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  • New Riverdale; an introduction

    New Riverdale; an introduction

    Background and Facts

    New Riverdale is a midsize city of around 170,000 residents situated amongst the salty ocean coast and several fresh-water rivers. Today, New Riverdale sports world-class universities, an international airport, many active and well-funded cultural institutions, a massive park system, and plentiful jobs spanning everything from ore mining to space exploration.

    The bustling and buzzing city we see today didn’t pop up overnight, of course. The first settlers put down roots in today’s Financial District around 180 years ago. Like many small cities, New Riverdale was initially grown with the help of heavily polluting industry. In the almost two centuries of its existence, the city has pushed the industry farther and farther outside its boundaries and has worked diligently in rectifying the natural abuses it committed. In fact, much of the area that most recently served as industry and refuse processing has been decontaminated, reforested, and incorporated into Victoria National Park, a massive natural preserve designed to prevent future environmental destruction, as well as to educate visitors on the value of protecting our environment.

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  • Reality, Magic, and the MAGA Mindset

    Reality, Magic, and the MAGA Mindset

    Concepts

    Reality

    Studying Rosicrucianism introduced me to the concept of actuality vs reality. The problem in using the concept of reality as a measure of truth, they say, is that none of us can experience the reality of another person or being. The reason for this, of course, is that each of us can only interpret the environment around us with the help of sense organs integrated into our physical bodies.

    I use my eyes to identify a color or shape, for example. You use your eyes to do the same. We can communicate and agree that what we see is a given shape or color. However, we cannot literally see through another set of eyes. We cannot interpret that visual stimuli in the way another does. In short, we have no way to know if the way we interpret the world around us is the same way another does.

    Of course, there are methods of dealing with this, if there weren’t, we’d have a much harder time creating stuff like language and society. In fact, we have all agreed (by way of early childhood socialization) on foundational Truths, such as the real-ness of the physical, and the un-real-ness of the non-physical.

    Despite these large-scale shared Truths, they are still, at the end of the day, a part of our own, unique, personal reality.

    Actuality

    So, if we all experience our own unique reality that no other living being can experience, what, if anything, exists outside of that? What holds our shared realities?

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