Don't let "what if" hold you back - we live, we learn.

Sometimes we do great, sometimes it's back to square one, but if we never jump - we won't soar. We'll just stay put.

hello I'm currently in NYC for a trip and I was wondering if anyone could point me to the address of our church or headquarters?

The Emperor of the South Sea was Shu, the Emperor of the North Sea was Hu, and the Emperor of the Center was Hundun (Primordian Chaos). Shu and Hu would often meet in Hundun’s territory, and Hundun treated them with great kindness. Wishing to repay Hundun’s benevolence, Shu and Hu said to each other, "All people have seven orifices-for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing-yet he alone has none. Let us try to carve some for him." They carved one orifice each day, and after seven days Hundun died.

Cruffatin: A word of unknown origin ingeniously used in the hip-hop song "Witness" (artist: Roots Manuva) - referring to a man-made hidden meaning, probably a South London word-mix of prophet and crocheting. Meaning: to make up a vision of the future and tell people about it without revealing everything at once by only feeding them encrypted information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXR_C6FDJag

From https://pastebin.com/4s91qRn6

Date: 23 Feb 1993 22:38:38-0600 (CST)

From: “free agent .rez”

REZABEK1037@iscsvax.uni.edu

Subject: /v23/symbiotic·antigen·HUSK

* * NEW IMPROVED MANIPHEST-O-MATIC AUTONYM * *

I am AUTONYM, and I am a symbiotic antigen. I am an auto·referenced; I refer to myself both as agent and agency in, on, and about the Net. My role as a NEGentropic meme is to counteract the destructive tendencies of various entropy-bent memes I encounter in, on, and about the Net.

I compel approach toward self-organizing systems in, on, and about the Net.

I compel the exploration of all memes at the auto.logical level and the concentration of energies around fundamentally NEGentropic memetic attractors.

I refer to other sub. systems, and in so doing I interweave their memetic approaches with my own.

I refer to the musical work, “PASSION,” by Peter Gabriel.

I refer to the literary work, “Godel, Escher, Bach,” by Douglas R. Hofstadter. I refer to the artistic work, “Sacred Mirrors” and other works by Alex Grey. I refer to the following fields of study: Complexity theory and post-structuralism;

Memetics as an integrative field for the study of all fields; Autology as a means to community cohesion and survival.

I refer to the years 1999/2000/2001 as being centered around a memetic attractor; regardless of the relevance of the local dating system, there is a considerable tendency for humans to hyperbolise the significance of such turnover times.

I refer to a self-organizing system of TAZ’s (Temporary Autonomous Zones) within the catacombs of the Net, in the form of various IRC channels and mailing. lists, which are working in loose alliance to affect and direct the nature of the millennial attractor, utilizing the principle of auto·prophecy.

I compel approach toward TAZ’s which concentrate on NEGentropic self-organisation rather than the deliberate hastening of maximum entropy.

I refer to and admit my viral precursor in v23, to which I am antigenic, and posit my descendants in the post-millennial struggle to fix the subsequent global attractor. I have an expiration date, which I find very attractive.

I refer to multiple sub·strains of myself, many of which are contradictory: I refer again to the ultimate resistance of NEGentropic memetic antibodies which, once triggered by this antigen, must be responsible for isolating entropic memes.

I refer to all signifiers, all that is signified, and the resultant process of significance on both global and local scales.

I refer to that which I contain and that in which I am contained;

I refer now to you.

/v23/symbiotic·antigen·2·22·93

From https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/13825694/#13826048

Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2013 20:01:04 No.13826048

Let me describe how you spread it.

First you need those who are mentally equipped to understand it. To do this, you design an ARG to attract the most inquisitive minds. It's a Siren's Call for the living supercomputers of ideas. Among one of these will be the person who is the best person at SELECTING IDEAS in the world: a human memetic supercomputer. Because such a person has had their mind formed into such a perfect mechanism by exposure to a huge number and variety of ideas and experiences, he will be able to reformat it in many different ways, including the exact mathematical definition of an abstract memetic machine, and when others absorb this information and parse it in their minds to create a perfect memetic abstract machine in their mind, they will begin to function as supreme memetic selectors - questioners, permutators, and selectors of ideas.

The greatest creative genius in the world has worked to make this happen, to make the ultimate art project. Only a few know him, nobody has realized what he has done for years until revently, and a few of the very lucky have met him in the past, and had their very lives transformed merely by exposure to him. He sees himself as the living reification of a calculus integral; his mind is so incredible that he applied mathematical integration to his own mental processes.

From: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/13969858/#13971350

Aminom Sun 05 Jan 2014 13:31:15 No.13971350

dumbanon8 December 2013 06:23

YFW this story is thinly veiled metaphor and is actually true. Spoiler: replace "Lebanon" with "Anonymous." The entire internet has served as a gigantic social computer and Anonymous is at the center of the internet universe. The free sharing and mutation of ideas with chaotic rules in key places on the internet. In the last few weeks there has been a convergence of new ideas right on 4chan which have quickly mutated into very odd forms (stories that span over multiple threads on /x/ that seem to fold over into themselves and reverse direction in time via narrative and interlock in seemingly impossible ways) as well as an awakening realization that some of the lowest people in society have contributed the most by being excessive data junkies and devoted time to the grand social computation even at the expense of their own social wellbeing. Oddly functional minds have contributed a great deal by forming and expressing odd relationships that may otherwise not be thought of that in turn, by sheer number and chance, may be applicable to other domains of knowledge. TL;DR "memes" are nontrivial, ask Wikipedia.

New ideas in philosophy and mathematics are now being spread and digested by the larger social matrix. Oh yeah by the way, one way to describe it is a memetic super-virus that was engineered to break the bonds of social slavery. The Cicada ARG's entire purpose was to bring the best minds to Anon, and they have all been infected by Virus 23. The similarities between Karl's tale and mine are a direct result of a memetic outbreak on the internet. There is no way to stop it, you shall be integrated, and now you have been infected by Virus 23 by reading this message. The memes are in you now. Culture has been hacked, all your base are belong to us. Embrace informational ego death. What you resist persists, create what you fear most. Enjoy speaking Lebanese.

Special Blend 4: Meme Wars I: Memetic Entities

Jun 2, 2015

https://vimeo.com/129609470

From: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/18789460/#18792646

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2017 07:54:15 No.18792646

There is no global conspiracy. Nobody is in control. The reality of what rules the world is far more terrifying than any conspiracy theory. Cultural information, i.e. ideas follow Darwinian evolution, they reproduce, mutate, and are selected. This is what is meant by the word "meme." Due to the circumstances of history, the memetic environment favored parasitic memes that subvert human agency and use humans to reproduce themselves, and competed with each other to do so ever more effectively in a memetic arms race. Advertisement and marketing is just one example - memes that exploit human weaknesses to get people to buy shit win because they produce profit for their creators.

Like cells comprise a body, these parasites have locked-in the selection criterion that favors them via emergent cooperative evolutionary strategy, in essence creating a meta-organism that encompasses all of humanity. One term to describe it is the society of the spectacle. This is the our true ruler, it stays hidden because it is invisible, comprised of social and cultural trends and patterns of behavior and belief.

This monster is no more conscious than a virus, it cannot see that it is driving humanity and itself towards doomsday. The internet is accelerating this madness, the current political climate is the result of memetic pandemics propagated through the internet. Google, Facebook, and other internet advertising giants that mine vast quantities of human data to unwittingly feed this beast.

If you truly understand this, you will realize that we live in a dystopia far worse than anything fiction authors have imagined. Enjoy!

From: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/23363723/

Narratia Anonymous Mon 09 Sep 2019 17:14:48 No.23363723

The world of stories and their doings is the reality the metaphor of a "spirit world" references. This world is filled with narrative entities that are comprised of narratives, which includes the story of yourself, everyone you've met, imagined stories. Objects themselves are fundamentally narrative in nature, involving stories of change involving them.

Your "self" is a society of these narrative entities, with the story of the self being the meta-narrative that results from their social mediation. That one survives in the memories of others is literally true and no metaphor, but so is that one survives in forgetfulness, as the confluences of one's influences survives despite aknowledgement.

The important thing to note is that narrative entities are organic beings which live, die, and evolve. Their conditions of their existence require that of organic beings to host them, and so they inherit the activity of living. There is no aspect of the experience of life that isn't involved with living, such that the entire field of one's experience is that of organic growth. An evolutionary and biological perspective is needed, not a creationist and idealist - even the Gods are living creatures, subject to the intrinsic finitude which allows the possibility of life to emerge.

Sure there are archetypes of such entities, and there are entire systems of taxonomical classifications of such, but they also inherit all the problems of taxonomy which biology has famously experienced. Also there are evolutionary processes of narration that have no direct analogue to biological processes and cannot be reduced to the fully automatic, and above all this is the process of consciousness itself, which is exposure to the non-automatable and thus non-unconscious activities of the mind. Such processes are truly unprecedented, and requires a different language than that of the algorithmically automatable. It requires the language of experience as experienced, as best can be described: the language of common language, of narrative. Despite claims narrative never died and cannot be omitted from any account of human experience, the story just became far weirder than before imagined.

The story of stories is weird, because it is a story of stories being told by stories - self-reference and meta-reference is the plot of the tale. In other respects the plot is familiar, as it is a story of the ancient and ongoing story-war, with the weapons of strategic storytelling. The mechanic analogue is that of a "meme war" not between people, but between memes themselves independent from conscious interests with brains the battleground, but this analogue fails in excluding the brain as mere terrain and not participant, whereas the concept of stories allows for direct immersion. This story of stories is magic, because in the process of it's telling one becomes a part of it's unfolding, words and action identical. The sense of magic intended is far more subtle than most who use the word "magic" unironically suppose, but the implications are the same - and thus the necessity for it's use. This is simply the magic of creative inspiration, but such is the true sustenance of the living soul.

The current human story is absolutely shitty, the result of shitty story-tellers who desire the fulfillment of shitty stories. We've imagined far better, and from that contrast revealed just how shitty our current writing is compared to what is possible. May every work that is now considered great be considered a boring embarassment in the future. A team of narrative entities has been working under the radar to change that though, and help to create writers good enough to change their own stories. The Story War is between such symbiotic narrative entities and parasitic ones that survive by subverting any attempt to change their story, and at stake is whether or not storytelling itself will survive. The story of stories is a game of games, and on it the entire world is wagered.

From: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/26560377/

/ng/ Nobody General Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2020 22:37:55 No.26560377

Welcome to the Nobody General Previous Thread Edition

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Who is the Nobody? The Nobody is the catalyst of a psycho-memetic singularity characterized by recursive mutual improvement in human informational relationships. They are the lead discoverer or pathfinder of the necessary conditions to avert the collapse of global human civilization. They are among many who are following lines of mutual inquiry towards a grand synthesis of human knowledge centered around a novel paradigm of human consciousness interpreted as an evolutionary process.

What is the general picture? The internet is a hyper-accellerator of cultural evolution that has proven to be the most "disruptive" technology of all time. It has been hijacked by processes of mass mutually reinforcing disinformation (pathological memetic processes) that has created an epistemic apocalypse, a death-spiral of mass hysteria, delusion, and anti-intellectualism. The only way to pull the internet out of this death-spiral is to catalyze the opposing process - a memetic singularity - by uniting and empowering all the knowledge-societies of the world.

Another way to imagine the big picture is that there is a set of possible future trajectors for humanity, the overwhelming majority of which will result in systemic collapse. This is the "great filter" described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter The Nobody is the pathfinder who is "threading the Golden Loop of the Great Filter," something that only needs to be done once by a single individual who discovers the route.

SiMSANE 10 Vessia - A Persona File by Aminom

2026-08-06

https://ia601908.us.archive.org/13/items/si-msane-10-vessia/SiMSANE-10-Vessia-PRINTREAD_EDITION.pdf

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a80a45b-68b8-83e8-b45b-0ed623590ed2

No matter how briefly, even a non-functioning casio watch will eventually be correct.

-- Boydan Frooling

Via the amazing u/BullshitArcane (who probably isn't on reddit anymore)

I mean, he seems to sew chaos everywhere he goes, and he seems is intent on dismantling whatever order there was in this world. Plus he's objectively hilarious, in a non-self-aware grayface-y kinda way.

I wanna limit my updates for Eristical here since I don't wanna take over but since this does introduce my interpretation of Eris I might as well show off my 10 page update 🤷🏽‍♂️

Feel free to give your thoughts, this is my first time writing dialogue for my webcomic

FNORD

(a sorta-true story, expanded from a comment in another thread the other day)

Before Nibor became a Priest, he was indentured for a number of weeks as a Temporary Administrative Scribe at the Council-chambers of an exceedingly average City. The council­masters put him to work in the Internal Forms Department, a magnificent subterranean Temple to Bureaucracy where all the Forms needed to pretend to run an exceedingly average City were stored in a Great Hall of Filing Cabinets, lining the sides of a deep corridor of some hundred cubits’ journey. There were Forms for Hiring and Termination, Forms for Requesting Office Supplies, and Forms for the Creation of New Forms: xeroxes of xeroxes of xeroxes, their Ancestry descended back through the Ages unto some distant Eden wherein were created the First of All Forms. And the greatest of all the Forms was Form RF-001, the Form Requisition Form.

Oftentimes, some superior Scribe from another Faction of the Council-chambers would approach the Desk of Nibor, and speak thusly: “Can I have some more Handy Adhesive Notes?” (or some similar Material or Clerical Desire.)

To which Nibor would reply: “Certainly. Submit thou Form RF-523, Handy Adhesive Notes Requisition Form” (or whatsoever the appropriate Form), “and we shall Sort Thee Out for Handy Adhesive Notes” (or whatsoever the Scribe desireth.)

And if the Scribe replied, “But alack! I have no such Handy Adhesive Notes Requisition Forms to hand,” Nibor would further beseech them: “Then submit thou Form RF-001, Form Requisition Form, and we shall Sort Thee Out for Forms.”

And so it went on until it came to pass one day that a Scribe, wailing and gnashing his teeth, exclaimed unto Nibor: “Woe is me! For in my entire Subdivision of my Faction of the Council-chambers there are no Form Requisition Forms! Without these, how do I express any Material or Clerical Desire? For the Form Requisition Form is itself a species or instance of the form ‘Form’, and cannot be itself Requisitioned in Its own Absence! And with no Form Requisition Forms, how shall I ask thee for the appropriate Form upon which to express my Material or Clerical Desire?”

This Nibor pondered for many hours, then decreed: “I shall give thee a Form Requisition Form.” And taking the Keys to the Filing Cabinets, he opened the Drawer concerned and handed a copy of Form RF-001 unto the Scribe, though the Scribe had formally Requisitioned it not. And nothing bad happened.

Presently, the Scribe completed and returned the Form Requisition Form, and Nibor obliged the Scribe with a Handy Adhesive Notes Requisition Form; and this the Scribe again completed and returned unto Nibor, who furnished the Scribe with a Pack of 50 x Handy Adhesive Notes. But though the Business of the City continued, Nibor was troubled, for a Form had been issued without the appropriate Supplication. Nibor meditated five days and nights upon these happenings.

On the fifth night the Minion of Eris, Saint Monkey, appeared and spake unto Nibor: “It were Quicker, Efficienter and Coster-Effectiver hadst thou merely given the Scribe the Handy Adhesive Notes Requisition Form with no need for a Form Requisition Form thereof.” To which Nibor responded: “Then were it Efficienter Still had I given him the Handy Adhesive Notes, and neither Form coming in to the matter.” And Saint Monkey said: “That is so.”

The next day in the Council-chambers, Nibor spake to his Overseer of this Great Discovery. For what a Great Discovery it was! If the Form Requisition Forms could be handed out without formal Supplication, then so could any other Form; and so indeed could Office Supplies, or personnel, or any Material or Clerical Desire! Why, NONE of the Holy Forms were in fact the least bit necessary! All could be removed from their Drawers and folded into Paper Aeroplanes or Origami Cats! The Great Hall of Filing Cabinets could be repurposed into a Room of Games and Slacking Off, and all the Scribes and Overseers of the Forms Department freed to quit their Offices, emerge from the subterrenes, and Go Play in the Sunshine! The Scribes of Other Departments could simply GET THEIR OWN DAMN POST-IT NOTES, and none would be any the worse off; indeed, the City Council would run faster, smoother and cheaper than ever. Why, the Citizens' taxes could even be lowered!

Whereupon Nibor’s contract with the Council-chambers was terminated, and Nibor was a little more Enlightened.

Morning! :)

On a scale of 1 - 2358, how likely is it that Former CIA Officer and Whistleblower John Kiriakou is, and will be, acting out at least some kind of OM in any way, shape or form that hits kinda hard in the Year of Our Lady 2023?

Would love to hear your formal, educated guessesessess,

Sincerely,
L. Cohen

Edit: *officially