Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Delimit

Delimit. Verb. From the Latin de (completely) and limit (boundary). By the early 21st century, delimit meant to put limits on things. In current usage, it is a synonym for sin.

Back in the early 21st century, putting boundaries on things was the common approach to problem solving. Expressions like Make America Great Again were used to validate the process of delimiting so-called national borders.  The border was a critical component to the us/them mentality that dominated that historical period. The border defined "our" land, and by extension, "us" and by further extension, "them."

"Us" was the people who  belonged "here" and "them" was the people who didn't.

The problem with this world view was that, while borders were relatively stable, us and them were not. Through a process that later became known as transmotus, there was a continual redefinition of people from the us to the them category. with forced geographic relocation from ours to theirs soon following.

This system eventually collapsed in 2060, when the remaining us's dipped below critical breeding mass.

In 2080, the essential flaw in transmotus was shown by physicist Algo Bernstein who proved that all matter is an illusion, and that the only thing that exists is energy. It was already known that energy freely flows and cannot be limited, and that at any give time 90% of the energy that exists in the us state simultaneously exists in the them state and visa versa. The remaining 10% is found in the state of doubt which vibrates back and forth between us and them, never really entering either.

It is energy stuck in this state of doubt that is now understood as underlying the Trump Paradox, the phenomena that reached its height in 2019 in which it was believed that the key to fixing things was destroying them.

Now that all matter has been exposed as illusory, we also see why any attempt at delimiting things, that is, creating boundaries between matter only results in us/them illusions. Today, this is considered the foundational sin, since it denies the very nature of reality.

As "I" read this to "you", we both know there is no I or you. Today, we have no trouble understanding this. To the people who lived in 2020, this most basic understanding of reality was incomprehensible.

It is a miracle we survived that period of ignorance.



Spiritual Question: Which of the boundaries that define your world are real, and which are illusions that you have created?


This piece was written at the Roundhouse Writing Group, Santa Cruz, Guatemala on 7/9/18. The writing prompt for the session was: Choose a random word from the dictionary and write what it means to you. The word I chose was delimit.

The photo the wall is by Robert D Skeels, made available via Flickr and Creative Commons. Some rights reserved.