There will be a Candy Cane Branch. Be sure to stay on top of your log-in schedule in order to claim the candy canes and their respective prizes. I will place this announcement in the “News” section below as well. It’s also presented in the poster above.
Credit, News, & Questions
Credit:
- Credit for this poster goes to FishKA13 of the Creators Faction.
News:
- Tower levels 153, 154, and 155 will be released alongside this event for endgame players.
- There will be a Candy Cane Branch alongside this event.
Questions:
- Does level of certainty determine realism? Is what we are unsure of that another is sure of unreal to us and real to the other, and can the two concepts of reality and falsity really be subdivided? If they can, what is the process that we use to differentiate our own realities from the ultimate reality in order to establish what is objectively false?
- Do you celebrate Christmas? If so, what do you like about it?
- What level will you be going to this event?
My answers to Questions 1 and 3 (even though I do celebrate Christmas):
- There are multiple sides to everything.
You could suggest that we are all merely figments of someone’s dream, and that we have no realistic existence, that everything we can see is held together by someone else’s mental facility, in which case nothing would be real except for in the case of the dreamer; since the dreamer is the organizer of everything and everyone in our world, then the ultimate reality that cannot be contested is the one of the dreamer, and all of our conceptions are as falsely realistic as the imaginative particles that we are made of.
The Peacock Mantis Shrimp is one of over 450 species of Mantis Shrimp that can spear or smash things using only the power of their crustaceous appendages. (With the honor of having the fastest punch in the animal kingdom, the Peacock Mantis Shrimp in particular is a smasher, capable of delivering blows powerful enough to crack the shells of their prey, break through glass, and even fracture a human finger.) To the Peacock Mantis Shrimp, or any of them for that matter, everything is seen in such colorful depiction that it would seem abnormal to humans; Mantis Shrimp can see in color patterns that humans cannot, including in ultraviolet (UV), infrared, and polarized light.
Conversely, Praying Mantises, popular in the insect world for their grisly methods of dismembering their prey (which is anything that moves and that they can catch; even birds, lizards, spiders, and rodents fall victim), cannot see in very vivid color schemes; however, they can see in 3D.
The relevance of the two points I just made may seem negligible, but I deviated to represent that reality and what we perceive it to be has certain aspects that render any means of rebuttal unattainable; humans cannot effectively prove that there is any form of the world beyond what a human can perceive, and blind people are without the fundamental tools required to prove that there is even a world at all. When we don’t have the means required to refute a theory regarding our existence and how reality shapes it, we ultimately become chained to a rock at the bottom of the sea with no knowledge of where the boundaries are that keep truth, falsity, and everything in-between intact.
But to answer the question of whether level of certainty determines realism: everything is a perspective; even a perspective of a perspective is still, in itself, a perspective; the absolute, irrefutable truth is still a perspective. In this world, all there is that surrounds us, everything that makes our world (and our galaxy) up, including the universe itself, constitutes a perspective. If God is real, and I am a believer, we are all living in His perspective, but every tangible object may also encompass our own perspectives.
You may or may not remember the way I started my answer out: “There are multiple sides to everything.” The wall that divides each side, or perspective, is almost impenetrable, nearly invincible, but it only makes sense that until it is broken, the multiple dimensions of perception do indeed play into multiple stratified forms of reality. I am on one side of the wall; you are on the other. It’s soundproof, so I am without persuasion, and so are you. There are no doors, and the border is endless (so there is no way around the wall, and all we can do is walk in a straight line or walk the other way), so there is no crossing into a different reality in order to explore something new and possibly be swayed into believing it to be firm and reliable. The wall represents the ultimate truth, while the borders represent our individual truths; whether you walk in a straight line or you walk away, you would still be eluding the ultimate and objective truth as you remain immersed in your own, but the truth is there to be assessed. It’s just that neither of us know how to reach it because our own realities are the boundaries that separate from the real thing, even if we already know the real thing, in which case, how can you tell if your perspective is objective since you only know what is on your side of the wall?
What we’re left with is that the ultimate reality—the one that shapes who we are and what we can sense—does exist, but we don’t know what it is, and even if we do know what it is, we don’t know that we do know what it is, because in this vast sea of originality and enigmatic property, we only have ourselves to fall back on, assuming we play a role in what is “real” ourselves. Until that closure can be delivered, everything is false from every possible perspective, including from the ultimate perspective since it is something that someone can visualize and hold as their own.
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If all goes according to plan, I will be ascending to level 580, beginning at level 550; I should realistically manage level 582.Even though I will be opening up some room to play catch-up, I still feel like I’m in a decent place given what I’m planning to accomplish. — Edit: I only managed level 566 because I forgot which island had the discount from my rider applied to it, and was leveling from outside of that range; that’s unfortunate because I was planning to aim pretty high, but the bright side is that I’m not too far ahead of myself and I still got a lot done for this level range before I noticed my misstep. This just means that I can pick back up next time and aim higher using the same strategy.