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# The Solipsistic Version
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Notes on a story about a solipsistic universe. A character on their quest to
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find out what reality is made of meets a figment of his own imagination that
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explains to him how it all works.
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* There is only You, and the rest of the world and the people in it are
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literally figments of your imagination. Including the figure who is delivering
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this speech to the reader.
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* You're God, and you've always existed, and will always exist, and will always
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be conscious and knowing of everything. So you do "this" thing, you become a
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mere mortal living in your universe that doesn't remember he's God and feels
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like a tiny little thing that's afraid of death.
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* You do it because you get bored, or lonely, or whatever. You're an all-powerful
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creator of worlds but have nobody to share it with. You can make your creatures
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bow in awe of your power, but you fully know you're pulling their strings to
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say that. But you _become_ one of them and forget that you're pulling all
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their strings, and you have companionship and learning and can have surprises
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and have fun.
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Crazy ideas to fit in / Q&A's:
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* Religions:
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* Don't really matter. Even if you go full atheist.
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* If you do search for meaning: the universe literally SCREAMS spirituality
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in your face.
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* Besides religions, tons of outside paths to the exact same enlightenment
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and connection to spirit. Self-help books, motivational speakers, and even
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the crazy ones like astrology and witchcraft -- all appeal to one person or
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another, so no matter who you incarnate as you have a path that will call
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you to your spirit if you ever want it.
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* And if you're having a great life and never seek the spirit? That's fine
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too! Every go-around through life is just another dream you're having.
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* Try and work all sorts of ways how TV and movies and every story ever told
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is talking about the same stuff.
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* Simulation theory as in The Matrix or Westworld
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* "Row, row, row your boat!" ... "life is but a dream!" - God telling himself
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that since the very beginning of his currently life.
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* Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan being about thoughts create reality or
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happy thoughts make you fly, etc.
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* Generalize all the "hero's journey", "good vs. evil" tropes that make up
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almost every story ever told.
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* Say it's all some Truman Show type way of reality screaming in your face
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what it's all made of the same stuff, but subtle so you don't notice it
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unless you go looking for it.
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* Could have a reference to The Egg:
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* Character is like "so do I play through every part eventually" (are all the
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humans he sees either his past lives or future lives and he will be them one
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day living in the same story but from their point of view that time)
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* Narrator would be like, "no need. You make up the world anew every single
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time. You'll make it look like the last time but might tweak a few things,
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invent new ideas of how buildings should look or what social customs should
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be."
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* So no long-term Earth that outlives your currently live, you have a different
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Earth every time like a random new dream.
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* The other people in your dream, they're there to teach you things you already
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know but don't have access to right now.
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* You see people of every profession and sport, so you know those are possible
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things to do in this life if you want to.
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* Libraries and science books are how God stores up his knowledge over the
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eons... he comes up with new ideas each life and his accumulated ideas are
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exposed in the form of libraries and teachers in his incarnations, so he can
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"remember" the parts of the universe he wants to research this lifetime.
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Reincarnation?
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* Either: you don't. After each life you come back to "God Mode" and have full
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memory, knowledge and everything of who you were before you started this life.
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Nothing to worry about and you can play around or do another life again.
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* Or: you do reincarnate by default, a la the Buddhist way. You immediately go
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from human life to next human life (or w/e), until you finally decide enough
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is enough and 'wake up' to being God.
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And after death/escaping the reincarnation loop?
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* You don't have to die again. If you fully awoke during your lifetime, your
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reality would transition into "heaven" directly; you'd have your full God
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Mode powers and be able to reshape your reality or do w/e you want without
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having to endure one more painful death.
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* But this is a blessing and a curse. Once it "clicks" for you and you're God,
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reality becomes the thing that can't be unseen. You'll have FULL knowledge
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that every flap of a bird's wing is under your direct control. The illusion
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will be up. That feeling of loneliness or the panic of the memory that you've
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always been conscious and have no choice not to be conscious will set in.
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* If you can come to terms with that, you may have a pleasant time. But so far
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you've been reincarnating frequently to escape from your true nature.
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Q&A's
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> **Q:** What if I got lost? Or was having a bad life?
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> **A:** If life is going horribly you'll inevitably call out for help.
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> the universe will always respond and show you a path to reach your spirit.
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