The Need for Mystery

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I always learn new things and what better place to learn things if not in my own mistakes...and how to find out mistakes if not by always challenging and investigating the theories that I consider perfect?

When I thought of making MD I had as a start reason the frustration that such information and concepts as the ones I am presenting here are kept secret and used as great mysteries and most often the people that are guarding them completely lost their meaning and are deviating them into things like religion, "magic", manipulation techniques and so on.

But I look at me now and I ask myself ..am I not doing now the same thing by placing these things under a thick mystery layer? Are these "secrets" not lost because just a fraction of the people searching them find them and those that don't find them will pick their own answers and get probably to wrong things?

I should give you some examples to understand what I mean.
Martial Arts .. what are they now compared to what they should be? How many schools focus on the physical movements and techniques instead of understanding them as a path, never-ending path, a way of life.
Religion ... how many people consider religion a routine or an out of the box answer to their problems? How many understand that the "answer" should never be touched to remain perfect?

We seek for answers, we need answers, we want answers, but we do not understand that sometimes the seeking itself is the actual "answer".

In MD I tried to put answers on a plate at first, the principles are one of the things that are more obvious, the spell docs are the second one, but there are more. ...and what did I end up to do? I ended up building mysteries and giving clues, turning them into secrets.

How many of you know where the book of principles is..and how many of you ask themselves _what_ it is?
How many know what the cube is and how many even look to understand it without tainting it with lore and story? Why?

So when I realised that the path I am going on is the path I was initially running from...I started to analyze it ..not necessarily to change it. I needed to know WHY?

What happens if important knowledge is put out in the open without a mystery to surround it?
It is disregarded, or if its value its obvious, people are amazed of it, but that's all.

If I tell you that , for example, "Nothing Exists", you will look at it in many different ways, you will consider it an abstract philosophical quote, you will consider it a funny paradoxical quote, some of you will consider it a false quote and some of you will consider it a quote full of truth..........but...that's all....you will only look at it and get an opinion...nothing more.

If I do a complicated and entertaining quest that will end in you UNDERSTANDING that "Nothing Exists" you will be one step closer to understand it.

Mystery gives _value_ to information. I have to challenge you to understand things instead of throwing them randomly on a page called "Answers".

Answers are the bait that I use to get you put the right Questions because only the Questions will make you understand things NOT the Answers.

You will probably question yourself things like "Wtf is this guy trying to hide so important that he talks so much about it?" ... if you do that it means you are still subject to the bait and probably not yet learning anything :D
You see it's a paradox in a way.

Maybe only giving you examples you can understand this thing as I see it.
For example look at life as a question and its answer would be DEATH, but we do not accept that, we know its end, but try to value the question most of all, and if we can't value the question we shift our focus to the answer and try to make it worthy.

I end up screaming my answers to deaf people and putting up never-ending quests and mysteries to capable people, obviously a wrong thing, but also obviously the only natural path I can take without turning into building a sect, a movement or some other ridiculous thing that will totally destroy the purity of ideas.

I always hated simple explanations that touch a bit of a beautiful idea but don't give it all...I thought of them as incomplete. I want to repair that mistake now. The complexity of some things is so vast that the more you go into them the more probable it is that you go wrong. The simple you go the more probable it is you wont go wrong but you will get an intuitive picture of what is "there". Fractals

The complexity of things I am talking about can't be expressed in geometrical shapes. I tried, It can't.

I can give only examples that will show you why complex ideas must not be put in detail or at least must NEVER be considered complete.

Fractals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
Are shapes that the deeper you go in their detail the more similar shapes you will see. They are ENDLESS. Now imagine a line, representing our line of explanations, going on a border of such a fractal trying to describe it. The more you will draw the more wrong you will get if seen from "above/outside". In fact the line will stop in the first fraction of the fractal because will "fall" in the never-ending pattern that repeats itself representing the initial shape. On the other hand, a simple line putting up only a fraction of the pattern will have the same truth value in it as the bigger line , but it will be so small that will let your mind imagine the rest and not give it as a fixed conclusion/answer.

In the same way, a good question is the question that never reveals its answer but it's pointing to it from all directions. A mystery is needed to hide complex answers because the answer is described but what the question puts you to think. Giving out a fixed answer, regardless how abstract, complex or clear it is, will never get your mind to expand it will only make it rest.

I take it as a personal challenge that whenever i will give you the answers i am hiding, they will create in turn many more questions of same importance and complexity.

Now the obvious question is ..."Should we still keep searching or should we stop if the final answer can never be reached?"

I guess that question divides people in three categories, those that answer yes or no and those that never get to put this question.

I let you to think about what this actually means
:)