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 (DIR) Post #AujrpsPQJmpLSdd4EK by jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
       2025-05-31T23:38:09Z
       
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       In the backstory bible for the world in which most of my stories take place, I have a thing called "The Blight". It is an agent of Oblivion and serves to bring all of reality back to absolute zero, no heat, no light, no movement, no time. It undoes creation.But I'm left unable to name its opposite. What do you call everywhere, everywhen, every thought, every color, infinitely bright and hot, teeming with immortal life?What's the opposite of a naked singularity?Ubiquity?Omnilarity?What do you call the thing that starts The Big Bang?What is the first tick of forward in time called?I don't even know what hashtags to put on this but it's appreciate any suggestions for terms to use. I know you must pass through The Gleam to find it but The Gleam is not of it. The Gleam is the shining world while what lies beyond is blazing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AujrptcDpgevCccnom by NateBarham@wandering.shop
       2025-06-02T14:06:10Z
       
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       @jrdepriest God? šŸ˜‚I think in real terms the concept is energy.You might call it ā€œthe Sparkā€.But if it were me, Iā€™d almost certainly call it ā€œthe Songā€: it is everywhere and everywhen, it is the sound and the dance, the instrument and the dancer, it is player and composer, breath and emotion and color and timbre. And, what ā€œthe Blightā€ can never see, never comprehend, is that it is also the absence, it is all that is and all that is not.We sing it because to exist is to be ā€œthe Songā€.
       
 (DIR) Post #AujrpuOmv7VVdFLaW8 by jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
       2025-06-02T16:37:18Z
       
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       @NateBarham Well I'm sure it has many names. The Song is another good one. I'm not musically inclined but I have thought about reality as music in the past, how much of what our species does would be noise and discord among the harmony.
       
 (DIR) Post #AujrpvHjcpSYNf3TA8 by NateBarham@wandering.shop
       2025-06-03T01:32:59Z
       
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       @jrdepriest Well, I suppose it depends on how harmony is defined. A punch is violent, and so is it then discordant? What if it is viewed by a boxer, able to see that it is perfectly timed, sweetly scientific? Still discord?What if the jaw is that of a Nazi? Hitler himself?This line of thinking leads me to another name for this thing, Dao.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aujrq3wRRMm5EEA5iq by NateBarham@wandering.shop
       2025-06-03T01:34:41Z
       
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       @jrdepriest Also, Iā€™m definitely going to have to incorporate the Song (by that name) into my own book series. Thereā€™s already oblique reference precedent in a chapter of book 4, now that I think of it. šŸ˜‚