#can't tell if a sign placed here was to misdirect or not

[apollos-boyfriend]

fundy getting every member of the eggpire right but also adding purpled..... doing things to me........

[mad3lyncline]

𝑩𝑼𝑺𝒀𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑫 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺 – 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑻𝑾𝑶 . starters from the 2019 ep 'busyhead' by noah kahan . adjust pronouns as necessary !

𝒄𝒚𝒏𝒊𝒄

i'd change my name to find a space to get some rest .

i'd give my face to find a place to put my head .

this is who we are ; there's no glamour to it .

i cried at the rain but there's no way that i'm depressed .

if i think too hard i'm scared i might lose it .

the hollywood sign don't catch my eye much anymore .

leave it to time to make me feel i'm getting old .

give me the open mind that i had before .

i miss the days when one was better than the last .

i miss the taste of growing pains i knew would pass .

i miss those thoughts and that fear of losing .

i don't know why i see no light in anything .

leave it to life to turn my strengths back into weaknesses .

𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆

i shut you out just out of habit , i don't know .

i spent five months out here treading water .

now i wonder why you bothered .

why do you keep reaching for my hand ?

do you see something i can't ?

why do you try to save me ?

this fate is well deserved .

i only make things worse .

have i served my sentence ? learned my lesson ?

am i still so selfish ?

do you see my misdirections ?

𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒌

she hates to say goodbye , so she only says goodnight .

she sleeps with one eye closed so she can tell if she's alone .

she's the sunset in the west .

she is sleep when i need rest .

for you , i would never sink again .

i have grown to tell myself a lie and i'll sink .

time slows to let me jog along .

high hopes won't last me very long .

she's the path on which i tread .

she's the shiver up my neck .

she's the blood rush to my head .

𝒕𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒍

you knew me in my spiral .

sometimes i get this feeling i've been breathing someone else's air .

two thousand miles away from home under that sky , i tried to make my peace with fear .

so i guess i'll build a boat and live alone .

i'll teach myself to swim and live in my head .

if i never reach the land or live again , i'll be just fine .

i fell into a pattern where nothing would matter if i didn't care .

it wears me out , all the demons underneath the tide .

i sink like stone beneath the weight of all these dreams of mine .

you can't save someone too far to find .

it's stormy in the sea tonight .

𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐'𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈

do you remember drinking in the parking lot by the trailhead ?

i see you for a moment , then the morning comes and it's wasted .

we listened to 'only the good die young' and we laughed about its statement .

we walked in the same direction but we both got lost .

we both got lost in your angst and my impatience .

did you find what you were looking for ? some escape from your skin ?

you know , that place you were dreaming of where all light comes in .

i keep burning my bridges down just to keep you alive .

do you remember looking from the fire tower at the sunset ?

i guess i just got busy ; only saw you every other weekend .

i just moved to the city . hope the noise drowns out the regret .

they tell me grief is just love letting go .

they say they don't know who i am anymore .

i just have never shown anger before .

still haven't found what i'm looking for .

i'll keep growing my hair out long just to cover my eyes .

i'll keep playing that goddamn song if it keeps you alive .

[so-bitya]

I got to watch the Phantom & Ghost playthrough (thanks to @pain-in-the-butler d(^-^)), and I've been dreaming of Phantom & Ghost getting a remaster with HD graphics and a expanded story line, so here's how I would've liked it:

coherent routes

I think it would've benefited the story to just stick to one POV for the entire game, and you'll have to complete both Sebastian and Ciel's routes to get the final ending. Similar to other visual games games that have multiple endings depending who and how you play, that give you a true ending after completing the game.

like wow, the game is kinda nonsensical to follow? not only can you switch between the two different POVs while playing, but you can do it after nearly every scene? So all the clues and reveals feel all over the place and referenced in ways that don't make sense.

general appeal

alright lets be honest, the game's main appeal is its characters. getting to play all these scenarios with the servants and Lizzy is what's fun. sadly, the minor characters weren't as interesting to bounce off of, so it would be nice to lean into their eccentricities (when you got a guy named Patrick the Grey wizard).

Add more scenarios, more character combinations, more dialogue options. Can't tell you how disappointed I was that Stella's pov barely showed anything, esp since the moments between Lizzy and Stella were really good. Like, let's play with all these different povs! Stella's route could have flashbacks and much needed backstory to solve the mysteries. Lets see Lorraine, Patrick, and Stella's parents in the past, since so much of the story revolves around them And having all these expanded character options really build the replayability of the game.

tonal dissonance

This game was disorienting to me because how light the story remained. Kuro is a dark story! It has a lot of morbid humor and always something disturbing happening in the background. This game really was just some average errand for Ciel and Sebastian and it falls flat. So I had ideas to bring in out more of those darker tones kuro has, described in the next section.

the villain

I understand why Lorraine was made into the villain as a "surprise twist", but I truly dislike that she was the bad guy after dealing with suggested abuse and getting jealous over a child (without even the backstory to back it up??). There's ways to give misdirection over the villain without resorting to the cheap maid plot twist, that is frankly tired now (also I thought Count Ridley would be the villain? what was he around then for lol).

There's still a mysterious air around Stella's father, right? maybe, instead of villainizing an abused maid for the nth time, we can have a more in depth exploration of the maid's abuse and the father's character. maybe we find out the father was quite a vile person. Stella's route could imply the abuse happening in the background and how disturbing it is.

perhaps after the first half of the game, Lorraine is pined as the murderer, but Stella insists that she's innocent and we have to find the true culprit. the player is mislead here a bit, because Lorraine's attitude does take a turn and she acts very bitter and erratic (which we find out later her signs of abuse).

eventually Lorraine is found innocent and her father is blamed for the murder, and Lorraine gets with Patrick to take care of Stella at the mansion, a perfect happy ending.

However in the true ending, we find out that Lorraine did kill the father, but it was to protect herself and Stella from his abuse. We don't know how the mother died exactly, but let's implied that he was the one to kill her (mad father vibes). Ciel doesn't reveal this, since the case with the ghost and embezzlement is solved, but Lorraine gets away with the murder. Sebastian could suggest that Lorraine only did it for her benefit, because now she's acting as head of the manor, through Stella (or whatever edgelord nonsense he'll say).

The games ends on the note we, the audience, will never know Lorraine's true motives, all while Stella remains naive, still thinking the best of her parents and Lorraine. All we can hope for is that they'll take care of each other now, though who knows what the future holds.

So there's plenty of dark aspects to this story while having a rather positive ending for our main characters! let me know what yall think! any other ideas for an ending or story route?

(anyway here's a drawing of Stella and Lorraine to convince yall: x)

[twdmusicboxmystery]

gimple and kang agree the finale is about completing twd story--not setting up spinoffs. the twd finale concludes the story. even without spinoffs it will feel like closure. this comes from interview with an entertainment mag. my question: i don't see how after the many years of the daryl/beth story being told behind the scenes that their story would not be part of that closure. not that it can't continue in spinoff but it needs acknowledged in twd. your thoughts please.

Well, I have a couple of thoughts here.

First off, any sign of Beth in 11c wouldn't qualify as "closure." It would be a seed or hint that will kick us into the spinoff or some other part of the TWDU. So, I don't think anything with her would qualify as what they're calling closure here.

The other thing I think is intentional here is talk about the finale specifically.

So, they say the finale (in other words, the final episode of S11) will be about closure, shoring up current arcs and the show at large, rather than setting up spinoffs. I believe they're telling the truth about that. They'll need to bring all current arcs to a good ending place.

As we head into the spinoffs, it's clear that most of the settings won't be at Alexandria, so they need to bring the Alexandria arc, in some way, to a good closing point. It's also clear that many of the current, non-mainstream characters won't be continuing with the show in a big way. Maybe we'll see them again in the future, but perhaps not for a few years. So, the writers won't want to leave their arcs hanging.

But I guess my main point is that this applies to the finale episode, not to any of the others. So, this may be confirmation that we won't see Beth in the final episode, but that doesn't mean we won't see her in the coda of an earlier episode. After all, Morgan first showed up in the coda of 5x01, the first episode of that season.

For me, I hope they follow that template and show her to us in a coda of 11x17. No idea if that will happen or not, but I'm hoping.

And, of course there's always the chance that the writers are being sneaky. I mean, if they showed us Beth in a coda of the final episode, would that qualify as being part of the episode? Depending on how they're defining it, they may not consider it a lie. You know how they like to word things carefully, so they're not technically lying, but still giving misdirection.

There's really no way to know for sure until we see how 11c plays out.

So, to answer your question in a nutshell, I do think we'll see Beth in some capacity in 11c. I feel like there's an excellent chance of that. But I don't think Beth and Daryl's meeting and story will be a major part of that. I'm thinking the spinoff will address that more.

Just my current theory, though. Hope that helps! Xoxo! ☀️����💗

[orionsangel86]

100% agree on the selfcest, like

Marvel don't have the balls

They're don't have gay people because they're afraid of backlash, you really think selfcest is the way they're going to go????

Things I wanna know:

WHERE IS B-15 MY BELOVED

They??? Kidnapped an CHILD??? how the fuck did a child step out of your ridiculously drawn boundaries??

Of course they were androids, can't be that easy to contact them. That basically means that Ravonne(?) was in charge. Get the truth out of her, Sylvie

Actually, does this mean that "Time Keepers" don't exist at all?? And this is all a play by a mortal Man™ to keep Order™? A Thanos 2.0?

Fuckin' KNEW pruning wasn't death. Like FIRST of all - pruning? Weird name and in Gardening doesn't it mean to cut away the extra leaves to allow new growth? That doesn't mean the cut part of the plant is dead

What do you think that place is? Also, can't believe they Wandavision and didn't bhage mid credit scenes until EP 4

Ahhh I've only just seen this ask and OOooh I have sooo many of the same thoughts here!

On the selfcest - I don't think using their lack of gay people is actually a great argument against them going for it. Remember that this is selfcest between a man and a woman (well, a male presenting and female presenting Loki anyway which means straight people get to look at them and consider it "normal")

I actually totally think Marvel WOULD choose selfcest between a male and female presenting Loki over any "gay stuff" because I just think Disney are that nasty.

Remember how in Supernatural The CW signed off on Dean textually showing sexual attraction to a DOG (which was very clearly shown to be a female dog) and yet threw a MASSIVE homophobic hissy fit when the show tried to imply he reciprocated Cas's gay feelings to the extent that they totally butchered and ruined the plot of the last two episodes of the show to cover up the gay?

These networks are more willing to support the concept of bestiality between male and female presenting different species than explicitly gay scenes between two consenting men (Looking at you Beauty and the Beast)

So yeah, I would totally believe that Disney would choose the path of "heterosexual appearing" selfcest over anything remotely gay

(yes I know that Loki being attracted to women doesn't make him heterosexual yes I know bierasure is a very real problem and as an actual real life bisexual person I am well aware of this but do NOT give Disney this pass okay.)

That being said, whilst I totally think Disney WOULD choose this route over say, canon romance between Loki and Mobius, I still don't think Loki and Silvie will be a thing. Mobius even called it out in the episode as being twisted and nasty (it IS guys even if you think it's in character for Loki, it's just weird and icky...) so I think it's a misdirect. Its basically this:

"I have feelings for you!"

"I have feelings for you too!"

Narrator: "The feeling was friendship, but neither of them had ever experienced it before."

Anyways, enough about the selfcest!

1. B-15 IS GONNA KICK ASS AND BE AMAZING

2. Oh I actually think there is gonna be a good explanation for that based on Ravonna's refusal to tell Sylvie what the reason was. (Still think maybe it has something to do with the fact that Sylvie isn't actually a Loki? (Please Disney, if you are going for the Loki/Sylvie love pairing route at LEAST reveal her to NOT be a Loki but the Enchantress instead! THAT would make sense!!!)) Otherwise it's probably going to be because she was a GOOD Loki. Like, a Loki who was raised with love and knew who she was and was growing up to make good choices and be a good person and that just didn't fit the timekeepers narrative (which actually makes the whole child abduction thing even worse...)

3. Yeah the time keepers being fake seemed a bit obvious to me, but I still don't think its Ravonna who is in charge. I think it's gonna be a wizard of Oz type situation where it's just some man with an over inflated ego in charge of the whole thing. I've heard rumours about a dude called Kang? But I don't know enough about the comics to really going into any further detail about that.

4. OMG that is such a great point about pruning. You prune plants to keep them neat and growing the way you want them to rather than leaving them to just grow crazy and chaotically the way nature intended. The point is that pruning is a form of control which is technically against nature. But you're right that the pruned pieces aren't dead technically, you can prune, propagate, and regrow.

I think that place is gonna be some sort of dumping ground for all pruned things, both pruned people, and the items on the timeline that were "reset". So you know how young Sylvie was playing with the toy ship? They took Sylvie, and "reset" the timeline which caused the toys to disappear. I think the toys will also be in this place that Loki is now in with all his alternate versions. It's gonna be like a weird pocket dimension or something.

I was so annoyed about that midcredit scene lol! I wasn't expecting it so just stopped watching when the credits first rolled and didn't know Loki came back at first! It was only when I saw people talking about it on here that I was like wait a sec... and went back and watched it! Urgh! What a sneaky trick!!! Lol!

Aahh this answer got long and rambly but please let me know what you think about all this! I am still really enjoying this show even with the icky selfcest implications and can't wait to see the next episode!

[humaudrey]

TheThings is back on their bullshit

(WARNING: LONG RANT AHEAD!!!!)

Anyone know how to delete a YouTube video from someone else's channel (or just their entire channel all together) because...

This

Is SO

I don't even have the words!!!!

Once again, your girl watches one of their videos (several times unfortunately to really analyze this ish) so y'all don't have to and let me tell you, this one is 1,000,000x more infuriating than the one when they belittled Uma to lift Mal and make her better in comparison (link to my post on that here).

I've been recommended this video so many times since the trailers for D3 dropped and when I saw the title, I KNEW I was gonna hate it and low and behold, I DID!

So let's go over their "5 Signs on why Audrey is the real threat", shall we?

#1. Audrey's Outburst

So, their first piece of evidence as to why Audrey's the unfathomable dark force (their exact words) is because of the fact that Audrey yelled no as Ben proposed to Mal, "ruining their beautiful moment". They then explain that it would be "natural for Audrey to be jealous since she is Ben's ex-girlfriend", being perfect okay with the ugly "black, bitter, ex-girlfriend" trope that many have loved to stick onto her in their fanfics (I see y'all 👀), and then compares that moment to when Ben asked Mal to be his date for coronation in D1, stating that she didn't react so strongly before, so why now? EXCUSE ME?! Our girl left the Tourney Field crying that her BOYFRIEND had serenaded another girl with a love song, and not a single person ran after her. She had every reason to be upset then, too. Who's to even say why Audrey's saying no? It could be a terrible misdirect on the trailer's part. The theory that Audrey's possessed is swirling around everywhere, maybe it had already begun to take effect, which is why she's "acting so strangely". D3 hasn't even been released and they're already villainizing her. Figures.

They also use the typical argument that Audrey's into titles and she wants what Mal has, and that she didn't want Chad because he was merely a prince.

She doesn't want Chad because CHAD CHARMING IS A MANIPULATIVE TOOL! Ask Evie! Chad only thinks that being king would get Audrey's attention. You wanna talk about jealousy? Titles? If ant character is jealous of anyone's titles, it's Chad freaking Charming, not Audrey.

#2. The Crown

An obvious piece of evidence is the fact that "Audrey" steals the Queen's crown and Maleficent's scepter from the museum. Whatever, right? They assume that Audrey's faking her slumber when the sleeping spell hits, giving her an alibi. They then have the FREAKING AUDACITY to say that AUDREY, a non magical princess, who has been so anti-magic since D1 (with a grandmother who she loves dearly, that's triggered by the mention of said spells and curses), was the cause of the curse. Their evidence? Well, her family's VERY familiar with it, so it makes sense, right?

NO!!!!

Audrey has NO magic whatsoever!!! Did they forget that? The only reason her family is "so familiar" with the sleeping spell is because THEY ARE VICTIMS OF SAID SLEEPING SPELL!!!! And it's not like she could cast it, because, again, AUDREY HAS NO MAGIC!! If anyone is familiar with a sleeping spell, it's Mal. After all, she almost put Evie under just so she could grab her mother's specter from her.

How dare you take an Innocent family's trauma and turn it around to make them the bad guys?

#3. The Scepter

They continue to say that "Audrey" is to blame for the sleeping spell, rather than Celia, Hades, or Uma because "Audrey" has the specter. And immediately, they suggest that maybe Audrey's not working only. You wanna bet who they hinted Audrey was cooperating with?

If you guessed Uma, you'd be correct. All because Uma's seen laughing in her teaser. WHAT?! So, not only do you attempt to take Audrey's entire character and drag it through the mud, you take ANOTHER black girl's name that you've already tried to ruin and tarnish and say they're working together because they're BITTER?

If they're BITTER, it's ONLY BECAUSE YOUR WHITE, PLAIN, BARNEY COLORED DRAGON FAIRY PRIVILEGED PRINCESS PROSPECT FAVE had treated them HORRIBLY.

They end their third sign with the line "We knew Audrey was a mean girl, but we didn't think she'd stoop so low".

The meanest thing Audrey has ever done INTENTIONALLY, was 1.) Tell Evie that she and her family don't have a royal status in Auradon (to which, she is technically correct) and 2.) Tell Mal that she and Ben wouldn't last because she's "the bad girl infatuation".

Jane should be branded the mean girl because she turns on the one girl that helped her with her rise to popularity (which, granted, was for malicious INTENTIONS and caused EVEN MORE self esteem issues by degrading her).

MAL should be branded the mean girl, if anyone! She's:

Dumped rotten shrimp on her former best friend because she laughed at her

Forced a guy to throw a party since his mother was away, knowing that his abusive mother wouldn't be okay with it

Then locked a girl in a closet full of BEAR TRAPS at said party all because she wasn't invited to her birthday party when they were SIX YEARS OLD

Dumped lye on another former best friend's hair because she DIDN'T WANT TO BE COMPARED TO HER

Told another girl that all she had going for her was her personality, so she needed the wand to make herself pretty

ROOFIED HER SOON TO BE BOYFRIEND INTO DATING HER IN THE FIRST PLACE JUST TO GET A FRONT ROW SEAT AT HIS CORONATION SO SHE COULD STEAL THE WAND

AND TAKES SAID WAND FROM THE GIRL SHE EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATED EARLIER AND POINTS IT DIRECTLY AT AUDREY ALL BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT MAL WASN'T GOOD FROM THE JUMP

Let's see a video ranking Mal's top five worst moments, huh? There's plenty of those to use for a freaking video.

#4. It's All About Mal (sounds like D3)

They start this point off with: "Audrey has beef with Mal".

AS SHE SHOULD!

They use the fact that Mal stole her boyfriend and her title and their families history with one another, so Audrey has this motivation to ACT OUT AGAINST HER ENTIRE COUNTRY? Not buying it! I won't buy it, especially since both parties seemed to have made amends at the end of D1 when Mal silently curtsies as a lame form of an apology that Audrey gracefully accepts anyway like the future Queen of Auroria would. Audrey's even seen bowing willingly at the end of Set It Off, and is even cheering and dancing with her friends as Mal and Ben share their moment under the fireworks, so clearly, Audrey's not broken up about it in the slightest.

They propose a theory that Audrey's absence in D2 is because she's planning her revenge in Sherwood Forest, and that she doesn't have car troubles because "Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather should be more than capable of handling it, so she's only calling Chad to help her plot her scheme.

Whatever they're smoking, I want it.

Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather can't help Audrey with her car troubles because of the MAGIC BAN!! They needed Chad to help with her car.

And I HIGHLY DOUBT that Disney would plan something so carefully since the entire series is branded with plot holes and inconsistencies anyway, so... 🐸☕

#5. Face Off Time

Their final point states that Mal has to face off against the enemy and they use the first teaser of dragon-Mal blowing fire at "Audrey" on top of the castle, and the card at the end that says "betrayal", that Audrey has betrayed all of Auradon. And since Mal only turns into a dragon against SERIOUS ENEMIES LIKE UMA IN D2, Audrey has to be a REAL THREAT.

Thank God they're probably not making a D4, because if they continue this trend of WOC wronged by Mal as the villain, I'd be scared for Evie...

So, in their words, Audrey and Uma, two of the few black girls in the entire franchise who have every God given right not to like/trust Mal, are Mal's MOST SERIOUS rivals, as if Hades doesn't at ALL pose a threat to Auradon. No, Audrey is So mUcH MOre THreATEninG thAN ThE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD, SO SHE MUST BE STOPPED!!!

I see you, TheThings, and if I didn't despise your channel before, I hate it that much more now after enduring 5 minutes of hell with you guys.

AND, TO TOP IT ALL OFF THEY CLEARLY SHOW THEIR BIAS OF MAL OVER AUDREY!!

Like, just say you're racist and GO! Audrey's clearly influenced by some magical being, whether it be Hades (WHO WE SEE DOING SOME KIND OF MAGICAL RITUAL WITH HER AND HIS EMBER IN A TRAILER, BUT I GUESS THEY CHOSE TO IGNORE IT FOR SOME REASON 🐸☕), Dr. Facilier, Celia, or maybe even Maleficent. Your reasons for making Audrey the villain are pathetic, and I wish I could block a YouTube Channel so I would NEVER see another video from your channel ever again.

I'm so sick of how "mean" brown girls are treated in media AND fandoms. Why does Audrey get all of his libel while Mal gets away with EVERYTHING? Why are the Cheryl Blossoms, the Quinn Fabrays, the Kitty Wildes, and every other mean girl that Emma Roberts has ever played are so praised and are instant fan favorites while the Josie McCoys, the Santana Lopezes, and the Brees are seen as the bullies when, at the end of the day, they're both different sides of the same damn coin?

And if you don't see a problem with this, then, newsflash, you are the problem!

So, I end my rant with this:

And a short tag list containing: @amityravenclawelf and @coco-rena because I know these two are looking forward to this!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

And I apologize for the typos but I was HEATED!!

[sagebodisattva]

Conspiracism and Nihilism

So let's ruminate and dissertate on the commonalities and differences between conspiracism and nihilism. Conspiracism is a general world view that sees history as driven primarily by interwoven webs of secret conspiracies. Within conspiracism, there are conspiracy theories, which are leaner narratives, more specific, and more limited in scope. A conspiracy theory often alleges that a secret plot involving hidden actors is behind particular historical events. And so I'm glad that we have finally come to address this particular subject, as it is a symptom of an insidious pervasive spiritual sickness that has come to infect the minds of modern men. It is a dangerous addiction to get involved in, and it's propagation represents a profound malevolent misdirection, which further ensures even deeper misdirection through the interaction and consumption of it. But before we delve deeper into that, let us first ask: how is conspiracism related to nihilism? It is related to nihilism in a dark sense, that is, with the most commonly understood interpretation of nihilism: a type of misanthropic philosophy with a negative implication. And before any of you object, I am not saying this about conspiracism because people believe that this is true, I'm saying this because, I already know people don't believe it's true, and I am here to tell you that, no, you are wrong, it is most certainly true. Conspiracism is profoundly nihilistic, because it negates many vital components of your existential being. The main one being, the basic innate unconscious trust of the context of your experience. Therein, anxiety, paranoia and delusions ineluctably follow. It's the type of negation that renders an existential explorer dysfunctional and eventually completely defunct, as they are no longer able to learn or unlearn, as paranoid suspicion negates the value of ALL existential applications, good and bad; so the truth gets grouped in with all the lies and the baby ends up getting thrown out with the bath water; resulting in a deep mire down a slippery slope dead end swallowing pit of quicksand. This is what conspiracism ultimately culminates into. It may start small, with just a few minor theories about isolated events, but if followed further and given more time, energy and focus, it will inevitably start have an accumulative effect, eventually snowballing into a full blown detrimental mindset; note that the word mental is in the word detrimental. It is indeed specifically detri-mental, as illusory appearances within sensory perception are all mental in nature...

So, this is a contagious infectious disease of the mind, a dis-ease of the mind, and for so long as a mind is not at ease, a mastery of mind can never be realized. Distrust is like a ruthless fire that spreads further and further, raging out of control, consuming anything and everything in it's path. And while this circumstance is indeed disconcerting, distrust isn't the real foundation of the problem, as distrust is only a sign of a much deeper issue. So running around trying to put out the flames of the ruthless fire is addressing the wrong area of concern, as distrust itself is only an indication of a sickness with a much deeper root cause. Distrust isn't the source of power fueling negative manifestations. It is only one of many symptoms. What gives rise to the distrust, and lures a consciousness towards conspiracism in the first place, is fear. Fear is resistance, and resistance is the friction that causes the spark that produces the flames of the fire that burn and destroy everything. Fear is the antithesis of a calm mind, and without a calm mind, true nature cannot be realized. The key to solving this existential quandary is in letting go, and allowing the mind the peace and serenity necessary to recognize it's true nature. This is done by shifting the focus of attention away from the appearances of sense perception, and instead, focusing it onto the source of the attention itself. To get caught up in the reflected details of the 5 senses is to lose clarity of their source; and losing the clarity of their source is what creates the delusional ignorance that wrongly identifies perceptibles as separated objects to be desired or feared. This is why you can't fake it till you make it. Enlightenment isn't attained, or something that happens to a character. This is why whether or not you are actually awake isn't an ambiguous discernment to make by the truly wise. It's obvious and able to be determined within minutes, usually upon the opening of your mouth. The second you point outwards towards the field of percievables with attributions, it is already known that you are deluded. And there are no, "yeah but what abouts", as many of you may feel inclined to implore.

Understanding that everything that appears in the field of perception is mental phenomena means that there isn't anything that is an exception. Paranormal phenomena isn't an exception. Divine phenomena isn't an exception. There simply are no phenomenal aspects of experience that are exceptions. And this is why conspiracy theory is so particularly treacherous, and the agents who herald the message are so particularly malignant. Nothing serves the agenda of evil more efficiently then pointing at the details of sensory information and entreating people to get caught up in it. And boy do people get caught up in it... with religion always seeming to be the first in line. Theists are the best known faction to get caught up in conspiracy, as modern society has become the embodiment of satanism for them, which just goes to show that religion has always been the original mother of all conspiracy theories, replete with fantastic mystical narratives, doomsday prophecies, and epic battles against agendas of deception and corruption serving as much of the meat of it's myths... but we also see it in other groups, usually with interests in politics, social activism, paranormal investigation, and the new age movement; fields of intrigue that have natural inclinations towards the analysis of truth and falsehood, and an assumed advocacy of moral righteousness. These types of people are the most susceptible to lure of conspiracism; many of whom are of good intentions. But you know what they say. Just ask the theist. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ooooh! Sounds like a conspiracy!

But seriously, if you want to be taken seriously, you need to let go of the conspiracy mongering... as to even be involved with it discredits your legitimacy. But that's part of the conspiracy, isn't it? It's just what the shadow agenda wants! To discredit all conspiracy theory as a domain of kooks and nut jobs, right? Well, you've done a good job of this all by yourself, entertaining absurd far fetched notions concerning such things as lizard people, flat planets, and the evils of science and technology, whose forbidden inquiries have given rise to quantum fluctuations that change things in reality, seemingly with a exclusive penchant for altering the spelling and grammar of pop culture art and commercial products! Yeah. So the shadow agenda doesn't need to do anything; as you discredit yourself with so much of this nonsense. But I know what you are thinking, and I don't want any of you to get the wrong idea; as this seems to suggest that there are dependable conspiracies and unreliable conspiracies; and that one needs only to discern between those that are true, and those that are false... but this is another layer of deception, as there are no conspiracies that warrant your attention. I say this with the most emphasis to the new agers, whose motives often seem to waver back and forth between spirituality and conspiracism. This is a dangerous fence to straddle, as it isn't a position with an interest in the truth. If you want to concern yourself with the affairs of the world of men, then drop the spirituality and go back to politics or social activism; as true spirituality has no place for conspiracy theory, or any other kind of ideology whose purposes are aimed at making changes to the surfaces of illusions.

And by the way, in case you didn't get the latest conspiracy theory memo, things like enlightenment, detachment, eastern philosophy, DMT and the pineal gland, are now officially a part of the conspiracy theory canon, as they have been identified as components of the nefarious agenda! That's right. But it makes sense, doesn't it? Illumination... Illuminati... So this must mean that enlightenment is evil! The opportunity to gain a clarity of mind that is able to discern between the truth of awareness and the lie of illusory perceivables, is to be avoided at all costs! Instead, just focus on the face value of the percievables! Yeah, never mind the truth, it's evil. Just keep focusing on the distractions. Everyone knows this. Just ask Alex Jones: a man who never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like. He'll get you facing in the wrong direction fast enough. Ergo, getting back to the original point leveled at the new ager: It's a disservice to be speaking about enlightenment and conspiracy theory within the same teachings, as they contradict each other and are wholly incompatible. The truth is found by looking within, not by looking without. Focusing on illusion begets delusion, while focusing on awareness fosters clarity of mind. I know that evil, corruption and injustice are hard baits to pass up existentially, but you must remain vigilant in the mastery of your mind, lest you fall prey to the seduction of illusion. A nightmare is never overcome by breathing more life into it via validation through fear, resistance and macro focus on it's details. This approach only bolsters and sustains the nightmare. A nightmare is overcome through detachment, brave abandon and re-directing the focus of attention towards the source of the nightmare, which reveals these negative manifestations to be projections of the mind. This is called lucidity; a mental state of clarity that dissipates all nightmares.

So if you fancy yourself a so called truther, or as some kind of champion of ethics and honor, then you will stop enabling falsehoods. As, that's all you are doing with conspiracy theory. This is something conspiracy theorists should really consider, as most of you are perpetuating evil unintentionally, and are fostering a lie, with the false notion that you are somehow blazing a trail of truth and righteousness: unaware that the actual underlying conspiracy beneath all conspiracies is the use of conspiracy itself to cause distraction, foster wickedness and discredit authentic avenues to the truth of existence. And this is important to understand, as once this surreptitious disposition takes root in a mind, it renders the adherent virtually worthless, and moves them beyond the point of all possible reclamation. For, what good is a so called truth seeker if they can't tell the difference between a truth and a lie. What good is a so called truth seeker if they can't even tell the difference between the tools of liberation and the tools of slavery. Of what use is a person to the truth if they are forever paranoid, trustful of nothing and suspicious of every little thing, no matter how trivial? It's the type of mindset that cannot learn anything new, as any new information has to be skewed to fit the conspiracy narrative, and it also cannot unlearn, which is a crucial element of awakening, now completely inaccessible to the conspiracist due to the stupidity of his own blind obstinance. It's one thing to be skeptical, but once you start becoming so extremely distrustful that you begin to condemn even the things that can free your mind, you have moved beyond skeptical and become an impediment to the truth and an agent of disservice.

So, verily, I say unto you: pull the plug on conspiracy theory. Negate it. And this shouldn't be too hard, as, if you are a conspiracist, then you are already a nihilist... as you have negated many of the salient facets of your existential being... so, since you are already proficient in negating aspects, why not employ nihilism in a positive application and use it to detach from that which is false... thereby creating the proper conditions to facilitate intimacy with what is true.

And I know after everything I've just said, some of you are saying, Yes, of course the Meta Sage is asking me to abandon conspiracism, because he's part of the conspiracy! He's just an agent of the evil agenda. Right?

Sigh.

You're never gonna be able to move forward until you negotiate this hurdle. If you ever do, I'll be waiting. And so, until then, I leave you with this:

So many of the great warriors among us never even get a chance to train and master their minds because they are far too busy trying to fight evil and save the world.

Hang up the spandex. Don't waste your time trying to be a hero for illusion. Realize awareness, and everything else will fall into place.