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9. TheMis-AlignedSpaces
After the reality wars, we basically settled down to mocking up 3 dimensional
universes.
Up to and including this period, there is no single agreed upon universe.
Instead, people would mockup universes pretty much at will. Both before and
during the reality wars, these universes had varying numbers of dimensions.
After the conclusion of the wars, it was 3 dimensional universes all the way,
but it was still an infinite variety and complexity with everyone going their
own way.
Before the reality wars, people were simply individualistic in what they wanted
to mock up. But in the aftermath of the wars, they became quite contrary and
disagreeable. They had had one thing jammed down their throat and had been
forced into agreement on the point of using 3 dimensions. So now they were
going to be as individualistic as possible in all other respects.
This era could be called the mis-aligned spaces because everyone was trying to
keep everything as far out of alignment as possible. Or it could be called the
mis-aligned agreements or the era of disagreement or whatever.
Putting it in an oversimplified manner, if someone invented fire engines to put
out fires, then somebody else would immediately invent fire engines to collect
the trash and a third person would invent traveling super fires that searched
for fire engines and burnt them up. But it was worse than that. There were the
rudimentary forms of language in the sense of meanings being assigned to
symbols, and out of contrariness, different or opposite meanings were often
assigned to the same symbol so that soon there were language difficulties and
great misunderstandings despite the fact that communication was still basically
telepathic in nature.
This carried on for a long time, and people fell further and further out of
communication with each other. This of course encouraged even more problems,
harmful acts, etc. and led to games of entrapment.
The beings were also gradually condensing down and becoming located throughout
the entire early period of the track. At the time of the jewel of knowledge,
the being was close to omniscient and not really located anywhere in particular
except that his attention could be occupied by something as elaborate as the
jewel. But the jewel convinced him that he should put some sort of mass or
anchor point into the places where he was operating. This was based on the
false idea that space was owned and belonged to individuals and so they needed
to stake their claim with some sort of mass. Eventually he begins to believe
that he is located where his masses are, but he still continues to put out near
infinite collections of objects to act as his body so to speak.
But his ability to occupy many viewpoints deteriorates and eventually he
condenses down to occupying a single location. This deterioration is occurring
during the era of the mis-aligned spaces but he doesn't really end up located
as a single individual until the agreements universe discussed below.
Again this is an extraordinarily long time period but is not really measurable
in human terms. All of these early eras are multi-verses (collections of
universes) rather than a single agreed upon universe and time measurements are
relative to a universe and tend to be meaningless in situations such as this
where time flows at different rates in different universes. Your experience of
the time is sequential and you can probably lay out some sort of measuring
system for yourself, but different people will have experienced different
amounts of time due to being in different places which had different time rates.
Nothing, not even the time rate, was agreed upon consistently in this era. It
made it difficult to play games and to communicate. Eventually, everyone came
to agree on one thing, which was that some basis for common agreement and
consistent operation was necessary. And under the surface, there was still the
idea that we should build something together that would be of comparable
magnitude to the jewel of knowledge.
Our solution was to build the agreements universe.
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