Thanks! u/Graphenium:
The worldview expressed in the Law of One/“Ra Material” and the Hidden Hand interview
https://www.wanttoknow.info/secret_societies/hidden_hand_081018
The way I see things, these two sources explain existence, the state of our world, and the meaning of life far more accurately than any other. One is a “channeled” work, and the other is a long series of Questions and Answers between a conspiracy forum (RiP ATS) and a self-proclaimed world-controller. I see them as complimentary, showing a deeper reality by showing two sides of the same coin. One side being that of Service-to-Others, and the other being Service-to-Self
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/1ASG9Vy4Tl/round-table-suggestion-thread/c
Thread will stay open for 3-4 weeks thanks to a very helpful suggestion.
Reality not being static is predicated on choice. If there are no choices being made, you are just an automaton following your (static) programming. Do you think chatGPT measures a statements “truth” before it presents an answer to a query you pose it? Of course not. For “truth” to exist, so must “untruth”. Growth is only possible in the face of death. If old things never died, new things would never grow.
What are your thoughts vis a vis the southpark clip? Do you disagree with the notion it expresses?
The infinite is not static, it is dynamic by definition. The infinite when discussed is usually treated like a finished object because we have finite minds. It is not.
Yes, but untruth simply doesn't exist... the answer or goal is ChatGPT hallucinating of sorts. The untruth only exists because the truth exists. It is a parasite to the truth. but the possibility of untruth can make alignment more meaningful.
I suppose the type of death matters... dying to self or ceasing to exist? Change, transformation can be a death of sorts and that encourages growth. Not annihilation say....
I'm sorry, I do not see the south park clip.
Edit: nevermind, I see the clip
Perhaps we might have different emergent interpretations: I see it as the stakes exist because Butters could avoid the pain, misinterpret it... fall in with the emo (goth?) kids. Experiencing sadness is meaningful because it is a choice to align. He has exited the distorted view.
"to feel the joy, I must feel the sad" shows the dynamic interplay of aligning with reality. Growth, joy, and even sadness are meaningful because they arise from conscious engagement with reality. Alignment provokes emotions, and the emotions themselves are relational to truth, not independent forces.
Edit: to clarify further and maybe this is where I deviate from the surface meaning of Butters line - Sadness and joy are not opposites or dualities... they are relational feedback from reality. Participating fully in life provokes both, and that participation is what makes alignment, growth, and free will meaningful.
Almost like it’s some type of catalyst for growth! And a pre-requisite for growth at that! (Note: someone had to break Butters’ heart to catalyze that growth he experienced). Just as every story needs an antagonist and every achievement requires struggle, I can’t imagine the world where we get all the benefits of “growth” with none of the negatives (e.g. sadness, heartbreak, death, etc.)
Think of the Garden - was existence before the fall more or less static than it is today? Was there more, or less, capacity for growth?
Honestly I agree with most of your takes in isolation, but at the same time I see them re-affirming the content of HH/LoO, while you clearly understand them as doing the opposite, which is interesting
well thats the thing... The pre-requisite, the real catalyst for growth is truth. That someone told Butters the truth and that broke his heart. Misalignment naturally arises from our own perceptions, and the catalyst for transformation is our encounter with that truth, not some external agent or evil.
Me either. The truth can produce those struggles and negatives we feel. Truth can be perceived to be evil even... funnily enough.
The Garden certainly had the highest latent potential for growth. Adam and Eve had some expectations I'm sure, but I'm not sure that the fall was caused or catalyzed by a Satan... rather he just brought their concerns to the front. I think that is the nature of finite beings. The catalyst did not start until they encountered the truth and reality. Misalignment is a natural rise from finite perception. I suppose that is a whole discussion in of itself.
Right, the language is shared but our ontology is different. My lens shows me relational experience, monistic in its purpose. But the Hidden Hand and Law of One show a dualistic system. I think the HH/LoO must show a dualistic system so that they may justify themselves. BUT I think with the view I'm presenting, it does render them unnecessary.
Do these texts not present a picture in which the duality of physical existence (something I think is undeniable) ultimately reconcile in the monad (aka God)? That’s how I read them certainly.
Does this picture you paint not imply that up until that encounter with truth, Butters/we are immersed in a very real (in the sense that it can be experienced) untruth? If he never believed “she loves me”, then the truth (and furthermore, the perspective that truth brings) that “she doesn’t love me” wouldn’t be something he could experience, right?
Idk… I know where you’re coming from regarding dualism, but I don’t see that reconciliation happening at our level of existence. It seems to me that Duality is real, but a reality which ultimately springs from a Monad and is eventually reconciled in that Monad. Duality is almost an epiphenomena of existence. In order for something to “exist” in our physical reality (or to have anything approaching “meaning”), so too must exist the possibility of “ceasing to exist” in that physical reality.
Edit to add
See, I have a totally different read on the order of events there. Before satan introduces his “lie”, the Garden is in a state of static and unchanging “Truth”. They had “the truth” but without the option to choose. Untruth didn’t yet exist, according to the story. And thus there was no death, no suffering, and logically, no growth. So I see growth as an epiphenomenon of the introduction of the catalyst of “untruth” in the Garden
The problem with Eden is that we can't know how the Lord would have taught us these things 'that way' instead of in our present predicament, but He teaches either way, didn't have to betray Him to learn is my meaning.
I trust that the Fall was necessary to escape the stasis of forced innocence