Be Less Excellent: Email

E-mail is probably a very big part of your day if you are the average business person these days, and chances are your email messages in some way interact with one or more below-average looters. In order to prop up their dignity and make them feel better about themselves, we recommend that you actively practice "less excellence" when crafting your correspondence.

 

Here are some tips that you can consider when typing up an email to make it more below average and thus less intimidating to the looters that might see it:

 

+ Never change the subject line, even if the subject of the thread has changed completely.

 

Sometimes a chain of back and forth emails might begin with a reply, and not an original message.  For instance, someone might email you an announcement like "Keep the back door locked" to which you reply, "By the way, is the new server ready?".  This opens up a can of worms because the server was DOA, it had to be shipped back to the manufacturer, nobody knew what the status of the replacement was, someone else wants the shipper to be responsible for the handling charges, etc, etc, etc. This goes on for weeks, but in order to maintain your less-threatening, sub-standard alumenousity, you (on purpose) and everyone else (because they are mostly losers) continue to forward and reply with the subject line "Keep the back door locked".

 

+ Begin every other sentence with a lower case letter.

 

+ Frequently end a phrase with a space, and then a comma ,and then more words.

 

+ Use the abbreviation "Ect".

 

+ Occasionally make no sense whatsoever.

 

+ For extra emphasis on something, add fifty exclamation points.

 

+ Frequently forward emails without any explanation at all, or with the first name of the person you are forwarding it to, without capitalization, as the totality of your explanation. Like this:

 

To: Erik Olson

Fr: Julie Patron

Sb: Keep the back door locked

 

erik

 

----- Original Message ----

> To: Julie Patron

> Fr: Fed Ex

> Sb: Keep the back door locked

 

> jule

 

>----- Original Message ----

>> To: Julie Patron

>> Fr: Fed Ex

>> Sb: Keep the back door locked

 

>> please forward this requestion to the appropriate answerer ,for replying

 

ect.

 

 

Why Are Stabilizations Delayed 2.0

Apparently, the fight over raising the debt ceiling, the debt, taxes and spending cuts is not just nothing new, it's actually a thing they call an "Economic Stabilization War of Attrition" which even has mathematical principles behind it where you can predict how long it will go on, which side will win, and what the outcome will be based on the number of people involved, the current will of the people, the current state of the economy, and the overall stakes.

 

I don't understand the math, but even without that understanding, I found this paper (or rather, a wiki about the paper) is very interesting.  It is about the mathematics behind the politics of economic stabilization:
 
<a href=http://www.edegan.com/wiki/index.php/Alesina_Drazen_(1991)_-_Why_Are_Stabilizations_Delayed>Why Are Stabilizations Delayed</a>

 

I showed it to my Romanian friend Mircea during a discussion where he was suggesting that the United States reprint and re-issue new currency, and all of the various reasons why he felt that it would be a good idea.

 

Mircea then commented, "I read that page, interesting in formulas, some might be good indeed, But here we do not have so much time for theory man, we did it here, it was on other places too, even in US during Abraham Lincoln happened as well. So what is the problem then? too much political biased there, too much inner greediness, come on.
 They should combine forces for such procedure man, monetary stabilization of US dollar is not a matter of republican / democrates position, it is a NATIONAL INTEREST priority there, can't you see it?"

 

He pointed out, as an example of such an achievement, the Hoover dam, which he had recently visited.

 

Yes, the Hoover Dam, the Apollo project, the International Space Station, the Large Hadron Collider, The Internet... they are all great achievements of mankind working harmoniously to make the world better.

 

However, doing anything radical to stabilize the American economy is another matter, because this time it is not about achievement, rather, it's a war.
 
I have no doubt that the type of stabilization he was talking about would be very effective, but something as radical as changing the currency would require a complete collapse of the economy on a very personal level here.
 
The problem is, thus far, the economic problems are not painful enough to outweigh doing something that Revolutionary (with a capital-R). 
 
Also, there are really two separate things happening simultanously:
 
1. A global recession of almost unprecedented scale
 
2. A debt crisis
 
These two things seem to be feeding each other.  Most of the people I listen to say that the recession was caused mostly by bad banking and lending practicies, and to a lesser extent, the wars, and finally by accelerated growth in the emerging economies like India and China, driving up the prices of oil and steel.
 
The solution to the recession should have been (they say) to let it work itself out.  But what happened was the democrats (and to a lesser extent president Bush) chose to spend trillions of dollars bailing out the banks, the automobile industry, and even the american people by sending everyone checks.
 
Then, maybe a little drunk with power, the democrats also "nationalized" our health care economy (to go into effect in 2014) which added another trillion dollars to the debt.
 
So now, a Stabilization is required because the growing debt cannot be paid for by the current tax levels.  Taxes must be increased to stop the debt from growing, and to start bringing it back down, however long that takes, but as long as it is on a negative trajectory, due to an annual revenue surplus, whether by higher taxes or budget cuts or both, everything will be fine as is, and it will just take a generation to reign in that debt. It is what it is.
 
However, the republicans are angry because this particular stabilization fight is over a problem that they feel never should have been created in the first place, beginning with blaming the democrats over the mortgage banking crisis, to contributing to the debt with the stimulus and health care reform.

 

Democrats, on the other hand are anry because they think they were dealt a bad hand in 2006 / 2008 and are being thwarted at every turn by the republicans who only want them to fail.
 
Add to that, the fact that we are still in a deep recession which can only be cured by a private sector economy that already thinks it's (T)axed (E)nough (A)lready, and the Stabilization War over miniscule changes in policy is raging on and on with no attrition or concession on either side.
 
(So imagine trying to even broach the subject in the halls of congress of a currency swap. We would rip each other to pieces over here.)
 
I agree that the math (from the linked page) can only be proven in retrospect (as if I know anything about that). Also, this time, (as they always say) "It's different". This is not just the same tired old political cat-fight over taxes vs. spending. This is an attempted revolution unfolding slowly before our eyes, based on a plan which started in the mid-1900's by the CPUSA, the Soviet Union, and the labor unions.

 

Rrrrrrt - What?
 
I have some logic to back that up:
 
3 Points:
 
Point 1. Barack Obama campaigned on a promise that he would "Fundamentally Transform America" which can only be literally interpreted as a polar shift in government. Americans mostly do not want to be transformed, and if they do, they don't want "The Government" to be the motor of transformation. Americans do not want "change" once this word has been actually defined to them. They will resist, successfully.
 
Fundamental Transformation actually means redistribution of wealth, something long and constantly sought after by democrats, liberals, Black Liberation Theology (Obama's church), and of course, socialists and communists and most of the young, innocently ignorant do-gooders, plus the politicians who take advantage of them.
 
Point 2. Americans are scared to death of communism. Most Americans consider socialism to be the gateway to communism, merely a stepping stone. American communists point that out, by the way. Therefore, all acts of communism and socialism must be performed with great stealth, or they will be shut down by the American people.
 
Anything that has ever happened in history is magnified and rebroadcast, like a bull-horn in the face of the consumers of American media. Anything that even hints of a historical connection, or parallel with communism, fascism, totalitarianism, etc, EVEN IF IT'S NOT ACCURATE, drive people into the streets (and eventually the polls). Examples of this include the "1938 Germany", the Weimar Republic, "having a September 10 mindset", communist revolutions, books like Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, etc.
 
The population of the United States is now officially in a perpetual state of freaking out, and the media is shoveling data like coal into a furnace to fuel this stasis. This is the environment within which serious politicians are struggling to make progress.
 
Point 3. The American Dollar is the defacto exchange currency of the world. This means we can get away with murder and do whatever we want.
 
Therefore, in order to fundamentally transform the United States, the only thing that will ever allow this to happen is to collapse, or at least marginalize the dollar. That process  devalues the currency.
 
Part of the strategy in making this happen is to run up a huge national debt, using any excuse they can think of (which has been done, now).
 
The next thing that will happen will be the devaluation of the currency (btw, that will be the sign to leave the planet if you can).
 
This crashes the American economy through hyper-inflation and debt default. The only imaginable solution at that point would be a socialist revolution, and the people will allow it because they don't have any other foreseeable solution, and because there will be soldiers pointing guns at them.
 
Part of this strategy includes selecting the wrong solution to a big problem on purpose. An example of this is the Affordable Healthcare Act, which will break the healthcare system in this country. The only way to clean up after that, is to nationalize it completely.
 
Education of the masses is the only panacea. People can't be fooled and manipulated if they know what is going on.  Our culture and popular media is now beginning to elevate "Carnival Barkers" to the stature of News Press, and the main-stream news media is being actively discredited into oblivion for it's openly biased, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-conservative, anti-republican taint.
 
And this is happening by the free market, which means the "Carnival Barkers" are striking a powerful chord within the consciousness of the people. Hopefully this will make some kind of difference.
 

 

It was the Damnedest Thing

Telephone ringing


AFB: Public Affairs, Sergeant Reed.




Joe: Hi, my name is Joe Jones, I’m with the Globe.




AFB: What can I do for you Mr. Jones?




Joe: I’m following up on a story and I was just wondering if I could get some information on some events that occurred last night?




AFB: OK.




Joe: We had several people call the paper and I’ve talk to some others who say they saw some kind of UFO in the sky around 6 o’clock last night. I’m trying to coordinate the stories and decipher whether or not they mistook some kind of military or commercial aircraft… you know…




AFB: OK. What can I tell you?




Joe: Well? I talked to the airport up in the city and they said they didn’t have any flights over the town last night, they all go north, you know…




AFB: I know, they can’t fly over the base.




Joe: Exactly, so it must have been some kind of military aircraft. Can you tell me if you have any activity in the area last night that could have been mistook for a UFO?




AFB: I don’t know, we’ve got a lot of things. Can you be more specific?




Joe: Well folks in town say they saw something, some of them described it as a lot of lights. This one guy, he’s a pilot, he said it wasn’t a plane. Said it was a mile long and moved like nothing he’d ever seen. Couple of fellas said they thought they saw some jets chasing it.




AFB: Yeah.




Joe: Then it just took off. Said it went straight up.




AFB: Yeah.




Joe. Yeah, what?




AFB: Yeah. That happened.




Joe: What happened?




AFB: It was the damnedest thing. They said we got this thing on radar coming straight at us, and it wasn’t a mile long but it was pretty big.




Joe: What… I…




AFB: Then they scrambled a couple of fighters we had, we always have two on alert. They chased the damn thing like fifty miles but then…. Pffft.




Joe:




AFB: Couldn’t catch it, I guess. It was pretty weird.




Joe: You’re joking with me, aren’t you?




AFB: No, not at all. That actually happened. I can’t explain it. Nobody can. That shit happens all the time, we’re just not supposed to lie about it anymore because, what’s the point of that? This thing came down, clipped a few treetops at about two thousand miles per hour and then…. Flew away.




Joe: You’re serious?




AFB: Yes, godammit. I don’t know what else to fucking tell you. It’s not like we can do anything about it. This shit happens all the time and I don’t know what else to fucking tell you, alright? Now is there anything else I can do for you today, Mr. Jones?




Joe: No, I guess not. But…




AFB: What?




Joe: Nothing. Thanks. Goodbye.




AFB: Have a nice day.




Click.

Objectivism 2.0 - Mind vs Matter

This is the theory: The mind is a heirarchy of conscious threads. Each thread is a continuous stream of thought. Some threads are very sophisticated and have access to a lot of resources. Other threads are less, and the smallest type of thread is a simple, closed loop containing a memory. This type of thread is a meme.

At the top of this stack is, well, you. You are in charge, so we call this the Master Thread. Just below the surface, are many Commander Threads. These threads perform a lot of tasks that you don't need to be aware of. These threads do many different things, but we call them Commanders because they have the power to direct you, physically, when necessary.

Here are some examples of commander threads:

Focus - When you are focusing on something that you are doing, such as driving a car or shopping at a store, many of the commander threads team up to simply repeat a mantra, "I'm Driving I'm Driving I'm Driving" or "I'm Shopping I'm Shopping I'm Shopping". (Incidentally, this, like all forms of communication between threads is, surprisingly, carried out in the form of your native language, i.e. English).

Reading - While reading, depending on your level of focus, one or more threads will actually recite, in spoken language, what is being read by the eyes.

All Commander Threads speak the native language of your mind. This is how they hear each other, and how they get attention. The more threads there are reciting the same thing, the more it is brought to the attention of the rest.

At the center of the conscious mind there is an Aperture of Consciousness where the Master and Command threads reside. Within this Aperture, there is a Cacophony of spoken streams of thought coming from all of the threads. The loudest things heard in the Cacophony are the things which are brought to the attention of the Master and Commander threads.

For instance, they might all simultanously scream "Red Light!" or "Duck!" causing the entire being to instantly turn it's focus, and conditioned responses, to a single idea.

Another thing that the threads are constantly doing, is simply speaking what they perceive, stating the names of the objects, feelings, perceptions, even humorous connections as they experience them through the senses or through their relations with other threads.

Memes also do this, only to a much lesser extent, and it requires more memes to operate in concert to rise to the level of attention with the cacophony. An example of this is several threads crying out simultanously, "Where's my keys? Where's my keys? Where's my keys?" to which a great many memes might begin screaming the answer.

These threads are all talk, however. There is not much feeling going on with them. In fact, Threads don't have Feelings as you an I might immediately think of by definition.

Feelings come from lower down on the stack. Feelings come from an area downstairs, maybe just a level above physical sensation. In fact, many kinds of feelings are just that, a physical sensation that we very often mistake to be thought.

Here is where we get to the crux of Obj20. The part of your mind that is YOU, is the complex web of threads and memes. The rest of it is living meat, and animal that you inhabit. This animal has a separate mind based on instinct and feeling, and we've become so horribly entangled with this beast that we don't know what part of our mind is "I", and what part of our mind is "It". We do to very bad things with the "It" within which the "I" resides.

1. We include "It" in our decision making process: The things that enrage or excite the creature are incorporated into our mental processes as though they were valid thoughts, and they are not. They are like a dog barking next to you. Yes, the barking might have significance, but it can easily not, and either way it is a separate entity, driven only by instinct and feeling.

2. We torture "It" by making it responsible for our actions, by including it's perceptions in our decision making, and then by blaming it for the results. We consult it for a reaction by imagining horrible things, allowing it to perceive these things, and then having a reaction. Often times this process results in both unnecessary torture for the creature, and bad decisions as a result for the mind.

Yes, "It" will feel, be happy, hurt, hungry, and sad. You cannot stop that, but we make things so much worse by letting "It" run the show, and by torturing "It" by trying to solicit it's opinion about everything.

One way we do this, is by using a mechanism that we have called the Future Stage. On this stage, we act out future (and sometimes past) scenarios, confrontations, and other events that induce an emotional response from "It". We do this in order to try and make a decision, based on the emotional response It has. This both tortures the creature and results in faulty decisions, based on feeling and not rational thought.

Another way we torture It is by allowing a particularly effective specialist thread (or threads, I don't know) that we refer to as "The Conscience" to torture the creature, rather than simply tell the rest of the threads what it is thinking. I believe that this is because The Conscience has trouble getting attention by shouting into the cacophony, so he just stabs the creature over and over again with a pointed stick until you listen to him.

So, the first steps to creating a rational, pure Objectivist Soul is to train yourself to do a number of things. This is not easy to do, and it requires conditioning your mental responses, and spending time thinking about what is really going on inside your head.

1. Get off the Future Stage: Stop demonstrating hypothetical scenarios to the animal mind, looking for a reaction. You hurt it, and it gives you illogical responses. Don't use the Future Stage for tactical thinking. Instead, narrate your thoughts to yourself and your threads in English (or your native language). The animal cannot perceive this, and will not react with any emotion.

2. Ask your conscience for it's opinions, in English (or your native language). Pretend that you are your own personal Jiminy Cricket and tell yourself what your conscience wants to say about things.

(Playing the role of various commander threads, as though they were actual people in your head, helps you to shift your center of gravity to focus on the function of that thread. Of course, it's still just you who is speaking, but when you take off the hat of the Master Thread and put on the had of a specialist thread, you can actually assume the role of that thread for a time being. This technique can be most dramatically demonstrated by sleeping on demand, and dreaming while awake.. not daydreaming, but actual dream-dreaming. I'll write about that later)

3. Feed, Entertain, and Comfort the physical side of your body, and it will not bother you about anything.

4. Know that when the body feels, it is not you. It is a separate thing from you. Emotions are like the guages on the dashboard of a car, they are not the driver behind the wheel.

The Objectivist Soul

At the core of the objectivist mind is the objectivist soul. Stripping away every external force (fear of pain), corrupt motivation (pity, pride), mistaken assumption (altruism, selflessness), and physical compulsion (hunger, pain) there exists the Objectivist Soul.

This soul is something that I've been developing a theory on for about 7 years, as of the time of this writing. It represents the current state of a single conscious thought process unfolding slowly over those 7 years and continuing to unfold. Although this theory is not complete, it has advanced far enough that I am able to manifest physical benefits from the understanding it gives me, and I feel that now is the time to begin sharing it.

The simplest way to describe something complex and new, is to give names to it's elements. To simplify these concepts, the names will seem frivolous, but I have given these names to these things for unimportant, yet actual reasons. For instance, my name for the human body, the human animal, everything that is not the soul, is "Pablo". When I refer to "Pablo", imagine that I am talking about a gorilla. The original Pablo was a person that I shared a hospital room with one time. He'd had a stroke.

Observing Pablo helped me to advance my theory of the objectivist soul one more baby step.

Rather than waste any more of your time, I am going to come right out and declare the conclusions of my theory in it's current state, and you can then choose to remain interested or not.

Critical to this theory are several important structures within the mind. The most influential of which, for better and worse, is the "Future Stage".

The Future Stage is a capacity that your mind has, like being able to throw a ball or form sentences. The Future Stage is where you act-out scenarios, conversations, and situations that may or not (and usually don't) take place in the future. It is also used to a lesser extent to replay the past.

The Future Stage is an amazing tool, unfortunately it is more often than not, used to torture Pablo.

(Other structures, which I will not describe in detail here but will in separate posts, include the "Master Thread", "Commander Threads", "Threads", "Memes", ("Threads" and "Memes" produce the "Cacophony"), the "Aperture of Consciousness", and a dream-making entity called "Hector".)

The most important take-aways from this theory are

1. You and the Animal that contains you are two different things.

2. You must stop torturing this animal, and stop taking it seriously too.

3. You cannot really feel pain, only joy

You are riding around inside an animal, thinking that his instincts are your feelings. The only true feeling is accomplishment, or joy. Everything else is an instinctual reaction spewing from the animal in which you are contained.

Pablo is an animal, like a gorilla or a baboon, that has instinctual reactions to all situations, desires, boredom, hunger, and pleasures and pains of its own. You are driving this animal around like a go-cart, unaware that there is any separation between the being that is yourself and the being that is this animal. You have intertwined the purity of spirit, soul, and intellect with the mindlessness of a wild animal.

You have to unlink from that, and stop frightening and provoking the animal by acting out situations on the future-stage before it. Stop including the feelings and reactions of this animal in your thought processes. The future is none of it's business, so stop asking it's opinion about things. Think to yourself in language, not acting-out scenes on the Future Stage. The animal, believe it or not, does not understand language and cannot react to anything that you think strictly in language and don't act-out on the future-stage.

If you are experiencing a confrontation, there are stages of escalation within your mind, but they may start with a sensation of threat to Pablo. Even if they don't, you immediately begin translating the situation to Pablo by reproducing what is happening onto the Stage in a way that Pablo can understand, and Pablo gets angry, and starts to burn inside, and wants to growl.

Later, when you replay that event for Pablo, he can't tell the difference between reality and what kind of presentation you are torturing him with on the Stage. So he gets angry all over again. And, in anticipation of a showdown, you postulate scenarios by acting out the showdown, over and over again, in many different ways on the Future Stage in front of the animal mind's eye of Pablo, who starts freaking out because he doesn't understand that it's just your imagination.

First of all, stop torturing Pablo by including him (or her) in your inner monologue.

Second, things will hurt Pablo, and there is nothing you can do about that, but realize that it is not you who is being hurt, but the animal in which you reside.

Comfort it, but don't accept it's pain as your own, because you are incapable of experiencing pain.

Also, it is your responsibility to feed it and entertain it. You don't need to do anything else to keep it happy. Stop hurting it from the inside, and stop being effected by the things that hurt it.

You can't stop things from hurting the animal but stop making them worse by including yourself in it's pain. That makes it hurt more.

Just let the animal have it's own reactions and don't let it kill anyone.

You know, steer it around, act normal. Feed and entertain it. It will be happy.

As for you, what are you doing? You're riding this animal around like a carnival ride. Stop that. Stop shirking your responsibilities to use the animal as a vehicle of accomplishment. What is the matter with you? When it gets bored, do you just get it drunk?. You are supposed to be watching it, feeding and entertaining it, but you act like an irresponsible baby sitter and instead of working you just get it drunk, which, by the way, makes you artificially feel the one true emotion, accomplishment. You get it drunk so you don't have to watch it, and at the same time you revel in a spirit of accomplishment that you got via the drug.

Don't include Pablo in the decision-making process.

You may think that your wife, husband, or boss is the single biggest cause of stress in your life but worse than that, your mental threads are the single biggest cause of torture to Pablo. You can impart all kinds of pain to Pablo. You can torture by forcing him to watch the Future Stage, by making him responsible for decisions that you should be making, and by making him take responsibility for your mistakes.

Meanwhile, Pablo has no clue what's happening. Pablo is just an animal being driven around by a force he does not understand (you) and being presented with situations, both real and imagined, that he can't deal with emotionally, which he translates into physical pain, anxiety, and all of the other emotions that are of the animal, but not the Objectivist Soul.

You cannot feel pain. Joy is the only emotion you are capable of. Anything else is Pablo, being hurt by the outside world and by you.

These are the conclusions resulting from a train of thought, a line of reasoning, that has been going on for about 7 years, that I can specifically point to, however, like all mental activity, it probably has roots going all the way back to the beginning. But it was 7 years ago that I starting wondering how people in your dreams could act so independently, how visual images could unfold so vividly without any apparent attempt on the part of the conscious mind to create or direct them.

This was when I discovered the independent concurrent threads of consciousness that are constantly crowding into the aperture of the mind.

I also discovered how to listen to them while unasleep, how to allow dreams to start in my mind at will, while awake and alert. I learned how to fall asleep on demand, which wasn't my goal but it was an interesting and useful side effect. And I also learned that sleep is not nearly as important as dreaming, and that dreaming could replace sleep any time, no matter how briefly experienced.

But all of this was fun and games until I discovered something I called Tangles. This was when I learned that I was not Pablo, and that Pablo was just this poor creature being tortured by the world and by my own mental behavior. By thinking that there was no difference between myself and Pablo I included Pablo in all of my thought processes, and my thought processes were in turn directly effected by stupid Pablo. This was because of the Tangles.

Most of the time, a new discovery of the mind (like the Future Stage or the Threads) takes weeks, even years to fully explore and understand, but much to my astonishment the discovery of the Tangles was like suddenly achieving sight after a life of blindness. I was shocked, actually.

I untangled Pablo and let myself accept that I was me, and Pablo was Pablo, that my thoughts and joy were my own and that Pablo's world sucked, but poor Pablo, he's an animal; but at least I could now stop torturing it and stop accepting his torture as a property of me.

I didn't think it was true, I thought. It had to be fake. There had to be proof. It was like thinking I could fly, and there was only one way to prove that this was real.

IF the totality of the theory was real, then I should never feel pain, suffering, anger, contempt, bitterness, jealousy, dread, fear, or anything but gladness and joy from that point on. That's impossible, there's no way, I thought, but it's true.

Now, I see Pablo getting hurt, I feel slings and arrows driving into him, but knowing that it's not me feeling the pain, only the physical body of Pablo, and knowing that sadness or rage welling up from the gut and into a flushing face of Pablo is just his instinct, his animal reaction, I am powerful and free to mitigate and navigate Pablo, to hold his reigns and drive him around the trouble, and to comfort him like a dog. That kind of trouble is not my trouble, it's two animals barking at each other.

There is no fear of future events because it is Pablo who reacts with fear to the Future Stage. The only purpose of the Future Stage is to present hypotheticals to Pablo and see how he reacts. You don't need to do that. His opinion is not important. It is when you are all tangled up with him, but untangled, you don't need that.

(Incidentally, it is very hard to train yourself to stop using the Future Stage, but it's possible, and even easier when you realize fully that you do not need it, and that it only hurts Pablo. This requires practice, self training, and conditioning some "Guardian Threads" to detect when it's happening and shut it down.)

But what about other people? What about another person who shows up and starts to torture Pablo?

You put a stop to it. You take Pablo out of that situation as fast as you can. You are not capable of malice, anger, or even sadness, so this becomes very easy to do, but will be probably very confusing to the other person. Suddenly you're Jesus? Granted, inside that other animal is a soul, but I can also now see that the other animal/soul is in a horrible tangle, and my vision and my process is crystal clear.

Until I can figure out how to present this theory in a not-crazy form, and find kindred souls to untangle, I'm an objectivist soul living alone in a world of howling mad beasts.

And now there's an App for that!

 

 

Update: Conscience

After the smoke and confusion had begin to clear I noticed that there was still a commander thread deliberately hurting Pablo. It took me a few minutes of meditation to figure out what he was, and to my surprise it was something I should have already discovered just from having watched Disney Movies alone: My Conscience!

It seems that this little thread has only one way to get the attention of the other threads, and that is to take random stabs at Pablo, causing him physical pain.

Using the same techniques I employed to keep random threads from jumping onto the Future Stage (including this one, which I had not recognized as any one more special than the others), that being a combination of training and active guardian threads to watch him, I was able to get him to join the rest of us in the Aperture like decent beings who can discuss things without resorting to violence. He was actually extremely relieved, because he had never been able to get our attention any other way before.

I think I'll name him "Jim".