Sure. Insights related to those concepts are extracted below.
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1. Hmm, maybe.
Others - I think it's a bit too much of willing interpretation.
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Conversely, the "were the shades of Duchess' parents really brought in by Empress and Inexorable Justice, or have we just been made to perceive them?" should be a lively theological discussion between higher tiers of Emerald Sea clergy.
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Ling Qi: "...So, as I was saying, Yao the Fisher's Law had not being affected in a ny true way. The parent's shades did not enter the world of living truly - it was our perception that had been changed to perceive them as being there. Otherwise, nothing really changed in comparison to scenario where we would not perceive them."
Bai Meizhen: "Very neat, Ling Qi. But who drank the wine offered, then? I distinctly remember the wine being in the cups first and it disappearing later. Do enlighten me."
Ling QI: "You are right Meizhen, it IS very neat. It binds back with that Shu Ding-ge thought experiment - when the cups had been demonstrated to us at first it had not yet be decided if the wine was truly in them, and when we observed the parents' shades the choice between "wine is in cups" and "cups are empty" worlds had been made! The timeline with wine-filled cups collapsed and we were presented with the cups that had been empty all along!"
Bai Meizhen: "Ling Qi. Ling. Qi."
Ling Qi: "...it's a quantum foam extrapolated to the macroworld really, and interaction between different Spirits Laws had been..."
Bai Meizhen: "Ling Qi. "Timeline collapse", really? Are you one of those "Zizians" I keep hearing about lately? I don't want to learn that you've sword-stabbed some landlord person in the chariot wagon park. Should I introduce you to some defense lawyers? Or do I need to make you swallow some wasting potion, so you would be less full of impurities?"
Ling Qi: "...Rats in the walls, Meizhen! It was rats in the walls! FATHER, FATHER! YOG SOTHOTH!"
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It had come to her knowledge, Ling Qi said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of old man Shen's blankets' removal. Some of us had noticed that the winter had came, and had actually jumped to the conclusion that old man Shen would freeze to his death due to the material condition of cold. It was almost unbelievable, said Ling Qi, that any intelligent being could be so stupid. Surely, she cried indignantly, whisking her dress-train and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their friend Ling Qi better than that? But the explanation was really very simple. As the Dreaming way is teaching us, the living world's reality is downstream of our perception of it. As truth and lies are warp and weft of reality, it is our popular consensus that winter is cold and that the cold is actively harmful to the human well-being. Isn't she, Ling Qi, cold and capable of being comfortable it it? Old man Shen similarly surpassed the conceptual limitations of being blanketless and had already achieved the Enlightement.
"'Forward, friends!' he declared in his last earth-bound moments. 'Forward in the name of the anti-Hui Rebellion. Long live Emerald Seas! Long live Duchess Cai! Cai is always right.' Those were his very last words, friends."
Su Ling: "That what I've meant when I said that you've taken to those noble ways way to quickly and easily"
Ling Qi: "Do not, my friends, become addicted to blankets. They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence."
LQ came from the streets, from survival with less, and that perspective is invaluable for serving as the 'Immortal of Communication' she's set herself up to be. Unique perspectives, beget Unique ideas, and LQ is most certainly not boring.
Yeah, I mean it's easy to say that lies and truth do not matter that much in the end, as the reality is descended from our perception, and that the orator could change that perception and, therefore, that reality. However Ling Qi was a street rat and learned hard way that material reality matters despite best rhetorical efforts. Yes, "we live in sosciety, that is, in intersubjective lifeworld" and it often were cruel intentions of other people around Ling Qi that produced a lot of harm and suffering. And yet the world had been real and it was cold that would harm that old man Shen when Ling Qi took his blankets, not just her intent. If she took those blankets away with nice justification and made old man Shen himself accept it, he would still be cold and unsheltered in winter.
So like, up to this point there is this street rat strand inside the Ling Qi that can whisper to her when the king is naked and when she is full of
s impurities. I like all the Dreaming Way arc, and I get that it is a not!Buddhism in large part. And yet I think Ling Qi would not abandon the material concerns altogether and decide that the matter is illusion or something like that. She tends to take a view of mortals and lower realms over the loftier noble aesthetics, for example
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CRX: "I am unimpressed, Ling Qi. I like my Excel spreadsheets not because of the neatness of the formations inside them as an abstraction, even if those please me aesthetically. Their goal is betterment of life of my subjects, an unstoppable move to further and further improvements. The spreadsheets is an instrument to move towards that goal, and that is Excel's true value."
