Life of a Sage

To speak or write in a angry or violent manner; rave.

So, you don't have to be angry to rant. You can angrily express your joy/sadness/irrationality/etc...

-From the thread about the ranting forum. So this is more like an irrational story that I was going to put in the philosophy and metaphysics section until it stopped making sense.

So stay a while and listen. If you want to. Or you can just leave.

Let's say that most of us interact with goals that require a lot of time to manifest. We stay on rigid courses of cryo-frozen travel until we reach our goal and enjoy it for a moment. What is a moment, but moment? A moment is a moment in time where time stops - in this moment, this moment of safety protected from the fears of temporal flow, the moment is going to last as long as there is enough temporal mist to keep it going - Imagine a prince and a fresh princess after the wedding - they head to their room in their tower for the night, which is going to be a moment, because they earned it - and I hate sounding like I am a sappy romance novel writer, so we are not going to mention them again.

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So a sage, then. Let's say he lives in a hut on top of a hill with a few other farmhouses around, there is a lot of hay in this picture, hay on the roofs of the houses, and such. Let's say that instead of relying on temporal manifestation, the sage instead relied on momentary manifestation. So, he keeps his life within... 10 minutes of order out. Therefore, whatever he can do within 10 minutes is what he uses as a measuring tool to determine what he has to work with to build his lifestyle. But there is a problem with this - any kind of thing involving depth is going to take time to learn how to do.

If this was a natural process, for example, from the Middle-Ages with a dash of Magic thrown in, imagine the Sage having an extended life-span to maybe 200-300 years for a lower sage, 300-500 years for a middle sage, and 500-700 years for a higher sage. The early lifespan would be to be able to go through the workings of the city below and learn how things work - if the Sage, for example, enjoyed chess (or another type of game, Elder Scrolls, Diablo, Starcraft which are incredibly mainstream ones) he might have to take a lifetime to learn everything there is to learn that requires some kind of functionality.

But besides hobbies, the sage might wish to earn a trade, like being blacksmith - in fact, learning a functional trade like that is great because he is not only making something functional, he can also add some artistic trait like engraving to his weapons and lapels.

Notice this. The artistic trait is the one that can take the longest to be learned completely - possibly never - because it is explored in the idea plane. It is what can add the most value to something after that something has achieved its full functional value - however, even functional value can become very precise.

We can say that is where we separate the yang, functional value, from the yin, artistic value if we like - but he could learn both.

Anyway, if he takes what he gets from that, and then sets up in the hut above town with a comfortable straw bed, a lantern, a notebook, a fireplace and a kettle, and maybe a box of alchemy materials or books.

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The bed allows him to sleep, the notebook allows him to draw diagrams and create or remember, the fireplace keeps him warm and the kettle helps to boil him stews or whatnot - maybe he has a garden. The alchemy materials are interesting - you could think of them today as being a box of electronics, basically.

So lets say that it is a box of electronics, these alchemy materials, that can be used to print stories, take pictures, take video, conjure worlds, do complicated math formulas and such. That's the idea. But if we take it back then and think about what the alchemy materials would be. Things naturally present in nature that could be gathered

and used for certain purposes - similar to how the Native Americans lived off the land and used natural materials for their lifestyles. The question would be socializing, how that could be done.

Oh - the whole point! This kind of lifestyle allows the sage to have moments of peace where he is not attached to any kind of stress or worry, and can connect to others as who they are, and reality as what it is. That is the whole point, to try and have moments.

But the sage in my example did have to spend a lot of time in his early life learning what he needed to know to master life before getting to walk through it - this is a component that I think is necessary in the West, at least.

This could be replaced by something else, like the internet, or microchip implants, or a cultural shift, but an extended lifespan would also work.

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One other thing that could possibly work from a psychological perspective is to expose someone to trauma at a young age in order to throw them into a state of total awareness from P.T.S.D. - some mechanism could also be used to generate mania - possibly experimenting with insulin or insulin inhibitors - and the mania, combined with the momentary awareness, could theoretically result in multiple personalities that could each specialize in something and use manic thought processes to achieve mastery faster -

The multiple personalities might specialize in this case based on where they are (environmental stimuli) or who they are with.

Then, the problem would be, when all of the personalities have finished, putting them back together and also getting rid of the P.T.S.D. - or maybe not - as that would get rid of the momentary awareness. But there would be a lot of anxiety and cognitive behavioral therapy involved in order to salvage a Project Monarch victim like that.

As I said, I thought this was kind of a rant.