The Road to Alexandria (IG: UPX)

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#201

Currently waiting on setup in the next 24-48 hours of some dedicated web hosting (well, VPS) for my domain. Gonna need this for the marketing side of things as well as for providing benefits to patrons if I go down that path. $22/month for a VPS ain’t too shabby.

I now have casting of strings to dates, gotta implement the same for datetime and then I can move on to the visualization. Already I have a sample query using VAERS with date on one axis, age bracket on the other axis, and count for the y axis. There’s probably a good 10 options or so for doing any visualization so this is going to be the crucial part of the implementation.

I’m feeling a lot better about things now that I have a bit of security, and I’m looking forward to getting this dedicated server set up to do some interesting things real soon. Maybe I’ll finally be able to make full use of these subs… as it stands I’ve felt hampered by the resources I’ve had available. Hopefully that’s a thing of the past now.

#202

Today and yesterday were slower than I wished they were. Yesterday was largely a day for dealing with family stuff, getting tickets ready to go see the fam for the first time in several years. I also drank most of the remainder of a bottle of gin; unusual for me (I tend to avoid alcohol except when my mind gets too overactive to focus properly).

I got back into the code today, but my next testing session and finishing this sprint has been hampered by the annoying details of multi-line text editing in strongly typed, memory managed languages. I spent some time today arguing with Bard again and then ended up ignoring its advice and doing my own searching. As a result I found a library or two to do what I needed and found out about a programming methodology I hadn’t heard about before called a rope (specifically text ropes).

This is the perfect structure for me to use with my call-back oriented keyboard for editing the SQL statements loaded from disk. My goal is to let the user edit their SQL statements, resubmit and see the updated results in real time. But editing multi line strings in Rust, especially when the new line point needs to be calculated, is hell. The String data type is UTF-8 and that means chars are variable width. Yet, stupidly, to split a string, the standard library implementation provides functions to split a string at a byte boundary, not at a char boundary. And to get the nth char… well you have to use an iterator. It’s enough to make any self respecting ex-Python user vomit.

A library called Ropey exists which should ease the pain. But after I figured that out, I decided to take a break and now I’m deciding to take a longer break because constantly on thought is painful. Sometimes you need time not to think. Perhaps that’s why I woke this morning, and fell asleep watching morning Youtubes, only to oversleep almost 4 hours. Programming can be exhausting.

#203

I went to pick up NR today on the store, since it made sense to use this for a cycle with the other products like IG. Even before I got it, suddenly I had this killer idea for how to make my app popular with or useful to gamers. I won’t go into that on this thread since, you know, market disruption requires a little secrecy, but wow… dunno if its presults, but the idea just came out of left field and as a result ideas I had had about getting back into WoW came back and how I could use AIMBot + the new PCC to pull this off.

So I ended up getting all of them and we’ll see how things unfold this holiday season :wink:

#204

Sudden thought regarding the holiday season: the ultimate reminder of how the birth (or death) of a single individual can change the world, and the corresponding importance of our own incarnations and unique connections with the Father. Aka this electromagnetic (and other) plenum and its real conscious nature, its tree like structure and more…

#205

Earlier on I got basic text editing working for SQL statements, although up and down are still a bit wonky. Backspace, arrows, adding text… havent added clear yet but that’s trivial. Statement resubmits with no issues.

The next thing in line for implementation is the voxelized display of datasets derived from SQL statements run on the loaded files.

I’m thinking of compatible outputs where there are 3 columns for the x, y and z axes, with an optional fourth field representing a number defining a color for the voxel based on various criteria. Starting with the basic tri-tone scheme I already set up with red green and yellow/orange. we’re talking an integer classification here much like an ML tool might generate. But done in SQL. That way, the existing multi-colored voxel system can be maintained. Might add procedurally generated materials, but any uncompressed textures I use are going to be problematic from a distance with moire patterns.

Except I’m having that internal conflict right now about whether to code now or give it a break. Part of me thinks I should catch a few hours which I can still occasionally do with this KB4 :stuck_out_tongue: before I come back to it around the time of the morning meditation.

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#206

Things have been going slower than I would have liked with the elaboration of the app, but I guess today’s meeting with $mentor helped renew my optimism for the app and the need for a careful. timed release of this.

I spent some time today getting code done for the initial default values for the 3 axes, with sensible dummy values if only 2 axes are contained in the data set. If only 2 axes are provided, Y must be numeric. If 3 axes are provided, the third column must be numeric, allowing for group by x and z. Y is always the height value to correspond with reality.

I still don’t have all the axis initiation code completed because I felt the need to focus in other areas tonight. The areas that have been the hardest to figure out involve scaling and categories and tick marks. I’m going off the space weather example as well as examples from vaers as reasonably complex. There are a lot of variables to consider to come up with reasonable defaults before customisation.

I also have been considering interpolated variables in the sql script, to allow users to customise their queries easier. Like imagine specifying a range or a series of values for different fields in vaers (or the Titanic or iris db) and then further grouping the output. Allowing us to get fairly easily the same effect I got in VAERity when I initially wrote it in python back in December.

I’m hoping to have some semblance of arbitrary data display from SQL working by Friday (but that may be ambitious)

#207

So it’s only Wednesday here and another several days before I have to be on a bus to catch a plane (or to be more accurate, walking rolling a suitcase to catch a bus to catch a plane to get in a car at the other end… oh the boxes we find ourselves within, lol). Work on the app is still slow as hell and I excuse myself by saying oh well you have to take a break every now and then.

Behind the scenes there have been some interesting experiences and I’m unsure what subliminal to ascribe them to, if any.

I definitely noticed this morning and last night responding to @Akephalos that the few runs of the new PCC that I’ve done have made me less concerned to talk about the different manipulation tactics that what I call the enemy uses to keep people from greatness. Additionally when I make these types of posts in response to forum content it is a clarifying action for me as much as it is for others because by putting what I know down “on paper” it makes it more coherent in my own head.

The other thing I’ve noticed is changes in my way of interacting with that conscious, omnipresent spirit toward a more direct mode of communion. This is also present when communing with my own body. It’s not always present but I most often notice it on my walks, which I have resumed, albeit irregularly and rarely in areas where I could run into the hoons I’ve encountered twice before.

I would call it a “magnetic way of interaction”, or a “turning towards” the existing omnipresence in the region. It’s much like how I used to handle doing Reiki healing for others, where you would “look” without looking, or “look” at a specific point in space with the intention of feeling what is there. The feeling is quite specific and unique, though not unfamiliar, and its been happening more frequently lately. As I’m not running RoS or any other majorly spiritual subs at the moment, QL seems like the best bet, although its not an outcome I would have expected. My walks are periods for connecting with the Creator, which I take advantage of when I remember to. I would say the change has made the connection clearer, albeit non verbal.

#208

The process of getting this visualisation working with as simplistic a configuration screen as possible is certainly an interesting one. Before I test the first steps of it, I need to have a working 1m x 0.6m screen with all the information displayed.

I almost feel like I need to nut all this out with pen and paper just top visualize it properly. I’m thinking something like x y and z axes with default values listed beside them in columnar format, with a button for each saying change, which then links in with the keyboard input. Maybe even using the arrow keys to increase or decrease the number by a fraction instead of typing it. I also need an option for bars vs points only. Among other things, I also need scale factors for each axis, titles, and so on. Fitting everything within a small space is complicated. Maybe I implement a multi-screen approach and switch between the configuration screens using some form of button or keyboard input. The problem of dealing with high information density with an app like this has been doing my head in.

#209

I jumped ahead to the plot functionality itself rather than the pre-plot screen to see if I could get some quick win results. Now I’ve come up against the problem again of data that can be of multiple different types.

For numeric columns, this isn’t a problem, I cast them all to f32 anyway since Hotham can’t display anything with a precision greater than f32 (as glam’s data types use f32 in constructing their Vec/Quat etc). But for categorical or string types on an axis, ordering becomes an issue. If I get a dataset back where the z axis values are “Apple”, “Banana”, “Fig”, “Egg”,“Fig”,“Apple”, what order should they get displayed in on the z axis? Obviously I could sort by name, going ABEF, but then what if the SQL to produce that ordering was deliberate, for example what if the data was “Fig”, “Egg”, “Banana”, “Apple” because the person generating the SQL wanted the values in reverse alphabetical order?

For categoricals, it seems to make more sense to specify an order separate from the SQL, because otherwise determining the ticks on the axis or even the ordering of points is going to be hell.

A similar problem exists with dates, or datetime values. If z is a date, do I display dates between the minimum and maximum value as a sliding integer scale, allowing the user to specify forward or reverse?

I suppose I really should look at how matplotlib and others handled the problem. I could look at the data types beforehand and choose a plot function, but that would mean 27 different plot functions, no thank you! I could specify a callback function for each datatype but then thats a performance hit on every iteration. It’s sounding like the infinitely long match statement is really going to be the best way to deal with it. Ugh. It was so much easier to deal with graphing shit in python and on a 2D screen. On a 3D screen, you have to construct the meshes from your data points and battle with the problem of arbitrary axes multiplied into that one additional dimension. Its nasty.

#210

I got basic plot functionality working this afternoon, and to scale. Alas the scale was a bit insane… even with the unit height I had set, the bars of a single year’s daily received reports in vaers binned by 10 year age brackets and by day, ended up towering beyond the edge of my 80m high skybox by a huge factor.

The histogram for 2022 by age is incredibly spikey and I suspect this is due to the irregular reporting in VAERS where vaccine manufacturers would routinely dump large numbers of their reports received over weeks or months into the database periodically and often at non uniform intervals. The large amounts of nulls in VAERS, the incredibly bad practices around using Windows code page encoded text rather than ASCII or UTF-8, using ‘Y’ or blank/null instead of true and false, and so on, is what makes me keep using it at a testbed database. I figure if my program can make sense of such a poorly constructed database as VAERS, it can deal with ordinary data cleansing without issues as well.

I hope I can get a bit more work done on this tomorrow before I head off to see my family interstate. But for tonight, I can’t be f’ed. That Christmas period feeling has hit and I need to stay focused to make sure I make it up to my fam. I suspect my time up north should help with the bloom of the subs.

#211

I managed to get scaled basic plot functionality working before my flight tomorrow. At this point I’m ready to pack everything away in prep for the morning trip to the airport. There’s still several bugs I need to fix (for negative values and properly scaling non numeric axes) and features to add (change graph translation, add categorical and date support for x axis, currently only supported on z) but I feel better about the possibility of getting this completed by the New Year.

Been feeling some crazy jitters tonight and only part of it can be related to the trip… I’ll have to try to tease out what exactly is going on internally that is causing the crawling unease.

#212

Here on a few precious days of holidays in Qld with my family, the synchronicity levels have been off the charts. Additionally, lots of good information picked up from different people in my extended fam to help me with the app.

Before I get to that, a little non Alexandria related content. Tonight was to be a night with parents for a family dinner at a local establishment. However, thunderstorms and Boxing Day caused plans to change. I was sitting in the car with them with rain pouring down, the possibly of hail, and lightning and thunder several times a minute. I knew I was under no threat because I was already somewhat in communion with the Creator. However, I did a quick prayer to the Creator that we were not impacted by the storm.

After we figured out the hotel was closed and wasn’t going to be serving food, we started back to the hotel room. Prominent in the distance through the windshield was a golden shaft of light, beautiful beyond anything I can do justice to in this journal, straight as an arrow, pointing from far off in the distance towards us. And as we pulled into our unit at the motel, a brilliant rainbow arching across the sky ending near our apartment.

I’ve been reading some material that arose from my reading of an article in our local Nexus magazine about castor oil, which led me back to reading about Edgar Cayce and his “readings” from back in the early 1900s. The article itself was pretty interesting, and has inspired me when I get home to undertake the use of the packs at least, if not using the oil orally. The books I found online by the author of the article were a great reminder of my past.

I was reading about castor oil due to my extremely inflamed gut which I believe has been responsible for a lot of my convalescent condition at home working on the app, and the continuance of said gut despite fasting. Its been a multi-year condition which has always been a source of disappointment for me. Despite this, what I read about castor oil has given me a new sense of hope, because I know a lot of the symptoms described are ones people have cured in the past using this oil. And the spiritual component has reminded me again of my past history. The Revelation of Mind stuff that caused me to take a closer look at Christianity didn’t destroy my past history, but it did separate the me that is now from the me that was then, for a while. And now they seem to be coming back together again.

Solve et coagula.

If tonight’s / today’s experience and recent events have taught me anything, its that it is important to maintain that connection to source, and not believe that it is a difficult thing in any way to communicate with the one who gave us all birth, because in reality it is as simple as breathing, a conscious decision about what we want to align ourselves with.

Going to Primal Seduction for a moment, I had a reality bubble experience with a cousin a couple of days ago that showed the potential of that sub, without taking me into territory that would be problematic. I ended up in a situation of being completely alone with a female cousin (married), who was helping me out by giving some feedback on my app, and their hubby even came past once to see what was going on because they didn’t want no desert and were happy just hanging out with me testing the app.

There was no sexuality in the situation, unless you call really enjoying hanging out with someone the equivalent, but it was what you might call an “analogous” situation, telling me that this type of situation is possible with non family members, and could easily lead to a sexual situation. Reality bubbles are definite a “thing”, and I was given a demonstration of this by virtue of the fact that the two of us were very much passionate about both learning and our prior experiences in VR.

I also witnessed my younger nephew becoming totally immersed in my app, and the lightning storms of “oh my god the implications for education” were firing off as I excitedly discussed how this could be used “for good” with my other family members afterwards.

I have gathered a lot of feedback to finish the app.

Additionally, I have a few letters from a few generations back that I picked up as a result of reading some letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother during the war.

They were both stationed in different places, and reading his letters to her has been a real eye opener. Just seeing how a soldier, who admitted to being “knee deep in a latrine” (knee deep in shit) at one stage during his station, taking the time to underline the word “darling” in his letters to my grandmother, and taking the time to re-assure her that it was till death do us part… well that told me all I needed to know. I’ve always been a bit that way myself. But its a wonderful demonstration of the manliness you have to possess in order to survive in a wartime situation. I was always close to my Grandad when he was alive, but this just makes me feel closer to him. The family were worried due to the racism in some of his letters, but they shouldn’t have been. That kind of shit exists in all times, but that kind of familial situation of “till death do us part” even if you’re at war really shows the type of manliness I emulate. You don’t go and fuck someone else just because you can’t be together for months or years. Anyone who does that isn’t a real man, especially if they can’t control their own impulses. My grandad spent a lot of time in this excruciating hand written letter to reassure my grandmother about his intent, despite the shock of learning she had seen a few other men. And if he hadn’t been that full on, I might never have been born eventually.

I do miss him still occasionally (he passed into the other world many years ago), and yet he did teach me about having a sense of humor in the face of hardship, and not giving up even under horrible circumstances (the last years of his life, he had to talk using an an electronic device due to a hole in his throat, and even then he was defiant and loved to shock soft mommies boys with his electronic talker)

This has been a long rambling post and I didnt even get to my time in nature today with the fam. But I guess the point is I’m getting the insights I need to move forward with the subs, and I’m getting them in droves.

#213

So this morning after the tapas and wine last night I had a massive clearing in my lymph nodes and intestines. They’re not fully unblocked yet, but I definitely feel fresher than I have the last few days. I’m wondering whether what I’ve been experiencing is the start of the bloom period from the subs, combined with my reconnection with the Creator. Either way, the beginning unblocking is a welcome start! It firms my resolve to try and find some castor oil today to test out the health information I’ve been finding (or re-finding) in the last few days.

#214

So I’ve continued my morning reading and as I go through the work of this rather unique doctor whose book was first written when I was still in nappies, I’m getting more and more convinced I know what I need to do to clear all the years long problems that have prevented me from reaching my full capacity.

I really like how he explains Cayce’s work by using the right references. The fact that Cayce was so insistent about talking about different types of consciousness and mans connection with God is that he had a very similar understanding of consciousness to me. He claimed it extended even to the molecular and atomic level, and thats always been my supposition too, not the least due to my own personal experiences and my prior linking of consciousness with the electromagnetic force (and particularly the magnetic component). More specifically, it was my alchemy research and reading of Fulcanelli that originally clued me in to the nature of spirit, which he explained in a very technical or precise manner. It was this weird synergy between Fulcanelli’s hints, my research of various things within the realms of electricity and magnetism, and my research into Tantra (particularly the Shiva Tantras which are insistent that consciousness is everything) and the experiences of various Indian gurus (such as Nithyanandas description of his experiences with his own guru) that led me to my understanding.

Anyway, that long rambling paragraph was just my way of explaining, this docs book is one of the few places I’ve seen someone explain consciousness in a way very similar to my own, outside of Indian fakirs/gurus, and that excites me.

And what also makes sense reading his work is about the consciousness of the plant/oil as it operates within the body, which is explained really well.

I feel like this constant malaise I’ve had for years has perhaps developed a certain level of consciousness in me (that tenacity that is needed to go on in the face of hardship), but it is no longer useful to my forward development. Perhaps this is why I am revisiting all this material now?

EDIT: I should add the article that led me to this book has been lying around for a long time at home, but I just didn’t have the strength or stamina to read it (plus I was superfocussed on the app development). It took me getting up here and sitting in a hotel room with my fam to finally feel the strength and desire to finally read it.

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#215

My apologies for not keeping up to date with this. I guess holidays help to realign priorities. I will probably be getting back to programming tomorrow morning. Not having worked on the program for a little over half a week, this should be a good opportunity to test the impact of IG on my thinking processes. May end up running it tonight during my few hours of sleep.

#216

Today will be first day back with IG since early holidays.

I got a little work done on the program yesterday but it wasn’t enough for my liking to round out the year, so today I’ll be working on the axis plotting to get dates and categoricals working. I want to end the year with at least these working so I can tweak the scaling and responsiveness in the early New Year before uploading it to SideQuest and doing all the marketing stuff I said I was going to do.

One thing I’ll be adding to achieve these goals is a rotation and translation setting for the text using a Euler/gimbal lock system. The flat XZ or XY axis strip is to be rotated around x first, then y, then z.

Once I have the text for the axes working properly, and the number of ticks system working with categoricals and dates, I can stop. Hoping to make this a productive day while still getting pre NY shopping out of the way.

#217

Definitely feeling the feet dragging recon today on the code. At least I got my NYE shopping out of the road; in the meantime though I’m no closer to having my code done that I wanted than I was when I wrote that this morning, and it’s after 2pm where I am now.

On the plus side, there’s no way in hell you would find me out in public tonight, it’s going to be a quiet night with my extended friend and family circle online and in person. So I may still get a chance to hack together at least the date/datetime axis stuff. But I’m not counting on it. The fact that I’m dragging my feet on it tells me about the level of complexity of the code and how much implementation boilerplate I’ll have to write which I’m not looking forward to.

I will get it done eventually, and probably sooner rather than later, as I’m my own worst critic and I tend to push myself hard. But right now, all I feel like doing, if I was abandoning myself to the passions, is day drinking and binge watching The Boys (my excuse: I’ve rewatched the shit out of the Expanse so many times I could probably tell you the plot of every damned episode, and theres a certain appeal to the anti-hero/underdog genre that just keeps me coming back)

Let’s hope the New Year sees a successful public release of a working and intuitive version of this app. And Happy New Year if you celebrate it to all my SubClub fam, may we all become a little more legendary in the New Year!

#218

So now I have dates displaying at appropriate places along a date or datetime axis. The next step is categoricals and strings.

I also fixed the program so the axes and the graph meshes are properly aligned, and tick unit size / number of ticks is configurable.

Additionally I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to obtain user input for parameters to the SQL query, how to specify the fourth optional axis, and how to deal with more complex queries such as those that must be run with VAERS to get back satisfactory results for things like histograms (2D or 3D). There is definitely a need to be able to save a graph or import configuration and reload it at a later time to save time. Maybe even plot configurations. And then I might consider version 1 ready.

Definitely finding it slow on the code at the moment but noticing a lot going on behind the scenes in my brain figuring out an optimal solution to some of those problems. I also need to add context specific help to the program, as well as raycasting to the meshes to display the details at the data point.

Not sure if I got some potential overexposure that is amping up the subconscious conversation going on. Going to make tonight a washout.

#219

Wasn’t able to get any coding done today. I went to our local shopping centre and lingered as long as possible in the frozen foods section. Spent time splashing water on my face. Played a little VR games until it got too hot even for that. My mind at the moment is like mush. There’s a chance of rain lingering about but its not looking promising for it actually manifesting. The heat is oppressive, and I’ve been reminded today of how sensitive I can be to such trivial things as heat and cold in this human body.

The heat isn’t due to climate change. We’ve had seasons of oppressive heat like this before, probably around the last solar cycle minimum, always in our summer. And the weird weather phenomena… well lets put it this way.

Some would claim that the weather stuff like floods, earthquakes and so on was God’s way of warning the world when he is displeased with the sin present in the world. Others would say it is due to the fact that we are well into another Heinrich event or flipping of the poles which happens periodically due to moving through a more energetic part of the galactic plane. Most would consider these two explanations in their varying levels of detail as incompatible. And yet the work of Wilhelm Reich, and James Demeo (Saharasia), can go at least some distance towards explaining how the religious explanation and the truly scientific explanation the Observers espouse are both different ways of looking at the same problem.

“But Emperor, these thoughts have nothing to do with subliminals”. Really?

My head, when it is not filled with thoughts of code lately, or uselessly cogitating over and vicariously watching world events on alt news channels, is casting a wide net over all the research I’ve done throughout my lifetime on topics like alchemy, magnetism, esoteric topics, religions and their origins, catastrophes, prophecy etc. And thats a hell of a wide net. 30+ years of devouring public libraries and building my own, libraries of internet books, meditating on the topics, and talking to others about them.

A lot of it is starting to coalesce. It was always fairly coherent, but certain topics have taken longer than others to find their place, like some crazy jigsaw puzzle where you start wondering if a piece from another jigsaw fell in the box unawares.

And so I’m starting to understand where Reich and Demeo got things right. To be honest, its not that far from Taoism, and there’s been enough work done nowadays by the Chinese on the physical manifestations of chi to where they are starting to admit what Fulcanelli stated in plain language quoting the old alchemists. Although the problem with looking at the physical manifestations is it becomes easy to confuse the effect (heat, light, fire, electricity, magnetism) with the invisible cause.

Why do the Bible and various Christians talk about God hating sexual sin the most? Why do all types of “sin” increase regularly almost like clockwork whenever we are nearly a magnetic pole shift, and why indeed to these magnetic flips show up in the record with such regularity regardless of what humans did in each period? Gothamburg, Lake Mungo, Younger Dryas, etc… Why do the Hopis and other indigenous people around the world insist that their rituals help to keep the world in balance, to slow down the occurence of these periodic events? These quasi-rhetorical questions are all connected in my eyes. There are answers way more interesting than “because the Bible tells me so”, or “because people are morons”, even more interesting than some dry sciencey sounding explanation that doesn’t get to the root of the matter.

I believe if people answered these questions satisfactorily and grasped their core, they would turn to a much different, more full/“wholesome”/complete way of living.

At the same time as I’m thinking all these things, I’m wholly, fully, and painfully aware that what I am doing with my app is only a very temporary good, a mere piss in the wind, and when the internet and our infrastructure go away very soon as they will (and they will), I’ll have to find another profession. Maybe answering all these questions through writing/storytelling :wink: , or healing by laying on of hands, which is one of my gifts.

I’m not going to answer all those questions above on this journal, because this is not the vehicle for that. But this is the correct vehicle to say I think people need to be asking these sorts of questions themselves, and not shrinking away from them due to controversy. Especially the questions regarding sexuality and/or sin. People will often dismiss this part of the religion and say “pfft, thats so last millenium”, or call it “the oppressive hand of the patriarchy” (this dismissal is even more hilarious when you know the truth), or avoid asking about the prohibitions altogether, prefering to focus on peace love and mung beans, even though Christ said “I come not to bring peace but a sword” (Matt 10:34).

I say here, look deeply into this topic. Look into it as if it was not some superstition or mandate some dude made up to control people. Try to understand what principles caused the Commandments and the prohibitions, as well as Christs commentaries about them, to come about in the first place. If you manage to answer that question and relate it back to those other topics I mentioned, you’ll probably end up pleasantly surprised.

#220

Still no forward movement on the app, although I feel certain I will pull the trigger on that real soon.

Instead I spent most of today hiding out from the heat. There was less things of Caesar, and more things of God.

Two or three things have stuck out to me today in my reading and watching stuff. But what I’ll mention is something I had not remembered seeing in John, the story of Jesus doing something which is very common among Hindu fakirs. He gives a demonstration of remote sight, in John 1:45-50, by telling Nathanael who is brought to him by Philip, “Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee”, before seeming to joke a little with Nathanael that he hadn’t seen nothing yet.

That was pretty cool, and the riddle that follows it in verse 51 even cooler, referencing Jacobs ladder.

I won’t go into detail about the other things I found in John, since they’re not really relevant to subs, but it seems to me that re-reading that gospel, some of the riddles spoken in those chapters are becoming clearer, in that something in me sees the words that are said and sees where they speak of something they don’t directly speak of, or where they speak in a special way. The only reason I mention this here is that there seems to definitely be a correlation I’ve observed between these fluctuations between “things of Caesar” and “things of God” and my perceived progress with the subs. I tend to find there is a cyclic alternation between and within the two extremes, and I can only assume that this means after this cycle is completed, the next cycle of Index Gate having an effect upon my physical world will start.

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