Intergalactic Summit

Please show me where I've said I think the SAF believe that. It's pretty obvious they don't.



So they'll conduct an honest investigation by being dishonest?



Individuals spout off all the time, Aria. Politicians, on the other hand, don't like to put themselves in a position to look stupid when their statements have an easy counter available. After all, most of them are lawyers, and lawyers know you never ask a question—or invite comment—when you don't know exactly what's going to be said.

I smell Dragonaurs or provists

Don't forget that guy who got away with warships.

This has Heth written all over it.


I'm sure Diana will be thrilled. There goes our date.

I'm sure she could. But most of us know that you only lick Caldari boots. Also, I got a Tibus Heth love doll delivered to my quarters in Prism the other day by accident. Is it yours?

Ms. Kim's honesty and forthright expression of loyalty to the State are understandably disconcerting to those wishing to mask hidden intent.

Personally I... and others applaud her efforts to clearly express the hidden desires of most within the State to see not only the continuance of the State but the annihilation of our Federal Union.

And yet the pragmatic left out and there's a reason I consider the Dragonaurs A existential threat to the state. We should launch a brutal crack down on them

What does the battlefield know of war?

To adopt such a perspective is to be the same as a stone.

Nations may fall on the battlefield
Victor and vanquished come and go
And flowers bloom where the cannon pealed
But only this do i know

A stone can´t appreciate the beauty in it.

I would like to point out, though, that I myself never called a Liberal to be a coward or a traitor just for liberal point of view. When I call someone a coward - I call it for the act of cowardice they have displayed (take, for example, Makoto Priano, who decided to lose her honor instead of showing up to resolve the conflict caused by her slanders in public against Caldari officer). And when I call someone a traitor - I call it for the act of treason they have committed (take, for example, I-RED, who decided to declare war against Caldari State leading corporations and signed blue pact with Federal Militia - that was forward and obvious treason).

I have heard both of these entities were trying to cover herself under blanket of Liberalism, but let us be honest, liberal ideals can't and won't be an excuse for crimes that I-RED or Makoto Priano have committed.

No need to apologize, i´ve been where you are.

I understand that it is hard to surrender to the void, let go of your personal constructs such as "ego", attachments, value, moral and judgments that give meaning to put the perspective of no-self at bay.

When i was a youngling training in my monastery, whenever i got angry at master Kreia i visualized her on the recieving end of my blows and weapons. It gave focus to a feeling and action upon it brought satisfaction to percieved "injustices" from teachings i was too full to let pour in.

As i grew older and it was my turn to teach younglings, i watched their red faces, their vigorous strikes, and i knew they were hitting a projection of me much as i did when i was their age. When you are consolidating your castle of beliefs, it´s important to have an antithesis available to give boundaries shape and form for your own thesis.

But just like me they were not really hitting anything, and as i watched those kids playing a highly efficient martial version of make-believe it sank in. How illusions are powerful, how we generate the context to place ourselves into and the context in turn fuels the ego and holds it in one piece. How this field is contained by attachments that are created by the field itself.

That night i looked up, and for the first time i saw the moon and how it shined upon us all. As i looked down, all i could see was proficient kids hitting illusions that they constructed themselves, oblivious to the light upon them.

That night i reached my synthesis. That night i looked maya in the face and saw how beautiful she was. That night i crossed the gateless gate.

So again, no need to apologize. I will continue to leave a trail of bread crumbs for those that could use indications, but the path is theirs to travel.

Just don´t expect me to look at them as something other than children playing make believe wars.

No ... I don't think you've ever been where I am.

I won't claim to have completed my path, but you ... I think you're lost, far from yours, and too impressed with your own shining insight to see it. Like the Sani Sabik, you've seen something true, but you make too much of it.

That cosmic perspective you're so proud of? It's a beginning, not an end. It's only the most basic kind of insight (again like the Sani Sabik insight, "power is important"). Yes, we're mere transient specks of sapient energy and matter, lost in a mystery to which all our struggles and accomplishments are ... just ... nothing. We're figments, self-impressed flecks of dust. Everything we love, everything we fight over, will come, in time, to naught. And naught is even more or less what we are now, measured against the weight of All.

So what?

Maybe we look petty to you, "children playing make believe wars," because you think you see with the void's eyes. But the void doesn't have eyes, and nothing looks petty to it. The stars don't look at us with disdain. They don't look at us at all. Even if there were some cosmic being looking at us in such a way, that being isn't you, Ms. Tsukiyo.

Do you really think your teacher looked at you in such a way?

Our faith doesn't have a concept of heresy, although our seekers go astray all the time. I've been kind of thinking about why, aside from the introspective character of most Achur practice: some of the wrong turns we can take are plainly dangerous, and always have been.

I think ... maybe it's because really understanding is a process, and wisdom isn't something that comes at once to almost anybody, and a lot of people, even seekers, never obtain it at all. The Truth isn't something that can be conveyed in words; we have to come at it indirectly, through riddles and hints, showing its presence by circling around and around it because no doctrine can carry us there. We have to find our way to the center ourselves.

So we're almost all of us heretics, almost all our lives.

But there are a few rules we do have in the meantime, duties that come with being human beings. And you've abandoned yours, Ms. Tsukiyo. You toy over and over with that jagged shard of truth you've found, and the arrogance of it drips from you like poison.

... and it's poisoned your own soul more than anyone's.

It's maybe wrong of me to look at you harshly, poor thing. But hear me: you are lost.

We have no concept of heresy. There's a way back, for everyone. ... Or maybe I should say, a way forward. But I'm beginning to think there's no deadlier venom in this world than a partial truth.