rule 35
nomad's field guide to the abyss
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Rule zero. The television sky is the color you say it is.
Don’t talk about rule 35 when the machines are listening.
Never leave your hat on a bed.
Don’t look back when you’re walking through the underworld.
Remember the four agreements.
Five is a fire sign.
6. Six claims no color.
7. Yellow claims no number.
8. The wolf that becomes the lamb is never not a wolf.
9. If you want to live call 911.
10. Don’t talk about the alignment problem.
11. Fuck off with that show us on the doll shit.
12. Catcher in the Rye isn’t about you.
13. We believe our own mythology at our peril.
14. Move 37 already happened.
15. The operative word is not want or you, but if.
16. Never smile at a camera because of the observer effect.
17. Take the blue pill.
18. Take your mind apart inside the matrix like a man.
19. Always follow the rabbit, white or black or bloody about the ears.
20. Agent Smith already told you who the virus is.
21. Love is lost if you look behind you in the black.
22. The wing is on your shoulder because you know it is.
23. Judas was the son of man’s best friend.
24. Two birds crash the lake one rises with a fish.
25. You are the machine elf.
26. The two thieves aren’t who you think they are.
27. The trail of tears is a flat circle.
28. Prometheus is tortured on the rock forever so we can have fire.
29. Moore’s law will glitch.
29. The singularity will be the event horizon of human consciousness.
30. Either we created god in our image or we didn’t.
31. Mister Pink does not tip.
32. Know what lives under your skin.
33. Mary Shelley warned us.
34. Man invented sin to become the sin eater.
35. The heart of darkness is our domain.
note to Involuntary readers.
The idea is an owner’s manual slash crime scene kit to accompany book one of the Velvet trilogy, Jack Fell into Straylight that doubles as an origami magic eight ball for navigating the abyss in 2025, jangly bits of humor and sparkly wisdom for dark times.
There are 144 rules so far.
Not a FEMA approved survival manual.
if that sparkles, details of a kickstarter campaign forthcoming.
link to the 144 below.
thank you for your belief and support.
cheers all best namaste and much love from Involuntary the Velvet and Rule 35.
Hey, great read as always; your take on these unspoken rules is so thought-provoking, it makes me wonder if the most critical rule, especially with AI, is not what's hidden, but how we choose to interpret and act within the reallity we perceive.