06-20-2010, 12:00 AM
datura8 wrote:
Well I think the pressure comes from Spirit, and Spirits desire to make us perfect. Since this is a huge undertaking, and people have so much they need to work on, esp. with their SI, then when it comes along they may crack and go mad. I know Ive had encounters with Spirit and at times thought I might go mad myself, which is why I snapped back quickly into the tonal for safety, haha. Got to keep that little tonal island nice and neat for when Spirit comes along and invades it.To "stop the world" IS madness. It is a controlled madness, though.
At least it seems "contolled" until you actually do "stop the world".
This is the first goal.
To know you are mad,... to know you are living in a different world than those around you.
To find your way back to where you began before you "stopped the world" is also madness and a seemingly impossible task.
That is the second goal.
When you reach that goal you find out it was impossible. You can never go back.
That is Ixtlan.
You can never quite reach it because even though you may heal and stabilize yourself, those around you who have never left in the first place, are living a quiet, comfortable madness of their own.
They are pretending there is nothing more that exists than what is considered the "norm" to keep themselves from "cracking".
While you pretend they are correct to keep them from considering you cracked.
That is controlled folly.
I find their "normal" madness boring.
The other is frightening
Well I think the pressure comes from Spirit, and Spirits desire to make us perfect. Since this is a huge undertaking, and people have so much they need to work on, esp. with their SI, then when it comes along they may crack and go mad. I know Ive had encounters with Spirit and at times thought I might go mad myself, which is why I snapped back quickly into the tonal for safety, haha. Got to keep that little tonal island nice and neat for when Spirit comes along and invades it.To "stop the world" IS madness. It is a controlled madness, though.
At least it seems "contolled" until you actually do "stop the world".
This is the first goal.
To know you are mad,... to know you are living in a different world than those around you.
To find your way back to where you began before you "stopped the world" is also madness and a seemingly impossible task.
That is the second goal.
When you reach that goal you find out it was impossible. You can never go back.
That is Ixtlan.
You can never quite reach it because even though you may heal and stabilize yourself, those around you who have never left in the first place, are living a quiet, comfortable madness of their own.
They are pretending there is nothing more that exists than what is considered the "norm" to keep themselves from "cracking".
While you pretend they are correct to keep them from considering you cracked.
That is controlled folly.
I find their "normal" madness boring.
The other is frightening