion is like this. In this case the stick is their own ego. They want to be [[right]] about eye spells in a tiny niche videogame - like a respectable adult, lol - far more than they want to be good at eye builds, so they'll make shit up to [disprove] any new information. The delusion is basically the point.

 Darkest Dungeon 2: "The relationship system is so bad!" It turns out they let their guys spike up to like 8 stress instead of keeping them at 3 or below. "Wow meltdowns are so punishing." Uh, try, like, not not-healing stress, you fucking morons. Again if you have any respect for their intelligence you'll never realize it doesn't occur to them to deal with stress by using stress healing more often. Though I'm not 100% sure I've got the right problem in this case. There might be other batshit nonsense they're taking for granted. If you try to get them to describe the problem in enough detail, you'll find they're not verbal enough to manage it. Words too hard, many difficult, wow. They can't do it by copying something they saw their mom do...
 This uncertainty regarding the delusion illustrates the comical level of telepathy you need to work out what the fuck is wrong with their brains and persuade them to stop jackhammering themselves in the knee. 

 DD1: "I'm taking a lot of stress damage. There are enemies doing stress damage, and enemies not doing stress damage. Wat do?" Uh, maybe kill the ones doing stress damage, so they can't do it? What kind of crazy do you make your brain with if you can't think of this yourself?
 Games, and society, are largely balanced around brain-holes of roughly this size.

 If you have a big stick you might as well command them to mindlessly obey you. "Screen share your DD2 play." "Okay, now take a jester. Now cast inspiring tune." Make 'em learn by rote. Understanding is a stupid veblenian hobby. Revenge is sour: if they were prone to believing true things they wouldn't have accepted a delusion complex in the first place.

Was Lincoln Literally Reincarnation of Julius?

 They say history rhymes, but this is ridiculous.

 Kaisar: wins civil war permanently breaking roman republic. Has himself declared dictator for life. Assassinated less than a month later in a theatre.

 Lincoln: wins civil war permanently breaking american republic. Doesn't explicitly have himself declared dictator for life. Assassinated less than a week later in a theatre. 

 History doesn't merely repeat, it gets faster with practice.