Alternate-logic

                          As ALL being an extension of a sole source - Classified Ad We are the other, as the Other and We are extensional branches of 'The Sole Source'

Metaphysical Transactionalism - Classified Ad It is no wonder that there's such individual and civic disaffection and estrangement from each other and the social fabric.. The temporal and the tangible and the physical paradigms and protocols have become so vulnerable and polluted to distortion, to corruption, and to other more toxic forms of amorality, that both the individual for their own sense of emotional stability and security, plus other classes and demographics of individuals, en mass, are seeking to establish their own platforms of credibility for themselves.

“What IS ‘real’ “ Having washed his hands of this discussion on such an ambiguity, he  threw the towel with which he’d been drying his hands on the floor  as he turned and walked away from the discussion… “How could they be so smugly presumptuous on such a relative point  of perspective?”, he muttered under his breath.. This is where we find ourselves, arguing over rhetorical language,  quantum mechanics which defy the contemporaneous consensus of  place and time beyond the honest, mutual transaction of a meeting  and agreement of minds. Otherwise, at best reality is a subjective,  group-as well as individual, illusion; at worst, the delusional denial  for the preferred myth or fantasy… Despite what has been proffered, previously, on this topic; I am  asserting that “reality” as it exists for the pedestrian mind is a  consensual illusion of convenience to expedite the incidental  mundanities. ‘True Reality’ is the intervention of a superordinate,  empiricism wh

                                        Wormholes-Gravitation-Blackholes.2                                                           Preface @JC127 Your perspective, which reflects an accepted line of thought, did have this one statement that is in resonance with the theme of this thread: "But one of the reasons being an asshole is alluring because it's a way to gain dominance of the situation...." Enter the anus and the black hole, both gatekeepers of sorts. And in homage to @shootersa , the anus as the fractal derivative of the black hole. We KNOW of the anus at what and how it can be diarrhetic or constipative.. From the quakes in So. Cali and eruptions elsewhere we see how that contained in the Earth can be contained and restrained before it breaks out. In that way the anus and the black hole are the literal and figurative 'assholes' of physiological and ontological dominance. This thread is looking at the potential analogies and metaphors which see