Key Quotes
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‘Belief is what you experience when that happens. As you mentioned the other day, Gödel proved it mathematically: once you have a set of propositions describing the truth—a set substantial enough to encompass arithmetic—you’ll have one proposition, a statement derived from them, that you must believe as true, because it will be! Its truth won’t be mathematically or logically derivable from the others, but true nonetheless. Somehow, it’s emergent. Like Metatheory. Synthesis. And because “as above, so below,” synthesis reflects essence; belief… is the not-so-secret Path to God. A path everyone knows about but no one truly understands, so they don’t act accordingly. But now, you do.’
He had to learn to believe.
Him, the ultimate skeptic!
And it was happening precisely because of his skeptical mind.
'Believe, is not a gateway to nonsense. Far from it. One plus one equals two. That’s belief!...'
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​‘A lot. You have a point there. But there’s a step in the development of human consciousness that nobody talks about. The moment humans truly became social. Not “social animals” because humans aren’t animals—they’re humans. And a society of humans, its social intelligence, is a conscious being. A god. Doing “crazy” things like colonising lands, sailing oceans, and inhabiting other planets—things unimaginable for an individual intelligence. Things only a social consciousness can see, desire, or even imagine. A personal social intelligence, with likes and hates, brilliant ideas… with irrational, emotional foolishness, panic attacks, and problems haunting it from the past. Even mental conditions—something like PTSD. Whole populations moved by the same drive. Super organisms. Gods.’
His gaze held something from beyond.
A Hero’s Fire
He will make you laugh as hard as you like—crushing stupidity and vanity in fireworks of humor, the nicest guy an immensely intelligent, naughty man can be. He will impress you with his fearless drive, a warrior with nothing to lose but his life, and the depth of his love—boundless, transcending worlds, bringing down gods... maybe even drawing a tear... or two. He will make you feel! … and think.
Inflame Quotes
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‘Circling the answer is the answer. The ancient Greeks came the other way around. They started with gods and worked down to atoms, where they stopped, seeing no reason to go any further. The attributes of the Object vanished beyond that point. The information on smaller and smaller constituents became less and less relevant to what they wanted to achieve: spiritual and material betterment, without sacrificing either—their becoming in reality… their evolutionary pull-push. We can see where they missed the mark, and how quantum physics, in a way, regains that mathematical purity when you accept it’s a new world, mimicking the Heavens. But still… it’s a dead end at one point. The Point. When you reach the Origin, game over! Because you’ve hit the smallest and oldest Point. A point from which all Leibniz’s monads are just clones. The End, because it’s the beginning. And where is consciousness? Unexplained. We missed it. Everything upwards? Absolutely inaccessible!’
‘But coming down from gods is coming down from… Lala Land!’
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It took forever to reach the bottom of the massive steps climbing all the way to the main floor. They stopped there, while the clients began their ascent.
The cat looked funny, scaling steps far too big for its stature, opening the way for the Serpent Goddess with the Bull on Her left and their extravagant procession. That would be the last time he’d see it.
He turned to the Spartan, whose face was livid as he watched them go. His aura was dim now, so Antares checked his own.
Still glowing like a stroboscope. Fuck this! What a freakshow.