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'The benefits are incalculable, But a warrior is not a merchant, and the essence of the path to freedom is in ceasing to act for personal gain. Therefore, to detail the benefits of the warrior's path is to turn it into just one more new age self-realization sham, designed to flatter the ego with a sense of its own specialness. However, to become a matrix sorcerer on the path to lucidity means the power to shape one's reality according to one's most heartfelt desires. To experience overwhelming bliss, happiness, ecstasy in every single moment of one's life. To understand and answer the deeper purpose of one's being here in the first place. To scratch the itch of existence once and for all, and disappear into Infinity. There is, quite simply, no substitute for Freedom. Anyone who says otherwise is working for the matrix.'
I like the heart in this one.. but let's play the devil's advocate.. maybe his twin is right. Maybe we are determined. NO FREE WILL.. or maybe the question of free will has no answer because the problem is in the phrasing of the question.. flawed coding. What is free? What is will? What is it that has a free will? Do I make the choice to type these words? To continue to come onto this forum. To pick this seemingly random smiley -->

Or is it all a play of those strange attractors in the morphic field more commonly referred to archetypes, memes, platonic forms.. Mythic godforms playing games with puppets.. or a lonely bored god in infinite solitude who decide to play hide and go seek in his forms or tulpas or perhaps it's none of that because it doesn't matter. The question is meaningless mirroring of hungry ghosts wandering in the abyss of language.. Do I freely breathe my breath? Is it my will? Where do I draw the boundary of what
I am? Am I my breath? Am I my beating heart? The labyrinthine caverns of genetic memory which perpetuate pre-programmed patterns of processing the panacea of the pleroma (πλήρωμα)? Like I asked before what is it that surrenders? And what does it surrender to?
Perhaps, Apocalypse is the archetype of the revelation of the archetype of Self. It's still part of the story. Archetypal patternings. Original causation/final effect. Alpha/Omega.. as a result of the accumulative morphic structure of the way in which we habitually use language and our perceptions are entrained in a way that promotes the individual (in divide dual) perspective.. The somebody hero narration curve male climax first person APOCALYPSE REVELATION.. This is your birth. This is your life. This is your death. From the beginning to the end of the sentence. Death sentence. And every sentence has a point. Get my point? You will! (Carrot-stick)
End and goal.— Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and his Shadow