Heresy as a way of life

The Book of Heresy pt 15 - Revelation of self - step five

2006-04-30T03:51:00.000-07:00

Step 5 Rise Above

This is perhaps the greatest step for increasing your self confidence and self-awareness, as well as your abilities to understand so much more about the world than you ever did before. However, this step also has a tendency to isolate you, and for many it places a weight of responsibility upon their shoulders.

In this step you will learn to rise above yourself. With the comfort you have attained in step three with your relation to self, and the practice and ability to manipulate yourself gained in step four, you can gain here the ability to simply understand the impulses and emotions that occur within you. Knowing the root of these things so effortlessly will enable you to rise above these emotions, not to suppress them or ignore them, but to feel them, commune with yourself, and not let them overwhelm you. You can keep a clear mind in situations that would panic others, and can make more fully informed decisions that suit you better to your long term desires which you can now begin to see.

Once you learn to rise above yourself, you will find the ability to see the path of events in your life with greater clarity and to perceive your desires for you life, and the likely events that will transpire long down the road. Inversely, you will also discover that with a knowledge of self at this level that you can also easily read, and predict the nature of other people and other events in the world. What seemed so complex once will seem so transparent now.

Often at this level you will feel great annoyance at the shortsightedness of others, even of whole organizations of people, yet your ability to rise above will transform that annoyance to sympathy that they simply cannot understand. The daily drama of human life will have less an effect on you, and when others conflict with you, you will discover that you can see the root of their anger, see where they are right, and where they are wrong, yet you will know that there is little you can do to make them understand.

As you rise above, you can easily be swallowed up by your sympathy, and your empathy for people that you now understand so easily. Yet you must be vigilant that you do not became a slave to their desires and their weaknesses. Your journey is not now, nor will it ever be finished, and if you allow the weak and short sighted to use you because of your sympathy for them, than you will stagnate, and your growth will halt. This is not however, a license to sink back down into those petty emotions and embrace the spite and annoyance that you felt for them. To be swallowed by contempt for those who do not and cannot understand what you know perceive is as bad or worse than being their slave. You must find a balance within yourself, not to much detachment, not to much sympathy, and most of all do not isolate yourself from them least you loose touch completely and loose the path of self revelation completely. You will find that while you feel that you are walking alone on this path, that you still need company and human interaction in life. Nothing can truly be done alone, not even this.

The Book of Heresy pt 14 - Revolation of Self pt 4 - Evolve and Develop

2006-01-29T22:47:00.000-08:00

The process of step three, forgiveness of self is perhaps the longest most arduous of the steps of self revelation, at least so far as I have thus far traveled. However, when you reach the point were you can move on (note that I do not say completion of the steps, no step is every completed), you will do so with a new empowering relationship with your inner self. You will have learned to communicate with your inner self and the mysterious workings will not be so mysterious anymore.

Because of this new found relationship of understanding that you have with yourself, you will then be capable of evolving and developing aspects of yourself. In the previous steps you will have learned of the existence of the parts of yourself, you will have accepted them as part of you, and you will have come to understand and forgiven the grievances within yourself.

Only now can you begin to take those things, those gifts and those weaknesses and begin to modify them. You will be able to tap your strengths in a way never before available to you, and you will be able to do so without fear. One by one you can embolden your inner self and strengthen your new bond. As you embrace and learn your talents and your points of view, you will form a familiarity with your inner self. As you experience events in your life, your inner self will communicate more and more easily with you. You will understand the complex emotions that it unveils to you, you will know what you want, and why. And you will be able to communicate with your inner self to let it know it has been heard, to feed it love, and bow to its whims, or to explain to it why it cannot always have its way.

It is even possible for your inner self to learn more from you and about you, and it will help guide you far more effectively when you have a strong relationship. Your heart will know your life’s desires, and your inner self will strengthen your gifts and give the strength to follow your path.

As you begin to master the evolution of self, you will begin to understand that your love of self, and the partial piece of mind that comes with it, will enable you to be independent and strong, and to understand the world in ways you never thought you could. By the zenith of step four, you will have a trust in the strength of self, and will greatly excel in strengths and abilities that you were only marginally good at before.

It is hard to be specific in this step, as your strengths and weaknesses will be unique to you, and you will have to find and develop them for yourself. For some this is a spiritual time, as they strengthen their awareness and beliefs, and focus their spiritual practices. For others this is calculating and scientific, increasing technical proficiency with new found skills, using new strengths and confidences gained in this and previous steps. You cannot exactly be told what to do, only vaguely what it is like when you are doing it right. This step takes a while to get into the swing of, and it, more than any other step, always feels unfinished. Yet there will come a time when you feel ready to move on, even though your newfound abilities remain un-mastered.

The Book of Heresy Pt 13 --The Revelation of self step 3 – Forgiveness of Self

2006-01-18T21:13:00.000-08:00

Step three, upon first description sounds so much like step two. Some who find it step right over it. Yet as simple a thing as it is, and as small a step as it seems, it is as important a step upon this path as any. And like all the rest, it must be continually applied. To move beyond this step without taking it will inevitably cause one to fall off the path of self revelation.

The third step, simply put, is forgiveness of self. For a long time I considered forgiveness and acceptance the same thing, but that was before I really understood what forgiveness was. The reason I did not understand the difference, is because almost no one ever actually forgives anyone, and fewer still forgive themselves. What people think of as forgiveness today is actually a form of acceptance. To put aside an incident and agree to pretend that it never happened or not to talk about it. To no long argue about a thing, but most often the feelings on both sides of the issue remain and only time will cause them to fade and only if the issue is avoided. They accept that this difference of opinion, this inability to agree or make amends, will not change and cannot be overcome. Yet there is no real exchange of understanding, no relief of emotional baggage, only an agreement to put the matter aside and consider it concluded. This is modern forgiveness, and it is false.

Real forgiveness is a rare thing, but it does exist, and it creates understanding and opens paths of progress between those rare people capable of it. A relationship is cemented with great power when forgiveness passes between them. Real forgiveness comes when two parties understand one another points of view, understand the motivations which lead to the disagreements or misunderstandings. 99 out of a 100 times misunderstandings is all that they are. Humans are very limited creatures with poor communication skills when they are at the best, and we most certainly are not at our bests. Nearly all disagreements, hurt feelings, even hatreds come from misunderstanding one another. Once true understanding passes through a rift between people, not only does the situation become resolvable, but once resolved hard feelings not only vanish but are replaced by a sense of friendship and understanding that was never present even during prior friendship.

So we have discussed the differences between acceptance and forgiveness as it applies to the relation between people, but how does one forgive themselves, and why is it important to do so? Most of what people carry to the outside world as far as opinions and judgments firsts develops in a relationship they are not even aware of, the relationship of self. The reason most people are not aware of the relationship they have with themselves is because they do not realize that they are very nearly two people.

All the elements of perception within the self can be divided up into two sections, conscious and subconscious, or any number of other labels with the same basic meaning, inside, outside; karma and dogma or some such things. Regardless of labels the division is basically thus; conscious self contains your surface mind, many of your memories and your five senses. The subconscious mind contains your core of emotions, or your heart, the operations and internal senses of the body and more recessed memories and more complex understandings of them. These two parts of your self function very nearly independently of one another, and while you may have come to think of your subconscious as being machine like, it is very much alive. However the subconscious lacks any sense of language, or any type of complexity, even simple deception is foreign to it, it thinks of only how to survive and tries to motivate the self to do so via emotions. The linking point between both parts is the ‘heart’, or the center of your being where you feel emotion.

The problem with the modern human being is that there is almost no communication with the inner self, as we have departed from nature and have been taught to consider the animal needs of the self to be ‘evil’ in nature, we have learned how to ignore the inner self. This creates strife in the modern being, misbalance and discord, and isolation of both halves of the self. The inner self’s attempts at communication go unheeded and unheard, and so emotions become complex and backed up as the inner self grows sick from unexpressed emotion. The outer self doesn’t fully understand this dynamic, but only knows that it no longer trusts the inner self, and its isolation the surface mind passes judgment upon the selfish unheeded desires of the inner self.

This slanderous judgment of self is then extrapolated into the world and is carried into relationships with all other beings. Making true understanding and true forgiveness all but impossible. To truly take the next step in the path of self revelation, it is required that one learn how to better communicate with the inner self. You’ll find that once the inner self expresses its emotions, even its irrational ones, the emotion is relented once the inner self knows that it has communicated with the outer self. The inner self has only you, it cannot commune with others, it is lonely, and knows only its needs and wants knowing no other way. You must understand that much of what is within you is purely natural though you may have been taught that it was not so. You must learn to accept the elements that compose who you are, no matter what they are.

This isn’t a license to let every carnal desire of the inner self unleash, for this behavior is often destructive to current societal standards of living. However, it is ok to know that these wants and needs exist and are a natural part of you. When you learn to commune with the inner self, you will learn the motivation behind your complex and misunderstood emotions, behind many of the inner minds secretive workings. Then, once true understanding passes between you and your inner self, you can understand, accept and forgive that inner self. A true forgiveness, will strengthen the bond of self and ignite an strength and confidence that will carry forth into your life and into your relationships with other beings.

You will notice then perhaps more than in any other step in this process, that your insight into the world around you, and your abilities to handle problems and to see what was hidden from you before, will be greatly improved. Like all the steps of course, the dialogue with the inner self, and the acceptance and forgiveness that comes along with it is an essential and continual component to all steps beyond this one on the path to self revelation.

All this is possible by simply separating your emotions, and one by one feeling them and asking your inner self why you feel these things. As you learn to hear your inner voice, you will also note the alleviation of these burdening emotions. Slowly you will build a language with your inner self and soon the division between you will not seem so great.

The Book of Heresy pt 12 - Journey of self revelation - step 2

2005-12-31T08:58:00.000-08:00

Step 2. Acceptance of self

The second step on the road of self revelation is acceptance of those truths that you perceive using the first step. Those few who find themselves capable of the first step, often falter at the second step. To accept the truths of self, one will see and realize the good and bad things about themselves, but the bad things will most often fill their perception. Their first desires will be change, to eliminate those bad things in the quest for perfection. The revelation of self is never the perfection of self. The self can not be perfect, perfection is a flawed concept. The ultimate form of self is unique to all, and in being different they cannot be perfect.

Before you can make choices about who you are and who you want to be, before you can add good things, and remove bad things, you must first learn to live with those things which you already are. The strong desire to eliminate a negative thing about yourself that you have discovered comes from your inability to accept that these things are a part of you. You see them, and immediately judge them based upon the hopes and fears that you have always known, which means you have set aside the lens of truth. The moment you start down this road, you have abandoned the path of self revelation.

You must know yourself, and you must know all the parts regardless of how they now make you feel. Acceptance is a fundamental key to being able to tap your inner strengths. You may find in time that what you first perceived of as a flaw, or a weakness, was s symptom of another ability or trait that can be redirected, or better used. You may find that those things you fear to accept, are those things which can make you the strongest. Then again, you might not, but until you accept yourself for the way that you are, you will never know what you are capable of.

Even when you have mastered yourself, when you know your core and have found your purpose, you will find that there are always things about yourself that you do not fully understand. There will be things that make you proud and things that do not. Yet once the self is mastered, there will be a peace and inner strength, which is largely drawn from the comfort you have reached by accepting who you are.

The Book of Heresy pt 11 - Journey of self revelation - step one

2005-12-22T03:18:00.000-08:00

I very nearly began a section regarding some of my rather unorthodox speculations regarding the origins of the universe, but instead have been requested by a friend to review the steps of self revelation. It is my personal belief that there are few higher callings that the discovery of true self, and the revelations that follow with it. My own mentor, using methods previously unheard of, showed me the way down the paths of self revelation at a pace never before imagined. My evolution continues still, but now I have reached a point where I no longer require a guide. And have come further down this path than any, apart from my mentor, that I have ever met.

Even at this accelerated rate, it has taken me ten years to come this far, to truly have open eyes that can see inward and outward. It do not always understand what I see, but I now have the tools to puzzle these things out, and it is the source of my ability to divine hidden truths and secrets.

Every path of self revelation is unique, but most of those successful have commonalities. Here is the guide as I understand it now.

Step I
Step one is the hardest to take, the hardest to maintain, and the most powerful if mastered, of any of the skills self discovery can reveal. Step one is objective, self analysis. To those that do not understand this, it will seem easy, and those that do often say it can not be done. What is required is a dissection of self.
You must tare apart and classify all of what you are, what you contain without prejudice to that which you fear or hope. This step almost always finds failure from two mistakes. The first is to let hope bend truth, to give greater weight to things you desire to be true than they really possess. The second is to let fear twist self deceptions and draw people into being harsher and more self deprecating in their quest for self. In either case, you do not get an honest picture, but one that is influenced by hope, or by fear.

To truly take step one, you must learn how to be completely honest with yourself about all things. You must learn to see both the light and the darkness within yourself. You must tare apart all those things that you remember, all those things you were taught, those things you believe, your hopes, dreams, fears, and every part of you that comes to make you who you are. And you must look at each of them honestly, and you must decide what it is that you really believe, not hope, not fear, but believe. You must exalt those things as personal truths and let them guide you. Many more things will be questions, for there are more of them than answers in this world. Those questions you may have great hope or fear in their answers, but you must not let them become truths before your heart and mind agree than they are.

However, like every sing step upon the rode of self revelation, the methods learned must always be applied. The lens of truth must be used at all times, when you do good, or bad, dark or light, you must accept the truth of your motivations. You do not necessarily have to share them with others, honesty is not the beacon of salvation in this world that people claim, true honesty among one another would destroy us faster than hatred. We are not yet ready for those things… yet if you can be honest with yourself, even when you must display otherwise… you can take upon you a strength that will make your journey possible.

The truths you exalt to today, and that which guides you on your journey now, may not be truths you will follow forever. All things must be questioned, for a thing is only real if it is real to you.

Law One: Nothing is Sacred, everything is suspect, and the question is the answer.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 10 "They" pt 6 - Governments

2005-12-15T23:11:00.000-08:00

Most conspiracy theorist, and even ordinary people, believe that our government, and other governments are the dominant power in the world. And if there are any conspiracies or secret powers, the government is the first place they look. So it probably surprises anyone reading my book of heresy, to find that I have listed government as the least powerful American super power, and even in other countries where their governments are more dominant, they are still subservient to corporations.

Our government in particular was designed in its infancy to be basically slow and powerless to do anything accept to defend the country from foreign invasion. Every other power it was given or has been given sense, was built with so much red tape, loop holes and checks and balances as to pretty much render the government impotent. These designs were so obvious that they required a cover-story. Having come freshly off an overbearing British government, they told the people that the checks and balance system was to prevent the government from becoming imperialistic and oppressive to its people.

Well, if that was its purpose, it failed miserably. The united states is undoubtedly and empire, and while Americans might not see it as oppressive, most other countries do. It shouldn’t surprise you that our government was designed by rich land owners who were members of a secret society with higher aims than just being powerful, but with that secret design in mind. It was for this that they made the government so dependant on the power of its populace, which sounds like a good idea on the surface. But when you recall what was said about what money really stands for, then you realize that the power of the people is in direct control of the people with all the money, so the power that runs the government is those same rich families that built the government in the first place.

The American government is the weakest of the five powers that rule our nation, because its hands were tied from the beginning, it was the first to serve the corporations, built by the rich to secretly empower them. The ideals of our government were actually born long ago, in the roman empire.

In those times, things were more plain than what they are now. Dictators did not soften their identities, emperors ruled with impunity, and people loved violence without shame, watching gladiators die for their entertainment. It was their that the Romans who had expanded an empire greater than any before it, had to tax the roman citizens heavily, to wage wars that were unpopular and considered unnecessary by the citizens. They learned however, that they could prevent revolt, so long as they fed the people and kept them entertained. It was called, bread and circuses. While placating the people and preventing any revolution, they discovered they could do even more then wage unpopular war. The people become completely uninterested in politics and did not even watch as they senate was corrupted and became the worlds first illusionary government. The people were given the illusion that there opinions had sway, and kept fat and happy so they didn’t look beyond the surface.

So it is today, in the American government, created as an experiment by rich land owners to see if they could make from the ground up, a powerful empire that they could rule with an iron fist, whose populace would believe was a benign, righteous republic innocent of all wrong doing. With such an empire their secret plans for human destiny were much closer to falling within their grasp.

Only with the rise of the internet destabilizing the corporate control over the media and the system of education, has the illusion started to crumble. Without the full strength of those two powers to help sustain control over the government already bought and paid for, the illusionary system so carefully designed to be weak, has gained some power. However it is not properly channeled, and not used to working without restraint, and our current foreign policy is a direct result of semi rich fools out of control looking out only for their own interests. It is unfortunate, but perhaps an inevitable necessity should “they” ever be revealed to the people, their control which had provided stability would waver and some chaos will occur.

In all likelihood they will recover from this little destabilization, find a way to bring the internet back into control and resize the power of the media and the education system, solidify their hold once more over the government, and return to business as usual. As much as I’d like to see the truth revealed, I don’t believe the people are willing to see the truth, even if it could be proven and handed to them. The people really want to be lied to, because they know they need to be controlled to be given safety. They don’t honestly care to much about what those who give them safety do with the power handed to them, so long as they believe they are safe and happy.

The fear of the throws of chaos will for a very long time, probably prevent any positive changes in our way of life. So while things will no doubt become infinitely more complex as the years roll on, the old and wise will easily be able to see that nothing really changes at all.

The Book of Heresy pt 9 - "They" pt 5 - Power of Knowledge

2005-12-15T01:42:00.000-08:00

Technological advancement has always been on the cutting edge of rising nations, and has often proved to be the deciding factor in the success and longevity of many societies. The more advanced a societies understanding of science and nature, the more likely that it would survive and grow at great rates. But perhaps even more importantly, the more education and understanding the general population had, the more truly great artists and scientific minds would developed within that country to lead to later breakthroughs.

The primary means of the existence of science and education has been for the betterment of day to day life, and to increase the efficiency of the labor of the populace so they can get more done in less time and be happier doing it. However, it is quickly discovered in any society of conflict that superior education, and superior technology also leads to victory in combat situations and in conflict between differing societies. Only with superior training and technology could an invading army defeat desperate men on their own ground, and thus expand their empires.

So at the turning point of male dominated culture about ten thousand years prior, knowledge and education became a cornerstone to a powerful society and very important to the corporate entities that would later draw most of their powerful revenue from the advancements of science.

However, there is always a balance to be struck, and the corporate entities which rule seek control over their populace. On over educated populace will be far more difficult to educate, and in addition the knowledge of science tends to weaken religious faith which further complicates keeping the populace in line. Because of this, a general education is easy to get, and very much encouraged by the corporate giants, however, a detailed education with higher levels of understanding is harder to come by.

You have to either be born of the already rich, or you have to display such a talent for learning and a willingness to sacrifice, that you prove yourself a candidate for raising your social status. Of course, if you do so you will find yourself largely indebt to the corporation, and the process of paying them off will also put you in a position where you are useful to them for a great deal of time.

Education remains a tricky, but powerful system. I often think to myself what a unique society would be like if it were the dominant of the five powers. That is highly unlikely while the corporate giants rule, however the resent explosion of accessible knowledge and information on the internet has effected the standings of the knowledge branch of the five powers almost as much as it has effected the media. If the corporations and media do not soon gain complete control over the internet, they may find its developments in information sharing as damaging to their control over the system of education as it does the internet. And once knowledge and education to the highest levels becomes free to all… well then just about anything could happen. I can’t imagine the corporations remaining in command to long after that occurs, but I wouldn’t doubt they have contingencies prepared for that event.

The Book of Heresy - pt 8 - "They" pt 4 - Power of Religion

2005-12-12T19:54:00.000-08:00

Of all five powers, Religion is the oldest and may even have been the binding element which held the first societies of people larger than hunting parties, together. One of the major keys to modern civilization is large numbers of human beings working together. There were times in ancient history where their were a great number of humans alive, but they had never congregated in once place in such numbers as they do today. It just didn’t seem natural or comfortable for so many organisms to be in one place, but we learned that if we do, there is much we can accomplish. Religion became one of the primary factors which could bring people together, moderate their disputes, provide moral guidance and that upheld behavior that stabilized society.

Like all the five powers, Religion didn’t start out with the purpose of controlling people, or to grant power to a chosen few, but like all the powers, it evolved into just that. Throughout the last ten thousand years of human history, Religion has often been the strongest of the five powers. Governments, corporations, education and knowledge and whatever media existed, all bowed before religious authority. The power that Religious authorities have to command is directly handed to them by the people, and so the power of religion in any system is completely determined by the fever with which the people in it practice and believe.

In today’s America, Religion is still powerful, but has taken a back seat to Corporations, Media, and the education system. People believe, but the practice of religion has become a once a week habit. Mostly they are pressured into belief by being born into it, and by a society that does not really wish to spend much time thinking about religion, but just wants to be told what they need to do to satisfy it.

When asked, most people will say they believe in god, or in Jesus, but only about half of them will actually say they go to church, and those that do only a fraction of them actually have any concrete feelings about their religion, or interpretations of their own on what they have been told. They go because the people they know go, and they believe because they are terrified of the unknown.

Fear is and has been for the last ten thousand years, the primary motivation behind religion. Fear of death is one of the first truths of an intelligent organism smart enough to realize its own limitations. So far as we know, human beings are the only organisms that are aware of the fact that their lives are temporary. Many believe that this fear alone is what separates us from them. Religion was created to elevate that fear, it turned out that the fear of death was so great, that people would do anything to defend their faith in a religion that promised eternal life.

No force in all human history has killed more people, caused more wars or aligned more peoples and societies than that of religion. More people have died in the name of god, than in the desire for freedom. That is truly astounding, and that speaks of just how afraid we all really are to die, and how much we want to hear anyone promise us that there is something more.

Organized religions of the modern age now wield a great amount of power and persuasion, however, because of their size and needs, they must deal with corporations and attain their permission to practice. Having to bend before corporations and at the same time falling under conflict with modern sciences version of the universe’s function has caused religion to loose some of its steam. Science and the system of knowledge has provided so much power and comfort to humanity in the last hundred years that it wields great power and popularity, stealing much if it away from Religion.

The scientific industries have provided so much power to the corporations, that they tend to heavily favor the scientific community over the religious community. Some might even speculate that the corporate organizations would like to see the scientific community render religion completely obsolete, though that is unlikely unless science begins to embrace some form of philosophy. People are just to afraid of the unknown, and they need a voice that can tell them what they want to hear, and reassure them that there is a purpose to it all. Science, can as of yet not answer to needs.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 7 "They" pt 3 Power of Media

2005-12-11T19:41:00.000-08:00

The modern media, as I mentioned before, has long been the strong right hand of the corporate giants. However, it is an interesting subject now because something has happened in the last 10 to 20 years that was either unanticipated by the corporation (Which I find highly unlikely), or a sneaky move by a force of resistance struck back. While many often try to fight corporate giants, none ever really succeeds, so if this was a coup of some kind, it was the only successful one that I have ever heard of.

The only question to me is was it a coup from outside the five powers trying to disrupts the system and take a step towards a more free society, or was it a move within the media giants themselves to increase the power of the media in order to take dominance in the order of the world. That would be very interesting because as far as I know, there has never been a media dominated society on this planet before, even in a free republic they can only topple leaders, they have never actually lead before. However, this is unlikely to transpire even if that was their aim because even if it was the media giants which put this plan into action, they almost immediately lost control over it.

What basically happened is this. The Government, no doubt under corporate orders, constructed a series of powerful computers hidden in strategic locations all over this country and interconnected them so that they could remain in communications with one another in the event of mass attack and invasion. Communication has always been the key to victory in combat situations, and about the only way that anyone ever looses on their own soil is when they loose communications.

However, it did not take the government long to realize that no country in the world actually had intentions of invading this country. Our army was the largest standing one in the world, and the second largest was our own population. If enemies set foot upon this soil, not only would the military have no problem taking care of the situation, but citizens of this country would poor out of their doors armed to the teeth with their own weapons and fight to the last man to stay free. Frankly, it would be far to expensive in weapons and man power to occupy this country. On top of which we would make terrible slaves, anyone knows how much we like to fight, they would be putting down our rebellions on a daily basis. Ruling this country from an invaders standpoint is just not feasible. The government has long known that there are no invaders which would take this country from us. However, this is getting slightly off track, I will no doubt write more on this in the government section or in later posts.

Because they realized that they had no use for this network of computers they built, which was expensive to maintain and needed to be justified in its construction, it was decided that it would be turned over the public. They built powerful firewalls to guard those functions that they still used inside all the servers, but by and large they turned over access to these systems to the corporations and to public access. This was the birth of the internet, which in its infancy was only accessible by those rare few people who were truly knowledgeable about computer operations, which at that time were miles from user friendly.

Out of this, a sect of very intelligent, self educated people appeared, and they alone seemed to understand the internets real secrets and that knowledge made them powerful. Their wasn’t anything they could find out, and when measures were taken to drive them out, it was too late, their foot was already in the door, and no one knew enough about the systems to keep them out of it. On top of which, the world had slowly grown dependant on this internet, businesses and governments and nearly every organization required it to operate. Out of these people grew the first real resistance with any amount of success to the organization of the five powers. Its ironic that they weren’t savage warriors, or rich land barrens turned rebel… they were poor, self educated geeks usually with very low social standing even among their own.

Hackers were vilified by the media they still controlled, but they feared all out open warfare against the hackers, because they knew the hackers could cripple them anytime they desired. Corporations tried to friendly up the internet so that anyone could use it, hoping to undercut the power of the hackers and burry their secrets in a delouse of useless information. But the Hackers stayed alive and on top of things, they understood the systems far to well, and worse, they learned so much from one another that they were nearly as good at logical deduction and strategic thinking as those who had ruled all this time.

It wasn’t until after 9/11 that the system finally declared open warfare on the hackers. The response to this terrorist act against us was the creation of an organization in the government which could utilize any other organization with broad sweeping power and without having to answer any stupid questions or fill out to much advanced paperwork. Its an interesting fact that after an act of ‘foreign’ terrorism against our nation, tha the first act of homeland securities was to declare hacking act of treason. On a scale never before imagined they hunted down the hackers, and with the righteous hammer of anti-terrorist American support, the media managed to make anyone who stood against homeland securities the worst kind of evil. The found a way to discredit the hackers and at the same time make them afraid.

The Hacker community fell apart, for they were terrified to speak to one another, they were not soldiers after all, not brave fighting men. SO when faced with unimaginable prison sentences, most of these geeks and social outcasts would plea agreement out of it and either give them the names of other hackers or would just work for the government tracking them down actively. This isolated the hacker community and drove them into desperate secrecy, where if they still exist, they have completely dropped off the map.

Ironically however, without these legendary respected men of anonymity to patrol the internets, to teach restraint or enforce their own sort of justice… there is chaos in the internet now. In the last few years the hostility of the internet has magnified exponentially, and this can be directly attributed to the fact that a whole new generation of hackers without an agenda or role models taught themselves the trade, but use it with no skill or discrimination. There may have been anonymity on the internet, but there was also accountability with these first hackers on the job. Now that the hacking legends are gone, there is only chaos, and the internet has become a place of unprecedented hostility where no electronic system is safe.

Even without these internet rangers actively resisting the five powers, the internet was forever changed by them. People continued to share information and to seek knowledge from sourced not directly controlled by the media giants or the corporations. Worse for them, some organization could come into existence which were not recognized entities in the big book of corporations. The internet was still such a grey area standing between the government and the corporations that no one was sure who owned anything. That is why today you see the FCC as a representative of governments, and your major media outlets leading a desperate movement to legislate control over the internet before the media giants are swallowed by it.

If all people everywhere sought information published through non corporate means, then the major elements of the media as a super power would collapse. Already news papers and magazines have taken a massive hit, and television channels are also starting to loose ground to the internet. Due to its cost effective cut backs, most major news networks do not even actively investigate the information they broadcast. They started getting their information from others who would do it for them and publish it on the nets. Imagine their surprise when those people began to broadcast it directly to the people via the internet cutting them out and revealing them as the incompetent puppets of the corporations that they are.

It was recognition of that event and the rise of blogs to a point where they are actually threatening to undercut the media giants, that motivated me to get a few myself and start writing the secrets I have learned. I can only hope that this shall usher in the return of the legendary Hackers who can restore some sense of order to this chaos and turn the tide against the media giants. After all, once the internet has swallowed all forms of media and taken that power away from the corporations, it will not be so easy to discredit their enemies when no one is listening to them anyway.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 6 "They" pt 2 - Corperations

2005-12-10T20:49:00.000-08:00

Starting with the most powerful in our country and in the world in general, I will start with Corporations, since they are the dominant force that actively rules the world.

It was recognized nearly from the beginning of human culture, the people can only really accomplish anything if they work together. It is in this that the fundamental principles of the current cooperate powers take full control. For absolutely any organization of people to be allowed to operate within this country and most others, they must first be recognized as a corporation or a non profit organization. Whether you are a government office, a school, a private club, a small business, large bossiness, a charity organization, a public social club, or any other type of organization, it will take money to keep that organization functioning. Because of this, you must track your money, keep accounts and records, and be classified in the big book of corporations.

What this basically means is that absolutely everyone needs corporate permission to do anything. While some instances in the system they have set up for the illusion of control they cannot just deny you permission, they can and will delay it so long as to render the process of application nearly completely useless. In this way they can strong arm anyone who operates or leads any organization to do as they please. All the other entities in all the other four powers must answer to the corporate world, and so those with the most to loose will not hesitate to do as they are told and reinforce the directives of the corporate machine.

In the ancient days, power was derived with the ownership of land. Everyone has to live somewhere, but all the land that is near enough to people that one can make a living is owned by the few and the powerful. Their fore everyone has to make arrangements with the lord of the land for a place to live. For this they ended up in servitude to the land lords, who answered only to those who commanded larger lands and more men who could at any time take it all away from them. Kingdoms of those times where like a combination of corporations and government. They owned everything, and they made the rules and the laws, or repealed them as they saw fit, and everyone would do what they were told, or the landlords would throw them out into the cold to starve in the wild.

In today’s system however, land is no longer the measure of power. Though ownership of land is still indeed a cornerstone to wealth and power, a system of monetary representation has been created which allows power to be obtained even without land. Money was created to represent the authority of the government and the corporations. It was a standard by which people could trade and pay others for goods and services. The dollar became a representation for power. Those who created it decided how much man power their was in their country and how many hours of quality labor that could possibly be derived from it in a set amount of time. This is how they decided how much money could be in circulation at any given time, the amount of money cannot exceed the raw power of the work force, for that is what it represents.

Each dollar in your pocket represents an amount of time and effort put forth on behalf of another. Each entity is paid by the entity above it for the services it renders to them, and is delt money to represent these services which they in turn can deal downward after taking their slice so as to ensure that it all gets done. On the top of it all are the few, unimaginably wealthy and powerful individuals who together, literally own everything. They are not so many people as you might think, and you can be damned sure that they know who each other are. The two percenters control 90% of the wealth of the world, but you can bet within that two percent that a fraction of them are the truly powerful, and of that 90%, they have dominion over nearly all of it.

These white men descend from ancient families with ties to very powerful and very old societies, most of them secret. These men have an agenda, a plan more than just to acquire more power. They need a system of control that can mindlessly direct the men and women of this culture to accomplish a hidden plan. Now myself, as much as I hate secrecy, and as much as I hate to be controlled, I believe that in all likelihood they believe they have the best interests of the human race in mind. Perhaps they even do, for there is nothing in life that they lack, so whatever purpose they have is not to increase their wealth and power for its own sake. When you reach their level, the power you fight for has a purpose. If I was in their shoes, I might even have sided with them and agreed in their plan… but I’m not in their shoes. I’m in mine where its poor and miserable just like everyone else, and until I know otherwise, I will be doing my part to expose them for what they are, and to free myself from their bonds by showing the way to as many as will listen.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 5 "They" pt 1 - the five powers.

2005-12-10T04:35:00.000-08:00

I’m not sure when to really get into this, and since I don’t know specifically where to go from here and I mentioned ‘they’ so many times in the previous few posts, I suppose I’ll get to ‘them’ right now.

To put it simply, they are the organized powerful that rule our world, and yes I don’t say country or nation or state or land, but world. They do indeed rule the entire planet. Before you can understand who ‘they’ are you first need to know about the five powers.

The five powers are the five elements which have always and will always dominate and shape every single human culture. These five powers change shape and blend function, and their dominance in any culture varies from one of the five to the next.

The Five powers are; Religion, Government, Economy, Knowledge, and Communication. If you control any one of these elements you can have a massive influence upon the culture, but if you control them all, than your control over those people is complete. This is the purpose behind ‘they’, to find a way to institute complete and total control.

However, even if you sit the greatest minds of all time in a room and design the perfect system of control, you would find great difficulty in installing that system of control. I believe they have an ideal system of control, but it is a very long process to evolve what we have now, to what it is they desire. They are very, very powerful, and they do unquestionably rule the world, but their control is not complete. Not yet anyway.

The current most powerful of the five is Economy, or the corporations of the world. If there is a chairman on the council of the most powerful men alive, he is a corporate mastermind to be certain. Cooperation’s in America have bought and paid for this country, they own the government, the media, organized religions, and the educational system. While they own these things, they do not have full control over them yet, for it is necessary to maintain the illusion of freedom, least the humans revolt against their captors. So they must allow balance, and they must allow decisions to be made that are not all in their best interests, but you can bet when the big important details that impact the future are decided, they go the way of the corporate giants.

I would say that the least powerful organization on the planet varies from country to country, but in America at least I think it is Government. Every single member of the government requires the constant support of the rich in order to simply run for office, and to maintain that office. That means that all the members of government, or at least the vast majority, are all powerful members of the corporate world as well. From the very moment they seek a public office, they rarely do so for the betterment of their fellow man, but to increase the power of those cooperate entities which gave them the opportunity in the first place. And even should one idealist slip through, he/she will quickly realize that those that enabled them to reach a place of power in the government, did not have the same ideals that they had, and will pull their strings like a puppet to make them dance.

The second most powerful organization in this country is communication, or our media. Until very recently, the media was in complete control of the corporations as well. They owned and developed every significant outlet to the people, controlling what we heard and saw of our own country and the world beyond our boarders. Because of this extreme power, the media became the right hand of the corporate giants. In a capitalist system, the most profitable business that exists is entertainment, which is lucky for them because they use our entertainment to control us. If anyone in a sub organization threatens to destabilize the power of a corporate entity, there is no force of persecution stronger than the media. You need no moral religious authority, no law or government, no science or understanding, you need only to discredit you enemy, and the media can do it every single day to absolutely anyone.

No one is safe, no power in any other of the five organizations is immune to the power of media, the rich can leash it because they own it, so they can steer its eye away from them. However, the most clean, pure hearted, well meaning person can be slandered and destroyed. The media could convince America within a months time that the pope was a Nazi war criminal, drug addict crime lord, who fuels terrorists and eats children if they so desired. It sounds extreme and most of you will say that its ridicules, but watch the news for a month, listen to what they say about a particular story, and ask yourself if your opinion on the subject is actually your own, or just what they tell you to think. Then ask yourself what you would know about it had they not told you at all, or what you would have thought about it if they had told it to you from the opposite perspective.

The religious powers pull in at third place in this country, though they pull a close second in many other countries. Elsewhere they are the right hand of the corporations, smiting those who stand in the way of the powerful. In those places they use the media only to control what they people hear and think about the world around them, and they keep a much tighter reign upon the information, so it is not really easy to discredit someone using media. Much easier to call them a heretic or immoral infidels and have them burned alive or some such thing. However, in the end not really any different than discrediting someone in this country, except that they are usually not killed. Just imprisoned, or driven away from everything and everyone they loved… I think I’d rather be burned.

In this country, the religious movements have significantly less active power, but their influence is still very great if a little bit subtle. It is very rare that an elected official can rise to any power in the government without being at least loosely affiliated with a religious organization, this is but one of many smaller ways that religion in this country uses its power. However, the real power of religion comes with its reinforcement of the previously mentioned cycles of control. They have the market cornered on what is right and wrong, and can easily use those infinitely complex texts that they possess and interpret them in any way they choose. This is way religious rules are so very complicated and never strait forward, they need these miles of red tape so that their experts can show anyone that to do other than they desire you do is immoral. In the next segment I will get more specific on this topic.

Pulling up fourth place in the five powers is knowledge, or the system of education and the scientific community. Upon first glance, one might think them to be in last place, and they certainly are reigned in tightly by the corporations as all the other four powers are, however their influence in any society has always been pretty subtle. The easiest way to see their influence is just to look for yourself and find out how hard it is to learn about anything that is truly important or complicated. Weather it be the operation of any of the five powers, or simply the knowledge of sciences, machines, computers electronics… any such things. Even among the 98% of the powerless, what power they do have is divided up among those who can prove that they possess this knowledge. The only way they can prove it, is to work themselves to the bone to pay for it, to study it and to master it. The education system is ruthless and does not tolerate weaknesses or mistakes, even in children and young adults. In addition, it provides far fewer opportunities to those who were simply not born of the 2% percenters, and if you were born in a minority dominated area, you have practically no opportunity at all. I may also get more specific with this in the next post.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 4 - Cycles of sacrifice

2005-12-09T04:05:00.000-08:00

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I like this quote, though I have no idea where it is from originally. It’s a funny little irony, change is inevitable, nothing is permanent and yet when you really begin to see the big picture, one of the first things you notice is repetion. I spoke earlier about a lack of freedom, there are many things to which you will always be bound. Some of those things are as fundamental and inescapable as death, and life and your own body. Others are more complex, and many are very unpleasent.

My least favorite things to be a prisoner to, are cycles of behavior. This is something that people hear about all the time in modern culture, though it is usually only mentioned when someone is talking about abuse, or violence. They don’t really want you to be aware that you’re a prisoner of a hundred other kinds of cyceles. I have and will continue to speak of they frequently, I’m being vague for now, but if I get into it properly later, you’ll realize that I do have a more specific target when I say ‘they’. For now though, ‘they’ will only be described as the slave masters.

While cycles of abuse and violence and many other negative forms of human behavior are indeed attrocious, the cycle of survatude is far worse in my mind. It does not only do damage to single individuals, but is responsible for the enslavement of whole races. The cycle of survatude is learned behavior, you were taught it, and you will teach it to your children. You will not even be aware of it, but its beliefs are being reinforced in your life from many directions.

The strongest tenent in the cycles of survatude is sacrifice, and before you let anger cloud your mind, I’m not saying sacrifice is a bad thing. It has its places. My least favorite of all religions, the christain faith, says that there is no love greater than if a man lay down his life for another. I agree with that sentament, sacrifice on behalf of your fellow human beings is indeed noble. However, there are more kinds of sacrifice than those which take your life, you have much to loose, and most of it you give away without ever knowing you had it. Worse, your giving it away for an illusion, with no clear structure or purpose.

When we were animals living on the plains, in the caves and upon the rivers, we were truly free, however there were no rules. The only law was survival of the fitest, and there were no creature comforts. While I firmly believe that this way of life was not the hell that organized sociaty tries to teach us it was, I will not try to tell you I think we should go back to that, which is a rediuclas notion. When I abdicate change, I do not suggest that we need to sacrifice anything we have learned or gained, only that we find new ways of thought. But I’m getting off track here.

When we were animals we have fear of harm from the outside world, and from one another, we had to fear the fittest. However, we have always been social animals and though we have changed much in apperance and life style, there really hasn’t been any sugnificant changes to our cultural principles. We still fear the fittest and serve them, but now they are not the big and strong, they are the rich and powerful. And we sacrifice much to them, we work and toil for them for a full 3rd of every day of our lives, more for many people.

We do mindless repetitive unnatural tasks that break the will and spirit to fuel the industrial and comercial machine so that it can grow and cover the whole of the world. And why do we sacrifice this time? For our safety and the saftey and future of our children. The ugly truth is though, that its not really saftely we get, but the illusion of safety. The complexities of our world have only made it easier to get hurt or die on any given day. We have to fear the violence of our own kind on a much grander scale than we ever did before. And while the sick and weak no longer die, they instead live to pass on their genetics often prone to those sicknesses and weaknesses. Now we have sicknesses and plauge of unpresendented strengths and our science fights every day to keep up with them while we only grow geneticly weaker. There is so much more to fear now, but still we sacrifice and we think how bad it must be without all this organization and cultural sacrifice. We trudge on through this for the future of our children.

I am glad that I do not have children myself, for I do not think I could live with myself if I had to teach them to that the only happyness and freedom they would know in quantity will be in their infancy and their childhood. That every passing day brings them closer to the end of that small chapter and the beginning of a lifetime of hard work and preparation for their own childrens lives. And to have to explain to them that we have to work this hard just to stay alive, and we really don’t have a good reason for doing it. After all, what is the end all purpose to our sociaty.

If we have banded together simply out of the nessesity for survival, I think we can all agree there are simpler ways to be safe. If we have all banded together to be comfortable, I think we can all agree that there are better ways to be more comfortable. Yet we fight and sacrifice for that slim chance that we might be rich and powerful, to be that 2% of Americans that control 90% of the wealth and we could live easy while others struggled. That is really the only purpose to our struggle, to elevate the few, and for what? There is no end goal, no utopian dream, no ideal sociaty that we are working towards.

We toil day in and day out knowing that the odds of us or our children or our children’s children for a hundred generations chances of actually being powerful, rich, or maybe just happy and free… are almost non existant. When you really look at it, were it a satire or an outside observation, you would wonder just what force could exist that would make people so willing to throw away so much to gain so little. I’ll get into how they make you do it later, but for now I want you to remember one thing.

When you sacrifice your happyness and the hours and hours of your day away from your loved ones to provide for them and their future, you are only ensuring that they will have the same vallues and have to spend the same amount of grewling time away from their families and loved ones, to live up to your example. To be ‘good’ citazens and mothers and fathers. To be good Americans. What is the American dream anyway?

The Book of Heresy - Pt 3 - Perception is everything

2005-12-08T02:32:00.000-08:00

All you have known, all you ever will know is that which you percieve. Perceptions is a many varied thing, from physical sensations to memories and emotions and all other feelings, anything which transpires as information coming into your being is your perception. Your perception is your whole universe, and while you may decide to believe in the likelyhood of those things you are taught and those things you are told, it is never perfect fact to your person until it has fallen into your perception.

If only that were the end of it, the worst part of knowing that your whole universe is your perception, is also knowing that your perception is failible. Often what we perceive gives us false impressions, either because our limitations of understanding, or simply because the situation is misleading. Regardless, it is a fact, and because your perception is failable you will, in yoru whole life, never be completely free of doubt. If he exists, only god is free of doubt, and only because his perception is without limits… however, my own personal beliefs are somewhat different on that subject, but that is for another chapter.

The point of this diatribe is that the whole universe, as far as you can ever know of it, is only that which you percieve. That tiny spec that is you and all you know contains your whole universe, and because of that it is all you need ever consern yourself with. That sounds increadibly selfish when I first say it, but if you take the time to analyze it and think it through it is only natural. Your universe contains cause and effect, rules that can not be broken, and those that can. Weather or not something is real only depends on weather it is real to you, what you believe is only important to you.

Because of this, all individual perception beings are enherently selfish, every action you or anyone else ever takes is pruely for the change or lack of change that it brings to their being. Another thing that sounds selfish, because many of you are surely saying, “I do lots of things that don’t benefit me.” That true I’m sure, and probably more true than you are even aware. However, whether it is your benefit or desire does not change the fact that your actions are governed by your stimuli. You may do good deeds that do not benefit you and may cause you to sacrifice things you would rather be doing or have, however, you still do those things because of the feelings that you get for doing them, or the feelings you will get if you don’t do them.

There is a simple equation that all individual beings utilize, consiously or sub-consously. Every decision is weighed, gain vs risk. It is made infinitely more complex by all the many factors which weigh into both sides of that equation, but each and every factor in every decision can be put into one of those two catagories.

You may choose an action because of your moral compas, which is possible risk. If I do this, I will have let myself down, or I will have violated my personal code, or god or a something else I care about will be disapointed in me, or I’ll go to hell. If I do this people will like me, they will thank me, they will be happy and that will make me happy to see them that way.

Or for gain, I do this not because I want to but because of the compensation for it. Or, I do this inspite of how it will make feel because I want it more than I fear the outcome.

I could go on with this all day and still not scratch the surface, but I think you can see how all the pieces of your decision making proccess will fall into risk vs gain, and how all being consiouly or otherwise decide those actions based only how it will effect their own universe.

In the end, the whole point is that you are your universe, and as far as you or anyone else is ever going to be able to prove, it’s the only one you are going to get. Make sure the universe you live in is best suited for the person you are. When you know yourself you will understand what it takes to make a universe for yourself that is in balance with your gain vs risk. So many people who are not aware of who they are and what they want live askew of their ideal risk vs gain, and therefore lead very unfulfilling lives.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 2 - Who are you?

2005-12-06T02:30:00.000-08:00

There are very few actual truths in a person’s life, if you were to truly spend your life looking for them, you could probably still count them on your hands by the end. There are however, many things that we can be fairly certain of and that we believe in whole heartedly. There are things that we believe are true, and barring any evidence to the contrary these are our best guesses. There are things that we hope are true, we choose these things because there are so many holes in our knowledge that we cannot even begin to understand, so we speculate. Speculation almost always begins with those things that we hope are true.

My point is that actual truths are few and far between, and oddly enough they are very personal. My first truth is that I exist, the old axiom I think therefore I am has greater meaning that most will consider. So much in your life will fluctuate, beliefs will change, and there are so few certainties. The fact that you perceive at all is one that will not change until the moment you die, and who knows maybe even then it will continue to be true, but that is just a possibility, not a known truth.

It seems the key to this first truth is perception, it is you and your existence. There is much about you that is fluid, you body is not you but it is close to you. You can loose parts of it, you can change it drastically and it is still yours, still a part of you, but not really you. Your memories are not you either, but perhaps closer even than your body. You add to them, they change, you loose them with time, but are still you. You can even loose them all, but still be you. Your personality, many people who think about this, fall to this as the last line of defense against the unknown. However, you are not your personality either. You personality is like an equation, it is your code of behavior which draws upon all the things within your perception. It calls upon your senses, you memories, your body and your heart. Maybe it even calls upon your spirits and some otherworldly things that many religions will address, but these again are speculations without proof.

You heart is perhaps even closer to you, it is influenced by far fewer things. The heart knows no deception, it does not know how to lie, to be polite or vengeful. Your heart is your source of emotions, which are a byproduct of your desires. Basically your heart is your collection of motivations, things so complex you can’t understand, and so simple that you will overlook them, so your heart simply lets you feel them. It tells you what you feel like doing, but not why. I tend to think of the heart as your fuzzy logic back up computer. It knows the limitations of your conscious mind, it knows what you can learn and what you cant, and it makes decisions for you by trying to influence you in what it thinks is best, but it has its limitations and a very short memory.

Many philosophers believe the heart is the central aspect of a being, modern religions add to it the spirit or the soul, but they primarily describe these things in the same way the heart is described and always has been, just with more speculations and hopes. I however, believe that while the heart is very close to your core, that the heart is not you.

It seems to me that there is something else still, more than personality, heart, mind, memory, body and your current train of thought. There is a part of you that makes decisions, or surrenders to them, that fights or yields, that can make choices even when all elements of self are balanced. The part of you that can be random, can be more than the some of its parts, more than its history and contents.

Suppose you had the perfect computer, which could compute anything. Suppose then, that at the moment of conception of this universe, that computer was fed the exact position of every element that existed and all the forces that were in play upon them. If this perfect computer were to then extrapolate and predict the movement and interaction of all things as the universe developed it could predict every moment of the universes movements. However, could it predict the random movements of organic creatures and other such things. And even if it could, and it predicted the development and rise of your very brain and body… could it predict your every thought and action?

I don’t think it could, I think there is a part of us that is just slightly above all of the stimuli that we are subject to which in the tiniest of ways can generate truly chaotic patterns of thought which gives us free will. That is what I think we are, that one tiny spec that rises above what we are subjected to. And I think that everyone of those specs is unique and individual and completely outside the control of any force in all creation. If God exists I believe that even he cannot control that spec. That is truly yours, truly you and only you.

It is unfortunate that almost no one ever really learns anything about that spec, about who they really are. This is the path to knowing ones self, and to embrace the truth of self and the confidence that comes with it.

The Book of Heresy - Pt 1 - the equation

2005-12-05T01:14:00.000-08:00

Let us examine for a moment, the possibility that there is no order to the universe, and let us compare it to a mathematical equation. Mathematically there exists equations with non repeating and non terminating solutions. I would hardly call this a solution, but I would call this a representation for infinity. In my mind, if something is infinite, that is to say that it has no limitation, it may have characteristics, but within itself it is unlimited. If something ends than it is not unlimited, if something repeats than it is also unlimited. I can think of no better representation for infinity than a non repeating non terminating equation.

There exists computers which can compute these equations with ridicules numbers of computations per second, I don’t have the exact figures. Let us just say that I can be reasonably sure that these computers can figure those equations and push the decimals to billions of places a day. They can run for years, decades, perhaps even centuries without ever repeating or solving the equation. However, if you examine this stream of numbers, examine this perfect representation of infinity, of random chaos, you will find temporary periods of repletion and complex patterns. These patterns and repetitions arise and carry on for in determinant lengths of time, then fall apart and return to chaos.

I believe that it is possible that our universe is much like this. A massive random, chaotic universe of infinite possibilities. I believe that it is infinite, so literally anything can happen, anything can exist. However, from time to time, there are repeating cycles and patterns that give the illusion of order, of structure, of design. Yet balance and purpose and all of these concepts are false. The equation is never equal, the symbol and concept of equality is a lie. Nothing in the universe is ever truly balanced, and absolutely nothing is permanent or eternal.

--Victor Wrath - The Heretic