The petty schemes of mice and men often go awry. Yes, the mice scheme about things. It's not anthropomorphic to call animals decievers. They focus on survival, as does every animal. This is the virtue that puts them above humanity. Humanity tends to get caught up thinking that it does not scheme about anything. But everything we do as humans is part of some kind of plan for ourselves. These plans differ according to the lengths of time they involve. The further ahead we plan, the more we must conjecture. We could be planning the days we live one by one, but instead we plan with conjecture. We hope that if we do one thing, a certain something else will eventually follow. This sets us apart from the animals, who do not look for eventualities, and becomes a key part of human suffering. An animal fords a stream at its narrow point; a human builds a bridge at the point where the road should indeed continue. A human makes a choice that should indeed work out correctly. Eats the food that should indeed fulfill better than the others. Goes after the career that should indeed lead to success, better than the others. And at the end of the day the human is absolutely fixated on making choices better than the others. It becomes a source of fear, interrupting the exercise of free will. And fear leads humans to truly scheme. Faced with the insurmountable projections of fear, avoidance and betrayal are always close at hand. So, when fear controls everything, free will lingers in the abyss created by that control. Reality might as well be a simulation run by the kind of immortal cyborgs portrayed by The Matrix. We might as well all party like it's 1999. We could forget about the distant future, and about our schemes to have mortgages and careers. We could forget about the people we hope to influence, and just disappear into some woods with the nymphae. Oh, but wait, there is something: what happens when, instead of dealing with fear, we simply run the opposite direction from fear? Again, we face the abyss created by fear's control. The solution to the problems created by fear is so multidimensional that the Torah calls it the beginning of all knowledge. As in Buddhism, enlightenment is relinquishing that fear that is the other side of the desire-causing-suffering. But in Judaism this enlightenment is achieved by fearing Hashem. The first ever four-letter name. Fear of the prime mover is the beginning of all knowledge. What is Hashem moving today, besides the intricately-folded networks of wind currents, for to blow the clouds that the Torah tells us Hashem lives inside of? Hashem is moving Elohim, in one way or another, because the decisions made by Hashem always create problems for Elohim. When it comes to Earth, Elohim subtly alters the movement of Hashem's prime movement in accordance with the state of humanity. The end result is a kind of entropy that can give birth to knowledge: logic and rationality. But this entropy can also give way to fear, given irrationality and the abandonment of logic. This is all that's needed to set humanity's clock ticking, even though human evolution has much more to do with surviving collectively-induced post-traumatic stress disorders. The link here is fear. Scheming is self-induced fear, whereas stress-related disorders are induced by other people, and can cause everybody to be scheming. Elohim will do whatever can be done to work with collective fear, which is just like a hydra. Angels and demons swarm about creation, like bees through a hive, plugging the triggers of that collective fear at different points, all part of a universal chess game played against all-out war. Meanwhile, chilling on a hovercraft in his Elysian fields, Hashem watches the chess between Mars and Venus, waiting to see sparks of light. Waiting for people to shed their fronts. There's too much confusion happening on the squares. Hashem only cares about the individual's fear being so unbearably light that the soul floats up to heaven like a feather.
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