Tom Hite

@larry I’m compelled to bring in some Lao Tzu to this concept: self & shadow are a dialectic, after all, and I am reminded of some lines from the opening of the Tao Te Ching:
“Thus, the constant void enables one to observe the true essence.
The constant being enables one to see the outward manifestations.
These two come paired from the same…[Read more]

So, that trolley problem… it’s a compelling dilemma, but it ultimately only exposes the same thing that Julie’s dilemma did: everything is an information problem.

There is no “ethical” answer to either problem, whether it’s running a train into more or fewer people or selecting five besties to attend instead of you: unless you are aware of…[Read more]

The attached link is surely all over the map, but the throughline of its topic is very worthy of consideration in light of this discussion: Simulacrum.

The word dates back to the 16th century, and first referred to statues of the gods – the frozen ideal of forms made manifest through stone.

Baudrillard used the term in its postmodern sense in…[Read more]

The world of forms; the world of ideals: this binary has haunted us for thousands of years (well, forever, really, just not phrased quite as such).

Maybe this is a duality we must endure in order to figure out how to break it, though – perhaps the binary can be resolved.

Of which domain do we have the most control? Our bodies or our intentions?…[Read more]

Excellent work, @pandace88! This is a very useful list, and it’s a good idea to try and make sense of the organization. I think it was mentioned before, but there is an email exchange that didn’t make it into the book: https://pastebin.com/vys7BBpx

Signed by “Horace” (High Councilor and Seventh Maker of the Clock), Michelle was ordered to stand…[Read more]

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Alles, was einen Schatten wirft, ist vorübergehend … immer und ewig.

That worried expression on the puppy’s face is optimistic, though ;). Really, that sort of nails it: what we imagine is more real to us than what we perceive, in most cases – and where that line exists between real and imaginary can shift, bend, become permeable, and occasionally disappear altogether. The eyes of the dog aren’t looking at the…[Read more]

We’re *all* part of the game…

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You’re brave to ask this question, Justin (if that’s your *real* name… :D). Community is an interesting notion, and one that has permeated this experience since the beginning. From the start, it was a rag-tag bunch of curious folks who were trying to figure out what sort of mysterious organization was trying to communicate with them, and whether…[Read more]

“For every two-dimensional character you wish were real, there is a fourth-dimensional character who wishes you were real.” – Some random person on the Internet

Is the word “motel” written on the sheet there along the fold? It looks like sharpie – it’s weird, though, right?

Also, images seem to be the Eye of Horace, an Ankh, and… well, a triangle. Each of these have a meaning in isolation, but I don’t know the significance of them when placed in that particular arrangement… I will defer to the…[Read more]

It almost seems as if there’s a certain letting go that Noah was forced to do. I recall in a certain email exchange that was leaked by Bob Jones’ wife, there was an upset within the ranks: Michelle was refusing to follow orders, Samson was chiding her for her alleged failure, and data was “compromised.” Noah’s position in the OSDM is uncertain, to…[Read more]

Aha – I couldn’t place it; thank you! I did not encounter this exchange on my path through Ascension.

This reminds me of a certain email exchange that came out toward the end of Ascension, but which I cannot locate – I thought it was on page 51 on the right, but that’s… something else.

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