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" It's our dimension since eons. You found out recently, now you think you're in uncharted territory. Ask yourself who lead you there.
You might have the guillotine be we have TIME"
Saint Augustine wrote in Confessions, AD 397, that, in the aeons before creating heaven and earth, God "fashioned hell for the inquisitive". John Clarke, in Paroemiologia, 1639 suggested that "He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt". In Don Juan, Lord Byron called curiosity "that low vice". That bad opinion, and the fact that cats are notoriously inquisitive, led to the source of their demise being changed from 'care' to 'curiosity'.
Hexagram 18,
Corruption
Key Questions
What is behind this trouble?
What is the hidden cause?
Oracle 'Corruption. Creating success from the source. Fruitful to cross the great river. Before the seed day, three days. After the seed day, three days.'
In ancient China, ancestors angered by neglect would send sickness and misfortune. This is corruption: something dark, like a curse, lurking under the surface of life and manifesting as patterns of negative experience. We don't have to believe in angry ancestors to be haunted by corruption, whether we inherit its darkness from our past, our culture, or through our parents. When you receive Hexagram 18, it is time to examine those old, old patterns at last, to seek out their source and give it due honour and attention. When you understand where your experience comes from, you can restore the creative flow and make a genuinely new beginning. You will need to commit yourself to the journey and take the risk of crossing the great river into unknown territory. And you will need to pay careful attention to the process. Before 'seed day', which marks the beginning of a new cycle of time, you'll need to identify the source of the corruption and prepare for change. Afterwards, you need to pay attention to the needs of the new growth. Each of these phases has only a modest duration; you're invited to attend and examine, but not to dwell on this change for a lifetime.
Image 'Below the mountain is the wind: Corruption. A noble one rouses the people to nurture character.' Sequence Corruption follows from Hexagram 17, Following. 'Following people with joy means there are things to be done, and so Corruption follows. Corruption means things to be done.'
Key take away which relates to what you were saying
"ancestors angered by neglect would send sickness and misfortune"
the neglect is that the abandonment they felt
originally posted by: Direne
Unfortunately, it is not possible to use only electronic devices to capture the data that needs to be captured. You need a conscious observer, a brain.
originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
So, what is the point of time travel? To travel to the past in order to change the present? That begats a plethora of timelines according to science fiction.
Here's a thing about the future. Every time you look at, it changes because you looked. And those changes everything else.
originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
a reply to: boozo
Everything points to universal collapse.
And then there are others who simply say; "Some things have always been."
Perhaps it is just linear thinking that needs a beginning and therefore an end.
Dr Gaius Baltar: I’m going to call my lawyer. He’s the best in the business.
Caprica Six: That wouldn’t be necessary, because in a few hours, no one will be left to charge you with anything.
Baltar: What are you trying to say?
Caprica Six: Humanity’s children are returning home. Today.
originally posted by: boozo
Hocus Pocus Homo Erectus.
Your ticket on the other side?