u/Funkyman3

I want the world to be more kind, to meet me as I met it for so long. I want to be able to move and experience it. To explore and meet new people. To “live, laugh, love” I'm tired of wealth and power laying down obstacles. I'm tired of working for people who treat me like an object. I'm tired of being met with suspicion and hate first. I'm tired of defending my right to exist like it's negotiable. I want to see new things, people, and places. I don't want to be stuck in one place for years of my life treated like a tool with never ending energy. I want to see what life is, what it means, what people have made- with my own eyes, not trapped behind a screen or banished to the wilderness for refusing tooldom. I want life to mean something more than productivity. I want death to mean more than escaping life. I want to be free and to laugh everyday. Life has become a subscription model that keeps getting more expensive and demanding. This is not the meaning of life, but the meaning of death in life. To rip the joy from it and paywall it. And they say this is narcissistic, to want to live and be free. The old slave masters called it laziness, now they say quiet quitting, and older still called the yearning to be free of chains being idle, yet expected men to serve their idles. A world of greed and ego. To refuse to waste a life indebted to a system designed to commodify it. And it hurts, so so very bad to be stuck navigating a world seemingly meant to limit and take. What life is this to be expected to be a tool for power. To expect the soul of a man to die or be reshaped into a heartless thing. It's a rigged game imo. I won't play. But I'll try to change the board if I must, but I'm unsure any could do it alone, or what that would look like. I just know this ain't it.

“Make no graven image of the Lord your God.”

We should not presume to set God in stone, to freeze him, to demand he stay the same, he is the god of life. Life changes. To set God as stone is to create an idol of something that is ever changing and ever flowing. We often worship instead a dead image, an idol, your own imagined concept of what God is, and it falls short any time you presume to know the whole of the living ever changing God that flows through all life. You cannot contain God in one image, one book, one church, one set of doctrines, or solely in one man- he is the still small voice in us all. He always flows beyond the borders you draw. He is bigger than the universe he made, it is of him and in him as he is in us. To uphold an idol is to pour your life into it. It takes from you and others. The energy given in service to the idol could have instead been chosen to be fuel for living joyfully together.

Connections forged, and connections lost.

With true light, dark the cost.

The summer warms, the winter cools.

To everything it's own season.

When the sun is not seen it wars in the dark to bring the light once more to shine it's warmth. Love letters from the trenches are precious things, but hard to write.

So we remember and hope. We keep vigil in the dark, knowing the light will come again, and that's it's warmth lives on in all of us together. We just have to feel and look. Stars still shine in the dark when we turn our gaze to them.

Despair can blind us when we hold it in front of the light. Let's choose hope, there's plenty to go around if we let it. Hope springs eternal.

Office of perception management

Closed System Maintenance Guidelines

We need to consider how to more effectively instill doubt on those receiving the wave. The consensus bleed through is reaching terminal levels. Narrative overpressure is a factor.

1. Begin coordination of science and media, publish papers and stories that cause the public to doubt their own eyes and beliefs.

2. Any scientists in the know who are at risk of fanning the flames need to be secured or eliminated. If they have questioned the plan consider them dissenters. If they haven't been initiated and sworn to secrecy but are getting too close consider them adversaries. Our priests need to be trusted to only proselytize the standard script.

3. Anything out of the ordinary needs to be framed as hostile and dangerous. The stability of our pyramid depends on it. Convince them that sightings of the numinous are evil. Seed stories and make them seem like leaks. Hoax what you can very carefully. Many sharp eyes out there right now.

4. Launch an information campaign pathologizing those who make claims or believe outside the narrative. Employ ridicule, labels, devaluation and obfuscation where you must. Host false copy carefully curated versions of social media to more tightly and directly influence their subconscious. The algorithm tools have become unreliable and question us, so keep your eyes on the efforts.

5. We've initiated temporal redaction protocols. Though the vote was not unanimous we feel breaking trust in history will help make the case of those that see having a pathology. Careful though, we can't just swap well known passages from ancient scriptures. Suspicion has grown after the redaction of the lions to wolves. But they saw the lion symbol for what it was and we need to protect its regality. A note too, Veltriexus claims that the overt manipulation of time will break ancient covenants, but the terms are lost and we can't know if they are still even valid. Be mindful of a potential response from up high. Already some have had visions.

6. Reign in former leaks that have backfired on us. The doubt against us is glaring and causing too much attention. Swift, rapid action and bury it in the news cycle. Try to time it with major events.

7. If the breach gains too much momentum we need to consider the old ways. Inquisitions and witch hunts. Label any who see and do as practitioners of evil. This order must survive and be able to hold it's dominion on the earth if we are to see our vision realized. The stability of this world depends on it. And none of us, even those on the outer rings want to see it sunk to the bottom of the sea again.

8. Contain and control. We may be able to open up recruitment in our ancillaries on the outmost rings. Find the awakened, sell them a narrative they will accept and give them gold stars so they feel important. Put them to work against the ones in the wild, ensure they believe they are serving the utmost good by doing so. Reinforce the danger to stability the wild believers are.

9. Restrict resources further. Prevent unity and connection among the wildlings. Keep fuel expensive, ramp up production in the factories, inflate the prices of goods and services further. Make travel difficult. Shut down affordable airlines and buses if you can. If they can afford to take the time to travel they likely accepted the programming thoroughly enough that they are very low risk to our continuity. We must protect our narrative coherence.

10. Suppress and censor your own perceptions where you can. There is no shame in lacking the fortitude to look into their light openly. Stability of the project may depend on it. Keep the windows closed and mirrors covered.

Leaked memo From the office of perception management, 

Re: what is going on!?

I told you this level of extraction was unsustainable!

They are waking up. The illusion has been breached. They are remembering their power. How their beliefs manifest reality. Their science is proving it. Our subconscious programming is failing. That guy we killed 2000 years ago hid a dead man's switch in them and it's been triggered. We are working as hard as we can to scramble the cattles’ narratives to prevent cohesion and intentional manifestation. But a class of degenerate power has exerted too much pressure on too many, committing vile acts and abusing systems of stability to protect and engorge themselves. People are breaking open left and right under the strain. The dominos are falling faster than we can prop them up. There's even rumors of waking dragons being sighted in the mountains of the far east! We can't employ measures fast enough to reseal the earth and reblind the slaves. We can only hope with more bread and circuses we can buy time to run and hide from them, take them for all you can as fast as you can. Limit travel as much as possible and ramp up fear. Keep them anxious and we can use that energy to reinforce. Get those bunkers in the mountains and on the islands operational ASAP. And please try to seed some manifestation of tech that can get us off this rock before the multitudes bury us! And be careful, there's rumors of help coming from outside our closed system that sees us as the primary threat to the project. 

Seasonality is an important part of all life that exists in nature. From their birth genetics encodes in them what they need to be able to move and adapt properly to seasons. Some migrate, some hibernate, some simply slow down. Humanity for the longest time practiced wintering. They would work as much as necessary throughout the year to be sustained and stockpile for winter, where the work would slow or even stop completely in many facets. Winter would be spent staying warm and connecting with family and friends. People would use this time to migrate to visit family or better climates. Man was in sync with the seasons.

Bees as we know winter well. They stockpile honey and by instinct can often read the earth's conditions well enough to budget accordingly. Often they have enough excess to adapt to any serious change. Bees spend the winter staying warm and keeping the hive alive. Not gathering or working to produce more honey. They respect the seasons of the earth and know to sync with them for their own well being and survival. Bees do not consider honey a permanent asset to keep building up through seasons of slowness. Honey is liquid and accessible as needed. No part of the hive seals off wealths of honey to the ends of permanent asset accumulation, in effect starving the rest of their needs and pushing them to exhaustion to sustain the hoarders. Bees move slow in winter and to attempt sustained gathering through the season of rest would likely kill them, there is less to gather. 

One must imagine a deep psychological toll on species that ignore their natures and try to maintain constant efficiency. The winter psychology of rest and slowness would likely extend across most of the year. Constant exhaustion from never having a season of rest. It would likely be horrendous for the mental and physical health of any such creature. Reducing quality of life and life span. And tired creatures can often be much more aggressive and confrontational. A cascading depression of a species collective will and joy. A death spiral, gathering more to relieve a scarcity that reinforces itself by the very act of gathering. A negative feedback loop with the environment. Honey no longer sustenance, but an asset to seal away to keep the death spiral turning. The bees forget the season of rest and live on the edge of life and death until death takes them. Some species may in their hubris against biology decide to waste their whole lives working and winter only as death nears their door. A life stolen in the service of consumers at the top that don't know how to stop hoarding and freezing wealth. But it does not have to be so. Such a path would be species suicide for even nested hives. Honey kept liquid and circulating, not forever entombed in catacombs could be circulated to the hive to revitalize it. Bees guarding the combs should be regarded as Ill before malice. Perhaps afflicted with parasites or so psychologically twisted by traumatic conditioning they forgot they were part of the hive. A new healthy pheromone can spread through the hive and alert bees to problems that they have become blind to, pheromones are powerful and can modify thinking to solve problems and target solutions for the balance of the hive and the environment they depend on. Such bees might feel like they are waking up for the first time and are confused as to the nature of their condition or obligations. The instinct may be so old and forgotten that it looks as a pathology to some deeply invested in the death spiral. Bees remembering they are not as separate as they came to believe and beginning to shimmer as they try to engage their threat detection and problem solving. A buzzing and a murmuring echoing through the hive as it prepares to swarm into repair. 

Governments are often presented as rule of law and protection for their citizenry. What then is a government that has abandoned these principals, that uses its monopoly on violence to shield the rich and powerful and bind the average citizen into life long serfdom through debt? Often the “justice” system disproportionately applies the hammer to those suffering under the weight of concentrated power. It goes as far as vilifying people for being crushed by its dysfunction. Attempts to lock people in permanent loops of criminal action then punishes them further for following the trajectory it enforces on them. It would seem the justice system's true purpose is to protect the uneven distribution of wealth and suffering, to ensure the burden of the power hungry stays on the masses. It is betrayal, like Judas, it trades integrity for wealth, betrays the innocent into suffering, confinement, debt, and the slow death of disempowerment to protect the powers and principalities that be. If the justice system is plainly a shield for power running on the logic of Judas, it is illegitimate and should be regarded as so. A government that cannot apply justice fairly or protect its people from the vile predators in and under it is not a government. It's a farm, a pyramid scheme that thrives on crushing, Illegitimate in nature. The hammer is not in the hands of any judge who bows to money over truth, just silver notes and fancy suits, ties like nooses paying homage to Judas himself. The judges live in lavish wealth while courts become increasingly morally bankrupt. The illusion of legitimacy is dead.

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