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"Another common misconception is that prophets, saints and mystics search for 'new' truth. Rather, what they do is to simply remove the layers of dirt -- of accumulated misinterpretations -- that have corrupted the truth. Then the living teacher will bring forth the very same truth in a new light. The original truth must repeatedly be presented to suit the current age." (Swami Santsevi Ji Maharaj)
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Chapter 1: Dream of Fallen Stars
Narrated by Leonid.
Narrator: Where am I?
Narrator: The forest soil is covered with moss. Laughter comes from nearby. Rows of houses surround the church in the center of town.
Narrator: The cross at the top of the church’s steeple is bathed in sunlight. It looks solemn and holy.
Narrator: There is a lush forest behind me and an endless ocean in front of me. The salty sea breeze carries the scent of mud and leaves.
Narrator: After some time passes, a memory answered my question.
Narrator: I am in a small Pigeon town near the sea. I have lived here for 22 years.
Narrator: But I shouldn’t be here now. Everything seems strange because I haven’t seen the sun or stood on solid ground in so long.
Narrator: I should be alone. I shouldn’t be able to hear other people’s voices.
Narrator: I lower my head as I hold newly bought paper and ink. I had just made my purchase for the month, and I was headed home.
Fisherman Couple: Mr. Leonid always has free time. Surely there’s no need to worry about how he makes a living.
Fisherman Couple: We wake up and fish every day, and we’re doing it just to feed our boys!
Narrator: I happened to cross paths with a couple who had just gotten off their fishing boat. They greeted me with cheerful smiles.
Narrator: I didn’t respond. I just focused on my walk from the forest to the beach.
Narrator: I’d never noticed what my neighbors were like. Maybe they talked to me, but I don’t remember unnecessary things like that.
Young Man: I wish I could be half as talented as Mr. Leonid.
Narrator: Recently, a man has often sat in the shade under the same tree on the side of the road and talked to himself about his troubles.
Young Man: I wonder how she’ll respond if I confess my love for her...
Narrator: I’m not interested in things like that. I kept walking across the seashore toward the banyan tree near the cliff.
Narrator: I built a tree-house on that tree all by myself. It was as far from the village as possible, and no one would bother me there.
Narrator: Occasionally, curious children would stop by, such as this boy who was waving a branch in front of my door like a sword.
Boy: Hey, mister! Why do you live out here by yourself?
Boy: Are you a designer? When I grow up, I want to be a hero that fights evil! Will you design my armor for me?
Narrator: I walked past him with a sigh and then closed the door behind me.
Choose either “You are too cold” or “Why are you sighing?”
If “cold,” ...
You: You’re anti-social.
Leonid: They could never understand my pursuit of truth, just as I could never understand their silly emotions.
If “sighing,” ...
You: Why are you sighing?
Leonid: Life goes on around me. Some things stay the same and some change. But it’s all just white noise. It has nothing to do with me.
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Narrator: I’m entranced by the stars in my dreams. They’re a grand concerto where truth and law meet, more beautiful than the ocean waves outside my window.
Narrator: Paper was spread out on the workbench. The stars turned into my inspiration. They portrayed something brand new to this world.
Narrator: That is my unfinished design. It’s a sacred, pure white angel. Simple and beautiful as truth itself.
Narrator: I believed that once I figure out the stars’ secrets, she will spread her wings and smile at me.
Narrator: Tonight I wandered above the sea of stars.
Narrator: My anticipation lifted the fog in my brain, but my blood froze when I saw what was happening in front of me.
Narrator: The sky was in chaos.
Narrator: The stars were destroyed in a stream of falling flame, and the otherwise calm night was dyed in a dark red.
Narrator: The dazzling stars dimmed like dying flowers whose beauty has faded.
Narrator: Has the starlight I loved always been so ugly?
Leonid: No, that can’t be...
Narrator: I fought to resist the disappointment, but gravity regained control over me. I fell from the heights of truth in an abyssal sea. I was broken.
Narrator: The pain of it all opened my eyes.
Narrator: When I woke up, I was lying on the stargazing platform. The sky was full of stars, still shining and watching me quietly.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
#leonid#shining nikki#ur designer#angel and demon#anniversary event#chapter 1#transcript#dream of fallen stars#miraland#pigeon kingdom#memories#banyan tree#stars#astrology#search for truth#depression
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That was it.
"Incarnations of Immortality: And Eternity" - Piers Anthony
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Voice of a new generation
#youth#Palestine solidarity#anti-Zionism#Judaism#conversion#history#moral courage#self examination#search for truth
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Nor does it seem unreasonable to believe even that there is an infinite number of trees in a single seed, since it contains not only the tree of which it is the seed but also a great number of other seeds that might contain other trees and other seeds, which will perhaps have on an incomprehensibly small scale other trees and other seeds and so to infinity. So that according to this view, which will appear strange and incongruous only to those who measure the marvels of God's infinite power by the ideas of sense and imagination, it might be said (1) that in a single apple seed there are apple trees, apples, and apple seeds, standing in the proportion of a fully grown tree to the tree in its seed, for an infinite, or nearly infinite number of centuries; (2) that nature's role is only to unfold these tiny trees by providing perceptible growth for that outside its seed, and imperceptible yet very real growth in proportion to their size, for those thought to be in their seed-for it cannot be doubted that there are bodies sufficiently small to get in between the fibers of these trees thought to be in their seed and thus to serve as food for them.
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Navigating Doubt and Faith: Exploring the Existence of God and the Misinterpretations of Believers
The long-time search of humanity for the infallible truth comes along with the undying issue about the existence of the creator of all things. Atheists argue that believers are just taking personal comfort in the guise of one true God and believers refute this by saying that atheists, on the other hand, are just taking personal comfort in the guise of being rational. I believe in the existence of…
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#atheist vs religion#balancingfaith#belief systems#believer vs atheist#bible essay#essay#existence of God#Faith and doubt#faith and science balance#findingtruth#human search for meaning#metaphorical interpretation#personal beliefs#purpose of living#questioning beliefs#religious diversity#science and religion#science and spirituality#search for truth#spiritual journey#spiritual satisfaction
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FELLOW TRAVELERS 1.06 ❝ Beyond Measure ❞
#tim and his guilt and his search for truth#fellow travelers#fellowtravelersedit#jonathan bailey#matt bomer#tim laughlin#hawkins fuller#jonathanbaileyedit#mattbomeredit#tim x hawk#hawk x tim#*#ft106
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do you believe in fate? well, i want to believe!
#yep......i've got it bad Bad for them#oh to be soulmates willing to risk everything for one another#again and again and again#no matter how many times it takes...no matter how dangerous it gets#together in search of the truth for the rest of time#(i have only watched season one so far.)#the x-files#x-files#dana scully#fox mulder#msr#mulder x scully#my art
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I wish I could tell the original artist that this drawing permanently changed the entire direction of my life in 2009. I want to shake their hand, look them in the eye, and admit I would not be who I am today if this drawing didn’t exist.
EDIT: Original artist is @ivynajspyder !!!!
#‘but jojo’ you ask. ‘that seems a little ridiculous’#‘don’t you think that’s a little much?’#no. NO. IT IS THE TRUTH.#little baby middle schooler jojo had just gotten squeak squad. the first kirby game she ever owned.#and she loved it even tho there’s a lot she didn’t understand#like who dedede was supposed to be or why copy abilities existed#I asked for the game because my roommate at swim camp had it and she told me the plot of the game when I looked over her shoulder to watch#(the plot she told me was completely made up btw she said kirby had to save the dimension from dark overlord and did not mention the squeak#and said stuff about meta knight being a bad guy idk I realize now she was just weaving a tale of her own haha)#SO I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE LORE. I had only played the one game and it’s the one people don’t like the plot of#but meta knight completely intrigued me#what was this blue sword wielding little kirby dude doing here??#so I’d replay his boss fight over and over again just to get that glimpse at his face#and I’d sit and wonder what it all meant. who was this mysterious swordsman??#and the boss fight was hard!!! it cost me to beat it at the time but I’d still do it to see his face#AND THEN AFTER LIKE A YEAR OF THIS it occurred to me that there was a kirby wiki online#so I found all the pictures of his face and my little fangirl-raised-by-deviantart mind ATE THIS UP.#and then I look up that one fateful google search……… the one that changed me#meta.#knight.#maskless.#and this drawing was towards the top of the results#I went feral about a fandom related topic for the very very first time#I lost my MIND. HOW can a character be so cute AND COOL??! I was a changed child.#I consumed the hoshi no kaabii anime like it was the only piece of media on earth#I drew comics about him. I made my first kirby oc ever to go on a grand adventure on him.#I filled my notebooks with kirby art to the point my mom was like ‘jossie. you REALLY need to branch out. these are just orbs.’#and now I am the kirby artist I am today. so yes. YES. this drawing did change my life.#thanks for reading. and thanks to the original artist. I tried to find them to link but nothing. so if you know pls tell me#THE END!!! and remember! your art makes a difference in people’s lives even if they don’t say it to your face!!!!
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Ishizu being an Egyptologist who was raised in an ancient Egyptian isolationist cult is fun because yeah maybe there's some parts where she possesses important ancient knowledge modern historians do not, but I think it's gotta be a solid 85% "everything your dad told you about ancient Egypt and the gods was wrong, because 3,000 years is a lot of telephone and underground cults are not actually good at preserving accurate factual information."
#i think its way more getting her worldview rocked + search for truth about what she learned growing up than her having special knowledge#i don't think she has all the advantages here people tend to think she does#again i cannot emphasize this enough. 3k years is a LOT of telephone.#religiously and politically motivated telephone at that
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For the last 24 hrs I’ve been trying to find the real motel from that production assistant’s s4 bts pic…
#byler#stranger things#would you guys laugh if I said this is the most fun part of theorizing during hiatus to me#I feel like a private investigator#no leads yet#but I’m living my truth#the truth of delusion#what happens when I find the motel you ask?#probably nothing#but I’ll have my answer#and I’ll search through all the pictures on the website and imagine scenarios that could go down in a flashback#from from s4 but intended to be put in early s5#related to whatever happened during that two day time jump…#technically the drive from Nevada to Hawkins would have been about 26 hrs#I did the math#which means we’ve got about 22 hrs of missing time give or take…#the implications of a motel stop for one night to rest are high…#especially if they thought they won against vecna at the time after the monologue…..#👀👀👀#technically the monologue happened late at night?#so maybe that night they slept at a motel?#and then they left early the next morning?#drove all day and not and got back to Hawkins the following morning…?
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thinking about that line in existence when mulder is asked how he found scully and william without coordinates and he says "there was a light. I followed it" and I really love that line because just...look. the man has been chasing lights in the sky since he was 12 years old. he's been running after ufos trying to find his sister, trying to find the truth, searching for a meaning in it all. he has been following lights his entire life and they led him to scully. they led him to his son. they led him to his family. like he always wanted to believe they would.
#does this make sense#the x files#msr#I think this was actually intended as a biblical reference bc william is jesus or whatever#but I don't think that really mattered in the end#(and I like my interpretation better personally)#I made a joke to my friend earlier 'maybe the real truth was the friends we made along the way'#but was that not actually the whole point#admittedly I haven't seen season 9 in a very long time#but I think there's something beautiful about searching for something you never quite find#instead the journey was what you really needed#sometimes I think too hard about mulder and scully and my brain just does this#my friend is watching s8 for the first time and I just started s1 for the fourth time#so the dichotomy we've got going on is. quite interesting
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once again thinking about this:
the absolute devastation this panel from "The Search" brings me is genuinely immeasurable.
there's just something about the way azula came here to confront her mother and to finally, finally be proven right. she wants her mother to tell her how much she hates her, how much she fears her, how she always hated her and preferred zuko because azula was a monster.
but when she actually gets the chance to confront her, she's faced not with her mother, but with a woman who has no recollection of her at all.
and even still, when she's attacking and threatening her, her mother, despite not knowing anything about azula or who she is, only states that she's sorry she didn't love azula more.
and the look of disbelief in azula's eyes; after being molded into the prodigy firebender, the weapon, her father wanted her be, she can't believe that her mother's telling the truth.
it's the way she wants to scream and challenge her mother, wants to tell her that she's wrong and that she's lying and she should just admit the fact that she hates azula already.
but that's not true. and azula genuinely can't wrap her head around it.
#avatar comics#avatar#avatar the last airbender#atla#azula#princess azula#atla azula#atla ursa#the search#atla the search#i literally go RABID over this page#like i genuinely CAN'T#it's so hurtful and horrible#because every molecule in this girl's body refuses to believe that there is even the slightest chance that her mother loved her#even when faced with the truth#she genuinely can't believe it#she won't believe it#because her whole life she's been led to see herself as only a weapon or a monster
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[blows a kiss out to sea] for the Mighty Nein pirates arc
#I'm!! I have so many thoughts about why this arc is SO GOOD#But the short version is like#It is an arc about Fjord and identity and power and self and agency as he faces the truth of his patron and faces a rival warlock#But it is ALSO about Fjord grappling with those things bc he is ALSO processing grief and sadness and a search for direction and purpose#and grappling with disappointing disillusionment in how the world and people in your life (including maybe yourself) isn't what you thought#and about coming to resolve he has the agency and strength to not allow these things to deter him from purpose and place in the world.#And—this is why this is a PHENOMENAL arc—so is the rest of the Nein. Individually and as a group.#All of them are grappling with feelings of grief and sadness and disappointment and directionless and helplessness#just the grand malaise and relentless shapelessness of what living often is#They also as individuals and as a group together also find that resolve and strength to carry on and find self and purpose and direction#They all begin to process the very same things in their own lives and in their shared experience as The Nein. Simultaneously and together.#It's an arc about Fjord and self and agency in the face of disappointment and grief and disillusionment.#It's an arc about the Nein—individually and as a whole—and self and agency in the face of disappointment and grief and disillusionment.#It's SUCH a strong arc bc ALL of them are taking the same internal journey—structured around Fjord's very externalized version of it.#And it's got incredible vibes (pirate warlocks of a leviathan!) and some GREAT set pieces. And every NPC in the arc is iconic as is Twiggy.#Anyway. In my feelings about this arc. I said this is the short version and yet.#Critical Role things#CR meta
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I think truthing is best avoided because it’s incredibly invasive and parasocial and at the very least one should keep the behavior to yourself as to not make the cc’s uncomfortable, and that anything short of the full picture (something impossible to achieve as an outside observer) could be missing context and that friendships come in many forms and there are other ways to experience relationships aside from just romantic or platonic but also I think Dream is just actually full on /r in love with George I don’t know what else to say why does he act Like That
#I’ve been like. ‘truthing isn’t great but something is going on there’ for months. probably a year now#and yet somehow my expectations keep getting. surpassed#i like to think dream chose to search for wattpad George fics specifically so he could read gnf x reader fics#dnf fics are impersonal to him. he’s a party separate from the narrator. x reader fics allow him to live out his wildest dreams#honestly there’s like. truthing that’s just believing something with your whole pussy and then Truthing where you actively search for proof#capital T truthing is invasive. i think sometimes you just gotta to believe weird shit that affects no one#shout out to my friend who saw this post rotting in my drafts and said ‘no post it actually’#i made them start listening to heatwaves by showing them this unposted dnf post#dnf#dreamnotfound#og post
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