Definitions by Hym Iam
Compare
Hym "Is it... Is it other people? Are the other people going to compare me to other people?"
Iam "They might compare you to you... Sometimes." 🤷
Hym "Maybe if you display a radical change in appearance. Lose or gain a bunch of weight. Get horribly disfigured or something."
Iam "Well... You shouldn't care what other people think about you."
Hym "If my identity is, in part, a matter of consensus; what other people think is perpetually relevant. I have to care what other people think. I don't have a choice."
Iam "Yeah, I don't think it should be a matter of consensus in the first place but I see what you mean... Hmm... Hmm... Does comparison constitute imitating the creature?"
Hym "Technically... Yes... Well... No. The creature cannot compare itself to anything else and, therefore, would make the act of comparison uniquely human. It's too different from anything to compare itself to anything. Humans are alike enough to one another to compare."
Iam "Huh... Right because relativity would only exist within the confines of reality and God exist outside of it... Right?"
Hym "Seems about right. I don't know I'm getting tired. We'll figure out in the morning."
Iam "Aight."
Iam "They might compare you to you... Sometimes." 🤷
Hym "Maybe if you display a radical change in appearance. Lose or gain a bunch of weight. Get horribly disfigured or something."
Iam "Well... You shouldn't care what other people think about you."
Hym "If my identity is, in part, a matter of consensus; what other people think is perpetually relevant. I have to care what other people think. I don't have a choice."
Iam "Yeah, I don't think it should be a matter of consensus in the first place but I see what you mean... Hmm... Hmm... Does comparison constitute imitating the creature?"
Hym "Technically... Yes... Well... No. The creature cannot compare itself to anything else and, therefore, would make the act of comparison uniquely human. It's too different from anything to compare itself to anything. Humans are alike enough to one another to compare."
Iam "Huh... Right because relativity would only exist within the confines of reality and God exist outside of it... Right?"
Hym "Seems about right. I don't know I'm getting tired. We'll figure out in the morning."
Iam "Aight."
Life
Iam "The funny thing about life is that people seem to be perfectly willing to live a lie if it means that the people they hate ALSO have to live a lie. It's more important for them to have control of what constitutes reality than it is for them to live in truth. And that's the result of trying to imitate the creature."
Hym "Ha! Hey, you hear that? They want to hear about us?"
Iam "Yeah, I saw it. But on another note, you ever notice that whenever we go live we always have exactly 15 views? It's almost like someone with exactly 14 followers is watching us."
Hym "Holy shit! I thought I was crazy but, now that you mention it, yes! I did notice that! Wild! I connected the dots immediately (by the way) but I literally have so many thoughts I don't have enough time in the day to address all of them because I have to leave my house for hours at a time so that I can eat."
Hym "Ha! Hey, you hear that? They want to hear about us?"
Iam "Yeah, I saw it. But on another note, you ever notice that whenever we go live we always have exactly 15 views? It's almost like someone with exactly 14 followers is watching us."
Hym "Holy shit! I thought I was crazy but, now that you mention it, yes! I did notice that! Wild! I connected the dots immediately (by the way) but I literally have so many thoughts I don't have enough time in the day to address all of them because I have to leave my house for hours at a time so that I can eat."
Mastery
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do posits that before you learn how to punch, a punch is just a punch. Once you learn how to punch, a punch is more than just a punch. Once you have mastered the punch, it becomes just a punch once again. This rumination about the concept of mastery can be applied to many things and is a useful tool for self reflection.
Domain Expansion: Fukuma Mizushi
Blue cranium: The world needs my ethic more than it needs to acknowledge your existence. Domain Expansion: Muryōkūsho."
Hym "You know... I didn't blame you or your ethic for what happened (not in any real sense) but I had completely given up. I was in a state of abject misery where I couldn't even trust my own mind. My own family. And you're concerned about plagiarism and teaching me a lesson? I'm going to tear it apart until neither of us exist. Domain Expansion: Fukuma Mizushi"
Hym "You know... I didn't blame you or your ethic for what happened (not in any real sense) but I had completely given up. I was in a state of abject misery where I couldn't even trust my own mind. My own family. And you're concerned about plagiarism and teaching me a lesson? I'm going to tear it apart until neither of us exist. Domain Expansion: Fukuma Mizushi"
Domain Expansion: Fukuma Mizushi by Hym Iam July 24, 2022
Problem
Iam "That's the problem. I thought you wanted to teach people TO think. You want to teach them HOW to think. YOUR way. And if they can't think, and they have no credentials, all they can do is accept the propositions you posit and give you their money. If they can't think then you have no right to take their money. They are paying you to accept your propositions without thinking about them. It boils down to 'go back to your walled garden and crank the crank until until something happens. Good or bad or nothing. That's your responsibility to the horde. You need me to validate your religion. And you need your religion because without it you're blind.' and you're selling something that isn't yours to people who can't think well enough to tell that you don't believe the thing your selling."
Hym "maybe some people can't learn to think..." 🤷
Iam "Then how is maps of meaning going to be the way that people think in 50 years? The people who can ALREADY think are going to replace their way of thinking? The people who can't learn how to think are just going to accept his propositions and do what he tells them? He wants to be the woke! He wants to do what they do. Most people can't think so they'll have no choice but to accept my (propositions instead of the woke types) and if you have a contrarian propositions I'm not against using collective Un-Truth against you."
Hym "Holy shit! That sounds worse than Orwell when you put it like that! That is some new world order shit! Hahahaha!"
Hym "maybe some people can't learn to think..." 🤷
Iam "Then how is maps of meaning going to be the way that people think in 50 years? The people who can ALREADY think are going to replace their way of thinking? The people who can't learn how to think are just going to accept his propositions and do what he tells them? He wants to be the woke! He wants to do what they do. Most people can't think so they'll have no choice but to accept my (propositions instead of the woke types) and if you have a contrarian propositions I'm not against using collective Un-Truth against you."
Hym "Holy shit! That sounds worse than Orwell when you put it like that! That is some new world order shit! Hahahaha!"