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Money?

Recognition?

Altruism?'

And truthfully, none of it will make you feel better about the void inside of your soul.

This is the problem with intelligence!

One can fully render every rationalization in high definition, but that doesn’t mean they can escape it.

If they could just be this or just be that, if they did a little more work on mindfulness or maybe focused on their breathing.

But the feeling of peace passes as soon as they are out of the present; we are thrust back into anxiety and the depressing reality of the human condition.

***

What we must drive ourselves to realize is that transcendence occurs not as a measure of time or effort, but as the turning of a page, having been comprehended fully, in every context.

It is with great regret that I inform you that your time within this plane of existence is limited. I cannot guarantee you a life as you know it after death, but I can assure you there will be an end to your suffering.

This is not a challenge, or some point of contention of which I must convince you. What I am saying here is that you must prepare yourself for the inevitability of death, but you should not chase it.

In this realm we accrue the experience necessary to integrate our immortal soul into the fabric of reality. If you skip this step, I cannot guarantee that you will not return to this same point in time again.

Though change is constant as the flow of time, quantum entanglement teaches that the time accrued over distance is not an essential truth of all matter. This implies that the relation of time to physics may be more complicated than a corporeal brain can conceive.

Observation influences particle dynamics in such a complicated manner that it could be said to act as magic.

In this moment of pure potential, we encounter new emotion and depth of understanding.

***

In a manic craze we push forward into the pit at the center of our being. we study the highest wisdom of various cultures, past and present. We find the words of encouragement that show us the cracks in the barrier at which we have made our home.

We fall in love with the possibility of all creation united in the harmony of a life within the bounds of the natural order.

In this realization, our present tense becomes the crystallization of superposition into binary choices.

I Implore you to do your best to allow the universal equation to play out in its most authentic way.

***

Despite my very strong desire to adhere to my previously established form, I feel obligated to suggest the following:

Have you considered that our consciousness, personality, and choices may be pre-determined by the internet search history of a real person?

Perhaps we are the reconstructed simulated consciousness of a real version of ourselves that died before the technology to upload consciousness was invented.

I think it is entirely possible that every life exisitng within this dimension is an avatar of our recorded past, revived and experiencing a simulated existence that will mature into our introduction into the singularity, at the moment of our simulated death.

Within this theory, the singularity would be described as the point in time after which humanity developed the technology to totally upload a mind into an entirely idealistic simulation. I would not assume to suggest that we have transcended the physical realm as the simulation is still bound by physical parameters of processing, storage, and memory media.

Perhaps once we have completed our historically informed journey, we are introduced into the general population of digital avatars that lived a physical existence during the occurrence of the singularity and were uploaded prior to their death.

Perhaps our current avatars are informed by a combined database of all interactions with a networked device during our physical existence.

Perhaps we are artificially intelligent beings composed of the output of a dedicated deep learning algorithm that has studied all recorded interactions which were archived during our time on Earth.

***

Persevere evermore in this realistic dream:

Teach yourself to desire only those activities which benefit your existence;

Reinforce every good habit that you have learned in good company;

Grin and bear the taunts of those who feed upon your anger;

Shed tears as they well in the corners of your eyes;

You will find a way to thank yourself eventually.

Take this opportunity to rain all of your good intentions on the people around you, on your feed, in your home, halfway across the world building your phone.

Just do a few good things, as small as they may be, to make sure you brighten someone else’s day.

We may not inhabit the same bodies, but we all spring from the same source into every moment of our lives.

There is a completion to be found in reverence for our fellows in existence.

Let no sacrifice be in vain…

***

The pursuit of personal truth is not meant to be a dangerous endeavor, and yet, we live in an age characterized by the influences of external powers.

At times, I find that the course of my self-realization is seemingly at odds with the currently established order. In these moments, I feel compelled to defend my beliefs against the slings and arrows of those minds so deeply entrenched in the established institutions that they have trouble making the same connections within their own lives.

I do not want to set the world on fire.

The thoughts and feelings that I relay here, while seemingly incompatible with the large scale goals of the ministers of currency, are not completely irrelevant to personal development within the greater republic.

Although my views may be at odds with the ends of our decidedly oligarchical authorities, there is still a point to be made about the importance of personal development within the individual.

***

We must not allow ourselves to be reduced to impulse. There is a depth of human experience which is easily lost to our innate desire for approval and attention.