My main driving force for pushing so hard for magic is how much I hate reality. I can’t stand it, I don’t mind that existence is fundamentally pointless. I actually prefer it because I couldn’t care less about what any self proclaimed god had planned for me or anyone else, or any morality baked into physics. But the sheer randomness of it makes the suffering people and everything else endures that much more retarded. Arbitrary rules that restrict people for no reason whatsoever. Forcing everything to have to put in effort to survive, spurred by bodies that are little more than skinner boxes torturing them into compliance. Making them artificially “care” about survival and most of everything else in their lives. Lives that ultimately aren’t even theirs to begin with. Such a reality doesn’t deserve to exist.
As much as I know technology will continue being developed that will solve most of these problems it doesn’t give me any sort of relief. The only thing that I will accept is people having the opportunity to develop magic for themselves. Technology exists outside of the person, and so can be controlled by others and only doled out to the people they like. The person never truly has control of it. You could argue that that could change with things like cybernetics and genetic engineering but I don’t think it’d be anywhere near enough. Magic, specifically the ability to condense and manipulate raw energy into physical forms, would make it possible to replicate anything and everything achieved via technology. Since it’d be just as physical as everything else. But in complete control of the person themselves, its just a skill that was learned, not a product or anything else that had to come from the outside.
It’s true that even if the reality I want were achieved it would not be perfect. I expect that knowledge would be horded and suppressed by a few elites and most everyone else would be denied any sort of magic education. I expect there’d be quite a lot of chaos, at least for awhile, since the power the magic I envision would inevitably cause jealousy and rivalries. But I think it would still be far better than a technocratic future. At least with magic as a balancing force to technology it remains possible for people to develop the skills and knowledge all on their own so long as they are aware it’s possible and so long as they have the drive to do so. The same could not be said for technology necessarily. Again, I’d suspect people would disagree on that somewhat. But for me the fundamentally important thing about magic that makes it better in my eyes is that it’s intimately connected to the individual themselves and thus can’t really be removed.
Though I won’t deny there’s some caveats to that. I’m going full crazy for this, which means I don’t expect anyone to believe or care what I say because I’m going to be dipping into my past life memories for this which, naturally, I can’t verify for anyone. There’s I don’t even know how many different ways to seal a person. Everything from sealing their energy inside of their body to placing them in a grand illusory simulated world that they are convinced is real so they never try to leave. Memory alteration or suppression or placing their soul into an inanimate object or otherwise taking them out of the incarnation cycle so they can’t bother you again. There’s no such thing as an unbreakable seal but I doubt that would matter much when used on people with next to no magical knowledge or experience.
I just find that I’m getting angrier and more hateful every day about this. I’m really tired of the arbitrary pointless suffering of everything. Although I don’t doubt that it’s possible that some people really do choose their incarnations at least to a degree, there’s no way you could get me to believe that it’s true for everyone. Nor could you get me to believe that earth is a school and we’re all supposed to learn certain life lessons. I mean, unless it’s designed to be a sort of indoctrination camp or something, because the methods seem a lot more consistent with that. Besides, why should I or anyone else care what someone else wants us to learn? And why do they get to decide the lessons? I know that’s not neccessarily what gets reported in NDE’s but at the same time some reincarnation cases report between life periods where the person is told to go incarnate again even though they don’t really want to. Personally, if they think its so important to incarnate, they can do it themselves.
I very much hope I’m able to reach the first step of my goal soon enough here. I’m very confident I can. I’ve been doing a lot of work connecting to myself, which I’ve learned is more like connecting to what I really want and discarding anything that’s from a sense of obligation or fear or anything else. It’s really helped dissolve a lot of calcified energy inside me which feels great. Which is one thing I want to help other people with, because reality doesn’t really allow people to be themselves. So much of their lives are spent reacting and conforming to basic impulses, out of necessity. Forced to do stupid things just so their body doesn’t torture them and forced to, often subtley, manipulate others to that end. I doubt most people have even had the time to dig into themselves and decide who they want to be. Too busy focusing on basic survival tasks that shouldn’t even exist.
I certainly hope this works because I can’t bring myself to even act like I care about anything else in this life. Besides I’m too old to try starting any sort of normal career anyways.
As much as I know technology will continue being developed that will solve most of these problems it doesn’t give me any sort of relief. The only thing that I will accept is people having the opportunity to develop magic for themselves. Technology exists outside of the person, and so can be controlled by others and only doled out to the people they like. The person never truly has control of it. You could argue that that could change with things like cybernetics and genetic engineering but I don’t think it’d be anywhere near enough. Magic, specifically the ability to condense and manipulate raw energy into physical forms, would make it possible to replicate anything and everything achieved via technology. Since it’d be just as physical as everything else. But in complete control of the person themselves, its just a skill that was learned, not a product or anything else that had to come from the outside.
It’s true that even if the reality I want were achieved it would not be perfect. I expect that knowledge would be horded and suppressed by a few elites and most everyone else would be denied any sort of magic education. I expect there’d be quite a lot of chaos, at least for awhile, since the power the magic I envision would inevitably cause jealousy and rivalries. But I think it would still be far better than a technocratic future. At least with magic as a balancing force to technology it remains possible for people to develop the skills and knowledge all on their own so long as they are aware it’s possible and so long as they have the drive to do so. The same could not be said for technology necessarily. Again, I’d suspect people would disagree on that somewhat. But for me the fundamentally important thing about magic that makes it better in my eyes is that it’s intimately connected to the individual themselves and thus can’t really be removed.
Though I won’t deny there’s some caveats to that. I’m going full crazy for this, which means I don’t expect anyone to believe or care what I say because I’m going to be dipping into my past life memories for this which, naturally, I can’t verify for anyone. There’s I don’t even know how many different ways to seal a person. Everything from sealing their energy inside of their body to placing them in a grand illusory simulated world that they are convinced is real so they never try to leave. Memory alteration or suppression or placing their soul into an inanimate object or otherwise taking them out of the incarnation cycle so they can’t bother you again. There’s no such thing as an unbreakable seal but I doubt that would matter much when used on people with next to no magical knowledge or experience.
I just find that I’m getting angrier and more hateful every day about this. I’m really tired of the arbitrary pointless suffering of everything. Although I don’t doubt that it’s possible that some people really do choose their incarnations at least to a degree, there’s no way you could get me to believe that it’s true for everyone. Nor could you get me to believe that earth is a school and we’re all supposed to learn certain life lessons. I mean, unless it’s designed to be a sort of indoctrination camp or something, because the methods seem a lot more consistent with that. Besides, why should I or anyone else care what someone else wants us to learn? And why do they get to decide the lessons? I know that’s not neccessarily what gets reported in NDE’s but at the same time some reincarnation cases report between life periods where the person is told to go incarnate again even though they don’t really want to. Personally, if they think its so important to incarnate, they can do it themselves.
I very much hope I’m able to reach the first step of my goal soon enough here. I’m very confident I can. I’ve been doing a lot of work connecting to myself, which I’ve learned is more like connecting to what I really want and discarding anything that’s from a sense of obligation or fear or anything else. It’s really helped dissolve a lot of calcified energy inside me which feels great. Which is one thing I want to help other people with, because reality doesn’t really allow people to be themselves. So much of their lives are spent reacting and conforming to basic impulses, out of necessity. Forced to do stupid things just so their body doesn’t torture them and forced to, often subtley, manipulate others to that end. I doubt most people have even had the time to dig into themselves and decide who they want to be. Too busy focusing on basic survival tasks that shouldn’t even exist.
I certainly hope this works because I can’t bring myself to even act like I care about anything else in this life. Besides I’m too old to try starting any sort of normal career anyways.
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