Tygarjas Twyrls Blog

Time to ramble in the late hours once again . . . I actually considered relating a metaphor about socks to God. I decided my audience might object on the grounds of silliness. So, it’s ramble time . . . until the magical hand of the almighty guides me to a topic worthy of expanding upon . . .

I would have a topic picked out in advance, but, the tail-end of this video game that’s been engrossing me for the last two months is at hand, so, that’s my focus. And this video game so strongly has my focus because at this point it is truly a group effort. I am a part of a community that is trying not just to win a game, but to win a competition. You see, while this game is taking place in a virtual world, its implications will have results in the real world; the winning community or “tribe” of this online game gets a special concert invitation from the Man himself.

And so, while the medium may be virtual, the game is not merely confined to the virtual, and thus a blurring between the real and unreal takes place through a medium of communication amongst real people in a forum that mimics a real-world environment of sorts; or, at least reflects many aspects of the “real” world. And this becomes a topic worthy of this blog, because, the game is not only micro-cosmic of the macro-cosmic reality we all share, but also effects physical reality thusly, and so becomes in scope a demonstrable example of God in action.

And so the game’s designers, a microcosm of God, or Game Operation Designers as they are referred to within the context of the game, create a world in which different events took place. And sure, the physics of the game are tweaked a little, but the premises upon which the game are built, trading and community cooperation, are part-in-parcel to the realities of how the real world operates; albeit the world as we know it tends to operate on a bit of a bigger scale in which we haven’t been forced to flee the dry land . . . yet.
In other words, the mind that have created the virtual world of the game with a language of creating such a virtual world, the G.O.D.s speak if you will, and the world is created. Then, people enter the world and use it as best they can given what they have to work with. The language creating the world acts as the active principle of creation, the players using what has been created already act as the passive principle of creation, and the results of the interaction between what has been created and what uses that creation takes place accordingly. Can anyone say Triamazikamno?

And thus the metaphor of God is complete: The God that creates, the God that utilizes that creation, the God that results between the two; the God harmonization of results between the passive principle and the active one. And this is a metaphor of the reality of the divine. The determinant component of creation winds up being consciousness. Metaphor or reality, as one acts upon consciousness, so are the results obtained. As one acts unconsciously, so does destruction take place. Again, the active principle, consciousness; the passive principle, unconsciousness.

For example, if one is led by a fear, one’s mind is determined by something else and, whatever is directing that fear can convince one subject to fear that, say, a ritual of killing people is helpful in solving a conflict or protecting one from the harm that a person is afraid will be done unto them. Whereas a conscious person will perceive that engaging in further conflict increases the odds of harm being done to one. Even if the “enemy” is incapable of another physical assault, you see, what resources are used up to continue the escalation of conflict? What price is paid thus against one’s well being? Is it possible that when fear leads one to encourage a war without them thinking it through entirely, one awakes in a land in which their resources have bankrupted them physically in such a way that eating becomes harder because putting all of one’s money toward war has made it harder to find food, to find a job from the people who have given all of their money to war?

So, there are no wars in the game in which I am engaged, merely a bit of friendly rivalry because, after all, there is a physical stake to be had from the results of the competition. But even amongst us rivals, a fair trade is a fair trade. And when a tribe decides to make life harder for us, but one of their tribe-mates happily trades because their own tribe won’t offer good trades, their name is sung within our tribe as a friend. And the bottom line winds up being that some items one tribe has more of then another, and thus the tribes trade together if they really want to win, because, in the end, the winners win because of the resources they’re able to pull together given the same set of physical resources and rules. The winning tribe wins because of the level of thought they can raise, the consciousness they can bring to working together to create the best synthesis of togetherness. And I’ll tell you what, so far in this game, even though my tribe is still a bit ahead, it does look very much as though our competitors are starting to come to the same conclusions, and they too are realizing they’re consciousness just as we are. Whoever wins this battle, in the end, none will be the worse for wear, and we will definitely have a strong respect for what the other must have gone through to win this friendly competition with those upon whom we must have, in part, relied on to get as far as we did. And the deciding factor, apparently, will be our consciousness of what we have had to work with, that we may have used it accordingly. May the best tribe win!

May The Cube Be With You!