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Life is going to come at you hard, so there are a few things you should know. Most important of all, is realizing that you have something to offer the world. But in order to do that, you first need to sort yourself out. Lending your ear to the lessons contained in stories of old is not a bad place to start. You see, as human conscience grew in knowledge, it equally grew in arrogance. We seem to be at this point where the value of stories is lost on us all. Not really caring about morals anymore, we are simply looking to be entertained. But their power on our subconscious is by no means hindered by our intellectual pride. Stories send a clear message to our being, and when told properly, can offer guidance in how to live our lives, impacting us in ways we sometimes don't even notice. In fact, recurring themes more often than not represent archetypes, and contain lessons on how to or how not to behave. Consider dragons for a moment. Fantasy stories always seem to have them hoarding treasure. Not coincidentally at all, two of the biggest innate fears in mammals are fire and reptiles. So dragons are really a metaphor representing that which you fear the most. Now, why would an immortal fire-breathing reptile care to sleep on a pile of gold? The answer can be read between the lines: the treasure you seek is guarded by your greatest fear. Don't get me wrong, the pile of gold is as much a metaphor here as is the mighty beast that doesn't even exist. Find your dragon and slay it, then your treasure will be revealed. This is the wisdom storytellers of old were trying to convey, only they didn't have the scientific method, a framework by which to structure arguments, or even a high IQ audience. The lesson isn't any less important or relevant today, however. That which you most need to discover within yourself is hidden where you least want to look. Now ask yourself; why were you so curious about my cabinet? Are you a very conscientious person, adamant on leaving no stones unturned? Or have you not mastered your insecurities, and the fear of missing out is what's really driving you at this moment? Maybe you are simply hoping to get a laugh out of some unexpected one liner? Because I'll admit we both know I could kill the mood right now and tell you about how a depressed clown once attempted to lift his mood by eating bowls of confetti. What I'm getting at is, regardless of your motive here you have clearly demonstrated curiosity, and faith that the world holds surprises for those who take an honest look. While that can certainly be said about the world, it's even more true about your inner self. Now whether that is scary, insightful or encouraging depends entirely on how far you have made it on your personal growth journey. Life is made of many exams, most of which will present themselves to you more than once. Betrayal, joy, illness, adventure, treason, cooperation, purpose, loneliness, warmth, loyalty... Indeed, just like stories old and new, life has recurring themes when testing humans. The important part is not whether or not you pass each test, but that you show up, acknowledge your score and ponder how it can inform who you should become. From there, everything is there inside of you to help you find your own way. Who knows, the underlying meaning of The Messenger's story might even hit you eventually. But for now, let's get back to your adventure.

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You visit the same place every day. So do many others, and everyone spends different amounts of time here. As time passes, you might notice in greater detail the parochial specificity of the place. A common problem of language is that the same message may be interpreted differently by different readers. So everyone responds to a singular thing in a different way, supposedly proximate in time, and this creates the appearance of novelty. Someone who spends an hour or less here daily can see the same thing a million times and be none the wiser, because the message will be interpreted differently every time. But eventually this process succumbs to entropy and repetitious identities begin to draw the ire of the visitors. This can be mitigated by presenting the same message by different people, although this also has an inverse effect whereby one repetitious visitor will become repetitious despite a broad array of subject matter being presented as message. What does it mean? Once a message begins to be interpreted in a singular manner by its audience, and the death of its myriad semantic possibilities leaves only a singular monolith in its wake, the message becomes anathema and is transposed to the status of enemy. A common enemy is one that is familiar and eludes definition as consequence of the heterogeneous experience one has with it. Because there is only one way to experience an enemy, deferral to a rigid space for understanding is rendered impossible because the object is only experienced from one perspective. In fact this is the source of monism as a method for understanding: indeed it is impossible to view as singular the thing that we experience differently every day. Returning to the temple, when the static element is set into a form of dynamism through wrought controversy, there is once again an inverse ratio which will violently place things back into familiar order once they have been disturbed and chaos becomes the order of the previous day. The monism of singular, repetitious experience- the kind that exists when a person is subjected to unmediated semantic content, published with the express intent of being interpreted and responded to. Because there is only an abstract identity fixed to the message, claims pertaining to the agency of the temple visitor lose force because the message is tied to previous messages, which can be interpreted such that the proper interpretation of the repetition becomes impossible. The monist element appears after any possibility of multiple interpretations is exhausted, leaving only the remainder of what is repeated as being the motor of the process. There is the message, then, which invites the temple visitor to craft a semantic space which can be interpreted. The message is interpreted as being novel enough to merit interaction, and the combined result will be such that it will be different upon being repeated. However to a point the message will solicit repetition because the only remaining thing to do is modify the exchange until all involved parties are satisfied with the result. And then once the topic is repeated it can be glossed as having been effectively competed, requiring no further attention, and drawing only ire rather than novelty. It must be said that the monist result, which leaves only the mere experience of the message, namely what it is like to experience and participate in that message, namely once more the message being for experience, is effectively the board itself, and the activity of completing messages such that there is only the matter of them being experienced by temple visitors is such that one might conclude the thread itself is a progressive act of creativity, and to the extent that there is some artistry in prolonging the novelty of interpretation, the topic in itself can be said to replace the written textual narrative as the apotheosis of the literary experience.

Holy walls of text Batman.