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~ How? ~

 

In order to use what you’ve found in the previous chapter, you need to create countless stories about HOW these things are connected, but you should treat each of these stories as hypotheses, and ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE TAKEN NOTE OF EVERY WHAT THAT THERE IS TO CONNECT. Your stories are things to be tested. Once you’ve noted everything you know for certain, create, not just one story, but as many as possible, and then test to see which one holds the most weight for justification. Be certain in your Whats first. Uncertainty here will almost inevitably lead to failure down the line.


Take time in this process. There are almost always more options than you have initially realized. For example, if I asked you a yes or no question, how many different ways could you respond to me, and what are they?


 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Most people say a maximum of three. They say the responses are:


 



    1. “Yes.”

    1. “No.”

    1. “Maybe.”


 


 


 


 


 


 


This is incorrect. I can think of several more just off the top of my head.


 



    1. “No comment.”

    1. “I don’t know.”

    1. I could go silent.

    1. I could respond with a question of my own.

    1. If they asked a rude question (You gonna sleep with your mother again tonight?) I might tell them to “Fuck off!” or use some other swear.

    1. I could slap them in the face (though there’d probably be repercussions)

    1. I could kick them in the groin. (again, repercussions)

    1. I could walk away.

    1. I could tell them an explanation without actually using a yes.

    1. I could tell them my explanation without actually using a no.

    1. I could explain why I thought about a yes, but decided to go with no.

    1. I could explain why I almost went with no, but then went with a yes.

    1. I could give a command

    1. I could whisper each of those past commments, leading to nearly double the number of choices.

    1. I could scream them (double the original, not counting the whispers, again)

    1. I could whisper shyly.

    1. I could whisper in a threatening manner.

    1. I could directly threaten the questioner.


 


The list goes on, seemingly forever, as we've discussed many times. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is a list of options for a yes or no question. That’s one of the simplest questions there is. When you think about How something may be justified or condemned, you’re really answering two questions that are far more difficult than a simple yes or no. You're asking yourself, “What do I know for certain?” and “How do they all fit together?”. There may even be some other questions as well. In such, you should NEVER rush to your conclusions. First, you must analyze everything. The more Whats you have, the less Hows you’ll need to come up with. Trust me, analyzing in the present is much easier than creating hypothetical pasts, presents, and futures.


You may be wondering why people unconsciously decide to limit their options, making just two stories, or three, even for a yes or no. It’s quite simple really. Let’s say that you had an exam later on today. Let’s say that the exam has only one question, and if you get this question right, then you got a trillion dollars, but if you get the question wrong then you'll owe a trillion dollars. There is no in-between. Either you get the question right, or you get it wrong. Would you prefer it to be an open-response essay, or simply a multiple-choice question?


Most people would say multiple choice, and the reason is simple. You’d only have 4 options to choose from. When you limit your options, you limit that infinite number of ways you could have to fail. In the case of multiple choice, there are only 3 paths to failure. You have a 1 in 4 chance of winning. Even at random, that’s 25%, a percentage that is much higher than 1 in an infinity. Even if there were only 100 exact ways to write an open-response, letter for letter and word for word, that’d still only be a 1% chance of success. And we all know that there’s more than 100 ways to write an exact essay.


The reality is quite simple. The truth is, for every choice you make, there is an infinite number of better choices that you didn’t make, and will never have the chance to make again. For every choice you let survive within you, there are hundreds of thousands, at the very least, that are sacrificed and sent to the slaughter… because you didn’t choose for those ones to live. It’s like sending countless sheep to death in the name of the holy decision god (that being you, and your choices), only to find that, on occasion, you’ve actually sacrificed a golden goose, one that could have laid many more valuable eggs to come. And if you think that there's only one golden goose, in that list of infinite options, then there's no helping you, you're simply delusional. But if you understand that... then understand this: If you do something, and you get it wrong, or even if a couple of pieces from your choice didn’t go entirely your way, you’d have to know that you had countless chances to get it done better. 


Heck! Even if everything went your way, that doesn’t mean that you didn’t have a better choice. It only means that you didn’t have the imagination to come up with a better outcome. If you feel that you only have 3 choices, like when it comes to yes or no questions, at least you can say you chose the best one out of three (Even if you decided which 3 they were to choose from, and thus already determined for yourself what is considered "the best"), or at least you can convince yourself that you didn’t sacrifice THAT MUCH in the name of ignorance, and the ignorant decision making god that is you.


There is a contradiction here, however. You cannot blame yourself for a murder you didn’t commit. You had no choice. It was self-defense. You are defending yourself from the cruelty that is this world, and sometimes you need to hack away at our world’s more painful pieces, like infinite choice, in order to maintain safety and stability, for you, and those you love. With choices, while you must choose who lives, you’ve never chosen who dies. It’s like having a cruise ship sink, and then having to grab a life raft that only stays floats with 5 people on it. You'll have to decide for yourself how to choose who gets on, and who freezes to death in the icy waters. You need to survive, and you need as many people as possible to survive with you. Hopefully, they’re the best, most beneficial people to society and you, and the world at large... or... they could be serial killers, but you simply do not have the time, or the mental capacity, to select the best people possible, to save at a time like that. When it comes to choices, when it comes to survival in the harsh terrain that is "life", you’ve done your best, but even then… some people will die, not by your hands, but simply by the hands of a cruel reality. It was the wrong time, and the wrong place for them.


The same can be said for all those choices you didn’t choose. They simply came to you at the wrong time, or in the wrong place in your life. You’ve done your best. You don’t need to blame yourself. You’ve done good, but sometimes, to do what’s right, you need to feel wronged. I care for you. I'm proud of you. There are people out there who can and will care for you too, so long as you have the courage to let them. So make your choices, and make them boldly, and proudly. Even if they don’t work out, at least you’ve done something. At least you’ve saved someone, and saving one choice is better than making no choices, and saving nobody at all. A person who would willingly allow their choices to drown, without any attempt to save anyone, doesn't understand what cruelties and injustices they are doing to both themselves and others. So please, do not let that person be you.


In the end, it is the ability to expand the raft, and to save more stories, more HOWs, more interpretations, that'll lead to you having an ARMY of achievements behind you, when the needed time comes.


So take your time, and save them all. First gather your Whats in the ocean, and use them to build a bigger raft, and then save, and keep, as many HOWs as possible to help fight in the name of justice. Only then, once you're all safe, and on dry land, can you determine which survivor, is best suited to help you fight for freedom, and justice, on their own. 


WHO here, is the biggest truth?


An army of ordinary men cannot defeat a god, but if selected wisely, the right god, of your own, may be able to accomplish that victory for you.


So fight reality, WITH reality.


Gods use truths, because they know the value of honesty, and humans use lies, because they don't understand the cost of deceit. 


Fight the harsh truths, such as your ignorance, with some truths of your own, and never stoop to lying.


Lying does not help humanity get ahead. It only helps to blind them from the truth of how far behind they really are. Lying is for the mortal. Lying is human, but a god does not need to lie. He simply changes the truth to suit him better. So never lie to god, and never lie to yourself. Admit that you do not know THE STORY, and that you can never uncover it all by yourself, without these truths, and without reality, and admit that you cannot do it, alone. Only then, will the story come, and find YOU. Accept that you can see many false stories. Accept your ignorance, and watch how they react. The story that is most pleased by your humility, the one that rewards your effort and persistence most, will be the story you're looking for.


If you want to persuade a god, I might suggest first that you consider not insulting their intelligence.


 


Don't lie to God's face…


Because it simply works better that way.


 


(And again, I am not religious, but when considering that the world DOES have its own WHO, It just feels right to name that WHO... well... God! After all, what better name could there be, coming from a man like me? But remember, that to me, God is a concept, not a being. Sadly, my faith only extends so far.)


Alrighty!


Next Chapter.