Thank you for the glossary! The only negative aspect of having all these terms in one place is that it may deprive readers of digging through the excellent back-catalogue on your personal blog.
Only tangentially related but the gears have been turning in my head since reading your FTS-2 pieces - how does this "species" interact with Logos? Do they? I was once instructed by my spiritual Father in the Orthodox Church that a belief in NPCs is borderline heretical, as we're all made in the image (if not likeness) of God, and thus the belief that some people are incapable of becoming fully "men" in Christ is incompatible with the Faith at a fundamental level.
Maybe this is a point where the systematic theology of Aquinas in Catholicism and the Eastern Church of the first 1,000 years diverge... Maybe there is a means by which FTS-2 can be guided by the Holy Spirit but reject the material truth we find in Truth...
Your position that you now find it morally repugnant to allow FTS-2 to be depopulated is one that I share now as a Christian, but only because my conscience condemns me for thinking so and not much else.
Probably just Pride rearing its ugly head. As always, your writing is much appreciated.
I feel the same way. Substack is different though, and until I can carve out the space for the metaphysics project, it's where I am. Not to worry though. It's unlikely I'll keep it up.
That's a great question. I think anyone has to be able to convert so wouldn't make it too literal a distinction. It's why corruption in churches is so terrible. Anyone can believe. Basic Christian dogmas can be worked into the base code. So a rightly guided church becomes a positive screen.
I also suspect that someone can grow in love and faith. Religion of the heart, not head. An NPC won't come up with insights or questions or appreciate the brilliance of a Maximos the Confessor's solutions. But they can live Christian life. I think systematic ritual and solid leadership are important for NPCs in particular.
Scripture warns of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Most “Christians” have failed that task. I suspect there are elements of choice to NPC. It directly contradicts literal meaning to think the majority are saved. It’s a narrow gate. Salvation is offered universally. But we have to take it. Most won’t - hard to accept for the compassionate.
Having received the Christian faith through love from people who are more on the FTS-2 side, I don't think it's a difficulty to believe that the FTS-2 people can be saved by faith or live faithfully.
CS Lewis had this analogy that we are puppets/toys learning to become real boys. Knowing that sin numbs and kills the soul, I think NPC status is linked to getting disconnected from God; and this suggests that connecting to God will do the opposite - we can become player characters if we join the hero's party. We were dead in sin but become a new creation in Christ.
God has a special care for the least and the humble. He had compassion on the multitudes who were like sheep without a shepherd, and he harshly rebuked the wicked shepherds who exploited the sheep and did not care for them as they ought.
As far as we see the world better, we have a Christian duty to care for those around us who don't.
Glowing screens has deeper effects. A target acquisition model got enormous upgrades about 15 years ago, to replace simple terms with better descriptions. With about 10 years of research, turned out that screen- retina- brain transform pixels to image, not eye-screen. The screen can transform what and how collected, and in turn affect why and what interpreted by the mind. This may also affect how NPC comes about, by damping mental reponses.
That’s very interesting. I’m a big pattern observer general probabilities and possibilities - but the mechanisms are often beyond me. My old assumption was that NPCs were conditioned through some mix of dysgenic modern culture and constant inane lies. That glitch/reset physically perceptible thing they do when shedding new information and reverting to default made me realize it’s psycho-physiological. Low-level trauma-induced mind control type effect from simply living in Clown World. Again, very general.
Understanding how could point to mitigation. Which is valuable, since most don’t recognize it as real.
Rank Stranger: The filtering of universal distributed consciousness into separation categories, and in the process losing awareness of reality. (Mind of God)
See Lyrics to the Stanley Brothers song of the same name.
Thank you for the glossary! The only negative aspect of having all these terms in one place is that it may deprive readers of digging through the excellent back-catalogue on your personal blog.
Only tangentially related but the gears have been turning in my head since reading your FTS-2 pieces - how does this "species" interact with Logos? Do they? I was once instructed by my spiritual Father in the Orthodox Church that a belief in NPCs is borderline heretical, as we're all made in the image (if not likeness) of God, and thus the belief that some people are incapable of becoming fully "men" in Christ is incompatible with the Faith at a fundamental level.
Maybe this is a point where the systematic theology of Aquinas in Catholicism and the Eastern Church of the first 1,000 years diverge... Maybe there is a means by which FTS-2 can be guided by the Holy Spirit but reject the material truth we find in Truth...
Your position that you now find it morally repugnant to allow FTS-2 to be depopulated is one that I share now as a Christian, but only because my conscience condemns me for thinking so and not much else.
Probably just Pride rearing its ugly head. As always, your writing is much appreciated.
I feel the same way. Substack is different though, and until I can carve out the space for the metaphysics project, it's where I am. Not to worry though. It's unlikely I'll keep it up.
That's a great question. I think anyone has to be able to convert so wouldn't make it too literal a distinction. It's why corruption in churches is so terrible. Anyone can believe. Basic Christian dogmas can be worked into the base code. So a rightly guided church becomes a positive screen.
May the Holy Ghost burn through the churches with a consuming fire to freshen up the place.
I also suspect that someone can grow in love and faith. Religion of the heart, not head. An NPC won't come up with insights or questions or appreciate the brilliance of a Maximos the Confessor's solutions. But they can live Christian life. I think systematic ritual and solid leadership are important for NPCs in particular.
Scripture warns of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Most “Christians” have failed that task. I suspect there are elements of choice to NPC. It directly contradicts literal meaning to think the majority are saved. It’s a narrow gate. Salvation is offered universally. But we have to take it. Most won’t - hard to accept for the compassionate.
Having received the Christian faith through love from people who are more on the FTS-2 side, I don't think it's a difficulty to believe that the FTS-2 people can be saved by faith or live faithfully.
CS Lewis had this analogy that we are puppets/toys learning to become real boys. Knowing that sin numbs and kills the soul, I think NPC status is linked to getting disconnected from God; and this suggests that connecting to God will do the opposite - we can become player characters if we join the hero's party. We were dead in sin but become a new creation in Christ.
God has a special care for the least and the humble. He had compassion on the multitudes who were like sheep without a shepherd, and he harshly rebuked the wicked shepherds who exploited the sheep and did not care for them as they ought.
As far as we see the world better, we have a Christian duty to care for those around us who don't.
Thanks for writing this glossary.
Good use of a Glossary; bookmarked it.
Glowing screens has deeper effects. A target acquisition model got enormous upgrades about 15 years ago, to replace simple terms with better descriptions. With about 10 years of research, turned out that screen- retina- brain transform pixels to image, not eye-screen. The screen can transform what and how collected, and in turn affect why and what interpreted by the mind. This may also affect how NPC comes about, by damping mental reponses.
That’s very interesting. I’m a big pattern observer general probabilities and possibilities - but the mechanisms are often beyond me. My old assumption was that NPCs were conditioned through some mix of dysgenic modern culture and constant inane lies. That glitch/reset physically perceptible thing they do when shedding new information and reverting to default made me realize it’s psycho-physiological. Low-level trauma-induced mind control type effect from simply living in Clown World. Again, very general.
Understanding how could point to mitigation. Which is valuable, since most don’t recognize it as real.
Rank Stranger: The filtering of universal distributed consciousness into separation categories, and in the process losing awareness of reality. (Mind of God)
See Lyrics to the Stanley Brothers song of the same name.
Thought without sequenced semiotic rendering. The ultimate-infocognitive reality barrier. Still waiting for the demo…