Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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[X] Even walking alone, footfalls echo beyond your hearing
[X] One note never exists in isolation, its meaning is found in the whole composition
[X] An interesting fact and a useful observation [No insight]
 
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[X] An interesting fact and a useful observation [No insight]
[X] Even walking alone, footfalls echo beyond your hearing
 
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Adhoc vote count started by CrimsonOddball on Mar 4, 2020 at 6:14 PM, finished with 186 posts and 115 votes.
 
I will say my general takes on the available insights are none are either hugely defining, or truly broadening our base insights. People have made interesting interpretations of them all, but these felt more reaching to me then the other insights we have slotted into our domain. Compare the TRF insight, even with all the complaints it gets everyone agrees is about having a core to all back on, someplace Qi will not let go free. Compare that to the current first choice here, of footsteps echo beyond hearing even when alone. So it could be about consequences that we wouldn't notice, or people with us. But it doesn't have the same gravitas or innate sense of importance. It also doesn't have a true core aspect. Its an action, with no true feeling put in. Not like growing and changing and never stopping. You can feel the emotion, importance, gravitas and focus there. There is no true goal, no clear resulting action given by this insight. It isn't worthy in our build, especially with limited spaces and plenty of other art masteries coming.

Just to make this clear, this is all my subjective opinion when I am sleep deprived, don't take these as absolute statements.
 
I will say my general takes on the available insights are none are either hugely defining, or truly broadening our base insights. People have made interesting interpretations of them all, but these felt more reaching to me then the other insights we have slotted into our domain. Compare the TRF insight, even with all the complaints it gets everyone agrees is about having a core to all back on, someplace Qi will not let go free. Compare that to the current first choice here, of footsteps echo beyond hearing even when alone. So it could be about consequences that we wouldn't notice, or people with us. But it doesn't have the same gravitas or innate sense of importance. It also doesn't have a true core aspect. Its an action, with no true feeling put in. Not like growing and changing and never stopping. You can feel the emotion, importance, gravitas and focus there. There is no true goal, no clear resulting action given by this insight. It isn't worthy in our build, especially with limited spaces and plenty of other art masteries coming.

Just to make this clear, this is all my subjective opinion when I am sleep deprived, don't take these as absolute statements.
I don't get why people are always focusing on consequences as if it's caused by us I see it as more being aware of the world and her actions, that aside we need to bridge these insights into something resembling coherency otherwise were going to be a breeding ground for heart demons.
We have 5 insights and 1 Advanced insight and only the AM and our advanced has anything resembling a connection to each other and ones about focusing on family while the other is about your guests!
This at least builds our FVM insight into going somewhere and doesn't let it sit there like a splinter while becoming more aware of things at the same time. Hopefully BKSD will expand our TRF as well but I'm skeptical of that.
 
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Well yeah. It can be read as a disagreement with the other insight that says "it's fine as long as you achieve something by the end". It teaches that the process is important too, precisely because everything is interconnected and superficially same results may actually be different if you look at how you got to them.

Like, you can obtain a beautiful painting by drawing it yourself, by commissioning it, by buying it or by stealing it - the result is the same, you have a drawing, but the process of getting it may put different emotions into exactly same piece of art.
Not really?
The FVM insight is mainly about the process, broken up, it can broadly imply the following sub-concepts:
-That beauty is worth suffering for.
--Implying that that suffering enhances worth.
-That your loved ones are worth suffering for.
-That your loved ones should have beautiful things.
-That cold and loneliness are suffering.

The HDW insight is mainly about the context:
-That being unable to sense them doesn't mean they aren't there.
-That your actions can have consequences you don't know about.
-That you can be isolated but not alone.

When you mesh them together with our other insights you get the subsidiaries:
-The sincerity of your gift matters and the suffering you undergo to obtain it demonstrates your sincerity, but you must consider the recipient's opinion on the gift and suffering, and not be a cat proudly bringing a dead rodent to its beloved master.

Theres no inherent clash, though there can be a perceptual clash in "being alone is suffering" being answered with "but you are not alone", but we're facing that regardless.
This isn't about cyan or even indigo. If I recall correctly it is the barrier you have to cross to become violet. We are becoming less complicated, but at our stage its more about getting rid of stuff that we don't particularly want to be part of us to begin with, so it reads as purely positive.
Veekie is correct. It's increasing complexity while we increase our simplicity.
For example: Othello is a simple board game that is often Complex to play.
so too do cultivators become "simpler" as they affirm their story but also more complex as they explore the nuance of what their beliefs mean

The simplicity is one of values, beliefs, desires and focus.
The complexity is of nuance, capacity, scope and execution
Or to frame it in more physically visualizable ways, you replace your heart with a mechanical pump.

It pumps blood strongly and reliably. It won't fail because you had a spine or head injury, it won't need to pump in pulses because it doesn't need to expand and contract, and it won't change its rate or fail from myriad uncontrolled factors like hormones.

But you do need to beware of its battery and its program may fail in whole new ways if theres unexpected inputs.

You would not call the mechanical heart simple, its complex, but in a different way.

For a cultivator, you don't really simplify your concept like that, you replace complicated biological systems with complicated narrative systems. Cai Shenhua is the Radiant Tyrant, but the word doesn't do anything but describe her domain in a stroke as broad as terming an animal as a food-to-shit converter.

Her core concepts from a quick glimpse of her Domain showed subthemes of unity, obedience, harmony, light, ego, weaving, and a whole series of threads-as-people, self-as-state metaphors. She's a living narrative of rulership, but it is far from simple as a concept.
 
[X] Even walking alone, footfalls echo beyond your hearing
[X] One note never exists in isolation, its meaning is found in the whole composition
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Maladictus on Mar 5, 2020 at 3:40 AM, finished with 195 posts and 118 votes.
 
[X] An interesting fact and a useful observation [No insight]

I'll echo what someone else has said, HDW has not had the narrative weight for me to want an insight from it.
 
[X] One note never exists in isolation, its meaning is found in the whole composition
[X] An interesting fact and a useful observation [No insight]
 
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