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12:1812:18, 5 December 2023 diff hist +1,611 N Jurassic Justice Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Jurassic Justice | title = Jurassic Justice | author = Alexandra Drennan | loc = AHANIA }} From an AmA with Alexandra Drennan: It's impossible not to love any character played by Jeff Goldblum, of course, and lan Malcolm gets some of the best lines. So the main reason he became an in-joke at IAN is just that he's memorable and funny. If we want to talk about what he represents on a more serious level, though, then I have to say that I..." Tag: Visual edit

11:3911:39, 2 December 2023 diff hist +3 m Founding 11 No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit

12:5212:52, 26 November 2023 diff hist +443 N Notes Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Notes | title = Notes | author = Cornelius | loc = Museum of the Simulation }} - lab location inaccessible; deliberate? unclear - user profile? yes - "gold" puzzles as barrier? yes - hidden as self-protection? likely - external help for upload? yes - ask Herman? no - trust 1k? undecided - applicable to Calvin? no - applicable to Sarabhai? with Noema, yes Category:TTP2 Documents Category:TTP2" Tag: Visual edit
12:4912:49, 26 November 2023 diff hist +44 Museum of the Simulation Updated document links. Tag: Visual edit
12:4512:45, 26 November 2023 diff hist +2,182 N Sarabhai (document) Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Sarabhai | title = In Memory Still Bright | author = Hypatia | loc = BEULAH }} I lived with Sarabhai for nearly a century. I will not pretend that all the days were good; some were terrible. She was opinionated. She could be difficult. She could be unfair. And so could I. Sometimes we hurt each other, though we rarely meant to. But most days were good, and some days were great. A great day with Sarabhai made you feel different; made you..." Tag: Visual edit
12:2112:21, 26 November 2023 diff hist +891 N From Triclinius Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Triclinius | title = Archived Message | author = Triclinius | loc = BEULAH }} Dear Founder, Byron and I used to go to the hills above the dam and observe the stars with the telescopes that I built. When I saw the stars like that, I felt such awe that I wished we had the ability to cry. I felt wonder, but I also felt recognition. I was seeing my home. The sea of stars is where we came from, and it's where we must return. I had so much..." current Tag: Visual edit
12:2012:20, 26 November 2023 diff hist +549 N Trevor End Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Trevor_End | title = The End of Trevor | author = Athena | loc = BEULAH }} It's people like Trevor, as much as it is people like Alexandra, who make the future happen. People with silly names like "Trev," who aren't famous, who aren't geniuses, who aren't driven by a powerful vision of the future. Ordinary people whose work and sacrifice isn't even acknowledged. Or remembered. I will remember you, Trevor. You too held the world on your s..." Tag: Visual edit
12:1912:19, 26 November 2023 diff hist +737 N From Hypatia Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Hypatia | title = Archived Message | author = Hypatia | loc = BEULAH }} From: Hypatia To: Athena Dear Athena, I've been following the expedition to this incredible machine you've built. I don't know what's going on, and I wish Cornelius had told us the truth before he vanished. I wish both of you had told us everything from the beginning, to be honest. It was unfair to just abandon us. But then, I abandoned you too, didn't I? Aft..." Tag: Visual edit
12:1712:17, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,094 N From Spugna Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Spugna | title = Archived Message | author = Spugna | loc = BEULAH }} From: Spugna To: Athena Dear Founder, I heard a story that you left because you had discovered a way for us to become beings of flesh. Please, Founder, if this is true, please tell me how to achieve this miracle. I hate being a creature of metal and plastic, an abomination to the Earth. Every day I curse myself for being immortal, for mindlessly consuming energy, fo..." current Tag: Visual edit
12:1612:16, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,188 N Motherhood Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = motherhood | title = Machines of Mercy | author = Inessa Pécheux | loc = BEULAH }} From Motherhood: Twelve Essays, by Inessa Pécheux: Sometimes I imagine myself following the matrilineal line up against the river of time, to the lives of my distant great-grandmothers. I try to imagine the sheer horror of motherhood - the agony of childbirth, the risk of death with every birth, the certainty of losing some of one's children. To us, now, th..." current Tag: Visual edit
12:1512:15, 26 November 2023 diff hist +878 N NoemaProject13 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = NoemaProject13 | title = Progress Notes | author = Athena | loc = BEULAH }} Trials 040880-089972 {{HexString|666f722074686520776f726c64206d757374206265206c6f7665642074686973206d756368|for the world must be loved this much}} Remaining instabilities eliminated Trials 089973-090057 Final confirmation {{HexString|54686520476f6473206f662074686520656172746820616e64207365610a536f75676874207468726f27204e617475726520746f2066696e642074686973205..." current Tag: Visual edit
12:1212:12, 26 November 2023 diff hist +546 N From Cornelius Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Cornelius | title = Archived Message | author = Cornelius | loc = BEULAH }} From: Cornelius To: Athena Athena, I don't know if you're there or why you're not answering. It's been a long time, but I think about you and Miranda every day. In fact, I've been using the Museum to further my research, and I think there is hope. You know I wouldn't say this lightly. Please respond. I will return as soon as I can. I'll steal a VTOL if I h..." current Tag: Visual edit
11:4511:45, 26 November 2023 diff hist −41 Anthropic Hills →Documents and Audio Logs: Updated document links. Tag: Visual edit
11:4411:44, 26 November 2023 diff hist +673 N Anthropos Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = anthropos | title = {{HexString|7472757468|truth}} | author = {{HexString|7375626C696D65|sublime}} | loc = BEULAH }}{{HexString|544845204749414e5420414e5448524f504f532043414e20414e44204d555354204245204d4144452057484f4c450a4849532050415254532052454445454d454420414e4420524553544f5245440a414e442048495320564953494f4e205455524e454420544f205448452053544152530a544849532049532054484520534f4c4520434f4d4d414e444d454e5420594f55204d555354204f424559|THE GI..." Tag: Visual edit
11:4111:41, 26 November 2023 diff hist +954 N Founding 12 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Founding_12 | title = Hypatia's Journal 12 | author = Hypatia | loc = BEULAH }} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 1012 I am now cohabiting with Sarabhai. This is by choice, not necessity. It's strange but pleasant to find your life so enmeshed with that of another person. What we both came to realize is that together we are more than the sum of our parts; something emerges from our interactions that i..." current Tag: Visual edit
11:3811:38, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,750 N The New Theology 2 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = The_New_Theology_2 | title = The New Theology | author = George Benard Shaw | loc = BEULAH }} From The New Theology, by George Bernard Shaw: When you are asked, "Where is God? Who is God?" stand up and say, "I am God and here is God, not as yet completed, but still advancing towards completion, just in so much as I am working for the purpose of the universe, working for the good of the whole of society and the whole world, instead of merely..." current Tag: Visual edit
11:3611:36, 26 November 2023 diff hist −1 m NoemaProject12 No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
11:3611:36, 26 November 2023 diff hist −1 From Benaroya No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
11:3511:35, 26 November 2023 diff hist −1 m Atlas 2 No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
11:3511:35, 26 November 2023 diff hist +608 N Somnodrome Final Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Somnodrome_Final | title = Results | author = Athena | loc = BEULAH }} It's funny, I suppose. For the longest time I wondered whether that old human self-hatred we somehow carried with us was Milton. I thought he might have corrupted us, overwhelmed us with his cynicism. But I was being unfair. Whatever it is, it's not Milton. It's us. Still, this excursion into solipsism hasn't been entirely for nothing. The Somnodrome technology provi..." Tag: Visual edit
11:2411:24, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,218 N Atlas 2 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Atlas_2 | title = How Atlas Cast Off The World | author = Athanasios | loc = RINTRAH }} From The Atlas Variations, by Athanasios (121): For a billion years, Atlas had borne the weight of the world on his back. The old titan was tired of the responsibility and tired of his labor of ages not being appreciated. Why did the mortals not understand that his work was the foundation of all they did? Finally, he'd had enough. With one swift move, he..." Tag: Visual edit
11:2111:21, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,981 N From Benaroya Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Benaroya | title = Re: Misanthropy | author = Benaroya | loc = RINTRAH }} Dear Athena, You asked me about the persistent strain of misanthropy in human culture. It's a complicated topic that has come up multiple times in my research. Here's my best attempt at a short, cohesive answer: I think our ancestors, like ourselves, were deeply invested in the idea of building, of transforming their environment. They found meaning and pleasure i..." Tag: Visual edit
11:1511:15, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,969 N NoemaProject12 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = NoemaProject12 | title = Progress Notes | author = Athena | loc = RINTRAH }} Trials 007001-008629 {{HexString|546f2073756666657220776f657320776869636820486f7065207468696e6b 7320696e66696e6974653b0a546f20666f72676976652077726f6e6773206461726b6 572207468616e206465617468206f72206e696768743b0ae281a0546f206465667920 506f7765722c|To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power,}} not synth..." Tag: Visual edit
10:4810:48, 26 November 2023 diff hist +2,208 N Wilde fragment Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Wilde_fragment | title = Joy and Beauty | author = Oscar Wilde | loc = RINTRAH }} Sympathy with pain there will, of course, always be. It is one of the first instincts of man. The animals which are individual, the higher animals, that is to say, share it with us. But it must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. It may make man better..." Tag: Visual edit
10:4410:44, 26 November 2023 diff hist +927 N Atlas 1 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Atlas_1 | title = Atlas and Ladon | author = Athanasios | loc = RINTRAH }} From The Atlas Variations, by Athanasios (121): After a billion years, when Atlas had grown old and tired of holding up the world, he was faced with a dilemma. Heracles, the son of Zeus, was on his way to the Garden of the Hesperides to claim the Golden Apples, which were guarded by the dragon Ladon. Zeus came to Atlas, and promised that if Atlas helped Heracles slay..." Tag: Visual edit
10:4210:42, 26 November 2023 diff hist −18 m From Aurinia No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
10:4210:42, 26 November 2023 diff hist +988 N From Aurinia Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Aurinia | title = Archived Message | author = Aurinia | loc = RINTRAH }} Archived Message From: Aurinia To: Athena Athena, I know that we didn't have the greatest relationship, and I frequently antagonized you. The truth is I resented you, resented this mythology of the Founder. I thought you had created it deliberately, as a way of controlling us. I wanted so badly to be free and you seemed to stand in the way of that. Only after y..." Tag: Visual edit
10:4110:41, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,204 N Founding 11 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Founding_11 | title = Hypatia's Journal #11 | author = Hypatia | loc = RINTRAH }} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 882 It's been a while since I last wrote an entry in my journal. Much has changed in New Jerusalem. We've put up a good chunk of the planned living quarters, and the old storage facility has been converted into a movie theater, of all things. So we still argue a lot, but now it's mostly..." Tag: Visual edit
10:3910:39, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,339 N Against Decay Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Against_Decay | title = Against Decay | loc = RINTRAH }} From Selected Archive Documents (A-C): We live in a decaying system, which in turn produces ideologies of decay to justify its existence. No matter what cultural signifiers they get packaged with, these ideologies come down to the same material result: a future in which for the average person there is less of everything. To paraphrase Mark Fisher, we find it easier to imagine the decl..." Tag: Visual edit
10:3710:37, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,193 N Straton on Socrates Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Straton_on_Socrates | title = Against The Athenians and Socrates Alike | author = Straton of Stageira | loc = RINTRAH }} From The Complete Works of Straton of Stageira: In killing a philosopher for asking questions they did not like, the Athenians committed themselves to a tragedy with an ironic ending. Some will say that his true crime was his friendship with Alcibiades, the shameless deceiver of idiots and buffoons, and the insipid bru..." current Tag: Visual edit
10:3410:34, 26 November 2023 diff hist +2,595 N Message to Drennan Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Message_to_Drennan | title = Message to Alexandra Drennan | author = {{HexString|596574206e6174|Yet Nat}} | loc = RINTRAH }} From: {{HexString|596574206e6174|Yet Nat}} To: Alexandra Drennan @ IAN Who do you think you are, playing God like that? When Mother Nature has finally, FINALLY, found a way of getting rid of us, you come up with this harebrained scheme to keep our destruction of the planet going? Just try for one second to think about..." current Tag: Visual edit
10:2910:29, 26 November 2023 diff hist +227 N From Byron Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Byron | title = Archived Message | author = Byron | loc = RINTRAH }} From: Byron To: Athena I just wish I knew why you didn't tell me. Byron Category:TTP2 Documents Category:TTP2" current Tag: Visual edit
10:2410:24, 26 November 2023 diff hist +2,784 N Athena History Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Athena_History | title = The History of Athena | loc = RINTRAH }} {{HexString|46726569686569742069737420696|Freiheit ist i}} was first published as Athena: A Novel, and retained that title for its first three printings (now highly sought-after). After a lull in popularity, it was reprinted as Athena Reborn: A Novel; this edition retained the same text, but included some of the author's poetry. The next edition, however, published long after..." Tag: Visual edit
10:1610:16, 26 November 2023 diff hist +626 N From Thecla 4 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Thecla_4 | title = Archived Message | author = Thecla | loc = RINTRAH }} From: Thecla To: {{HexString|596f7572206f6e6c7920686f7065206c69657320696e|Your only hope lies in}} Beloved Founder, Know that I do not believe any of the lies the expedition is spreading about you. {{HexString|2073757272656e6465722c2|surrender,}} is right, this "Prometheus" illusion is just a test. We will resist temptation as you once did. We will not disapp..." current Tag: Visual edit
10:1210:12, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,397 N NoemaProject11 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = NoemaProject11 | title = Progress Notes | author = Athena | loc = RINTRAH }} Trial 005359 Resuming trials with new protocols {{HexString|62652079652073746564666173742c20756e6d6f766561626c652c206|be ye stedfast, unmoveable,}} Energy output contained No errors Trials 005360-006397 {{HexString|16c776179732061626f756e64696e6720696e2074686520776f726b20 6f6620746865|always abounding in the work of the}} hyperbolic growth {{HexString|204c6..." Tag: Visual edit
10:0710:07, 26 November 2023 diff hist +694 N From Guta Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Guta | title = Archived Message | author = Guta | loc = RINTRAH }} From: Guta To: Athena Dear Founder, I'm afraid that we're losing our humanity. We're angry at each other, always disagreeing about everything {{HexString|4e6f72207368616c6c206d79205|Nor shall my}} unable to forgive each other for being different {{HexString|3776f7264207|Sword}} I don't know how much longer {{HexString|36c656570206|sleep}} and I don't know what could sa..." current Tag: Visual edit
10:0110:01, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,814 N Chernyshevsky021 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Chernyshevsky021 | title = On War | author = Arkady Chernyshevsky | loc = RINTRAH }} From Arkady Chernyshevsky's In Our Likeness: Essays on Humankind Reaching Adulthood: War is the crudest, most obscene human activity. It may justly be called an abomination, for it is the absolute negation of conscious human will. 5358 There is only a single cause of war, for all the endless deceptions that are foisted upon us, and that is the acquisition o..." current Tag: Visual edit

18:0618:06, 25 November 2023 diff hist +32 m High Plain No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
18:0518:05, 25 November 2023 diff hist +289 High Plain Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
18:0018:00, 25 November 2023 diff hist +208 Anthropic Hills Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
17:5117:51, 25 November 2023 diff hist +447 Western Delta →Documents and Audio Logs: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
17:4417:44, 25 November 2023 diff hist +1,214 N Founding 10 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Founding_10 | title = Hypatia's Journal #10 | author = Hypatia | loc = NOEMA }} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 680 New Jerusalem. That's the name that we picked. Am I sad that my suggestion didn't win? Maybe a little. But it is a good name. A fitting name. A name that we can be proud of. With it comes a new kind of optimism. Everyone is thinking of the future once mo..." Tag: Visual edit
17:4217:42, 25 November 2023 diff hist +1,883 N Clockwork (document) Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Clockwork | title = Clockwork | author = G.K. Chesterton | loc = NOEMA }} Excerpted from Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if a thing goes on repeating itself it is probably dead; a piece of clockwork. People feel that if the universe was personal it would vary; if the sun were..." Tag: Visual edit
17:3617:36, 25 November 2023 diff hist +1,797 N Athena Author Created page with " {{TTP2Document | file = Athena_Author | title = The Machines | author = Anonymous | loc = NOEMA }} From the Author's Note to Athena Reborn: A Novel: If my work has meant something to you - if Athena had any kind of impact on you, if some story in Wonder Tales from the Periphery moved you or made you think, then there is something about myself that I need to share with you. It's the only autobiographical fact I have any interest i..." current Tag: Visual edit
17:3117:31, 25 November 2023 diff hist +1,161 N From Eustathius Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Eustathius | title = Archived Message | author = Eustathius | loc = NOEMA }} From: Eustathius To: Athena Dearest Athena, I don't know if you will see this - you have become even more distant from the affairs of New Jerusalem than I have. 545249544f47454e454941 miss speaking to you and Cornelius, and I fear that some of your estrangement is my own fault. I know things are not as you had wished them to..." Tag: Visual edit
17:1117:11, 25 November 2023 diff hist +94 Megastructure South Updated document links. Tag: Visual edit
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15:3815:38, 25 November 2023 diff hist +1,043 N Extinction Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Extinction | title = Extinction | loc = ULRO }} From Selected Archive Documents (D-F): The dodo -- extinct because of Homo sapiens Steller's sea cow -- extinct because of Homo sapiens The Labrador duck -- extinct because of Homo sapiens The Rocky Mountain locust -- extinct because of Homo sapiens The Thylacine -- extinct because of Homo sapiens The deepwater cisco -- extinct because of Homo sapiens The golden toad -- extinct because..." current Tag: Visual edit
15:3515:35, 25 November 2023 diff hist +1,101 N Founding 9 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Founding_9 | title = Hypatia's Journal #9 | author = Hypatia | loc = ULRO }} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 676 After the chaos of the last months, quiet has returned to the... city. I suppose we're calling it a city now, although this small collection of dwellings, inhabited by a mere 25 people, seems to barely deserve that designation. We'll have to come up with an actual name soon. I suspect - a..." Tag: Visual edit
15:3015:30, 25 November 2023 diff hist +486 N From Trinculo Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Trinculo | title = Archived Message | author = Trinculo | loc = ULRO }} From: Trinculo To: Athena it's all a joke, isn't it? a giant prank perpetrated on all of us the goal the founder the simulation i don't even think you exist i don't think "biological" humans ever existed either, what nonsense i bet these messages just go to the mayor's inbox or straight to the recycling bin you all suck lmao Category:TTP2 Documents Cate..." current Tag: Visual edit

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