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Would you believe I was actually so bored I read through this while I drank my coffee?? You've got some wild stuff in there. Irreality has other names "fake, counterfeit, unreal, lie." Lemmings can believe the "irreality" that they are heading to a safe place when they jump off a cliff and swim out to sea, but that will not change the reality that their bloated carcasses will be fish food shortly.
The Sword of Moonlight, Guyra, Seath etc are silly half-baked clichés thrown together by some programmers who didn't really care. This fact is evidenced by the gaping plot holes and glaring inconsistencies throughout the KF trilogy. Any effort to make it meaningful, is just you projecting what you wish the world was onto a cheap set of meaningless drivel.
You've got some way off untruths... pardon me, irrealities about Christianity in there too. Christianity is not about Good vs Evil- that is ignorance spread by modern video game, atheist fantasy fiction and anime slop.
It is about truth vs untruth. Why good is good is because it's TRUE. Evil is bad because its logic is based in untruths.
The Latin "light" root in Lucifer is to remind how alluring a false light (evil) can be. False light that draws people away from truth - just like your arguments' logic, bent and distorted half truths that slowly lead to believing a monstrously distorted lie.
Satan is not a Hebrew term, but a generic arab term for the "prosecutor" who accused defendants in a legal trial. All the rubbish and hype that has been piled on the term through the years is not part of the original message of Christ. You see, when you call yourself a "Christian" you don't get plugged into a communal brain that makes you like every other Christian. Christians have the same flaws and dissension that all humans have (duh) so you can hardly fault Christianity for the behavior of people who profess to be Christians. The whole point of Christianity is that humans are generally ignorant hypocrites so why say Christianity is flawed when Christians act ignorant and hypocritical?
You have a great deal of prognostication in your post which, just like Jung's blather, is the wishful thinking of a mind so lost in itself that it thinks truth begins and ends with its comprehension. Other than a few fringe groups, who have been given an air of legitimacy by the internet's ability to spread 'fertilizer' on a mass scale, I see no general consensus or compelling evidence that the world is moving in the directions you propose. You've immersed yourself in the fantasy propaganda of fringe groups so much that you've lost site of reality. But just like with a Lemming, believing a lie does not make it true. It just justifies ignoring the truth until it's too late.
You should give up the irreality of the computer, go find a wife and spend your life building a good life for your family.
Anyway, I bet this has been a long post. And I bet you are wondering what the hell conjured this up out of me. It's actually this...For a long time people have been thinking. Video games are becoming more than just games. We need a new word to describe this nascent phenomenon that will soon begin consuming all of the arts and if we are not careful, reality as we know it.I've always thought we should just ditch the goggles concept of 90s "virtual reality" and call it all VR. Because that's what it is. Even Tetris is a reality, goggles or no goggles, or piped directly into your brainpan. Its a reality. But it occurred to me this afternoon that we have a better word, if only for its brevity, in "irreality"...And an abbreviation does not a word make. So I vote, as the art of video games matures, and as we begin to see all forms of storytelling media being developed with the same tools used to develop video games, because make no bones about it, it will just be a thousand times more economical to do so, and there will be a thousands times more people who will therefore be able to afford to do so...We slowly begin to refer to this stuff as "irreality". The word itself is already strictly limited to the subject of fantasy, fantasy fiction almost exclusively. So there is no ambiguity in terms of terms like hallucination or surreality to be had
Mon 17 Jul 2006 : Arrows for false godsDisagreement is a good spur for conversation, but I don't know where to begin with your claim. People gain pleasure and power in spreading certain beliefs and certain beliefs are easy to spread. They don't look for the truth because they want to preserve this pleasure. Truth is rarely important in human affairs and if you want to shift your definition the only truth is power over reality. But it was the will to truth pouring its acid over the false beauty of gods and kings that guided us out of the miasma of the dark ages. You are not stupid. You are perfectly capable of piercing your claim, but you choose not to, since, like most people, you'd prefer to please and deceive.By 'you' I mean the entire ensemble, not merely that part which processes words. To be human is to deceive. All human beings are great self deceivers, but this is not the innocent charm of the naively hopeful. They deceive themselves so that they may deceive others and having tasted this pleasure return to lap at its fountain. See Gregory Bateman. Your belief in various kinds of unsubstantiated newage hokey that you could easily shoot down is a reflection of this underlaying tendency. How many times have you read "But if we believe X then we'll have to...", or "If we believe X it will lead to...". This has no reflection on the veracity of X and so we see that outcomes are more important to most people than truth, which should not be as a surprise, because natural selection selects on physically realised existence, not on platonic ideals.But then as we fall back into the miasma, the shadow world of ghosts and distortions a miracle rises; everywhere before self interest is known, people yearn to know where its compass points and then people hunger for the truth with passion and beauty and insight. He loves me. He loves me not. Here then the truth can set them free. Free from the manipulations and constraints of the mendacious. Free to choose their path, to remove the ring from their noses, to look up into the infinite voids and choose wonder over guilt. And before this feeling to cast blessings on the profits and prophets of truth, the liberators and martyrs of truth, those Voltairs, Galileo's, and Principia's of truth, those brutal driven obsessed miners of reality, those serial killers of delusion smashing the whole rotten edifice till all ruins and the seeds of the new.
From Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art by Alfred H. Barr Jr., published for The Museum of Modern Art by Arno Press, New York, 1980.The following [excerpted] statement was made in Spanish to Marius de Zayas. Picasso approved de Zayas' manuscript before it was translated into English and published in The Arts (New York, May 1923) under the title "Picasso Speaks."I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find, is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the pocketbook that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.Among the several sins that I have been accused of committing, none is more false than the one that I have, as the principal objective in my work, the spirit of research. When I paint, my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish: love must be proved by facts and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and re-searched, for the way to put over lies, he would never accomplish anything.The idea of research has often made painting go astray, and made the artist lose himself in mental lucubrations. Perhaps this has been the principal fault of modern art. The spirit of research has poisoned those who have not fully understood all the positive and conclusive elements in modern art and has made them attempt to paint the invisible, and therefore, the unpaintable.They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting. I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
The anthroposophical view is that good is found in the balance between two polar, generally evil influences on world and human evolution. Two spiritual adversaries endeavor to tempt and corrupt humanity: these are often described through their mythological embodiments, Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman, which have both positive and negative aspects. Lucifer is the light spirit, which "plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity", but also motivates creativity and spirituality; Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "...deny [their] link with divinity and to live entirely on the material plane", but also stimulates intellectualty and technology. Both figures exert a negative effect on humanity when their influence becomes misplaced or one-sided, yet their influences are necessary for human freedom to unfold.[1][4]Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.[4]
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