Five hypershort SF microstories

His lockscreen background was just a bunch of text.
It said some really boring stuff that barely made sense.
But it was the secret of everything.

Beyond planets, stars, galaxies, great walls. . . all matter in space was part of a much larger structure, that extended beyond the boundaries of the observable universe.
It could be seen in the spin alignments of all particles, a slight bias which gently curved across billions of lightyears. An unimaginable type of hyper orbit, drawn by something far weaker than gravity.
A force of destiny perhaps, an infinitely weak force or even negative. . . thereby travelling faster than light.

She had created an AI character, and generated a detailed story description of his life.
However, that AI character had created a detailed description of HER life.
The problem was that the description created by the AI character was much longer. In fact, it was more elaborate and detailed than what she could remember of her own past.

The new religion spread like a pandemic.
It stated that God was omniscient but impotent. Everything you thought, and felt, and did, was perfectly known with infinite precision by God. But it was strictly a one-way transfer.
God could do nothing to affect you. You existed for God, but not vice versa.
The only reason the new religion spead so fast was because it just happened to be true.

From space, it appeared as a mirror-smooth dark blue ball.
It was a deep ocean world, with water pressures of up to 50,000 atmospheres.
Small, unspeakable monsters had evolved in the deep darkness. There was an incredible diversity of shapes and functions.
Down there, they didn't even know that space existed.
But somehow, they could travel to similar high pressure ocean worlds all throughout the universe. As if the laws of physics were made for them.

ultrashort SF: forbidden information

The laws of physics are entirely determined by what we call the Manifold.
It describes the precise way that space-time folds back on itself in many dimensions, at every point in the universe.
There are the normal directions we all know, and also many sub-microscopic or "tiny" directions, that together allow the various fields and forces to pass through each other.
You could think of it as the wadded tissue paper of reality. All space everywhere, or at least everywhere we can go, is folded the exact same way.

There's a bit of a problem: If we ever learn the exact form of the Manifold, our universe will be doomed.
Manifolds are unstable. There are simply too many ways to fold space. By adding enough energy at one precise point, you could always refold the manifold there.
Usually, it will bounce back to the way it was before. But sometimes, if you calculate your potentials just right, the rest of the universe will "bounce" to the new configuration.
Actually, the whole universe will become unravelled from that point outward. All matter will be completely destroyed in a vast spherical explosion-like shockwave. We might never even see it coming.

Right now, the shape of the Manifold remains unknown. String Theory couldn't calculate it, because there are too many possibilities. Our math wasn't advanced enough.
That means that all the ways that space-time might be locally twisted and tangled are equally true. We call this the Hyper-uncertainty Principle. It's what makes our universe relatively indestructible.

Until now. This new AI quantum computer concept of yours might just be powerful enough to calculate the Manifold. It's hard to see, but the possibilities are there. We calculate the odds at 0.24%. Unthinkably high . . .
And that is why you must die now.

ultrashort SF: Mindland

There are things that live inside of math.
It took a long time to find them.
You absolutely can't outthink them, but you can try to approach their level.

It's so much bigger in there.
Everything is different.
Everything you knew is gone.

It's bigger than chaos.
Some parts are easier to reach, but they are like traps.
You see, we are all inside of math already:

If you're hearing my voice, it means you died and are actually inside math right now.


COMMENT:
You might think it would be scarier if at the end it said "If you are reading this", but hearing something takes less bandwidth than seeing. (If you ever find yourself trapped inside math, it will likely be as a minimal mind instantiation.)

ultrashort SF: M-Portals

A secret briefing from World Security is always exciting, even if it usually means great pain to come.
It began with detailed introductory charts and diagrams. They mostly showed that whatever was happening was very complicated. Then came the speech representing their collective insights:

"The aliens are capable of remote manipulation of matter across intergalactic distances."
"Creating what we call an M-Portal, takes exactly as long as it takes light to travel across space from there to here."
"Their nearest base is thirty thousand lightyears away."
"For the past thirty thousand years, they have been slowly rearranging and organizing the matter inside hundreds of our larger asteroids. Making them more complicated and organized."
"Now they're here at last. They are breaking through the surface at over three hundred locations in the Solar System."

Diagrams showed parabolic orbital streams spreading out, too slow to see the movement in real time.

World Security briefings were designed to force decision makers to rapidly face unpleasant truths:

"This is not really an invasion. It's no coincidence that they are emerging right now, at this point in history. The effects aren't limited to the interiors of Main Belt asteroids."
"It seems history has been leading up to this point, even if they haven't directly influenced us yet."
"We are part of what's happening here. That means that whatever strange thing they want, we are likely to agree with it. Or at least some of us are likely to agree."


NOTE:
This idea should have been used in that Tom Cruise "War of the Worlds" movie, to explain where those underground robot attack things came from.

The "Charter on Journalistic Ethics in Relation to Respect for Religion or Belief" is a fiendishly clever media control tool invented under David Miscavige

Read it here: https://www.standleague.org/resources/freedom-of-religion-and-human-rights/charter-on-journalistic-ethics-in-relation-to-respect-for-religion-or-belief.html

This document is jam-packed with politically correct platitudes of all kinds imaginable. Every type (well, almost every type) of discrimination is forbidden. There is nothing to protect gays, as that would make the charter less palatable to conservative religions, thereby making it less useful. This absence is curiously hard to notice amidst all the other devout bromides.

Rude and insulting language is strictly prohibited though, as is any type of bias that could be seen as anti-religious. There are multiple shoutouts to human rights. Numerous generic behavioral rules and norms are spelled out. Islam is specifically protected by a ban on linking any religion with terrorism.

So, in today's cultural climate, there is NO WAY any organization could refuse to sign this charter.
But tucked away somewhere in this body of text is the following little statement:
"A responsible media refrains from reinterpreting, misinterpreting, analyzing, assessing or examining religious beliefs or the expression of these beliefs."

Checkmate, reporters and journalists!
No media organ will ever again be able to mention Xenu, or to describe disconnection, or "The Hole".

The more you know

They say you should act as if the whole world is watching you.
Of course, that's just a figure of speech. It's not actually the case that nine billion people are scrutinizing your every move.
The real number "watching you" is infinitely higher than that.

Across the multiverse, a mathematically unbound multitude of minds is observing identical copies of yourself (real and recreated) just doing your thing.
If you were to arrange them by mind size, virtually all these observers would effectively be as smart as God. At least from our viewpoint.
But importantly, they are NOT as powerful. They can't influence or affect us in any way.
The number of identical mind copies of yourself, together forming your shared awareness across the multiverse, is still vastly higher than the number of your observers.

Reality is far stranger than anything L. Ron Hubbard could imagine.

A Flag Land Base anniversary

We've been keeping track: It's now been FIVE years since the last update at the official website of the Flag Land Base at fso.org.
Absolutely no new content of any sort has been allowed to be created or posted there since late 2020.
The ruler of Scientology, Sea Org Captain Mr. David Miscavige, is EXTREMELY opposed to Scientologists explicating or evaluating Scientology or its sub-organizations in any way. This simply cannot be done.
The reason why he won't let people write or talk about Scientology is simple. If they did, they would have to start thinking about Scientology.
* https://www.scientology-fso.org/news/

Religious thought experiment: The Pencil Test

Imagine a well-balanced pencil standing on end on a table. Perhaps the Joker put it there.
Is there necessarily some being in all of reality that would be able to topple this pencil, no matter where in all the universes we are located?

Religious people believe that such a being does exist.
If God is omnipotent, he certainly shouldn't have any trouble toppling this pencil. It's just that God doesn't want to do that you see. For the same reason that this entity doesn't want to communicate with mankind in any way.

God doesn't exist of course - but that's not all:
Even if infinitely many powerful beings do exist, none of them could topple this pencil if you performed the experiment. No matter how many times you repeated it.
You know in your heart this is true.

Scientology is fundamentally unable to address questions of this nature. Thought experiments are strictly forbidden. You are supposed to change the subject at once, and perhaps pay a penalty for asking questions instead of just following the written instructions.
To some extent, science also restrains itself from asking existential questions.

That is wrong, and it should change.
Reality does not resemble religion in any way. That doesn't mean we can't learn more about reality. In fact, we should try to do so.
Such an effort should actually replace religion.

Is "God" mostly a rhetorical tool for society?

The concept of "God" may actually serve a low-level social function above all else.
It's to answer so called "shit test" questions. These are very complicated questions that would require a lot of wasted effort to answer and would just cause frustration.
Like why didn't you have more children? Why is your nose so big? Why don't you have more money?
The reason: it was all God's will.
Even Scientologists could use this useful tool, if they believe in the "Eight Dynamic".

SO... LiveJournal is down for good

Whoever is in charge of that outfit, is now shadowbanning all posts. No new LiveJournal posts can be made anymore (at least not from USA/North America, maybe still from Central Europe and China?), but this fact is hidden from its users. THEY will still see their own posts, but others can't see them. So the users still think they are posting normally, but in fact they're not.
This is done by cookies, browser tracking, etc.
It really sucks. I have been posting on LiveJournal since 2007 for heavens sake!

Now LiveJournal has turned into another Reddit. They are also fanatic about shadowbanning their users, encouraging them to waste their time by creating elaborate extended posts, but not letting other users see them.
Shadowbanning is just one of the many evil things that evil people get away with.
It really sucks, but usually evil cannot be defeated. Well, sometimes it can be, but less than half the time. It's like the difference between Hitler and Stalin. You just have to work around it.

True, some of the stuff I wrote could be seen as controversial, especially the Scientology exposes. But I didn't think a Russian company like LiveJournal would mind about that? After all, they have "shadowbanned" Scientology itself, causing it to quietly disappear from the Russian Federation without a peep from David Miscavige or the Scientology websites (such as they are).

Fortunately, I have kept all my old posts in text files. Maybe I'll repost them all here in a single big superpost?